EVENT HORIZON / Golar Productions, Impact Pictures - 1997

Welp, here we go with Thanksgiving Week at The Dungeon. Today, I gots a tasty feast for your eyes from the year 2047, when a group of astronauts are sent to investigate and salvage parts of the lost star ship, the Event Horizon. The ship had disappeared mysteriously seven years earlier on its maiden voyage, but, with its unsuspected return there are even more questions about the mystery as the crew of the Lewis and Clark ship discover the real truth behind its disappearance and something even more terrifying... Boo-Wah!!

The flick stars Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill and Kathleen Quinlan and caused quite a buzz when it was released, being compared to a host of other productions, and, the movie bombed at the box office.

Here are the crew of the star ship, Lewis and Clark, as they head out on their deadly voyage into the void, They are sealed in liquid to prevent themselves from being crushed by the extreme gravity forces.

In deep space, everything is just fine with the crew as they talk about their mission...

Finally, they find the Event Horizon and close in on the mystery ship, time to get inside and see what the Hell happened to the crew!

Upon boarding the Event Horizon, the crew finds evidence of a massacre! As they search for any survivors, the ship's gravity drive automatically activates and one of the crew members is briefly pulled into a portal. When pulled out, he's in a catatonic state and seems to be terrified by whatever he saw there. The activation of the gravity drive causes a shock wave that damages the Lewis and Clark, forcing the entire crew to board the Event Horizon!

Then, things start getting weird... Err, I mean, Extra Weird!! Just see for yourself...

Hallucinations and nightmares take over the minds of the crew members!

It's deduced that the ship's gravity drive opened a gateway into a dimension outside the known universe and that this Hellish dimension turned the Event Horizon into a Devilish being that torments occupants and lures them back to Hell!

So, have a Happy Thanksgiving! Be thankful that you didn't take a trip on the... EVENT HORIZON!! Come back Wednesday as I'm sure Eegah!! will have a tasty treat for us, til then...

ANNO 2020 - I GLADIATORI DEL FUTURO - "2020 - Texas Gladiators" (1982)

Tonight's Saturday Night Special is a film I found for free on the Internet Archive called

 "2020 - Texas Gladiators!"

It's pretty much a giant piece of fecal matter, so let's just flush it, and see what happens!

"2020 - Texas Gladiators" is a 1982 Italian vision of what a post apocalyptic, post Trump Texas of the future is going to look and be like, and it's not a pretty picture, by any means!

The world has gone nuts, and while that wasn't too hard to figure out, I'm pretty sure the worst part of the future is going to be the music, if this soundtrack by Italian composer Carlo Maria (Touch Of Death, Shocking Dark, Deep Blood, Body Puzzle) Cordio) is any indication!

Here's just a couple of minutes to get you in the mood!

It's a world so horrible that nuns cut their own throats instead of fighting back!

A world where you get crap like this on your bicycle tire!!

At least the oil fields are a lot more colorful place than they are today!!!

The whole world has already gone up in flames, so I don't know why you would need a smoke alarm!

There's a weird juxtaposition between elements of the past and of the future!!

Here's a super-duper cardboard car of the future!

So, what do you think? Is this the look of the future?

Or is this the look of the future?

'2000'

'2019'

'2020'

 '2033'
I don't know about you, but I'm starting to see a pattern!!!

 If I was you, I'd just watch "BrainDead" instead!
You'll get a lot more bang for your buck!

ALLISON HAYES - Her Horror & Sci-Fi Movies From 1957-63

Here's another special Friday post, just for you... First of all, Allison participated in the 1949 Miss America pageant as Miss Washington, D.C. In 1955, after she arrived in Hollywood, Allison's agent wanted to get her an interview with Cecil B. DeMille! Allison resembled a drawing of Sephorah, wife of Moses in The Ten Commandments. DeMille asked her to come to his office and under orders from her agent, Allison didn't mention that she was under contract to Universal. International! But, when DeMille was informed that Allison was a U-I employee, he threw her and her agent off the lot!! Roger Corman says he considered using Allison in LAST WOMAN ON EARTH, but, chose Betsy Jones-Moreland after seeing her in a play in Hollywood. Allison is best remembered for her role as Nancy Archer in the cult classic, ATTACK OF THE 50 FOOT WOMAN in 1958, which I actually saw when it came out in 1958. Lucky me!!

Allison's first role in a horror movie was in ZOMBIES OF MORA TAU in 1957 which also featured Gene Roth as limo driver, Sam, who purposely runs down zombies!!

Also in 1957, she starred in Corman's THE UNDEAD as the witch, Livia. Eegah!! has/had this beautiful classic poster in his collection! Too bad the movie sucks!

Allison stars in the very weird THE UNEARTHLY in 1957 along with John Carradine, Myron Healey, Sally Todd and the big guy, Tor Johnson.

Also in 1957 (a busy year for Allison), she stars in the jungle horror, THE DISEMBODIED.

Then, in 1958, Allison stars in the wild, ATTACK OF THE 50 FOOT WOMAN. Shes' out to get revenge on her husband and his lover, played by William Hudson and sexy, Yvette Vickers.

She was part of the cast in the short lived TV series, MEN INTO SPACE. This Dell comic is the closest thing to a poster I could find.

Allison is tormented by THE HYPNOTIC EYE in 1960. The movie uses HypnoMagic to hypnotize the many victims of Desmond. I had this one-sheet poster until I sold it on eBay.

Lastly, Allison had a small role in this extra weird flick, Joseph F. Robertson's production of THE CRAWLING HAND in 1963. That's one kitschy cool poster there!!

Now, here are a few shots of Allison to enjoy...

Her untimely death in 1977 was a sad moment in film, we will always love her performance as the 50 Foot Woman. Be back tomorrow for more stuff, from... The Dungeon!

THE FATAL GLASS OF BEER - W.C. Fields (1933)

It was 83 years ago when "The Fatal Glass Of Beer" was made!

Great title, and I say "Cheerz" and welcome to another Weird-Ass Wednesday from down in The Dungeon!

Search IMDB and you'll find a reference to a 1916 release called "The Fatal Glass Of Beer" made by Tod (Freaks) Browning, starring Elmo (Tarzan) Lincoln, but then they go on to tell you that there is no known copy of the film ever produced or released!  

So, I personally have some inside information from a qualified source who told me that some time in the 1960's, Ed Wood produced a film starring Boris Karloff, James Dean, Janis Joplin, and almost the whole cast of "West Side Story" about teenage virgin zombies called "Walker Stomp" that has an impossible to find Grateful Dead with Neil Young on kazoo soundtrack!

The world is SO freakin' weird! How does stuff like this work? The man on the left is a guy named Richard Cramer! Richard had 257 acting credits from 1927 to 1952, and a gentleman whose name should be a household word, but I'm willing to bet that 99.9% of anybody who reads this will have no idea who he is! These days, it only takes one shitty song, and you're on the top of the world! How does that work?

W.C. Fields does his best impersonation of Joni Mitchell playing the zither with gloves on incapable of actually anything called "The Fatal Glass Of Beer," and a sad story indeed it is!
"Don't go round breakin' people's tambourines!"

A guy drinks a glass of beer, and guess what?

What the Hell did you think?? Of course, he dies!

It's a "Fatal Glass Of Beer!"

This dogsled has one dog who is not doing his share! Reminds me of when I was in basic training, and we had to do the 150 yard man carry! You carried a guy piggyback approximately the same weight as you through beach sand for 150 yards. I had a buddy who was the Hawaiian Golden Gloves heavyweight champion, and I was 115 pounds, so he volunteered to carry me both ways, and I don't know how, but some how we got away with it!

The on-running gag in "The Fatal Glass Of Beer" is W.C. Fields opening the door to the cabin and saying "It ain't a fit night out for man nor beast," and each time getting blasted in the face with a fistful of fake snow!

I think my favourite comedic part in the film is the dinner table scene where W.C. keeps dipping this whole loaf of bread into whatever broth they're eating!

Then, there is the running with the elk!

I didn't count them, but there's enough time to reprise the snow in the face bit one last time, because it's just as funny as it was the first time! I found this copy of "The Fatal Glass Of Beer" on the Internet Archive, but you can also find it on YouTube!

 It's only 18 minutes, go for it!