THE TINGLER - Von Dexter - "The Trip" (1959)

The 1959 William Castle film "The Tingler" is a trip!!!  

This is The Boss, Mr. Castle himself, you do what he says!!! 

This cat Bob Gunderson has the best EC Comics face of all time!!! It's very hard to translate a comic image into a real person or event to film, hence why all today's movies suck, but this guy proves it is possible!! 

Vincent's wife is a tramp, he's experimenting with fear, what do you expect? 

Patricia Cutts as Vincent's wife deserves all she gets and more!! 

Bill, you've got a cool concept, a great cast and story, and you damn near almost ruin the whole thing with the hokiest rubber monster on a string ever. How does that happen? 

Darryl Hickman, besides being a tremendous film star, also played his brother Dwayne's brother on the "Dobie Gillis Show" as Davey. 

Well, it probably wasn't a good idea to shoot up that acid!!! 

Pamela Lincoln says "I Do!" to co-star Darryl Hickman's real-life marriage proposal!! 

These bloody bathtub scenes were shot in color in a black and white room!! 

Eight years later..Here's Country Joe And The Fish.

THE BLACK CAT Part III - Scotty McKay - "Sinner Man" (1966)

So this is the third and final segment in our tribute to Scotty McKay, Edgar Allen Poe and one of the most interesting movies you'll ever have a chance to see, "The Black Cat." 

 

Edgar Allen Poe's "The Black Cat" was published in 1843! If this story was written today, the author would probably be thrown in jail for cruelty to animals! 

 

After Lou goes out to the bar and gets all liquored up, he goes back home and Pluto the cat irritates him so much, he, and I really hate to say it, carves the cat's eye out. Now, it's really difficult to think or see anything much grislier than that if you're an animal lover, but after you see this picture of Lou and his knife, you will realize anything is possible! This dude is certifiably nuts!! 

 

So in the world of true poetic justice, I don't know whose sheer genius idea it was, but when Lou goes back to the bar after disfiguring his cat, Scotty and the band all have eye patches covering one eye, and the song written by Scotty himself is entitled  

"Sinner Man"!! 

 

The madness is really starting to kick in. Have another drink Lou, that will fix everything!!! 

 

Scotty's McKay's Bolero Band at the time included Roger Bland, George Jones, Bobby Rambeau and Jerry Boin. Scotty McKay is remembered mostly as a Rockabilly artist, but "Sinner Man" sounds more like Country Joe and The Fish, with it's airy space and noodlin' guitar, than it does like Gene Vincent! 

 

Well, after those incidents, they sent Lou to the Shrink! That didn't work out at first, but............ 

 

He eventually is cured of his mental illness and released back into the public, so now, he's back in the bar, doing what looks like something illegal in 1966 Texas!! 

 

Larry Buchanan regular Annabelle Weenick as the floosie barfly, volunteers to give Lou a spelling lesson, and the music is  

"Gritty, Loose, and Dirty"!!!! 

 

One place cheap movies never cut corners; somehow they always manage to come up with some cool cars!! Lou's ride is no exception!!! 

 

The honeymoon is over, and the cat is out of the bag! If you're really stupid enough to be married to an abusive homicidal maniac, chances are, you're probably both going to end up getting it in the end!! So, that's sorta the saga of Scotty McKay, The Black Cat, and Edgar Allen Poe! A perfect mesh of 1960's Horror movies and Rock & Roll! That's it for Scotty's film career, but there's a lot more of his music out there still, you just gotta track it down, but it will be well worth your effort!! "Crash and Burn"

DR. SATAN / Mexico - 1966 / music by '?'

Tonight, Tabonga have wild and crazy monster music from HELL!.. The way Tabonga like his music! Music that sucker punch you, then start kickin' hard! Rank up there with THE MASK which we already showcase twice! Here's... WORLD OF DR. SATAN! ~ Oh, 'nother 'unknown' composer dude responsible for this stuff! 

 

Joaquin Cordero play DR. SATAN, he bad guy! Tabonga wonder where he get eyes fixed?! Look cool, Tabonga want!! 

 

DR. SATAN go into woods at night and put arms up high... 

 

There, he make lightning flash!.. He pretty powerful dude, you know! 

 

Then, he make Tabonga ex-boss appear!! (Tabonga not work for Devil for 15 years. Now, Tabonga independent contractor!) 

 

Later, Devil sit peacefully on bed in smoky hotel room... 

 

And... BOOOOOOOOOM!!! ...Devil not hurt tho, they cut and keep camera in same position, then start camera again and make big explosion! Look real!.. Movie magic!!

 Zombie dude look like this after one round against 'Big George!' 

 

OOOOOPS!!.. How this photo of Tabonga playroom get in here?!!

 Anyway, DR. SATAN go around makin' dudes into zombies!!.. It seem to make him happy!.. Hey, that look like Goyo in middle!

THE BLACK CAT Part II - Scotty McKay - "Hey Bo Diddley/Brown Eyed Handsome Man" (1966)

 

In Edgar Allen Poe's short story, "The Black Cat", maniac man Lou is a collector of monkeys and exotic birds! 

 

 And also, very true to the story, Lou is a drunken lout! So, he heads off to the bar to drink and just hang out! It is really quite amazing, but if you just take the five minutes or so, that it takes to read this classic story before or after you watch the movie, your appreciation will be multiplied immensely, and you can read that right here! "The Black Cat" by Edgar Allen Poe. It's mesmerising!! 

 

Right about here is where the real fun begins, because, it's only a short story, let's fill the gaps with some music, so it's, Come On Out Scotty McKay!!! Let's not forget this is Texas 1966 and the 13th Floor Elevators are rocking the house somewhere not too far down the road! 

 

The first song we're served up at the club is none other than "Hey, Bo Diddley" written by the late, and the ever so great, Mr. Bo Diddley himself, Ellis McDaniel. Scotty and the boys do a fine job on a great song and add another notch to their own gunslinger credentials! 

 

The party in the bar is swingin'!

 

And by the time Scotty and the boys serve up "Brown Eyed Handsome Man" written by Chuck Berry, Lou is really starting to loosen up. Too bad he's a mean and violent drunk just like Edgar wrote it!! Still, it's a great opportunity to show off Scotty's awesome vocal range!! 

 

If Lou sobers up enough, we'll see you on Friday for the conclusion of the story and our tribute to Max Lipscomb aka Scotty McKay!

(Lycanthropus) WEREWOLF IN A GIRLS' DORMITORY / Royal Film - 1961 / Music by Francis Berman

Tonight Tabonga have sleepiest bar music... EVER!! ~ So, grab pillow and get comfy!.. Can't a guy get drunk in peace?! Sound kinda like 'The Tale Of The Giant Rat Of Sumatra' by Firesign Theatre!! 

 

Hey, might as well have look at pretty gurl while band get warmed up!

 Tabonga like to pretend he that guy there! 

 

Big blond gurlie on left disturb Tabonga a little! 

 

Oh, great, here big jerk trouble maker!!.. He look like trouble maker! 

 

Real fair!.. 19 against 1!!

 Oh, and, don't forget about us sadistic bastards!! 

 

Sure, come on, just step a little closer!.. 

 

...And, you can meet my friend... "Shaggie!!" 

 

Man, dude is UGLY!!!

 Let's you and me wrassle!!

THE BLACK CAT - Scotty McKay (1966)

By the power invested in me, I hereby do decree this week from now and forever to be "Scotty McKay Week!" Okay, I got that out of my system, so why is it "Scotty McKay Week?" That part is kind of free form, but it has a lot to do with the spirit of the unsung independent artist! So, I searched and I searched to find Max Lipscomb, aka Scotty McKay's birthday, and while the March 17, 1991 date of his death is well documented enough, for some unknown reason, the day and the month of his birth are unavailable to find, all there is, is the year 1937!!! So, what's up with that? There's just something there that ain't right here! So, if we don't know the day, how the Hell are we supposed to celebrate this amazing unheralded artist's birthday??? And, that's why and when I decided that everything I do this week will be, to say Happy Birthday Scotty!!! 

Scotty was only in two movies and we've already exploited the other Texas feature "Creature Of Destruction" to the Max, as it were, so that only leaves the 1966 Edgar Allen Poe Texas Classic feature "The Black Cat" 

Here we have Robyn Baker in a pensive mood "Listening To The Radio" in her one, of two roles she ever had, as Diana!! 

And this is Robert Frost in his solo film outing as Lou, the principal player in Poe's nightmare! And truly, what a nightmare it is!!! Now, here's where the fun starts, because this terror terrific film is loaded with music provided by none other than our man, Scotty McKay!!! And we're just getting warmed up because this is just the theme, and some music off of the radio, wait til our hero starts going to the bar, that's when we'll catch back up with Scotty on Wednesday!! 

In the meantime, everybody lift your glasses high, to all the best artists you've never heard of, this one's for Scotty!!! 

Cheers!!!!!