PSYCHIC KILLER / Lexington Productions - 1975

Welcome to Friday Night Drive-In with Tabonga, here at The Dungeon!.. Tonite's offering is one of those flicks that has lots of guest stars, something that become really popular in the seventies. Stars like Neville Brand, Aldo Ray, Whit Bissell, Della Reese, Greydon Clark and Nehemiah Persoff.

The story goes... Arnold Masters is a mental patient behind bars for a murder he didn't commit. At the prison, he learns astral projection from a fellow inmate, then, upon his release, he uses the power to bump off the people responsible for his arrest and even a butcher who overcharges for his meat!

You'll hear the narrator repeat this insightful theory by noted physicist Sir James Jean in the soundclip, as quoted in Time Magazine, no less! ...Who the Hell's Sir James Jean?

The cool music is by William Kraft, a percussionist with a grand total of 6 composing credits... That's probably him playing the drums in the soundclip.

Since it's Friday, you know what that means!.. Well, maybe you don't, but, it's time to bring in our littlest of all Dungeon helpers and button pusher, sure 'nuf, Rufus The Gnat!.. So, then, lettuce get the show on the road! Push the big red 'GO' button right there in front of your nose, or, whatever it is... NOW, Rufus!! Here's... PSYCHIC KILLER!

Jim Hutton plays prison mental patient, Arnold Masters, wrongly accused of murder. Tall at 6' 5", Jim was in a few major movies like THE GREEN BERETS and HELLFIGHTERS, but, unfortunately, died at age 45 from liver cancer in 1979.

Arnold is friends with this sweaty weirdo, an uncredited Sheldon Lee playing... 'Inmate.' He has serious psychic abilities... and, problems!

This shot is killer!! Before the tortured inmate goes on the ultimate astral projection, seen here, he gives Arnold the key to a box full of secrets on how to use the power to exact revenge on his friends!

One of the key elements to attain the astral state is this here pendant. Something you can get at any head shop!

Arnold likes to read before he head trips, after smoking a big hooter of Panama Red, of course!

Showing this photo for nostalgic reasons alone...

The seventies was cruel to actors like Whit Bissell, like here, where he has to do a hot sex scene with this topless broad. I watched this part carefully, Whit never once stopped gazing directly into her eyes! Weird... If it was me, I'd be looking directly at her boobs! But hey, that's just me. One of the oddest things, Whit plays the evil doctor in both I WAS A TEENAGE FRANKENSTEIN and I WAS A TEENAGE WEREWOLF, and, the movies played together as a double bill!

This nurse teases the crap out of this patient since he can't move. Could this be considered torture, since the old buzzard could possible die of a heart attack from all the excitement?!!

Minutes later, the nurse gets a visit from Arnold's evil side while she showers. She was the nurse that let his mom die while he was behind bars.

Then, he appears in the rear view mirror of one of the people responsible for him going to jail.

He makes the guy run over a motorcycle cop, then, makes the poor sap drive off a cliff!! Gee, if I had that kind of power, I know what I'd do with it!!

The cops, Paul Burke, Aldo Ray and Julie Adams, get in on the action, they're secretly keeping an eye on Arnold from across the street.

Here's a good gag, right out of Popeye and Bugs Bunny cartoons!

While he's in a trance, the gang do a few tests on him!

Neville Brand plays Lemonowski, the greedy local butcher, and, he's next on Arnold's list! He gets his via that whirring, carcass cutting band saw blade coming toward him... Ever closer, and closer!..

Things don't go too well for Arnold at the end, he catches the whole damn place on fire!.. Oh, and, he threw up a little bit.

The perfect ending, the cat inherits the pendant! Tune in tomorrow for another 'special' posting with Eegah!!..

LA PERVERSA CARICIA DE SATÀN - Alberto Argudo - "The Wicked Caresses of Satan" (1975)

As much as "Kiss Me Deadly" was easily one of THE best films I have ever seen in my life, "Devil Kiss" on the other hand, is the direct opposite! As much as we generally like to give credit to people just for making a movie, this film's alternate title could have easily been "Besa Mi Culo," because, unlike the way it is down here in The Dungeon, I think that's how much they cared!

Hey everybody, get off the floor, and put your hands together and give Nick Cave some credit here! (What do you mean, that's not Nick Cave?) I'm freakin' confused! Oh, Man, What a party! The action was so hot, olde Elmer there almost had a heart attack!!

It's a hot and sweaty standing room only crowd, so get back and give it up for the man from Exotica, S.A. and his gal Wednesday!

Not my style, this is the kind of people you run into at Tabonga's gala affairs! Is that goatee really painted on? Is there anything real in this movie?

I did hours of research to find out this sign actually translates to "(C'est des) Conneries" or "This is Bullshit!"

Silvia Solar has been in some pretty cool 60's films like "Danger!! Death Ray" and the Jerry Cotton movie "Death and Diamonds," and later, a buttload of Eurotrash like "Night Of The Howling Beast," "Crimson, The Color Of Blood," and "Cannibal Terror!" Silvia just passed away this last May! Her companion was born Claude Albert Plaut, and followed the same basic career path, and has credits as Jean Caumont, Alphonse Gautier, Oliver Mathew, Oliver Mathews, Oliver Matho, Olivier Matho, Claude Mathot, Oliver Mathot, Mathot, Oliver Matot, Oliver Matthau, Oliver Matthew, and Claude Plaut! I'm thinkin' maybe Claude didn't even know how to spell his name!!

I was just about to send this flick back to Netflix without watching any more when this guy came on and announced that the BIG fashion show was about to get started!!

All right, all you gals get ready for the big show!!

Besides this movie, composer Alberto Argudo has only two more credits, "La Diosa Salvaje" and "Exorcismo!" All three films were made in the same year of 1975!

How the Hell can any red blooded All-American guy fast forward past some good lookin' gal in a red, white, and blue striped pants suit, with some jive ass music that sounds like something live from The Fillmore playing in the background followed by "Yikes Stripes?" That's right, you can't!

The Tilt-O-Whirl is followed by more stripes and green cut-out bell-bottoms! I was going to call it quits right here, because as one of the party-goers states, "Myself, I preferred the fashion show!" and 93 1/2% of the rest of the film just sucks extremely well!

Jeepers Creepers, where'd you get those creepy peepers??

Oh Gawd, nice hiding place jerk! Guys like this give dudes a bad name!

I will give everybody involved credit for getting at least this one excellent shot out of 89 minutes of footage!

Digging for buried treasure you might just dig up some good zombie material!

What the Hell is that skinny Zombie staring at now?

"Oh, tell me, will ya, darlin', why you look so bad tonight? There's bags 'round your eyeballs, which is red instead of white!

"Well, it was this-a-way: you came when I was alone, shucks, I shoulda knowed that you was tim tayshun! - Red Ingle

Periodically to get money from The Government, we have to make a public service announcement, and tonight, I have to stress to you kids one more time, DO NOT smoke in bed!! You might get killed by a skinny green zombie!!

Where the heck did everybody go? The Zombie is Moisés Augusto Rocha in the last of his weirdo film roles!

Is that you Harry??

No, it's not ME, you stupid bitch!!!

Uh, Oh! Looks like it's starting to spread! Go Evelyn, next thing you know, it's going to be "Get Crude in the Desert and the Oil Gush Forth!"

I'm pretty sure this film was made right about the time that a large portion of the Western female population decided that sewing was not for them! Praise the rest of ya'll!!

Oh, I think she's going to be all right, nothing that a good night's sleep won't cure! Right!!!