HERMANOS GUZANOS / 2 Halloween Tunes!

So, here's a special Dungeon 'TRICK' for your auditory taste buds from house music dudes, Hermanos Guzanos! Each tune includes the original cassette cover it's from.

This "tune" has caused permanent brain damage in normal people, so... BEWARE!! But, enjoy, anyway!

HELIUM MAN!

Wimmen, way we like 'em!!

CAVEGIRL LOVE!

HERMANOS GUZANOS / Halloween Tricks

HERMANOS GUZANOS was a garage band from 1986-94 that produced 20 albums during that time. Members are Gary Wray, Darrell Draeger and Brian J. Riedel. Photo is from their 1994 cable access TV show, OFFBEAT.

Here's a nice an' sleazy 'side show' piece from their album, THE WORMS' TURN.

MYSTERICAL SIGHTS!

WARNING!! This piece, BUZZSAW BASEMENT, is pretty rowdy and will definitely scare your kids, pets and visitors, so, be warned!!

This is an improv one-take live recording with only 2 guys, a keyboard and a digital delay! The Basement Master is played by Dungeon pal, Dino Bivona! From their very first 'all-live' album, SLEAZE WEASELS!

BUZZSAW BASEMENT!

WEREWOLVES ON WHEELS - Don Gere - "Woof Woof" (1971)

Well, I guess there ain't no stopping us now, so before we get to 666, in honour of Hog and Indian lovers and owners everywhere, let's just finish this month off with biker movies from Hell! Tonight, we've got a special big treat with the 1971 classic "Werewolves On Wheels"!!! I actually saw this flick at a drive-in in Anchorage, Alaska, and in retrospect, considering what was possibly ingested, it might just explain a few things!
Just to start with, one of the strangest things about this movie is, it doesn't have a title card, what you see here is from a trailer! During the movie, the credits just run! Weirdsville!

The music by composer Don Gere is the best thing to come along since the theme from "Eegah!!" and has a bit of debt to pay to "Village Of The Giants!" If only Jack Nietzsche had produced this soundtrack to give it a bit more huevos, it would probably have been the best ever, as it is, it's still fantastic in a weird surreal kind of mix between a Sandy Bull raga with the distorted guitar of Canned Heat's Sunflower, and some Hermanos Guzanos thrown in for good measure! There's so much music in this movie, I've surprised there wasn't a fully choreographed werewolf dance number! Don did another soundtrack for "Sweet Sugar," another Michel Levesque directed film in 1973, and that was it! Too bad, because it seems like the guy was a natural!! You know, a good percentage of the time after I put one of these sound clips together, I think it's my new favorite! This one really is my new favorite, at least this week!! Turn it up, hold on tight and don't let go!!!

The basic gang consists of leader Adam, played by Steve (Peyton Place) Oliver, and Tarot, played by Deuce Berry AKA Gene Shane, with Billy (Father Knows Best) Gray as Pill, and Barry (Eve Of Destruction) McGuire as Scarf! Ted and I also actually saw Barry McGuire perform in a live free Christian concert to about 25 people two years later in the Strongbow Stadium wrestling ring. He'd really put on some weight too! I'm not positive, but I'm not really sure this film helped his career!!

This is a portrait of Shirley, every man's dream, loose and free, played by Anna Lynn Brown! As hot as she is in here, it's still not real hard to envision her in her next role eleven years later as a DMV clerk!!!!!!

Tarot deals the Death card!!

If you're out in the boondocks somewhere, you can usually count on the fact that there's going to be a black hooded Satanic cult nearby! It's like taken for granted, and you can really chuckle and make fun of them when they break out the big stupid loaf of bread that looks like a giant cracker, but when they start dipping it in blood, it really starts getting creepy!!

Now what in The Hell is going on? They said they were going to the desert, but the freakin' SAHARA desert?? I did notice the magazines back at the gas station all had covers in what looked like Italian! Krazy, like when did this turn into some kind of National Geographic pictorial?!?

Adam and Tarot are at peace with the universe through their different methods, but then before you know it, all Hell breaks loose, and there's freakin' werewolves everywhere!!!!

So, it turns out, that the out of control, stoned out, drunken biker freaks, "The Devil's Advocates" aren't the bad guys in this film at all, but....

Tomorrow we'll follow up with more great biker action from 1968, with some really mean characters brought to you by Herschell Gordon Lewis, the "She-Devils On Wheels!" Woof, Woof!!

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...

MONSTER MUSIC HALLOWEEN SPECIAL / Hermanos Guzanos / 3 Tunes

Tonight we have 2 postings!.. Whoa!!

First, here's 3 tunes from HERMANOS GUZANOS, a garage band from California in the '80s. The titles are '50s monster movies and from their album X-13, so, get ready for some unfettered sounds from the Dungeon cobwebs!!

We'll get it going with this instrumental, ATOMIC SUBMARINE! Be warned, electronic monster mayhem!!

This next wild tune cooks and make THE BRAIN EATERS seem like pretty cool lil' dudes!

Last, but, not least, is PHANTOM FROM SPACE! So's... hope ya'll enjoyed this little demented bonus! One thing Guzanos was good at was keeping their tunes short and to the point!!

And, I think I just heard Tabonga come in, so, stick around for his great posting coming up! Later!!

THE COLOSSUS OF NEW YORK / Paramount Pictures - 1958 / Music by Van Cleave

So, welcome back, tonight we have a really great movie!.. THE COLOSSUS OF NEW YORK!! Directed by Dungeon favorite Eugène Lourié of THE GIANT BEHEMOTH and GORGO fame, both already posted here! Give them a search...

Van Cleave does the music, and, boy, does this theme stand out in a crowd!! Also, its not every day that we post a Paramount title. Them and Columbia both have the problem of being too 'middle of the road' for us when it comes to monster movie music.

But, this theme is totally awesome and really says... THE COLOSSUS OF NEW YORK!

SOUNDCLIP NOT AVAILABLE

The movie starts off with a bang as Ross Martin, playing Jeremy Spensser, and, who has just won the Nobel Peace Prize, gets run over by a truck barrelling through an alley.

In it's defense, the truck did say 'dodge!'

Here's the problem!.. Jeremy was the world's authority in developing a food product that will save the Earth from famine due to overpopulation, a common theme in the '50's, like in TARANTULA.

Jeremy's father and brother, both doctors, figure out a way to get Jeremy back and reclaim his legacy. So, they make him into a giant hulk with a bad attitude!.. Wow, genius!!

Here's another problem, he has a son and hot wife!.. And, guess what?!.. Jeremy's brother is trying to hit on the wifey, and, Jeremy... err... The Colossus, knows about it!!!..

The Colossus walks under water to get to brother Henry, who's headed for the hills, but, Henry gets a big surprise instead. You see, Colossus has developed awesome new powers, like frying your sorry ass with heat vision!!!.. Goodbye, dear brother!! The still with a bridge in the background is a common element in Eugène Lourié films!

Ed Wolff plays The Colossus. Here's a great still as he breaks through some glass at the UN. He then starts randomly toasting people in the crowd!!

Somedays, it jes' don't pay to be a cop!

Check it out, we could use The Colossus in Washington!!

The Colossus gets turned off by his son, then he falls to the floor!.. Anyway, Jeremy went from wanting to save the Earth to wanting to kill everyone!!.. Hey, just like in real life!!

And, since its the month of Halloween, here's an added bonus. Back in 1988 the garage band, Hermanos Guzanos, was having this tune played on WMFU radio in NJ by none other than Kaz (writer on Sponge Bob) on his excellent late night show, 'Midnight Lounge!'

Here's Hermanos Guzanos doing COLOSSUS OF NEW YORK from their X-13 album!