13 DEMON STREET - MURDER IN THE MIRROR (1959)

The name of the show was "13 Demon Street"

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"13 Demon Street" is a strange little place in Sweden! "Murder In The Mirror" was an unreleased episode! When the show failed to go anywhere, they took three episodes, and two years later turned them into a movie called "The Devil"s Messenger!"

They dug up the late great Lon Chaney Jr. to be the host! Of course, at this point in his career, Lon was apt to show up almost anywhere, and everybody knows Sweden makes good vodka!

Curt Siodmak was a terribly prolific writer and he also directed this series! Curt was of course responsible for an incomparable run of classic films like "Black Friday," "The Wolfman," "The Invisible Man Returns," "The Invisible Woman," "Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man," "I Walked With A Zombie," "Son Of Dracula," "The Lady And The Monster," "House Of Frankenstein," "The Beast With Five Fingers, "Donovan's Brain," "Riders To The Stars," and "Earth Vs.The Flying Saucers!" What possibly would the history of  horror movies been without him? But that's not to say that "13 Demon Street" was his finest hour, that's for sure!

It looks like they spent about 57 cents on Lon's makeup and hair stylist, and possibly another 43 cents on his costume! The biggest expense was probably paying somebody to turn the burlap sacks inside out so you couldn't read the names of the potato growers on them!

It all begins with this happy but down on their luck couple having their life disrupted by some freaky-deaky weirdo!

Freaky dude offers out of work guy some easy cash if he will just track down an olde mirror for him! Sounds simple enough!

It just so turns out that an antique collector friend of his has the mirror! What a stroke of luck!!

But that's where the good luck ends. He sees history and murder in the mirror that upsets him to no end, and then of course he has to try and convince other people that's he's not nuts!

There's nothing quite as macho as the hands on the hips pose!

"NO, You're shitting me, that is totally freakin' unbelievable!!" (Well, that's what you could imagine he SHOULD be saying!)

"I want you to witness a crime of utmost cruelty, of loathsome savage hatred of fiendish jealousy!"

Lon says he can be released from this crappy job, if he finds someone who is a worse person than himself!

Sorry Lon, they might find a worse person, but they're not going to find a worse dresser! "13 Demon Street - Murder In The Mirror" streams on Creepster TV, and at $4.99 a month, just might be the bargain of the century!

THE DAY THE SKY EXPLODED / Compagnie Cinématographique de France, Lux Film, Royal Film SA - 1958

It's Meteor Monday Redo with Tabonga, here at The Dungeon!.. Here's a wild 'n' weird French-Italian sci-fi doomsday production from 1958, director of photography was the great horror director Mario (CALTIKI) Bava, his last name is spelled "Baja" in the English dub credits.

Eegah!! sent over a grainy lil' soundclip (much like the stills) from the beginning of the flick, sooooo, you can push the big red 'GO' button there next to the Snark Missile, NOW, Ralphie The Tarantula! Here's our audio offering for... THE DAY THE SKY EXPLODED!

As far as I know, the Alpha Video print I used is the only one available..

The story's about some European scientists that discover a large group of meteors in space hurtling on a collison course with Earth, and if they hit, the planet will be destroyed!!!.. I like most fifties sci-fi because of the interesting ideas, miniatures, futuristic architecture, space hardware and the like.

Not sure what's going on here, but, it don't look good!

It's just a shot of an instrument panel, that's all...

When the citizens figure out it's pretty much the end of the world, they go freakin' berserk!

The meteors demolish the Moon, causing this scientist to lose his mind! When these kinds of things happen in horror movies, I like to imagine a coo coo clock going off to accompany it.

Destruction of the Moon causes vast earthquakes on Earth, part of the science lab gets totally destroyed as mom tries to comfort the kid!

The insane scientist tries to prevent the others from commanding the launch of thousands of missiles from around the world to combat the oncoming meteors, but, he gets electrically fried instead!

Three.. two.. one! The missiles make it to their target and end up saving the day!.. Hurrah!!

The head scientist takes a big slug o' relief!

STARK FEAR - Lawrence V. Fisher & John Williams - "I Ain't Gonna Hurt You...I Just Want Company (1962)

Welcome to the Saturday Watchamacallit Chingadero Feature down in The Dungeon! I'm not really quite sure what to make of this movie, but one thing I know is that I have had root canals more interesting and less painful! It's said that even Berverly Garland never wanted to have anything to do with this film after it was made! I didn't believe it until I saw it, but now I know why she might have felt that way!

First off, why is this film called "Stark Fear?"  "Too Much Inane Talk And Not Enough Action" would have been a much better suited title! The music in "Stark Fear" presents a real dichotomy! The insipidly cretinous music called the soundtrack was created by Lawrence V. Fisher in his sole outing, but the swingin' music from the brief party scene was created by the master Maestro Mr. John (Star Wars, Harry Potter) Williams! How much something weirder can you get than that! Here's a real short sample of what the Hell I'm talking about! You'll get the idea!

I cannot imagine for the life of me why they needed a psychological consultant, unless it was just to keep the actors involved from going insane!

Now there is no possible way I'm ever going to say anything bad about Dungeon Queen Beverly Garland! For the uninitiated, let me just mention some of the classic films Bev was in! "D.O.A.," "The Neanderthal Man," "The Rocket Man," "It Conquered The World," "Curucu, Beast Of The Amazon," "Not Of This Earth," "The Alligator People," & "Twice Told Tales!"

Wow, where'd they get those curtains?

Bev's husband is a big loser played by Skip Homeier! Skip has been on "The Outer Limits," "The Addams Family," "Star Trek" and a ton of cowboy TV shows!

Wow, where'd they get that chair and matching ottoman?

To show his undying love and devotion for Beverly, Skip pours his drink on her head!

Beverly goes to a swingin' party where she meets The Chief, Cortez Ewing in his one and only acting credit! You'll hear a sample of his talent in the little sound clip!

Beverly Garland's back!

Beverly heads on over to the sprawling metropolis of Quehada, Oklahoma in search of her man, but she finds nothing but trouble!

I couldn't quite make up my mind which part of nothing to not tell you about this film!

In Quehada, you could buy off the Sheriff off for five bucks!

If there's anything close to a hero in this soap opera, it's Kenneth Tobey as Bev's boss!  Like Beverly Garland, Kenneth Tobey also had a nice run of monster movies to his credit! I'm talking major classics like "The Thing From Another World," "The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms," and "It Came From Beneath The Sea!"

Beverly Garland is really good at acting like she's drunk!

All the trouble climaxes at the "El Nora Motel," but at least they had air conditioning!

Wipe that smile off your face Beverly, there is absolutely no hope for this relationship! "Stark Fear" is one of the six movies on the Something Weird "Weird-Noir" set. It is without a doubt not the best film in the set, but is worth it for any diehard Beverly Garland fans, and no matter how bad it might be, it's still a bargain!!

NOSFERATU / Jofa-Atelier Berlin-Johannisthal - 1922

It's more Friday Fright with Tabonga, here at The Dungeon!.. We gots a creepy little silent vampire flick brought to the screen 91 years ago in Deutschland by F.W. Murnau, even though he wasn't able to attain the rights to the property of Stoker's estate! Parts were actually shot at Vlad's old stomping grounds in Romania!

There are 10 credits for original music for this movie dating from 1969 to 2006, that's the reason there's no soundclip for this post, just make one up in your mind! So, don't be looking for no big red 'GO' button cause there ain't none.

A real estate company in Wisbourg gets an interesting letter from a Baron Graf Orlok in Transylvania, saying that he'd like to move there... Really, that's what that sez?

Hutter, representing the real estate company, travels to Orlok's castle to take him the deed to sign. Orlok seems quite eccentric.

Then, Hutter is visited in his sleep by the Nosferatu late that night!

Although Hutter cannot totally remember what has happened to him, including the strange bite marks on his neck, he discovers Orlok sleeping in a coffin in the basement during the day. Now he definitely knows that something evil's going on around here!

And, there is the Reinfield character, in jail for eating insects and small animals! His name is Knock and he's Orlok's little imp helper. In one of the best and funniest parts of the movie, he escapes and has the whole town chasing him around in circles!

Orlok takes his coffin off the death ship he arrived in, walks through town and then delivers it to his new place. In this black and white print, it looks like he's able to withstand the sun during the day!! Thing is, in the original master print the scene is tinted blue, designating nighttime...

Here's one of the victims they find on the death ship. Notice his fang holes, there is NO way Nosferatu could have bitten him in the neck and left those holes. First of all, he'd have to be facing the guy exactly straight ahead and teeth simply don't jut out from your face.

It doesn't take long before this happens!

Then, long lines of pall bearers carry the coffins of victims of the plague to the cemetary.

After reading the Big Book Of Vampires, Hutter's wife figures out a way to end the horror, she summons Nosferatu to visit her in her bedroom after she sends her husband on a wild goose chase!

She lets the greedy monster drink her blood long enough for the sun to come up, and, he vaporizes from the sunlight right before our eyes. I find it ridiculous that after Nosferatu disappears, anyone affected by the plague returns to absolute normal with no side effects!