THINGS TO COME in Colour / London Film Productions - 1936

Welcome everbloody, Tabonga here with Mondo Monday, here at The Dungeon! Tonight's flick is a redo of a previous post, this time in colour!!

If you're not familiar with this H. G. Wells tale, then, shame on you, go to IMDb and read about it there! Wells wrote both the story and screenplay. The music's by Mr. Arthur Bliss, he had a total of 7 composing credits, this film was his first...

It's time to bring in our lil' Dungeon helper and button pusher, Rufus The Gnat! Rufus is here every Monday to make sure we all get to hear our Eariffic Earring... THINGS TO COME!

The world seems happy and productive after the big war, and man has finally learned his lessons...

The amount of planes shown at times is overwelming, great special effects and miniatures!

War is just a carnal delight of man, especially for little yellow chicken shit hawks with 7 defermits to keep out of the military!!!!..

Yeah, I'm headed over to Carol's, then we're going to the malt shop for a burger... Hey, where's your rod?

It looks like some bizarre giant metal insect with it's human master! The backdrop looks very interesting, obviously real ruins somewhere in England!

By 2036, modern man had moved underground and created his Utopia there.

With a shopping mall...

...And, justice for all!

Grandpaw, could you put it on something good?.. I wanna watch Gumby!

Weird place to have a toilet!

Futuristic architecture and costumes were well thought out for the time, but them boney knees, Raymond!

Tabonga's just not buying that helicopter 'steering device' design, looks like it's made out of some crap we used to sell at Daco Farm Supply!

The estimated budget for this futuristic flick was £300,000, or $700,000 in US dollars. One Fleischer Superman cartoon cost $100,000! Big bucks back then!!

Here's the new rollie coaster ride at Six Flags, the Rocket Roller, you actually get shot into space! Coming down's the really scary part... Look at that freakin' line!!

Look there, you idiot!! You blind?!..

I'm not crazy!.. You're crazy!!

Ghoulnight Everbloody!

CORRIDORS OF BLOOD - Buxton Orr - "We're Gonna Get High High High" (1958)

I was in a crappy mood when I recently sat down to watch Boris Karloff in "Corridors Of Blood", and it didn't hit me right, from the get go, so I put it off for a day, but then I found out that it was Mrs. Grewbeard's favourite Karloff film, so I decided I better give it another try, and boy, was I glad I did, because "Corridors Of Blood" is a real dandy of a film that should be on everybody's list, not just Santa's!

I'd had a bad day at work, and when "Corridors Of Blood" started, there was a lot of screaming going on from people getting operated on without anesthetic. It was pretty gruesome, and I just wasn't ready for that whole concept, but from there on this movie is very intelligent, but also pretty brutal for 1958!

It's a lurid tale of addiction, scamming con artists, and murder!

Boris Karloff is Dr. Thomas Bolton, a good, honest man dedicated to freeing the world of pain and suffering, who, by using himself as a guinea pig, has become a victim of his own science, because the narco based anesthetic he developed, has turned out to be quite addictive! What was he supposed to do, he had to try it on someone!!

Boris becomes such a loadie, and then he has to make an appeal to this crew, that kinda reminded me of Hunter Thompson in "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," when he is stoned out of his gourd and has to go to the law enforcement convention on narcotics!! Tough crowd!!

What an awesome backdrop!! The music for "Corridors Of Blood" was created by Mr. Buxton Orr, who only composed the music for 9 movies, but out of those nine, you've got "The Haunted Strangler," "Fiend Without A Face," "First Man Into Space," "Dr. Blood's Coffin," and "The Snake Woman!" Nice run!

Here's the scam! Black Ben, and his best gal pal, Rachel, have people killed, then they get the good Dr. Bolton (who doesn't know anything about the scam) to sign the death certificate as accidental, and then they sell the bodies for pure profit! Adrienne Corri as Rachel has had a magnificent career, from Doris in "Devil Girl From Mars," to the lady that gets raped, Mrs Alexander, in Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange," with stops at "Vampire Circus," and "Moon Zero Two" in between! Francis De Wolff was in everything from "Moby Dick" to "From Russia With Love!"

They cut Boris off at the dispensary.......

.....so he is forced to turn to the underworld to enlist some help in getting his drugs some other way besides legal!

This is a killer portrait of the genius Boris Karloff!

How can you go wrong with Christopher Lee and Boris Karloff in a scene together, between the two of them they have 465 titles under their belt!!

Jiggers!! The Cops!!

Black Ben steals the Doctor's notebook, and now they know what he's up too!

Christopher Lee does a grand job as the quite despicable Resurrection Joe, Black Ben's hitman!! Chris Lee had already been acting for 10 years at this point in his career!

In a situation like this, there is no real opportunity for all to end well........

........and it doesn't!!

MONSTER / Academy International - 1979

Welcome everbloody, to our Friday Night Frights, here at The Dungeon!..

Tabonga can say, unequivocally even, that this flick has the best title of any monster movie, ever, in the history of recorded time! ...MONSTER!!.. 'Nuf said?!

So, here's Greg and Janie on their first date. He was just getting ready to play her a hot tune with his guitar when this all happened...

But, you know, that's how monster movies usually start!

Tagline reads... "Buried in the mud of countless centuries - something has begun to grow..." Wow, scary!

Alternate titles are MONSTROID, IT CAME FROM THE LAKE, MONSTER, THE LEGEND THAT BECAME A TERROR, THE TOXIC HORROR and TOXIC MONSTER!!

The music was by Mr. Gene Kauer, he has 36 composing credits that include... THE ASTOUNDING SHE-MONSTER, GIRL WITH AN ITCH, THE CAPE CANAVERAL MONSTERS, THE BEAST OF YUCCA FLATS, MONSTROSITY, FORTRESS OF THE DEAD, AGENT FOR H.A.R.M., SWAMP GIRL and FACES OF DEATH!!

Welp, it's time to bring in that furry little 6-eyed freek, Ralphie The Tarantula, he's gonna be pushin' that big red 'GO' button over there... to the left... right, that big red 'GO' button, yes, correct... Anywho, here comes the... MONSTER!

Wow, check it out, it's Granny Goose!!.. What you got in the bag, Goose?!

Philip Carey was also in these TV series... TALES OF THE 77th BENGAL LANCERS, PHILIP MARLOWE, CHEYENNE, 77 SUNSET STRIP, LAREDO and KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER!

This is the news bitch Phil refers to with his flippant corporate diatribe in the soundclip.

The monster could come out of the lake and kill us at any second, so, I'm gonna have a dance with my beautiful daughter, Jaunita!..

Here's Dungeon Favorite, Anthony Eisley, and Robert's lil' bro, James Mitchum. Tony (real name, Fred) has been in classics like THE WASP WOMAN, THE NAKED KISS, THE NAVY vs THE NIGHT MONSTERS, JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF TIME, THE MUMMY AND THE CURSE OF THE JACKELS, THE MIGHTY GORGA, THE WITCHMAKER, DRACULA vs FRANKENSTEIN and DEEP SPACE!

Just love this still, that's all.

Here's a pretty grim portrait of John, but, he still had 35 more credits after this one!! What a man.

Science at work, even as you sleep... Look at the cool face in the radar scope!

Whut-zit... To-yah!!..

James got the lead role because he was willing to get in the water... What a dope!!

Tony didn't get top billing, but, he got to ride in the helicopter!!

Rubbernecker City!

Can you believe this, dude's directing traffic on the lake! But really, he's actually hitting the infernal thing with the oar!!

These are the two best looking stills of the lake creature, it actually looks decent!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

KA-EFFIN-BLOOIE and a half!!!

See you in Hell, you mean old monster, you!

As John thanks God for the victory, you can really notice how bad his hands look from all the surgery! They show them up closer at times, it didn't seem to bother him, though!

Ghoulnight Everbloody!!..