WHOEVER SLEW AUNTIE ROO? - "She's Taking A Stab At Motherhood!" (1972)

This week's Saturday Night Special is a demented movie from 1972 titled "Whoever Shot Auntie Roo?" It was also later released as "Who Shot Auntie Roo?" which rolls off the tongue better!

 

It's pretty obvious to the viewer who did it, but the locals in the film just can't quite figure it out!

'The Blonde Bombshell' Shelly (Silence Of The Hams) Winters is Auntie Roo!

Auntie Roo has personal problems!

I've owned this DVD for years, and I don't know why I never did this film during the Christmas season, because it really is a Christmas movie, a sick Christmas movie, but a Christmas movie just the same!

Auntie Roo has a daughter who isn't feeling very well, in fact she's dead, but Auntie Roo still keeps her around for seven mental reasons!

Every year at Christmas time, Auntie Roo invites a few of the good kids from the local orphanage to come spend a couple of days and nights with her to celebrate the holidays! These two brats were not on the good list, but they stowed away in the trunk of the car bringing all the other kids, and since Auntie Roo is so loving, she demands that they stay anyway!

In a flashback scene, we find out what happened to Auntie Roo's daughter. She was sliding down the handrail of the stairs and...............

.........Fall down, go Splat!!

Auntie Roo never quite got over it!

This little girl looks like she would make a good substitution for her lost daughter!

Auntie Roo's man servant and this charlatan clairvoyant have been playing her with fake séances, and relieving her of the burden of having any cash!

 

Auntie Roo's dead husband was a magician, and she still has his magic stuff stored in this room!

One of his tricks involved a guillotine!

When Christmas is over, all the kids go back to the orphanage but the bad little brother and sister are no where to be found! The local constable searches Auntie Roo's house just to make sure everything is on the up and up, but comes up empty handed!

Auntie Roo has the kids stashed away, and finally has a chance to be herself!

The kids believe that Auntie Roo is a witch like in the story of "Hansel and Gretel," and are convinced that she is planning on eating them, so they do what any kid would do..................

.............They lock her in a room, and set the house on fire!

The two happy little murderers are Mark (Sudden Terror) Lester as Christopher Coombs, and Chloe (The House That Dripped Blood) Franks as Katy Coombs.

You used to be able to get this as a Shelley Winters double feature along with "What's The Matter With Helen?"

Questions, Questions, Questions, but never enough answers!

LOONEY TUNES / "Porky's Road Race" - 1937

Here's one that I saw many times back in the fifties on TV, a little Frank Tashlin gem written by Tedd Pierce and stars good old Porky Pig in his early days...

Boy, what a deal with the prize money! Movie stars are out in force here and they include popular actors like Charlie Chaplin, W. C. Fields, Boris Karloff and others. The voice talent are Elvia Allman, Dave Barry, Mel Blanc, Billy Bletcher, Joe Dougherty and Tedd Pierce.

Porky is soooo proud of his midget racer, even with it's two little puny cylinders!

W. C. Fields has already had a run in with Charlie Chaplin and sees a damsel in distress. It's Edna May Oliver (the original Miss Jane Hathaway), and her car isn't running very good at all just before the big race.

Then we see Borax Karoff hard at work on his sleek black number 13, with its 36 cylinder engine. He really enjoys his oil!

And, the race is on!!!

It's not long before Borax pulls out tacks and torpedo bombs to get rid of the competition.

Edna May is being passed by the other racers so quickly, that...

Her car is eventually stripped of its parts and she's now cruising on a frame and wheels!

It seems impossible, but Porky's little racer overtakes Borax's mighty speedster!

While going through a tunnel though, Porky ends up in number 13 and Borax ends up in Porky's little racer. Borax gets to the draw bridge first and pulls the lever that raises the bridge.

Porky hits the ramp and flies through the air, and beats Borax by a nose at the finish line!

After Borax crashes, the ambulance comes and they take Porky's damaged racer away, leaving our villain just laying there!!

So, just before the judges put the winner's crown on Porky's head...

Edna May comes flying through the coronation crowd and the crown gets put in its proper place!! You go girl!.. Check in tomorrow with Eegah!!, here at The Dungeon!

DAWN OF THE DEAD - "When There's No More Room In Hell" (1978)

Tonight's Wednesday Weirdness is George Romero's 1978 gore-fest "Dawn Of The Dead," or as it is also known "Zombie," or "Zombies."

This German poster is wacky!

 

In "Dawn Of The Dead," the apocalypse has already begun, and four people escape in a helicopter. They find an abandoned but zombie-filled shopping mall, and hang out, and on, as long as they can!

The four main characters are......................

.......................Ken (The Wanderers) Foree as a guy named Peter.

I love this shot of Ken in front of the carpet samples.

Scott H. (They Said I Should Have Went With The Lobster But Avocado Toast Is Better) Reiniger is Roger!

Documentary filmmaker Gaylen (Creepshow) Ross is Francine!

And David (The Liberation Of Cherry Jankowski) Emge is Stephen!

Zombies come in all shapes & sizes, especially when they are all friends and family of crew members!

The only difference between these mannequins and the zombies, is the mannequins can't move around.

The brilliant thing about holing up in this mall is they have plenty of access to healthy food, appliances, clothes, and lots of guns!

The mall used in the movie was the Monroeville Mall in Monroeville, Pennsylvania!

Unfortunately for Stephen, on top of all his other problems, Francine is not even interested in sex because she is pregnant!

Hey, at least they got a record collection out of the deal, and this is as good a place as any to tell you that the soundtrack is by Goblin, who did the music for many a Dario Argento film, but for some reason, in this movie, they are credited as The Goblins. Trust me, I'm pretty sure it's not supposed to make sense!

They got all the zombies locked out of the mall, and they have everything they need, and as screwed up as it is, life ain't too bad for the gang until this large group of maniacal bikers shows up, and decides to crash the party!!

First the bikers have to get past all the zombies outside, and then when they get the doors open, all the zombies file back into the mall like good little boys and girls, but some of them get blown up in the process!

It doesn't take long for the bikers to dispose of most of the zombies.

Did I forget to tell you this was actually a comedy?

A very gory comedy, but a comedy nonetheless!

And if the Three Stooges style pie in the face didn't convince you, how about the biker in a sombrero who decides to check his blood pressure in the middle of all this carnage!

By George, it really does look like they had a lot of fun making this film!

I will admit, "Dawn Of The Dead" does have this kind of effect on the viewer too, but just remember, it's just all one big joke, isn't it?