| Teenage Zombies | |
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| Directed by | Jerry Warren |
| Written by | Jacques Lecoutier |
| Produced by | Jerry Warren |
| Starring | Katherine Victor Don Sullivan Chuck Niles Brianne Murphy |
| Cinematography | Allen Chandler |
| Edited by | Jerry Warren |
| Distributed by | Governor Films Inc. |
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Running time | 73 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Teenage Zombies is a 1959 science fiction horror film written, produced, edited and directed by Jerry Warren, and starring Katherine Victor, Don Sullivan, Chuck Niles and Warren's then-wife and production manager Brianne Murphy. Warren wrote the screenplay under his pen name Jacques Lecoutier (which he frequently misspelled in the credits).[2][3] Film historian Bill Warren wrote "This dreadful, leaden and depressingly cheap film does have one unusual aspect... it was actually made by Jerry Warren in its entirety."[4]
The plot follows a group of teenagers who are marooned on an island inhabited by a female mad scientist, her pet gorilla and a zombie slave named Ivan. She traps the youths in a cage down in her laboratory, plotting to use them as subjects for her zombie-making experimentation, so she can test out a drug she is working on for an unnamed foreign nation.
Although the credits include a 1957 copyright statement for G.B.M. Productions, the film was never registered for copyright,[5] rendering it in the public domain.
- ^ "2 New Horrific Shockers". The Abilene Reporter. November 22, 1959. p. 27.
- ^ Warren, Bill (2017-01-12). Keep Watching the Skies!: American Science Fiction Movies of the Fifties, the 21st Century Edition. McFarland. ISBN 9781476625058.
- ^ Warren, Bill (1986). "Keep Watching The Skies Volume 2". McFarland & Co., Inc. ISBN 0-89950-170-2. Page 767
- ^ Warren, Bill (1986). "Keep Watching The Skies Volume 2". McFarland & Co., Inc. ISBN 0-89950-170-2. Page 445
- ^ "Teenage Zombies". American Film Institute. Retrieved May 2, 2017.