Zotz!

Zotz!

Infobox Film
name = Zotz!


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director = William Castle
producer = William Castle
writer = Walter Karig
Ray Russell
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starring = Tom Poston
Julia Meade
music = Bernard Green
cinematography = Gordon Avil
editing = Edwin H. Bryant
distributor = Columbia Pictures
released = flagicon|USA October 3, 1962
runtime = 87 min.
country = USA
language = English
budget =
gross =
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imdb_id = 0056725

"Zotz!" is a 1947 novel by Walter Karig and a 1962 movie, about a man obtaining magical powers from a god of an ancient civilization.

Amongst science fiction fandom, the word refers to a useless, unwanted gift.Fact|date=February 2008

Plot of the movie

Ancient Eastern languages professor Jonathan Jones finds a cursed amulet. Jones obtains powers to cause pain or slow movement, and even kill. He immediately suffers the consequences of his discovery: Jones realizes that when he points at another living creature, it causes a great pain. This prevents any intimate encounters with a woman. It is a metaphor of the age of nuclear weapons (the novel was written 2 years after atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki).

In the movie, Jones tries to warn Department of Defense and get rid of the amulet. But he is taken as a madman. Then the Soviet Union gets interested and the adventures begin. It's a comedy.

External links

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