WENN ES NACHT WIRD AUF DER REEPERBAHN - Erwin Halletz - "Trip With The Devil" (1967)

Welcome to Weirdass  L.wedneS.D.ay! Apparently, in 1967, while hippies were tripping on acid and listening to groovy music in America, in Germany, they had a completely different concept going on, at least according to this no holds-barred grudge match!!

The original title of this film is "Wenn Es Nacht Wird Auf Der Reeperbahn," in English, it was released as both "Uneasy Summer," and/or "Trip With The Devil!" So let's just get down to it, I'm sure you're wondering what the Hell a 'Reeperbahn' is! Well, The 'Reeperbahn' is a street in Hamburg, Germany that is in the heart of the red-light district! It's all about nighttime high life; there's restaurants, strip clubs, night clubs, discotheques, sex shops, bars, and brothels! Basically, every man's dream come true, but alas, there is evil in the kingdom!

Sunbathing time on the yacht is over girls, put your tops back on!

Erik (Shock Treatment) Schumann as investigative reporter Danny Sonntag has just got his ass kicked by a bunch of local high society punks for sticking his nose into their business, so he hits the streets to ask some questions! One of his informants is inside that rather large woman!

Their terror tactics are spreading far and wide throughout the community!

These mini-gangsters idea of fun is to slip the acid to underage girls mixed with booze, and sell them out as sex slaves to rich businessmen and politicians, so they can in turn slip them the olde Vienna sausage! On the right is the ringleader Jürgen (My Swedish Meatball) Draeger as Feuer-Hotte! I don't think you need to know much German to figure that one out!

For being a movie about L.S.D., the music as composed by Erwin (Das Go-Go-Girl Vom Blow Up) Halletz is vaguely interesting, but something by Quicksilver Messenger Service would have been better suited! Here's just a little taste of what I'm talking about!!

Danny Sonntag continues his search for Feuer-Hotte, combing all the dives and strip clubs!

I'd believe in reincarnation if I could come back here!

The boobie count is pretty high in this film, but considering where it's located, that shouldn't be that shocking!

In the center is Marlies Dräger in her very first role as one of the bad girls Karin! Marlies was in "The Man With The Glass Eye," and "Death And Diamonds," but all total she only had nine credits, and the rest of them are on German TV shows, so this will be the last time we'll see her here!

This is kind of gross! This is how German girls tripping on acid perceive their sugar daddy lovers!

Meanwhile, there's a whole other story going! In the tidy whities is Fritz Wepper as Till Voss and by his side is Marianne Hoffman as Lotti Norkus!  Till is the son of a wealthy man and is part of the acid gang, and Lotti is pure as the driven snow! Till is so in love, he's ready to quit his wanton ways and live happily ever after with Lotti, but it's not meant to be! You see, this scene is not really them together, instead, it's a hallucination Lotti's having after being fed some acid, and in reality, the man is Till's Father who seems to have a closet thing for virgins!

It's not a pretty scene when Till catches his Father in the sack with his drugged girlfriend!!

Lotti doesn't take the situation very well at all! Now there's another body to dispose of!

Time to have a meeting at the super creepy place!

You don't cross the gang, or even think about crossing the gang without expecting to pay some kind of price! Actually, these two were basically only guilty by association, but it didn't matter!

Despite all the hookers and whores, this story is not going to have a happy ending!!

This movie is a trip all right, but the story is a real bummer!

THE PEE-WEE HERMAN SHOW / Reubens-Callner Productions - 1981

It's Mirthful Monday with Tabonga, here at The Dungeon!.. When I saw this years ago, I loved the crap out of it, it totally tickled my twisted comedy nerve in all the right ways! I have always preferred it over PEE-WEE'S PLAYHOUSE because of the adult content, which makes it more interesting, I think.

Eegah!! sent over a fun little soundclip from this classic show, sooooo, you can push the big red 'GO' button there next to Tabonga's Magic Box, NOW, Ralphie The Tarantula! Here's our audio offering for... THE PEE-WEE HERMAN SHOW!

Paul Reubens is Pee-Wee, what a perfect look and character he came up with for him, and, the audience goes wild over his hilarious antics.

Everyone used a bag of funny gags after this, he even pulls out a giant pair of men's underwear!

His telephone system is nothing more than a tangled network of Donald Duck orange juice cans on cords with pegs connecting to various plug-ins.

Don't forget about his mystical Genie and pal in a magic box, Jambi, played by John Paragon. John was also The Breather on ELVIRA'S MOVIE MACABRE.

Pee-Wee's pal, Hammy, pays him a visit. When Hammy's cute sister, Susan, comes looking for him, the boys put on their shoe mirrors and invite her to come inside...

But, the joke's on them, she informs the boys that she isn't wearing any underwear, which really grosses them out!! Nicole Panter plays Susan, she's the wife of the playhouse production designer, underground comix legend, Gary Panter! She also managed the LA punk band, THE GERMS!!

It's always depressing to see Phil Hartman here. Phil plays the salty and socially backwards sailor, Kap'n Karl.

Pee-Wee's curious about tobacco, so, the Kap'n loads up a pipeful for him to sample and says to take a giant puff. Pee-Wee turns green and goes on a psychedelic spinout after just one hit of the wacky weed!

Then, Kap'n Karl pulls out this drawing and asks Pee-Wee what's missing on the Mermaid! The answer is... A belly button!

Miss Yvonne drops in and does an exotic, girl dance. Pee-Wee gets a vantage point to watch.

When Pee-Wee asks this lady from the audience, who he's trying to hypnotize, "Do you feel hypnotized, Joan?" Joan says, "Yes." Pee-Wee looks shocked and replies... "You do?!!"

Then, we find out why he put her under the puppet's evil spell!

Pee-Wee orders a pair of hands for Jambi through the mail! There's also a poster of Rat Fink behind him.

Mr. and Mrs. Jelly Donut show up for a big musical number that includes Pee-Wee! That's a Flamingo Guitar Mr. Donut is playing!

Pee-Wee gets his wish in the end and flies around like a bird in the sky! Tune in Wednesday when Eegah!! brings us... Who the Hell knows! He just got a new batch of rare wild 'n' weird flicks to share!!

FANTÔMAS SE DÉCHAÎNE - Michel Magne - "Fantomas Strikes Back" (1965)

     

Tonight's special feature is the number two movie in the famous, in my world, Fantômas trilogy, "Fantômas Strikes Back!" Wow, this Danish poster really doesn't do the knockout Mylène Demongeot any justice at all!

The first "Fantômas" movie in this series left it wide open, so one year later, here we go again!

Fantômas Strikes Back!! The wacky theme song was written by Michel Magne, and sounds like the illegitimate child of Esquivel and Vic Mizzy!! Michel wrote the music for all three of the Fantômas films!

This movie starts with bumbling fool Commissaire Juve being honoured for ridding the world of the horrible menace known as Fantômas!! Appause!

Then the Commissaire receives a special congratulatory note from Fantômas himself that ruins the whole day! What a party pooper! On the left is Jean Marais as Fandor, he also has the role of Fantômas but it's not like a Superman secret identity, it's just one actor doing two roles! In the middle is Fandor's secretary and girlfriend, the stunning Mylène Demongeot as Hélène!

Meanwhile, back at the unclear power plant! Don't you just wanna pop that thing?

It really doesn't seem possible, but the Fantômas character first graced the silver screen in 1913!

Uh, Oh, looks like something has gone awry!

These Fantômas movies are basically kind of like a clash of gadgets between Fantômas and Commissaire Juve! Whose got the better toys?

Fantômas unleashes a remote controlled screaming go-kart bomb!

Commissaire Juve counters with his fake 'hands up' outfit!

There's a gala masquerade ball that Commissaire Juve and his men have to infiltrate! They don't exactly blend in!

It's a convoluted affair as Fantômas, looking like Aladdin, tries to put the make on Hélène!

Time for Commissaire Juve to break out his peg-leg machine gun so they can escape!

Instead, everybody is knocked out, captured, and transported to Fantômas's special hidden underwater sanctuary!

In my humble opinion, Mylène Demongeot as Hélène is cute as a button! She doesn't seem to be able to take a bad picture, but I read in her bio that when she was a teenager, she had to have surgery because she had crossed eyes! Crossed eyes or not, I'll bet she was still gorgeous! Mylène is still alive and well, and has films in production right now!

It's the old "give the guards the cigars with the bullet loads in them, time it just right and get them to face each other" routine, once again courtesy of Commissaire Juve!

 Fantômas's den is not quite as extensive as Dr. No's digs, but a pretty swinging pad just the same!

But when the whole place goes up in smoke, run like Hell!!!

They almost get him this time, but the door stays wide open for a chance for one more sequel, and that will be coming up one of these days soon, "Fantômas Vs. Scotland Yard!"