BRAIN DAMAGE / Now You're Really Losing Your Mind! - 1988

Here's one especially for our west coast Dungeon Operative, Zillagord... In this twisted story, Aylmer, a rather large, penis-shaped parasite, gives unsuspecting Brian major brain damage by getting him hooked on the hallucinogenic blue fluid that it produces! But, the thousand-year-old worm-like parasite demands something in return for the buzz, human brains! They misspell the little critter's name on the poster! A tale about drug abuse.

This thing stars Rick (WARLOCK III) Hearst, Gordon (THE THIN RED LINE) MacDonald, Jennifer (only acting credit) Lowry, Theo (BIG THUMBS) Barnes, Lucille (only acting credit) Saint-Peter and Dungeon Hero John Zacherley as the voice of Aylmer!

Brian's neighbors love to eat brains, all because they have an ugly little secret.

Oh no, their little pal Aylmer has escaped and they need it back to keep them juiced! They go into a state of shock and withdrawal, foaming at the mouth!

Aylmer ditches the elderly couple to try out a new subject, Brian... Well, hello der!!

Aylmer gets Brian stoned out of his gourd and B wanders into a junk yard. He's hallucinating like a mofo when a guard arrives and roughs him up. Next thing you know, Aylmer attacks!!

Aylmer then directs Brian to this place!! What the?!..

Anyway, Aylmer tells Brian all about its sad tale through the ages. Then, it shows Brian who's boss, it cuts him off from the drug to teach him to do what it wants!!

When Brian's girlfriend gets in the subway car with him, this is what he sees. Unfortunately for her, Aylmer eats her brain!

There's a scene in this movie involving a horny girl, Brian's crotch and Aylmer that is so twisted and disgusting, I just cannot show that still...

But of course, look who's in the car with Brian, it's Duane holding his precious basket!

So, guess who finally show up? Yeah, Brian's manic neighbors, they want their Aylmer back!!

Martha gets Aylmer back, off the back of Brian! But, Aylmer doesn't want them back!

Proof's in the brain pudding!!

After a big tussle though, Aylmer finally gets it, es ist mucho kaput, toast!! That's a wrap!

Okay then, Brian goes home and finds a huge zit on his head, so, he freakin' shoots it. After that, Brian transforms into a psychedelic beacon... You figure it out! Check in again on Wednesday when we beat another Dungeon post out of a bush!

SPASMS - "Death Bite" (1983)

 Sometimes all you can do is say "Wow!" and that's how I feel about this Saturday Night Special feature presentation from down deep in the bowels of "The Dungeon!

This thing is called "Spasms" and like "Wild Thing," it is a Canadian project! An alternate title is "Death Bite." It's about a giant snake with a bite so vicious, that people on the island and other religious groups actually think it's the Devil! The snake's bite is so horrific that in a matter of minutes, a victim will swell up into a bloated mess and eventually just blow apart!

"Spasms" stars Oliver Reed and Peter Fonda, and that's basically the best thing about it!

Oliver Reed's character shares something unexplainable with the snake. It killed his brother, and he now sometimes sees through the snake's eyes. Peter Fonda's character is a Doctor who is supposed to figure it all out. Good luck with that!

Personally, for me Oliver Reed can do no harm! He could just sit in a room and stare, and I'd still find him interesting, and it's a good thing, because that's what he does a lot in "Spasms." 

Peter Fonda is also always fun to watch on the big screen, but for completely different reasons!

Kerrie Keane is Oliver Reed's character, Jason Kincaid's niece. It's slightly odd that Kerrie's first big screen appearance was in "The Incubus" where she played Laura Kincaid!

The side story is there's a serpent worshiping religious cult who also wants the snake!

Al (The Clown Murders) Waxman is the phoney baloney shyster who says he can deliver the snake to the cult! He's an idiot!

This is just a cool portrait of Oliver Reed I had to include!

Jason Kincaid is nuts! He had the snake brought to America. Of course it gets out and goes on a killing rampage and he sees the whole thing!

I'm pretty sure that in every movie Peter Fonda is in, he gets to choose what his character wears, and what kind of vehicle he drives!

A fairly sizable chunk of the film is spent looking at the world from the view of the snake!

This is what the snake saw when this stupid guy from the church opens the box and lets it escape!

The stupidest part of the movie is after the snake kills a couple of people and exists the building, Peter Fonda goes looking for it knowing it will want to find a warm spot, and even though he saw dead bodies with guns couldn't stop the snake, he goes after it with a garden rake.

The snake is now on a mission to kill every female extra on the set!

This one he manages to chase into a bathroom where her blonde room mate is conveniently taking a shower!

We also see a lot of the surrounding countryside through the snake's eyes!

In fact you never see anything but a blur of the snake until the closing minutes

 

It wasn't even easy to get these shots. Too bad, because the snake actually looks pretty scary from these two photos!

I never saw many of these krazy 80's movies the first time around, and ones like this and "Wild Thing" can be pretty entertaining I have to admit. I didn't say good, I said entertaining, and sometimes that's just good enough!

DON'T LOOK IN THE BASEMENT / The Day The Insane Took Over The Asylum! - 1973

Today's title starts with the word 'DON'T' which made me think, what a great word to start a title, and, there are plenty of them!.. Anyway, here, Nurse Charlotte Beale arrives at the isolated Stephens Sanitarium to work, only to learn that the doctor who hired her was murdered by one of the patients! His successor though, Dr. Geraldine Masters, is not eager to take on any new staff. Charlotte finds her job maddeningly hard as the patients torment and harass her at every turn, and she soon learns why Dr. Masters wants to keep outsiders away...

Before the title card is shown though, we get to meet some of the crazy people at the asylum.

Here's a nurse keeping an eye on the inmates as they live out their weird fantasies.

Sam likes to play with his toy boat... Toot... Toot!

A lot of screaming and yelling is the order of the day around here!

And, this dude has an ax that he uses on Dr. Stephens to get things rolling along.

This thing stars Bill (CURSE OF THE SWAMP CREATURE) McGhee, Jessie Lee (PAPER MOON) Fulton, Robert (DOC HOOKER'S BUNCH) Dracup and Harryette (RHODA) Warren with a cast of lesser known actors.

Charlotte shows up after Dr. Stephens gets a sharp ax in the back, Dr. Masters runs the 'show' now and doesn't really want Charlotte to stay, but, she relinquishes...

Ax dude (he's still there and even has his ax handy at all times!) has an insane conversation with some of his inmates, a common scene in this flick.

Seems like they can all wander around and have interactions with each other. Love this flipped out scene... The guy takes the girl's top off and they kiss, she backs off and slaps him and so he starts laughing like a hyena! The movie is chock full of these kinds of nutty situations.

One of the nurses has a little heart-to-heart with the ax-master.

Man, break time!!.. We need to get a little air. Dude ruins it though.

Gawd, this room depresses me!..

And, we have piles of personal nut-job inflection filler to kill some time.

Dr. Masters gets a syringe full of her special serum and goes batty herself!

All the inmates understand that Masters has been using her experimental drug on them, and they're pissed off like a motherfucker!!

Sam comes in to find Dr. Masters in pieces, so, he grabs the ax and kills ever'bloody there!

Charlotte escapes and Sam goes back to his room and cries like a baby! There you go, another horrible ending to a movie. We're back tomorrow with more insanity... See you here!