EL PANTANO DE LAS ANIMAS / Alameda Films Mexico - 1957 / Music by Gustavo César Carrión

Hello everbloody, Tabonga Tuesday is pulling into station... So, here is real weird one from Mexico, western horror! Three year earlier, Universal release THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON, obvious inspiration. Film in Eastmancolor!!!

Master Mexican Monster Music Man Gustavo César Carrión featured tonight, and, he been here at Dungeon before! Guess what?!.. Dude only have 319 composing credit for flick!! Here just a few: EL MONSTRUO EN LA SOMBRA, EL VAMPIRO, EL CASTILLO DE LOS MONSTRUOS, EL HOMBRE Y EL MONSTRUO, LOS HERMANOS DIABLO, EL BARON DEL TERROR, LOS ASTRONAUTAS, CURSE OF THE CRYING WOMAN, THE FOOL KILLER, ISLAND OF THE DINOSAURS, BLUE DEMON vs THE INFERNAL BRAINS, THE VAMPIRE GIRLS, SANTO and BLUE DEMON vs THE MONSTERS, THE MUMMIES OF GUANAJUATO, SANTO vs FRANKENSTEIN'S DAUGHTER, BIKINIS Y ROCK...

So, here is tonight' offering... It very exotic too, have lots o' bird calls!! THE SWAMP OF THE LOST SOULS! Flick feature uncredited actor name 'Moonlight' and this is only appearance!

Folk in rural Mexico gettin' stomped by sneaky river devil! What the hell going on around here?! Legend from superstitious past?..

Tabonga love these pics... Of course, dude in bar, drunk... But, top pic have guy sitting behind table wif' red light bub!! Pretty dang high tech for 1957!!

Wait for it!............

Like, what you want Tabonga to say here?!..

Eventually, monster find hero Gastón Santos' gurlfiend and try to kill her!.. An' he look so cute!!

But, Gastón ride in just in time and kick monster' butt! But, monster not monster! He just dude!.. Good thing though, he totally embarrassing if he real monster...

Come 'ere, baa-buh!

We'll end with a shot of Forry as he was telling a few tall tales at his home...

VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED - Ron Goodwin - "The Midwich Cuckoos" (1960)

You know how it goes this time of the year, so I'm really trying my hardest to get into the season, so I thought I'd throw an early present at you, because, really, nothing says Peace, Love & the Holidays like freakin' out of control kids, and the kids in "Village Of The Damned" are about as out of control as you can get!

The very rico suave George Sanders is Gordon Zellaby to perfection! Nice pad!! I'm jealous!!

But I'm a lot more jealous of your 27 years younger than you, wife, the knockout Barbara Shelley as Anthea Zellaby! You go George!!!

It's a proud moment, George is going to be a father!!!

Then they find out that every female in the village of impregnatable age is in a motherly way, and not every couple in the village is dealing with it so good!!

Enter David Zellaby portrayed by Martin Stephens, supposedly the most famous child actor in England in the 50's & 60's! Martin got tired of acting and became an architect!!!

Here you got your classic "the locals" versus "the blondie outsiders!" Take another look, and see if you think "the locals" stand even half a chance! Stupid kids!!

Oh, Yeah, the local kids' Dads are a lot smarter than their kids!! Since they've got nothing else to do but get snockered at the local pub all day, they decide to take it into their own hands like the mob in "Frankenstein!" Not real smart!!

At this point, it's time to start thinking about how we can just all get along!! Hey, David, little buddy, it's cool, we were just joking, really!!!

George focuses on the brick wall so his real thoughts won't be known, as he prepares his mind for the ultimate sacrifice in order to save all of mankind!

I have to admit the music in this movie is very weak, and almost non-existent for a good deal of the film, and there's not really even a theme to speak of, but just as they saved the world from these brats, they saved the movie for us music lovers by having a very cool, albeit very short, ending sequence. It had to be short, after all, they blew them to kingdom come, so there wasn't a whole lot left to talk about!!

The ironic thing, is that the composer of the music for this film, Ron Goodwin is, or was, one of the swingingest guy we've had the pleasure to write about here. A child prodigy, who had his own swing band when he was a teenager, called "The Woodchoppers," Mr. Goodwin was one amazing cat!! Working all genres from swing to easy listening, he composed music for a little under 100 films, and he also released this classic outer space LP "Music In Orbit" or as it was known in the UK, "Out Of This World" produced by none other than George Martin in 1958!

Ron started off as a pianist, then switched to trumpet, and when he wasn't doing anything else, he was being used as a background singer!!! Go search him on imdb.com, it'll only take you about 30 minutes to read his bio! Wow!!!

I liked this movie when I first saw it, and it totally sucked me in again when I viewed it recently! So, spread the cheer, and get together and watch it with some friends!!

WAR OF THE COLOSSAL BEAST / AIP - 1958 / Music by Albert Glasser

Its Sunday again, so, that means we're presenting another classic movie. Tonight's entry is definitely that, and, I've picked out some very nice stills to prove it!

One of Mr. BIG's best, I believe...

Bert usually relied on Albert Glasser to give him that "beat the audience up" theme before the movie even starts. Nice psychological tool! Other movies Albert's music appears in: OMOO-OMOO THE SHARK GOD, INVASION USA, PORT SINISTER, HUK!, TEENAGE CAVE MAN, MONSTER FROM GREEN HELL, HIGH SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL, THE CREMATORS besides a host of Bert I. Gordon films!!

So, get ready for WAR OF THE COLOSSAL BEAST!! Eegah!! has been doing great sound files lately, he's gettin' tricky with a pinch of levity!

Things ain't goin' that great south-of-the-border! Looks like the guy saw a ghost, or, el gigante, or something!

Sally Fraser plays Joyce Manning, aka Glenn's little sister!! Since Joyce doesn't believe Glenn died after he fell off the dam when he was THE AMAZING COLOSSAL MAN a year earlier, she thinks this story on KTLA news about an incident in Mexico has something to do with him. Then, she makes the call...

Damn!.. Look at all that freakin' booze back there! A fun girl on the weekends, no doubt!!

Talk about BIGFOOT!.. Oh, and, I noticed that Bert made Sally walk through the mud in her pumps!!

I wonder if this scene here, where Glenn quickly pops up from behind a rock, would scare a 10 year old back in 1958, seeing it at the theater? I think, yeah, probably.

The military comes up with a way to capture the giant, fill a bread truck with bread laced with a knockout drug! Pretty simple.

Glenn is captured and then chained up inside a 'big' hanger. Later he goes outside for a smoke!

Glenn's being bad so they gas him again!! Hey, and, it looks like those scars are healing up pretty good!

Guess what?! He gets loose again! This time he ends up in LA at Griffith Park... Man, lucky for Bert and his crew!! At times, the special effects are awesome!

Like another AIP movie, I WAS A TEENAGE FRANKENSTEIN, this gimmick ending was also filmed in color!!

THE MUMMY AND THE CURSE OF THE JACKALS PT 02 - John See.... "Championship Title Match - The Mummy Vs. The Jackal In Las Vegas" (1969)

Right now, as an extra added bonus feature, I'd like to share some photos taken at "The Ackermansion" in 2001, when we went to visit Forry to talk to him about being the host for a movie we had made. If you never had a chance to go, here's just a small taste of what you missed!!

Any normal person would die to have this Superman standee that was among a bunch of damaged stuff that was just piled up outside the back entrance of Forry's pad!!

You could walk through room after room covered from celing to floor in posters, lobby cards, books and miniatures!!

This was the man's living room!!

Forry would just open up his house at no charge a couple of Saturday's a month, and after you took the tour, he would answer any and all questions, and maybe even act out the part in some movie with you!! It would blow you away!! The man was a Prince!!

When we were there, the phone rang, and he just looked at me, and said "Would you answer that?" Sure Forry, no problem!!! "Forrest J. Ackerman's residence, can I help you?" what a kick!!

If you didn't already know it, Stephen Spielberg was the President of The Forrest J. Ackerman Fan Club! If that doesn't tell you how important this man's influence was, nothing will!! Forry, we'll always be thinking about you, but, for now, just as you would want it, it's time to go on with the show!!!

Part 02 of

"The Mummy And The Curse Of The Jackals!!"

So The Mummy dude that was in charge of taking care of Connie decides to check out some of the casinos in Las Vegas! The desert tie-in had to be a streak of genius of director Oliver Drake, or as he was affectionately know as, O.D.!

The Mummy is not real subtle about his abductions, walking right on stage or into a stripper's dressing room! Yet, somehow, lumbering around, he gets away with all of it!!

I'm starting to think that maybe O.D. was responsible for some of this music, since he had a background in soundtrack music! The cat also has a stretch of credits in Cowboy flicks as director, producer, and writer going back to the 1920's!

O.D. also had the writing credits for the 1944 feature, "The Mummy's Curse!" Is this all starting to make sense? Are you starting to understand this movie now??

John Carradine joins the foray towards the end of the film and does the normal cosmic exemplary act, that he always puts in, and pulls off, no matter where or when!!!

So, sure, a whole bunch of other stuff happens, but this film is basically two rampages put to music, one jackal, one mummy, in Las Vegas, and then Connie, the conniving B gets what's coming to her in the end, no more film roles!!!

Good Movie!!! Good night!!