IMDB's technical specs say this movie is 73 minutes....I've only been able to find so far a 70 minute and change version....I know a couple of minutes probably won't make the movie any better but I don't like reviewing movies when it's not the original theatrical version...anyone aware of an actual 73 minute version ?? don't want to call out IMDB til I have more info.
shareI purchased a DVD version by Retromedia Entertainment which claims it is transferred from the original 35 MM and it is only slightly over 70 minutes...anyone own a VHS version of the movie ??
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Vinegar Syndrome video company is releasing a restored version of TEENAGE ZOMBIES, October 20, 2015, on a double feature DVD. The image quality of their releases is the best anywhere, and this is taken from the original camera negatives, so this should be fun to see. The run time is listed as 71 minutes, and it's in the original 1.85:1 aspect ratio (!).
The other half of the double feature is an old black and white nudie western (!?) called REVENGE OF THE VIRGINS. Del Monroe (Kowalski from Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea) has a role in this one, believe it or not.
Vinegar Syndrome's website has frame blowups from both films.
Retromedia’s DVD runs exactly 70:20. Vinegar Syndrome’s DVD, stated on the case to be mastered from the original 35mm camera negative, runs exactly 70:48. A 73-minute version appears to be extremely unlikely to turn up, if it ever existed at all, which I doubt.
IMDb's listed running times are frequently inaccurate. I know this because I’m an IMDb contributor and have corrected many dozens of running times over the years. In many cases, the cast/credits and running times listed on IMDb were taken from pressbooks (which routinely inflated or “rounded up” running times—77 minutes became 80 minutes, etc.) or industry publications, which are themselves notoriously inaccurate. It’s not unusual for the running time listed on IMDb to be off by three to five minutes or even more.
I've made lots of corrections to the IMDb as well; several friends when I was working in LA in the '70s and '80s were '50s and '60s b-movie writers and/or directors, and I've corrected a number of errors in credits, not to mention "uncredited" writers and directors who worked on films. All of that info came from the very people who made the films.
Heh, I had the model kit of "Surfink" (or at least "Rat Fink") when I was a kiddo in the early '60s. ;)