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ZAREX (1958/LVN.) Philippines.
Credits: Dir: Richard Abelardo. Based on a comic strip.
Cast: Willie Sotelo, José Vergara, Carmencita Abad.
The earth is invaded by aliens.

ZEX (1957) see The Electronic Monster

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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On VHS in the US
ZOMBIES (1964) see I Eat Your Skin

ZOMBIES OF MORA-TAU (1957/Columbia/Clover Prod.) 71mins. BW. US.
Aka: THE DEAD THAT WALK (UK).
Credits: Dir: Edward L. Cahn; Prod: Sam Katzman; Sc: Raymond T. Marcus; Ph: Benjamin H. Kline; Ed: Jack Ogilvie; Art: Paul Palmentola; Mus: Mischa Bakaleinikoff. From a story by George Plympton.
Cast: Gregg Palmer, Autumn Russell, Ray Corrigan, Allison Hayes, Joel Ashley, Morris Ankrum, Marjorie Eaton, Gene Roth, Leonard Geer, Karl Davis.
Jan Peters, (Russell), visits her grandmother on the island of Mora-Tau near the coast of Africa at the same time that treasure hunters George Harrison, (Ashley), his wife Mona, (Hayes), driver Jeff Clark, (Palmer), and archaeologist Jonathan Eggert, (Ankrum), arrive looking for diamond deposits on the ocean floor. Jan's grandmother, (Eaton), warns the intruders to stay away as a previous expedition have been turned into zombies to guard the treasure.
A modest addition to the walking dead sub-genre of the time. The underwater shots were filmed through an aquarium.

ZOMBIES OF THE STRATOSPHERE (1952/Republic) BW. Serial. 12 episodes. US.
Aka: SATAN'S SATELLITES.
Credits: Dir: Fred C. Bannon; A.Prod: Franklin Adreon; Sc: Ronald Davidson; Ph: John MacBurnie; Ed: Cliff Bell; Art: Fred A. Ritter; Sfx: Howard Lydecker & Theodore Lydecker; Mus: Stanley Wilson.
Cast: Judd Holdren, Stanley Waxman, Aline Towne, Leonard Nimoy, Wilson Wood, Lane Bradford, John Crawford, Craig Kelly, Ray Boyle, Dale Van Sickel, Tom Steele, Roy Engel, Jack Harden, Jack Shea.
Two zombies persuade an evil scientist to help them construct a massive bomb that will throw the Earth out of its orbit. The Interplanetary patrol intercept two rockets bound for earth and discover they contain supernatural beings.
A cheap, but lively science fiction serial utilising footage from King of the Rocketmen and The Mysterious Doctor Satan. A 70 minute edited feature version was released in 1958 as SATAN'S SATELLITES.
Leonard Nimoy, who later found fame in "Star Trek", appears here as a benevolent Martian who helps to save the earth from destruction.

ZONTAR, THE THING FROM VENUS (1966/Azalea) 80mins. US.
Credits: Dir. & Prod: Larry Buchanan; A.Prod: Edwin Tobolowsky; Sc: Larry Buchanan & Hillman Taylor; Ph: Robert B. Alcott; Art: Robert Dracup.
Cast: John Agar, Susan Bjurman, Anthony Houston, Neil Fletcher, Patricia de Laney, Andrew Traister, Warren Hammack, Jonathan Ledford, Colleen Carr, George Edglly, Jeff Alexander, Carol Gilley, Bill Thurman, Bertha Holmes.
An alien creature named Zontar dominates the mind of a scientist who helps the alien send bat-like creatures to implant brain control devices on key members of society so that Zontar can control the world. Eventually the alien's ray gun is discovered enabling the authorities to destroy the invader.
An inept film shot on the cheap in Texas that borrows heavily from It Conquered the World, and turns to negative whenever a ray gun blasts at the alien's victims.

ZOTZ! (1962/Columbia/Castle) 87mins. BW. US.
Credits: Dir. & Prod: William Castle; Sc: Ray Russell; Ph: Gordon Avil; Ed: Edwin Bryant; Art: Robert Peterson; Mu: Ben Lane; Mus: Bernard Green. From a novel by Walter Karig.
Cast: Tom Poston, Julia Meade, Fred Clark, Jim Backus, Cecil Kellaway, Mike Mazurki, Zeme North, Louis Nye, Margaret Dumont, Albert Glasser, William Castle.
An archaeology professor, (Poston), finds an old coin that enables him to kill people by pointing the coin at them and saying "zotz", but when he just wants to slow them down he just utters the magic word. Some mobsters try to get the coin from the professor.
A ridiculous comedy.
In true Castle style every theatre patron received an imitation coin.
 

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ZTRACENA TVAR (1965) 85mins. Czechoslovakia.
Credits: Dir: Pavel Hobl; Sc: Pavel Hobl & Josef Nesvadba; Ph: Jirí Vojta.
Cast: Vlastimil Brodsky, Jana Brejchova, Fred Delmare, Marie Vaslova, Zdenka Prochazkova.
A man has the ability to change the face of one person to another.

 
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