EL SECRETO DEL DR. ORLOFF - Fernando García Morcillo & Daniel White - "Dr. Orloff's Monster" (1964)

A little over a year ago, a reader of this blog, a fine gentleman and a scholar, known as Matango, turned me on to the fantastic music in "Dr. Orloff's Monster", and I thought he was going to do a guest spot, but we've seemed to have lost contact, so Howard, wherever you are, this one's for you Buddy!

And I quote Matango, "In Jess Franco's "El secreto de Dr. Orloff"(better known in English as "Dr. Orloff's Monster" or "The Mistresses of Dr. Jekyll"), the songs are credited to Fernando Garcia Morcilla. Daniel White wrote the main score and incidental music, and Franco himself plays jazz piano in a couple of cameos."

The dancer is these opening scenes looks like she has her drawers on backwards or maybe both legs in one hole!

I think Jesus left the room for a minute or two, and someone told her to just stare right at the camera for awhile!!!

Introducing Hugo Blanco as 'The Monster,' not Morpho, but Andros this time!! This curdled Vaseline look is odd at best!! Still, just as you would expect, Andros is a vicious killer zombie creature kinda guy with a penchant for singers and dancers, of course!!

I'm not quite sure what the name of this first victim is, we'll just call her Miss Plumber. Doesn't make much difference, her part in this movie is over already!!

Okay, freakin' Dr Orloff or Dr Jekyll as some people know him, is a weirdo, but he has this ultra cool castlefied pad. At this point, his niece Melissa has just arrived to spend some quality time with what's left of the family!!

This is Marcelo Arroita-Jáuregui as the devious Dr. Conrad Jekyll! (The whole Orloff/Jekyll thing is very confusing, I mean this guy is not Dr. Jekyll, he never changes into anything, but he's just always an ass or an oaf of grandiose proportions!)

Pastor Serrador as Inspector Sneezy Klein, the guy in charge of investigating all the murders, blows his way through the whole film!!

In this scene, Melissa's despondent boyfriend lines up martinis, trying to figure out what in the heck is going down at the Jekyll Madhouse!!

Matango writes "Dr. Orloff's Monster was Franco's followup to "Gritos En La Noche/The Awful Dr. Orloff." The two songs presented here mark the beginning of his fascination with over-long nightclub scenes that don't advance the plot." (But we sure love the music!!!)

I thought the lyrics translated a little better than that!!!

"Pepita Que Horror"--------"The harsh buzzing noise in "Pepita que horror" is the sound of the electronic transmitter in the diamond necklace that Orloff's monster Andros uses to find the girl he's supposed to abduct."

"Haciendo Realidad"------"Haciendo Realidad" is captured from the French dub, because the dialog is less distracting that way!"

Jess at the piano again, this time as an intellectual musician with a taxidermist girlfriend, who is about to become the next victim!!

Matango says "The movie is well worth watching -- a very stylish Eurogothic horror, with a bigger budget and less sleaze than Jesus Franco's later films. The only thing missing is a star like Howard Vernon or Klaus Kinski."

Agnès Spaak as Jekyll's neice Melissa is Hot!! She's stong, innocent, and differently beautiful all at the same time, and she just turned 65 a couple of months ago!! And now, even I have to go searching, because in 1966(a fantastic year) Agnès was in some dang Spy movie entitled "Baraka Sur X 13!" and I just gotta see it!!!

Dad???

GRITOS EN LA NOCHE - The Awful Dr. Orloff - José Pagán & Antonio Ramírez Ángel - "Cries In The Night" (1962)

To call Dr. Orloff awful is quite the understatement to be true, I'm thinking a bit harsher vocabulary would be in order, something like reprehensible, intolerable, insufferable or maybe even downright inexcusable would be more like it, because he's one very bad cat!!

So the movie starts right off when Ricardo Valle as Morpho(the kids in school used to call him Mofo), Dr. Orloff's creature/monster buddy, follows this drunk whore home, hides in her closet, kills her, and takes her home to the good doctor, so he can use her skin to fix up his daughter who is horribly disfigured! All the while the music stumbles and rumbles along in another wild and wonderful cacophony of Jesus Franco madness gone sane!

It's amazing what you used to be able to get away with in a small town!!

Nice combo! That would be stand-up bass, fiddle, trumpet, accordian, and none other than Jess Franco sitting at the piano!!

The remarkable talents of Howard Vernon are once again put to good use, as Orloff uses the whole pretense of trying to help his daughter as a good excuse to get away from her, and go hang out in the local bars! He also has a real penchant for booze & singers!!!

Then, he sends Morpho out to take care of the dirty business!!!

So it's no wonder, and it makes for some pretty good sick comedy, that when the local authorities try to get a sketch made of the killer, they keep getting two completely different descriptions, because half the people describe Orloff, and half of them describe Morpho!!!

You just have to wonder how Morpho finds the time, and then manages to tie his tie so perfectly, actually, he's quite dapper in appearance, but it's not quite enough to make up for for the bad complexion, those googly eyes, and the total lack of personality!!

Finally, we get down to the final victim, who Morpho seems to like enough to become some kind of mammalian octopus, and kind of forgets what he is really supposed to be doing!!

Now we're getting close to The End!!

If you could see the rest of this picture, you would notice that for good reason, Dr. Orloff, isn't smiling!!!

THE APE / Monogram Pictures - 1940 / Music by Edward J. Kay

Herro everbloody, tonight we gots a decent lil' flick from 1940 and star Dungeon King Boris Karloff. He is typical misunderstood scientist, Dr. Adrian, on verge of great discovery for mankind, but nobody like him and call him 'unethical' because of something in dubious past. Screenplay by THE WOLFMAN writer Curt Siodmak and from a play by Adam Shirk!

Circus music is nutty and wild. Music dude Edward J. Kay have mindboggling 328 music department credit from 1936-58... Daaaaang!! Here are some titles he work on: WOLF CALL, TOMBOY, DOOMED TO DIE, QUEEN OF THE YUKON, KING OF THE ZOMBIES, FRECKLES COMES HOME, GHOST TOWN LAW, POLICE BULLETS, COSMO JONES, CRIME SMASHER, KID DYNAMITE, GHOSTS ON THE LOOSE, REVENGE OF THE ZOMBIES, CAMPUS RHYTHM, GHOST GUNS, CAPTAIN TUGBOAT ANNIE, MR. MUGGS RIDES AGAIN, JIGGS AND MAGGIE OUT WEST, GHOST CHASERS, JET JOB, FEUDIN' FOOLS, JOHNNY ROCCO, and on, and on, and on! Helluva cool job if you could land it!

Tabonga' pet gnat Piff breathing down Tabonga' neck because it his turn to press big old GO BUTTON for tonight' soundclip! Hit it lil' Piffer!!.. DON'T APE ME, MAN! WHEEEEEE!!!

Oh boy, circus comin' to town! Tabonga wonder if 'Lil' Circus Guy' gonna be there?

Everbloody hate Dr. Adrian! He catch bad boy throwing rock at house!

Clown running around in circle for 10 minutes very captivating back in old day! Today?... Just embarrassing!

Wow, exciting.

After everbloody go the hell home, time to relax before nightie-night!

Dude like to torment THE APE, so APE do some well diserved payback on card carrying jerkface! Best part of flick to be sure!!! Crash (IT, THE TERROR FROM BEYOND SPACE) Corrigan play THE APE!

Then, exit stage left!! (funnier if you imagine Snaggletooth saying line, e-ven!)

Lady and germ, presenting... Mr. Total Ass Hole of 1940!!

Dr. Adrian trying to help cure poor gurl Frances, who have polio!

THE APE show up at doctor' house and he want to hurt sumbloody! Then, Dr. Adrian actually stab and kill THE APE!! During scuffle, THE APE knock over all special spinal fluid serums for miracle polio cure!.. Oh, crap, now what is doctor going to do?!

Okay, chec-kit out! Everfreakingbloody have a hat!!!

Maybe good plan to get more spinal fluid is... Skin THE APE and make costume for disguise, then THE APE get blame for murder, not doctor... Hey, not bad, might work!!

But, thing not work out too good and doc get shot!

Frances come and she so sad for the doctor she stand up and walk, and Dr. Adrian get to see result of his work before he die...

Hey, where THE APE costume go?!