A quartet of teenagers - Reg (Don Sullivan), Pam (Brianne Murphy), Skip
(Paul Pepper) and Julie (Mitzie Alertson) - visits a far-out island for a
picnick or something ... and before you know it, they are captives of the
island's resident scientist Doctor Myra (Katherine Victor), who wants to
use them in her experiments to make zombies for the Commies.
At nightfall though, the two boys break out of their cage (since it was
the 1950's, girls and boys had to be held in seperate cages, even by the
baddies) and search for their boat - and when they realize it's nowhere to
be found they start building a raft ... but they return back to their
cages before sunrise as to not arouse any suspicion.
Meanwhile, our teenagers' friends Morrie (Jay Hawk) and Dottie (Nan
Green) back home start worrying about our quartet, and when going looking
for them, they stumble upon Doc Myra's island, bump into her, grow very
suspicious, but nevertheless take their boat to return home and report
everything to the Sheriff (Mike Concannon), who soon enough promises them
to go to the island with them to investigate ... but once on the island,
Morrie and Dottie have to realize the Sheriff is actually in league with
Doc Myra and her commie helpers (Steve Conte, J.L.D.Morrison) and the
girls of the teen quartet are presently turned into zombies. However,
eventually the Doc and her zombie helpers shoot the sheriff while Reg,
Skip, Morrie and Dottie somehow manage to overcome Doc Myra and gang and
try to force her to change the girls back ... but Doc Myra refuses, so our
kids turn her into a zombie as well to do their bidding - which doesn't
work quite the way it should, but somehow, the kids manage to turn Pam and
Julie back to normal anyways, manage to make good their escape thanks to a
gorilla (Mitch Evans) and bring Doc Myra and her Commie friends to justice
...
A bad film, there is no doubt about that, but fans of 1950's drive-in
trash will want to watch it anyways, it has got everything: an
unintentionally funny script, Commie menace, wooden actors,
bare-to-the-bone uninventive direction, bad make up and of course a man in
a gorilla-suit. Of course there are much better bad movies, but this one
is definitely worth a look - if you're into that kind of trash, that is.
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