NEVER TAKE CANDY FROM A STRANGER - Elisabeth Lutyens - "No Jean, It Wasn't Right" (1960)

I've been on a Hammer Thriller jag here lately, and why not? Hammer Horror has always been out front, while the Hammer Thrillers quietly go about their dirty little business in the background!

Tonight's Saturday Shocker is no exception, because what kind of monster is more hideous than a sexually perverted child killer? That's pretty shockingly off for 1960 or damn near any year for that matter!

It's called "Never Take Candy From A Stranger," except on Halloween, but even then, anymore, you have to watch out for all The Freakin' Creeps!

Alas, I must say that this is not a movie with any cool music, even though it's written by one of our fave composers, Elisabeth Lutyens. It's just dramatically creepy! Elisabeth wrote the music for a bevy of great flicks like "Paranoiac," "The Earth Dies Screaming," "The Skull," "The Psychopath, "Blood Fiend," and more!

It's really a straightforward tale, this bust and the perv in the window are the same guy, the town's founding father, and because who he is, they've been covering up his behaviour for years!!

Patrick Allen and Gwen Watford are Peter and Sally Carter, and Janina Faye is their daughter Jean Carter. Patrick went on to do a bunch of TV, and even was in 18 episodes of a 1971 TV show called "Brett" where he was the character in the title! Gwen was Martha Hargood in "Taste the Blood of Dracula," and her very first role was Lady Usher in the 1949 release of Poe's "The Fall Of The House Of Usher!" Janina played a child in a host of cool films like "Horror Of Dracula," "The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll," "The Hands Of Orlac," and "Day Of The Triffids" before going on to do a ton of TV herself!

Now, they're just going through the motions! The film conveys the feeling that this is all happening in some little backwards burg, but you can tell by the size of the city hall, that this is a fairly sizable community!

Bill Nagy does an excellent job as the A-hole son Clarence Olderberry Jr, which in essence makes him the "Younger Berry!" Bill managed to be in over 100 features like "First Man Into Space," "Goldfinger," and "Battle Beneath The Earth" before departing this planet for good at the age of 51! "Stick that in my face one more time, and I'll break it off!!" Clarence Jr's choice of transportation was a pretty nice Caddy!!

"Never Take Candy From A Stranger" has a fantastic look to it for one obvious reason, the cinematography was done by the master, Freddie Francis! Nice sunny day in Canada, somebody fetch me a Molsen's!(The film was really shot in the UK!)

Despite everybody in town trying to make it not happen, they bring the weird and creepy old man Clarence Olderberry Sr. up on charges of child molestation! Clarence was played by Felix Aylmer who had been acting since 1930, usually in more respectable roles like Governor, President, Colonel, Judge, Lord, Earl, or Priest!

Judged by a jury of guys who probably are all employed by the Olderberry family, is it any wonder Clarence is going to get off again?

It's only a short amount of time after the trial is over, that Clarence has another run in with the girls, and this time he's got more than candy for them!!

Tell me this isn't a horror story, it's just that the monster is in a genuine human form!!

Beautiful shot in an ugly movie, thanx Freddie!!

Is it any wonder that Frances Green as Jean's playmate Lucille, never acted again!

Clarence pursues the girls, and they look for a number of places to hide! This joint looks like a horror unto itself!

The chase goes on!!!

Wow, I would have never known that the Canadian Police had Rambler station wagons as patrol cars!! Awesome!!

So now, how do you feel Clarence, the old fart actually killed one of the girls! Good going buddy! What a jerk!

THE FLESH EATERS / Vulcan Productions Inc. - 1964

Welcome to Friday Frights with Tabonga, here at The Dungeon!.. Tonite's feature is one of the coolest little flicks you could ever hope for, it gots it all! Unfortunately, I thought this version had the rare Nazi experiments flashback segment, but, it doesn't... So solly! Well, at least it's widescreen.

Bombs away!..

I will now attempt to channel Eegah!! for a minute... Okay, here it comes... "The opening sequence of "The Flesh Eaters" has a boy and girl on a boat with the radio playing in the background, the voice on the radio, Jack Curtis says, “Now here's a real gasser, a hot biscuit from the old rhythm and blues oven, your old favorites, the Teen Killers singing Pete’s Beat.” Arnold Drake, the writer of "Flesh Eaters", who went on to write "Doom Patrol" & "Deadman" for DC Comics, wrote the song, whistled and sang it. "Behind this Membrane...You Will Be Driven To a Point...Midway Between Life and Death!" 'Nuf said?

Let's bring in our little Friday helper, that 6-eyed furry freek, Ralphie The Tarantula! He's here to be pushin' that big red 'GO' button over there by the toaster, and start our Eariffic Earclip for... THE FLESH EATERS!

We start our flick wif' another '3 hour tour' gone haywire... I think the seaplane's a Colonial "Skimmer."

Once on the deserted island, alcoholic movie star Laura Winters tries to get in good with the evil Professor Bartell, you know, just in case he's got some booze stashed away somewhere.

There's this great footage of the beach littered with thousands of dead, decomposed fish. How lucky was that?!

Our hero and pilot, Grant Murdoch, gets a few of the flesh eating critters on his leg. Jan takes her blouse off to make a bandage for him... Whotta girl! Jan is played by Barbara Wilkin, Barb was in THE OUTER LIMITS episode 'Expanding Human.'

I'm comin' my people!.. Omar is played by Ray Tudor. Ray had one other role 5 years later, dead last uncredited credit in THE SIDEHACKERS! Eegah!! and Tabonga have more acting credits than that!

Jan and Grant check out the professor's super solar generator. It has kind of a KRONOS thing going on...

Matt tries to bring supplies in his motorboat to the professor, but is splashed in the face with water that's full of them devilish little flesh eaters!

Professor Bartell is definitely one accommodating son of a bitch!

After Omar slugs down his pop laced with flesh eaters, well, his guts start pouring out! Then, the professor tapes the screams of pain... When I saw these stills in FM #29 in 1964, I have to say, they freaked me out a little!

Omar's screams can be heard on the tape recorder that the professor placed on the raft with him, to make it look and sound like Omar tried to leave the island on his own. The bottom photo shows you where the flesh eaters came out!

Jan discovers something stinky in the tent!

When Professor Bartell tries to strangle Grant, he's the one that gets pushed into the infested water! Martin Kosleck is great in AGENT FOR H.A.R.M. as madman Basil Malko, who was trying to get his hands on the deadly 'spore gun!'

Grant and Jan watch as a giant creature is born out of the ocean. Looks like it's having a Mr. Bubble bath.

Grant approaches it, gets a ride on the monster's claw, then injects human blood into the cyclops eyeball because that's the only way to stop it!.. Okay, who wrote this?!

Ghoulnight Everbloody!..