WEIRD WOMAN / Weaving Her Dread Spell Of Voodoo - 1944

In this Inner Sanctum story based on the novel CONJURE WIFE, a professor meets and marries an exotic native woman. Unknown to him is the fact that she was raised by superstitious natives who believe her to have supernatural powers.

Here's something I just learned, and fills in a blank about what year we started watching the great Universal movies playing on TV. Well, in 1957, Universal released 52 of their titles and called it their Shock Package. Then in 1958, they released 20 more titles and named it, Son Of Shock!! Boy is that poster misleading!!

It stars Lon Chaney as Norman Reed , Anne Gwynne as his wife Paula, Evelyn Ankers as Ilona Carr, Ralph Morgan and Elisabeth Russell.

The story starts with Professor Norman Reed at his home after returning from the South Seas with his new wife, Paula. They brought many items from the island to decorate their home, and now he's pondering how these items of superstition play a role in native life. Then he has a flashback of when he met his wife to be...

On vacation, Reed walks in on natives dancing to drum beats, he watches.

After the dancing ends, he walks right on in on the gathering and the male natives are ready to pounce on him until a mysterious woman enters the scene.

Reed makes the mistake of trying to touch the woman and he pays the price, big time. After that, the rest is history.

At Norman's party for his return, his old flame is there to belittle his new wife Paula. Later when she has Norman alone, Ilona  tells him that she wants him, so he should dump Paula. Norman basically tells her to go to Hell... 

Unfortunately, Norman and Ilona work in the same building at the university, so, it's easy to spread rumors about the staff. Like here, this student's girlfriend has a crush on Reed and got the job as his secretary over Ilona. She tells him that the professor has a thing for her...

Then she comes up with a tale about a manuscript that could get her friend Evelyn's husband (professor Sawtelle at the university) in trouble and Norman knows all about it and is going to expose him!

Sawtelle dies and Ilona starts spreading the rumor that Paula and her voodoo were behind the... MURDER!

Then, Norman follows Paula into a cemetery only to find her stash of voodoo paraphernalia, which he ends up trampling on in anger.

Back at their home, Norman demands that she get rid of all the items and burn them in the fireplace, including her sacred amulet...

After Ilona has spread even more lies, Norman and the jealous boy at school have another confrontation, this time the kid brings a gun!

Yes, in the scuffle, the moron shoots himself, Norman's blamed, but he's released from jail (on bond) because the boy lived.

Everything is going crazy until Norman tells Evelyn (who still blames Paula for her husband's death) that all the mayhem being created points in one direction... ILONA!! Evelyn sees the light and agrees to help in exposing the Royal Bitch!!

Evelyn invites Ilona over to show her something, on the floor... She has made up a story about a dream she had, and a tall figure told her that the liar would die in (I think) 13 days at one minute after midnight. Ilona sees her own face on the voodoo doll on the rug. Wild!!

Evelyn keeps repeating, and the liar will die in 13 days! Evelyn really despises the evil Bitch at this point, very satisfying.

Ilona sees this when there are exactly seven days left til doomsday.

On the last night, Ilona shows up at Evelyn's place and demands to have the doll, and in doing so, exposes herself as the person responsible for the insanity... With Norman, Paula, the head of the university and the dead boy's girlfriend, Margaret, listening in the shadows.

Ilona jumps out the window and gets onto a trellis to get away, but, her weight causes some boards to break and she falls through, hanging herself  with some vines, at exactly at one minute after midnight, just like in the made up dream! This was a good one!

DRACULA MUST BE DESTROYED / Dan Schies: Monster Kid Home Movies - 1972

So, here's another Monster Kid Home Movie, this time from Dan Schies and pals. It's all about the return of Dracula, he sets up a new pad in some kid's basement after he's brought back to the land of the living... But, he also has a nemesis!

I think some kind of Dwight Frye character's toting around a stupid dead kid!

Back to the show... With some bloody hoodoo, Dracula reassembles into a Visible Man model.

He starts breathing again, and, we all better watch out... Drac is back with a fang attack!!.. Hey, nice coffin!

I vant to bite your neck, yo!

Then, little Drac meets his nemesis, another stupid kid, and they wrassle around for awhile until the nemesis runs away!

The good guy comes back with a shotgun and shoots Drac's assistant and heads to the basement with his bag of tricks.

The first thing he pulls out is a cross, smart.

Then, the hammer and stake! It's driven deep into Dracula's evil heart and he heads back to the land of the dead... Goodbye!

Hmmm, looks like Dracula must'a been destroyed!..

And, that's the end of Count Dracula!!.. Wow, can you believe it? I can't. Anyway, we're back tomorrow with another wild tale from the void, here, at The Dungeon!

RETURN OF GIANT MAJIN / Colder Than Ice, Unyielding As Stone, Divine Retribution Is At Hand - 1966

Okay, here's one for Randall... In this follow up production, an evil warlord sets his sights on yet another village to conquer, this one by a lakeside. He kidnaps Katsushige and offers an ultimatum to the villagers to hand over one of their protectors, Lord Juro, in exchange for the release of the woman. But, Lord Juro and the brave village people defy the evil doers and decide to fight for their freedom. When their sacrifices seem in vain, they pray to their stone god to awaken and fight for them!

Here's Lord Juro, he has just found out that his village has been captured by an evil warlord and his people need his help desperately...

The warlord and his men outnumber and outgun the village people (ha ha) and they must submit to his orders, or, get sliced in half!

Some of the villagers escape to an island across the river where a peaceful tribe of people live. It's also where the giant stone protector Majin is located... The top still strikes a nerve with me for some reason, it's really surreal.

So, the warlord and crew, using boats, find the island, their plan is to destroy Majin and claim the island for themselves. The bastards stack a ton of explosives up and set the whole thing off, blowing the stone Hajin into a thousand pieces! Its head falls into the water.

One of the exploded pieces of the statue just happens to go through this dude's evil heart!

The warlord ties Katsushige to a cross and sets it on fire! She prays to Majin and a mysterious wind from nowhere blows the flames out.

Back at the ranch, Majin rises from the water and starts pummeling the warlord's men!

Majin goes to the village where the warlord has Katsushige bound. First, it easily pushes over that big stone wall before rescuing Katsushige from her tormentor.

Now, Majin has its sights set on the frightened little warlord... Oh, Lordie!

The warlord has set out more explosives for the giant, and, it goes off!....

Okay, now you really pissed him off!!..

And, this is the fate of the cry baby warlord after trying to escape in a boat. He looks pretty good as a dead man!

So, our big old hero, Majin, walks into the water, turns back to stone and disappears, just like I'm ready to do... Tune in tomorrow when we'll have even more cool junk 4 U.