ZOMBIE HOLOCAUST / aka DOCTOR BUTCHER aka ZOMBI 3 - 1980

In this Italian multi-titled movie, members of an expedition in search for the last followers of Kito the cannibal god, land on a small island in the Moluccas, in the East Indies. They are soon hunted by both cannibals (with machetes) and zombies created by the sinister Doctor O'Brien (Doctor Butcher) who is experimenting with corpses. Lori, a woman on the expedition team, is accepted as queen of the cannibals, and directs them against the mad scientist and his army of zombies.

This wild production stars Ian (I, MONSTER) McCulloch, Alexandra (THE NEW YORK RIPPER) Delli Colli, Sherry (TENTACLES) Buchanan, Peter (HOMICIDE: LIFE ON THE STREET) O'Neal and Donald (GHOSTHOUSE) O'Brien.

We'll start with this scene where the focus is some strange goings on the island of Moluccas, where, grisly deaths are being discovered...

These photos make little sense, if these were the work of cannibals, why are they not being eaten? So, Lori Ridgeway, the woman at the meeting, gets a crew together to go to the island to find out some answers.

Once the crew arrives on Moluccas, someone is watching Lori undress through her window.

Then, all Hell breaks loose when the cannibals smells blood in the air. Man, those machetes are freaking effective when it comes to making a statement!

If that's not bad enough, there are also zombies roaming around too! Here're their ugly faces.

This is what the cannibals do to a main dude on the expedition! Not real pretty!!..

In the meantime, Dr. Obrero, aka Dr. Butcher, continues to experiment on whatever body he can get his hands on. This time it's a woman, and, why the Hell not, right?!

Somehow, Lori becomes the Cannibal Queen in a nudie ceremony... Now what?

St the same time, Lori's beau, Peter, has been captured by the mad doctor. While him and his new helper are distracted by an experiment, Peter cuts himself loose from the leather straps...

At the opportune moment, Peter uses the scalpel to slit the throat of the traitor that was part of the expedition. Maybe he can be another zombie for the doctor's army of doom.

Peter is stopped from making his escape, the zombies have him securely in tow. But, Lori has ordered the cannibals to invade the doctor's place, and soon thereafter, the cannibals have eaten most of old Doctor Butcher! Peter and Lori escape into the jungle, ending this tale.

Here's the poster for the alternate title. Love it, Salvador Dali is Doctor Butcher, wild ass shit! Tune in again Wednesday for more cool junk, from, The Dungeon!

YOUR SHOW TIME - "The Mummy's Foot" (1949)

 The Mummy mood I'm in keeps moving forward into the past, and that's why this Saturday Night Special is called "The Mummy's Foot!"

That's probably the worstest Mummy title I've ever heard, but this is actually a pretty good little tale, even if there's not a real bandaged up Mummy in it! 

I've never read the story, but from what I can tell, this TV show is absolutely based on this story by Théophile Gautier, even though they give him no credit at all, and instead credit the story to Stanley Rubin. It's either that or just a coincidence that the main character is named Princess Hermonthis in both the book and the movie!

 "The Mummy's Foot" was episode number 4 out of 26 episodes from a television show called
"Your Show Time" that ran for one season back in 1949! The host, or The Bookshop Man as they call him, was Arthur (Daughter of Dr. Jekyll) Shields! Lucky Strike must have been the sponsor, because he chain smokes through all his parts!

 Herbert Anderson has the role of a writer named Peter who is writing a play set in ancient Egypt. Yes, his apartment is adorned with Egyptian stuff, and he is walking like an Egyptian to get in the right frame of mind.

 This is Peter's girlfriend, soon to be his fiancée, Sylvia, as played by Peggy Dow.

"The Mummy's Foot" was the first of Peggy's ten credits. Maybe being in a movie with a human-sized invisible rabbit named "Harvey" was enough for her because she quick acting soon after that.

 Peter might already have a lot of Egyptian antiquities, but he's really happy because he just found a 3000 year old mummified foot at an antique store! Sylvia is less enthralled!

 This was Herbert Anderson's first appearance on TV, but he ended up being on a number of shows over the years. Probably the epoch of his career was his five year, and 146 appearances as Dennis The Menace's Dad, Henry Mitchell.

 Look who just walked in the room! It's Princess Hermonthis herself, in the flesh!

 Peter is taken off guard and is totally astounded by the sight of her!

 Why has the Princess just shown up out of the blue?

She's come to regain her foot that looters stole from her tomb!

 The gorgeous Princess Hermonthis is played by none other than
Phyllis Coates, Lois Lane herself!

The Princess is going to take Peter back to her home so her Father, the Pharaoh, can thank him!

 Peter's digging the idea for more than one reason!

 Who cares how, but somehow they are magically scooted off to ancient Egypt!

She really wants Peter to marry her, and become her seventh husband. Her other six husbands were all stuck into large urns and unceremoniously dropped into the Nile River when they pissed her off!

 The Princess shows her Father that she got her foot back!

The Father is played by J. Edward (Son Of Dracula) Bromberg. He was accused of being a Communist in 1950, and was blackballed from acting after that. His health soon went to Hell, and he had a heart attack the following year! He was only 47 years old!

 Oddly enough, something we don't see in these old movies much any more, Phyllis Coates and Peggy Dow are still both alive which puts them both in their early 90's!

No Mummy's curse here!

When Peter gets back home, he wakes up, and realizes the whole thing was a dream, but there's just one thing!

The foot is gone!

FRANKENSTEIN / Bob Tinnell: Monster Kid Home Movies - 1977

I searched through all my TV junk looking for anything Mummy, and, Hell No, I don't gots nuthin'... So, here's another Monster Kid Mome Movie by Bob Tinnell from 1977. I noticed that this one has fairly good production values, nice title card, no overexposed scenes, etc. In this 1:51 minute tale, our lil' mad scientist creates his own Frankenstein Monster!!

Looks like it's time to clean his corpse up a little before he brings it back to life...

Getting it right takes lots of calculations and equipment settings tuned exactly to the correct voltage to assure success!.. Hey, nice wallpaper.

It's time to test his theory about reanimating a pieced together corpse... You know, sparklers always do the trick for kids, I mean, wow, what a great effect. But, wouldn't it work better if both of 'em were lit, right?!

Okay, let's take a look under those bandages and see what we gots going on here...

WHAT THE!!..... He doesn't look that annihilated!.. Stupid kids!! What's that thing on his nose?.. Anyway?

Then, everything goes haywire! Typical monster, it wants to choke everything in sight.

He seems happy as Hell doing his thang, but, what's with the eye makeup?!

The Monster stands up and pushes our little mad doctor to the floor. And, wouldn't you know it, there's a pirate pistol just sitting there, what luck!

The little guy pulls the trigger, and POW, right in the chest!!

Our mad scientist is relieved, he lived to tell his tale. I wonder if he'll ever attempt to bring corpses back to life again! I would assume that Bob Tinnell played the Monster. So, join us again tomorrow for more from The Dungeon Gang!