MUNSTER, GO HOME! - Jack Marshall - "Drag-U-La Rules" (1966)

Welcome to the Wednesday Gespenster Party down here in the deep, deep depths of The Dungeon!

Tonight's feature is titled "Munster, Go Home!" and even though it stars one of America's favourite families, I can't exactly recommend it, but since I try to come from the school of "If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all," well, I'll just leave it at that, because everyone loves The Munsters! The music in this feature was composed by the same guy who wrote all the music for the TV series, Jack Marshall! You might not know it, but Jack also composed the soundtrack for "The Giant Gila Monster!"

It can be interesting to see The Munsters in colour, I must admit!

I have to say that probably the best thing about this film are the awesome cars created by the genius mind of George Barris!!

Grandpa's lab also looks pretty cool in colour!

Postcard prefect picture of the pad The Munsters are set to inherit in jolly olde England!

Hermione Gingold and wild man Terry Thomas respectively as Lady Effigie Munster and Freddie Munster, don't want to give up Munster Hall without a fight!

This shot of the cruise liner taking the family abroad is beautiful, and I highly suggest you make an oil painting of it!

At least at this point Eddie Munster is still played by Butch Patrick, but Marilyn Munster who was portrayed by Pat Priest for the duration of the TV series was replaced by Debbie Watson!

Herman is really excited by the prospect of seeing a ghost!!

The high point of the film is to be able to see not just one, but two creations by the master George Barris! This here is Drag-U-La!!

Two of the coolest project cars ever designed were by George Barris and have so far withstood the test of time for a good half a century or more! First off, here's The "Ala Kart!"

Second up is the closest thing to a Jetsons car that anybody has yet created, the "X.P.A.C. 400 Air Car!" As much as I like The Munsters, I have to say, do yourself a favor and skip this movie, and instead go to the Barris Kustom website and spend a couple of hours, you won't regret it!!

LA BRUJA / Internacional Cinematográfica - 1954

Here's an excellent Mexican horror flick, love this one, I remember seeing The Witch in early issues of Famous Monsters! My DVD copy is in Spanish with no subtitles, but, it's still pretty easy to follow the story. You can find a copy on Amazon, new/sealed, for a buck! I used to have a nice looking lobby card from this one.

Eegah!! sent over a soundclip for our listening enjoyment, sooooo, you can push the big red 'GO' button over there to the right of the slippery doom, NOW, Ralphie The Tarantula! Here's our audio offering for... LA BRUJA!

So, the story starts with a doctor and the special serum he has created, when it's injected into a heart, it will start beating again!

He tries his serum on The Witch, and gets some pretty spectacular results!

Then, the doctor comes up with a devious plan, he will use this version to find out if any of these horn dogs had anything to do with the murder of his beloved daughter!..

BINGO!!.. Two of this guy's henchmen accidently killed the doc's daughter, so, he's on trial in this special underground court of beggars, thieves, the oppressed, and home of The Witch.

After the two henchmen polish each other off in a knife fight, in his last breath, one tosses the knife into the heart of big boss man! Boo-Yah!

The Witch must have more serum to keep up her beautiful appearance!

The Witch and the doctor are now at odds with one another and he threatens to toss nitric acid in her face!! She has a gun and knows how to use it...

In a wild 'n' weird scene, this gang of thieves quickly bust in on the beautiful Witch and her lover and kidnap them!

The Witch's lover is accused of killing the doctor and has knives thrown at him by some mighty scary dudes!! In order to save her man, she darts in front of him and gets a blade in the gut!

Her lover is allowed to leave, it was The Witch that had killed the doc!

YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE - Nancy Sinatra - "When Once Isn't Quite Enough" (1967)

Once again, it's time for Super Saturday Spy Guy Night, and tonight we feature the best of them all, Bond, James Bond!!

Now what the Hell could I possibly tell you about a James Bond flick that hasn't been hashed and re-hashed a thousand times already? Not much, so I'll just try and provide you with a little info and some licensed to kill eye candy!! This is just more of a reminder that when you don't have anything else to do, you can always throw on one of the James Bond films starring Sean Connery, and you'll very rarely be disappointed!

.................As the classic bumper sticker says, "Now Go Home!"

We've got a little treat for you tonight, Tabonga's little pal Rufus got locked in the studio over the weekend, so let's give him something to do! All right Rufus, go push the big read Go button over there by the abandoned space capsule, and let's get this show off and running with the theme from "You Only Live Twice" sung by The Chairman of the Board's daughter, Nancy Sinatra!

The movie starts off with James Bond being killed and his body being put to rest at sea, hence the title, "You Only Live Twice!"

But it doesn't take long before you get the chance to realize that his death was a bit exaggerated, and he resurfaces with vigor!

No explanation needed, I just like this shot of James Bond looking back! Actually James Bond lives not just twice but four or five times in this film!

Here's one great way to dispose of some bad guys, get a big magnet attached to a helicopter, pick them up and drop them in the ocean!

Dungeon goddess Karin (Room 13) Dor tries her best to intimidate our hero!

Time to break out the toys!!

Q provides Bond with this super little mini-copter!

Of course it has all the prerequisite attachments, bells and whistles . Nothing too fancy though, still labeled with a Dymo label-maker!

Did you ever notice that one particular type of throwing star looks like a Nazi swastika!

This is the point where it all starts getting a bit insane, and they decide they need to make James Bond look like an Asian!

Well, that was pretty much a wasted effort!

Wah, Wah!!!!!!!

Cute as a bug Mie Hama will also always be remembered around here for her roles in "King Kong Vs. Godzilla," and "King Kong Escapes!"

Time to bring in the big Aryan beast for one tough battle!

The omnipotent Donald Pleasence as Blofeld tries unsuccessfully to get in the last word!! You can find these James Bond movies everywhere, I've seen most of them at Big Lots for three to five dollars! In the real world, you only live once, so what are you waiting for?