TOTÓ NELLA LUNA - Alexandre Derevitsky - "Totò in the Moon" (1958)

Try looking Totò up on the internet sometime! Besides our main guy here, you'll also come across singers from not only Italy, but also Haiti, and Columbia! There's a Swiss hockey player and a Mafia boss, and everyone knows about Dorthy's little dog in "The Wizard Of Oz" and the schlocky 70's pop band, and the new kid in town in "Gamera The Brave," but did you know there's a town in Indiana named Toto, and also one in Angola, it's a primitive tribe in India, and not to forget, it's also Spanish profanity for female genitalia in the Dominican Republic!!

Just how popular was Totò?? Follow that link to an awesome page of posters and lobby cards covering the amazing array of the man's films to find out!!! Semplicemente Fantastico!!!!

Great dialogue or is it all in the translation?!

Adding Italian bombshell Sylva Koscina into the mix, and then blowing her clothes off in this lab scene gone bad, was an excellent idea!!

Since this is also a story about a science fiction author, we get some cool imagery like this neato space spider!!!

Let's see, "Invasion Of The Body Snatchers" came out in 1956, two years before this film! Umm!

The Pod Creature is born!!!

Truer words have never been translated!!

These guards are supposed to be working, but besides the two six packs they drank, they also look extremely stoned!!

Dude runs around butt naked for what seemed like about half of the movie! More great dialogue!!!

The music for this film was composed by a gentleman named Alexandre Derevitsky, working this time out as Alessandro Derevitsky. It doesn't really rock or swing, but you needed to know about this film anyway, so who cares?! Alex had a couple of other cool titles under his belt like "Hercules' Revenge" and my favorite translation, "My Pal Dr. Jekyll." So without further distraction, here's just a taste of, not the Man, but "Totò In The Moon"!!!!

Totò and the Pod Creature are sent to the Moon by accident, and meet with the supreme being!

Totò laments about all the good times he's going to miss, and it's very sad until they transform the Pod Creature into a companion for him!

Totò didn't like that first version at all, but was very happy in the end with the final transformation, and doesn't care about going back to Earth ever again!! So, Es Todo for real!!!!!

ALIEN CONTAMINATION / Italy + W. Germany - 1980 / Music by GOBLIN

Welcome back to SATURDAY AFTERNOON FLICK from The Dungeon. Today we has a strange one from 1980, kinda ALIEN 2 ripoff. ALIEN Egg on Earth and takin' over from base in Columbia where they grow in banana field... Forever!! Original title wuz CONTAMINATION, USA video release has title TOXIC SPAWN!

Music by interesting group, GOBLIN, which consist of 13 different guy and 1 gurl over 25 year span! Good stuff for Saturday Afternoon Flick!

Tabonga' pet gnat Piff is buzzing around, so time for lil' guy to press giant GO button and start afternoon soundclip. So, ready, set... EXPLODIN' FLYIN' FLESH HEMOGOBLINS!! Now, lots-o eye an' ear candy for you enjoyment!

Thing not going that great on coffee ship from Columbia!.. Blech!

This pic for Dungeon special gurlfiend Darfish... Green egg an' ham!

I'm freezing my freaking balls off here!!

Get ready to blow up poor little white mouse!

Dude diserve to es'plode!

Hmmmmm!.. That look kinda familiar!!

Raise right hand if think this is good helmet design! Dude all hypnotize by egg an' act like not in some flick!

They actually film part of flick in Columbia!

Egg collectors look like weird ant running around in banana field! Maybe is Easter?!

Stella and Tony get capture by bad guy Martian clone egg man, or whatever. Anyway, Tony has to go meet the monster hisself and now he all hypnotize too!! Not lookin' too gut for the Tonster!

Yep, Tony not gonna make it to end of flick! Suppose to make you upset, but you no care! BFD... At least you finally get to see monster!

Ian kickin' ass!.. Yeehaw!!

Then, Stella turn. But, Ian come in and break up monster good times!

Ian shoot and WTF?!

Then, bad guy blow up and fall down! Game over!!

Lovers Ian and Stella look at star and talk about future... Meanwhile, flick end wif' EGG in garbage in New York City!!

Eegah!! bring you more surprise on Monday! Be there or be big square knucklehead!!

THE CASTLE OF FU MANCHU - Carlos Camilleri & Malcom Shelby - "Assignment Istanbul " (1969)

We got a special film for you tonight titled "The Castle Of Fu Manchu", a real favorite of our buddy Professor Grewbeard over at the "Magic Carpet Burn" blog! (If for some unknown reason, you have never visited his blog, boy, are you missing out. The link is over yonder!)

Here's what I've got to say about Christopher Lee as Fu Manchu! The two letters that make up his first name are F U!! What more do you need to know? Isn't it just quite obvious why he is bent on world domination!!

Fu Manchu has the power to ruin your day, if he so decides, and he doesn't even have to be there, he can do it via long distance!! The music for this film was composed by virtual unknowns Carlos Camilleri and Malcomb Shelby! It was Malcom's solo outing and Carlos wrote for one other film two years earlier, " The House Of 1000 Dolls."

Just like in four other Fu Manchu movies, Tsai Chin as sidekick Lin Tang watches on approvingly! She is still active and working today!!

The Prof would agree that this is one of Jesus Franco's weakest directorial outings! The elements we need and expect just are not there!! Where's the cool club scene and music? This movie really does look like it was just done for a paycheck!! Four Fu Manchu movies would have been plenty!!

We do get treated to a bunch of weird shots, like this very impressive quadrature gauge!

Weird phallic gravestones and one that looks like the end of a tube of toothpaste, or maybe the back of the head of Johnny Roventini, the 1950's "Calling Phillip Morris" bellhop kid!

Would this be considered a ring or just a weird pinkie protector finger decoration??

Looks and smells like Jess Franco, but tastes like television!!!

This is a rare film in the fact that you don't really have to actually watch it, because this poster tells the whole story!!

Fu Manchu has his own in house Healthcare system set up for his employees!!! Next!!!!

The F U Man watches over each and every one of us, all of the time, making life easy, so we don't have to worry about it!!

Now that you all feel safe, go on out, and have yourself a mighty fine weekend!!