LA MANO CHE NUTRE LA MORTE - Stefano Liberati and Elio Maestosi - "The Hand That Feeds The Evil Dead Face" (1974)

All Right!! It's a WTF?! Wednesday the 13th, almost right smack dab in the middle of this Halloween Countdown, and what a "fill in the blank" it is for me to regurgatate this particular flick for you on this dark and lonely night. It's also known as "The Hand That Feeds The Dead," so you figure it out. It's not really that great a movie, but it does exist, and it's gross and disgusting with some extended flesh removal scenes, so at least that's something!

Anyway, it's pretty obvious I didn't really like this "Evil Face" movie all that much, even though it did have Dungeon Fave Klaus Kinski in it. There was a new era of Goth, Gore, and Sex in the movies, and this one is a perfect example of why we like the 50's and 60's movies! This film is also devoid of any cool music, so on the rubber monster and Rock 'n Roll scale, it rats, not rates, about one falling star! The music was composed by the tag team of Stefano Liberati and Elio Maestosi, who between the two of them have 13 composing credits. They must have been pals, because most of their credits are shared with each other, including these titles, "Lo Stallone," "Lover Of The Monster," "La Prova D'Amore," and "Sixteen!"

Unless you want to count this big slow moving, but lethal, 'I've got a plate in my head, and every time you pluck that silly tuning fork, it makes me go into a mad rant' guy! He damn near makes it as a rubber monster, or at least a blubber monster anyway! I'd be ashamed to be killed by this guy!

One minute you're having a good time stupping your girlfriend out in the open air of the countryside, and the next thing you know you're getting punched in the face, and possibly killed or raped by the blubber monster! It's that kind of a movie!!

Nice gauge..., 15 PSI, are you kidding? Everything else blows, the lab might as well go too!

Wow, did you see the set of beakers in that lab?

That would be my freakin' sentiment too! Directly, and take your blasted moving picture with you!

Klaus?? What are you doing, man? We need to talk, and I mean NOW!!!

Don't worry, you'll figure it out!!

Right Klaus, I'm sure it was a regular fortune cookie!!

No Shit??!! Me Too!! What a coincidence!!! Maybe it has something to do with that coffin over there with your wife in it!

Here he comes!!! You better run, because in about five minutes or so, he's gonna get to you!!

AAaaahhhh!! WTF???!!!

Girls just wanna have fun, and while, that's all right with us, it's just not enough to save this film!!

That would be an understatement lady! What's the problem? Nobody wants to play with you??

If this guy is the hero, nobody in this movie stands a chance!! The Blubber Monster strikes again!!

Glory Hallelujah, Thank the Lord!! But wait, there's something different about you, although I can't quite figure it out..........

There are still questions that remain unanswered, but in this period piece, one thing remains without a doubt, the blood flows freely, and it's a raw deal you probably won't forget any time soon! Yes?

THE GHOST OF HALLOWEEN PAST!!

I've always loved this photo!! My Mom and Dad at a Halloween party, right around 1958!

JOHNNY JUPITER / DuMont + ABC TV - 1953-4

Welcome everbloody, to another Halloween Moldie Oldie Monday, here at The Dungeon!.. Here's a special one for The Baby Boomers!

Back in 1953-4, Tabonga used to watch this little TV show on KJEO out of Fresno, which featured a full sized robot with coke bottle glasses, but until recently had no idea what the title of the series was. The music is by Eddy Lawrence Manson, this show was his first gig. A few movies Eddy worked on were THE LITTLE FUGITIVE, LOVERS AND LOLLIPOPS, WEDDINGS AND BABIES, THREE BITES OF THE APPLE and NIGHT TRAIN TO TERROR.

And, here to push the big red 'GO' button to start our Eariffic Earclip, is Dungeon helper and lil' buddy, Rufus The Gnat! Hit it, Rufus!!.. JOHNNY JUPITER!

It begins with the Narrator... "This is the story of Ernest P. Duckweather, who invented the strangest television in the world. On this set he could look through endless space, six hundred million miles away, to far-off Jupiter. In a Jupiterian television station he found three friends: Johnny Jupiter, a human, more or less; Major Domo, chief of the robots; and Reject, the factory-rejected robot who was able to appear and disappear at will. Soon Duckweather found that he could turn to the Jupiterians for help whenever he was in trouble."

Johnny Jupiter and Major Domo look in on their Earth pal, Ernest Duckweather... Is that a real name, Duckweather?

They're always willing to help Ernest out with his weekly adventures by sending him the bumbling, Reject The Robot!

Well, M&Ms are made on Mars, afterall! M&Ms, the candy with a thin sugar shell that melts in your mouth, not on your fingers... Wait!

Here's Ernest and Katherine discussing their future together, walking down the aisle to take the first rocketship to the Moon!!

Here's store owner Horatio Frisby and two of his 'friends' discussing an upcoming public event.

Party time on Jupiter, pass out the blowouts!!

Whoa! Ross Martin plays the Professor!

Yeah, yeah... M&Ms!!

Ernest's in trouble so Reject pops in.

Ernest has to fake being the speaker at the event. Reject's only job is to show the slides and he gets that wrong!

Reject keeps getting the slides mixed up, what else.

Now remember, kids!.. Eat your M&Ms!

A local TV ad, I think from Wisconsin.

Ghoulnight Everbloody!

10 / 10 / 10 - Dungeon Style!

Eegah!! said to come up with sumpin' special for today, so we're gonna pay our respects to three 'Scream Queen' 10s from the fifties!!

1... The awesome Miss Allison Hayes - Here are the 'monster movies' Allison appeared in... THE UNDEAD, ZOMBIES OF MORA TAU, THE UNEARTHLY, THE DISEMBODIED, ATTACK OF THE 50 FOOT WOMAN, THE HYPNOTIC EYE and THE CRAWLING HAND!

2... This is Tabonga's Dream Queen, Faith Domergue - Faith was in these films... VENDETTA, CULT OF THE COBRA, THIS ISLAND EARTH, IT CAME FROM BENEATH THE SEA, THE ATOMIC MAN, VOYAGE TO THE PREHISTORIC PLANET, LEGACY OF BLOOD, SO EVIL, MY SISTER and THE HOUSE OF SEVEN CORPSES!

3... Tabonga had a crush on Miss Beverly Garland - Bev was in all these flicks... THE NEANDERTHAL MAN, THE ROCKET MAN, IT CONQUERED THE WORLD, CURUCU, BEAST OF THE AMAZON, NOT OF THIS EARTH, THE ALLIGATOR PEOPLE, TWICE-TOLD TALES and THE MAD ROOM!

Although they're all gone now, they'll live with us forever!!