BLUE DEMON / EL DEMONIO AZUL - 1965

Here's the second movie starring Blue Demon. He teams up with a professor to go up against a mad scientist who is turning himself into a freaking werewolf!

Along with Blue Demon, this one also stars two horror heavies, Jaime Fernandez and my fave, Fernando Oses. Jaime had 183 acting credits including playing the guy that turned into that freak thing in RETURN OF THE MONSTER in 1959 and was in another Blue Demon flick, BLUE DEMON vs. SATANIC POWER in 1966. Fernando played the guy with a snake for a hand in HELLISH SPIDERS in 1968. We made a short like in 2002 called SNAKE BAIT where Eegah!! and I both had snakes for hands, we had never seen HS. Fernando usually played a wrestler or tough guy in a ton of my favorite Mex horror movies.

So, we start with the werewolf, (too bad he doesn't look like the one on the poster!) he's out looking for someone to kill and satisfy that primal urge. He finds a couple in the woods and doubles his satisfaction!

At the morgue, Blue Demon's professor friend is examining the two bodies, and has an idea about what had happened to them...

Blue Demon shows up at the professor's house and they go to the castle of Prof. Carral, who is believed to be involved in the murders. This framed mask has an extra pair of eyes!

As they wander through the place, a bat dive bombs them. The professor aims his rifle (that he made sure to bring) and fires a shot, killing the pest! They leave and go home.

Then at the arena, Blue Demon gets his hand raised yet again, after kicking another guy's ass!

Back at the castle, Carral is getting another injection ready. His helper has trepidation since he has to handle the boss when he's a werewolf, and it ain't fun!

Sometimes, Carral has to be put in a cage to contain his rage.

Here's a pretty cool shot of the castle at night.

So anyway, Blue Demon and the professor go back to the castle to end the madness. First they see a skeleton with clothes on, then the devilish book that has inspired Carral.

While Blue Demon explores the lower levels of the castle, the professor reads some of the information in the book. The helper catches the professor there and locks him up in the basement.

Well, the werewolf is on the loose and Blue Demon is hot on his trail. They rumble and our hero tosses him off a small cliff and into a pit.

As the monster writhes in pain, a group of villagers come to the edge of the pit and start filling him full of lead. His girl, even though he tried to kill her, mourns over his dead body.

Everyone goes down into the pit to say goodbye, Blue Demon leaves and has to wander his way back through the woods... The End - We're back Wednesday, hope the world will still be around, join us then!

THE MONKEES - "Find The Monkees" (1967)

I seriously think it's time for some levity, so tonight's Saturday Night Special is this 1967 episode of "The Monkees" called "Find The Monkees."

Audition notices for a new TV show have gone out to all the popular bands of the day like The Four Martians who have come to The Monkees pad to borrow a guitar string!

Another band that got an audition notice was The Foreign Agents.

 

And of course, The Jolly Green Giants. 

For the uninitiated, this is a spoof on the hit song by The Kingsmen of "Louie Louie" fame, who also had a hit about "The Jolly Green Giant" who just might hit you with a can of beans, and do it in less than two minutes!

This is what is commonly referred to as a four way skull session!

I used to have a red flannel shirt like this but I let Tabonga borrow it forty years ago, and that was the last time I saw it!

The big shot rude and irritable TV producer is played by none other than the amazing and hilarious Carl Ballantine, who made a damn good living from being the self-proclaimed worst magician in the world!

He goes to the Bureau of missing persons to try and find The Monkees, but the place is such a mess, the guy that works there can't even find a pencil.

Peter gets the hiccups at the worst possible moment, so the boys try and scare them out of him!

This almost worked, but not quite.................

The boys have to finally resort to calling in their audition from a phone booth!

The people wanting to use the phone booth are becoming very impatient, especially the guy in suit and the dark-rimmed glasses!

It becomes pretty obvious why he was becoming so impatient!

They try and audition as every type of group imaginable without success, which brings me to the crux of this story!

The Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame recently announced their 2020 inductees that included Depeche Mode, and Whitney Houston, and despite the fact that Kiss and Abba have been inducted in the past, groups like The Monkees have been left in the dust again......................

..........because "they didn't play their own instruments" or at least that's the opinion of the editor of Rolling Stone magazine, and he's got a lot of clout!

Other notable snubs that ruffle my feathers are Link Wray, Canned Heat, Love, Procol Harum, Little Feat, Joe Cocker, Spirit, Steppenwolf, and The Seeds, just to name a few.

 

Mike Nesmith is too nice of a guy to say it so I'll just say it for him, How the Hell is Linda Ronstadt in the R&RHOF and the Monkees aren't when I, Mike Nesmith wrote her best song that she recorded with The Stone Poneys in 1967 called "Different Drum?"

How is that even possible?

BRAINDRAINER / Low Budget No Brainer! - 1999

Okay, I've come to a conclusion, Friday is... Anything Goes! And come to think of it, this movie is just as coherent as the world we live in ~

I like this shot on video movie better than most of the fifties parody crap I see on Prime. Michael Legge is an actor/writer/director with 18 credits, and was the best of the characters.

The story starts with a rock streaking through space, there's actually some pretty cool space effects until after the thing hits the ground.

But, this is what a weirdo finds in a field, the rock from outer space!

Now what a minute, that is anything but a meteorite from space!! Reminds me of when we were working on THE CREEP, the editor was making a composite shot with the Moon. He had a regular pebble put in the scene, and when he asked me what I thought, I was flabbergasted, what the heck, man! Then he said, do you want me to use the real Moon?..

But anyway, two pretend doofus cops come up on the guy who's holding the 'meteorite' in his hand, he's just standing there with a stupid grin on his face. The cops try and get the rock out of his hand and they get stupider too!

Here's Michael Legge as The Amazing Jacques, a bratty girl comes to the door and wants to get paid for delivering his groceries... He looks a lot like our actor pal, Tom F.

So, Jacques pulls a hypnotic eye out of his pocket and tells the girl... You will pay my monthly newspaper bill.

She repeats the line and says that she will pay his bill...

Then, The Creeper takes The Amazing Jacques to meet someone, his boss, Spiderwoman. She wants Jacques to join their little club to try and get their hands on the meteorite, in order to take over the world! Or, something like that.

In the meantime, Senator Vapid has become victim to the rock's power, draining his brain. Dr. Garland and her blind assistant, Matt Retina, are trying to figure out what the Hell's going on. Check it out, she's holding up a chart, 'nuf said.

The Amazing Jacques hypnotizes Dr. Garland and Matt to help him and his cohorts locate the desired object...

Suddenly, Senator Vapid awakens from his trance and starts talking... He's now the mouthpiece for the alien invaders, telling the story of how they arrived on Earth, and more. Bob Eiland plays the Senator, I also thought he was very good in his role, In this scene where he's talking as the alien, he sounds like a drugged-up Elmer Fudd and it's pretty damn funny.

I just like this picture a lot.

Matt tells Jacques and Spiderwoman that he has a Robodoc that can help in the operation to remove the rock from the senator's head. But, there are no eyes, Robodoc asks Jacques if he could use his!

The operation goes haywire I believe... Come to think of it, I'm not sure what's actually going on. Machts nichts!

In some b/w scenes, Dr Garland pulls her bra out and uses it as a sling shot, which hits Senator Vapid's head. Whotta shot!

I guess the rock's in his head again (I don't know) and he seems normal again...

At his first news conference since returning to the real world, the senator tries to clear his throat, only to cough up a bunch of little rocks, which the crowd quickly grab up! Ho Boy! Eegah's up tomorrow so I recommend you check in for that, here at The Dungeon!!..