FORBIDDEN PLANET / MGM - 1956

As promised, here's my Special Super Sci-Fi Halloween Eve post, a movie my dad took me to see in 1956 when I was a whopping 8 years old, and, wow, I would never be the same again!.. This movie is undoubtedly the very best of what came out in the fifties. Also, this is the movie that Eegah!! and I used to compare all movies to, it is virtually flawless...

I have a sound clip for your approval, sooooo, you can push the big red 'GO' button located there by our Robby The Robot model, NOW, Rufus The Gnat!.. Here are some great moments from... FORBIDDEN PLANET!

Here's the C-57D saucer landing on Altair 4 to investigate what happened to the previous crew, there to colonize the planet.

Our heroes are greeted by Robby The Robot, and, he gives them a wild ride in his Robomobile when taking them to meet Dr. Morbius.

Morbius invites them into his amazing home, when he enables the protective shutters, it happens so quickly that the guys react by drawing their blasters.

Anne Francis was so damn beautiful, almost angelic. She plays Altaira, daughter of Morbius.

Doc tries out the mind boost machine and fails miserably, Morbius can make it go up quite a bit higher on the scale. A teen Krell was expected to send it all the way to the top!

Then, Morbius takes Commander Adams and Doc on a tour of the mighty subterranean array of machines that power the planet.

Earl Holliman is the cook, he gets Robby to make him 60 gallons of booze.

Doc makes a cast of one of the terrifying footprints they found near the saucer.

Then, the thing shows up again and the crew's ready for... Whatever! The blasted ID monster is invisible, but, we can see its outline in the electrical field.

Look at this spectacular still I got showing Robert Dix being stomped by the thing.

Then, loveable Jerry is grabbed and thrown to the ground!

Finally, Morbius realizes that his boosted evil subconscious has created the monster and he's helpless to stop it!

Morbius faces to evil and is wounded. The monster is gone now and he tells Commander Adams how to destroy the planet and all the destruction it could create...

We'll end with this very nice Mexican lobby card. Eegah!! will finish up Halloween Countdown tomorrow, be there!

THE HILARIOUS HOUSE OF FRIGHTENSTEIN - Billy Van (1971)

"The Hilarious House Of Frightenstein" was a crazed 70's TV show out of Canada that starred comedian Billy Van, and ran for 131 episodes (All in 1971?)!
Fightenstein! Cool name!!

Pre "Thriller," The honorable Vincent Price got the job as narrator some how, and it went something like 

THIS!!!!

Fishka (Cannibal Girls) Rais was Igor, Billy's vampire Count character's sidekick!

As a comedian, Billy Van was a regular on a couple of TV shows like "The Sonny And Cher Show," "The Bobby Vinton Show," and "The Ken Berry 'Wow' Show!"

Like Lon Chaney Sr., Billy Van was a man of a thousand faces!

Sadly, he passed away in 2003 at the age of 69!

I was in Alaska protecting the public from moose and squirrel during the time that Frightenstein aired on TV, and I'm pretty sure that even though it was Canadian, it never aired in the great northwest where I was! I'm not quite sure if I missed anything or not, but if you or I ever want to find out more, "The Hilarious House Of Frightenstein" airs both on YouTube and Amazon Prime, so it's covered!
EECH!! Indeed!!

TABONGA'S HAPPY HALLOWEEN! TO EVER'BLOODY / 2015

Today, I'm giving out my personal Happy Halloween greeting to all our readers. As I was browsing images for the post, I was drawn to the postcards from 100 years ago because they make it fun without anyone getting their head chopped off our guts pulled out, and, was typical of the imagery when I was a kid. Just to compare my first Halloween outing in 1951 when I was 3 years old, here's what it was like... My girl cousins took a sheet and cut two eye holes in it, that was my costume, a ghost! Most of my relatives lived in the country, so, that's where we went to Trick Or Treat, there were around 10 of us with a few flashlights. The houses were like a half block away from each other to start with and quite honestly, I really don't remember much, just trying to see out of the holes in the sheet was a heck of a chore!

It's all about pumpkins! Almost every single image has a pumpkin in it. We'll start with this great lineup of our little buddies. Eegah!! got super elaborate with pumpkin carving a few years ago, entertaining his kids, grandkids and Trick Or Treaters.

They were very friendly little critters back then. Today, this doesn't make any sense.

And, this little gang of spooks get to tool around in their stylish Gourdmobile.

Don't forget about Devils, they pop in to create the mayhem, you know, it's their job!

It didn't take any high tech computer gimmick to scare kids back then, just notice the creepy little faces on those spooks, it was just simply design.

Hey, there's my black cat, BOO, checking out that pumpkin!

The artwork is so tasty, those illustrators back then really knew how to use color.

I wanted to throw this one in because we needed a little Pumpkin Cake with Whipped Cream!

And this, makes me think that people just don't know how to have fun any more!

Your Halloween Treat is here, this is a tune recorded by our band, Those Beasleys, in 1994. I wrote the music and played guitar and bass on it, and, it's one of my favorites. Enjoy, here's... GHOSTS!

THE THREE STOOGES - "Shivering Sherlocks" (1948)

 I can only hope there are classes in institutions of higher knowledge about the historical significance of characters like SpongeBob SquarePants and The Three Stooges! 

If not, then society is obviously doomed for eternity!

 It's damn near Hallowe'en, and what better time for a spooky but stoogey tale!?

I bought a Three Stooges DVD at Albertsons a few years ago that had "Shivering Sherlocks," "Spook Louder," and "The Ghost Talks on it! Somehow after two features, it mysteriously vanished never to be seen again! Lucky for me and you, stuff like this is readily available on the internet today for free!

In some ways, life has never been sweeter!

 How much simpler can you get than three 50 year old guys who act like pre-pubescent juveniles crammed into a garbage can?

You either love The Three Stooges or you hate them! There is no middle ground!

 In this tall tale titled "Shivering Sherlocks," The Stooges are accused of robbing an armored car, a ridiculous proposition at best!

 Here's a great shot of some awesome high tech equipment from the 1940's!

The boys need to help out there gal pal Christine McIntyre as Gladys Harmon! Christine was in almost as many Three Stooges episodes as the stooges themselves!

 When's the last time you had a good fifteen cent muzzle?

 Wow! What you used to be able to get away with in the name of comedy! Shemp pours some boiling water through a chicken carcass to make some instant chicken soup!

Salmonella City! Gross!!

 This shot of Moe losing the battle to his clam chowder is for Paul from down under!!

They've obviously identified the wrong guys, but I like this shot!

 Man, here's a couple of sleazy weasels for you!

As a kid, I always preferred slapstick Curly to Shemp, but I think as you get older, you gain more appreciation for Shemp's performances! He's still an idiot, but just a little more suave!

Charles Everest Sinsabaugh AKA stunt man Duke York has the role of the monster hunchback dude named Angel! Pretty creepy, really!

 Now this looks like a shot from a classic pre-code comic, and that's difficult to pull off!

The rest of the show is the guys going in circles with Angel in not always such hot pursuit! Most of the time they don't even know he's there until he is directly in their faces!

Classic Stooges!!!

It's really crazy how much enjoyment The Three Stooges have brought to the public over decades while at the same time, a lot of the people who participated in the making of these films didn't have such happy lives at all! Duke York is a perfect example! Sadly, after some 172 acting credits, Duke committed suicide in 1952 with a gunshot wound to the head!

Yingie Yangie! What goes up, must come around!

If you'd like to read a whole sordid list of people associated with The Stooges who either committed suicide or died way before their time by stabbing or health problems, then by all means Check out this list!  It's quite informative, but it's not exactly uplifting, that's for sure!
And stop running red lights, you're really starting to piss me off!