up Zombie, but  Columbia Pictures threatened writer/director/star  Ray Dennis Steckler (qv) with a massive lawsuit, thinking that the  title was too similar to their upcoming Stanley Kubrick (qv) film,  _Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)_ (qv).  Steckler was amazed that Columbia would feel so threatened by his  little $38,000 film. He phoned the studio to straighten things out,  but couldnt make any progress until he demanded that Kubrick get on  the line. Then Steckler simply suggested the new title 