PIRANHA - 1972

It's Fishy Friday with Tabonga, here at The Dungeon!.. We gots a story about a wildlife photographer and her brother who go to Venezuela for a photo shoot. They hire a guide to get them through the jungle, but, the trio have a run in with a local hunter. There's no production comany info about this movie on IMDb, filmed in Venezuela. Not to be confused with any Roger Corman films, alternate title is PIRANHA, PIRANHA!

Eegah!! sent us over a nice little soundclip from this flick, sooooo, you can push the big red 'GO' button there by the flaming furnace, NOW, Rufus The Gnat! Here's our audio offering for... PIRANHA!

This flick comes off as a travel guide most of the time. Photographer Terry and her bro, Art, land in Venezuela and go shopping!

The movie uses the popularity of Peter Brown and William Smith from their hit TV series, LAREDO. Peter plays guide Jim Pendrake and William plays sadistic weirdo hunter, Caribe.

They go get drunk at a colorful local bar!

Another reason for using Peter and William is that they were physically capable of doing their own stunts including dangerous motorcycle games!

More local color and what keeps the jungle area alive, gold!

There's more travelling around, from airplanes to native river boats.

Caribe goes berserk and burns down a whole village!

A great shot of Peter getting flipped off the walk and into the water by William. What a rip off, where are the freakin' piranhas!

This shot of Caribe circling Pendrake will make you dizzy!

But, never trust a miffed chick with a shotgun!!

As a bonus, I'm including my surf tune from my 1987 cassette album, INSTRUMENT OF DOOM. Eegah!! assists, here's... PIRANHA!

Shown is the cassette insert art and lineup.

TWO AND TWO MAKE SIX - Norrie Paramor - "The Girl Swappers" (1962)

OK, I'm screwed! I just got the news that my health insurance isn't paying but a pittance of the exorbitant hospital bill I got a couple of months ago, so I'm having a little trouble focusing on movies, and since I didn't know what I was going to do with this film anyway, I can't think of a better time to do nothing at all!

Originally titled "Two And Two Make Six", "The Girl Swappers" is a Freddie Francis directed film which is what lead me to it in the first place, but other than that............You've heard about newborns getting switched at the hospital, (Oh there's that word again) well, this film is kind of like that! Two guys get their girls mixed up on the back of their motorcycles as they're leaving a cafe, and after a certain series of events, all four end up falling in love with their opposite mate!

Yes, indeed it is a problem! The theme song for "The Girl Swappers" was written by Norrie Paramor and was sung by Craig Douglas! Dummy-Doo-Wah!

George Chakiris won an Oscar for his role as Bernardo in the best gang musical ever made, "West Side Story!"

His soon to be ex-girlfriend is played by the beautiful Jocelyn (Son Of Hercules Vs. Venus) Lane! Jocelyn was also in "Tickle Me" with Elvis!

The other couple in the old switcheroo are Alfred (The Blockhouse) Lynch and the lovely Janette (Day  Of The Triffids) Scott!

Both the ladies clean up quite nicely!!

In the end both couples end up getting married and living happily ever fucking after!! Cute!! BFD!!!

ATTACK OF THE CRAB MONSTERS / Los Altos Productions - 1957

It's time for a redo of a classic fifties sci-fi monster post with Tabonga, here at The Dungeon!.. I actually saw this decent little Corman entry at the theater at the time and it's still lots of fun to watch, comes in at only 62 minutes!

Eegah!! sent over a soundclip for us to dig, sooooo, you can push the big red 'GO' button there next to the burrito holder, NOW, Ralphie The Tarantula! Here's some sound from... ATTACK OF THE CRAB MONSTERS!

Our crew members show up on the shores of a Bikini Atoll to investigate the disappearance of the prior scientific party, they set up shop...

As they wave goodbye to the crew of the departing sea plane, it mysteriously blows the Hell up two seconds later!

Cool set of shots of our hapless characters, now, they've lost radio communication and there's been a massive earthquake! I love knotty pine walls. And, Richard Garland looks like Fred!

Things ain't goin' that great, now, there's a big hole in the wall and Jules just got his hand pinched off by a Crab Monster!!

Oh, hey Beach, whazzup?.. Huh, what?!.. Like, whut the Hell's the matter, dude?!!!

Actually, he's needed to run the monster!

They manage to get their hands on dinner, and, they have a nice photo to scare everyone with!

They come up with a death ray for defense so let Martha install it in the cave! Filmed inside Bronson Caves, natcherly.

Now it's time for this poor sap to get his head pinched off! At the time, this seemed over the top for a kid of 10, it was pretty shocking.

Then, the island crumbles into the sea from earthquakes and the big bully comes out of the water to finish off the puny humans!!

DADDY-O - Dick Contino - "Meet The Beat" (1958)

Since we're starting to run out of real monster movie titles down here in The Dungeon, 2013 is going to be a year that features more rock and roll films from the 50's and 60's, like "Shake, Rattle & Rock!," "Carnival Rock," "Hootenanny Hoot," "Hold On," and tonight's special feature, oh, yeah, it's "Daddy-O!" So put your dancing shoes on, it's time to rock!

"Daddy-O" is an unfairly maligned film about hot cars, hot chicks, hot music, murder, mayhem, drug running, and drag racing! It's been ridiculed by the MST crew and only has a 1.6 rating on IMDB, but I'd watch it again instead of 99% of the drivel that is produced today, and the music is better than 100% of any rap music I've ever heard, so what's that tell you? I say it's a conspiracy put together by historians to sell you the garbage produced today, but for me, I'm going to get back inside my time machine, and set the date for 1958 when life was simpler and better! (Side Note: Check out that tagline "Meet The Beat" - Now if that's wasn't groundbreaking, I don't know what is! It would be 6 years later that the Fab Four would add a mere three letters, and have one of the most popular albums of all time with "Meet The Beatles!)

The music is smokin' and the joint is jumpin' down at the Rainbow Gardens!

This is the shining star of "Daddy-O!" From the "raisin capital of the world," Fresno, California, here's world famous accordionist Dick Contino as truck drivin' man Phil Sandifer! As far as I know, Dick is still rockin' it to this day!

The red-hot blonde Jana Ryan all up in Daddy-O's business is Sandra (Lost, Lonely And Vicious) Giles from where else would you be from if you looked like that, but Hooker, Oklahoma!

Daddy-O is asked to come up on stage and join the band to sing a rousin' little number called "Rock Candy Baby!" To this day, it remains a mystery why Dick wore his pants up around his mid section, a look nobody else has ever decided to capitalize on!

Two of the sleazier minions of the bar are the incredible Bruno VeSota as Sidney Chillas, and his nearly blind bodyguard, Jack McClure as Bruce Green!

Daddy-O gets suckered into a race with Jana that sets the scene for all kinds of bad things to happen to him!

If you've got access to a cool location like the "Tail Of The Pup" hot dog stand, use it!!

How about some credit for the under appreciated people responsible for dressing out this scene? A watering can, a couple of poles, a mop, a can of paint, and a lawn chair! Wow!!

Bruce could probably see a lot better if he would just open his eyes!

I know of at least one other film besides this one where Bruno VeSota gets a rub down, maybe it was something in his contract!  Bruno VeSota possibly has the coolest list of credits of any actor on record, having appeared in "The Wild One," "Dementia," "Carnival Rock," "The Undead," "Rock All Night," "Hot Car Girl," "A Bucket Of Blood," "The Wasp Woman," "Attack Of The Giant Leeches," "The Devil's Hand," "Invasion Of The Star Creatures," etc. The list goes on and on, and Bruno only lived to be 54! Simply amazing!!

Sidney Chillas is opening up his own club, and makes Daddy-O an offer he can't resist, if he will perform there for him on a regular basis!!

Daddy-O performs another hot number called "Wait Til I Get You Home!"

The room is filled to it's maximum capacity, and the crowd goes wild!!! There wouldn't be this much musical excitement in a movie again until one year later when Don Sullivan performs "I Ain't Made That Way"  in "The Giant Gila Monster!"

No money was spared in order to bring you action scenes like this!!

Daddy-O has a run-in with a couple of Sidney's henchmen when things start turning sour! The one little guy looks like he's about 14 years old!

Sandra sure looks extra hot when her hair's all mussed up and she's got that hair over one eye, Veronica Lake look!

Everybody but Jana had lost faith in Daddy-O including the cops, but he proves to them all what a solid cat he really is!!

In the beginning, it didn't seem like they were much suited for each other at all, but in the end, what a happy couple Phil and Jana turn out to be!!

If you want to see  Dick Contino doing  his amazing accordion thing, be sure to check out some of the various clips you can watch on Youtube like this performance at The Cotati Accordian Festival in 2008! Go, Dick, Go!!!