COLOR ME BLOOD RED / Box Office Spectaculars - 1965

In order to fill in blanks of as many different movies as possible for our site, well, sometimes we have to get down in the blood, gore and gristle, like with our little vintage blood soaked offering today. The story's all about an eccentric artist who's panned by a well-known critic at his opening for not having a good color sense, so, he starts a new series using his own blood to paint. But, he's weakened from the blood loss and must find other sources of blood to continue his paintings! Makes me think of A BUCKET OF BLOOD.

I thought it'd be funny to use a b/w poster, then hit you with this very cool color title card!

The good old Farnsworth Galleries is where the drama begins. I love it when old folks dig abstract art, one of my fortes.

Here's our artistic maniac, Adam Sorg. After receiving blistering criticism for his crappy use of color, he decides to experiment with his own blood to give it some punch!

This is how I feel after a long day of art!!

Adam figures out a way to get some blood other than his own, so, he murders this model and drains her blood for use on his unfinished piece!.

Then, he gets high praise for his effort, now he's a genius, go figure!

What the Hell?!!..

His next piece is also a big hit, so, time for another bloody masterpiece, right?

Adam has a few demons that run the show now, you can see them at work in this close up.

If you're totally insane like Adam, an ax might seem like a good art tool to create some bright blood red pigment!! EC Comic's artist, Ghastly, hated the color red!

Anyway, Adam gets a shotgun blast to the face for his effort and goes down for the count!.. Hurray!! Check in tomorrow for more from... The Dungeon!

25 GOOD REASONS TO WATCH OLDE MOVIES!!

Just Some Of My Favourite Actresses! (Out Of Hundred's)

So I saw what a thought was a recent post at The Cathode Ray Mission blog that said "The latest blog thing is to list your 25 favorite actresses so I thought I'd give it a try," so I thought I would also give it a try, even though, as usual, I'm about 7 1/2 years late!

This is basically an impossible task, but it's a good place to start when thinking about things like this! 

Lists are incredibly difficult, but here you go from my twisted perspective!
This list is in no particular order, and is by no means complete!

#01- MARLIES DRAEGER

#02 - KARIN DOR

 #03 - GRACE KELLY

#04 - LINDA DARNELL

 
#05 - BEVERLY GARLAND

 #06 - ANNETTE FUNNICELLO

#07 - ALLISON HAYES

 #08 - SENITA PELKEY

#09 - FAITH DOMERGUE

#10 - JAYNE MANSFIELD

#11 - FAY SPAIN
 #12 - LORENA VELZAQUEZ

#13 - YVONNE MONLAUR

#14 - STELLA STEVENS

#15 - CONNIE STEVENS

#16 - THE COLLINS TWINS (Two for the price of one!)

#17 - TUESDAY WELD

#18 - ANNE FRANCIS

#19 - SHARON TATE


#20 - CAROLINE MUNRO

#21 - HILLARY HEATH

#22 - HAYLEY MILLS

#23 - MARY WORONOV

#24 - EVA BARTOK

#25 - ELISA MONTÉS

4 FIFTIES MONSTER MOVIES TABONGA IS GLAD HE MISSED WHEN THEY CAME OUT!!

Here's my special 4th of July holiday post. That's right, I'm glad I missed these movies in the fifties at the theater, because, hindsight is 50/50. Here are the reasons for such a seemingly ridiculous statement from Tabonga!..

I saw 67 monster movies from 1953-59, that's amazing to me, but, I didn't see all of them. I had quite an imagination and after I would see a monster double feature, I was a basket case! My mom would say, because of that, I was banned from going to any more monster movies! That was fine until the next batch made it to the theater, then, I would throw a giant fit until my mom was forced to relent yet again! There was no way in Hell that I was going to miss them... Then, I would come home from the movies and the whole cycle would begin again!!

I saw INVADERS FROM MARS from 1953 in the late fifties on TV. It freaked me out then, so, I can't imagine what it would have been like for me to see it on the big screen! The very first monster movie my parents took me to was THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS in 1953 at age 5.

X THE UNKNOWN hit the screens in 1956. Even now, this movie gets under my skin. I'm glad I missed this one because there's just no way my little 8 year old imagination could withstand Jimmy Sangster's insidious writing skills. This one would have ground my brain into sausage!!

I'm glad I missed FIEND WITHOUT A FACE in 1958, the monsters were so damn terrifying. They were invisible until near the end, creepy crawling brains attached to spinal cords!!! I actually saw the trailer for it while I was at the theater to see CURSE OF THE DEMON!

I'm also grateful to have missed FIRST MAN INTO SPACE in 1959, it was a shock fest from beginning to end! The monster was unique in its eeriness and would have surely forced me into the rubber room again! The poster is also very misleading. The last still is for our London Correspondent, the Professor!!