PIRANHA / Piranha Productions, New World Pictures - 1978

Time for a pretty good little flick from Roger Corman, filmed in LA and Texas, all about flesh-eating piranhas that are accidently released into the lakes surrounding a summer resort. It follows that the guests become their next meal.

I have a nice sound clip for your approval, sooooo, you can push the big red 'GO' button located there by our cracked fish tank, NOW, Rufus The Gnat!.. Here's... PIRANHA!

Keenan Wynn plays Jack, local booze hound, he makes liquor deliveries to his pals using a little radio flyer wagon, one of my favorite toys back in 1950!

Bradford Dillman plays our hero Paul Grogan, he hooks up with Heather Menzies as Maggie McKeown to investigate the weird shit going on in local rivers.

At a hidden government lab, Paul and Maggie discover freak animals being developed. There's even a stop motion animated mini monster loose in the room.

Jack likes to drink and go fishing with his pooch, you can hear him slur his words in the sound clip just before he gets it.

It doesn't end there, this fisherman end up on the wrong side of the food chain.

Kevin McCarthy plays Dr. Hoak, he's responsible for developing the mutant piranhas. Payback is a big old mean biting bitch! Kevin died in 2010 at age 96!!!

Then, pretty Barbara Steele shows up as Dr. Mengers, she works for the military.

Things get interesting at the kids' summer camp when the little critters mount an attack!

Here are two fun shots of some of the crazy action going on because of the deadly piranhas.

The only way to stop the little monsters is to open the valve of poison that is located in a submerged building. Paul is attached to a rope and has to be quickly pulled out by Maggie with her motor boat. Will it work?!

Dungeon Hero Dick Miller plays local big wig, Buck Gardner. He planned the event even after being warned of the potential danger.

Obviously, this blond dude didn't make it, now, he's just a tenderized brisket!

The good news is that Paul survives the ordeal, barely!..

And, for the halibut, this is my surf tune from 1988, Eegah!! does some drum taps to boot. Here's... PIRANHA!

NERTZERY RHYME'S - Howard, Fine, and Howard (1933)

 Well, I've developed a new found interest in The Three Stooges, and it made me realize I didn't really know what their very first appearance was, but I'll tell you one thing, I wasn't ready for this!

Welcome to The Dungeon!

  Ted Healy was a vaudeville comic who in 1923 developed an act called "Ted Healy & His Stooges!" Some time later, the Horwitz brothers and Mr. Feinberg split off on their own, to become "The Three Stooges." In the 1930s, Ted Healy was the highest paid comic in the country, making $30,000 per week, but he only paid the stooges a paltry $33.00 each during the same time. Ted was a notorious alcoholic, and the night of his death, he started a bar room fight, and never regained consciousness! He was only 41 at the time!

Ted has the starring role as the Father, and The Stooges are his three sons! In case you wondered how they made Ted look so much bigger than the boys, it's really quite simple! The Three Stooges were very short little guys! Curly was the tallest of these three at 5' 5", Larry was only 5' 4", and Moe was really small at 5' 3 1/2" tall!

 It's just freakin' weird! "Tell us a bedtime story Papa!"

 Bonnie (Beer And Pretzels) Bonnell) has the role of the hot Good Fairy!

 The children look like they'd be more interested in the Bad Fairy!

Why don't we ever hear about the Bad Fairies?

 You know, throughout history, there were actually a lot of Bad Fairies in the world like Leanhaum-Shee, Gan Ceanach, Bendith Y Mamau, Bannik, Fachan, Sluagh, Berberoka, Red Cap, Ankou, and The Storm Hag, but folklore has just chose to ignore the evil side for some reason! If you'd like a better view of the darkside, you can find the fascinating stories of all these Bad Fairies right HERE!

Ted Healy didn't really like Jerome (Curly) Horwitz, so after Shemp left the act, Ted said he'd let Curly have the role if he shaved his head, thinking that he wouldn't do it, but he did! All the head bonking and eye poking all goes back to that original vaudevillian act!

 That was pretty much all just the introduction to this archive footage of a full scale song and dance production!

 The two gals doing the splits were pretty interesting!

 It's just one giant human peacock musical and this is just the first number! The next act is about The Woman In The Shoe, and is a quite the peppy little tune performed by The Rounders with Ethelind Terry that you can check out right HERE!

Good Night All!! Sweet Dreams!!!

ATOMIC WAR BRIDE / Jadran Film - 1960

We finally took the advice from pal Greg Goodsell in 2007 when he suggested that we review this here movie from Yugoslavia. The story's about John and Maria, as a war starts, planes fly overhead and the bombs start dropping. John is mobilized by the military minutes after the marriage ceremony, then, he and Maria are reunited just as an atomic bomb decimates their country.

I have a sound clip for your approval, sooooo, you can push the big red 'GO' button located there by our Atomic M-80, NOW, Ralphie The Tarantula!.. Here's a sample from... ATOMIC WAR BRIDE!

War has been declared and the military goes into the streets to pass out plastic suits to protect the civilians from radiation. You can hear the instructions being given on how to put the damn thing on in the sound clip.

John's suit is defective but there are no more to hand out. I remember in high school Algebra class in 1964, our teacher, Mr. Ward, replied to a student who thought their grade should have been higher. He said... Well, you know what they say in Russia, that's tough!

So, John has to go hide behind trash cans in an alley to feel half way safe!

I just had to show this photo because there's a beautiful 1957 Oldsmobile in the shot.

An interesting contrast shot with a woman questioning a soldier in fully weird looking war gear.

Bombs start falling at John and Maria's wedding, not a good start for a honeymoon.

John is drafted immediately and joins his pals to play war. An important exercise is to train the trigger finger to work properly!

The political leaders show the country that they have launched an A-Bomb against the enemy.

And, guess what the enemy does?!

Tit for tat, that's what the Bible sez... John and Maria head off into the big mess to see what they can see. That is one wasted V-Dub there!

Well, the worst ending ever... Maria dies in John's arms, end of story. Great. Join us Wednesday when the busiest dude in the universe brings us another cool post.

A WITCH WITHOUT A BROOM - Sidney W. Pink - "A Very Hexy Motion Picture" (1967)

What a month! After well over 2100 movies now, the pickin's are getting pretty slim around here, and that's why The Dungeon Saturday Night Special for tonight is an odd little film from 1967 called "A Witch Without A Broom!" Were they trying to capitalize on the popularity of the awesome TV show called "Bewitched" I don't know, but it doesn't seem to be out of the question by looking at this poster!

"A Witch Without A Broom" is not a good movie by any means, but I'm willing to give Sid a bye on this one just because he also produced four pretty great movies, "The Angry Red Planet," "Reptilicus," "Journey To The Seventh Planet," and "Pyro...The Thing Without A Face!"

The very handsome Jeffrey (Dimension 5) Hunter is a hapless college professor who has a new and very attractive student in his class! His incredible story includes being cast as the original Captain of the USS Enterprise in the pilot episode of "Star Trek" as Captain Christopher Pike!  Jeffrey made the choice to not go with "Star Trek" and focus more on his movie career, and that's how he ended up in movies like this! It's truly sad that Jeffrey was only 43 when he had a stroke, fell down, had emergency surgery, and died from complications! What a shame!

The student in question is played by the lovely Maria (The Mad Executioners, No Survivors, Please, The Castle Of Fu Manchu, Horror Of The Zombies) Perschy!

Now you see her, now you don't! The professor is the only one who can see her, and he's quite smitten by her charms!

The professor is one of the first recorded people to take the "Ice Bucket Challenge!"

Maria is not a ghost, she's a witch from another time and place, and she knows how to bust a move!

She can also cut a pretty mean rug!

The cool sounds of Fernando G. (The Mistresses Of Dr. Jekyll, Cannibal Man) Morcillo make it easy to do!

Maria's Dad is a wizard, and while he was out of town for the weekend, she starts goofing with his stuff, and her and Jeffrey go for a wild ride through time getting into all kinds of messes like this! 

I'm pretty sure I saw these guys when I visited the Haight-Ashbury in 1967!

Cherish this picture of Maria and Jeffrey together! It'll never happen again!

One of the cavewomen really gets into this dance scene!

This is the little device she borrowed from her Father that makes all this time travel possible!

Next stop, 1999, and the end of modern civilization!

All that's left is this small handful of female survivors! There are no men!

Jeffrey just hit the sexual jackpot!

When the witch's Dad gets back home, she asks if she can go into the future and be with Jeffrey forever after he was returned to his own time, and he says yes! There's only one rule, she will have no memory of any of what happened, and Jeffrey will be a complete stranger to her, but their magnetism for each other is so strong, they will easily hook up again anyway!

It's unfortunate, because it has a lot of potential, and if "A Witch Without A Broom" had been a 30 minute TV show, it would have been excellent, but as a full length movie, I have to say, it fails miserably! Just fast forward through the crap, and you'll have a pretty good time watching it!