Above: John Agar and the cast of Attack of the Puppet People;
Some of the teens in Panic In Year Zero and One of The Eye Creatures

PANIC IN YEAR ZERO (1962) Ray Milland, Jean Hagen, Frankie Avalon, Joan Freeman, Mary Mitchell; American International Pictures, 93 minutes. Producers: Arnold Houghland and Lou Rusoff; screenplay: John Morton and Jay Simms; director: Ray Milland. While on a fishing trip, Harry Baldwin and his family hear an explosion and realize that Los Angeles has been leveled by a nuclear attack. Looters and killers are everywhere. Escaping to the hills with his family, he sets about the business of surviving in a world where, he knows, the old ideals of humanity will be first casualties. Not one to give up, he holds up a store for supplies and hides the family in a cave. (Written by alfiehitchie).

EEGAH! (1962) Arch Hall Jr, Marilyn Manning, Richard Kiel, William Watters (aka Arch Hall Sr); Fairway International, 90 minutes. Producer, screenplay (with: Bob Wehling) and director: Nicholas Merriwether (Arch Hall Sr); A young woman discovers a giant caveman in the desert. With the help of her boyfriend and her father she sets out to find him again - but Eegah has problems coping with the modern world and goes on the rampage.

I WAS A TEENAGE MUMMY (1963) Jeff Mullin, Jayne Walker, Allen Skinner, Michael Harris, Steve Emmett, Randy Mullin and presenting Scott Mullinas Youssef Bey; Jerall Films, 90 minutes. Producers: Allen Skinner and Jeff Mullin; written and directed by Ralph Bluemke in color! There are two movies with the title (I Was a Teenage Mummy ! The original 90 minute version made in 1963 by young teenagers and a later 1992 48 minute version where the mummy is a girl!. The 1963 version was filmed by a 21 year old amateur filmaker and the oldest cast member was 15 years old. It's a spoof on horror films and even had an article published in Life Magazine!

BLACK ZOO (1963) Michael Gough, Jeanne Cooper, Rod Lauren, Virginia Grey, Jerome Cowan, Elisha Cook; Allied Artists, 88 minutes. Producer: Herman Cohen; screenplay: Aben Kandel, Herman Cohen; director: Robert Gordon. Michael Conrad is a private zookeeper who owns Conrad's Animal Kingdom. He leads a cult group who literally worship the animals he tends — especially the big cats: a lion, a lioness, a pair of cheetahs, a tiger, a black panther; and a gorilla. Conrad plays organ music to the animals in his living room, and uses them to kill anyone who gets in his way. Conrad is married to Edna and forces his mute son Carl to assist him.

HORROR OF PARTY BEACH (1964) John Scott, Alice Lyon, Allan Laurel, Eulabelle Moore, Marilyn Clarke, Agustin Mayor, Damon Kebroyd; Iselin-Tenney Productions/ 20th Century Fox, 78 minutes. Screenplay: Richard Hilliard and Ronald Gianettino; director: Del Tenney. Radioactive waste dumped off the coastline creates mutant monsters. The beasts attack slumber parties, beaches, tourists, and terrorize a waterfront community as a scientist, his daughter, her boyfriend and the local police try to find a way to stop them. (plot by Jeremy Lunt).

THE INCREDIBLY STRANGE CREATURES WHO STOPPED LIVING AND BECAME MIXED-UP ZOMBIES (1964) Cash Flagg (Ray Dennis Steckler), Carolyn Brandt, Brett O'Hara, Atlas King, Sharon Walsh, Pat Kirkwood; Morgan-Steckler Productions / Fairway International, 82 minutes. Beatnick Jerry takes his girl, Angie to the carnival. Angie wants to go see the gypsy fortune teller, Jerry does not but relents. After visiting the fortune teller and hearing bad news, Jerry goes alone to see Carmelita, the dancer (the fortune teller's sister). He is invited backstage and is mesmerized into becoming a psychotic killer. Angie, and Jerry's best friend Harold realize something is amiss when Jerry tries to kill Angie. (plot by Buxx Banner).

PAJAMA PARTY (1965) Tommy Kirk, Annette Funicello, Elsa Lanchester, Jody McCrea, Harvey Lembeck, Buster Keaton, Jesse White; Produced by Samuel Z. Arkoff and James H. Nicholson; American International Pictures, 82 minutes. Screenplay: Louis Heyward; director: Don Weis. Teen aged Martian intelligence officer 006, named Gogo, is sent to Earth to prepare the way for a Martian invasion. The first earthling he meets, Aunt Wendy, is an eccentric widow who runs a dress shop. She has Gogo, now calling himself George, get dressed in a swimsuit and sends him to the beach. There he meets her nephew, Big Lunk, who enjoys volleyball but has little interest in romance, which is frustrating for his girlfriend Connie. Meanwhile, Aunt Wendy's shady neighbor, J. Sinister Hulk, and his gang concoct a scheme to separate Aunt Wendy from her cash. Meanwhile, Eric von Zipper and his motorcycle gang, the Rat Pack want to get revenge against the beach teenagers.

THE BEACH GIRLS AND THE MONSTER (1965) Jon Hall, Sue Casey, Arnold Lessing, Elaine DuPont, Walker Edmiston, Read Morgan; American Academy Productions/ US Films, 70 minutes. Screenplay: Joan Gardner; director: Jon Hall. A young girl is killed at the beach in Malibu. Professor Otto Lindsay suspects that it is some form of mutated fish. However, his son Richard, who was a good friend of girl, thinks that it is a madman who has a grudge against Richard and his friends. Soon the list of victims grows to include one of Rich's surfing buddies, Rich's bitchy stepmother Vicky and his friend Mark who was crippled in an auto accident. (plot by Brian Washington).

(Attack Of The) THE EYE CREATURES (1965) John Ashley, Cynthia Hull, Warren Hammack, Chet Davis, Bill Peck, Ethan Allen, Charles McLine; an Azalea Pictures film, 80 minutes. Producer and director: Larry Buchanan; screenplay: Robert J. Gurney Jr. and Al Martin based on a story by Paul Fairman; Distributed by American International Pictures for TV. Basically the same plot and dialogue as AIP's INVASION OF THE SAUCER-MEN, but filmed in color. The Eye Creatures look cheaply made and not anywhere as good as Paul Blaisdell's original creations. For completists only.

HONORABLE MENTION: TEEN WOLF, TEEN WOLF TOO, DRACULA VS FRANKENSTEIN (aka Teenage Dracula), I WAS A TEENAGE ZOMBIE, full moon high, I WAS A TEENAGE VAMPIRE (aka My Best Friend Is A Vampire); I WAS A TEENAGE MUMMY (1992); TEEN VAMP; TEENAGE CATGIRLS IN HEAT; TEST TUBE TEENS FROM THE YEAR 2000; TEENAGE SPACE VAMPIRES; TEENAGE CAVEMAN (2002); TEENAGE CAVEGIRL (aka Bikini Cavegirl)

Above: Tommy Kirk, Annette and Elsa Lanchester in Pajama Party;
; The TEEN cast of The Headless Ghost

NOTE:Plot summaries taken from pressbooks, The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Films and TV (Roger Keightley; Kevin Lyons, contributors), Scanner Communications, (c) 2000 - 2002, IMDb and from various internet video review sites.

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