Evil Town

Evil Town is a 1987 American zombie horror film directed by Curtis Hanson, Mardi Rustam, Larry Spiegel and Peter S. Traynor. Evil Town was the last film with the actor Dean Jagger. Synopsis The film depicts an evil scientist's (Dean Jagger) campaign to achieve eternal youth, through synthesizing a drug derived from human pituitary fluid. In extracting the fluid, he creates mindless zombies from the donors. Because the local town residents are in on the plot, to achieve immortality, they help the scientist, by abducting visitors who come through town. Cast James Keach as Dr. Chris Fuller Dean Jagger as Dr. Schaeffer Robert Walker Jr. as Mike Doria Cook-Nelson as Linda Lynda Wiesmeier as Dianne Michele Marsh as Julie Christie Houser as Terrie Dabbs Greer as Lyle Phelps Regis Toomey as Doc Hooper Lurene Tuttle as Mildred Phelps Richard Hale as Lester Wylie Hope Summers as Mrs. Wylie E. J. André as Earl Production The film went into production in 1984 and went through numerous re-writes and re-edits before release in 1987. It is made up of footage of several older films, with major footage coming from the unfinished Dean Jagger film God Bless Dr. Shagetz (1974). When the pieces of the various older films were patched together, there was inclusion of some new footage, including some with Jillian Kesner and nude scenes with Playboy Playmate Lynda Wiesmeier.