THE INVISIBLE HUMAN And THE FLY MAN / Daiei Studios Japan - 1957 / Music by Tokujiro Okubo

What Tabonga can say about tonight flick??..

WHOA!!.. That what!

Original Japan title go like 'Tômei ningen to hae otoko.' Music dude Mr. Okubo start composing for flick in 1939, but he only have 12 credit, and this his last one!! He know Japan sci-fi sounds for sure though! So, here we go... BUG vs DUDE!

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Since Tabonga not speak Japanese Tabonga not really sure what going on with flick except there is science dude with cool lab and making invisible machine... Oh, and guy like to smoke!!

Have sexy dance gurlz though!! Tabonga give flick A+! Gurlie top defy explanation!!

Next to gurlz, this Tabonga favorite still!

Invisible Dude showing off! He have real weird sense of humor!!

When Tabonga watch he want be Fly Guy too. Have big dividends!!

"Going invisible!"

Fly Guy very creative. Now he looking up gurlz' skirts!

GOO'NIGHT EVERBLOODY 'n' HAPPY HALLOWEENIE!!

EL MONSTRUO DE LOS VOLCANES (The Monster Of The Volcano) - Sergio Guerrero - "Homenaje A El Gordo" (1963)

Really, I'm not kidding this time, Happy Halloween y Feliz Día de Todos los Santos!!!! AAiieeeaahhhhiieee!!!!

Not to be confused with the 1955 Japanese release "Gojira No Gyakushû" (The Volcano Monster), a Godzilla film, Oh, No, tonight's feature is the 1963 Mexican film "El Monstruo De Los Volcanes," or as we affectionately know it, "The Monster Of The Volcano" or as it is sometimes referred to, "The Big White Fuzzy Stupid-Looking Thing That Looks Like It Escaped From Sesame Street!!!"

This movie has practically everything you could want from a movie! It's got girls!!

It's got action!!

And even more action!!!


And it's got "El Gordo Blanco" also known to his amigos as "Fatso!"

"Hey baby, how about a hug???"

They actually pushed 'El Gordo de los Volcanes' off a cliff at the end, I didn't really get it!!!!

With Original Music by Sergio Guerrero, who not only did a lot of music for Mexican masked wrassler lucha libre and horror flicks, but also for some of those all-time classic titles like "Pancho Tequila", "The Princess Hippie" and "Rebels A Go-Go!" Born in 1921, Maestro Sergio just passed away in the beginning of this year, but at least we have his music to remember him by!!

THE GIANT CLAW / Columbia - 1957 / Music by Mischa Bakaleinikoff

Tonight we have some classic 'schlock.' When the big-wigs at Columbia saw the final cut, they basically had a big heart attack!! Part of the movie had been farmed out to a Mexican company for creation of the space vulture and the filming of it's parts including the models. Columbia execs were expecting something closer to FORBIDDEN PLANET! Instead, what they got was a pretty damn good Mexican monster flick!

Seriously, you can't get a title card better than that!! The awesome Mischa Bakaleinikoff is our music conductor for this title. Mischa has 148 composing and... get this!.. 402 credits from the music department! WOW!!.. Now, give a listen to tonight's classic offering... Big Bird and Small Talk!!

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There are 7 uncredited composers that contributed to this project including Max Steiner and Marlin Skiles!

Jeff Morrow plays Mitch MacAfee, the pilot who first saw the bird. He says "Its as big as a battleship!" even though it didn't show up on radar! Then, we also have the beautiful Mara Corday playing Sally Caldwell. Both actors have already been featured here at The Dungeon! The second still shows Mitch's weird theory about a spiral pattern the bird is flying, because that the placement of the X'es correspond to where the thing had been sighted!.. Looks like a straight line to me! Did they have LSD in 1957?!

Here's Mitch and Sally as they mix love with space monsters at his bachelor pad!

Nice series of stills, and, it happens to more than just this guy!

Get real, how in the hell's that thing gonna help??

I love these posed shots as people at the beach watch the space bird pass overhead!

A good 'n' ugly shot of the thing as it... err... she works on a nest!

Great stuff here as the teens race along the highway, they have a salt shaker so they can put salt on the tail of the big bad bird if it comes around!.. What a setup!!

I'd bet that these three shots show the reason for some of the angst the producers felt as they sat there watching this turkey! Top pic shows the hot rod on a string before a firecracker blows it up! The second still shows the bird flying away holding a string of train cars!!! Those would be hot dogs in any cartoon!

Mitch finally gets his infernal 'anti-matter' demolisher working, so, they mount it in the rear end of a WW II bomber! Get this, the Generals take over the piloting job! Those were real men back then! And, no wonder, that's Robert Shayne and Morris Ankrum there!

VIOLENT MIDNIGHT - Wilford L. Holcombe - "Psychomania" - Molly Scott - "Black Autumn" (1963)

Seems like everybody knows about the Del Tenney produced and directed films like "The Horror Of Party Beach", "Curse Of The Living Corpse" and "Zombies" aka "I Eat Your Skin", but you don't hear a lot about this film, "Violent Midnight", that he didn't direct, but was the producer for!! Made the year before his other films, Del must have spent a lot of time on the set with director Richard Hilliard, honing his directorial skills. Richard Hilliard besides writing this film, also wrote and was the cinematographer for "The Horror Of Party Beach."

Here's the basic premise, you've got an artist who's not right in the head because he shot his father, you've got a violent hothead rebel, an old teacher pervert, and a school full of girls, and somebody is going around killing people!! It's greasy and sleazy and really quite the twisted tale!! Kaye Elhardt has the role of the very statuesque model Dolores!!!

James Farentino was actually prettier than Sylvia Miles!!!

The last time I wrote about Del's "The Horror Of Party Beach," I was lamenting what a shame it was that the cool rockin' bar music in the background of the two drunks scene was barely audible, now I know why!! They had used that same music originally in this film only a year earlier as a recurring theme, so now, we get to hear an extended version of the music loud and clear, and even including some cool horn breaks and sax solos!! The music here is credited to one Wilford L. Holcombe who also got credits on "Curse Of The Living Corpse" and Richard Hilliard's other non-horror outing, "Wild Is My Love" but Wilford didn't get any credit for "The Horror Of Party Beach" for some reason!! So, Here You Go!!! it's one of my favortie pieces of Music From The Monster Movies and a genuine treat for all you guys and ghouls!

All right, what do we have here? The artist actually kicks the biker rebel's ass!! It will come back to haunt him just as you would suspect when James as Charlie Peron sneaks up later and smacks Elliot upside the head with a two by four!!

Although having acting on a bit of TV, this movie was the film debut for both James Farentino and Dick Van Patten! As a matter of fact, they have a fight scene, and Dick Van Patten throws a pretty good punch!

Dick's got one of the coolest cop cars ever, a 1959 Chevy!!

So Dolores the model got murdered, and Dick had to go to James' grimy apartment to question him! You can see Sylvia is there to back up his story!!

Lee Phillips does a great job as Elliot Freeman! Here he waits for his sister to arrive on the train! Great portrait of the artist!!!

Meanwhile back at the school, the Professor does some learning himself!! Seems he's very interested in the subject of anatomy!!

Wow, those are some swim suits!!! The gal on the left is Sheila Forbes as Janet 'Lolita' Terhune and, the gal on the right is Margot Hartman as Elliott's bland sister Lynn Freeman!!

Along with some of the gals at the school, this place is kind of developing a bad reputation!!!

James gets very lucky and gets to hook up with bad girl blonde bombshell Lorraine Rogers as Alice more than once, and it's not hard to figure that she's going to be trouble!!

This film also included an appearance by prominent 60's folksinger Molly Scott, who you can read all about at her site! She also has a ton of cool fotos and stuff, but for some strange reason, I didn't see any reference to her appearance in this movie. I guess it wasn't her proudest moment, but we like it!!! Molly is a very fascinating person, and still quite active today, so for an xtra special treat, go check out her 'sound of light'!!! Your head might just fall off!! Here she performs another alternative title to this film, "Black Autumn"!!!

James is just a little ticked off at Sylvia, so he rips off her earrings as a sign of affection!!! Her face is almost distorted to 'Jokeresque' proportions!!!

I sure prefer the alternate title "Psychomania", that really describes it well!! This movie is available on Netflix and Amazon and should be in your library too. 5 Thumbs Up!!! Who do you think the killer is???