HOLLOW GATE - "Hollowgate" (1988)

This Saturday Night Special ain't that special in my humble opinion, but it IS Halloween oriented and tis the season! So, without further adieu, here's........................

............................."Hollowgate," or is it "Hollow Gate?" Even the producers don't seem to know, and that pretty much sets the stage, although it's not really a stage, but more like an empty cardboard box!

These kids are at the local costume shop and the one girl really wants the purple wig, but her boyfriend is too cheap to buy it for her!

The proprietor offers them a way to get the wig for nothing. All they have to do is deliver a couple of boxes to some mansion that's right on the way to where they are going!

All that's missing is Scooby-Doo!

It doesn't matter the reason, if this guy answers the door........................

.....................RUN!!!

Just what the world needs, another creative creep who has a costume and a different method of whacking all his innocent victims!

As it ever will be, payback is a bitch!

It's very possible that it can!

"Hollow Gate" got 3.3 stars out of 10 on IMDB, and that might be generous!

 

 

 

Too bad they couldn't have got The Shat for the lead role, it would have still be a lousy movie, but I'm sure it would have been a little more interesting!

HOME MOVIES / "Coffins And Cradles" - 2003

This is one of my top 10 shows, it ran for four seasons and got pretty complicated with the character interactions near the end. Anyway, here's their Halloween episode from season three. The series is about 3rd graders Brendon Small and his friends Jason and Melissa. They have made hundreds of their movies and that's what it's all about. Brendon is voiced by, who else, the real Brendon Small, the master guitarist and song writer from Dethklok, and voice of the singer, Nathan Explosion.

In this episode, Brendon's step mom Linda is nine months pregnant and staying at Brendon's house so that his mom Paula can help out. Brendon and her DO NOT get along.

The other ingredient that makes this series awesome in the kids' soccer coach, John  McGuirk, voiced by the great H. Jon Benjamin, also the voice of Bob in BOB'S BURGERS. 

Anyway, he thought it was some kids he could yell at after being woken up from a nap. But, it's a girl from his past that has now joined a spiritual cult and is out drumming up business for her brothers and sisters.

Here are Perry and his pal trick-or-treating at the Small's house. Linda answers the door and Perry asks her if she's dressed up like an ugly housewife for Halloween. She chases them away.

Speaking of things that need to be chased away, here are me and Eegah!! as a 2-headed psycho at a Halloween party around 2003 I believe. Seriously, nobody liked us, they just wanted us to stay the Hell away!

So, Jason, Melissa and their teacher Mr. Lynch are there to pick up Brendon so that they all can go trick-or-treating together.

In the meantime, coach MsGuirk lets his girlfriend dress him up in a costume with make up, heels and a wig. Oh, and soup cans for boobs! They're getting all frisky, when...the coach has a heart attack!

Well, the good news is that he's going to be fine, but, he did suffer a heart attack and has to take it easy for awhile. He's kinda cute.

Halloween gets short-circuited when it's time for Linda to have her baby. They all rush to the hospital to be with her and Brendon wants to tape the event. The doc says... NO!

Of course Brendon and Linda get into a fight and she calls him everything in the book in a bleepathon, and the little guy shoots back some of the same, then leaves.

Brendon, Melissa, Jason and Mr. Lynch are in the waiting room where Mr. Lynch tempts the kids with a pile of candy. Problem is, Jason is a recovering candyholic...

When the threshold is reached, he eats all the candy and turns into the Jason from Hell.

Then, Brendon sees coach McGuirk in one of the hospital rooms, and the coach tells him the whole twisted story of what happened.

Melissa (who always feels obligated to help him at times like this) is concerned about Jason so finally tracks him down in a store room, sucking down sugar water. He tells her to back off!

But, Melissa also has some quirks, like, when she's pushed to her limits, she totally overreacts. Here, she slaps Jason from Hell about twenty times, hard, until he finally turns back into regular Jason.

So, Linda has the baby and everyone meets in her room to end this crazy episode. Well, that's our first Halloween Countdown 2020 treat for you, come back tomorrow for your all-day sucker, here at The Dungeon!!..

MUSIC BY THE MAESTRO BRUNO NICOLAI YOU CAN ACTUALLY OWN!

 

With everything that's going on in 2020, it seems like it's stacked up to be one of the worst years ever, but there is still at least one good thing about 2020, and that is that in this day and age, if a person wants to, you can learn about almost anything, and in this case, actually listen to it.

It's an extra special Weird Wednesday with a cherry on top!

Welcome to just some of the recorded work of renowned composer Bruno Nicolai that is available!

 

Many of the movies that Maestro Bruno Nicolai wrote the music for can be found on Discogs or Amazon in the format of CD or vinyl, and the 1975 film "Eyeball" or "Gatti Rossi In Un Labirinto Di Vetro" as it is also known, is good place to start! 

The blood splattered vinyl is too cool.

Along with Ennio Morricone, Piero Umiliani, and Riz Ortoloni, Bruno Nicolai was a brilliant Italian composer, and many times like on this LP, he worked closely with Maestro Morricone.

 This album was from the James Bond spoof "OK Connery," that starred Sean Connery's real life younger brother Neil Connery!

 

All four of those amazing composers are no longer with us. Nicolai passed away in 1991,

Umiliani died in 2001, Ortoloni left in 2014, and we just lost Morricone a couple of months ago.
On 1964's "Il Pelo Nel Mondo" or "Mondo Inferno," Bruno shared writing credits with Nino Oliviero.

This album, like some of the other ones I'm going to show you, can be bought on Discogs. Some are very reasonably priced like this LP for $9.99, and some of them are hundreds of dollars! 

Bruno also composed the music for a ton of films that weren't Giallo, and one of the coolest and free things you can do is check out this link on Discogs to the music of Bruno Nicolai, and it will take you to a page where you can magically listen to four hours and freakin' ten minutes of Bruno's music taken from various records of his! It's what I'm listening to right now!

 

I promise if you buy all these records, you would have one of the coolest collections in town!

It would be "Fenomenal!"

 

Not long ago, you couldn't find this movie anywhere, but now you can even buy the soundtrack for as low as $4.99, you inscrutable lucky dog!

 

There's only one of these Italian CD's for the soundtrack of "A Virgin Among The Living Dead" on Discogs, and somebody is asking $58.82 for it, but follow the link and you can listen to it for nothing!

The 1971 soundtrack from "The Night Evelyn Came Out Of The Grave,"

is also available but will cost you around $45.00. 

 

The soundtrack from "99 Women,"  a Jesus Franco film from 1969 about a woman's prison run by a sadistic superintendent, is less popular, and can be had for about eight bucks!

The soundtrack for Argento's "The Bird With The Crystal Plumage" was written by Maestro Morricone in 1970, and Bruno Nicolai was the conductor!!

 

Also from 1970 and starring Sir Christopher Lee was "The Bloody Judge," or "Il Trono Di Fuoco," and it can be found on a German CD starting at $9.41.  

If it's bloody soundtracks you like, then look no further than 1972's "The Case Of The Bloody Iris!"

Not one of my favorite movies, so I'm not likely to shell out $63.33 for a 10" UK record! 

 

And while we're on the subject of cases, here's the album cover from the soundtrack of the 1971 film, "The Case Of The Scorpion's Tail."

 

This 1966 film titled "Upperseven, The Man To Kill," is the most expensive one I found. They're asking $383.10 for this Japanese CD, and unfortunately, it's one of the few there are no musical links to.

 

This 1970 Jesus Franco sex romp called "Eugenie De Sade 70," commands about $45.00 for a CD and up to $193.00 for a vinyl album. 

The bummer is most of these LPs and CDs are in Europe, so you're looking at maybe at least another $20.00 in postage on top of the prices I've told you about.

 

"Il Conte Dracula" or "Count Dracula" if you prefer, came out in 1970, and was directed by Jesus Franco and starred Chris Lee as The Count! This one is a bit pricey for my meager tastes too!

"The Red Queen Kills Seven Times" came out in 1972 and is another album that commands a fairly high price of  $105.88 for a CD but you can hear two tracks right here!

 

But if none of that interests you, and you just want to have a good time, then grab yourself a copy of this 2015 transparent red record titled "Mondo A Go-Go!" It's full of good garage rock and even includes a couple of covers composed by Bruno Nicolai!

"In Go-Go We Trust!"

 

Now it's on to THE COUNTDOWN!