THE ADVENTURES OF UNCLE MISTLETOE - Aunt Judy - "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah - The Kindness Club Song" (1949)

Tonight the Dungeon Halloween Countdown continues with an episode from the TV series "The Uncle Mistletoe Show! Uncle Mistletoe was a character introduced to the world in 1946 by the Chicago department store Marshall Field's to compete with Montgomery Ward's Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer! The popular Uncle Mistletoe Show aired 3 times a week for four seasons on TV from 1948 to 1952! So what does a Christmas character have to do with Halloween? Well,  it's kind of like "Nightmare Before Christmas" in reverse, as much as some people would like it, it can't be Christmas all year long!! Marshall Field's was bought and converted to Macy's in 2006!

 

What we have here tonight was a 1949 episode that aired on the 25th of October!

 Uncle Mistletoe's co-hostess on only this one show was Aunt Judy played by the cute as the dickens actress Jennifer Holt at the end of her acting career! Jennifer was in a slew of western movies in the 1940's like "Renegades Of The Rio Grande" and "Buffalo Bill Rides Again!"

Uncle Mistletoe was a little on the slow side, I can't imagine how tough it would be to watch one of these episodes without the assistance of Aunt Judy! She was the highlight of this whole show!

 Uncle Mistletoe and Aunt Judy spin a tale about his imp friends who want to carve the town's biggest jack-o-lantern, and one little guy falls inside and can't get out!

 This is what it looks like from the inside of a jack-o-lantern!

 Imagine that! There's a happy ending, and then Aunt Judy and Uncle Mistletoe treat us to rousing renditions of  "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah" and "The Kindness Club Song!"

"Good Night Aunt Judy!"

"Good night boys and girls!"  Happy Halloween!! You probably wouldn't have to guess too hard to know you can find this show at the Internet Archive!

THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN / Hammer Film Productions - 1957

It's Monday Halloween Countdown Mayhem 2013 with Tabonga, here at The Dungeon!.. What a killer feature this was in 1957, kickin' butt with Christopher Lee in a seminal Frankenstein monster role and Peter Cushing as Frankenstein himself, and, written by my favorite horror writer, Jimmy Sangster. Jimmy had just written X: THE UNKNOWN and would go on to pen HORROR OF DRACULA, THE REVENGE OF FRANKENSTEIN, BLOOD OF THE VAMPIRE, THE CRAWLING EYE, JACK THE RIPPER, THE MAN WHO COULD CHEAT DEATH, THE MUMMY, THE BRIDES OF DRACULA, THE NANNY and many more...

Eegah!! sent over a soundclip from this great flick for us, sooooo, you can push the big red 'GO' button there next to the eyeballs in a jar, NOW, Ralphie The Tarantula! Here's our audio offering for... THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN!

The story begins with Victor Frankenstein close to being executed for murder, he wants the priest to listen to his story about what led to his predicament...

It all started when he was just a little guy, and, how he met his mentor in medicine, Paul Krempe. He goes on to tell about the time they paid grave robbers to steal a body for them...

Victor's all grown up now and likes the pleasures of the flesh, indeed. That's Valerie (HORROR OF DRACULA) Gaunt in the top still and Hazel (DR. BLOOD'S COFFIN) Court at bottom.

To aquire a brain for his monster, Victor pushes his friend Professor Bernstein through the rail where he lands head first on the floor! No matter how many time I watch this scene, I cannot figure out how they did it because it looks so damn real!!

Victor can't stop his infernal calculating, now, he must figure out exactly how to get his hands on that brain!

Unfortunately, the professor harbors some intense ill will towards the doctor!

After a brain adjustment, the monster escapes into the countryside where he murders an old blind man who taunts him with a stick. Victor and Paul catch up to the thing...

The monster's all messed up now and Victor's great triumph is a miserable failure!

Victor has to take the rap for his monster when Paul denies his story, cleverly leaving Victor just a madman to all the others!

So, this is his reward, his legacy goes to the grave with him!

THE NAKED WITCH - Larry Buchanan - "Witch Way Did She Go George?" (1961)

Hi ho all you kraazy cats and kiddies, and welcome to day 19 of The 2013 Dungeon Halloween Countdown! Tonight's phlegm, I mean film is a rather special affair called "The Naked Witch!" This no ordinary movie thank God, cause if it was, life would be pretty dang boring! The opening voiceover is done by the master Gary Owens, in his first full feature outing!

You know, sometimes fate is a funny thing! Within a week's time, I watched the movie "The Naked Witch," and it wasn't but a few days later that I received my copy of Reverend Tom Frost's new totally awesome CD "Bloody Works," and what was the name of the first song on the CD? That's right, "The Naked Witch!!!"

You can order Tom Frost's killer CD HERE for only $10.00 post paid! (Because of the almighty power of the U.S. dollar, that's about $13.00 in American money!) It's almost like stealing, and honestly, Tom's CD is a Helluva bloody lot more exciting than this movie, but that would be like splitting hairs, now wouldn't it?

This is Robert Short as the inquisitive student looking into the background of a little burg inhabited by German immigrants! Premise of movie: Big Mistake!!! This would be Robert's only ever on screen appearance!

This of course is Kirska, the last vestige of good olde downhome German hospitality! Playing Kirska is Jo Marryman! Wow, how ironic, this would be Jo Maryman's also only trip to the big screen!

The placement of a cuckoo clock on the wall seals the fact that this is a German household!

The witch is awakened from her age olde resting place by the student and she's bent on revenge! The long rest didn't really do her much good!

The witch herself is the fairly attractive and seductive Libby Hall! Libby had one more film appearance as Brenda in another low budget Larry Buchanan flick called "Common Law Wife!"

The witch is quite the little wood nymph, and has a dandy time just cavorting in the water of a small Texas lake!

The student is transfixed on this whole scene!

After offing a bunch of the locals that the witch had a long standing feud with, she does a seductive dance for the student in her boudoir, this warm and enticing cave!!

Time to drop the facade, and the clothes and get down to business!!

"The Naked Witch" is another movie that you are just lucky enough to be able to download from the Internet Archive absolutely free right about HERE!!! So that's it, download the movie, and then send $13.00 to Tom Frost and have something in your life to look forward to!

FREAKS / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - 1932

It's another Freaky Friday Halloween Countdown 2013 wif' Tabonga, here at The Dungeon!.. Director Tod Browning had a penchant for helming productions dealing with touchy subjects and came to Hollywood with the knowledge of a circus background.

Eegah!! sent over a fun little soundclip from this flick for our earjoyment, sooooo, you can push the big red 'GO' button there next to the big chicken woman, NOW, Rufus The Gnat! Here's an earfull of... FREAKS!

The story basically centers around a trapeze artist, Cleopatra, and Hans, a midget working in the sideshow who she's stringing along. She's only interested in the money Hans will be inheriting while she has an affair with the circus strongman, Hercules. Another performer, Frieda, knows she's really the one for Hans.

Some of the circus oddities dance and play in the forest after a stop.

Daisy and Violet Hilton were Siamese twins, here, they chat with the great Wallace Ford, who plays good guy, Phroso The Clown. When I was just a little tyke, like in 1951, I lived next to a girl named Buttercup!

Josephine Joseph plays the Half Woman-Half Man, she/he gets punched out by Hercules in a second for being too nosey!

Here's Johnny Eck as Half Boy.

Phroso tries out a new gag!

Zip and Pip always have something interesting to say...

Frances O'Connor plays The Armless Girl... So, who needs arms?!

Frieda pleads with Cleopatra to leave Hans alone. Look how Cleopatra mocks little Frieda with her facial expressions!

At the birthday party, Cleopatra gets drunk and spills the beans about how much she despises having to hang out with all you freaks! Angelo Rossitto brings her a queen sized drink that she then tosses back in his face as they are all laughing and mocking her!

Well, well, well... Bad move, maybe they'll just have to bring her down a notch or two!..

Cleo ends up the Chicken Woman, just another freak in the old sideshow!..