WAR OF THE COLOSSAL BEAST / AIP - 1958 / Music by Albert Glasser

Its Sunday again, so, that means we're presenting another classic movie. Tonight's entry is definitely that, and, I've picked out some very nice stills to prove it!

One of Mr. BIG's best, I believe...

Bert usually relied on Albert Glasser to give him that "beat the audience up" theme before the movie even starts. Nice psychological tool! Other movies Albert's music appears in: OMOO-OMOO THE SHARK GOD, INVASION USA, PORT SINISTER, HUK!, TEENAGE CAVE MAN, MONSTER FROM GREEN HELL, HIGH SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL, THE CREMATORS besides a host of Bert I. Gordon films!!

So, get ready for WAR OF THE COLOSSAL BEAST!! Eegah!! has been doing great sound files lately, he's gettin' tricky with a pinch of levity!

Things ain't goin' that great south-of-the-border! Looks like the guy saw a ghost, or, el gigante, or something!

Sally Fraser plays Joyce Manning, aka Glenn's little sister!! Since Joyce doesn't believe Glenn died after he fell off the dam when he was THE AMAZING COLOSSAL MAN a year earlier, she thinks this story on KTLA news about an incident in Mexico has something to do with him. Then, she makes the call...

Damn!.. Look at all that freakin' booze back there! A fun girl on the weekends, no doubt!!

Talk about BIGFOOT!.. Oh, and, I noticed that Bert made Sally walk through the mud in her pumps!!

I wonder if this scene here, where Glenn quickly pops up from behind a rock, would scare a 10 year old back in 1958, seeing it at the theater? I think, yeah, probably.

The military comes up with a way to capture the giant, fill a bread truck with bread laced with a knockout drug! Pretty simple.

Glenn is captured and then chained up inside a 'big' hanger. Later he goes outside for a smoke!

Glenn's being bad so they gas him again!! Hey, and, it looks like those scars are healing up pretty good!

Guess what?! He gets loose again! This time he ends up in LA at Griffith Park... Man, lucky for Bert and his crew!! At times, the special effects are awesome!

Like another AIP movie, I WAS A TEENAGE FRANKENSTEIN, this gimmick ending was also filmed in color!!

THE MUMMY AND THE CURSE OF THE JACKALS PT 02 - John See.... "Championship Title Match - The Mummy Vs. The Jackal In Las Vegas" (1969)

Right now, as an extra added bonus feature, I'd like to share some photos taken at "The Ackermansion" in 2001, when we went to visit Forry to talk to him about being the host for a movie we had made. If you never had a chance to go, here's just a small taste of what you missed!!

Any normal person would die to have this Superman standee that was among a bunch of damaged stuff that was just piled up outside the back entrance of Forry's pad!!

You could walk through room after room covered from celing to floor in posters, lobby cards, books and miniatures!!

This was the man's living room!!

Forry would just open up his house at no charge a couple of Saturday's a month, and after you took the tour, he would answer any and all questions, and maybe even act out the part in some movie with you!! It would blow you away!! The man was a Prince!!

When we were there, the phone rang, and he just looked at me, and said "Would you answer that?" Sure Forry, no problem!!! "Forrest J. Ackerman's residence, can I help you?" what a kick!!

If you didn't already know it, Stephen Spielberg was the President of The Forrest J. Ackerman Fan Club! If that doesn't tell you how important this man's influence was, nothing will!! Forry, we'll always be thinking about you, but, for now, just as you would want it, it's time to go on with the show!!!

Part 02 of

"The Mummy And The Curse Of The Jackals!!"

So The Mummy dude that was in charge of taking care of Connie decides to check out some of the casinos in Las Vegas! The desert tie-in had to be a streak of genius of director Oliver Drake, or as he was affectionately know as, O.D.!

The Mummy is not real subtle about his abductions, walking right on stage or into a stripper's dressing room! Yet, somehow, lumbering around, he gets away with all of it!!

I'm starting to think that maybe O.D. was responsible for some of this music, since he had a background in soundtrack music! The cat also has a stretch of credits in Cowboy flicks as director, producer, and writer going back to the 1920's!

O.D. also had the writing credits for the 1944 feature, "The Mummy's Curse!" Is this all starting to make sense? Are you starting to understand this movie now??

John Carradine joins the foray towards the end of the film and does the normal cosmic exemplary act, that he always puts in, and pulls off, no matter where or when!!!

So, sure, a whole bunch of other stuff happens, but this film is basically two rampages put to music, one jackal, one mummy, in Las Vegas, and then Connie, the conniving B gets what's coming to her in the end, no more film roles!!!

Good Movie!!! Good night!!

THE MUMMY AND THE CURSE OF THE JACKALS PT 01 - "F.J.A. R.I.P." (1916 - 2008)

Well, it was inevitable, but I really wasn't ready for the news that Forrest J. Ackerman just passed away today!! He was our hero as you all know, and an inspiration from the first issue of FM we ever owned right up to today. I have no doubt we'll meet again!! I had already scheduled a two part deal for the next two nights, and now, it is even more fitting as we say good-bye to everybody's friend even if you didn't know him, because I don't think Forrest J. Ackerman ever met a stranger in his life!!! I'm sure Forry would want us to continue writing about these movies, so, tonight's special feature is straight out of La-La Land, because I'm talking about, the 1969 feature "The Mummy and the Curse of the Jackals!"

Good sport and all around great guy, Anthony Eisley plays the title role of David Barrie to the hilt, despite whatever circumstances prevail, financial or otherwise!!!

Marliza Pons as Princess Akana, or in the vernacular, Connie, is Anthony's love interest in this bizarre desert tale!!

Not a werewolf, No, that would be far too trite for a movie as intelligent as this, No, instead, Anthony is transformed into a jackal, one big mean varmit!!!

Okay, he looks pretty cuddly here, but he's just really getting started!!!

They didn't do a very good job of locking Anthony in like he had requested, so he scales the wall, escapes and ends up in this Las Vegas amusement park, which is pretty damn scary unto itself!!

C'Mon!! Have you seen a better makeup job lately?? I was doing some research, and I read where some idiot said this was a bad movie!! What planet did he come from?? More like one of the 'seven wonders of the world' unearthed once again from the sands of time like some ancient pyramid, would be a bit more correct!!

Now, you know why it's a two night deal. Hell, we haven't even got to The Mummy yet!! This poor Las Vegas cop just happened to be in the wrong place ad nauseam!!

Talk about your new world order minorities, Wow, have drunks been badly mistreated and stereotyped over the years or what?? Of course, no one cares when they get killed!!!

This is one of the wildest films you'll ever run across if you can possibly find a copy, and the music is.........an out of this world mix of spaghetti western, rollerskating, Inagaddadavida-carousel, jazz-funk, sitar, Zappaesque, bass-driven marimba, Las Vegas, space sleaze, Psych lounge, rockin' madness you'll ever hear in your life, and you can't even find out who is responsible for it!! On the credits it says John See... but the edges are cut off, so you can't even read John's whole last name. There is a John Seely who composed the original theme for the "Donna Reed Show" and some other things, but I don't really think that's him!! Oh, well, whoever he is, he's a freakin' genius of the wildest order with a taste in music as eclectic as my own, and that's pretty weird!! Stay tuned for tomorrow, "The Mummy and the Curse of the Jackals!" Part 02!!

See you on the other side Forry!!! We love you, man!!!