DOOMSDAY MACHINE / First Leisure - 1972

Rodan's filling in for Tabonga as Tabonga has a splinter in his big toe! Today's weirdo feature is one of the most mish-moshed movies you'll ever marvel at, and, I'll name off the borrowed parts when we get there. On top of all that, looks like the photography director was into mushrooms!.. The psychedelic kind!! The company First Leisure went on to produce two other movies, THE GATLING GUN and THE SPECTRE OF EDGAR ALLEN POE.

~ It's just a coincidence that yesterday's post also has acid-dropping colors!!

Eegah!! does another good job of capturing some great lines and screams to go with the FORBIDDEN PLANET sounds that have additional elements thrown in for disguise purposes! So, there's already one mish!

Hang on to your hats and eyeballs!.. DOOMED-DAY CONTRAPTION!!

Everything starts in another movie, Italian, I think MISSION STARDUST. Anyway, it's supposed to be China and that there gizmo locked up behind bars is nothing less than... The Doomsday Machine!!

*Did anyone see the History Channel's piece on the USSR's doomsday machine, to be used if they "lost the cold war?" It was the largest ship ever built, and, it was a nuclear bomb that would destroy the entire world!!!! Go put that in your peace-pipe and smoke it!

At the Space Flight Center there's a special news session being held about the project's timetable being moved up. Mike (M*A*S*H*-TV) Farrell is a reporter in the audience.

SCOOBY-DOO, WHERE ARE YOU?!

Casey (THE INCREDIBLE 2-HEADED TRANSPLANT) Kasem is the Mission Control Officer.

Three women are brought in at the last second to join the four astrostuds on their trek into the vast void, which totally confuses everything... Oh, man, I feel the acid coming on!

I'm so stoned that I see a Japanese spaceship from GORATH!! Whoa!!!

Dude, I'm peaking!!!

Okay, enough fun, back to the show... Here's the people in the spaceship: James (THE CYCLOPS) Craig, Grant (THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN) Williams, Mala (THE UNKNOWN TERROR) Powers, Bobby (THE NAVY vs THE NIGHT MONSTERS) Van, Ruta (ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN-TV) Lee, Henry (THE MAN WHO WOULDN'T DIE) Wilcoxon and Lori (13 DEMON STREET-TV) Scott!

Ruta looks so much better in a bra with tubes than that ugly, dippy uniform she wears!

Grant hears some bad stuff coming in from Earth station.

And, just what am I supposed to be looking at?

Atomic blasts riddle the Earth's surface, then, it's gone!!

Bobby is stunned by the news and goes into shock.

Now, here's a spaceship insert from THE WIZARD OF MARS!

This picture is just plain awesome!

Oh yeah, and, it's hard to watch Grant as the sadistic, pushy asshole he plays!

In all his playfulness, he pushes Lori into the button that opens the bay door!!

This part is actually well done and comes off as very creepy!

Effective make-up!

Back to GORATH and that triggers another cosmic acid flashback!!

To tell you the truth, I don't know who filmed the part here, where they find and go into another spacecraft. And, I'm really starting to not care, it's way too long at 83 minutes!

Everybody dies at the end, a trend that became popular in the seventies!

GOLIATH AND THE DRAGON - Les Baxter - "It's All About The Broads" (1960)

Since today is like a special holiday to us, being Friday the 13th, we have a special presentation for you from 1960 called "Goliath And The Dragon", and it is fine lookin' man, it's something else!!

As much as we love them, after a couple of night's of black and white films, it's always a nice change to see some colour again, and we're not just talkin' plain old color here, we're talkin' "Colorscope" kids, and you should have seen what I seen before I desaturated these photos!!

"Goliath And The Dragon" is a movie about that one actor near and dear to everybody's heart, the one and only, Mr."Highway Patrol" himself, Broderick Crawford as the evil and world domineering Re Eurito!! Can I hear one big collective Hell Yeah!! out there please?

And in the other corner, it's the 12 time champion of the sword and sandal world, playing GOLIATH in this film, and also known for his many recurring titles as Hercules and/or Maciste, it's MARK FOREST!!!

Goliath's got his work cut out for him. Before this, it was the three headed dog, and now, it's like those gargoyle monkeys from "The Wizard Of Oz" grew up, and are really pissed off!!

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Broderick's got all the chow, booze, and dancing girls while Mark is....

off fighting a giant black bear this time; is there no end to this man's personal Hells??

My buddy Whitey Thomas used to be a good drinkin' buddy of Broderick Crawford, and he told me, they'd be out drinkin' in some Hollywood bar, and Broderick would get the fun idea of having a pretend fight! So, that's just what they would do, start actin', throwin' blows, for real, in public!!

Broderick Re Eurito has got one of the better to look at snake pits I've ever seen. It's very well constructed, but they really could have used a few more snakes, i.e. Indy Jones style!!

And now, ladies and gentlemen, after some 858 posts, Dwrayger Dungeon is proud to finally present, THE worst mullet ever in a movie...

and if that's not bad enough for you, it's on a horny minotaur! It's almost impossible to figure out how Kenny Loggins could have gone back so far in time, but, that IS the magic of the movies!!!

I'm just a sucker for women in chains!! Oh, don't worry, Goliath will save her!!

You might have noticed they mentioned a dragon in the title, so, finally, after the 3 headed dog, the giant flying gargoyle monkey, the bear, and a host of other terrors, Goliath finally meets up with THE dragon!!

It's a real hack and slash affair all right, but you know, in the end....

...truth and justice will always prevail, and there will be a God damn happy ending, or some other spawn of the devil, is going to have to get their ass kicked!!

THE VAMPIRE BAT / Majestic Pictures - 1933

Welcome to Wednesday B & W Oldie Feature, today we gots THE VAMPIRE BAT from Majestic Pictures, who capitalize on names Fay (KING KONG) Wray and Lionel (DOCTOR X) Atwill in this wild little thriller that also star Melvyn (THE OLD DARK HOUSE) Douglas and Dwight (DRACULA) Frye!

Uncredited stock music by Mischa Bakaleinikoff and Charles Dunworth and is typical for 1930's. Eegah!! make another nice soundclip to get feel of this very decent flick from 1933!

Ralphie the Tarantula has honor today of push big red 'GO' button to start show, so, here we go!.. DER VAMPIRE BAT!

German town of Kleinschloss having big problem, very strange, villager dying of blood loss!

Burgermeister Schoen read all about vampire from Big Book of Monsters!!

Everbloody 'cept detective Karl Brettschneider think that vampire have made comeback and is only possible reason for deaths.

Karl take a break and go downstairs to visit gurlfiend Ruth Bertin, who work for Dr. Otto von Niemann in his mad lab. Look like some kind of chemistry experiment going on!!

Dr. von Niemann pretend to be nice guy, but he actually need sick lady for twisted experiment he working on!

After he use lady for evil purpose, he tell everbloody that she die from vampire bite!

Here is excellent pic of Herman (Dwight) as he spy on Ruth in garden.

Then Karl show up and ruin Herman' fun.

So, he have some fun wif' Aunt Gussie instead! Oh boy, fresh fruit!!

After Aunt Gussie die of vampire wound, Herman get blamed because he like bats, he must be vampire who terrorizing village! When angry people chase Herman, he slip and fall to death! Now, village can get back to normal!! (poor Herman!)

Okay, here the deal... Dr. von Niemann create new form of life (WOW!) in fish tank and, well, it get hungry!

That why he drain blood from victim, to feed infernal thing! He have attachment to poke hole in neck so he can pump blood into glass beaker!

Ruth overhear doctor while he hypnotize helper Emil to get more body, so doctor have little surprise for her.

She next!!

After beans get spilled, Dr. von Niemann try to blame helper Emil for everything, so Emil dish out a lil' revenge on evil doc and save the day!

Always great when housemaid get last word!!