I recommend this movie to insomniacs, maybe they can watch this movie and enjoy it. It's a mix of spies, science, and horror as several plots interrupt each other. 1) A team of detectives are investigating a series of murders where organs are taken from bodies and try to stop a gang of spies. 2) A mad scientist (played horribly by John Carradine) takes the organs and makes a series of astro zombies that run on batteries (more on this later). 3) A gang of spies, led by Tura Satana, needs the scientist's information to create their own supermen to take over the world.

Now, each plot has its good points. Joan Patrick is the shining star in the detective story as a young nurse used as bait for a zombie (seems the brain of a criminal she operated on is inside of it). After that fails, she goes home and is attacked by one while her cop boyfriend is outside. The cop puts up a fight with the thing and (luckily for him, since he was getting beat pretty bad) the zombie runs out of energy in its "cell battery" on its forehead, so it grabs the nearest flashlight, turns it on, smacks it onto the battery, and runs back to the lab! The scientist plot is saved by the presence of a scantily-dressed young captive who is gawked at and pawed upon by Carradine's assistant Franchot. Carradine just rambles on and on about science and zombies and such to his mute assistant, who couldn't care less! All Franchot wants to do is experiment on the captive! The spy story is Tura Satana's story and I could watch her forever! An extremely sexy woman, just like in FASTER PUSSYCAT! KILL! KILL!, she is pure evil. She holds men hostage and burns cigarette butts into their faces, shoots cops gleefully even after they're dead, and obviously wants to take over the world!

Now that I think about, I guess I can see why people might want to watch this. For the sheer silliness of it all. But there are many boring parts, including a hypnotic nude dance in a club by a woman painted head to toe in psychedelic colors! Proceed with caution!

Despite the fact that he had the greatest voice (not to mention the best wild-eyed leer!) of all the 1930s/'40s-era horror actors, he was given very little to do in the low-budget films in which he so often starred during the latter part of his career. "The Astro-Zombies" is no exception. Dressed in a white lab coat that hangs loosely on his skeletal frame, Carradine performs all his scenes on a cheap-looking dungeon set. Most of his lines are gibberish: "Activate the sonic transmogriceptor!" and so forth. There is some fun to be found elsewhere in the film, as Carradine's berserk astro-zombies wreak havoc throughout the city; there's even some gore and partial nudity (the very comely blonde chick who does a topless dance routine covered in wacky, multicolored body paint). The subplot involving foreign spies is painfully dull, however, and poorly acted by Tura Satana and her cornball henchmen. Don't expect too much...just enjoy the film for the grade-Z nonsense it is.

Okay, it's actually William Bagdad playing John Carradine's Igor like servant, but he looks just like Lugosi did in both "Son of Frankenstein" and "Ghost of Frankenstein". That's just one silly element of this delightfully goofy sci-fi/horror movie that there are far too many Elvira/mystery science fever wisecracks to fit the film's over-length. Wendell Corey, who brought out the heat of both Barbara Stanwyck and Joan Crawford in the early 1950's, tops his bland acting style there with a performance that covers 1% of human emotions. All eyes will be on Tura Satana, an exotic dancer and "actress", best known for "Faster Pussycat Kill Kill" who plays the cat eyed villainess who enjoys murder just as others enjoy a champagne cocktail, that is after she applies them with lit cigarette mascara. In close-ups with her excessive make-up, she actually resembles a young Divine!

Carradine is a hoot as a mad scientist in a lab that makes Lugosi's in "Bride of the Monster" look like something out of "Quincy". He's supposedly creating zombies out of the corpses that Satana provides him with, giving what little plot there is. Satana has two stereotypical henchmen (Rafael Campos and Vincent Barbi) who basically stand around in threatening poses until Satana orders them to get rid of her victims. while the film has many funny moments of a ridiculous nature, there are many moments that really go nowhere and make the film painfully slow with x. The art direction is rather ugly, and the special effects are poor. This is a type of film that is easier to watch on TV than in the cinema, because you can put it on pause, take a long hike to wake up and return to in order to complete. How did I get through this? A 20 minute nap half way through.