Friday, August 14, 2009

SLIPSTREAM - "Im Not Takin' You In!" (1989)

Whoa! Thursday The 13th went by before I even noticed, I think it's from all this gazing into the future, of which tonight is no exception! From a completely different angle, and 53 years later after "Things To Come" the future is lookin' even weirder than ever in "Slipstream," A title that stirred many an author's fancy I sense, as there were at least 4 more movies made with the exact same title, but not content, in 1967 (Spielberg), 1973 (DJ movie featuring the music of Derek & The Dominoes, and Van Morrison), 2005 (Sci-Fi), and again in 2007 (Anthony Hopkins writes, directs, acts & get this, wrote the music)!! And we thought we could copyright the title "The Creep!" Right!!!

This film has it all in some form or another! There's homage to Alfred(Yesterday, August 13th would have been his birthday!)!

Are you sure this is the future? Looks more like "Biker Babylon Ride" to me! I just recently watched this movie, and it was a real love/hate relationship, but despite all the bad elements, it had enuf good stuff that it wasn't a total waste of time!! Yet somehow, it's slipped all right, almost into total obscurity. They had it all, the director was Steve Lisberger, the guy who directed "Tron!"

Cast members included names like Mark Hamill, Bill Paxton, Ben Kingsley, F. Murray Abraham, Bob Peck, and Rico Ross, and yet it just wasn't a future that the public was willing to buy, literally, and I'm also not sure they were ready to accept Mark Hamill in this total A-hole role!!

Tasker and Byron fly through the Slipstream and even further into the future!

Here's just a small sample from "SLIPSTREAM" to whet your appetite, from the genius mind of composer Elmer Berstein, with just a taste of Then Jericho thrown in for good measure. The film also utilized some music by The Yardbirds, Nana Vasconcelos, and the ultra swank "Barefootin'" by Robert Parker, if you can scrape up a soundtrack somewhere, it'd probably be a bargain!!

This future location includes all the essentials like Lottsa Booze, Hot Tubs, Frisbees, and Rubber Duckies! Yeehah!!

As they go from one location to the next, there's some neat shots, and also a whole bunch of real 'dusty' shots, as the wind whips thru the slipstream!

But the real action lies beyond these doors, this is where all the rich, cool and/or overly educated people ended up, and it ain't Hell, imagine that!!

As a matter of fact, it looks a lot like an underground Hearst Castle!

This film is smart at times, like this scene where even an android can face his past!

The champagne flows like water, but sometimes the oxygen is a little scarce!!

In the future, every day is going to be like a Happy New Year's Eve party!

And a place, where even an android can fall in love!!! Aaahhh!!!!

"I said, I'm not takin' you in!"

Way too much going on, but we can't forget Kitty Aldridge as Mark Hamill's pardner, Belitski! She's so sweet and nice, it's worth watching the movie just to see her get one in the chops!!
Used DVDs of "Slipstream" are available on Amazon.com for a penny plus shipping!!! It's really quite a bit better than that, but that pretty much says it all!!!

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

THINGS TO COME / British - 1936 / Music by Arthur Bliss


Tonight Dungeon bring you British gem donut from 1936! Story AND screenplay by the awesome Mr. H. G. Wells!!.. Then you have William Cameron Menzies who also direct THE SPIDER (1931), THE THIEF OF BAGDAD, INVADERS FROM MARS and THE MAZE!! Also, star Raymond Massey, Edward Chapman, Ralph Richardson, Margaretta Scott and Cedric Hardwicke. A few uncredited actor are George Sanders, Terry-Thomas and Pickles Livingston!!

Music is by Arthur Bliss, he only have seven composing credit and end up doing Brit TV. Two other project he work on... CONQUEST OF THE AIR and WAR IN THE AIR!

Tabonga' pet tarantula Ralphie studying German so want tonight soundclip title auf Deutsch, zooooo, hier ist.. DINGEN ZU KOMEN! In glorious b/w!

Oh, an' they misspell title card... 'THINCS' TO COME?!

H. G. fairly observant dude!

Whoa, look, Cyclotram tank!!!


War leave countryside wif' big black eye!

Then, invaded by Martians!!.. Oh, err... Wrong flick!

Parachute dude from future freakin' rules!!

GER... RON... NA... MO!!

Working in coal mine, going down down!

Super-science is super-impressive... Bottom pic show giant machine that can put big wall up on high-rise building!

Hmmm, look very similiar to Krell undergorund power plant!!

Morlock move to underground where nice an'... Wait, no, wrong flick again... So, science dude make big underground super-mall!

Eegah!!.. 1936!!!

Brumm.. Brumm! Eeee!.. Whummmm.. Whummmmmmmmm... Honk, honk!.. Dude, where you learn how to drive?!

Lock 'n' load!

Fashion conscious guy have best job in future! (Letraset on clear lucite)

Angry masses try to stop space shot, but too late and giant gun fire! Raymond Massey watch as rocket fly into unknown void of space in name of science and mankind!!

Nice plug!

Monday, August 10, 2009

CRAZE - John Scott - "Demon Idolatry" (1974)

Tonight's feature is "CRAZE", and trust me, you would not want to be around me tonight, because I'm about as crazed as I can get, and here's the reason why!!! Have you yet heard of the Jackson/Fawcett virus? One guy called it "Extortion-Ware," but I think you could add "Destruction-Ware" to that byline also, and why nobody's going out talking about this damned thing, I have no idea, because it's one destructive MoFo! Supposedly if you search Michael or Farrah fotos, and you hit on the wrong site, it's all over! It even replaces your desktop wallpaper with a warning that you have a virus, and they want $130.00 for their continually popping up software to set your shit straight and let you have your computer back!!! It was my kid's computer, and I've spent the last two days re-installing Windows, and it even fried one of the network adapter slots. It takes your computer and turns it into a drooling out of control piece of garbage, not unlike tonight's movie!

I really didn't like "Craze" much or even have a good copy of it, plus along with everything else, I just don't care right now!!! Even the sound was real muddy compared to our normal High-Fidelity AM sound!

I will tell you this much, I'll watch anything with Jack Palance in it, but this wasn't easy or good!!!

Here's the info that hurts me the most, this film is directed by Dungeon Director Hero, Freddie Francis, and the music contained within was written and possibly partially performed by musical genius John Scott! John maybe has the most massive body of work of any composers we've written about (Oh, Boy, I hope we don't get in trouble for this one), and one of the biggest bios I've ever seen on Imdb.com! Dig this, John Scott was the cat that played the flutes on The Beatles' "You've Got To Hide Your Love Away" and that's probably one of his smaller accomplishments!!! Composer, Producer, Musician and leader of a Jazz Band, John Scott is one amazing story all unto himself, and if life was fair his name would be a common household word!!! Oh, yeah, and don't forget, "Craze" was produced by none other than Herman Cohen!!! WTF went wrong here anyhow???

You can tell from these POV shots that it's one of Freddie's films all right!!

"Craze" also included starlets Julie Ege and Suzy Kendall, and OMG, what happened to Diana Dors? Now, I need a drink, too!! Who said life was fair?? It sure as Hell wasn't me!!

Here's Jack gazing into the future, looking toward his next role!!

"Finish your drink, I want to talk to you!!!"

Cheers!!! Be careful where you tread!!!

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