DEADTIME STORIES / Scary Stuff - 1986

Hello everbloody, welcome to Saturday Matinee at the Dungeon. Rodan here, filling in for Tabonga, as he needs the day off to go soak his head.. err, roots. This movie is soooo lo-budge, late eighties! Gross, inconsistant, 'those colors' and gratitious nudity, including a fun shower scene. Produced by Scary Stuff and shot in Greenwich, Connecticut, it has an east coast feel, for sure. The actors look like they're from Connecticut! The poster screams 1986 too, looks like some early example of computerized graphics.

Uncle Mike is substituting for Peter's parents tonight, he doesn't have any kids of his own. It's bedtime, and, his nephew's having trouble falling asleep...

SOOOOO......

Original music's by Larry Juris, he worked on a total of 8 movies including THE EROTIC WORLD OF ANGEL CASH, COMMANDER USA's GROOVIE MOVIES, REJUVENATRIX, UNDERGROUND and VOODOO DAWN.

I love this soundclip, it has some cool rockin' New Wave sounds, one good thing from the late eighties!! Then, it's like all hell breaks loose and won't stop!! Way to go, Eegah!! So, on with the show, here's some... DEADTIME STORIES!

The first story's called "Peter And The Witches."

Get this, the girls burn this guy's wrist with a torch and the hand gets big, breaks off and crawls away! Now, c'mon... That's weird!!

I don't think this is going to help Peter fall asleep, what do you think?

Then, you take this yetch here, in the bowl, and let it crawl into a skeleton!!

Gettin' sleepy yet, Peter?!

Eventually, it turns into this sadistic bastard and kills a bunch of people! After it melts in a cave, it comes back to life and chokes the boy and girl who thought they got away!

Okay, Peter still can't go to sleep, so, Uncle Mike starts story two. Check out the classy way you tell kids a bedtime story in 1986!.... "Once upon a time, there was a little girl named Rachel. Actually, she wasn't all that little, she was a hot-looking high school senior with deep blue eyes, and fine, firm breasts, and..." The film actually does have three very nice looking women in it!

Rachel likes to fantasize in the mirror!

This segment is called "Runninghood," obviously a twisted take off on Little Red Riding Hood!

Uncle Mike just can't figure out why Peter won't saw some logs!

Story three is a comedy called "Goldi Lox and the Three Baers." It starts at the Home For The Hopelessly Insane, what else?!

Three inmates, Papa, Mama and Baby Baer, make their escape in a white '62 Chevy Biscayne sedan after running down a security cop!! Now, they need a place to hole up!

Back at the ranch, Goldi makes a nasty habit of putting men in their place!!

As she watches the evening news about the escaped mental patients, the guys get into a fist fight!

My favorite part, Goldi welcomes them in and they don't know what to make of her hospitality, they all saw her naked as a jay bird! The second still is a hoot!!

Goodnight sweet prince, sleep tight, and don't let the bed-bugs... BITE!!!

THE VEIL - Edwin Astley & Leon Klatzkin "Tales Of The Unexplained" (1958)

Today's the 26th, and 2x13=26, so it's a Friday tweakin' twofer twonight! So what am I talking about? In 1958, the Hal Roach Studios produced a series of episodes in England for a never released TV show, and they called it "The Veil."

The very first episode was hosted by none other than Dr. Frank Baxter, who any true monster lover knows as the guy who did the introduction to "The Mole People," and once you hear his voice, you'll say, oh, I remember that guy!!

This first episode entitled ""The Vestris"" had Boris Karloff in it as a ghost at sea, and the whole affair was kind of a continuation or takeoff on Frank's other show, "Telephone Time!"

By the time they got around to the second episode, they had now gotten Boris himself to do the hosting, and the story was a bit hipper, more contemporary and was entitled "Girl On The Road!"

More "Thriller" than "Twilight Zone," "Girl On The Road" is a fairly simple ghost tale!

The music was put together by Edwin ("Devil Girl From Mars," "The Giant Behemoth") Astley, and Leon ("Gerald McBoing-Boing," "Adventures Of Superman") Klatzkin, so you know this is stuff off the top shelf!!

No, Kids!! Dont ever push an expensive European sports car with an Edsel.......

You're going to bend the license plate every time, and it will indeed come back to haunt you in more ways than one!!

One of Tabonga's best pals in "From Hell It Came," Tod Andrews as John Prescott, and Eve Brent who is still active and working today, as Lila Kirby, toast life or death, as it were!

Boris himself has a small, but important part as the all-knowing Morgan Debs!

Lila disappears on John, so he has to question some of the locals!!

Then the real true story comes out, Lila is dead, and John has fallen for a spectre!!

It's the deal of the century, two high-quality discs with all 10 episodes at a low price, and packaged as "Tales Of The Unexplained!" Catch it when and where you can, and "tell them Boris sent you!!!"

ALEX CHILTON - "Walking Dead" A♠

It's an off night, and before another day passes by, I'd like to step down and take a quick moment to pay tribute to one of my musical heroes, the great Alex Chilton who passed away last week! With Jim Dickinson also passing not that long ago, it just seems like a time to take a moment to appreciate what you got! Alex Chilton didn't do many songs with horror titles, but there was this one called "Walking Dead" that is an absolute raggedy mess of sloppy genius that is almost a complete movie unto itself that everyone needs to assimilate at least once!!! I don't know about you, but I'm gonna miss him!!

SVENGALI / Warner Bros. - 1931

Welcome everbloody, to Wednesday Oldie Moldie B+W Bijou Theater Flicktime, here at the Dungeon... Today's feature is a very nice production from Warner Bros. in 1931, less than 2 years after the introduction of sound in movies!..

John Barrymore (The Great Profile) stars as Maestro Svengali, he falls in love with a 17 year old model, Trilby (Marian Marsh), then hypnotizes her to sing and eventually she marries him! There are even brief flashes of nudity, it's a Pre-Code film! After SVENGALI, Barrymore followed with another similar film the same year, THE MAD GENIUS. Warner Bros. paired him and Marsh in that one too!

Music in Svengali is classical oriented as you will soon hear. Uncredited music director is David Mendoza, he has 94 credits and worked from 1925-46 with titles like SWEET KITTY BELLAIRS, THE NAGGERS AT BREAKFAST, GOING WILD, I LIKE YOUR NERVE, THE MAD GENIUS, KISSING TIME, NO CONTEST!, GYPSIE SWEETHEART, NUTVILLE, MELODY MASTER: RAH, RAH, RADIO.. HIGH, WIDE And HANDSOME, RHYTHMITIS, THE BACKYARD BROADCAST, SHEIK TO SHEIK, TOOT SWEET, ATTIC OF TERROR, STOCKS AND BLONDES, ZERO GIRL, TOYLAND CASINO, THE HUMAN BOMB, PUBLIC JITTERBUG NO. 1 and SEEING RED!.. Great titles!!

So, on wif' da show!.. Tabonga' pet, Ralphie The Tarantula, took vitamins this morning and he say he ready to be pushin' that big old red 'GO' button and start our Eariffic Earclip 4 tudae...

And, he dood it, so here's ...SVENGALI!

Start with Maestro Svengali looking for singer. This lady sound like hurt animal, and it grate on eardrums! Not great... grate!

He tell her she stink!

She get so upset, she drown self in river!.. Story is part comedy.

John can really ham it up here, singing in the tub is a natch!

He look like some kind of psycho Abraham Lincoln!

The super sexy 17 year old art model, Trilby!! Remind Tabonga of back when he was in art school and could smoke in class!

Svengali notice that she gots a beau!

Through telepathic control, he imposes his will on Trilby's mind...

His thoughts travel to her bedroom over Caligari-style miniature sets by great set artist, Anton Grot!

The spell works and she joins him.

Luckily, we get a nice pre-code look at Trilby in art class!!

After the marriage, they tour together...

Trilby and Svengali are followed around by her ex, he knows their schedule because of newspaper announcements.

At the end, Svengali dies in the pulpit and she follows him to the grave!