ONNA KYUKETSUKI aka VAMPIRE MAN / Japan - 1959 / Music by Hisashi Iuchi

Happy Givingthanks Everbloody Day from Dungeon crew ~ Tonight is very nice flick from 1959 Japan. Tabonga totally recommend this one!!

Mr. Iuchi only compose music for this one flick! He was in music department in 1944!!! And, he produce two flick in 1952!.. That's it!.. Total!!

Listen now to great stuff though... VAMPIRE MAN! Get this! Alternate title: THE LADY VAMPIRE!!

Everything start with excellent oil painting in art museum. Wow, Vampire Man pretty danged debonair dude! Anyway, he interested in lady in painting for personal reason!..

Okay, here is where get really weird!.. He turn into Vampire Man when he see full Moon!!!.. Yeah, Moon, go figure!!

Of course, he like gurlz too much an' he like to bite!

Vampire Man kidnap lady in painting and turn her into Lady Vampire! He have lil' servant who help him out. Lil' dude name... Tiny!!

Vampire Man have Gurlie Vampire too, but he want Lady Vampire for Queen because painting get him all hot!

Eventually hero and cops find hidden lair in boulder on mountain!

To prove Tabonga have sense of humor, here is 'funny' series of photo.

Make Tabonga chuckle!

At end, Vampire Man turn into old yucky dude so he jump into boiling water spring in basement and die!.. Monster lose again!!

THE NEANDERTHAL MAN - Albert Glasser - "Uptight Ape" (1953)

In my humble opinion, "The Neanderthal Man" is missing something bigtime when you compare him with some other primitive heroes, like, let's say, "Eegah!!" Here's the basic problem, he's not a real caveman, he's just a monkey, he's a scientist, Professor Richard Groves, played by Robert Shayne, aka Inspector Henderson in the 1952 TV Superman series, who turned himself into a caveman via chemicals, and that makes a big difference!!!

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He just lacks the savoir-faire that cave dudes should have, and despite the fact that he looks like a real lover on the lobby card, he really doesn't even like women or girls, except to kill, of course!

Game warden George Oakes played by Robert long gets quite a scare when the sabre-tooth tiger jumps on his hood!! It's at this point that composer Albert Glasser, gets to slip in a little swing as music on the radio! It's funny how Albert's scores are usually pretty straight ahead BIG orchestrations like this theme, but he always tries to sneak in a 30 second jive piece somewhere!!

So, really, what was director Ewald André Dupont and everybody else who had anything to do with this movie possibly thinking when they allowed the various pieces of footage of the 'sable-tooth tiger' be viewed? In one scene, it's obviously a normal striped tiger, then when it attacks the game warden in his car, WTF, it's a big cuddly-lookin' stuffed animal. Back then, they could just flash crap on the screen and get away with it, but catch that one frame and it really makes you realize, just exactly how much they did get away with!! Amazing!!

For your holiday treat, in 1947, Doris Merrick seen here as Ruth Marshall, the Professor's fiancé, was in a movie called "The Pilgrim Lady!"

My favorite movies are always when normal women are so blinded by love that they can't see that their fiancé is totally out of this world, and over the top insane!! Here she playfully musses the Professor's hair in an attempt to get some attention!! He doesn't mind or care!!

Feeling like this was what was really on his mind. Testosterone gone mad, but this make-up job was a much better look than that mask!!!

And on top of all that, that mask wouldn't have looked so bad in a low light situation, but, what is it with those eyes? I don't care if it's 1953, they could have done something better than that!

The old Doc is looking just a little worn out after his latest killin' spree, and transformation back to human. Talk about a hangover!!!

Beverly Garland as Nola Mason, the waitress, is gorgeous in this early role that was her first Monster Movie appearance!!

Here she's being used as a model in a pre-attack photo shoot!!

Trust me, there is no cave there, you just find a place in the shadows and walk away from it!!

One of the more interesting parts of this film is the use of Tandra Quinn, who we know from her role and dance in "The Mesa Of Lost Women" as Tarantella! Here as Celia, the housekeeper she communicates with to co-stars Joyce Perry and Richard Crane!

This is an outstanding makeup job by Dungeon Hero, Harry Thomas! That good ole Professor Groves experimented on Celia before he tried it on himself!! Nice guy cut from the same Whit Bissell School of Dirty S.O.B's! Always in the name of science!!!! The special effects were attributed to Jack Rabin!! What an all-star crew!!!

What a great lookin' posse, 3rd from the left character actor Robert Easton stood a bit taller than his fellow actors and was used quite often as a hick, which is funny, since he has an extra high IQ! In 1956, he played a soldier named Ackerman of all things, in the movie "Hold Back The Night." Robert is still active today and just had his 78th birthday a couple of days ago on November 23, the day before another Ackerman!

LAS MUJERES PANTERAS aka PANTHER WOMEN / Mexico - 1967 / Music by Antonio Díaz Conde

Tonight Tabonga present cool flick from land o' the Tequila worm! Gots everything!.. Gurlz, wrassling, science, gurlz, hero, mummy, gurlz, panther, night club, gurlz, vintage car, fist fight and gurlz!

Music guru Mr. Conde have 267 composing credit that include these monster flick: DOCTOR OF DOOM, WRESTLING WOMEN vs THE AZTEC MUMMY, SHADOW OF THE BLACK HAND, NIGHT OF THE BLOODY APES, SANTO, NEUTRON and more!!

Interesting theme, and Eegah!! include great ending too!!... READY, SET, GO! PANTHER WOMEN!!

Wrassling!..

Night Club!..

Hero and Science!..

One freakin' ugly Mummy!!..

Peeping Tom!..

Wrassling Panther Gurlz!..

...With sharp claw!

Panther Gurl run away and hide in tree!.. Hey, no wonder she Panther Gurl, panther climb tree too!! One minute later she get shot and she die!

Then Loreta Venus and Golden Rubi make Panther Gurl' mommie talk!

~ FORRY RULES!!!

YOSEI GORASU (Gorath) - Kan Ishii - "Good Luck Drink" (1962)

Six years after "Godzilla," it was time for director Ishirô Honda to make a movie without a real monster, but instead to deal with the reality, that the only real monster on Earth, is the human race, and we do a pretty good job of it, too!! There actually was a giant walrus designed by the master Eiji Tsuburaya in this film, but it was of less than secondary nature and deleted from all but the Japanese versions of the film!

"Gorath" is not a monster itself, but instead, an out of control runaway planet on a collision course with Earth!! Before the movie really gets going, the first crew is already subjected to an honorable but unnecessary death!

You gotta love the fact that someone thought they needed to translate "Hey!"

Cool entrance to "The Spaceport!" So, it's 1962 and in Japan, all they drive are American cars, boy, how times have changed!!

An actor Kan Ishii, who composed the score for this film was actually just a classical composer whose main gig was not film!! Now, I've done a bit a research, and so far I can't really find out what's going on with these guys singing these songs, first it's the crew of the helicopter, as it flies merrily along...........

And then again, in the club scene, it's my new favorite song, "Hey!!" I don't know what it is, but I really like that song, very spirited like some kind of allegiance to life, or maybe just to drinking! Who cares? How can you possibly resist a song that spunky?? It's all too surreal with off kilter vocals, a polkaesque beat and some very snappy horns! Damn, I wish it was longer!! Take what you can get!! At least they're dealing with the end of the world much better than the people in "Day The Earth Caught Fire!"

Uh-Oh, running out of time!!!

Hard to get a good shot of Magma, the giant walrus, but at least you can see kinda see how big he really was, in the background, as these guys run away!!

Eternity!! That's a wrap!!

Today is Forrest J. Ackerman's 92nd Birthday!! Wow!! Happy Birthday Forry!!