Severin Films To Release A Blu-ray Edition Of Director Ray Dennis Steckler’s The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living And Became Crazy Mixed-Up Zombies On Dec. 3

Severin Films, with sales and distribution expertise provided by MVD Entertainment Group, has a new 2K scan of producer, director and actor Ray Dennis Steckler’s micro-budget 1964 horror classic, The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Crazy Mixed-Up Zombies, which be delivered to genre fans on Dec. 3 as a bonus-packed Blu-ray release.

Los Angeles in 1963 (including shots of the famed Angels Flight) is the backdrop for Steckler’s lurid tale about Madam Estrella (Brett O’Hara) — a fortune-teller — her hunchbacked dwarf assistant by the name of Ortega (Jack Brady) and her sister, Carmelita (Erina Enyo — also in Steckler’s The Thrill Killers), who have a carnival sideshow populated by deformed freaks.  It is the “source” of Estrella’s freaks that is the heart of Steckler’s incredible tale.

With a mirco-budget, Steckler’s film had limited prints and was “bicycled” around the country beginning in March of 1964 on a market-by-market basis.   To get some extra mileage out of his film, it was renamed and released as Teenage Psycho Meets Bloody Mary!   And get this, the film even had its own soundtrack release and was billed as “The First Monster Musical!”   

So enjoy the chills or a rock out to the likes of “Mixed-Up Zombie Stomp” and “It’s Incredible” on Blu-ray on Dec. 3 from Severin Films.

Bonus goodies include an introduction by Joe Bob Briggs, two commentary options — one featuring Briggs and the other with Steckler — deleted scenes and archival video sessions with filmmaker Ray Dennis Steckler and actor Carolyn Brandt (as Marge Neilson … also as Cee Bee Beaumont in Stecker’s 1966 comedy, Rat Pfink a Boo Boo).