#astro-zombies

[lil-doodles]

After watching Astro-Zombies I had to draw Tura Satana. This is her from Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! It was rumored that Elvis Presley proposed to her and she turned him down. I'm not sure of the veracity of that statement, it may be purely anecdotal, but she was a beautiful woman. Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! is definitely the best Russ Meyer movie and it's been said that Tura wrote a lot of her own dialogue and provided her own wardrobe. She is also credited with performing her own stunts and martial arts fight scenes. Check back tomorrow for more Halloween fun!

[doubtfultaste]

The Astro-Zombies (1968)

[faceeeeee]

Twisted time🤸‍♀️

[astronomical-bagel]

and btw, grian's last stand against gem and the scotts? Insane. I cant help but replay the scene where he tells Cleo to get away over and over again, "You need to move out of the way, there's no trigger. I'm manually triggering it." because like. there's no way he really thought he was gonna get out of this. He had to be there in order for the trap to go off, the escape hatch was a pipe dream. What he was really saying to Cleo was, "Save yourself, I'll hold them back." He knows he's not going to get away from Gem and the Scotts, but he just wants to give Cleo a fighting chance.

And then I cant help but remember Grian's last words in Last Life, "Not like this! Not like this!". Ever since Last Life, his deaths have been... a little sad. Stabbed in the back while running away from Scott, killed by a warden through a wall, falling onto the very corner of a cobblestone block after falling off his tower -- right next to the water, too.

I think, in this season, grian wanted to die for a reason. he didn't want it to be an accident, a preventable goof, and more importantly he wanted it to mean something. He wanted to die protecting someone else. Have his teammates outlive him for a change.

Cleo still dies before he does, but he doesn't have any confirmation of that, just the distant sound of thunder, and he's too busy fighting to really process it. When he dies, he doesn't have any complaints. No 'I don't feel good"s, no "Not like this"s, no "I'm so sorry, Scar"s, no "Don't tell Tim"s. This time all he says is, "I did a lot of damage." He's satisfied with his death, proud of it, even.

And I think, even if he died, even if his sacrifice didn't mean too much, he felt his death was a lot more honorable than his other ones. He died on his own terms, he died protecting someone, he died fighting, and, just like Grian always aims to go, he went out with a bang.

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Tura Satana - The Astro-Zombies (1968)

[sciencefictiongallery]

The astro zombies, 1968.

[froznwater]

also did some quick oc art for the first time in a veryyy hot minute

her name is Jason(not legally) and she is apart of my zombie apocalypse oc story :)

she is deaf and a pre-apocalypse hockey player

[rhetthammersmithhorror]

Mark of the Astro-Zombies | 2004

[kellymagovern]

White Zombie - “More Human Than Human” [x]

[bitter69uk]

“Spend any time around Tura Satana and you can’t help but fall under her spell. One whiff of that perfume – Luna Mystique, if you must know – and you’re a goner, my friend. She’s got a smoky, mischievous chuckle that says life’s a game and the deck’s been marked, so we might as well laugh. Satana still gets a kick out of life and enjoys kicking it back. There’s something noble about Tura. She slugged her way through years of gin mills and flesh pits with nary a dent to her dignity.��

/ From Big Bosoms and Square Jaws: The Biography of Russ Meyer (2005) by Jimmy McDonough /

In Memoriam: statuesque Russ Meyer leading lady (John Waters describes her tough-as-nails performance as the vicious Varla in Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1966) "one of the best villains in screen history”), tassel-twisting burlesque queen (billed as “Miss Japan Beautiful”) and all-round ultra-vixen, the fiercely bodacious Tura Satana (Tura Luna Pascual Yamaguchi, 10 July 1938 - 4 February 2011) died on this day. While nowhere near as stellar as Faster, Pussycat! Satana is also a magnificently hostile presence in berserk 1968 exploitation flick The Astro-Zombies. (The fourth of February is a cruel day for aficionados of low-brow trash culture: Lux Interior died on 4 February 2009). Do the Watusi or karate chop someone today in Satana’s memory!

[keeperofdarkness22]

The Astro-Zombies | 1968

[fagexe]

Worm is so incredibly smart and cool! They should have listened to him instead of throwing things at him like a couple of losers

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

Misfits - Astro Zombies

[luuton]

Tura Satana in The Astro-Zombies (1968)

[astronomical-bagel]

cant believe that scar killed the entirety of grian's team except for grian. and I cant believe that grian died less than one minute after cleo, fulfilling his curse of always dying after his teammates. I'm so ill rn

[atomic-chronoscaph]

TGIF