Teenage Zombies story
A group of teenagers are marooned on an island inhabited by a female mad scientist, her pet gorilla and a zombie slave named Ivan. She traps the kids in a cage down in her laboratory, plotting to use them as subjects for her zombie-making experimentation, so she can test out a drug she is working on for an unnamed foreign nation.
10 total · 5 major · 4 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| adolescence | major | The story followed the plight of a group of teenagers who had the ill-fortune of crossing paths with the deranged scientist Doctor Myra. |
| coping with a loved one being in peril | major | Reg and Dotty were worried sick about their four friends who went missing while out water skiing. |
| human vs. captivity | major | Doctor Myra held four teens captive on her secluded island. |
| mad scientist stereotype | major | Doctor Myra held four teens captive and experimented with transforming them into mindless, obedient zombies. She was maniacal and had a laboratory in her basement that was equipped with chemistry lab style equipment. |
| what if everyone turned into zombies | major | Doctor Myra plotted to release a nerve agent across the United States that was calculated to transform the entire population into mindless, obedient zombies. |
| friendship | minor | The six teens in the story were all friends who enjoyed to go water skiing together. |
| master and pet | minor | Doctor Myra had a pet gorilla. |
| master and servant | minor | Doctor Myra and her obedient stooge Ivan the Zombie. |
| nuclear weapons | minor | Doctor Myra discussed dropping hydrogen bombs on the United States with two foreign agents from "the East". |
| zombie | not | No actual zombies were featured. Ivan the Zombie was essentially a big, lumbering dolt. |