The Weird Ones (Lost 1962 Pat Boyette Film)

Before turning to comic books, draughtsman Pat Boyette produced a talk show, a puppet show as well as various TV commercials in the 1950s, but also directed three low-budget films in the early 1960s: Dungeon of Harrow (a color horror film, released 1962), The Weird Ones (a regional sexploitation comedy, 1962) and No Man's Land (a 1964 war film very little is known about).

Written, directed and produced by Boyette, the 76-minutes black and white film The Weird Ones was shot in his natal city of San Antonio, TX, then was screened for the first time in February 1962. The film is reportedly about a couple of press agents (acted by Mike Braden and Rudy Duran) specialized in promoting naked women, who stem to stop the Astronik, a space alien devoted to torture and murder young ladies. In order to lead the Astronik into a trap, the protagonists use an extra-terrestrial "Cosmo-Cutie" as a bait - this character serving as a pretext for several softcore erotica scenes.

All negatives, related promotional materials and copies of The Weird Ones were, according to Boyette himself, destroyed in a garage fire. Only the theatrical poster made it. If another copy is held by the theatrical distributor is open to conjecture, as "Crescent International Pictures" shows no sign of life after 1969 with a few sex-oriented movies of dubious quality.