Saturday, January 28, 2012

THE HOUSE THAT DRIPPED BLOOD - Michael Dress - "A Vértöl Csöpögö Ház" (1971)

Just got back from a couple of days in Computer Hell, and you know that's never any F'n fun! Now on the other hand, what IS fun are compilation films! "The House That Dripped Blood" is a right fine example! "A Vértöl Csöpögö Ház" is the title in Hungarian!

How many times have you said, "that would have been a pretty good movie if it would have only been about 20 minutes long?" This film is just that, and is more like four short stories, three of them having been written by one of THE top writers ever, Robert Bloch! IF you don't know who Robert Bloch is, I only have one word to say to you,"PSYCHO !"

The good thing about movies like this is that there's no time to waste!

An author of horror stories and his wife are the first victims to move into the "House That Dripped Blood."

The author's sketches of his character have come to life, and come to get him!

Everybody has a skull, it's just that most people choose to keep them inside their head!

For a guy with crappy makeup and a bad haircut, this dude really creeps me out!

Michael Dress is the composer of the music for tonight's feature, and is a mystery unto himself! Do a search for Michael Dress, and all you're going to find are sites about Michael Jackson dress up dolls! In fact, we've never had a reason to write about Michael before tonight either! Michael died at the early age of 39, but still, in that time, he managed to chalk up 9 credits that included "The Mind Of Mr. Soames" and "Quackser Fortune Has A Cousin In The Bronx!"

The second story features Peter Cushing, and was written by Russ Jones. Out of gazillions of pics, this might be the best portrait of Peter Cushing ever!

The second tale revolves around Jackie's Museum of Horror, the wax vampire is in the image of who else but Christopher Lee?

Peter is mesmerized, and falls in love with this wax figure. I don't really get it, she looks like Ozzy Osbourne to me!

The madness ensues! There were too many great shots, I probably should have done this film in four separate posts!

After teasing you with a wax version, the third story stars Christopher Lee! It doesn't hardly seem possible, but Chris Lee has more than twice as many credits, at 274 and counting, than Peter Cushing, who still had a massive amount at 131.

Chris is having some problems with his kid, he's not really that great of a parent!

Chloe Franks was twelve when this film was made! Chloe came down with rheumatoid arthritis in the 90's and is now the Director of Leadership Programmes for The Disability Partnership, an organiztion that helps out folks with disabilities!

If your kids get into drugs, it can be pretty bad, but if they get into witchcraft, it can be even worse!

The last story is about an aging actor played by Jon "Worzel Gummidge" Pertwee and his co-star, the comely Ingrid "Marcilla-Carmilla-Mircalla Karnstein" Pitt!

Jon is not happy about all the cheapness involved in his latest film, including this guy's makeup, so he goes out and buys himself an authentic looking Dracula cape! Speaking of, in the picture up there of Forry Ackerman, you see that he has on a Dracula cape! That was one of THE original capes that Bela wore in his role as Drac! I don't know who owns it now!

I glanced at this the other day, and because of that funny hammer shaped R, my mind read this as Curse of the Buttsuckers!

As it turns out, this cape is just a little too authentic, and turns Jon into a vampire!

If you didn't guess, this last tale is pretty much a comedy! I love the title of this book, "The Vampire: His Kith and Kin!"

You used to be able to rent "The House That Dripped Blood" on Netflix, but for some reason, it's no longer available! Another one bites the dust!

Friday, January 27, 2012

FUNERAL HOME / Canadian Film Development Corporation - 1980

Tabonga here... Tonite's feature is about a girl who arrives at her grandmother's house to help her turn it into a bed-and-breakfast inn, the place actually used to be a funeral home. After they open the inn though, guests begin disappearing or turning up dead! Original title is CRIES IN THE NIGHT, and, sounds like a typical stale old tale from the eighties...

The music is by Jerry Fielding, and, Jerry had a very decent career with composing credits for films like FOR THOSE WHO THINK YOUNG, MCHALE'S NAVY, THE WILD BUNCH, SUPPOSE THEY HAD A WAR AND NOBODY CAME?, STRAW DOGS, CHATO'S LAND, THE MECHANIC, DEMON SEED and THE BAD NEWS BEARS. He also worked on these TV shows... THE LIFE OF RILEY, THE BETTY HUTTON SHOW, TELL IT TO GROUCHO, THE RIFLEMAN, THE FARMER'S DAUGHTER, HOGAN'S HEROES, STAR TREK, MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE, MANNIX, THE BRIAN KEITH SHOW, POLICE WOMAN, KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER and THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN!

Letz bring in our littlest Dungeon helper and button pusher, Rufus The Gnat! Rufus is here to start our show, so, push the big red 'GO' button there next to the magazine rack, now, Rufus! Here's our Eariffic Soundclip for... FUNERAL HOME!

Heather comes to help her grandma set up a bed-and-breakfast in her old, ex-funeral home...

Barry Morse gets 3rd billing as Mr. Davis, big time fisherman. Just check out this partial list of his work on TV... HAUNTED STUDIO, SUSPENSE, THE UNFORSEEN, 'WAY OUT, TWILIGHT ZONE, THE ALFRED HITCHCOCK HOUR, THE OUTER LIMITS, THE INVADERS, THE STARLOST, JOURNEY THROUGH THE BLACK SUN, ALIEN ATTACK, SPACE: 1999, DESTINATION MOONBASE-ALPHA, THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES, SEEING THINGS, THE RAY BRADBURY THEATER, DRACULA: THE SERIES, TEKWAR and SPACE ISLAND ONE!

Of course, there's a creepy mentally challenged grounds keeper, which always make me think of SCREAMING SKULL.

Girls finishing a canoe, people jumping from strange looking cliffs in unison, welcome to Ontario, Canada!

And, when's not a good time for teasing the hired help?!

There's a stench of mystery in the air!.. Other stuff, too.

Mr. Davis lets Maude, Heather's grandma, know that he suspects her of the recent disappearances of some of the inn's tourists, and, well, you can see what happens when he goes out fishing that night!

Ooo-la-la!

While this girl is diving, she discovers one of the missing tourists!

And, it's one Hell of a spectacle when they retrieve her and the car from the water...

Brainiac is there so that the viewer keeps thinking that he could be involved.

But, before long, he's out of the running as a suspect!

Yep, it's the grandma, old Maude Chalmers!!

Heather finally gets to meet her dead cousin, Phil!

Put this in because it looks like my kitty, Boo, like if you tried to mess with her.

Please come with me, you crazy old lady, you!

Monster Music

Monster Music
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