NIGHT TIDE In Color - 1961

Here's another recently colorized horror movie about a young Navy recruit who meets a dark haired woman while he's on shore leave. He finds out that she plays a mermaid at the local carnival, and after a few strange occurrences, he starts to believe that she is a real mermaid that kills her suitors during full Moon cycles.

It stars Dennis Hopper as Johnny, Linda Lawson as Mora, Gavin Muir as Captain Murdock, Luana Anders as Ellen, Marjorie Eaton as Madame Romanovitch and Tom Dillon as the Merry-Go-Round owner.

We get a taste of jazz at the local beatnik club as Johnny enters the scene, there to relax and enjoy the music. He meets Mora and is having a conversation with her when a mysterious lady appears and speaks to Mora in a strange tongue. She gets up and leaves the club in haste.

Johnny follows her, stops her to talk with him, walks her to her place and gives her a kiss. The next day they're having lunch at her place! They're attracted to each other.

Later, she takes him to the place where she works as Mora the Mermaid, hey, it pays the bills.

Johnny's a friendly sort of person, while wandering around to carnival, he meets the owner of the Merry-Go-Round, his daughter Ellen and card reader Madame Romanovitch. Johnny tells them that he's seeing Mora and things get weird. Ellen tells him that Mora's last two boyfriends ended up dead! Johnny's confused.

Later he goes to talk to Mora's boss, Captain Murdock, who has some advice on dating Mora. It's about her history and he warns Johnny that he's in danger, Mora's not normal and is capable of doing him harm!

The bad news just keeps piling up, Madame Romanovitch has given him a reading and she also expresses concern about his safety. All the information is starting to play on his imagination about his relationship with Mora.

That night at Mora's place, Johnny's resting on a sofa waiting for her to come out of the bathroom. She comes out and starts kissing him and things get horrifying fast!

Johnny struggles to get free of some horrendous tentacles, he screams out and suddenly the tentacles are gone, and so is Mora.

He sees wet footprints on the floor leading out to the beach and follows them, where, he finds Mora crying out, holding onto a pier support pillar. He gets to her and carries her back to her place, she falls asleep.

The next day she wants to go scuba diving with Johnny, she wants to show him the underwater reef. Johnny's puzzled and doesn't really want to go for a dive, but he gives in...

So, they go diving, and keeping in mind it's a full Moon cycle, she cuts Johnny's air hose and leaves him to try and get to the surface before drowning! Mora then calmly swims back to shore.

Johnny barely makes it to the surface, then has a big freak out, he realizes that Mora just tried to kill him. He quietly sits in the boat for hours contemplating the event before going back to shore.

Back at his hotel room the next day, Johnny sees an ad telling the public about the events to go see at the carnival, including Mora the Mermaid.

So, he goes there in disguise to check out Mora's act.

Johnny goes inside to see Mora, and he starts getting all emotional, he can't believe how things have turned out...

Then, Captain Murdock shows up and tells Johnny that he must kill him in order to protect Mora from the authorities!

But, his bullet hits Mora's aquarium, causing it to shatter and pour the contents onto the floor, Mora lands on top of the captain, what the Hell!

Mora is dead, Captain Murdock explains everything to Lt. Henderson and Johnny. It goes like this... Mora was not a mermaid! No, she just fully believed that she was, and he killed her other two boyfriends to protect her from the real world, I guess. Hey, Mora thought she was a Mermaid, but she was really a Red Herring!! This in one strange 83 minute movie!

T.J. HOOKER - "Vengeance Is Mine" (1983)

I'm not the biggest fan in the world of "Star Trek," but I am a big fan of the work of both William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy, so when Lord Litter me told there was an episode of "T.J. Hooker" that had Leonard Nimoy as guest star, I just had to check it out, and that's why this week's Saturday Night Special is Season Two, Episode sixteen of "T.J. Hooker" titled "Vengeance is Mine."

 

Leonard Nimoy is Lt. Paul McGuire, and one of the first lines out of his mouth is "After working with Hooker all these years...."

 

They are in pursuit of these idiot robbers who decide to take a shortcut through this store!

Cut to the credits and aerobics instructor Valerie McGuire as played by Michele (Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.) Tobin.

 

Valerie rebukes the advances of creepy sweaty attorney Larry Foster as played by Randy (Logan's Run) Powell.

As fate would have it, besides being an attorney, Larry Foster is also a part-time serial rapist!

The real problem rears it's ugly little head when it's discovered the victim is also Lt. Paul McGuire's daughter. Now it's personal!

After Foster is arrested, put in a lineup and identified by his voice, he still pulls some legal mumbo jumbo and wriggles his way out of it like the slimy worm that he is.

It doesn't take long before he's back up to his old tricks again!

 

Hooker finally gets his hands on the dirty rat after a long chase.

Only to find out that the whole case is botched when he realizes Lt. Paul McGuire has planted evidence on Foster!

His daughter was raped and he's mad, but the way he went about doing anything about it just wasn't right either!

 

Then it gets worse............
 

Oh, man, this isn't how this reunion was supposed to end up at all!

No more guest appearances for you!

13 GREAT SILENT HORROR AND SCI-FI MOVIE POSTERS

 Today we have a few posters from the beginning of film, and we see the care they took in the frightening graphics they created, almost as important as the movie itself.

There were many movies  about 'The Bat' character, which was based on a stage play. Let's face it, people have liked to be scared since the beginning of film.

The Cat And The Canary was another similar type sneaky murderous character, just putting claws on their gloves make them a feared fiend.

Then there's Nosferatu, don't remember seeing this poster before, pray this vampire thing doesn't come snooping around your place!

I used two different poster from this horror movie, just to get a look at how different the styles are, both are creepy in their own ways.

Boy, Universal had some of the most attractive posters there were. Lon's face in the background is truly a terrifying sight to behold! A real nightmare.

Some of Universal's posters featured elongated figures and wild backgrounds, qualifying them as surreal works of art.

 Universal had a few posters with artwork that would be considered some of the finest in movie history, this scene is stunning. Everyone will want to see it.

The audience must have been aghast when they saw this one at the theater when it came out. Love the crazy buildings, and 'Maria' is simply one of the greatest robot creations, ever, just beautiful. Other favorite robots I dig are Robby and Tobor.

Abstract expressionism affected Germany's style in a number of films, and totally in this crazy roller coaster ride called The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari, man!

The Golem is another movie caught up in the expressionist movement, mainly in Europe. I mean, like, just look at that poster!

Here's an intriguing movie called GENUINE, it's about a vampire and has a number of scenes that are expressionist to the hilt, keine scheiss!

Probably the first space opera, astounding sets and a cool rocket set the stage for all the drama, for me, it's boring.

Here a great poster from The Man That Laughs to end the show. Of course he was the original Joker... So, check in tomorrow when Eegah brings on the hurt.

OPERACION 67 - "Agentes Secretos" (1967)

 

"Operacion 67" or in English, "Operation 67," was Santo's 16th movie! Up to this point Santo had already had to fend off Vampire Women, Zombies, a Strangler twice, Infernal Men, Evil and Diabolical Brains, and even Martians, but he was just getting started!

 

Santo is a secret agent now, and is joined in this 1967 classic by Jorge (Neutron Traps the Invisible Killers) Rivero as his partner Jorge Rubio. I don't see that Jorge was ever in another Santo movie after this.

Welcome to another Big Time Wrasslin' Wednesday down in The Dungeon!

Here we go, another bunch of jerks with big plans for world domination!

That's quite a sculpture in the Boss's office!

Plates to print new money are going to be transported in this van with these guys on motorcycles guarding the whole operation. There's only one problem, there's at least one or two bad eggs in this group, and the plates are stolen, reproduced and replaced.  Now the government will be the ones unknowingly printing counterfeit bills, and the whole bottom will drop out of the economy!

These thirteen guys are supposed to fan out and spend money like drunken sailors.

Elizabeth Campbell was born in Santa Monica, California, but had a great career in Mexico as a luchadora named Golden Rubi. In this film, she's the beautiful but evil Ruth Taylor.

Why anybody would take this job is beyond me! Each of these thirteen stooges is gifted with a non-removable watch that monitors their every move, and if they screw up, Ruth Taylor can give the order to have their watches self-destruct, which in turn kills the guy wearing it.

Midori Nagashiro gets a lot of on screen time as an exotic dancer, and that's just as much as you're ever going to find out about her. This was Midori's only film appearance.

Jorge is also Santo's tag team partner! 

Jorge is a good lookin' guy, and at the beginning of the film, Santo is just getting ready to take his mask off to prove to his girlfriend that he was handsomer than Jorge, but they get called out on this mission before he can actually do it. He never did remove his mask in public until ten days before he died.

 

Que es esto? "De Norte a Noreste?"

 

The plane and it's pilot make a good attempt at putting Santo out of business, but they fail even with guns built into the wings.

Where's a referee when you need one?

Now that's a good idea! Something simple like rigging up this big deal to fall from the ceiling and crush them when they are in the ring! Subtle!

I mean really Ruth, what did you expect?

After that didn't work, they decide to shoot this fancy gun into Santo's house!

Santo can't catch a break!

In hot pursuit, Santo has to scale the side of this building!

Some of it is a bit unfathomable like when Jorge and Ruth Taylor are suddenly in love! She tells him she loves him right before she attempts to blow up a boat he's in! She was looking good on the beach though. 

Now this is pretty weird! According to all reports, Elizabeth Campbell left Mexico to head to New York to work in TV in 1968, and supposedly nobody really knows where she is, or what she's been doing ever since.

Finally is right! Wow! That took a while!

Oh, come on Ruth, it's a little too late for that now, but not for Santo who would go on to fight Dracula, Witches, Mummies, Monsters, Head Hunters and more before passing away in 1983 at the age of 66.