BARON BLOOD / Positively The Most Horrifying Film Ever Made... - 1972

In today's story. a young man returns to Austria in search of his heritage, and there, he visits the castle of an ancestor, a sadistic Baron who was cursed to a violent death by a witch whom he had burned at the stake. The young man reads aloud the incantation that causes Baron Blood to return and continue his murderous ways!

This crazy thing stars Joseph (FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON, LATITUDE ZERO, LADY FRANKENSTEIN) Cotten, Elke (THE WRECKING CREW, LISA AND THE DEVIL, THE HOUSE OF EXORCISM) Sommer and a big pile of Euro actors to scream their heads off most of the time!

It starts with Peter and Eva (Elke) finding a place in his ancestor's castle to repeat an incantation to bring back his dead cursed relative... Baron Blood!

Welp, the damn incantation works! And, the Baron is on the loose once again... The first thing he does is pull his trusty blade out and take care of a little unfinished personal business!!

In his human form (Joseph Cotten), he has bought back his old castle. Now, he roams the corridors there, just looking for any kind of trouble that might come his way.

Okay, this guy's next on the list. A nice gruesome hanging is the order of the day!

This poor dude gets a metal spiked coffin lid shut abruptly down on his meaty face!!

Here's a fun look at the Baron's torture dungeon. Makes me think how lucky those filmmakers in Europe are, just look at this goddamn gorgeous set, wow!!

In this scene, he's even out stalking an innocent little five year old girl.

So, Eva, Peter and their friend meet at the castle with the shape shifting creep. Things go okay for a while, until...

The gang find themselves in dire straits!

Eva accidentally drops the magic amulet on the guy who got the spikes in the face.

And, he assumes the power now and the Baron loses his!.. Little baby gonna cry?!

All Hell breaks out when all the people he killed and tortured come back to life and give the Baron a dose of his own medicine!! We're back Wednesday, so, don't miss it...

THE LONE GUNMEN - Episode One - "Pilot" (2001)

Now that Halloween is over, we can get back to more different stuff, and tonight's Saturday Night Special Feature is just that! Different!!

I don't know where I've been half my life, but I sure have missed out on a lot of cool TV shows over the years like "The Lone Gunmen!" Thank The Lord I have a friend in Germany to help  get me up to date on things like this!

"The Lone Gunmen" is the brainchild of the creators of "Breaking Bad," Vince Gilligan, and John Shiban, with the help of Chris Carter, and is a spinoff of "The X-Files," so you know it's got a good chance of being good. I think it was just way ahead of it's time! This is a show about three hackers trying to inform the world about the way things really are, just like the headline of their publication indicates!

As you can imagine, these stories are a bit tongue in cheek, and that's what makes them so good!

This show starts with a big computer corporation announcement of the new latest and greatest chip they've created!

One of  "The Lone Gunmen" is creating a diversion by being a heckler!

The guy with the ponytail is Dean Haglund as Richard 'Ringo' Langly." The other two Gunmen are Bruce Harwood as John Fitzgerald Byers, and Tom Braidwood as Melvin Frohike who is exactly one day older than me! All three of them were the same characters on numerous
"X-Files" episodes!

The reason for the diversion is they have an elaborate plan to get their hands on that new chip!

There's the culprit!

Because this was an early show about computers, you get a lot of shots like this!

Ka-Fn-Blooie!

There's not a lot of violence, because this show is more story than action!

This is a great shot!

She's a pretty good shot herself!

 Zuleikha Robinson is Yves Adele Harlow! How's that for a mouthful?

And of course the guys drive a vintage VW bus!

They finally get to have a good headline!!

"The Lone Gunmen" is a pretty good show from what I've seen so far, and now I'm looking forward to watching the rest of the episodes! Too bad it was only on for one season!!

BEANY AND CECIL / The Rat Race For Space - 1962

Here's a fun cartoon for a Friday, this time Cecil gets involved with the race for space and tries to help Little Ace in his effort to go into space!

Here's Little Ace getting ready to be shot into space...

Three... Two... One... Squeeeeze!!

Of course, the capsule comes down right on Cecil's head!

Cecil learns that Little Act wants his mommy, so...

Cecil goes out looking for her! Robert had balls, he uses Mickey Mouse to help Cecil search out Ace's mom.

Cecil comes across these cool cat bats playing beatnik music. He asks if they've seen said mommy and they answer his question with a baseball bat...

Then, Cecil finds this amorous moose instead of a Mommy Mouse!

Well, Mommy Mouse is blasting off into space this time, but, him and Ace get there too late. Good news is that the capsule comes down and hits Cecil in the head yet again!

Ace and his mom celebrate the cosmic event with a photo...

When Cecil joins in, Mommy Mouse shoots him with an exploding marshmallow! Hey, tune in tomorrow when Eegah!! joins in on the fun!!