Thursday, February 12, 2009

INCUBUS / Contempo III Productions - 1965 / Music by Dominic Frontiere

Okay, get ready for super oddity from 1965, star William Shatner and produce by Leslie Stevens, Mr. OUTER LIMITS!.. Film in Big Sur with dialogue in Esperanto!!

...GO FIGURE!!

About time we feature Mr. Dominic Frontiere!!!

Here is why, other thing he do music for, all TV - 31 episode OUTER LIMITS, 15 episode THE INVADERS, 37 episode THE RAT PATROL, THE FUGITIVE, THAT GIRL, THE FLYING NUN! Oh, and one flick he do... HANG 'EM HIGH!!!

Hit it, Ralphie!.. OUTER INCUBUS!

Start with dude be all drunk. He very horny for beautiful gurlie he lookin' at. Dude act like total pervert, a very disgusting galoot!

Okay, now, she not helping!!

Atchally, gurlie was fooling big, dumb, drunk-on-ass fool who even trip and hit head hard on big rock, but he keep on following pipe dream anyway!!!

Trust me, dude get less than what he deserve here! Oh well, one more soul for good old Satan!!

On way home to gingerbread house, witch gurlie see Marc and sister, just sitting there. Nice shot!

So, Kia fall in love wif' Marc, but head honcho try to remind her why she here and who she work for!!

Witch gurlz say lots Esperanto word and Incubus crawl out of grave! He needed for duty!!

In meantime, Marc fall asleep and have pretty bad dream!!

Incubus kinda creepy...

Marc save Kia from goat at end, so, he give her extra tight hug!

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

THE UNEARTHLY - Henry Vars - "Time For Music" (1957)

Tonight's feature is pretty standard fare for all the film freaks out there, and for good reason, and that one reason is, it's "Unearthly"!!!!!!! The word "Unearthly" has a couple of different meanings that are at odds with each other, it means eerie or strange and it also means perfect! "Unearthly" is also defined as unreasonable, hence I think that pretty much defines this whole movie! Kind of like Gawdawful!!

Hey everybody, meet Danny Green, as played by the unforgettable Arthur Batanides! Last time we saw Arthur, he was going for some jewelry, but got a ring he didn't want in "The Leech Woman."

What a tough job, hassling the February, 1957 Playmate Of The Month, the "Unearthly" Miss Sally Todd! I honestly believe Arthur was capable of playing one of the most annoying characters ever! He really knew how to be perfectly obnoxious!!

Barbara Payton's story was sad indeed, but the saddest story of the era, is the story of Dungeon Fave, the beyond "Unearthly" Allison Hayes! Allison got one of the rawest deals of all time, seeing some quack doctor who prescribed her to take pills made from horses like 50 years old with a lead percentage akin to living in a nuclear power plant. She felt like Hell, but she trusted her doctor, so he doubled her prescription, and her health just continued to distenegrate. Allison was finally able to diagnose her own problem by reading and reseaching, but it was too late. She had lead poisoing, which led to leukemia and her final demise at 46 years of age. What a drag!!! We all miss Allison a lot!!

John Carradine is causing problems again, this time as Dr. Charles Conway, brilliant mad scientist and mediocre organist!!

LOBO!!!

Okay, Tor's got a gun, and Arthur's got his mouth and the guy in the middle is Myron Healey as Mark Houston. I don't think Myron ever did any other monster movies, he was too busy making like 9 million TV and film westerns!! Pretty tough dude for a guy named Myron!

This is Tor Johnson's job, and he was unmatched in his ability to carry women around and look good at it!!

Oh, no, what happened to Sally?

Doctor, do you know what happened to Sally?? Oh, No, not me!!

One year later after "The Black Sleep" and they're still keeping creature peoples down, but this "Unearthly" crew might live on forever! Oh, crap, more prisons!!
More menacing monster makeup by the master, Scary Harry Thomas makes this movie stick in your mind more than anything, and we've written about him before, the composer for the music in "The Unearthly" was the magnificent Henry Vars!!

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

CURSE OF THE STONE HAND / Jerry Warren - 1964 / Music by ?

Here at Dungeon, ever'bloody love Jerry Warren, but, after we sit through this flick, well, bring out boxing glove with sharp spike on end!!! And, Tabonga almost get fired for bring home such POS!!

Of course, music by nobloody! as mastermind Jerry running this rubber room on wheels! Pretty sure though, it original soundtrack from flick Jerry operate on wif'out knock-out drops!

Oh, just hit it!.. CURSE OF THE JERRY!

Lady and gremlins, presenting!.. Ta Da!.. STONE HAND!! Look like it gettin' ready to shoot Jerry big bird!

Then, dude making decent painting.

Then, gurl spin roulette wheel... WHEEEE!!!

Then, dude get staring look on face.

Then, Jerry spend 3 cent for insert shot to help tie everything together at end.

Then, old guy catch ugly...

Then, lady turn to bonehead.

Then, show nice shot of card.

Then, near end, show Catherine Victor and John Carradine.

Then, Catherine scream!

Then, camera show this.

Okay, Tabonga gonna spill beans on you now!!

Somehow... Leave it to Jerry!.. He use TWO! Chilean flick!! from 1945!!! to bring this Jerrystein to life! Man, he one very clever, money saving SOB!

So, if you have courage of a madman, then, by all means, check out this life-sucking, mind-twister yawn-fest by the master...

Then, you understand!

Monday, February 9, 2009

THE BLACK SLEEP - Les Baxter - "Dr. Cadman's Secret" (1956)

First off, how can a movie 'formerly' be something? It's still the same movie, they just changed the title!! I don't care what they say, this movie will always be "The Black Sleep"!!!! Kudos once again to composing Dungeon champion, Les Baxter!!

First class all the way, not a Biscayne, but a Bel-Air Production!! Impressive!!

Just look at that line-up, and they didn't even have room for Tor's name!!

Basil Rathbone gets a big hand from the lovely Patricia Blair(Blake) and Mr. Herbert Rudley!!

Lon Chaney Jr. doing what he did best, showing up and acting weird!!

This movie scared the living crap outta me when I was a little kid, and that thorny pyracantha plant scratching on my bedroom window screen in the middle of the night wasn't much help either, but after many nightmares, I learned how to deal with some of those inner demons, but I still don't like this movie!! Just to start, the name is "Black Sleep" and I don't see many ways to interpret that except death! Then there's the whole concept of keeping creepy freaky people penned up underground in vaults, chambers and cells just doesn't sit right with me. No wonder a lot of people stayed high on the likes of Doris Day and Lawrence Welk, who the Hell in their right mind would want to go this direction?? This is madness, what was that drug he was talking about again??

This is where it really starts to get uncomfortable, and you start fidgeting around in your seat!

So, what do you say, let's meet the rest of the gang!! Here's John Carradine, the life of the party, and a man capable of reciting perfect Shakespeare, even in a drunken stupor!!

The pirate with the cranium that looks like a badly repaired cracked egg is George Sawaya, a man with an incredible TV career! Out of all these characters, George bugs me the most!!

Damn it Herbert, I told you not to give him any peanuts!

Tor Johnson! That's it! Tor Johnson!! That says it all!!

Finally, they run into Sally Yarnell, the first normal person in the whole dungeon!

Oh, Yecchh, she's got the mange or something!! Have a nice nightmare! Yuck!!

Monster Music

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