THE BOOGIE WOOGIEMAN - The Brian Sisters (1942)

Well, we're just about half way through the Countdown, and it just doesn't get much better than this!

This is actually the perfect Halloween song!
The funny thing is that when they sing it, they say "Boogie Woogie Boogie Man!"

There were actually five Brian Sisters, but only these three performed! I think that is Gwen in the middle, Betty on the left, and Doris on the right! Gwen passed away in 1990, Betty just left us this year, and Doris is still kicking!
For all things Brian, head on over to the Brian Sisters website! It's packed with information!

I found this video right here on YouTube! It's a little less than two minutes long!

The sisters sing the song and look generally scared!

It gets a little bit scarier when the jack-o-lanterns start flying around!

And the song ends with these cool witch silhouettes!

That's it kids, I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did! Come back on Saturday when I promise I've got something even scarier, if you can believe that!

RE-ANIMATOR / Empire Pictures, Re-Animator Productions - 1985

Here's a super weirdie I saw when it came out, it's a H. P. Lovecraft story all about a medical student that becomes involved in a bizarre experiment in the science of reanimating the dead. What happens next is a rollie coaster ride of laffs blended with lots of splattered blood. BEYOND RE-ANIMATOR, BRIDE OF RE-ANIMATOR and FROM BEYOND are to follow...

I have a sound clip for your approval, sooooo, you can push the big red 'GO' button located there by our dead head on a tray, NOW, Ralphie The Tarantula!.. Here's a little sample from... RE-ANIMATOR!

Jeffrey Combs plays medical student Herbert West, he has a fascination with the idea of bringing the dead back to life. Here is the serum he believes is the secret to re-animated life.

This is his little workshop of horrors, welcome to the eighties!!

Well, there are some pretty bad side affects but what the Hell, who doesn't like to watch people's heads explode!!

Herbert's nemesis is Dr. Hill, played by David Gale. Welp, Herbert whacks him in the head with a shovel, then goes on to decapitate him and put his head in a tray. Then, the horny old dude decides he needs a cute chick to slobber on!

Jeez, all I did was take a pill to quit smoking!!

I love this shot, wow!.. What really makes it cool is the position of his feets.

Herbert tries to fight this guy off but the damn thing just doesn't play fair!

And... HAVE A FREAKIN' BLOODY HAPPY HALLOWEEN COUNTDOWN!!

BOO MOON - Casper The Friendly Ghost (1953)

Well, in about one hour and seventeen minutes from now, I should be watching Neil Young in concert "live," and I'm looking forward to it!

But in the meantime, let's keep the Hallowe'en silly scary going with some more from our little pal, one of the most misunderstood characters of all time, right up there with Ozzie Nelson and Dobie Gillis, and one of the nicest dead guys you'll ever meet....................

.......Casper The Friendly Ghost in a tall tale that was originally released in 1953 in 3D titled:
"Boo Moon!"
Here's Casper's theme music, but it's haunted or something. The rest of the sound on this cartoon was fine, but this has got some kind of hellacious echo on it I can't explain! Maybe it actually made it a little more interesting! Honestly, I didn't tamper with it, that's really the way it sounded!

Casper accidentally scares the crap out of a huckster selling visions of the moon at the high price of 10 cents!

Looking through the vacated telescope, Casper finally sees the face of somebody who is not scared of him, the Man in the Moon!!!

Casper senses a kindred spirit and decides to check it out for himself!

Let's give Harvey Films some credit here! Where else in 1953 could you be exposed to elements of ghostly horror, comedy, sci-fi, and 3D all in a matter of just a few measly minutes?
Here's some of the cool Space Lounge Muzik and a little bit more created by Winston Sharples as Casper soars off to the moon! Trick or Treat this, Winston Sharples composed the music for over 700 cartoons! I was going to list them all, but then I temporarily regained my sanity!

Aw, as he gets closer, Casper discovers that it's not a face on the moon at all!

To Casper's disbelief, the Moon is nothing but a bunch of craters with no life at all! 

Casper is tired, so he decides to take a nap, and then it all starts happening!

What the Heck!? The next thing you know it's the story of Gulliver's Travels, with Casper as Gulliver!

The little Moon King is so cute, but he thinks Casper is a monster!

Then it gets real serious! This Tree Men monster troupe swoops down on all the little moon men!

This still is just to give you a little example of what we have to deal with down in The Dungeon sometimes! This is what the first free version I downloaded off of the Internet Archive looked like! I would have had to post it like this had I not found this other version on YouTube!

The Moon Men fight back ferociously with flaming arrows that do a lot of damage to The Tree Men!

It was all pretty realistic up to this point, but then The Tree Men find a crater full of water, and use it to squirt out all the flames! C'mon, everybody knows there's no water on the moon! 

When you see a giant gate like this, you can't help but think of "King Kong!"

The evil Tree Men bust down the gates!

They capture the King, which finally pisses Casper off enough that he gets out of his cage!

Casper renders the Tree Men's legs useless by going underneath the surface and tying their legs in knots! Tree Men with their legs pulled down like roots, very interesting!

Now Casper is the hero of the day! He replanted the Tree Men, and life on the Moon can go on as usual!

Maybe there is life on the Moon after all!

BOO!!!

EEGAH!! AND TABONGA! AT THE MOVIES / The Early Sixties

The fun never ends, last night I sat down to get my sound clip and stills for today's post and my DVD player decided to quit working, and, I had to come up with Plan 9... So, here are some movies Eegah!! and I saw at the theater back in the early sixties, what lucky little monsters we were!!.. Jealous much?

ANGRY RED PLANET was one of the first flicks we saw together after we became pals in the 6th grade in 1959. We loved it a lot, it had all the elements that tickled our sci-fi horror bones. Although, we did think the rotating eyeball on the amoeba was hokey.

13 GHOSTS was another cool William Castle flick we definitely liked and saved our 3-D Ghost Viewer glasses for years before selling them on eBay...

We thought ATTACK OF THE GIANT LEECHES was a pretty good Corman experience, Eegah!! and I both got to hang out with director Bernie Kowalski a little.

All in all, we thought REPTILICUS was pretty bad, loved the acid spit though. I actually read the paperback novel before the movie was released, it had sex in it!

We thought THE BRAIN THAT WOULDN'T DIE was pure schlock, in fact, I wrote a review and sent it to the editors of FAMOUS MONSTERS that was published in FM #22 where I pointed out that the guy on the operating table at the beginning of the movie HAS NO SKULL!! Check it out.

Oh, and, HAPPY HALLOWEEN COUNTDOWN, YA'LL...