is appended to the title and shortened to The Incredibly Strange Creatures) is a 1964 American monster movie produced and directed by Ray Dennis Steckler.

[4] Produced on a $38,000 budget, much of it takes place at The Pike amusement park in Long Beach, California, which resembles Brooklyn's Coney Island.

In one venue, a dance number is performed by Marge, a superstitious alcoholic who drinks before and between shows, and her partner, Bill Ward, for a small audience.

Backstage, Marge sees a black cat and, disturbed by its appearance, visits powerful carnival fortune-teller Estrella to find out what it means.

It develops that Estrella, with her henchman Ortega, has been turning carnival patrons into zombies by throwing acid into their faces, disfiguring them, and then imprisoning them in her fortune-telling booth.

Jerry, himself partially disfigured but not completely a zombie, escapes the carnival and is pursued to the shoreline, where the police shoot him dead in front of Angela and Harold.

At the time of release, The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies was the second-longest titled film in the horror genre (Roger Corman's The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent being the first.

In order to get repeat customers, Steckler retitled the film numerous times, with titles such as The Incredibly Mixed-Up Zombie, Diabolical Dr. Voodoo and The Teenage Psycho Meets Bloody Mary.

The Film Center Studios were popular with non-union producers because they could turn off the elevator to lock out IATSE union agents, who found it difficult to climb the stairs to the seventh-floor main stage.

[8] In some screenings, employees in monster masks, sometimes including Steckler himself, would run into the theater to scare the audience (the gimmick was billed as "Hallucinogenic Hypnovision" on the film's posters).

"[17] Rock critic Lester Bangs wrote an appreciative 1973 essay about Incredibly Strange Creatures, in which he tries to explain and justify the movie's value: ...this flick doesn't just rebel against, or even disregard, standards of taste and art.

In the universe inhabited by The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies, such things as standards and responsibility have never been heard of.

[19] The DVD release of Incredibly Strange Creatures features commentary tracks by both Steckler and "drive-in movie critic" Joe Bob Briggs.