WILD THING - "Asphalt Kid" (1987)

It's a Wild Thing Wednesday down in The Dungeon this week!

He's "A Loner. A Legend. A Hero!"

 The  music and the movies  of the 50's and the 60's were so great , and the early 70's were good, but by the time we got to the 80's, it was anything goes! Whether that was a good or a bad thing, only time will tell! "Wild Thing" is a pretty damn fine example!

"Wild Thing" starts off in a hippie van in 1969!

Some street thugs off this young couple in the van, and their son just happened to witness the whole gruesome ordeal! There's your story!

The worst part is this stupid dirty cop was also in on the dastardly deed!! These two chickenshit bastards are Maury (Def-Con 4) Chaykin as the bad cop who will go on to be the bad Chief of Police, and Robert (Gangster Wars) Davi as Chopper who ends up being a local kingpin!

The little boy escapes by jumping in a river, and they think he drowned, but instead he's taken in by a street lady who teaches him about the evil blue coats and white coats!

The lady dies and the kid grows up roaming the streets like a feral cat!

The kid eventually becomes a local legend! Everybody's heard about him, but few have actually seen him in the flesh!

Kathleen (Twilight Zone: The Movie, The Hills Have Eyes, Apollo 13) Quinlan is Jane! Imagine that!

The mostly mute Tarzanesque young man and Jane's paths cross a number of times, and he finds himself having feelings for her that he has never experienced before!

Chopper reading GQ magazine gives you a good idea of the kind of humor infused into this film written by John Sayles, who among many other things, also wrote "The Brother From Another Planet!"

The legend of the "Wild Thing" becomes reality when he is forced to become visible to save Jane from the street punks!

He saves a gal from a fire, and almost loses his life in the process, and is taken into custody! "Wild Thing" was played by Robert Knepper, who has been quite busy for many years now, and has played everybody from Robert F. Kennedy to Frank Sinatra to William 'Clock King' Tockman!

Beware of the white coats she said!

The jig is up, and now Chopper and the Police Chief know that the kid they thought was dead is indeded the notorious "Wild Thing," and he's got their number!

I just like this shot because when I think "Light Lunch," I sure wouldn't consider Spaghetti, Lasagna and Pastrami!

Jane gets "Wild Thing" to talk, and they fall in love!

 Freakin' KRONOS! and Yes Virginia, they do use the song "Wild Thing" by The Troggs throughout the movie, but it doesn't sound like the original version to me, so they must have reworked it!

I sort of liked "Wild Thing," it's kind of stupid, but entertaining, and I'm pretty damn sure you've most certainly seen worse!

DALEKS' INVASION EARTH 2150 A. D. / Who Were These Demons From Another World?? - 1966

Here's the follow up to DR. WHO AND THE DALEKS from a year earlier, based on a story from the BBC TV serial, DOCTOR WHO. The story goes like this... Dr. Who and his companions arrive on Earth in the year 2150 AD, only to discover that the planet has been invaded and its population enslaved by the dreaded Daleks. Our time travelers assist human resistance groups to foil the Daleks' plan to mine the Earth's core.

It stars Peter (THE CREEPING FLESH) Cushing, Bernard (FAWLTY TOWERS) Cribbins, Ray (THE FLESH AND BLOOD SHOW) Brooks, Andrew (FIVE MILLION YEARS TO EARTH) Keir, Roberta (THE BEAST IN THE CELLAR) Tovey and Jill (DR. SYN, ALIAS THE SCARECROW) Curzon.

Dr. Who and his pals land their phone booth lab in the year 2150, a policeman goes into the booth but when they come out, the city has been devastated. So, like, what in the Hell has happened here?!

After some investigating, the doc and Tom spot something coming out of the water. Dr. Who has seen these little demons before, it's them goddamn Daleks!!

They gas humans to start with, then take them to a special lab to make them obedient slaves!

Here are a couple of shots of the Dalek's underground structures, looks like lotsa fun!

I swear, there's like 20 minutes of comedy relief after a few humans infiltrate the Dalek's defense and pretend to be one of the invaders' slaves... Goofy with comedic music even!.. What the Hell, even!!

Then, the mother ship makes a landing, bringing more problems for the humans! This spaceship appeared in another British movie that we've reviewed, but, I totally can't remember what the title is. That gots to be one of the stupidest spaceship designs ever (I probably wrote the same thing about the other ship in movie I can't remember). Those teeny tiny landing gear in proportion with the thing itself are just.. freakin'.. Horrible! It also looks like a luxury liner, scary color too! (actually, I think that other movie is THEY CAME FROM BEYOND SPACE)

Anywho, more Daleks have arrived and one jackass human turns the doc in for a reward!!

Here's a glimpse of the area the Daleks are mining, with its eerie glow and all.

Dr. Who gets the Daleks to explain what their mission is, and gets lots more info to boot.

The people use an ore bucket and knock over a Dalek just standing there in front of the rails! And then, the Dalek's power generator gets rolled down a shaft to its demise!

The Daleks all load into their spaceship and have the place rigged to explode!

Everything's going bonkers in the Dalek's underground installation... WHEEEE!!

The mountain blows the Hell up, and suddenly, the ship loses power and crashes into the countryside, destroying every single Dalek on board!!

Well, everything turns out great, Tom is sent back to his time sans the Dalek invasion!.. Tune in Wednesday when Eegah!! lets loose with more of his Dungeon spin!

NABONGA - "Weird Loves" (1944)

I think it's about time for another Gorilla Suit Saturday Night Special in The Dungeon, so tonight I've got one of the true classic gorilla suit movies, from 1944, it's Tabonga's third cousin on the primate side......

......"NABONGA" also known as "GORILLA."

An  African Airways plane full of stolen Jewelry has gone down in the jungle! The only passengers are a man and his young daughter.

After the plane crashes, the devious man shoots the pilot, and the girl is whisked off into the deep dark depths of the jungle by a large gorilla!

 The next thing you know it must be about eight years later, and all the local people know about the white witch of the jungle who has powers over some of the animals, especially one gorilla in particular!

A few days ago he was drinking martinis with Ray Danton, and now he's back in the jungle where he belongs! Barton MacLane is Carl Hurst, but he reminds me a lot of George Bush!

Buster (Flash Gordon) Crabbe as Ray Gorman needs to find that treasure, and Prince (South of Suez) Modupe as Tobo is more than happy to help him, since Ray just stopped another man from stabbing him.

Fifi D'Orsay as Marie was actually Canadian but you'd never guess it from the her accent or this outfit!

She's Carl's little henchwoman!

Tobo draws this very detailed map that shows how to get to the downed plane wreckage!

Ray Gorman has no idea what he's getting himself into!

Julie London was only 18 when this film was made!

If you spent as much time in thrift stores as I have looking at records, you would have seen Julie London's whole catalogue of music at some point. The smokey, sultry, sexy singer was probably only outdone by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass in the 'donated to charity' department!

Buster does a good job of looking genuinely terrified by Ray Corrigan, the man inside the gorilla suit!

Ray Gorman and the white witch have a tentative relationship. He kind of likes her, but he really only wants the jewels, and she kind of likes him, but she's not giving them up because they're hers!

Somebody should have remade this film a few years ago, and used Drew Barrymore as the white witch! Asking who does her hair or where she gets her clothes would almost make as much sense as asking.......

......How Ray and Marie put this gorilla trap together in about 15 minutes!

Carl and Marie end up getting their just rewards!

Dig deep folks! We still needs it!!

More not truth in advertising! Her picture isn't even in this one, and in all the other posters Julie London has the smallest credits, but then Ray Corrigan has no poster credits, and is known only as Nbonga, so I guess it all works out!!