DER HUND VON BLACKWOOD CASTLE - Peter Thomas - "The Horror Of Blackwood Castle" (1968)

"The Hund Von Blackwood Castle" is one of the strangest movies you might just possibly get your grimy mitts on! It's not real scary, but it sure is odd, and THIS really gone musical introduction from the genius mind of  Dungeon hero Peter Thomas that seems to have escaped from some insane asylum somewhere might just give you a clue as to what I'm talking about!!

The plot of "Der Hund Von Blackwood Castle" is too incomprehensible to explain in such a limited amount of time, so I'm not even gonna try!

With a movie like this, you just have to sit back and and enjoy the ride, because it's going to be a wild one!

 

In February 1939, it was reported that Alfred Hitchcock would direct a British Lion production about the life of English writer Edgar Wallace, but unfortunately, it never happened! It might just have been one of the greatest movies ever! Two of the trickiest minds of all time together, wow, that would have been great!!

You're never going to know what's going on until the end, so don't even try and make any sense of it!

Down the road from Blackwood Castle is an inn that houses a number of interesting people!

There's Agnes (Dr. Mabuse Vs. Scotland Yard) Windeck as Lady Agathy Beverto, Alexander (Death and Diamonds) Engel as Doc Adams, and Tilo von (The College Girl Murders) Berlepsch as Agathy's husband, Lord Henry Beverton!

Heinz (The Avenger) Drache is another resident known as Humphrey Connery!

This is the place where it's all happening,
Blackwood Castle!!

The owner of Blackwood castle has died, and his estranged daughter, Jane Wilson, who has never met him, is summoned to the castle to collect her inheritance, the castle itself!

Jane Wilson is played by Karin ( What Have You Done To Solange) Baal.

The castle is full of surprises, and horrors, some real, and some not, like this empty pair of rubber boots!

Arthur (Zimmer 13) Binder as the late Captain Wilson's main man Grimsby, plants one of the Captain's snakes in his daughter's bed, just for kicks!

Karin Baal seems like a real good sport during the whole snake crawling around her head routine!

You know they had to have a great shot or two like this!

Jane Wilson's Mother is a burned out singer in a high class joint called the "Red Rose!"

Edgar Wallace in colour = Eye Candy, as this shot attests to!

Time to bring in the backup team, Siegfried Schürenberg as Sir John of Scotland Yard, for the 12th out of 13 times, and his assistant Ilse Pagé in her 2nd of five appearances as Miss Finley!

Sir John and Miss Finley have a most interesting relationship!

Jane Wilson's Mom, Mady (Dem Täter Auf Dem Spur) Rahl handles snakes without a problem!

The literal translation of "Der Hund Von Blackwood Castle" would be the hound or dog of, not the horror or the monster of! This Dobie is getting some dental implants full of the black mamba's deadly venom, just in case getting chewed up into little pieces isn't enough!

Horst Tappert as Donald Fairbanks is up to his ears in deep shit!!

And NOW he realizes it!!

Will Miss Finley save the day??

That's not for me to say because this hound is a bitch!
I've just barely scratched the surface of this film, but if you want the whole story, it streams on Amazon for $1.99, and that's a pretty good deal!

CREATURES FROM THE ABYSS / Production Film 82 - 1994

Here's an Italian production filmed in Florida, it's all about five teenagers who embark on a boating trip off the coast of Miami and get lost at sea after they're caught in a fierce storm at night. Fortunately, the teens stumble across an abandoned yacht in the middle of the ocean with a mysterious biology lab on board, but, there are also ferocious mutated prehistoric fish running amok. A pretty strange poster for the nineties.

I have a sound clip for your approval, sooooo, you can push the big red 'GO' button located there by our atomic mutant lab, NOW, Rufus The Gnat!.. Here's some... CREATURES FROM THE ABYSS!

Welp, the teens find that yacht and board it. Inside, they cannot find anyone there, but, something there is definitely watching them!

There are tons of bizarre and creepy specimens of sea life in the lab to check out.

One of the guys takes a dead fish and slimes it on a chick's leg for the thrill, or, he's wanting to make a fish sandwich, there's the buns! Your choice of condiments...

You can hear the girls in the sound clip discuss the look of the jarred up little critters.

Something weird is going on in here, better send in the stupid guy to figure it all out.

The yacht is plush, they have booze and music and the girls are scantily clad... Party!!

I like this shot for some reason! Anyway, the girls cook up some fish for dinner for the gang.

Well, the fish makes everyone sick, and, for a damn good reason.. That's some great barf there!

Here are some cool looking fish they find in a freezer, all freaky little prehistoric monsters!

This is an erotic lamp that when you stroke the shaft, well, the bulb gets brighter!!

One guy empties a barrel of fuel onto the floor and lights in on fire, trying to eradicate the terrifying little creatures from the abyss!

One of the guys (the ass hole) gets totally infected and turns into a truly creepy monster dude! He uses the tentacles to whip and beat his victims into submission!

The guy who created the creatures sacrifices himself to the thing, what a way to go!! The ship burns down and only one makes it to safety... We're back tomorrow with more from... The Dungeon!!

KING OF JAZZ - Paul Whiteman (1930)

So an anonymous comment suggested we check out this site for a ton of free cartoons featuring Oswald The Rabbit etc, and if you root around, there's a whole Helluva lot more there than that! And since I'm burned out and was looking a for a quick fix, I downloaded a short cartoon titled "The King Of Jazz!" But there was no title card, and I couldn't find anything about it on IMDB, but what I finally figured out is that this short cartoon is just part of a complete movie from 1930 called "King Of Jazz" featuring Paul Whiteman and his Band!

 So, there's a slight introduction, and then we find famed orchestra leader Paul Whiteman on an apparent safari! The animation is some of the early work of Walter (Woody Woodpecker) Lantz!

 Here comes a mean old lion!

 Paul Whiteman takes aim!

 But the lion pulls his skin down, and bounces the shell off of his ribs!

 The lion ricochets a couple more bullets off of his choppers, and now he's ready to be the hunter instead of the prey!

 Paul's in deep doo-doo now!

 The lion goes after Paul like the Macho Man Randy Savage getting ready to pounce on Superfly Jimmy Snuka!!

 The lion sharpens up his teeth, and he's ready for some chow!

 Some cool 1930's swing provided by violin virtuoso Joe Venuti changes the whole climate of the scene!

The lion busts a groove!

Al Jolson's "Mammy" was released just about a month earlier than "King Of Jazz!"

 While the music is jamming, Paul gets conked in the head by a coconut thrown at him by a monkey!

Freshly out of a job, Ted Cruz tries to explain what just happened! 

Check this out! In the Hungarian version of this film, Bela Lugosi had the role of the narrator!