GOJIRA VS. DESUTOROIÂ - "Godzilla Vs. Destoroyah" (1995)

Welcome to the first Dungeon Saturday Night Special of 2017! Tonight's flick is a little out of my normal date range, but it's plenty weird and it's a Godzilla movie, so I'm willing to give it a break! The name of Godzilla's foe is translated a bunch of different ways from Destroyer to Destrukto, but I like the French title the best:

"GODZILLA VS. DESTROYAH"

Destroyah sounds like the name of a wrassler or the nickname of a boxer!

You might not ever see a better title card than this!

To make it more believable, they set it in the future by one year!

I'm sure for a meager fee Tabonga would gladly make you a painting of this shot!

 Do you think the dollar sign looking fire coming out of Godzilla's tongue is for no reason? The Godzilla franchise has made multi-gazaillions of dollars over the years with not only movies, but cartoons and video games, and is still growing!

By 1996, they have screwed with Godzilla so much that he is now a living nuclear power plant, and he's getting real close to blowing up, and not only destroying Japan, but the whole world!

 They came to one conclusion at the summit! We're Fucked!!

 Is this not the gingiest TV newsroom ever?

 This movie is not exactly a comedy!

 Any person that has taken basic third grade math knows that this means the world is in deep shit!

Crazy ass radioactive crabs mutate into the full blown Destroyah!

 Galeanthropy, Gamic Gamidolatry, or Gigantomachy? What do you think?

 This is one of the coolest doors I've seen lately!

 Here's a couple more mug shots of Destroyah that I think Tabonga could do wonders with on canvas!

 F R EE Z E!!

Destroyah don't listen to nobody!

 The whole world has gone to Hell in a hand bag, and the powers that be choose to watch a "Godzilla" movie on the big screen TV!  Starting to make sense?

 It's hard to believe that the fate of the whole freakin' world is on the shoulders of a guy with a helmet on his head that looks like a watermelon!!

 And now for the news report from the new and improved Stonehenge!

 "Hey!! What's going on inside there anyhow? You cut that out"

 I only have five things to say! Destroyah is one ugly motherfucker!

 NO, NO, Not THE CLAW!!!!

This is a great shot of Godzilla I think!

I'm guessing that out of the hour and forty-three minutes this movie runs, that a good hour and fifteen minutes is monsters fighting or wandering around, or doing something like that!

Does Godzilla melt down and destroy the whole world? Well, kind of, but not exactly! I'll just say this, there have been at least nine more Godzilla movies made since this one was released, so I think you can figure it out from there!

 I'll leave you with this one last shot of the Elvis of all monsters, and here's a minute and nineteen seconds of proof!!

GODZILLA!

WITCHFINDER GENERAL / Tigon British Film Productions, AIP - 1968

It's Friday and do you know what that means?.. Me neither, so, here another movie starring Dungeon god, Vincent Price. The story is written by Tom Baker and Michael Reeves goes like this... England is torn in civil strife as the Royalists battle the Parliamentary Party for control. The conflict distracts people from rational thought and allows unscrupulous men to gain local power by exploiting village superstitions. One of these men is Matthew Hopkins, played by Vinnie, who roams the land offering his services as a persecutor of witches and is aided by his sadistic accomplice, John Stearne. Hopkins travels from city to city and wrenches confessions from "witches" in order to line his pockets and gain sexual favors! When Hopkins persecutes a priest, he incurs the wrath of Richard Marshall, who is engaged to the priest's niece and risks treason by leaving his military duties. Marshall relentlessly pursues Hopkins til the bitter end.

This movie has a ton of alternative titles including THE CONQUEROR WORM.

I don't exactly know why, but, this movie bores the Hell out of me, I just lose interest quickly.

Ian (THE DAY THE FISH CAME OUT) Ogilvy plays good guy Richard Marshall. Here he is with his military pals, then, he visits his fiancee at her uncle's place.

Here are Matthew Hopkins and his sadistic helper, John Stearne, roaming the countryside, looking for more helpers to aid them in their witch finding efforts...

I threw this shot in because I love British country scenes. When I was a kid I spent time out at my uncle's house in the country. About a half mile away was a large area of trees that fascinated me and I would day dream about walking around there... Kids!!

Here's a nice shot of Vinnie as he contimplates his next devilish move... You dirty dog!

Here, Hopkins uses his power to satisfy his carnal needs!.. You dirty pig!

Hopkins goes too far and and hangs a priest, who happens to be the uncle of Richard's fiancee. This turns out to be a big mistake by Hopkins because Richard is now coming for him!

Richard is searching for Hopkins and comes across a fisherman with the White Cliffs of Dover in the background, nice!

Later, Hopkins takes Richard and his fiancee to a castle that has a special Torture Dungeon! But, Richard is able to kick his way out of his predicament.

In a wild scene, Richard uses his spur to take out Reeves, then, he turns his focus on Hopkins!

Well, good old Hopkins gets a number of ax whacks in the back and eventually goes down for the count... Vinnie will rise from the grave and return to star in his next production, SPIRITS OF THE DEAD!

Welp, it's a sad ending with lives torn apart... The good news is that we're back tomorrow with something special from Eegah!! - Here at The Dungeon!!

BUBBLES CASH - "Mars Needs Women" (1967)

Back in 2007, when we first started this blog and were pumping out 30 to 50 of these posts a month, one of the movies I did was "Mars Needs Women," a super cheapo Larry Buchanan TV movie made in T for Texas. Since I was focused mostly on the music back them, a strip club with some sleazy bump and grind music by Ron Stein was very appealing to me. The dancer in the club was a woman named Bubbles Cash (No relation to Johnny) who is quite a legend in Dallas. Bubbles' daughter Keiley Mink left a comment 10 years later, and told me I had the info on her Mom incorrect, and while I was in the process of correcting it, I found this piece of damn interesting information:

 According to the website Flocheer.com, Bubbles Cash was the reason we have the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders today, and here's how the story goes:

"Dallas Cowboys general manage Tex Schramm had a revolutionary inspiration in 1967.

During a Cowboys game against the Atlanta Falcons at the Cotton Bowl, a popular local stripper named Bubbles Cash caused a sensational buzz in the crowd when she walked down the stadium stairs, provocatively dressed, at the 50-yard line carrying cotton candy in each hand.

Schramm decided then and there that his Cowboys needed a cheerleading team dressed similarly to Cash. In 1969, the men were dropped from the "Cow Belles and Beaux," and the squad became known as the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, each year recruiting new members."

 

A newspaper ad featuring exotic dancer Bubbles Cash.

Courtesy of www.dallashistory.org

You can watch the whole enchilada that is "Mars Needs Women" for free on YouTube! It comes with French sub-titles at no extra cost! It's truly amazing how many of the classic old monster and Sci-Fi movies stream for free on YouTube these days like "Devil Girl From Mars," "The Phantom Planet," "Frankenstein Meets The Space Monster," "Journey To The Seventh Planet," "Day Of The Triffids," "Fiend Without A Face," "It Conquered The World," "The Space Children," "This Island Earth," "Teenagers From Outer Space," "The Giant Claw," "Them," "Invasion Of The Saucer Men etc. etc. etc....No wonder nobody wants to go to work any more!!

 The IMDB says that Bubbles was in two other movies besides"Mars Needs Women" in 1967 titled "Hit Hop And 21," and "Hot Thrills And Warm Chills, but Bubbles says she wasn't in those movies, but she was in a movie with her and a lot of water called "Swamp Lust," and a documentary called "Mondo Texas," that I also can't find out any information about, but we're talking about 1960's Texas indie film making, so anything is possible!

Bubbles ran for Governor of Texas as a write-in candidate in 1990 and came in fourth place with 3,275 votes!

 Since this was a made for TV movie, this is as far as the show goes!

Keiley also sent this along and it really shows what a tightwad Larry Buchanan was. It took the company seven years to issue a check for $29.00 for Bubbles' scene!

Keiley also said that Bubbles was interviewed in this impossible to find documentary about "The Sex Pistols" called "D.O.A.: A Rite Of Passage," and since it sells on Amazon for 100 bucks, we're just gonna have to take her word for it! 

There is also an interesting article from WFMU written by Josh Alan Friedman about Jack Ruby, the man who shot the man who shot Kennedy, that has some quotes from Bubbles, because she worked in the same area where Jack Ruby's club was!

Bubbles gives out a trophy at a Karate tournament!

Bubbles Cash! A National Treasure!

Mars doesn't need women like her, Earth needs more women like her!