L'UOMO MECCANICO - "The Mechanical Man" (1921)

"The Mechanical Man" is a short trip and it's easy to get to! Not a whole lot is known about this Italian film written and directed by André Deed, who passed away back in 1938. Only about 40% of it was ever salvaged, and the quality ain't that great, but just seeing a robot back in 1921 is pretty cool, albeit almost unwatchable at times. This film is available on Netflix, and quite worthy of inclusion in your que!

I'm only giving you a small snippet of the music by Rachel Gutches that was added to this 2005 re-release to give you a feel for it!

" A reign of terror is unleashed by The Mechanical Man, who is remotely controlled by Mado, the evil female mastermind!"

The Mechanical Man chases this dude, and when he hides in this closet, he picks up the whole thing and tosses it off the top of the building!!

"The mayhem continues unchecked" as The Mechanical Man bursts into these gal's apartment and steals their safe by pulling it straight out of the wall!!

It's right about this point in the film where you say to yourself, okay, this Mechanical Man is big and tough, but he's so slow and lumbering, I could get away from him real easy! The next thing you know, he's chasing these people in their car and the freakin' robot is running!!

The Mechanical Man trips and falls down and is destroyed so Mado and her henchmen have to come and pick him up and take him away!!

The next thing you know, The Mechanical Man shows up at a masked ball at the opera house, and everybody is scared at first!

But what do you know? He's a nice guy now, and he toasts champagne with all the party peoples!

The Mechanical Man starts having a little too much fun at this young lady's expense, and when she puts a halt to his advances, he gets pissed off and starts busting up the man's place!

All Hell breaks out now, and The Mechanical Man takes off with his new girlfriend. This has to stop so, the original inventor's brother makes another Mechanical Man, and there's a big throw down between the two robots!!

Behind the scenes, the evil Mado controls her robot!!

And the brother controls the other one, in what is, without a doubt.......

The first ever televised pay-per-view Big-Time Robot Wrasslin' event! What a movie!!

ONWARD OUTWARD INTO THE FUTURE'S PAST!!!

Hey, that whole lotta lovin' Halloween Countdown thing was pretty scary fun, we made some new friends, and learned new stuff too. Whopping enormous thanx to Big Z and the little guys for takin' up all the slack, and all the particpants and the people who made the Countdown happen! Here's a wallpaper I made of some spacey record album covers that got left behind. It's like a commemoration of our launch back into space and some of them other neither nether regions we all like to hang out in!

ONE DARK NIGHT / The Picture Company - 1983

Hello everbloody, an' welcome to Halloween Countdown Finale! An' what a finale it is!! This is first flick directed by multi-talent Tom McLoughlin (not Tom Laughlin of BILLY JACK fame). Tom went on to direct FRIDAY THE 13th part VI, FREDDY'S NIGHTMARES and FRIDAY THE 13th TV series and then various TV show from then on.

Music by Bob Summers, who start career in 1967 with IT'S A BIKINI WORLD, then THE AMAZING WORLD OF PSYCHIC PHENOMENA, BEYOND AND BACK, CHARLIE AND THE TALKING BUZZARD, BEYOND DEATH'S DOOR, EARTHBOUND, THE BOOGENS, THE ANNIHILATORS, ELIMINATORS, BODY COUNT and ROCK-A-DIE BABY to name a few...

Lil' pet gnat Piff draw longest straw so he get to press big old red 'GO' button for big finale today, an' he all happy, so's, hit it Piff!.. doodley doot de doo... NIGHT IN THE MASOLEUM!

Boy, county worker gonna be getting nice fat bonus overtime check in upcoming pay cycle! Flick have east coast feel but made in LA!

Something go terribly wrong at Sewing Club!! Err, correction... Psychic Club! Six gurl and one crazy psychic nutjob, Raymar, all die at scene!.. What a way to go!!

Nice graveyard!

Anyways, estrange daughter Oliva and husband Allan (Adam West) go to funeral of Raymar, where more weird thing happen.

Dockstader was friend of Raymar and he convince Olivia her father really was crazy psychic nutjob! He show her picture of fingerpaint he do in kindergarten to back up what he say!

Adam need big slug o' booze, he thought they want him to play 'Dark Knight!'

Tabonga just throw in for fun!!

Meg (FAME) Tilly and Elizabeth (FAME TV) Daily and the others are all part of The Sisters, a gurlie fraternity!

Meg have to spend night in spooky mausoleum for initiation! Oh well, how bad can it be?!.. Right?.. There ain't no such things as ghosts!.. Right?!.... Hello!!

Time for Sisters to prank Meg, so, they sneak into basement and put on monster mask, to make thing a little more interesting.

Cabrón !!.. Coffin start coming out of wall and opening up!

Yucko, I smell rotten sausage!!

God, me too!!

Raymar still being crazy and all, now he animating his new fiends in dark mausoleum!

Did you know fingernail still grow after you dead an' going to Hell?!!

Just plain unadulterated... EEECH!!!

See, all monster, no matter how different, can get along together just fine! Not like people!

Gurlie pranksters not having so much fun now, are they?! Floating bodies like to crowd you ass!! Elizabeth pull off face of one dead dude! Yucky Duck!..

Wow, what exquisit corpses!!

Hey, some of Eegah' relative!!

Oliva remember Scooby-Doo episode where they use mirror to reflect hypnotic ray back into bad guy' eye, so she give it a shot!

You know, Scooby and gang not really get enough credit! But, anyway, game over for Raymar!!

We end wif' special Halloween crazy quote, kaff kaff, ahem... Tor sez, "Time for, go to bed!" What flick that line come from?

This was one of my sister' favorite flick, so, this also special posting for her!!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN, EVERBLOODY!!!