Saturday, July 25, 2009

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!!"

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

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!!..

Monday, July 20, 2009

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!!!!!

Saturday, July 18, 2009

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!!

Monster Music

Monster Music
AAARRGGHHH!!!! Ya'll Come On Back Now, Y'Hear??