ZOMBIES ( I Eat Your Skin) - Lon E. Norman - "Voodoo Love Etc" (1964)

The daily routine of this blog is a lot of work. It's starting to wear me down and I think they're going to come and take me away, ha,ha, to the looney bin here real soon unless I take a break. I do believe I hear The Islands calling my name, so let's all go back to the joyous festivities and fun of Del Tenney's "I Eat Your Skin." Okay, so this film was actually shot in Florida, but that's just going to have to do! This film is mandatory viewing for any of you tribal/zombie/mad doctor/voodoo/islands fans out there, and it's pretty easy to get your hands on a copy. Mahalo ya'll!! 

 

"Oh, how she dances, I've never seen such movement in my life!" Hey, what kind of luau is this??

 Big Fun Dance Party

 The music for this love scene is the ultimate something, I can't quite put my finger on it, maybe bizarrely grandiose would describe it about right. She says "I need you" to Tom, the dude with one of the coolest widow's peaks ever, and the next thing you know the music sounds like a herd of elephants is trampling a village, and then the music gets all noodley and just fizzles out in the end with a bongo drum solo. Huh? 

 

Tribal Love

 That was relaxing, but the time sure went by fast, it's already time to go Back to Work!!

FIRST MAN INTO SPACE - Buxton Orr - "Theme & Truck Death" (1959)

Scottish Doctor, Teacher, Composer Buxton Orr was responsible for the music on a fair share of cool movies including some titles like "The Haunted Strangler", "Fiend Without A Face", "Dr. Blood's Coffin", and "The Snake Woman." 

 

It's not often you get to see the word 'Amalgamated' on the big screen, or actually almost any place, so bask in it's glory! 

 

Radar Love personified! What a job sitting on this thing all night long! 

 

The soundtrack for "First Man Into Space" is highly orchestrated, but there is this one little scene where the truck driver, portrayed by Roland Brand is saying goodbye to his gal, and there's music coming from his radio. It's 1959, and the sound is swinging. They smooch and part, only for him to uh, let's just say he has an accident!  

Truck Death

 She really loves Roland, too bad their relationship is about to be over! 

 

This monster doesn't want anything to do with that woman, he only wants the truck!!

SANTO CONTRA BLUE DEMON EN LA ATLANTIDA (Santo vs. Blue Demon in Atlantis) - Gustavo César Carrión - "Title & Fight Scenes" (1970)

Just realized the other day that we really haven't come up with any movies from the year 1950 yet, so we figure we can throw in one or two from 1970, and it will balance everything out, besides, you really wouldn't want us to leave out this classic little jewel now, would you? Didn't think so. To look at the credits of Gustavo César Carrión, you'd think he was the only composer in all Mexico. This cat did it all, Santo, Blue Demon, Brainiac, vampires, witches, you name it, the maestro Gustavo has put music to it, and it all started in 1950!! So, here's music from the opening credits of "Santo Contra Blue Demon En La Atlántida." Great snapping snare, rumbling kettle drums, weeping horns and creepy organ!! Santo vs. Blue Demon in Atlantis

  In this wild fight scene, they manage to thrash every strategically placed lamp, vase and table in the joint before it's over! 

 

Blue Demon drives a bitchin' convertible Red T-Bird! Fight and Fight Some More Here's a big smash-up of music from a couple of fight scenes. The sound isn't all that great because once again, it's taken from VHS tapes recorded off of Mexican TV in the 1980's, but it's the best we have at the moment, so enjoy it for what it's worth or "look what's going on!" 

 

And Speaking of Mexican TV, here's an extra especial bonus for you, a mind blowing scene where Santo sits down to watch some TV in this gal's apartment, and he just sits there chilling, & watches this song by the remarkable Cuban born Olga Guillot on the tube. That's it, nothing else happens. Now that's wild!! 

 

¡Se te saluda!!

 And whatever you do, por favor, do not mess with Santo, if you know what's good for you!!!

TEENAGE ZOMBIES - Jerry Warren - "How Weird Can You Get" (1959)

Most people probably miss this music when they watch "Teenage Zombies", it's buried in the background so much, and the dialogue is so fascinating. It's really too bad, because it's a hot little tune. If you listen real careful, it's quite a treat! Of course this movie is once again written, directed and produced by Jerry Warren, including being musical supervisor, once again as Erich Bromberg, so no telling where this music really originates from! 

 

Great scene where J.L.D. Morrison in his only ever role, as Brandt, keeps drinking out of the other kid's sodas as they're talking at the "Campus House" cafe. "You never went that far out, it's way out!" 

 

Without a doubt, the cheapest police station set ever on film!!! Go Jerry!!!! 

 

Jerry Warren's trusted stalwart Chuck Niles, who played "Ivan The (Terrible)Zombie" probably would have been able to tell us who was responsible for this music, since he was a jazz DJ in L.A. for like the last 50 years, but unfortunately, Chuck passed away in 2004 and took a load of information with him I'm sure! 

 

Teenage Zombies Added bonus is the bombastic theme music at the beginning just for fun, it's so not this movie, which, just by the way, does have the worst 'day for night' we've ever seen in a movie, just in case you wondered, but it's Jerry Warren, so it just makes it that much better!!!

DAUGHTER OF DR. JEKYLL - Melvyn Leonard - "Happy Creepin' Round" (1957)

Melvyn Leonard is credited with composing the theme for TV's "Leave It To Beaver" along with a host of other TV shows and also the music for some "Beany & Cecil" cartoons. The music from this scene in "Daughter Of Dr. Jekyll" does sound a bit cartoony, then again, it's coming from an Edison Standard Cylinder Phonograph, and despite being old timey, this music swings along pretty good during this classic scene of the pretty girl putting on her stockings with the pervert peering in the window. 

 

The monster guy looks old and doesn't really look that big, strong or scary, but he kicks John Agar's butt a couple of times and is quite the creep!! 

 

The lovely Marjorie Stapp is the woman getting dressed and about to get attacked. In our Horror Hall Of Fame, there's a spot for Marjorie, for her roles in "The Werewolf", "The Monster That Challenged The World", "Kronos", "The Indestructible Man" and of course, this film. The phone dialogue here is classic & very funny, and she is great!!! "Just calling to let you know there's a killer running loose, but the village men are patrolling the woods, but you would be advised to bar your doors and windows anyway." Right!! 

 

In this scene Gloria Talbot tries to solve the mystery of why in the hell would John Agar be wearing this absurd striped jacket in this film. The answer is revealed when you realize wardrobe master Robert Martien's previous film was "Around The World In 80 Days", a movie with lots of costumes. Recycle those leftovers, Yessir!! 

 

The Olde Edison Standard

KAITEI DAISENO (Terror Beneath The Sea) - Shunsuke Kikuchi - "Atomic Underwater Swing" (1966)

Once again, we have a film with music by Shunsuke Kikuchi, and this mixed-up mash shows off his composing skills quite nicely I think. In this film, the master rampages all over the place from atomic lounge/chase swing to underwater scares and lab bubbles, and it's all good. The musical segments in this movie go on and on because of long underwater and creature transformation scenes, and this is only a fraction of it! 

 

Sonny Chiba is absolutely great as Ken, and Peggy Neal screams and cries continually as Jenny! 

 

If undersea monsters aren't bad enough, how about............. 

 

Monsters with guns!!!

  Mr. Smiley Big-Shot!! Oh, yeah, he'll get it all right!! 

 

Disturbing to watch transformation scene, well, at least for them! 

 

Some of the best gauge shots since "Batwoman!" 

 

Cinematographer Kazuo Shimomura's work on this film is so amaZing, and it just goes on and on, shot after shot, mixes with the music to perfection and makes this whole film look extra special! Terror Mix Go get yourself some to experience the whole thing!

MANHUNT IN SPACE - Scotty Beckett (Winky) - "The Night He Made The Starfield Rise" (1956)

This is one of those very strange, bizarre, sad, but probably not really surprising Hollywood stories. It's about Scotty Beckett, the singer of this song in the 1956 TV series movie, "Rocky Jones Space Ranger - Manhunt In Space." Scotty started out as a child actor in 1933, did his stint in the "Our Gang" comedy series, and died at 38 from a drug overdose, and that is only scratching the surface of his amazing saga.

 Here we have Scotty as "Winky," singing this lullaby and playing some kind of futuristic lectronic space dulcimer. 

 Winky's Tune

 "Winky" looks happy enough, just shows to go you how great an actor Scotty really was! This sappy song preceded "The Mushroom Song" in "The Giant Gila Monster" by three years! 

 

The perfect look of the future, ball caps and t-shirts!!! 

 

Here's some of Scotty's dialogue with Rocky from the very beginning of the film, that pretty much stinks of reality when you look at his life story in retrospect, and is it really possible to walk around with your pants pulled up that high?  

Rocky & Winky

 Scotty Beckett's story is just way to complex for me to really go into here in detail, so follow this link to read it for yourself. I personally guarantee you will not regret it, because it's Way, Way Weirdsville and almost unbelievable. We're talking stuff like, gunfights with Mexican Police just for starters!  

The Scott Beckett Bio

 

  Remember Spanky's little sidekick "Scotty?"