DRACULA'S LAB / Richard Olson: Monster Kid Home Movies - 1967

Okay, since Halloween Countdown is back in the grave, I plan on ricocheting all over the place this month since I have a big variety o' stuff to choose from. Today, we gots another episode of terror from those Monster Kids back in the day!

Oh yeah, the dumb kids forgot to make a title card, so, I made one for them...

Well, it looks like someone's in their dime store mad lab, doing something! Wonder what it is...

So, first you add some Dr. Pepper, then some Fizzies and licorice Neccos, add sugar, stir well and drink it all down. What could possibly happen now, you ask...

Here's what could happen... A freakin' little Dracula!

Then the crazy little vampire transforms into a bat after a giant puff of smoke fills the lab...

And viola, he's at the cemetery, in the daytime!!.. What the Hell kind of Dracula is he, anyway?

He starts running, he runs and runs and runs through the gravestones. In the first pic, you can see that Lil' Drac forgot to tuck his shirt in, stupid kids!

He runs a long time before he comes across another stupid kid, taking a nap!! Actually, he's supposed to be dead, because...

The vampire drags the guy all the way to his lab, which was about a mile away from the cemetery according to my estimation. I'd bet the dead guy's left side is scraped raw!!!

Anyway, Dracula somehow gets the dead one on the slab and puts two dealie-bobs at his neck.

He turns on the juice and before long the dead kid just wakes up! What the Hell now?

Drac looks at some x-rays he just made, and, after he checks them out, the stupid movie just ends!!.. So, if I wuz you, I'd tune in tomorrow to see what old Eegah!! has in store for us all, see you there, here, at The Dungeon!!..

WITCH'S NIGHT OUT - "Happy Halloween" (1978)

Wow! That month went by really fast, so here ya go, this is our last offering in this Countdown To Halloween 2019, and it is a short animated feature from 1978 called

"Witch's Night Out!"

This is the home of the witch in the daylight hours. It just looks like a rundown olde mansion!

This is the star of the show, the witch! 

The witch's voice is done by the always hilarious Gilda (99 Episodes of Saturday Night Live) Radner! It's a real bummer that Gilda passed away at only 42, a victim of cancer back in 1989!

These two kids out trick or treating are named Tender and Small!

The woman giving out the treats is called Nicely! 

Fiona (Dr. Zonk and the Zunkins) Reid is the voice of Nicely.

Tender and Small try and scare something out of the krazy neighbor lady named Malicious, but that doesn't work! Catherine (Beetlejuice, and the voice of Sally in Nightmare Before Christmas) O'Hara is the voice of Malicious.

The kids are sad because they were not able to scare anybody, and even worse, everybody recognized them! The juxtaposition of the extremely simple artwork of the kids and the elaborate background works well together.

The townsfolk have all decided to go to the olde haunted mansion to have a spooky Halloween party. They don't even know the witch actually lives there!

The witch sees all the creepy people in her house and decides to vacate the premises for the evening!
It's not like they can mess her place up or anything like that!

 

She gets on her broomstick and takes off, and the next thing you know, she's crashed into this window!

Just by sheer luck, the witch has crash landed in the bedroom of Tender and Small.

While the adults are out, a guy named Bazooey is babysitting the kids. They tell the witch that they are not having a fun Halloween because they are not scaring anyone, and she offers to help them out in that situation!

With a wave of her wand, the witch turns Small into a werewolf!

Tender always wanted to be a ghost, and now she is.

Bazooey gets transformed into a Frankenstein character!

The kids finally have a good time and go back to the witch's house and scare all the adults!

Then everything goes to Heck and back. The witch loses her wand and can't change them back.

Malicious finds the wand and tries to change stuff into something with monetary value!

And in the meantime, the townspeople think the kids are missing and that these monsters must have them, and turn into an unruly mob. They only thing they are lacking is torches!

It all gets straightened out in the end, and the witch offers to transform some of the people if they'd like, and Nicely says, she'd always wanted to be a vampire, so...

presto, change-o!

Another character named Rotten gets changed into an angel, and Malicious becomes a fairy princess!

It's all fun, and nobody gets hurt, (just the way it's supposed to be) and the witch invites everybody back to her place for the time of their lives!

We hope you liked the show!

THE OUTER LIMITS / "The Sixth Finger" Season 1 Episode 5 - 1963

This is my last Halloween Countdown Treat this year... In our story, a scientist experimenting with speeding up human evolution hires an uneducated, but bright, young man from the nearby Welsh mining town. He proves a devoted lab assistant, but, not content to stick to animal subjects, his evolution is sped up and he becomes a super genius with six fingers and a huge cranium. But with these powers, what might he be able to do with them?

This classic TV episode stars David (THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E.) McCallum, Jill (THE MUTATIONS) Haworth, Edward (OUR MAN FLINT) Mulhare, Nora (KITTEN WITH A WHIP) Marlowe, Robert (ALLIGATOR) Doyle and Constance (MR. SARDONICUS) Cavendish.

Here's Professor Mathers in his lab, he's working on a machine that can increase or decrease the evolution timeline in animals...

The Professor needs a lab assistant so Cathy brings him Gwyllim, a young mine worker who was just fired from his job. After a few questions, the Professor hires him as his assistant.

Gwyllim's intrigued by Darwin, the Professor's little ape. He can fix electronic equipment among other things, that is, after being evolved by Mathers.

Here's Gwyllim, all cleaned up and in his official lab assistant garb. He has convinced the Professor to let him try out the machine, he wants to be evolved. So, after his time in the chamber, Gwyllim exits a new person, he has evolved 40,000 years into the future! At this point, Gwyllim can read minds!

He suddenly has an urge to acquire knowledge and goes on a book reading binge, he comes across some sheet music and it isn't long before he's a pro at playing the harpsichord...

David's father was first violinist for the London Philharmonic, and his mother was a cellist. David was originally headed for a career in music, playing oboe, studying briefly at the Royal Academy of Music. However, he left that for the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

When the Professor goes to see Gwyllim the next day, the man from the future has evolved yet again! This time, he says that he's from a million years in the future!! And, he has six freakin' fingers instead of five!!!

Mrs. Ives, the Professor's house maid, catches a glance of Gwyllim in his new state and screams out. Mathers comes to see what the problem is and finds the woman on the floor. Gwyllim says that she had to be stopped, that she would have gone into town to spill the beans... So, he stopped her heart. It's never good when the main character kills someone!

Then, it happens again, Gwyllim has evolved even further. After going into the woods, he has an encounter with some motorcycle police, and injuring one of them. Gwyllim has an epiphany where he denounces violence, and so goes back to the lab.

Cathy goes to the lab and finds Gwyllim there, he wants her to push him into infinity so that he can explore the universe as a pure energy being!! That's weird, that's what I want to do too!

But, Cathy pulls the lever backwards instead!..

Here's a great sequence as Gwyllim morphs back to himself, but, she goes too far and he's a caveman! She corrects the timeline and he's back to his old self...

After he exit's the chamber, he notices a tear on Cathy's cheek, he touches the tear and realizes what love and caring is about, then, drops dead! I told you about main characters that murder!.. Well, it'll be interesting to see what Eegah!! has in store for us on Wednesday for our very last post for Halloween Countdown!.. Happy Halloween Ever'bloody!!