THE DOCTOR AND THE DEVILS / A Man Of Medicine...A Pair Of Murderers...An Unholy Alliance. - 1985

Since our last post had that deadly duo Burke and Hare in it, well, here's another ghastly tale based on those two creeps... So, the renowned professor of anatomy, Dr. Thomas Rock, teaches classes to medical students at the university. He uses his assistant, Dr. Murray, to buy corpses for his experiments from two local body snatchers, Robert Fallon and Timothy Broom. When the grave robbers are told to bring in fresh corpses only, and that they would receive double the amount of money for those bodies, they go on a killing spree. But, when Dr. Murray discovers that Fallon has just sold the corpse of the prostitute Alice to the university, he seeks out Fallon and Broom to stop them from then murdering Alice's friend, Jennie.

This one stars Timothy Dalton as Dr. Rock, Julian Sands as Dr. Murray, Jonathan Pryce as Robert Fallon, Stephen Rea as Timothy Broom and Twiggy as Jennie Bailey.

Holy freaking Cow! All of these people are still working!! Way to go guys, Twiggy currently has a show on Brit TV called TEA WITH TWIGGY!

Here's Dr. Rock giving a lecture at the university to students new to medicine... Yes, he shows them a cadaver, but one that's stinky and not very fresh.

So, Dr. Murray is receiving another corpse from Fallon and Broom. It is in bad shape and he tells the two that they will have to bring them corpses much fresher! If not, the university will not accept them!!.. Got it?!!

Dr. Murray is the real hero in this story, you'll see why.

So, they want fresh corpses do they, well okay, sure, why not?! Fallon hatches a scheme and gets Broom in on it, they'll simply put this sick guy, who's renting a room where they stay, out of his misery by suffocating him!

Dr. Murray arrives after the corpse was left with an assistant. Wait a minute, something just doesn't seem quite right... He goes to see Dr. Rock (nice room!) to tell him that he thinks Fallon and Broom are murdering victims before bringing them to the university! But, we need fresh cadavers, don't we! Quite a conundrum...

The two killers are stone cold alcoholics, it's almost like a fun game they're playing, And they're getting rich to boot!

Fallon and Broom like to frequent a bar where Jennie and her prostitute friend Alice hang out. But when Broom hears all about Fallon's plan the kill both girls for the money, he says that's it, he's had enough of Fallons glee in killing, and leaves...

So, Fallon kills Alice and takes her to the university, he's tells the assistant that he'll be right back with another body... Dr. Murray shows up to find the body of Alice, and it's still warm!

Fallon has lured Jennie into a secluded area and tries to use psychology on her, saying that if he killed her, she would never have to suffer the pains of life ever again, what a glorious thing!.. In the meantime, Dr. Murray locates the killer and puts the hurt on him!!

Broom turns states evidence against Fallon and the mastermind behind the murders meets his maker, and cries like a little baby, what else?! When he was sitting in his cell before the hanging, his council tells him, how ironic, you're going to end up at the university as a cadaver for the students to study!..

Wow, Broom gets off scot-free, and watches the execution from a barred window. He's also there as Fallon's coffin is being taken away, it's a good day in the neighborhood.

Dr. Rock escapes prosecution and wanders off into the sunset. He knows he was wrong to take those bodies... Tune in again Wednesday when we magically appear out of the helium, later...

DR. JEKYLL AND SISTER HYDE - "Shock! After Shock!" (1971)

This evening's Sick Sister Saturday Night Special is the 1971 twisted film "Dr. Jekyll And Sister Hyde!"

I never can figure out stuff like why would they put a picture of two naked people on the poster, and they are not even the people in the movie.

"Dr. Jekyll And Sister Hyde" is a real gender bender of a movie! The obvious twist is that after Dr. Jekyll drinks his potion, instead of turning into the Mr. Hyde villian, he turns into a beautiful evil woman instead!

 Well that describes about half the men in the town!

Ralph Bates is Dr. Henry Jekyll. Ralph was just finishing up his two year run of Hammer films that included "Horror Of Frankenstein," "Taste The Blood Of Dracula," and "Lust For A Vampire."

Ralph himself succumbed to cancer at the age of 51.

 Where else would Dr. Jekyll live besides behind door 13?

Dr. Jekyll wasn't really a bad person, in fact he was totally dedicated to curing the ills of society, except for the killing of the whores for their hearts part.. When Dr. Jekyll does a test run of his bloody potion on a fly, it changes sex from a male to a female, but it doesn't really concern him that much.

 The notorious London grave robbers Burke and Hare help the Doctor get what he needs!

Yeah, I'd say he fits the bill all right!

Dr. Jekyll ingests the serum that he has made...........

...........With startling results, even to himself!

 Essentially, there are two reasons to watch "Dr, Jekyll And Sister Hyde,"

Martine Beswick................

 ......And Martine Beswick!

 Maybe his greatest achievement, the Doctor seems quite pleased to have boobs!

The locals catch up to Burke and Hare, so the good Doctor has to go out and do his/her own dirty work now!

Martine Beswick came out of retirement in 2019 to make a film with two other classic Hammer beauties, Caroline Munro and Virginia Carlson titled "House Of The Gorgon," and it looks like they are still trying to raise enough money to release it, but you can watch a trailer on YouTube!

I'm sure you know the story, the Doctor's life is now spiraling out of control!

Dr. Jekyll is getting weaker, and Sister Hyde is taking over, but he/she can switch back at any given time, and it's not usually good timing either.

The end was already per-determined!

This is quite a fascinating still since you never really see the two of them together in the movie!

THUNDERBIRDS / "Attack Of The Alligators!" - 1966

Time for a trip to the jungle in this Thunderbirds adventure about giant alligators going on land, looking for some humans to snack on! Sure, other junk's going on too.

So now, sit back and enjoy these very cool character cards...

Did you notice all the pilots' last names are the same? Straight up nepotism dude! And, I can't get enough of Lady Penelope's hat, cigarette holder and custom wheels!

Okay, here we go!.....

Looks like the prop department did a great job on this little jungle boat. Anyway, two men are there to meet with a scientist who has a new serum that makes animals large, for future food production (TARANTULA!)...

The serum is made from a rare plant that only grows there, and it has to be processed immediately or it loses its potency.

Some of the serum gets accidentally flushed down a drain, and soon thereafter, viola, freakin' giant allimagators!! (that is sooo ridiculous, a small amount went down the drain and directly into the stream, which would totally dilute it - then minutes later, an alligator's 30 feet long?.. like, NO! just do the math).

There is a Thunderbird 5 you know, it's only just a maneuverable space station!... In your face evil-doers, wherever you are!!

Thunderbird 2 uses tranquilizer darts to take out two of the giant varmints.

But, one biggie is still loose, trying to get to the people inside the house.

This bro decides to use his hover board to distract the last big gator, but he doesn't look where he's going, crashes and almost becomes a meal.

Yeah, there's a bad guy in the story. He steals the serum and plans on selling it to the highest bidder, he's also the cause of the spill that made the alligators into monsters in the first place.

As he's trying to escape though, he falls out of his boat, drops the vial into the water and then is gobbled down by a giant gator!!......... Hurray!!

Gordon uses Thunderbird 4 to look for the vial dropped by the thief, and guess what?.. Hell yeah, he finds it intact and recovers it!!..

Time to kick back and relax at the end of another harrowing adventure, so that's what I'm just about to do, see you tomorrow for more from the Dungeon Gang!!..