MOON ZERO TWO - Don Ellis - Julie Driscoll - "Ride A Rocket Texas-Style" (1969)

"Moon Zero Two" is not the best science fiction movie ever made, but I'll tell you one thing, it IS THE funkiest, so what are we supposed to do? Let's Rock!

The title song for "Moon Zero Two" is sung by the amazing Julie Driscoll, a woman with the doe eyed looks of Twiggy, and the lungs of Aretha Franklin! If you can get your hands on a copy of the album "Open" by Brian Auger and the Trinity and Julie Driscoll that's pictured here, do it! "Street Noise" by Jools and the boys is another keeper! They're both double albums of jazzy rock that will never get old! Julie would later change her name to Julie Tippetts and record with her husband, jazz pianist Keith Tippet, and leave the rock roots behind! Brian Auger also has numerous good releases! Julie Driscoll and Brian Auger were also both in an earlier band called The Steampacket whose members included Long John Baldry and Rod Stewart! Julie is still recording today!!

Outer Space can be a very lonely place, that is unless you've got some good entertainment, and it's all happening at the "Lazy B Saloon!" Besides being almost impossible to find unless you've got friends like TedMo, "Moon Zero Two" is damn near a musical! It was a real shame to have to cut the sound clip down to a couple of minutes!

The fact that they had an immigration checkpoint is pretty funny! Wouldn't want any of them illegals on the moon, now would you?

As a matter of fact, there's more than one awkward scene!

The heavy of the film is the 6'7" Bernard Bresslaw as Harry! The big guy passed away in 1993 at the age of 59!

As you can readily see, it wasn't all serious all the time for Bernie! In a series of 10 "Carry On" films with titles like "Carry On Cowboy," "Carry On Screaming!," or "Carry On Girls," that were released between 1966 and 1975, Bernard played an array of different characters, but there was always a running gag that featured him bumping his 6'7" cranium into something!

You've got to admit, the future looks pretty groovy!

The Saloon and the dance numbers are without a doubt, the highlight of the film. The freakin' soundtrack was written by Don Ellis, a jazz trumpeter who first played with the Glenn Miller Orchestra before becoming a world class Avant-Garde musician of the highest degree.

We'll never know what Don would have really accomplished because he passed away in 1978 at the age of 44. This is the cover of his 1967 release, "Electric Bath."

James "Andromeda Strain" Olson is Captain William H. Kemp, and right about here, he gets to throw out the musical jab at the current state of MOR or middle of the road music, when he states that his drink tastes like "Tijuana Brass Polish!"

There is a story about a group of criminals intent on cashing in on a blue sapphire encrusted asteroid!

Pelon' Warren Mitchell has the role of kingpin ringleader J.J. Hubbard! Warren's bigoted character "Alf Garnett" in "Till Death Us Do Part" in 1965, led to the birth of "All in the Family" and was the model for Carroll O'Connor's iconic character Archie Bunker!

This looks like an outfit right out of Freddie Mercury's closet!

Back to the bar one more time!! They do such a great job, I feel compelled to let you know that the the bar dancers were, Sally Graham, Brenda Krippen, Irene Gorst, Jane Cunningham, Michelle Barry, and Sue Baumann! The upside down body you see flying through the scene is the result of an anti-gravity fight scene!

The Captain's navigator is Ori"Every Bastard A King"Levy as Korminski. So really, what do you think about those space suits?

I just really dig how complicated the composition of this shot is!

Adrienne "Devil Girl From Mars," "Zero One," "A Clockwork Orange" Corri is Elizabeth Murphy, and she's looking for her brother, and wants to enlist Captain Kemp to assist her in finding him! Her brother is out on Hell's half-acre of the moon somewhere mining, and hasn't been heard from for some time!

Anybody up for a rousing round of "Moonopoly?"

They finally find Elizabeth Murphy's brother, but he's not feeling very good!

Three guys in different coloured spacesuits ambush the Captain and Elizabeth and for some reason there's a machine equipped with some kind of sickle blades that comes into play, as The Captain and Elizabeth narrowly escape!

First it's really cold, then it gets really hot as the vehicle they use to try and get back to base runs out of fuel, and they almost don't make it!

See, it was the sapphire pirates who killed Elizabeth's brother for reasons way to convoluted for me to go into here!

Justice is served with everybody's favourite ending, KA..FFNN...BOOM!!!! Extra added bonus, Sapphire Blue explosion!!

BIOKIDS / Filmstar Productions - 1990

Welcome to Friday Night Filipino Drive-In Theater with Tabonga, here at The Dungeon!.. Tonite's little obscurity pits some bionically enhanced kids against The Clown and his gang of misfits...

Mr. Mon del Rosario gets credit as musical director, so, no telling who did the very catchy theme! Mon also worked on these other movies... WORKING GIRLS 2, MACHO DANCER, BARBI: MAID IN THE PHILIPPINES, BALBAKWA: THE INVISIBLE MAN, WOOLY BOOLY: AND CLASSMATE KONG ALIEN, HOTDOG, TOOTSIE WOOTSIE: AND BANDANG WALANG ATRASAN and ROBIN GOOD.

Okay, lettuce bring in our littlest Dungeon fiend and button pusher, sure 'nuf, Rufus The Gnat!.. Howdy, Rufus! Welp, according to the atomic alarm clock that just started blinking, it's time to start the show, so, push the big red 'GO' button there by the trash compactor, now, Rufus! Here's our soundclip for... BIOKIDS!

Here are the soon-to-be Biokids as they're sneaking into the 'haunted house!' Does this look 'haunted' to anybloody? Haunted house must have a different meaning in the Philippines than here in the US! Looks kinda religious/sexual deviant to me!

While the little dude is leaning on the nude, keeping a lookout, she winks and blows him a kiss!

Where's the spider webs?!.. Haunted houses have spider webs!!

Before and after shots of the Biokids. After they found the professor taking a nap, he got right up because he realized he had the guinea pigs he was looking for!

C'mon, those are cool looking helmuts!

And, check it out, mini cycles!!

The professor can have breakfast as he watches the action on his video monitor! That's a two egg cooker there on top of the map.

I think that Frownie The Clownie would be a better name.

During one fight, this guy gets wound up and screws himself into the ground!

Then, there's this guy! The Clown was actually digging on his face with a big knife!!.. Weirdsville!

A cool shot of Clownie without his wig.

The Clown makes his own Bioman to take care of the pesky Biokids!

He he he he he he!..


The mini cycles can convert into these! With machine guns, even!

This is the best the professor can do for himself?

Clownie has more Biomen created, they attack!

The Biokids all focus their beams on the big guys and blow them up real good!