THE MAD MONSTER / Producers Releasing Corporation - 1942

Welcome everbloody, to Wednesday B+W Oldie/Moldie Flicktime here at the Dungeon! THE MAD MONSTER wuz director Sam Newfield' 108th assignment and he finish with 272 including title like AUNTIE'S ANTE, A GYM DANDY, MAGIC, BUSTER'S SPOOKS, PEEK-A-BOO, GHOST PATROL, THE TERROR OF TINY TOWN, HITLER - BEAST OF BERLIN, THE INVISIBLE KILLER, DEAD MEN WALK, THE BLACK RAVEN, NABONGA (love that name!), FIGHT THAT GHOST, THE FLYING SERPENT, GAS HOUSE KIDS, WILD WEED, RADAR SECRET SERVICE, LOST CONTINENT (1951) and even 12 episode of RAMAR OF THE JUNGLE for TV!

"The blood of a wolf he placed in the veins of a man... and created a monster such as the world has never known!" reads the tagline... THE WOLFMAN came out only a year earlier!

Today' soundclip feature original music by Russian born David Chudnow, who retire in 1956, and die in 2002??! This the kind of music meant to jar and shock as you will hear once Piff push big old red 'GO' button, because today it his turn!.. THE MAD MONSTER!

George Zucco play Dr. Lorenzo Cameron. Now, here is real 'mad' scientist to be sure!!

Sadistic bastard like to give shots of wolf blood to Dungeon pal, Glenn Strange!

Glenn play Petro, he get all change into snarling werewolf by doc. Tabonga love Glenn' flour sack shirt!!

Dr. Cameron like to have imaginary pal he hate come and debate crazy theories he have inside his head! (Glenn Beck!)

Petro like to pick flower for doctor' daughter, Lenora (Anne Nagel).

When people getting old, sometime eyeball play trick on self!!

Doc never stop coming up wif' devilish plan for revenge!

This time, he take Petro to guy he want dead and then leave. Guy is supposed to try and figure out what wrong with Petro in upstairs department!

Slick dirty trick! Doc know that Petro starting to turn into werewolf unpredictably now... So, it just a matter of time!

Another revenge plan by doc is for this dude to drive Petro somewhere on foggy night!

Curiosity kill the daughter!

Poetic justice... Doc create monster, monster turn on doc!!

Great part as Petro give Dr. Cameron well-deserved strangling!

Again, fire disinfect everything an' everbloody can get good night sleep!.. Well, except doc an' Petro!

IL ROSSO SEGNO DELAFOLLIA - Sante Maria Romitelli - "Blood Brides" (1970)

I've said it before, I don't really like slasher flicks that much, but I trust Mario Bava! And bigger than anything, this here "Honeymoon Hatchet" jumps right out of the box, with blades a gleaming, interspersed with wacky psychedelic arty scenes, and Mr. Bava almost lost me, but by the time I got to the end I was quite surprised to find myself laughing, alot!!!

Psychomaniac John Harrington killed something like five brides before this movie even got started!! He is portryed perfectly insane by Stephan Forsyth!

This film would be the last straw in Stephen Forsyth's acting career! I think by the time we get to the end of this, you'll know why!

Yes, there's a killer on the loose, and all the mayhem is happening to the music of one Sante Maria Romitelli, a man whose career ran the gamut from "Love Hungry Girls" to "God's Gun" and back again!

Let's start with the fact that John inherited his mother's bridal gown business! Now that's macho!

And John can always find solace somewhere!

John is big and rich enough to own his own crematorium, which is very helpful when you have a lot of dead bodies to dispose of!

Cut to the next morning toast burning scene, and John's wife Mildred says, "Do you smell something burning?"

And speaking of Mildred, here's the nagging bitch right now! Mildred Harrington was played by Laura Betti fairly early in her career! She went on to work up into the 2000's until her death in 2004. Interestingly enough, Laura started her career as a jazz singer!

So it seems John's had enough of killing other people's wives, now it's time to kill his own!!!

When John busts out in the bridal veil with the meat cleaver, you know he's gone too far!! It's starting to make "The Shining" look like "Sesame Street!"

All Mildred's bloody screaming got some attention, and Jesús Puente as Inspector Russell shows uo to see what's going down! Too bad he never looked up!!!

And why? Becasue John's excuse for the screaming was he was watching a Horror movie! The movie just happened to be one of Mario Bava's earlier films, "Black Sabbath" starring our hero Boris Karloff!!

So with Mildred gone, John can just about dress any way he wants to!!

But is she really dead? Mildred is looking dead on dressed in black!!

Mildred questions John's choice of velour at a time like this!

This is where it starts getting fun! When John is alone, he sometimes sees his dead wife, but when he's out in public, he doesn't see her, but the other people do!! What better time for some classic 70's music!

Mildred was bugging John more dead than when she was alive, so he figured he'd cremate her remains, and that would take care of it! So he carries the bag around and goes to the local bar, and orders a whiskey, and when the waiter comes back, he has John's whiskey, and a sherry for the lady!!!

Mildred just sits there, minding her own business, like nothing happened at all when John tries to pick up on this chick, and starts going on about doing it in front of his wife!!

The bouncers unceremoniuously toss John out on his ear for being a pervert, and one yells out to him, "Here's your bag!"

Cremating her didn't work, so John figures he'll toss the ashes, and that should do the trick, but no cigar!

Back in John's private world, you start getting the feeling that maybe his problems go back farther than we know about!

Inspector Russell finally busts John and takes him off in the paddy wagon, but he doesn't care anymore, as long as he is finally away from his wife.....

...But guess what? That ain't gonna happen!!!Have a nice forever John, at least you'll never ever have to worry about being alone!!! Isn't that comforting??? Thanx Mario!!!

DOOMSDAY MACHINE / First Leisure - 1972

Rodan's filling in for Tabonga as Tabonga has a splinter in his big toe! Today's weirdo feature is one of the most mish-moshed movies you'll ever marvel at, and, I'll name off the borrowed parts when we get there. On top of all that, looks like the photography director was into mushrooms!.. The psychedelic kind!! The company First Leisure went on to produce two other movies, THE GATLING GUN and THE SPECTRE OF EDGAR ALLEN POE.

~ It's just a coincidence that yesterday's post also has acid-dropping colors!!

Eegah!! does another good job of capturing some great lines and screams to go with the FORBIDDEN PLANET sounds that have additional elements thrown in for disguise purposes! So, there's already one mish!

Hang on to your hats and eyeballs!.. DOOMED-DAY CONTRAPTION!!

Everything starts in another movie, Italian, I think MISSION STARDUST. Anyway, it's supposed to be China and that there gizmo locked up behind bars is nothing less than... The Doomsday Machine!!

*Did anyone see the History Channel's piece on the USSR's doomsday machine, to be used if they "lost the cold war?" It was the largest ship ever built, and, it was a nuclear bomb that would destroy the entire world!!!! Go put that in your peace-pipe and smoke it!

At the Space Flight Center there's a special news session being held about the project's timetable being moved up. Mike (M*A*S*H*-TV) Farrell is a reporter in the audience.

SCOOBY-DOO, WHERE ARE YOU?!

Casey (THE INCREDIBLE 2-HEADED TRANSPLANT) Kasem is the Mission Control Officer.

Three women are brought in at the last second to join the four astrostuds on their trek into the vast void, which totally confuses everything... Oh, man, I feel the acid coming on!

I'm so stoned that I see a Japanese spaceship from GORATH!! Whoa!!!

Dude, I'm peaking!!!

Okay, enough fun, back to the show... Here's the people in the spaceship: James (THE CYCLOPS) Craig, Grant (THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN) Williams, Mala (THE UNKNOWN TERROR) Powers, Bobby (THE NAVY vs THE NIGHT MONSTERS) Van, Ruta (ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN-TV) Lee, Henry (THE MAN WHO WOULDN'T DIE) Wilcoxon and Lori (13 DEMON STREET-TV) Scott!

Ruta looks so much better in a bra with tubes than that ugly, dippy uniform she wears!

Grant hears some bad stuff coming in from Earth station.

And, just what am I supposed to be looking at?

Atomic blasts riddle the Earth's surface, then, it's gone!!

Bobby is stunned by the news and goes into shock.

Now, here's a spaceship insert from THE WIZARD OF MARS!

This picture is just plain awesome!

Oh yeah, and, it's hard to watch Grant as the sadistic, pushy asshole he plays!

In all his playfulness, he pushes Lori into the button that opens the bay door!!

This part is actually well done and comes off as very creepy!

Effective make-up!

Back to GORATH and that triggers another cosmic acid flashback!!

To tell you the truth, I don't know who filmed the part here, where they find and go into another spacecraft. And, I'm really starting to not care, it's way too long at 83 minutes!

Everybody dies at the end, a trend that became popular in the seventies!

GOLIATH AND THE DRAGON - Les Baxter - "It's All About The Broads" (1960)

Since today is like a special holiday to us, being Friday the 13th, we have a special presentation for you from 1960 called "Goliath And The Dragon", and it is fine lookin' man, it's something else!!

As much as we love them, after a couple of night's of black and white films, it's always a nice change to see some colour again, and we're not just talkin' plain old color here, we're talkin' "Colorscope" kids, and you should have seen what I seen before I desaturated these photos!!

"Goliath And The Dragon" is a movie about that one actor near and dear to everybody's heart, the one and only, Mr."Highway Patrol" himself, Broderick Crawford as the evil and world domineering Re Eurito!! Can I hear one big collective Hell Yeah!! out there please?

And in the other corner, it's the 12 time champion of the sword and sandal world, playing GOLIATH in this film, and also known for his many recurring titles as Hercules and/or Maciste, it's MARK FOREST!!!

Goliath's got his work cut out for him. Before this, it was the three headed dog, and now, it's like those gargoyle monkeys from "The Wizard Of Oz" grew up, and are really pissed off!!

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Broderick's got all the chow, booze, and dancing girls while Mark is....

off fighting a giant black bear this time; is there no end to this man's personal Hells??

My buddy Whitey Thomas used to be a good drinkin' buddy of Broderick Crawford, and he told me, they'd be out drinkin' in some Hollywood bar, and Broderick would get the fun idea of having a pretend fight! So, that's just what they would do, start actin', throwin' blows, for real, in public!!

Broderick Re Eurito has got one of the better to look at snake pits I've ever seen. It's very well constructed, but they really could have used a few more snakes, i.e. Indy Jones style!!

And now, ladies and gentlemen, after some 858 posts, Dwrayger Dungeon is proud to finally present, THE worst mullet ever in a movie...

and if that's not bad enough for you, it's on a horny minotaur! It's almost impossible to figure out how Kenny Loggins could have gone back so far in time, but, that IS the magic of the movies!!!

I'm just a sucker for women in chains!! Oh, don't worry, Goliath will save her!!

You might have noticed they mentioned a dragon in the title, so, finally, after the 3 headed dog, the giant flying gargoyle monkey, the bear, and a host of other terrors, Goliath finally meets up with THE dragon!!

It's a real hack and slash affair all right, but you know, in the end....

...truth and justice will always prevail, and there will be a God damn happy ending, or some other spawn of the devil, is going to have to get their ass kicked!!

THE VAMPIRE BAT / Majestic Pictures - 1933

Welcome to Wednesday B & W Oldie Feature, today we gots THE VAMPIRE BAT from Majestic Pictures, who capitalize on names Fay (KING KONG) Wray and Lionel (DOCTOR X) Atwill in this wild little thriller that also star Melvyn (THE OLD DARK HOUSE) Douglas and Dwight (DRACULA) Frye!

Uncredited stock music by Mischa Bakaleinikoff and Charles Dunworth and is typical for 1930's. Eegah!! make another nice soundclip to get feel of this very decent flick from 1933!

Ralphie the Tarantula has honor today of push big red 'GO' button to start show, so, here we go!.. DER VAMPIRE BAT!

German town of Kleinschloss having big problem, very strange, villager dying of blood loss!

Burgermeister Schoen read all about vampire from Big Book of Monsters!!

Everbloody 'cept detective Karl Brettschneider think that vampire have made comeback and is only possible reason for deaths.

Karl take a break and go downstairs to visit gurlfiend Ruth Bertin, who work for Dr. Otto von Niemann in his mad lab. Look like some kind of chemistry experiment going on!!

Dr. von Niemann pretend to be nice guy, but he actually need sick lady for twisted experiment he working on!

After he use lady for evil purpose, he tell everbloody that she die from vampire bite!

Here is excellent pic of Herman (Dwight) as he spy on Ruth in garden.

Then Karl show up and ruin Herman' fun.

So, he have some fun wif' Aunt Gussie instead! Oh boy, fresh fruit!!

After Aunt Gussie die of vampire wound, Herman get blamed because he like bats, he must be vampire who terrorizing village! When angry people chase Herman, he slip and fall to death! Now, village can get back to normal!! (poor Herman!)

Okay, here the deal... Dr. von Niemann create new form of life (WOW!) in fish tank and, well, it get hungry!

That why he drain blood from victim, to feed infernal thing! He have attachment to poke hole in neck so he can pump blood into glass beaker!

Ruth overhear doctor while he hypnotize helper Emil to get more body, so doctor have little surprise for her.

She next!!

After beans get spilled, Dr. von Niemann try to blame helper Emil for everything, so Emil dish out a lil' revenge on evil doc and save the day!

Always great when housemaid get last word!!

EL DEMONIO AZUL - Ing Heinrich Henkel - "BLUE DEMON" (1964)

The title sez it all!! This is the original "Blue Demon" flick made in 1965, and even though, he is arguably one of THE greatest wrasslers in history, in this outing, he has his hands full!!

All the time people ask me, Eegah!! Why do you spend so much time on these Mexican wrasslin' movies? Take one look at this photo, and come up with yer own answer, amigo!!

Aye Chihuahua!!! See what can happen!! Now you kids know why your Mom and Dad told you not to never run downhill!!!!

This was not the first film Blue Demon had ever been in, because way back in 1961 he appeared in "La Furia Del Ring," as Blue Demond, but "El Demonio Del Azul" was his first championship role!!!

C'mon Man, you just know you're not sposed to be reading books like that!!!

Now even your girlfriend doesn't believe anything you say, and you ain't going to be getting any tonight neither!!

Meanwhile, back in the ring, Blue Demon has his own cross to bear!!!

Kookie werewolf dude goes through madcap transformation scene!!!

Now what are you gonna do? It's proof positive that reading is overrated, had he just been illiterate, and not read that book, none of this would have happened!!! Less reading, more fornication, that's the bottom line here!!!

The music put together by the formiable Ing. Heinrch Henkel is all over the place from 40's serials to "Forbidden Planet" style theremin electronica! Buena suerte finding a copy of this film, that's just the nature of the beast sometimes!! Take what you can get!

DEEP RED / Italy - 1975

So, here we are on another Tabonga Saturday Matinee, today we feature wild little thriller from Dario Argento with music by Goblin. David Hemmings play as English pianist Marcus Daly. He witness murder of famous German psychic while staying in Italy. Him and hot gurl reporter try to solve mystery and go to haunted house and other spooky place! Excellent story is by Dario and Bernardino Zapponi. Original Italian name is PROFONDO ROSSO...

Mensch! Eegah give us really nice soundclip here, great music by Goblin gang sound like Guzanos!! A few other flick Goblin work on are: THE HEROIN BUSTERS, DAWN OF THE DEAD, BURIED ALIVE, ALIEN CONTAMINATION, NIGHT OF THE ZOMBIES, CREEPERS and DEMONS 3!

Tabonga' pet gnat Piff (Tabonga call him 'Piffster') been eating Cheerios so's he ready to push big old red 'GO' button!! Piff straining hard... Now, starting to move it... And... Here it go!.. HAUNTED DOLL HOUSE!

Psychic panel giving lecture, then, wiseguy ask ef'fing wrong question!

Jeez, wha?

Lady see bunch of bad thing that gonna happen... To her!! Not cool!

There is David, drunk, walking by awesome statue on his way home from bar. When he get there, he see the murder happen.

David meet alpha female reporter Daria Nicolodi and they decide on arm wrassle contest to see who is tougher, Daria cheat, but win!! Win is what matter, not how! David get totally pissed!!

Italy gots some hot chix!!

Did Tabonga mention that David supposed to be writing music, but he keep hearing weird thing happening and he get all distracted.

Kinda strange, hanged doll hanging from ceiling... Hmmm, better check for poop!

Should have left well enuf alone!

David lucky and get to find another dead body!

Great shot as David look up at haunted house he think has secret to murder mystery!

Police Superintendent Calcabrini baffled by murder scene and is getting some weird vibe.

Lil' gurl tell Superintendent Calcabrini to watch out for ghost!!

Then, David discovey badly painted weirdo art on wall in basement of old haunted house. It show crazy doll wif' knife!!

Superintendent Calcabrini not heed warning of lil' gurl and pay the price, freakin' 50/51 doll come out of wall panel and stab his ass like in wall painting.

Healthy when kid express sense of humor through art!

Tabonga just love that pic!!

This part is very cool as David walk through mirrored portrait gallery in dark hall of old haunted house!

More comin' on Monday, see's you'se then!

THE LAST MAN ON EARTH (L'ultimo Uomo Della Terra) - "The Wind Of Death" (1964)

In my humble opinion, Richard Matheson's novel "I Am Legend" comes across much better in this 1964 version of "The Last Man On Earth" than it did in the 2007 Will Smith feature.

Shot in Italy, this stark film looks killer in a black & white!! I'm sure a lot of it has to do with the fantastic Cinematography by Franco Delli Colli!

Vincent Price puts in another tremendous performance as the last man, Dr. Robert Morgan!! Nothing to do, but count the days!!

Among other things, Vincent has a record player and listens to some swingin' jazz as a way to try and relax, meanwhile, Zombies are constantly trying to break into his pad!!

Here's a "37 second soundbite" to sharpen your axe to!!

Vinnie doesn't get out much, if he uses up the rest of the gas left in the world, he's really going to be in trouble!!

So, let's see, this film was made in 1964, and the groundbreaking "Night Of The Living Dead" wouldn't be released until four years later, in 1968!! Very interesting!!

At this point Vinnie finally makes contact with another non-zombiefied human, and so the story just finally gets started.....You can get "The Last Man On Earth" on Netflix, and it streams freely on the internet, so what are you waiting for, the end of the world???

THE PHANTOM CREEPS / Theatrical Release - 1939

Here at Dungeon, we jus' cain't git enough-o-those ROBOTZ, so today we feature another classic bot from 1939! This mechanical man have angry Republican scary face!! Also, flick star Dungeon favorite hero, Bela Lugosi as mad Dr. Alex Zorka who have all kind of twisted plan in store for you!!

Eegah give us nice little soundclip with some choice dialogue. Uncredited music go to Charles Previn, who have 369 music department credit and work on FLASH GORDON and many other classics!!

Ralphie, Tabonga' pet tarantula, have his turn to push big old red 'GO' button and start today soundclip rolling... So's, hit it Ralphie!.. MAD DOC & ROBOCREEP!

Bela hate everbloody so much he invent goofy an' weirdest looking robot... EVER!! Bela get D+ in art class! Oh, and critique was disaster too!

Bela also invent handy invisible belt!.. Only problem is that sometime he cannot find!!

Hey, don't knock mad lab unless you try first!!

Jeepers, this the cat's meow!

Bela can make airplane fall out of sky just for sheer fun of it!

Not to forget flashback where he find and mine radio-active meteor from space, thing that give him all his power!

Here close up of Bela' death bug, look like where idea for THE BRAIN EATERS come from!!

Then he create crazy ray that warp and melt junk!


...You rang?!

Errr, wrong number!!

Here is great pic as Monte Vandergrift drive Bela around. Tabonga already have as wallpaper, nice!!

Good guy trying to figure out Zorka' invention.

Headline say it all!

Okay, now get ready!! Bela bomb dirigible and they show stock Hindenburg disaster footage from only 2 year earlier!! Daaaaaaaamn!!

Bela can't control temper and so he hassling Monte, who is trying to fly freaking airplane! Well, guess you know what happen next!

Hey, this look like some kind of fun for kidz in 1939!!

L'UOMO MECCANICO - "The Mechanical Man" (1921)

"The Mechanical Man" is a short trip and it's easy to get to! Not a whole lot is known about this Italian film written and directed by André Deed, who passed away back in 1938. Only about 40% of it was ever salvaged, and the quality ain't that great, but just seeing a robot back in 1921 is pretty cool, albeit almost unwatchable at times. This film is available on Netflix, and quite worthy of inclusion in your que!

I'm only giving you a small snippet of the music by Rachel Gutches that was added to this 2005 re-release to give you a feel for it!

" A reign of terror is unleashed by The Mechanical Man, who is remotely controlled by Mado, the evil female mastermind!"

The Mechanical Man chases this dude, and when he hides in this closet, he picks up the whole thing and tosses it off the top of the building!!

"The mayhem continues unchecked" as The Mechanical Man bursts into these gal's apartment and steals their safe by pulling it straight out of the wall!!

It's right about this point in the film where you say to yourself, okay, this Mechanical Man is big and tough, but he's so slow and lumbering, I could get away from him real easy! The next thing you know, he's chasing these people in their car and the freakin' robot is running!!

The Mechanical Man trips and falls down and is destroyed so Mado and her henchmen have to come and pick him up and take him away!!

The next thing you know, The Mechanical Man shows up at a masked ball at the opera house, and everybody is scared at first!

But what do you know? He's a nice guy now, and he toasts champagne with all the party peoples!

The Mechanical Man starts having a little too much fun at this young lady's expense, and when she puts a halt to his advances, he gets pissed off and starts busting up the man's place!

All Hell breaks out now, and The Mechanical Man takes off with his new girlfriend. This has to stop so, the original inventor's brother makes another Mechanical Man, and there's a big throw down between the two robots!!

Behind the scenes, the evil Mado controls her robot!!

And the brother controls the other one, in what is, without a doubt.......

The first ever televised pay-per-view Big-Time Robot Wrasslin' event! What a movie!!

ONWARD OUTWARD INTO THE FUTURE'S PAST!!!

Hey, that whole lotta lovin' Halloween Countdown thing was pretty scary fun, we made some new friends, and learned new stuff too. Whopping enormous thanx to Big Z and the little guys for takin' up all the slack, and all the particpants and the people who made the Countdown happen! Here's a wallpaper I made of some spacey record album covers that got left behind. It's like a commemoration of our launch back into space and some of them other neither nether regions we all like to hang out in!

ONE DARK NIGHT / The Picture Company - 1983

Hello everbloody, an' welcome to Halloween Countdown Finale! An' what a finale it is!! This is first flick directed by multi-talent Tom McLoughlin (not Tom Laughlin of BILLY JACK fame). Tom went on to direct FRIDAY THE 13th part VI, FREDDY'S NIGHTMARES and FRIDAY THE 13th TV series and then various TV show from then on.

Music by Bob Summers, who start career in 1967 with IT'S A BIKINI WORLD, then THE AMAZING WORLD OF PSYCHIC PHENOMENA, BEYOND AND BACK, CHARLIE AND THE TALKING BUZZARD, BEYOND DEATH'S DOOR, EARTHBOUND, THE BOOGENS, THE ANNIHILATORS, ELIMINATORS, BODY COUNT and ROCK-A-DIE BABY to name a few...

Lil' pet gnat Piff draw longest straw so he get to press big old red 'GO' button for big finale today, an' he all happy, so's, hit it Piff!.. doodley doot de doo... NIGHT IN THE MASOLEUM!

Boy, county worker gonna be getting nice fat bonus overtime check in upcoming pay cycle! Flick have east coast feel but made in LA!

Something go terribly wrong at Sewing Club!! Err, correction... Psychic Club! Six gurl and one crazy psychic nutjob, Raymar, all die at scene!.. What a way to go!!

Nice graveyard!

Anyways, estrange daughter Oliva and husband Allan (Adam West) go to funeral of Raymar, where more weird thing happen.

Dockstader was friend of Raymar and he convince Olivia her father really was crazy psychic nutjob! He show her picture of fingerpaint he do in kindergarten to back up what he say!

Adam need big slug o' booze, he thought they want him to play 'Dark Knight!'

Tabonga just throw in for fun!!

Meg (FAME) Tilly and Elizabeth (FAME TV) Daily and the others are all part of The Sisters, a gurlie fraternity!

Meg have to spend night in spooky mausoleum for initiation! Oh well, how bad can it be?!.. Right?.. There ain't no such things as ghosts!.. Right?!.... Hello!!

Time for Sisters to prank Meg, so, they sneak into basement and put on monster mask, to make thing a little more interesting.

Cabrón !!.. Coffin start coming out of wall and opening up!

Yucko, I smell rotten sausage!!

God, me too!!

Raymar still being crazy and all, now he animating his new fiends in dark mausoleum!

Did you know fingernail still grow after you dead an' going to Hell?!!

Just plain unadulterated... EEECH!!!

See, all monster, no matter how different, can get along together just fine! Not like people!

Gurlie pranksters not having so much fun now, are they?! Floating bodies like to crowd you ass!! Elizabeth pull off face of one dead dude! Yucky Duck!..

Wow, what exquisit corpses!!

Hey, some of Eegah' relative!!

Oliva remember Scooby-Doo episode where they use mirror to reflect hypnotic ray back into bad guy' eye, so she give it a shot!

You know, Scooby and gang not really get enough credit! But, anyway, game over for Raymar!!

We end wif' special Halloween crazy quote, kaff kaff, ahem... Tor sez, "Time for, go to bed!" What flick that line come from?

This was one of my sister' favorite flick, so, this also special posting for her!!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN, EVERBLOODY!!!

THE MILPITAS MONSTER - Robert R. Berry Jr. - "The Mutant Beast" (1975)

I'm wrapping up my part of this Halloween Countdown with what I feel is one of the indiest of the indie movies, "The Milpitas Monster" aka "The Mutant Beast"! What started out as a high school project somehow turned into a classic example of D.I.Y. film making!!

"The Mutant Beast" has many unintentional things in common with our own film, "The Creep," but that's what happens when you film in a small town, and give some of it's residents a chance to make a movie!! That's just the nature of this beast!!!

The stars of both films are Trash Cans!!!

The main characters in both films smell like garbage!!

There's lots of local colour! (Except "The Creep" was in Black & White!)

And they both have a scene where a kid's sitting in a car reading an issue of Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine!!

But that's about where the comparisons end because "The Milpitas Monster" was able to secure some club/bar interior shots and a rockin' band! The pretty dang cool music was written by Robert R. Berry Jr. (too bad the sound is so muddy and warbly in spots, but it just kind of adds to the overall effect!)......Some of the grungiest rock we've heard since "Driller Killer!"

They had the added bonus of a carnival to use as a backdrop, and also, they came up with a pretty damn good monster!!

I'm going to go out on a electrical high wire, and say I think Toho might have even approved!!

Check out this shot!! It's beautiful, and would make a killer oil on black velvet painting!!!

If you go rummaging through the credits, you've not going to find very many names who ever did anything in the movies again, but one major exception, was the fellow who got credit for the special effects, Ben Burtt! Ben went on to do a number of things, including getting the credit for original sound effects (Droids and all) in the Star Wars movies, and the voice of Wall-E. and E.T. and also the sound designer on all the Indiana Jones movies!! I guess that pretty much makes up for everybody else!!

I think they actually dumped Priscilla House unceremoniously from about half way up that tower, as a very real effect, by the look of things!!

All the big cheeses in Milpitas have to figger out how to deal with the big stank, so they call the authority, the only man who knows anything about crap like this....

And, it's none other than Bob Wilkins and his signature stogie, the local Bay area horror icon and "Creature Features" TV host. (Unfortunately, Bob just passed away in January of this year.)

Bob tells them to use the "Odorola" and that's pretty much all it takes to wrap this stinker up!!!

Final credits roll to expose the names of practically every proud business and organization in town!!

Have an insane Halloween!!