QUELLA VILLA ACCANTO AL CIMITERO - Walter Rizzati - "Zombie Hell House" (1981)

This site was originally supposed to be about cool music from the 50's and 60's! "House By The Cemetary" as it is known in one of it's various incarnations, and the under two minutes worth of music you can hear here, is a classic example of why we chose to stay in those eras! It's quite simple, and you can think what you might, but we really don't dig Gore, I mean Al was almost OK, but I didn't dig him that much, and this film is a bloody mess, starting from the opening chords when the girl you hear gets a knife stuck through the back of her head and out her throat, that's it for me, I'm outta here! I just couldn't even watch this movie!

But, always trying to look on the bright side, I would like to say, that Walter Rizzati, the composer of the rather mundane music for this film was also responisble for a roster of unbelievable titles when they are translated into English! So here you go, spanning the years from 1966 to 1982 alone, Walter composed the music for not only this film, but also "The Bronx Warriors", "My Wife Goes Back To School", "Flying Sex", "I'm for the Hippopotamus" and "Our Men in Bagdad!" WhoooEeee!!! This film also featured music by The Yardbirds, and a snippet of "Barefootin" by Robert Parker, and you might be able to find the whole soundtrack somewhere if you try hard enough!!!

Wolvertonesque MONSTER SCULPTURES

Tonight Rodan's featuring the weird artwork of one of our house artists, Gary Wray! These are some Wolvertonesque monster head sculptures he did between 2004-6, all have been sold to collectors. Average size is approximately 10" in height.

Check out his art archive MONSTER ALLEY in our links section.














Tune in tomorrow when Eegah!! will be in the house with another esoteric posting!

THE MONSTER MAKER / PRC - 1944 / Music by Albert Glasser

Hi everbloody, already Wednesday an' time to make a monster again, here at Dungeon! Speak of monster making, tonight lil' PRC flick THE MONSTER MAKER is pretty decent for where and year it come from! ...Poster kinda cool too, for 1944, lettering is superb!

Mostly tonight soundclip is from concert by famous pianist Anthony Lawrence playing dramatic old classic. Rest is composed by super Dungeon favorite pal Albert Glasser, who help out MR. BIG for many year!!

Tabonga' lil' buddie pet gnat Piff been hiding in Tabonga' ear, waiting to push giant big 'GO' button to start tonight festivity, so come on out Piff and press that button!... A MONSTER AND A APE!!

Give listen to super genius piano dude Anthony Lawrence, play by Ralph Morgan!..

...SHHHHHH!!!

Wanda McKay out with boyfriend Terry Frost, she is daughter of pianist Anthony Lawrence. J. Carrol Naish is out with lab assistant Tala Birell. J. Carrol staring at Wanda, she look like his ex, dead wife. Tala is jealous!

Great pianist need personal trainer to work out keyboard cramp!

J. Carrol Naish is perfect SOB as Dr. Igor Markoff!

Crash Corrigan back as big ape! So cool in forties, almost ape in every flick!!

Whoa, Markoff have inside direct line to Plum Island!!

SOB Markoff knock out Lawrence with candlestick and shoot up with acromegaly fluid to get to daughter he so damn obsessed with and want to marry.

Then he find out the worst, he definitely gots the disease... acromegaly!

Lawrence show up at Markoff place and he know what happen!

Cheater Markoff call in henchman Steve to take care of Elephant Dude... Steve played by Glenn Strange!

Markoff send out Crash to take care of Tala because she know what the hell is going on around there!

Hey babuh! You 'da gorilla my dreams!!.. How's about a big hug?!

Tabonga very sorry, but he forget to get still of ACE, THE WONDER DOG who come in and chase Crash away!

Daughter come to visit pops but find Elephant Dude instead! He spill beans and tell her Markoff do it to him!

Elephant Dude break away from bed an' stomp asshole Markoff.

Lawrence get antidote and is back to normal post haste! Hey, look... Right back where started!! Jus' like Escher infinity strip!

Yer bonus!.. Toodle!

Rodan post more cool junk images tomorrow!

Kitschy SEX POSTERS From The Past

Now, here are some great, monsterously delightful sex posters from the past!



Barry (THE DEAD ONE + ROCKET ATTACK U.S.A.) Mahon!


Eegah!! + Tabonga! saw this particular movie in 1961 at the drive-in with Tabonga!'s older cousins and a hot chick in a 1960 Oldsmobile!




Tune in tomorrow as TABONGA! brings you an excellent posting of THE MONSTER MAKER!

MACISTE ALL'INFERNO (Maciste In Hell) - Carlo Franci - "The Witch's Curse" (1962)

Allright!!! Here we go again!! One of my favorite movies for I have no reason why, "The Witch's Curse" put some kind of spell on me back in 1962, and even after watching it again not that long ago, I still feel the same! Probably one of the best examples of WTF filming ever made! 'Sword & Sandal' genius Carlo Franci is responsible for the music! Carlo's resume reads like the text of your freshman year in high school mythology course! Stuff like "The Terror of Rome Against the Son of Hercules" and "Medusa Against the Son of Hercules" and "Goliath and the Rebel Slave" and of course " Hercules Against the Moon Men!"

It's confusing as Hell to begin with, but one thing you need to know, is the answer to the question, "Do you believe in witchcraft?"

"The women are going mad, that's my explanation!!"

So, they're burning this witch at the stake, and the next thing you know is Maciste (Also known as Hercules) is uprooting this big tree to find the entrance to Hell!! I'm really serious, WTF???

Never to have failed the 'test of strength' Kirk Morris, born Adriano Bellini, as Maciste, aka Hercules, is on a mission!!

In retrospect, I'm thinking just maybe, Hélène Chanel was one of the reasons I remember this film so well!!

Thus starts one of the greatest sequence of events ever recorded on to celluloid!

Maciste leaps!!

Maciste barely hangs on!!

Maciste flexes, and picks up a really big piece of stuff!!

Maciste grapples with the big giant! Look how small he looks compared to The Giant!! The rest of the action was just too hard and fast for me to get any good screencaps, but just let it be known, the giant goes down!!!

This whole bit with Prometheus getting eaten by the birds will mess with your psyche for a long, long time, trust me!!

Don't worry, we've just scratched the surface!!

Maciste still has to deal with this Cyclops!!

And to this day, I still haven't figured out how he managed to keep this whole herd of stampeding longhorns at bay!! What a movie!!! Just totally freakin' amazing!!!

EEGAH!! + TABONGA! ~ 1959-63, Early Years

Hello, RODAN! here, and since I get to run the show on Eegah!! + Tabonga!'s off days, it came to me that this would be the perfect time to run this little feature. I figure everyone'll get a kick out of it, so, enjoy!

Everything seemed perfectly harmless at first, meeting in the 6th grade in Mr. Altman's homeroom class.

Eventually, things started getting out of hand... If you could see, there's a dart stuck in his skull!

After Eegah!!'s mom saw these last 2 photos, she knew she had to step in and do something!

So, she bought them a make-up kit! One time they dressed up as a clown and a devil and went to a liquor store and played pinball while the drunks watched!! No kidding!

Rufus is a lo-tech devil, if someone comes, he hides behind the board he's holding!

Tabonga!'s dad was kind enuf to snap this shot. Hey, what else is there to do in a small town that's nothing but grape vineyards, and has a stinky winery?!.. Turn into monsters, natcherly!

The picture's always better when there's a thumb in the way!

Now, you see why Eegah!! + Tabonga! are the way they are!!

Things should be back to normal tomorrow, see you then!

DAMN!!! YOU PEOPLE MAKE IT HARD TO QUIT!!!

For the moment, your comments have saved this site from total obliteration, and I'm pretty sure this is what Forry would have wanted us to do, even tho that delete button is staring hard at me! Before we started this blog, I used to read the chrisgoesrock blog a lot, and think to myself, "Damn, this guy is cranky!!" and now I know why!! So, until something else goes astray..........absorb these thoughts from J.D. Lobue from the classic 1971 Al Adamson feature, "Dracula Vs. Frankenstein!!!"

"Here and Now!!"

Post Deleted Due To Overly Moronic Crybaby Content!!!

THE INCREDIBLE PETRIFIED WORLD / Jerry Warren - 1957

Welcome, everbloody, to Tabonga' Wednesday post! Basically, this Jerry Warren catastrophy cause Columbia Picture to cancel Phyllis Coates contract!.. Phyllis was Jerry ex-gurlfiend and he talk her into doing flick as favor. When Columbia dude see it, she get fired! Thanks a lot, Jerry!!

Check out poster with lady in red dress attack by monster octopus! All Tabonga can say... Kids probably very disappointed!!

Tabonga recognize music the same in KING DINOSAUR, ATOMIC BRAIN and small piece from NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD! but only know that Josef Zimanich was music director. Not that strange since flick is produce by Jerry!

Pet tarantula Ralphie so happy to push tonight' 'GO' button, he give Tabonga big hug!!.. Hit it! el SILLY PUTRIFIED TUNNEL!

All great adventure start wif' loaded super-genius and big ol' chunk-o-divinity!

John Carradine push off Sheila (BEAST FROM HAUNTED CAVE) Noonan, Phyllis (SUPERMAN) Coates, George (MAN BEAST) Skaff and Robert (THE HIDEOUS SUN DEMON) Clarke to almost certain death.

For some reason, Tabonga craving grape!

Of course, diving bell crash and everbloody have to get out and swim somewhere!

They find tunnels and now have new home with skeleton already in closet!! And, check out pave walkway!

WTF?!

WTF?!!

ANnnnNND... WTF?!!!

Where the hell Jerry find these guy?! Dude from France!!

John and super-genius feel a little guilty because diving bell accident was their fault, so they go take shop class to take mind off it!

Wilma an' Betty spruce up dining area!

Believe or don't, radio dude come down and fix diving bell!! And get this!.. They climb up ladder to leave!!!

Tunnel mole dude try to pull off love coup but wall come tumbling down!

...ON HEAD!!

Gurls run on pave pathway to find guys, then they all go back to surface world.

Even though everything look so damn great, Phyllis gonna get fired from Columbia Studio shortly!! Thanks a lot one more time, Jer!!..

Monsterous Eye Candy - PULP MAGAZINES

Since we have so many great images in our library, RODAN will use Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays to randomly post 'Monsterous Manifestations' as a bonus from The Dungeon Dudes!!

TOTÓ NELLA LUNA - Alexandre Derevitsky - "Totò in the Moon" (1958)

Try looking Totò up on the internet sometime! Besides our main guy here, you'll also come across singers from not only Italy, but also Haiti, and Columbia! There's a Swiss hockey player and a Mafia boss, and everyone knows about Dorthy's little dog in "The Wizard Of Oz" and the schlocky 70's pop band, and the new kid in town in "Gamera The Brave," but did you know there's a town in Indiana named Toto, and also one in Angola, it's a primitive tribe in India, and not to forget, it's also Spanish profanity for female genitalia in the Dominican Republic!!

Just how popular was Totò?? Follow that link to an awesome page of posters and lobby cards covering the amazing array of the man's films to find out!!! Semplicemente Fantastico!!!!

Great dialogue or is it all in the translation?!

Adding Italian bombshell Sylva Koscina into the mix, and then blowing her clothes off in this lab scene gone bad, was an excellent idea!!

Since this is also a story about a science fiction author, we get some cool imagery like this neato space spider!!!

Let's see, "Invasion Of The Body Snatchers" came out in 1956, two years before this film! Umm!
The Pod Creature is born!!!

Truer words have never been translated!!

These guards are supposed to be working, but besides the two six packs they drank, they also look extremely stoned!!

Dude runs around butt naked for what seemed like about half of the movie! More great dialogue!!!

The music for this film was composed by a gentleman named Alexandre Derevitsky, working this time out as Alessandro Derevitsky. It doesn't really rock or swing, but you needed to know about this film anyway, so who cares?! Alex had a couple of other cool titles under his belt like "Hercules' Revenge" and my favorite translation, "My Pal Dr. Jekyll." So without further distraction, here's just a taste of, not the Man, but "Totò In The Moon"!!!!

Totò and the Pod Creature are sent to the Moon by accident, and meet with the supreme being!

Totò laments about all the good times he's going to miss, and it's very sad until they transform the Pod Creature into a companion for him!

Totò didn't like that first version at all, but was very happy in the end with the final transformation, and doesn't care about going back to Earth ever again!! So, Es Todo for real!!!!!

1940's MEXICAN LOBBY CARDS

Here's more great 1940s Mexican Lobby Cards from RODAN'S Poster Collection! All but 1 have been sold.

ALIEN CONTAMINATION / Italy + W. Germany - 1980 / Music by GOBLIN

Welcome back to SATURDAY AFTERNOON FLICK from The Dungeon. Today we has a strange one from 1980, kinda ALIEN 2 ripoff. ALIEN Egg on Earth and takin' over from base in Columbia where they grow in banana field... Forever!! Original title wuz CONTAMINATION, USA video release has title TOXIC SPAWN!

Music by interesting group, GOBLIN, which consist of 13 different guy and 1 gurl over 25 year span! Good stuff for Saturday Afternoon Flick!

Tabonga' pet gnat Piff is buzzing around, so time for lil' guy to press giant GO button and start afternoon soundclip. So, ready, set... EXPLODIN' FLYIN' FLESH HEMOGOBLINS!! Now, lots-o eye an' ear candy for you enjoyment!

Thing not going that great on coffee ship from Columbia!.. Blech!

This pic for Dungeon special gurlfiend Darfish... Green egg an' ham!

I'm freezing my freaking balls off here!!

Get ready to blow up poor little white mouse!

Dude diserve to es'plode!

Hmmmmm!.. That look kinda familiar!!

Raise right hand if think this is good helmet design! Dude all hypnotize by egg an' act like not in some flick!

They actually film part of flick in Columbia!

Egg collectors look like weird ant running around in banana field! Maybe is Easter?!

Stella and Tony get capture by bad guy Martian clone egg man, or whatever. Anyway, Tony has to go meet the monster hisself and now he all hypnotize too!! Not lookin' too gut for the Tonster!

Yep, Tony not gonna make it to end of flick! Suppose to make you upset, but you no care! BFD... At least you finally get to see monster!

Ian kickin' ass!.. Yeehaw!!

Then, Stella turn. But, Ian come in and break up monster good times!

Ian shoot and WTF?!

Then, bad guy blow up and fall down! Game over!!

Lovers Ian and Stella look at star and talk about future... Meanwhile, flick end wif' EGG in garbage in New York City!!

Eegah!! bring you more surprise on Monday! Be there or be big square knucklehead!!

Rodan! will post more Mexican Lobby Cards tomorrow, so come back for those!

THE CASTLE OF FU MANCHU - Carlos Camilleri & Malcom Shelby - "Assignment Istanbul " (1969)

We got a special film for you tonight titled "The Castle Of Fu Manchu", a real favorite of our buddy Professor Grewbeard over at the "Magic Carpet Burn" blog! (If for some unknown reason, you have never visited his blog, boy, are you missing out. The link is over yonder!)

Here's what I've got to say about Christopher Lee as Fu Manchu! The two letters that make up his first name are F U!! What more do you need to know? Isn't it just quite obvious why he is bent on world domination!!

Fu Manchu has the power to ruin your day, if he so decides, and he doesn't even have to be there, he can do it via long distance!! The music for this film was composed by virtual unknowns Carlos Camilleri and Malcomb Shelby! It was Malcom's solo outing and Carlos wrote for one other film two years earlier, " The House Of 1000 Dolls."

Just like in four other Fu Manchu movies, Tsai Chin as sidekick Lin Tang watches on approvingly! She is still active and working today!!

The Prof would agree that this is one of Jesus Franco's weakest directorial outings! The elements we need and expect just are not there!! Where's the cool club scene and music? This movie really does look like it was just done for a paycheck!! Four Fu Manchu movies would have been plenty!!

We do get treated to a bunch of weird shots, like this very impressive quadrature gauge!

Weird phallic gravestones and one that looks like the end of a tube of toothpaste, or maybe the back of the head of Johnny Roventini, the 1950's "Calling Phillip Morris" bellhop kid!

Would this be considered a ring or just a weird pinkie protector finger decoration??

Looks and smells like Jess Franco, but tastes like television!!!

This is a rare film in the fact that you don't really have to actually watch it, because this poster tells the whole story!!

Fu Manchu has his own in house Healthcare system set up for his employees!!! Next!!!!

The F U Man watches over each and every one of us, all of the time, making life easy, so we don't have to worry about it!!

Now that you all feel safe, go on out, and have yourself a mighty fine weekend!!

THE BEAST OF YUCCA FLATS / Coleman Francis - 1961 / Music by Kauer, Nafshun + Remington

Before MST3K version of 'dis horrible flick, Tabonga hate it! Was unwatchable! Now, love it!! Love Coleman Francis and Tony Cardoza!! They make worse flick than Eddie!

One guess why not fit for TV unedited in 1961!

Music dude Gene Kauer work on great stuff to include CAPE CANAVERAL MONSTERS, THE ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN GEE WHIZ ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MOON (TV), DOOR-TO-DOOR MANIAC, MONSTROSITY, AGENT FOR H.A.R.M., SWAMP GIRL, FACES OF DEATH I, II + III and THE ONE ARMED EXECUTIONER! Irwin Nafshun work on same stuff as Kauer, Al Remington work on only two project, this and EXPLORING THE MOON!

Is Tabonga' pet tarantula turn to press giant 'GO' Button for tonight' soundclip Eegah!! bake up in cave east of here!! Okay, Ralphie, push away lil' dude!.. BEAST OF YUCKY CRAPS!

Hey, Conrad Brooks cameo!

Hey look, Tony Cardoza play tough guy commie with cool hat! Oh, and he drive nice white Plymouth Valiant!

Hey, it the coffee guy!!

WHEEEEEE!!! Car race is fun!!

SON OF A BIT...

Tor is BEAST now and choke gurl wif' purse too!! Then he take gurl to cave for hot time on old rock!

Whoa, wild looking Marcia Knight, great star of THE SKYDIVERS!!

Coleman very thrifty, use son Ronald and Alan and secret weapon, wife Linda.

If use some imagination, might seem like plane really in air! Or not!!

Coleman steal from only the best!

Dad want to get good look at that one pebble.

Everbloody can figure this out by self!

aaaa!.. AAAAAA!!!

IDIOT 101.

SUC-KER!!

Ahhhhh, that so cute!.. G'night sweet Tor!

THE DEMON - Nick Labuschagne - "Profane Nocturnal Fiend" (1979)

"The Demon!" What a piece of work, but what a prefect movie to lead off this Monday The 13th week, because this jewel is an unholy midnight calling, that is probably not worth your time, unless you are finally really tired of watching those "Gunsmoke" re-runs for the umpteethmillion time, or have been having trouble sleeping lately!!

The music was composed by Nick Labuschagne in his first of only two composing gigs, the other being the 1983 Gary Lockwood classic, "Survival Zone!" Pointless insignificant music from Lipps Inc. and The Sugarhill Gang are thrown into the background to pad out the 1979 experience!!

There are some tremendously okay scenes of driving around at night!!

Cameron Mitchell shows up in a vague unsuccessful attempt to conjure up some validity, but to no avail!!

Right about here is the time for one big collective WTF??

My word, that outfit was loud!! Can you people hold it down, I'm trying to sleep in here!!!

Now you gotta admit, this is a pretty cool composition!! Sometimes that's it, sometimes that all you can squeeze out of a film, one good shot!!!

That "Misfit Of Science" girl, Jennifer Holmes as What's-her-face, gets the added indignity bonus of having to run around in only her chonies to escape the madman, in this, her very first film outing!!

How rude to follow a lady into the bathroom! If you were wondering what kind of fashion statement Jennifer was trying to make, it's the shower curtain she tore down in an attempt to cover herself up!!

Non-Monster MEXICAN LOBBY CARDS

Here are some very cool non-monster Mexican Lobby Cards from The RODAN Poster Collection.

THE WEREWOLF OF WASHINGTON / Diplomatic Pictures - 1973 / Music by Arnold Freed

Welcome everbloody to Dungeon Saturday Afternoon Flick! This afternoon we gots a wild and weird twisted horror-comedy starring Dean Stockwell from 1973! Dean start his excellent career in 1945 with THE VALLEY OF DECISION and ANCHORS AWEIGH and in 1968 play Dave in PSYCHE-OUT. Also has great lil' guy Michael Dunn as DR. KISS!..

Flick is actually statement about Richard Nixon Whitehouse!!

Whoa, music dude Arnold Freed only have one music credit in movieland!!! And, guess what?! Not this flick!!!

Tabonga totally full of it!

So, here is today fun soundclip from Eegah!! Okay, start the show, now!.. POLITICAL MONSTER!

Dean and gurlfiend on vacation in Hungary and have harrowing car wreck at night in hills and locals actin' all weird... Katalin Kallay play gurlfiend, she is President's daughter!!.. Then, Dean get bit by some crazy thing in the night!

They go home but Dean know he in trouble when 'pentagon' (ha ha) symbol appear on palm of hand.

Yakkity yakkity yakkk and a half!

Clifton James is dead ringer for real politico dude!

Dean start turning into wolfman so try and run away from Katalin so he don't bite her! Dean is good werewolf at heart!!

Dean is press assistant to the President and being werewolf getting in the way!

Funny part is when full Moon and Dean crawl and jump around on everything acting like big stupid doggie in his apartment!

Best part, though, when Dean knock over and trap gurl in phone booth! She make it because some dude come and chase Dean away with gun.

Dean try and bowl with President but thumb get stuck in hole when he start turning into wolf again!

Dean stumble into Dr. Kiss' mad lab by accident and doctor befriend him! Check out those Frankenstein shoes!!

Use a whole pail of chain to tie up wolfman to keep from escaping!

This time, Dean change into werewolf on flight with President!

Only one way to end flick, Katalin have to shoot and kill Dean wif' silver bullet... What else?!

Great shot as Dean wave goodbye to Earth!

EL SECRETO DEL DR. ORLOFF - Fernando García Morcillo & Daniel White - "Dr. Orloff's Monster" (1964)

A little over a year ago, a reader of this blog, a fine gentleman and a scholar, known as Matango, turned me on to the fantastic music in "Dr. Orloff's Monster", and I thought he was going to do a guest spot, but we've seemed to have lost contact, so Howard, wherever you are, this one's for you Buddy!

And I quote Matango, "In Jess Franco's "El secreto de Dr. Orloff"(better known in English as "Dr. Orloff's Monster" or "The Mistresses of Dr. Jekyll"), the songs are credited to Fernando Garcia Morcilla. Daniel White wrote the main score and incidental music, and Franco himself plays jazz piano in a couple of cameos."

The dancer is these opening scenes looks like she has her drawers on backwards or maybe both legs in one hole!

I think Jesus left the room for a minute or two, and someone told her to just stare right at the camera for awhile!!!

Introducing Hugo Blanco as 'The Monster,' not Morpho, but Andros this time!! This curdled Vaseline look is odd at best!! Still, just as you would expect, Andros is a vicious killer zombie creature kinda guy with a penchant for singers and dancers, of course!!

I'm not quite sure what the name of this first victim is, we'll just call her Miss Plumber. Doesn't make much difference, her part in this movie is over already!!

Okay, freakin' Dr Orloff or Dr Jekyll as some people know him, is a weirdo, but he has this ultra cool castlefied pad. At this point, his neice Melissa has just arrived to spend some quality time with what's left of the family!!

This is Marcelo Arroita-Jáuregui as the devious Dr. Conrad Jekyll! (The whole Orloff/Jekyll thing is very confusing, I mean this guy is not Dr. Jekyll, he never changes into anything, but he's just always an ass or an oaf of grandiose proportions!)

Pastor Serrador as Inspector Sneezy Klein, the guy in charge of investigating all the murders, blows his way through the whole film!!

In this scene, Melissa's despondent boyfriend lines up martinis, trying to figure out what in the heck is going down at the Jekyll Madhouse!!

Matango writes "Dr. Orloff's Monster was Franco's followup to "Gritos En La Noche/The Awful Dr. Orloff." The two songs presented here mark the beginning of his fascination with over-long nightclub scenes that don't advance the plot." (But we sure love the music!!!)

I thought the lyrics translated a little better than that!!!

"Pepita Que Horror"--------"The harsh buzzing noise in "Pepita que horror" is the sound of the electronic transmitter in the diamond necklace that Orloff's monster Andros uses to find the girl he's supposed to abduct."

"Haciendo Realidad"------"Haciendo Realidad" is captured from the French dub, because the dialog is less distracting that way!"

Jess at the piano again, this time as an intellectual musician with a taxidermist girlfriend, who is about to become the next victim!!

Matango says "The movie is well worth watching -- a very stylish Eurogothic horror, with a bigger budget and less sleaze than Jesus Franco's later films. The only thing missing is a star like Howard Vernon or Klaus Kinski."

Agnès Spaak as Jekyll's neice Melissa is Hot!! She's stong, innocent, and differently beautiful all at the same time, and she just turned 65 a couple of months ago!! And now, even I have to go searching, because in 1966(a fantastic year) Agnès was in some dang Spy movie entitled "Baraka Sur X 13!" and I just gotta see it!!!

Dad???

THE APE / Monogram Pictures - 1940 / Music by Edward J. Kay

Herro everbloody, tonight we gots a decent lil' flick from 1940 and star Dungeon King Boris Karloff. He is typical misunderstood scientist, Dr. Adrian, on verge of great discovery for mankind, but nobody like him and call him 'unethical' because of something in dubious past. Screenplay by THE WOLFMAN writer Curt Siodmak and from a play by Adam Shirk!

Circus music is nutty and wild. Music dude Edward J. Kay have mindboggling 328 music department credit from 1936-58... Daaaaang!! Here are some titles he work on: WOLF CALL, TOMBOY, DOOMED TO DIE, QUEEN OF THE YUKON, KING OF THE ZOMBIES, FRECKLES COMES HOME, GHOST TOWN LAW, POLICE BULLETS, COSMO JONES, CRIME SMASHER, KID DYNAMITE, GHOSTS ON THE LOOSE, REVENGE OF THE ZOMBIES, CAMPUS RHYTHM, GHOST GUNS, CAPTAIN TUGBOAT ANNIE, MR. MUGGS RIDES AGAIN, JIGGS AND MAGGIE OUT WEST, GHOST CHASERS, JET JOB, FEUDIN' FOOLS, JOHNNY ROCCO, and on, and on, and on! Helluva cool job if you could land it!

Tabonga' pet gnat Piff breathing down Tabonga' neck because it his turn to press big old GO BUTTON for tonight' soundclip! Hit it lil' Piffer!!.. DON'T APE ME, MAN! WHEEEEEE!!!

Oh boy, circus comin' to town! Tabonga wonder if 'Lil' Circus Guy' gonna be there?

Everbloody hate Dr. Adrian! He catch bad boy throwing rock at house!

Clown running around in circle for 10 minutes very captivating back in old day! Today?... Just embarrassing!

Wow, exciting.

After everbloody go the hell home, time to relax before nightie-night!

Dude like to torment THE APE, so APE do some well diserved payback on card carrying jerkface! Best part of flick to be sure!!! Crash (IT, THE TERROR FROM BEYOND SPACE) Corrigan play THE APE!

Then, exit stage left!! (funnier if you imagine Snaggletooth saying line, e-ven!)

Lady and germ, presenting... Mr. Total Ass Hole of 1940!!

THE APE pretty smart dude, can pick ass hole out of a crowd!!

Dr. Adrian trying to help cure poor gurl Frances, who have polio!

THE APE show up at doctor' house and he want to hurt sumbloody! Then, Dr. Adrian actually stab and kill THE APE!! During scuffle, THE APE knock over all special spinal fluid serums for miracle polio cure!.. Oh, crap, now what is doctor going to do?!

Okay, chec-kit out! Everfreakingbloody have a hat!!!

Maybe good plan to get more spinal fluid is... Skin THE APE and make costume for disguise, then THE APE get blame for murder, not doctor... Hey, not bad, might work!!

But, thing not work out too good and doc get shot!

Frances come and she so sad for the doctor she stand up and walk, and Dr. Adrian get to see result of his work before he die...

Hey, where THE APE costume go?!

GRITOS EN LA NOCHE - The Awful Dr. Orloff - José Pagán & Antonio Ramírez Ángel - "Cries In The Night" (1962)

To call Dr. Orloff awful is quite the understatement to be true, I'm thinking a bit harsher vocabulary would be in order, something like reprehensible, intolerable, insufferable or maybe even downright inexcusable would be more like it, because he's one very bad cat!!

So the movie starts right off when Ricardo Valle as Morpho(the kids in school used to call him Mofo),Dr. Orloff's creature/monster buddy, follows this drunk whore home, hides in her closet, kills her, and takes her home to the good doctor, so he can use her skin to fix up his daughter who is horribly disfigured! All the while the music stumbles and rumbles along in another wild and wonderful cacophony of Jesus Franco madness gone sane!

It's amazing what you used to be able to get away with in a small town!!

Nice combo! That would be stand-up bass, fiddle, trumpet, accoridan, and none other than Jess Franco sitting at the piano!!

The remarkable talents of Howard Vernon are once again put to good use, as Orloff uses the whole pretense of trying to help his daughter as a good excuse to get away from her, and go hang out in the local bars! He also has a real penchant for booze & singers!!!

Then, he sends Morpho out to take care of the dirty business!!!

So it's no wonder, and it makes for some pretty good sick comedy, that when the local authorities try to get a sketch made of the killer, they keep getting two completely different descriptions, because half the people describe Orloff, and half of them describe Morpho!!!

You just have to wonder how Morpho finds the time, and then manages to tie his tie so perfectly, actually, he's quite dapper in appearance, but it's not quite enough to make up for for the bad complexion, those googly eyes, and the total lack of personality!!

Finally, we get down to the final victim, who Morpho seems to like enough to become some kind of mammalian octopus, and kind of forgets what he is really supposed to be doing!!

Now we're getting close to The End!!

If you could see the rest of this picture, you would notice that for good reason, Dr. Orloff, isn't smiling!!!

Vintage MEXICAN MONSTER Lobby Cards

Here's another great batch of classic Mexican Lobby Cards from The RODAN Collection... Enjoy!!

4th of July Fireworks / INFRAMAN - 1975 / Music by Yung-Yu Chen

Okay here is Tabonga' best pick for 4th of July celebration, great flick from HONG KONG!! Hey, you like insane, non-stop action wif' craziest monster you ever seen? Then, INFRAMAN is flick for you!! Shaw Bros. produce one swell diversion, one of Tabonga' top 10 Weirdies of all time for sure!

Awesome music is by Yung-Yu Chen, he have 151 composing credit from 1971-82!!! That average to about 11 credit per year!!.. DUDE! All are action-whatever! A few other Chinese title he compose for are: THE LADY PROFESSIONAL, NEW ONE-ARMED SWORDSMAN, FIST ATTACK, THE HUMAN GODDESS, THE DEVIL'S MIRROR, SEVEN BLOWS OF THE DRAGON, MAN OF IRON, THE PIRATE, THE SUGAR DADDIES, BRUCE TAKES DRAGON TOWN, GHOST EYES, QUEEN HUSTLER, THE KILLER SNAKES, BLACK MAGIC, KILLER CLANS, CRAZY SEX, OILY MANIAC, MR. FUNNYBONE, THE KUNG-FU KID, BATTLE WIZARD and tons more!

So, here is little taste of master music man from Hong Kong work... INFRAMAN!! This flick was banned in Norway!!

Unexplained bad thing happening, so Science Rangers go into high gear trying to figure out why!

Dragon Mom and minions have invade Earth and want to take over!

This Tabonga' kind of monster here, he have rotating drill bit hand and super-excellent sense of humor!! Make great combo!

Time to make... INFRAMAN!

Monster guy capture Science Ranger dude and they have little surprise ready for him!

Time for brain redo, then he can be spy for Dragon Mom! Check out eyeball in hand, hell yeah!!

Monster have no chance against acrobatic move like that... JEEZ!!

Now, that Tabonga kind of pad!! Serious.

Okay, finally!.. HAPPY FIREWORKS DAY, EVERBLOODY!!

Three great pics!!

Inframan finally nail Dragon Mom with atomic fireball, and, well, that the end of her!!

Nice place, too bad it gonna esplode in about 7 second!

Too cool, Science Ranger gang get to leave on fancy boat!!

HAPPY 4th OF JULY!

DAWN OF THE MUMMY - Like a Tribute to Shuki Levy (1981)

Here's a good one for all you Mummy lovers out there! In a crapshell, here's what's going on! A high fashion photo shoot interrupts the unearthing and grave robbing of an ancient Egyptian tomb, which in turn, awakens the minions of the dead, who then dig their way back to life just in time to terrorize a local wedding party, before getting blown to kingdom come, and then some, maybe even to Hell and back!!!

Israeli composer Shuki Levy gets credit for setting the mood. Shuki was half of the European pop rock duo "Shuki & Aviva" in the 1970's.

Shuki Levy is one of the most prolific composers for TV and movies of all time, is still working today, and besides composing for way too many cartoons than I can list, he also gets credit as partner with Haim Saban in helping create the phenomomen of "The Power Rangers!" Period!

Make way, coming through with the pizzas you ordered!!

Ellen Faison as model Melinda, and Diane Beatty as model Joan needed some good background music for their shoot!! As far as I know, there was never a soundtrack released for this movie, I hope that Shuki doesn't mind if we showcase a little taste of his amazing work right here as a tribute to his awesome work over the years!!

Here you go, it's time for snippets and bits of "Dawn Of The Mummy"!!!! It's kinda like a movie trailer for what's left of your mind!! Whoa!! That's one ugly lookin' Mummy!! Good place for one of those, "Your Mummy's so ugly, even the dog wouldn't eat it" jokes!!

Introducing, The Dead!!!! They've been asleep a long time, and boy, are they hungry!! If just having zombies coming up at you in the desert, in the middle of the night, wasn't bad enough, let's throw in a few large cacti to make it even more uncomfortable!!

Aw, who cares?? Not John Salvo, as the model, Gary, in his mind, there's still time left for a Hootenanny and a Hookah Hullaballoo!

Meanwhile, Joan Levy as Jenny decided to go out shopping!! Should have stayed out of the bargain district Jenny!!

The guy who owned the Hookah House was also getting married, I'll just say, it doesn't really work out to well after all the dead boys crash the party and decide to munch down on the bride!(This is a dancer, not the bride, or the zombies would have been kept busy longer!!)

Barry Sattels as Rick went on to have quite a nice career in TV, and in this scene, he really thinks he's going to finally get the gold!! As Bill Cosby used to say, "Right!!"

Great seriously ugly makeup job by Maurizio Trani with help from Hassan Taha!

The stupid dead party crashers spoil the party again! This movie goes from laffs to guts in a few seconds time!! Those dead people are just out of control, I wouldn't even bother trying to socialize with them, I've tried reaching out before, but it's just not worth the effort!! Have a good weekend, but be careful who you hang with!!

THE AMAZING MR. X / Ben Stoloff - 1948 / Music by Alexander Laszlo

Tonight at Dungeon we have decent lil' flick from great year of 1948!! Star Turhan Bey, Lynn Bari (she replace Carole Landis, who commit suicide a few day before shooting start!), Richard Carlson and Donald Curtis. Great cast of actors in this ghost noir thriller, main writer was Muriel Bolton.

Dungeon love music guy Alexander Laszlo because he did stuff for NIGHT OF THE BLOOD BEAST and ATTACK OF THE GIANT LEECHES, both directed by Dungeon pal Bernie Kowalski! Mr. Lazlo also compose for BLACK MAGIC, HIGH POWERED, SCARED STIFF, JOE PALOOKA, CHAMP, HOT CARGO, TARZAN'S MAGIC FOUNTAIN, 56 TV episode of RACKET SQUAD, 13 TV episode of ROCKY JONES, SPACE RANGER and more!!

So, on wif' da show!.. Tabonga' pet tarantula Ralphie have honors tonight to push big red 'GO' button, drum roll pleeze... THE SPIRITUALIST!

Lynn Bari have big dilemma, should she remarry after 2 year of husband' death? She talk with fake spiritualist Mr. X about problem, then lover boy Richard Carlson show up at very bizarre beach, at night even!.. Nice hat!

Rich press issue as portrait of dead husband Donald Curtis leer at happy couple.

Is ghost real or not?!

Who the hell care? Time to get lit!!

Uh oh, Lynn hearing dead husband voice, how can that be, he... DEAD!! Time to pack bags for nut house!

Mr. X find out Donald still alive and is messin' wif' wifey for $$$$.

Richard get shot but still able to cut electricity in basement with ax! Good job!!

Things starting to unravel big time for Don as he try to shoot wife.

Rich try to climb stair to get to Lynn, but cops come in and shoot up Donald just in nick of time!

Mr. X and girlfriend like to talk to raven, take very serious, they not crazy though!!