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Tura Satana, the shapely actress, exotic dancer, and martial artist known for her roles in Russ Meyers' cult classic Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! and the grindhouse science fiction flick Astro Zombies, died last Friday of heart failure. Satana was famous for her burlesque-ready frame (link NSFW) — which won her many an admirer, including one-time paramour Elvis Presley — and her penchant for playing deadly femme fatales onscreen. According to Ms. Satana's manager Siouxzan Perry, she died at 72. More »
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If you missed schlockmeister Ted V. Mikels' classics Corpse Grinders (a great evil cat movie) and Astro Zombies, now you can catch up with the Z-movie master in his latest: Astro Zombies M3: Cloned! [via Avery Battles] More »
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In this terrific little moment from Ted V. Mikels' classic everythingsploitation movie Astro Zombies, we get so much annum 1968 greatness that it's hard to encompass it all. A mad scientist has created a remote-controlled, solar-powered "astro zombie" in strange and boring detail (yes, there is a five-minute scene of unscrewing the cover on a metal box), and a Mexican mobster (the luscious lady in this clip) wants to know more. She smokes languidly while listening to the professor extol his creature's virtues on a reel-to-reel. Then we randomly cut to a scene where we meet the astro zombie. And there is violence! Stabbing! Mexican-wrestler-looking dude! What the hell! Where am I! More »
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