JACK THE RIPPER / Close Your Eyes And Whisper His Name,, - 1976

One good Klaus deserves a bad one. Welcome to our Friday Flip-Out Feature, Klaus plays a serial killer whose mother was a prostitute, and he starts killing streetwalkers as a way of paying her back for her abuse... Not exactly a Jack The Ripper story, his name isn't even Jack, it's Dennis! Only tie-in is the street girls, he also likes women who perform at cheap bars.

You gotta love Klaus Kinski, a real original. The one day I worked as an extra on the set of TIMESTALKERS, Klause took a wild ride on an ATV and drove through the lunch area, real fast, while we were eating. The weird smile on his face was priceless, I couldn't tell if he was acting or not... Tell you one thing, the dude could ride a horse! Man, he died at age 65.

Well, well, well, who could this be hiding in the shadows at night, stalking women?..

There's the victim, wrapped and ready to be dumped into the stream. But wait a minute, why is there a big old lady tossing the body out of the boat? Oh great, now we gots two mysteries!!

Here's a good portrait of Dr. Dennis Orloff... See, it's a freakin' Orloff flick!

An interesting character is this old blind man who tells the Inspector that he can help the case with some details, as he was witness to the murder. He says that by being blind, his senses are heightened and he can give unique qualities of the person.

In the meantime, Orloff's having a fever dream about Cynthia, a ballet dancer, and girlfriend of the Inspector. She's telling him to come and get her, she's just like his mother, a whore...

My favorite part is when his landlady lets him know that she wants to be his girlfriend... She pours a cup of tea and offers it to him. After a few very weird expressions on his face, Orloff knocks the tea cup out of her hand (you gotta see it, wow) and it flies out of the scene, He gets up immediately and tells her something like... Screw you and your doddamn tea parties!! Needless to say, it horrifies the woman. She starts crying and goes over to the window, with her back turned. He reaches into his bag and pulls out a knife, he walks toward her, but, at the last second decides to go out to find his next victim. Klaus looks sooo strange in this one!

Shame on you prop department! A fisherman snags this mannequin hand (with a painted on light brown patina) and goes to the police... And, they take it as evidence!!!

So, the police bring in a sketch artist to try and figure out what the killer looks like, by interviewing witnesses to the murders. The sketch definitely looks like Orloff, drawn in a modern art style!

No kidding, watching the movie, next scene starts, there's a closed curtain on screen... It quickly opens and we're treated to this fine... Her pose in the bottom still sez it all. Then I thought, hmmm, the audience is a mile away, there's no way they're seeing what we're seeing!!

Orloff captures Cynthia and is torn as to what he wants to do with her. Before he can harm her though, the Inspector and the police show up.

Yeah, his helper's there to the stinking end...

The Inspector tells Orloff to come down from his perch and give up, he's surrounded. After one cop fires a bullet near him, he surrenders with no problems. This one has too many standard story lines to get excited about, it's just a weird one! Tune in tomorrow for more fun, here at The Dungeon!!..

DIE TÜR MIT DEN 7 SCHLÖSSEM - "The Door With Seven Locks" (1962)

It's a Edgar Wallace Wednesday in The Dungeon, and tonight's feature,
"The Door With Seven Locks!"

Another version of  "The Door With Seven Locks" was released in 1940, and then they changed the name to "Chamber Of Horrors!"

The title "Chamber Of Horrors" was then used again for a completely different movie that was made in 1966.

I don't know how many of these Edgar Wallace films they made using these interchangeable cast members, but there's a lot of them, and somehow, they're always good!

In "The Door With Seven Locks" we have Heinz Drache in the lead role instead of Joachim Fuchsberger.

Not such a regular to this cast, I think Savina Sesselmann was only in one other Edgar Wallace film, "The Devil's Daffodil."

Hans Nielsen was in the Edgar Wallace classics "The Indian Scarf," "The Phantom Of Soho," and "The Monster Of London City."

Gisela Uhlen was also in "The Indian Scarf," and "The Hunchback Of Soho."

Pinkas Braun was in the colourful Wallace titles "Secret Of The Red Orchid," and "The Curse Of The Yellow Snake."

The always great Werner Peters was also in "The Phantom Of Soho," and "The Black Abbot."

I'm counting at least eleven Edgar Wallace movies that Klaus Kinski has been in!

Jan Hendricks was in "The Man With The Glass Eye," and "The College Girl Murders!"

This might be the only Edgar Wallace film that Friedrich Joloff was in, but he did a lot of other work like being in six of the seven episodes of  "Raumpatrouille - Die Phantastischen Abenteuer des Raumschiffes Orion," or German "Space Patrol."

The Austrian equivalent to Tor Johnson, and professional wrestler Ady Berber is in this film too.

Ady was also in the super classic "Dead Eyes Of London," and "Dr. Mabuse Vs. Scotland Yard."

Last but not least is Eddie Arent who provided the comic relief in at least 19 Edgar Wallace films by my counting!

You got seven locks, then you're gonna need some keys!

I think there is a close up of an eye or an eye peeping through some weird hole in every Edgar Wallace movie that was ever made!

Snakes don't exist just in the jungle!

It's 'The Door!'

"Hey Klaus, you've got something on your lip right about here!"

Even Klaus Kinski's character Pheeny can't believe how hard it is to find a copy of this film!

It just makes you want to scream!!!

VIRGIN SACRIFICE / Featuring Members Of The Savage Vicuni Indian Tribe! - 1959

In today's deadly adventure, a white hunter in Guatemala falls for a native girl there and must save her from becoming a virgin sacrifice, pretty easy to understand. I had an aunt from Guatemala, boy could she cook!! Oh yeah, it's filmed in Tropicolor!!

This one stars David DaLie as Mr. Samson, Antonio Gutiérrez plays Tumic the native leader, Angélica Morales as Morena and Fernando Wagner as what else, Fernando!

Mr. Samson is taking a canoe trip to San Jose in Guatemala, we get to enjoy some beautiful jungle locations and animal life along the way.

While riding in the boat, Samson has a flashback from the past about seeing a native girl die by a dagger wound in a virgin sacrifice near where he's going, and it still disturbs him...

After reaching his destination, he finds his friend, a fellow hunter, dead. Samson takes from his clutched hand a talisman from a local native tribe...

Samson goes to the cantina to get a drink after he finds his dead friend. There also is Tumic, a member of the tribe that killed his partner for hunting the jungle animals. He despises Samson too, and decides to keep a close eye on him. Check out the bartender!

There are a lot of dance numbers at the cantina, and many are flaming hot, like this shot here!

Well anyway, Fernando and daughter Morena are out enjoying themselves in the jungle, he's fishing and she's bathing nude in the water! The natives show up and kill the old man, then kidnap Morena and take her away in their canoe...

Samson is hot on the trail to retrieve Morena from the natives. He encounters a booby-trap but isn't fooled by the natives' lame attempt to kill him.

The natives even unleash a pile of pythons and vipers in another failed attempt to kill our hero, he's super jungle-wise you know!

So, the natives get Morena to their camp and tie her up, then they mess with her a lot. Samson shows up and wants to speak with their leader...

Holy cow, wouldn't you know it, the freakin' leader is that spiteful Tumic! Now what?!..

But of course, it's a battle to the death between Samson and Tumic!! Let the Tiger-God decide who the winner and new tribe leader will be!

It's down to blade vs. blade, and after a lengthy battle, Tumic bites the dust, game over man!

With Morena in tow, Samson grabs his clothes and just gets the Hell out of there, while the warriors cover up their dead ex-leader... The End! We'll return with more wild Dungeon Cargo on Wednesday, see you then!