GRAVE OF THE VAMPIRE - 1974

Tagline ~ "Father and son--related by BLOOD! ANYONE'S BLOOD!"

Tabonga here!.. Today we gots a wild an' weird tale of dad versus son, vampire style! Flick star William Smith, who have 272 acting credit and is still kicking. Did you know that William had first acting role as village boy in THE GHOST OF FRANKENSTEIN in 1942?!.. After that, he was on almost every TV series and played Joe Riley in 56 episodes of LAREDO 1965-7! "...What's in the bag, Goose?!"

Nice soundclip again today, '8' on Creepy Meter, and include some choice dialogue! Music is by Jaime Mendoza-Nava who end up with 78 composing credit including THE GRASS EATER, ORGY OF THE DEAD, THE FEMALE BUNCH, EQUINOX, BLOOD LEGACY, DROP OUT WIFE, HOUSE OF TERROR, PSYCHO FROM TEXAS, MYSTERIES FROM BEYOND EARTH, CREATURE FROM BLACK LAKE, RIP-OFF, JAILBAIT BABYSITTER, VAMPIRE HOOKERS, MAUSOLEUM and TERROR IN THE SWAMP to name a few!

Ralphie the Tarantula standing by for turn at the big old red 'GO' button to start today flickclip rolling... rolling into you brain like some kind of eaters!.. Push the button, now!.. DRAC AN' SONNY BOY!

Flick start innocent enuf, you know, boy and gurl having lotsa fun, being all horny in creepy graveyard at night, etc.

Ahem, I do believe that the name of the film is... GRAVE OF THE VAMPIRE, not HORNY KIDS IN A GRAVEYARD!

Look like undead Caleb Croft at least have good company while he sleeping in old dingy casket for last 3 year!

All dude are peeping-tom, but, especially vampire!

Caleb pull boyfriend out of car and put some kind o' hurt on him before he suck out his blood for first meal in 3 year!!

Now, time for dessert!!

After incident, gurlie find out the horrible truth...

She gonna have a baby!

Enter William after 35 minute into story, he was baby vampire from flashback in previous photo, who's mom feed him tasty breast blood! He look very healthy, too! Guess what, William was 41 years old when he do this role!!

"You stand right here for one minute, and let me do all the work!"

Tabonga just have to show this extra cool pic from party!

Freakin' vampire peeping-tom, jeez!!

Let's see if bullet stop this fucker!..

Nope, guess not!

Climactic fight scene between dad and son is possible best part of flick. First, dad push son into lit fireplace. Nice guy!

Why, I'll!..

Here, let me pop that big ol' zit for ya!

Mom, Jimmy hurt himself... BAD!!

Cast you' vote, now!

NELLA STRETTA MORSA DEL RAGNO - Riz Ortolani - "Web Of The Spider" (1971)

Well, as we head on into the holiday season, you gotta admit, nothing quite screams X-mas like Klaus Kinski, so let's get that yuletide ball spinning with "Web Of The Spider"!!!

Dungeon stalwart Klaus Kinski appears here as Edgar Allen Poe himself, and the film begins with Edgar telling one of his stories in the local pub and a sweat drenched frenzy! Although this is really just a bit part, Klaus plays it up to the hilt!

American Anthony Franciosa shows up just in time to be invited to spend the night in a haunted castle! This is a pretty strange role for Tony, who rarely appeared in scary or foreign films. Tony also went on to reprise Dean Martin's Matt Helm role for 13 TV epsodes in the mid 70's!

Riz The Season, So.....Here we go again, the music is composed by Riz Ortolani, and Riz has literally amped it up this time with lots of cool distorted single guitar riffs that really set the mood. Most period pieces choose to use the music of the time, but, as you will hear, this works a lot better!! This is the castle where Alan ends up spending the night alone!

Well, he thought he was going to be alone, or at least that's what he was told!!

So after bumping around in the dark, and hearing lots of weird sounds, Alan finds out that he's not alone after all. First, he meets Michèle Mercier as Elisabeth Blackwood, who he really goes for!

And some of the people who reside here, like Karin Field as Julia have an eerie resemblance to the paintings on the walls!

Oh, yeah, and don't forget about ole Peter Carsten as the Übercreepy Dr. Carmus, who you might remember from one of his many roles in films and TV shows like "Dud" or "Slom" or "Tren" or "SOKO 5113" or maybe not!

Talk about Creepy, director Antonio Margheriti wasn't messin' around!! Working frequently under the name of Anthony Dawson, he directed too many films we've featured here in both Horror and Sci-Fi like "Spacemen," "Castle Of Blood," "Wild, Wild Planet" and "Lightning Bolt" and is currently working on a film about Genghis Khan!!

Alan is not having that great of a time any more as he goes in circles from one death to another murder and back to more death again, and a bunch of sorry explanations from Dr. Carmus and the girls!!

Then he gets the Really bad news, not only are all the people in the house dead, but they are also all vampires and ghouls!! Shit! No wonder nobody ever made it through one night before!!

Alan somehow manages to make it to the dawn, and is all ready to get Elizabeth out of there so they can live happily ever after when.......

Something goes terribly wrong........and.....

Edgar has yet one more ghastly, but true story to tell, that nobody is ever going to believe!!!

THE CORPSE VANISHES / Monogram Pictures - 1942

Tagline from the original poster reads... "KIDNAPPED BRIDES Are The Victims Of His Terror! Prepare to shudder when you see the strange practices of this doctor who sacrificed beautiful women for the sake of a mad love!"

Tabonga here!.. THE CORPSE VANISHES was Bela' 87th acting role, this time for Monogram Pictures which also bring us other titles like THE AVENGER, THE DEVIL'S MATE, HOUSE OF MYSTERY, THE MYSTERIOUS MR. WONG, PORT OF MISSING WOMEN, WOLF CALL, HAUNTED HOUSE, THE APE, PHANTOM OF CHINATOWN, INVISIBLE GHOST, KING OF THE ZOMBIES, BOWERY BLITZKRIEG, SPOOKS RUN WILD, FRECKLES COMES HOME, PRIVATE SNUFFY SMITH, GHOST TOWN LAW, RUBBER RACKETEERS, THE LIVING GHOST, THE APE MAN, VOODOO MAN, SPOOK BUSTERS, HOT ROD, GHOST CHASERS, FEUDIN' FOOLS and many, many more!

There is only Music Department credit for uncredited stock music composer Charles Dunworth, and, flick have two, two musical director... Johnny Lange and Lew Porter.

Wonst again, Eegah!! have nice soundclip for everbloody' listening pleasure. And, today is Piff the Gnat' turn to push big red 'GO' button to start snowball rolling, so, HITS.... IT.... PIFF!!.... "THAT DARNED VANISHIN' CORPSE!!"

Well, everbloody was having great time until freakin' stupid bride ruin everything!

Hmmm, wonder if Bela might have anything to do wif' it?!

Okay, we gonna try it again. Keep finger crossed!

...SON OF A BITCH!!!

Calling all cars, calling all cars!.. Be on the lookout for a missing corpse dressed like a bride!.. That is all!!

Budget cuts!

He look so natural!

There is actually very logical es'planation for big mystery!

So simple, Bela need lady' gland fluid to keep prehistoric wifey alive!.. What else?

Luana (THE SHE-CREATURE) Walters play Patricia Hunter, a reporter and Tristram (THE BRUTE MAN) Coffin play Dr. Foster. They on the way to Bela' house.

They greeted by Bela' little helper dude, Angelo (BRAIN OF BLOOD) Rossitto. Angelo was Blaisdell's Saucerman #1 in INVASION OF THE SAUCERMEN!!!

But, Bela and wifey kinda busy with other thing at the moment!

Angelo show Miss Hunter her room for the night.

Then, Miss Hunter have special night visit from another of Bela' helper, the big one! And, get this!.. Angelo and him are brothers!!

Bela and wifey find coffin generally more comfy than regular bed!

The Doc and Miss Hunter pretty sure Bela behind the murders and decide to set clever trap to catch him at a fake wedding and want to use cigarette gurl as bait! Hey, Tabonga! and Eegah!! used to smoke those!

So, they print fake story in newspaper to make look real!

Bela and wifey notice story, as planned!

But, Bela smarter than that and sense that something is up, so he have little plan of his own!

Bela prepare Miss Hunter for glandular fluid transfer...

But, as always, kwazy iz az kwazy duz!! Helper Fagah get last laugh!

Hey, c'mon everbloody, SMILE!!