THE GHOST WALKS / Invincible Pictures Corp. - 1934

Happy Friday the 13th everbloody!! It's Friday Frights with Tabonga, here at The Dungeon! Our 69 minute feature goes like this... On a stormy night, a theatrical producer, his secretary, and a playwright are stranded when their car skids off the road and gets stuck. They take refuge in the nearby home of Dr. Kent, a friend of the playwright. One of Kent's patients who's staying at the house is acting strangely because it's the anniversary of her husband's murder. And, when the lights go out, the first in a series of mysterious and fearful events begin! ...Boo-Wah!!

Eegah!! sent this soundclip over, soooo, as to not be rude, you can push the big red 'GO' button , NOW, Rufus The Gnat! Here's some cartoonie corn from... THE GHOST WALKS!

Johnny Arthur plays the producer's secretary, Homer Erskine, a face every baby-boomer knows well from the LITTLE RASCALS series which played on TV almost every day during the fifties.

Like I said, their car gets stuck in the mud, so, they have to walk to the doc's house in the storm.

The lady who's acting strangely on the anniversary of her husband's murder comes down to hang out with the others, then, they all start accusing each other of the crime!

When the lights go out, this ghost shows up to give everyone a good scare!

Wouldn't you know it, there's a painting with the eyes cut out so that the villain can keep an eye or two on the situation.

Don't forget the peep-holes!

There's even a bed that can smother you, like in 13 GHOSTS! Homer dives out just in the nick of time.

Homer's scared and has to sleep with the producer, who's reading aloud about some creepy theories from psychics through the ages.

I will always try to include the sexiest still I can find from any given movie... This is the best I could do for this one.

Then, this lady gets chloroformed! Man, this flick has everything!!

People are disappearing! The cops and the remaining guests discover a secret entrance behind the huge mantle!

In the meantime, the villain is revealed. He has a pretty cool mad lab in the basement, too!

The gang's closing in on their nemesis...

They better hurry though, because, the dude's having visions of grandeur!

The cops break in and shut the old fool up!

VAMPIRE CIRCUS - David Whitaker - "Not So Really Big" (1972)

I watched "Vampire Circus" over a year ago, and there hasn't been a day gone by that I thought I should be telling you about it! Oh, well, like everything else, I'm positive it's somebody's favourite film, and I will give the makers credit for one thing, Great Title!!! The only thing that sounds like more fun than a "Vampire Circus" would be a Zombie Circus!!

Really, do yourself a big favor and go out and buy or download the 1970 album by the incredible band called The Flock entitled "Dinosaur Swamps," and listen to their song called "Uranian Sircus" and your time will be much better spent!

The local denizens throw out the welcome mat! "Yay, the circus is in town!"

Man, this is some freakin' exciting shit, isn't it, and I don't even especially like pinche payasos!!

You probably don't want to watch the main act with your grand kids!

It's not every day you get to see a David Bowie wannabe and a bear's ass this close together!

The way the things have been going lately, if I was a chick I would look like this about 90% of the time, and especially when it came around to watching movies like this!

"Hey old dude, get out of my friggin' shot!"

If there had only been a little Volkswagen with about 13 little Count Chocula clowns in it, I might have had a different opinion!

Mostly the only real thing I can remember about watching "Vampire Circus" was that it didn't interest me at all, and I'm willing to make a wager that "At The Earth's Core" was more exciting! At one time I had about 30 films ready to go, soundclips and all, right now, I've got two, and this is one of them! David Whitaker, the composer of this music just passed away in January of this year, and was also the man responsible for the music in "Scream And Scream Again," "Dr Jekyll & Sister Hyde," and "Old Drac" among other things!

The vampires have literally sucked the life out of this movie!

I have a policy of never trusting any dude who wears some kind of dog collar around his neck, and that has got to be the world's worst widow's peak ever!

"Come here little girl!" Yuck!

I have no doubt I would just punch this sucker in the face, and if that didn't work....

.....This is how we dealt with vampires back in my time, put a neck lock or a damn chokehold on the bastard, cause I don't care if you're dead or not, you will go down again!

"La, La, La, La La La La!" You'd think a "Vampire Circus" would be a lot more fun! "Something Wicked This Way Comes" this ain't, and even though we always try and give credit where credit is due, this flick is a debit!

SATELLITE IN THE SKY / Tridelta Productions - 1956

It's time for a deadly trip into space with Tabonga, here at The Dungeon!.. Our feature reminds me of WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE from 5 years earlier. This story's about a crew of astronauts who launch from England into orbit around the Earth, their mission is to test a new tritonium bomb. When they try and launch the bomb, it attaches itself to the tail of the rocket. The crew then only has a matter of hours to defuse or destroy the weapon before it explodes.

We have a soundclip for you, sooooo, you can push the big red 'GO' button there next to the nukular powered dragonfly, NOW, Ralphie The Tarantula! Here's some spacey sounds from... SATELLITE IN THE SKY!

Here's the beautiful British delta wing bomber, Vulcan B Mark 2, that starts the movie with some graceful maneuvering in the sky!

Kieron (DR. BLOOD'S COFFIN/THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS) Moore plays Mission Commander Michael Haydon and Lois (Miss Moneypenny in DR. NO) Maxwell plays reporter, Kim Hamilton. Here they are snooping around in a restricted area.

Other crew members just get drunk and watch the girls at the club.

They find out at last minute that their rocket would launch with a secret atomic bomb to be detonated in space! Donald Wolfit plays Professor Merrity, creator of the bomb, so, he has to go with them on the mission. Even though he was a total weirdo, Donald gave great performances in BLOOD OF THE VAMPIRE and THE HANDS OF ORLAC.

And... Around the corner it's Pearly Gates on the inside, then, driving hard into second place it's Heart Attack, followed closely by French Fry!... And, bringing up the rear, it's... Beetle Bomb!!!

They put it in first gear and floor it!!

This still really captures how awesome going into space seemed for a kid my age back in the fifties!

After they are safely in space, they discover a stowaway, Miss Hamilton. She hurt her shoulder from bouncing around during the take off.

That's a pretty darn nice globe of the constellations there, if you ask me.

Here's another great shot that kids would love, view ports are always cool!

Dr. Merrity prepares the bomb for its launch and detonation, but, when launched, it magnetically sticks to the tail! ..Ejoli!!

So, the doc and his helper break communications to go out and tend to the bomb...

Since they figured they were responsible for the ordeal, they rocket themselves and the bomb out into space and signal for the rocket to get the Hell out of there! There was just no other way.

And, they do get the Hell out of there and land safely back on Earth, just in time for the fireworks!

So, the doc and his pal sacrifice themselves to go out in a blaze of glory, a cosmic marigold!

This is a good time to thank our pal Charlie for the many movies he's donated to The Dungeon archives recently, which inclues 5 Universal Legacy volumes we'll start reviewing over the next months - Thanks again!