RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD III / Bandai Visual Company - 1993

It's Tabonga's last entry for Halloween Countdown 2013, here at The Dungeon!.. So, let's blow the lid off this joint!

Eegah!! sent over a cool lil' soundclip from this flick, sooooo, you can push the big red 'GO' button there next to the big barrel of 2-4-5 Trioxin, NOW, Ralphie The Tarantula! Here's our audio offering for... RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD III!

Kent (PREDATOR 2) McCord plays Colonel Reynolds, the head of a secret military project where they're testing their captured zombies to be killing machines on the battlefield!! He's here with his pals for another test.

The Colonel's son, Curt, and his girlfriend, Julie, sneak into the facility with a duplicate ID swipe card. Then, they get to witness some pretty eerie stuff!

They're testing a gun that uses a freeze pellet to stop zombies in their tracks, for subduing them after they have done their thing on the battlefield.

This scene at the beginning is the movie for me, if you haven't seen it, check it out, it's nothing less than fantastic!! Blood red on antiseptic white always works for shocking contrast!

Soon after that, Curt crashes his motorcycle, killing Julie. He decides to take her back to the facility and revive her with some zombie juice.

It works, Julie comes back to life, but, they also release this freaky freak from it's putrid container! Army dudes watch the monitor as the thing eats away on one of their buddies...

Eventually, Julie gets into being a zombie and gives herself a Goth Zombo makeover!

Colonel Sinclair totally enjoys her work!

And, has a well deserved demise... Later!

A sad ending, Curt, just bitten by a zombie, and Julie both decide to be incinerated...

THE BRAIN THAT WOULDN'T DIE - 1962 / Adele Lamont with Foreign Insert Nude Scene

It's time for Tabonga to give his Special Saturday Treat to all our Halloween Countdown 2013 gang, here at The Dungeon!.. I discovered something so very interesting while reviewing the bonus features on a DVD I recently scored. I have my favorite fifties and sixties Scream Queens, Faith Domergue, Beverly Garland, Yvette Vickers, Sanita Pelkey, but, my very favorite is the Jersey brunette bombshell, Adele Lamont! So, hang on for something I don't think many people even know about...

Here's the double feature bill Eegah!! and I saw at the theater back in 1962, the year we graduated from the 8th grade!

Adele is freakin' hot, this viewer cannot get enough of her!

Dumb ass Bill wants to decapitate her, but, she's saved by Eddie, the monster in the closet!

Okay then, here we go... If anyone knows where to find a foreign print of this flick, please let us know immediately!

Of course, that's the recognizable face of Sammy Petrillo there as one of the photographers.

Adele was my favorite even before viewing this clip!

You can find the great bonus foreign scene on this recent four movie DVD release, only about $3 used on Amazon!

ZOMBI 2 - Lucio Fulci - "Let's Eat Out Tonight" (1979)

I'm switching nights with Tabonga on this part of the Halloween Countdown to wish Reverend Tom Frost a Happy Freakin' Bloody Birthday, and I can't think of a better way to do it than with Director Lucio Fulci's monsterpiece of blood and guts from 1979, "Zombi 2" or "Zombie" or "Zombie Flesh Eaters," whatever the Hell you want to call it!! Now Reverend Tom Frost is about the most Halloweenish guy I know, and one of the few people in modern society that knows how to make a black cat moan, so here's to him, Cheers mon ami and Bon Appétit!!!

Lucio Fulci's ""ZOMBI 2" is a story unto itself! Today the most popular show on television is "The Walking Dead," but in 1979 it was quite a different story! Although made in 1979, Fulci's bloody banquet wasn't released until 1980, but only as long as it had one minute and 46 seconds cut out of it and was given an X rating! In 1984 the movie was actually banned and was put on the 'video nasty' list! It was cut and re-cut, rated and re-rated over the years, and finally the full version was released in 2005! I'm honestly not a big gore fan, but this film didn't seem THAT bad compared to tons of stuff made in the last 20 years! It just came out in the wrong place at the wrong time!!

Not all thoughts are original!  George Romero's "Dawn Of The Dead" was released in Italy as "Zombi" so Fulci changed the name of this film to "Zombi 2" to cash in on the zombie craze!

As the film opens, the viewer is faced with a loaded gun! In an uncensored scene, you see a body bound and wrapped in a shroud, get shot in the skullbone!

A boat drifts into New York harbor, everything's a mess and there's nobody on board! So it seems until a big zombie jumps out of a closet, and runs amok and then he gets shot and falls in the ocean!

Tisa (Anthropophagus) Farrow is the daughter of the guy who owns the yacht! She and a journalist played by Ian (Contamination) McColloch are thrown together by fate, and must search out the reasons for this big mess! They get a lead and head out to the tropical island known as Matul!

Here's where I get just a little unhinged! The kindly Doctor on the island refuses to accept the reality that voodoo might just really exist, and spends all his time in denial! He only believes in science despite what he sees happening in front of his eyes for the last couple of months! The Doctor is played by Richard (The Haunting) Johnson! Richard has had a long and varied career and is still working today!

The Doctor is so removed from the reality around him that he leaves his wife alone in their house while he's miles away, even though she is scared to death about what is happening all around her! She wants off the island, but instead is one of the first victims of the new mass zombie attack! Olga (Purple Rain) Karlatos has the role of the wife!

Olga is one of the first large scale all you can eat zombie buffets that the locals imbibe in! This scene was edited out of the earlier versions!

After that, it's time for the zombies to go after the Doctor and all the new arrivals in a no holds barred bloody freak fest!!  This zombie's mug was used on a lot of the posters!

Here's a couple of great shots of the zombies shuffling in for the big "Zombie Jamboree!" Really, these zombies would be quite easy to outrun, actually you could skip, and still get away from them!

The zombie's awesome make-up was done by Giannetto(Cannibal Apocalypse)(When Men Carried Clubs and Women Played Ding-Dong) De Rossi. Not necessarily these three, but a lot of the zombies in the movie look alike because there were four brothers, the Dell'Acqua clan, Alberto, Arnaldo, Ottaviano, and Roberto playing members of the zombie community!

They can't think, so the zombies move around like they are in some slow motion mosh pit, taking turns at banging into the door with their sides, which eventually breaks the door down! They just know they're hungry!

In the end, Tisa and Ian somehow manage to escape the island and get back to New York. They're going to be surprised that's it's not going to be as difficult as they thought to convince people they just got off an island full of zombies! Fulci didn't have a big enough budget to stop traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge, so despite the zombie takeover, there's still a bunch of cars driving around!

These days you can see the whole reviled uncut version on Creepster TV for a pittance! Anybody up for a cheeseburger and a beer?

THE ADVENTURES OF UNCLE MISTLETOE - Aunt Judy - "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah - The Kindness Club Song" (1949)

Tonight the Dungeon Halloween Countdown continues with an episode from the TV series "The Uncle Mistletoe Show! Uncle Mistletoe was a character introduced to the world in 1946 by the Chicago department store Marshall Field's to compete with Montgomery Ward's Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer! The popular Uncle Mistletoe Show aired 3 times a week for four seasons on TV from 1948 to 1952! So what does a Christmas character have to do with Halloween? Well,  it's kind of like "Nightmare Before Christmas" in reverse, as much as some people would like it, it can't be Christmas all year long!! Marshall Field's was bought and converted to Macy's in 2006!

 

What we have here tonight was a 1949 episode that aired on the 25th of October!

 Uncle Mistletoe's co-hostess on only this one show was Aunt Judy played by the cute as the dickens actress Jennifer Holt at the end of her acting career! Jennifer was in a slew of western movies in the 1940's like "Renegades Of The Rio Grande" and "Buffalo Bill Rides Again!"

Uncle Mistletoe was a little on the slow side, I can't imagine how tough it would be to watch one of these episodes without the assistance of Aunt Judy! She was the highlight of this whole show!

 Uncle Mistletoe and Aunt Judy spin a tale about his imp friends who want to carve the town's biggest jack-o-lantern, and one little guy falls inside and can't get out!

 This is what it looks like from the inside of a jack-o-lantern!

 Imagine that! There's a happy ending, and then Aunt Judy and Uncle Mistletoe treat us to rousing renditions of  "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah" and "The Kindness Club Song!"

"Good Night Aunt Judy!"

"Good night boys and girls!"  Happy Halloween!! You probably wouldn't have to guess too hard to know you can find this show at the Internet Archive!