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3	''The Astro-Zombies'' is a 1968 BMovie SciFiHorror film directed by Ted V. Mikels, starring Creator/JohnCarradine and Creator/WendellCorey in the latter's final film role.
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5	After being fired from a space agency, MadScientist [=DeMarco=] (Carradine) decides to unleash a race of atomic zombies upon humanity. After unleashing the fiends, they start massacring everybody they see. Soon, the CIA sends an agent named Holman (Corey) to investigate, and a struggle for the fate of humanity begins...
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7	Creator/WayneRogers (yes, the guy who later played Trapper John on ''Series/{{MASH}}'') co-wrote the screenplay with Mikels. The film received three sequels, 2004's ''Mark of the Astro-Zombies'', 2010's ''Astro-Zombies M3: Cloned'' and 2012's ''Astro-Zombies M4: Invaders from Cyberspace''.
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10	!!This film contains examples of:
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12	* AntagonistTitle: Named after the {{Mooks}} of the piece.
13	* BigBad: Dr. [=DeMarco=], creator of the Astro Zombies.
14	* DarknessEqualsDeath: The Astro Zombies shut down when it's dark, due to a lack of solar energy.
15	* {{Fanservice}}: A random stripper sequence a half hour in.
16	* HighVoltageDeath: Satana and the secondary Astro Zombie are electrocuted together when the latter pushes Satana into a fuse box while attempting to strangle her.
17	* TheIgor: Franchot, Dr. [=DeMarco=]'s hunchbacked lab assistant.
18	* MacheteMayhem: The main Astro Zombie grabs a machete to hack people with for the finale as the law and the army converge on Dr. [=DeMarco=]'s estate.
19	* OffWithHisHead: A cop gets his head chopped off by the main Astro Zombie during the climax.
20	* OurZombiesAreDifferent: These are solar-powered cyborgs that can have knowledge directly beamed into their brains by computers.
21	* StrappedToAnOperatingTable: There's a scantily clad lady in Dr. [=DeMarco=]'s basement lab who is tied to an operating table for an experiment or two.
22	* VillainOpeningScene: An Astro Zombie killing a woman in her garage.
23	* WellIntentionedExtremist: [=DeMarco=] leads an operation of mutilation, murder, and human experimentation so that humanity can have a single storehouse for all its knowledge to be used to improve the world.
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