WEREWOLF OF LONDON / Beware The Stalking Being - Half-Human - Half-Beast! - 1935

It seems incredulous to me that in all the years we've been doing this, that we haven't done WEREWOLF OF LONDON until now. It's not even in the Wolf Man Legacy Collection for obvious reasons, you can find it on a double bill on DVD with SHE-WOLF OF LONDON. The story goes like this... So, while on a botanical expedition in Tibet, Dr. Wilfred Glendon is attacked by some strange animal one night. After returning to London, he finds himself turning into a werewolf and terrorizing the city, and the only hope for curing his affliction is the rare Asian flower he brought back with him.

I remember seeing this one on late night TV in the late fifties, I liked it but I always lost interest after a while.

Classy title card! It stars Henry (MASTER OF THE WORLD) Hull, Warner (CHARLIE CHAN IN LONDON) Oland, Valerie (BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN) Hobson, Lester (214 Acting Credits!) Matthews and Spring (DECEMBER BRIDE) Byington. Warner was born and died in Sweden.

It all starts in Tibet, Dr. Glendon is being stalked by a weird looking animal while out searching for an illusive plant in the mountains. After locating the flower, he's attacked and his arm is scratched by the animal before it escapes into the dark!

He takes the plant back with him to his lab in London where he bathes it in artificial Moonlight, an invention of his.

The British Botanical Association adores Dr. Glendon and his bizarre flesh-eating plants!

Oh yeah, Dr. Glendon has his faithful assistant to assist (ha ha) him with his work.

Then it happens, the artificial Moonlight causes the doctor's hands to transform while handling the plant. He uses a freshly cut flower stem to bring things back to normal... Now he knows he's a werewolf, that's what attacked him in the mountains!

I was working in the lab one night, when the Moonlight turned me, into a Fright!..

This is what the doc looks like when he's avoiding the police, he rents a room during the full Moons from an old lady (Mrs. Whack) and asks her, what if he said there were such things as real werewolves?!.. She answers, I'd tell 'em I'm Little Red Riding Hood!

Well,,. He easily escapes from his room (causing old women to faint) and almost gets his paws on this damsel sitting there, whose boyfriend just left. She sees him in her compact mirror and screams bloody murder as she runs away.

So, he secretly hides in a tower at his place, thinking it would contain him, but he simply bends the bars on the window and escapes!

He finds his wife with another man. As he's ready to do his wife in, her friend conks the doctor on the head, knocking him out.

By now everyone knows the doc's a werewolf, and he's desperate for a cure...

Dr. Yogami sneaks into the lab and when the doc's back is turned, Yogami uses the flower's liquid. You see, Dr Yogami is the one that attacked Glendon in the mountains of Tibet. Glendon also finds out that there is no cure, , the flower is good only for a temporary fix...

The police arrive and the doc is shot, and actually dies, he apologizes to his wife before the end though. Of course he turns back into his human form for the audience to mourn over.

We're back Wednesday with more cool junk for the masses, as always, here at The Dungeon!!..

INFERNO - "Hotter Than Hell" (1980)

This Saturday Night Special is a 1980 art exhibition from Dario Argento!

I took a film class in college and the only thing I have always remembered is that the instructor talked about the importance of  "Hot and Cold," and Dario Argento definitely graduated from that same school of thought!

And the very cool soundtrack is by Keith Emerson of Emerson Lake and Palmer fame!

There are no alternate titles for "Inferno, but if there was one, it would surely be 

"The Three Mothers!"

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"Inferno" is a look! 

There's hardly any dialogue, but the composition and lighting on each and every freakin' shot is meticulously thought out!

If you just took out all the grisly murders,"Inferno" would be an amazingly beautiful presentation!

But that's just not the way Dario Argento works!

Who else is going to go to all the trouble to get a shot like this just for the Hell of it?

Years ago I downloaded almost this same exact picture from somewhere on the internet, and I never knew where or what it was from until I watched '"Inferno" yesterday! 

Funny thing is that after all this time, I still don't get it!

Okay...Spoiler Alert: This movie is 40 years old, so I hope this isn't too shocking, 

The Three Mothers = Death!

In Argento's world, there's a fine line between mysterious and ambiguous!

I do know one thing, he likes shots down long hallways like this that make great wallpaper!

The mix of beauty and wanton violence is unnerving at best, just the way it was planned!

Cats also play a predominant role in the order of disorder, lots and lots of cats!!

The quick shots like this are endless!

Looks like something from a fine art gallery!

I don't exactly know why, but Daria Nicolodi is one of my favourite actresses! She has been Dario Argento's partner for many years, but they never got hitched!

Some other disturbing films Daria has been in are "SHOCK!"

"Deep Red," and "Phenomena." 

Unfortunately, Daria hasn't done any acting since 2009!

The fire and ice scenes never cease throughout the whole film!

I've seen lots of phones, but this push button design is a little different!

Three Mothers is Death, or Three Mothers are death,

when everything goes completely to Hell, I guess we'll all find out!

Dario Argento hasn't done much film work the last few years! He has a couple of films possibly coming out in 2020, one that will star his and Daria's daughter, Asia Argento called "Occhiali neri," that was written in 2002, but got shelved when the production company went bankrupt!

THE THREE STOOGES / "Pop Goes The Easel" - 1935

Okay then, let's get this road on the show!! Here's one us kids used to love, it starts with the Stooges out trying to drum up work for themselves...

Larry's sign says he'd like the job of Bridge (the card game) instructor, but when a man drives up in his car and asks him a questions about holding the queen, Larry says to make sure the king isn't around!

Curly tells a man that he hasn't eaten in three days! The guy tells him, don't worry, it still tastes the same, then laughs his ass off as he leaves with his brat kid with a double scoop ice cream cone!

Yeah, Moe strikes out too, mainly because he's a social misfit...

After the boys rile up a shop owner who yells for the police, a plain clothes cop chases them into a building. They duck into an art class where they find some clothes hanging there and pretend to be artists. The cop leaves but is still looking for them.

Curly shows off his artist chops by posing this girlie upside down, and, she's totally game! You know, those crazy art types are lots of fun, and possible geniuses!

The boys are getting ready to paint, Larry has two brushes because he's in a hurry. Moe has his brush that can get around corners. They end up painting the floor, and of course, paint themselves into a corner!!

You never know when the cop could pop in, this time the boys are dressed up as ballerina babes, and the cop gets all hot and bothered... YOW!!

Well, it's back to work as artists... The boys are being creative, Larry chucks balls of clay at a canvas as Moe and Curly direct him!

Everything's cool until Larry hits Moe in the head with a misguided ball of goo. It's not long before the boys are all fighting with each other, then one hunk of clay hits the model in the face and it becomes a free for all with the whole art class!..

The cop pops in one last time only to be hit in the face with some clay, and then has a giant vase fall off its shelf and bust into pieces on the top of the head!

The model also gets a big pile of clay tossed onto her chest, and why not?

It's a MADHOUSE!!.. Ricky!

This guy has been hit so many time, he just sits there and takes it like a man!

Moe stops the action and asks.. Hey, who started this fight anyway? Everyone answers.. You did!.. That's all folks, tune in tomorrow for more wild action, here at The Dungeon!! Be there or be a trapezoid.