THE BLOOD ON SATAN'S CLAW - Marc Wilkinson - "A Living Nightmare" (1971)

"The Blood On Satan's Claw" is a genuine "CHILL-FILLED Festival of HORROR" all right, Yessiree Bob!  Take the words right out of my mouth and welcome to Satan's Saturday Night Special!!

What I just found out was that "The Blood On Satan's Claw" was originally three stories that were blended together like a frozen margarita! When you know that, it makes a lot more sense!

The cinematography by Dick (Twins Of Evil) Bush throughout this film is outstanding, and the music by Marc (IF...) Wilkinson is also very effective!

Yep, this drought is definitely going to affect the farmer's fields of green!

I'm really not kidding, "The Blood On Satan's Claw" would be a better movie if Barry (Dracula Has Risen From The Grave) Andrew's character Ralph wasn't such a buffoon-looking Monte Python reject!

Every time Satan gets into one of these young gals, they start acting all weird for some reason! This girl was only locked into a dusty olde attic for a few hours before she went nuts!

When her fiancé is finally able to get in to see her, this is what he sees. He is consequently attacked, and after a struggle he is finally able to stab his attacker and cut off it's hand before he realizes it's his own hand!

Lovely Linda Hayden has the role of bad girl Angel Blake! Linda's career ran the gamut from "Baby Love" to "Madhouse" to "Queen Kong," and back again! She was still working up until a couple of years ago!

So, when it's all said and dead done, the bottom line is that Beelzebub is a goober pervert!

Here's another one of those shots that looks like a classic oil painting!

I couldn't make up my mind which one of these two pictures of these two girls I liked best, so you get them both! Reminds me of the two girls in the current season of "The Walking Dead" for some reason!

They'd like you to believe that this is just a story of a bunch of innocent kids in the country playing around.............................................................but it's not!

This is the way Angel looks just before she strips nude in an effort to break the will of the Reverend!

Once Angel is 100% under the influence of the devil, she gets these weird fuzzy old-man caterpillar eyebrows that don't really make her that attractive any more!

On the right is Wendy Padbury as Cathy Vespers. All you "Dr. Who" fans will no doubt recognize her as Zoe!

I'm not really into movies about dismembering, raping, and murdering children, and that's really what "The Blood On Satan's Claw" is all about!

Satan is a weird olde dude, but Angel seems to like him a whole lot, so I'm sure he's not really that bad if you just had a chance to sit down with him and drink a couple of beers, and find out what he's really all about!

What really got this movie an X rating in the UK was not all the sex or violence, but the graphic removal of the devil's hairball found growing on suspect individuals!

Burn in Hell all you Devil worshiping bitches and witches! I think I just read in the current issue of Screem magazine that "The Blood on Satan's Claw" has finally been released on Blu-Ray DVD, so if that's your cup of tea, you're in for a bit of luck!

GALLERY OF HORROR / American General Pictures - 1967

It's Freakin' Friday with Tabonga, here at The Dungeon!.. DR. TERROR'S HOUSE OF HORRORS started a trend of movies with multiple tales told, either by a narrator or mysterious interacting character. Well, director David L. Hewitt got his chance with this five story flick starring Lon Chaney and John Carradine. Alternate titles are RETURN FROM THE PAST and THE BLOOD SUCKERS, one tagline reads... So shocking it will sliver your liver!

Eegah!! sent over a soundclip of the theme from this flick for our earjoyment, sooooo, you can push the big red 'GO' button there across from The Wizard Of Mars, NOW, Rufus The Gnat! Here's a taste of... GALLERY OF HORROR!

The dapper looking John Carradine narratates the tales as he stands next to a borrowed shot from THE TERROR.

He also stars in the first dime store story, "The Witches Clock." The Farrells have just purchased an old mansion (THE TERROR again) in Salem, Massachusetts, then, an old man named Tristram Halbin (Carradine) shows up at the door. Later, they are warned by a local doctor of the history of witches in the community and about the old clock which they got running again. All the stories have fairly predictible endings.

The second story, "King Vampire," is about an investigation by Scotland Yard to try and solve a mystery concerning a vampire with a slight build, who's killing off villagers.

Of course, the title, "Queen Vampire," would have given the ending away!

Tale number three's called strangely enough, "Monster Raid." Again, scenes from THE TERROR are used quite a bit in this one.

The story's about a man turned zombie when he overdoses on his own experimental drug, he somehow returns to avenge his death by killing his wife and her doctor lover.

If you're going to steal an interesting shot from someone, it might as well be from the great Freddie Francis!

Story four stars Lon in "Spark of Life," about a doctor obsessed with the experiments of Erich von Frankenstein. Him and two of his students try to restore a cadaver of a murderer to life, and succeed. Lon is still able to speak but looks bad. Look at the size of Ron Brogan as the reanimated man, damn!!

Back to THE TERROR, err, story five... It's called "Count Alucard" or "Count Dracula" depending on the credits or John Carradine!

It's pretty much the original DRACULA story just reworked to finish off this 83 minute wonder. Tune in tomorrow to see what old Eegah!! has in store for us!

DEAR DEAD DELILAH - Bill Justis - "What A Raunchy Way To Die" (1972)

Oh, Dear, I do think this is one of the weirdest posters yet! I think they were talking about the toilet seat!

Welcome to Weirdo Wednesday! Tonight's feature titled "Dear Dead Delilah" is a different kind of 3D movie, really different!! (Spoiler Alert: Not Really in 3D!)

In the 'Random Thoughts' department, I was just thinking how there was a whole slew of movies made in the 60's and 70's with odd questions as titles, you know, like: "Who Slew Auntie Roo?" "What's The Matter With Helen?" "Who's Minding The Store?" "What's Up Tiger Lily?" "Who Killed Teddy Bear?" "Whatever Happened To Aunt Alice?"  and "Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?"

To go forward, first we have to move backward in time! Bill Justis who had a killer hit with the instrumental "Raunchy" in 1957 is the guy who wrote the corn fed music for "Dear Dead Delilah!" Bill was also a record producer for "Sun Records" who worked with the likes of Elvis, Johnny Cash, and Jerry Lee Lewis!!!

You might think this is Delilah, but it's not. This is Luddy Dublin as played by Ann (Private Parts) Gibbs in this flashback scene! Luddy has just done a bad thing! She just couldn't take it any more!

Luddy Dublin has just murdered her Mother!

Years later, Luddy is released from prison! Patricia Carmichael is the older Luddy! Pat's only other credit is on an episode of "Petticoat Junction!" As she is walking away from the prison, she sees some guys in a park playing football. As she's watching, she gets beaned with the football, and is taken to the home of the Charles family to recuperate!

The always amazing Agnes Moorehead is Delilah Charles! Check this out! The first movie Agnes was ever in was Orson Welles' "Citizen Kane!" Now that's some way to start a career, being in what a lot of people think is the greatest movie of all time! She followed that with Orson's "The Magnificent Ambersons!" In 1959 she was in "The Bat" with Vincent Price, in 1961, she was in a "Twilight Zone" episode titled "The Invaders," she was Velma in "Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte," and of course she will be long remembered for her over 200 episodes of "Bewitched" as Endora, Samantha's Mom!

The year 1972 was Agnes Moorhead's last year on "Bewitched," and it's the same year this movie was released! Delilah is rich and supposedly dying, and since Luddy was without a home, she is kept on as a nursemaid for Delilah!

Michael (Abbott and Costello Meet The Mummy) Ansara is Delilah's worthless gambler brother Morgan! Delilah has called the family together and announced that their Father has hidden 500 G's on the property somewhere! Finders keepers!

Damn, no wonder I can't get anything done around here, now I'm thirsty!

"Dear Dead Delilah" is a weird amalgam of elements flowing effortlessly from melodrama to gore fest and back again!

Delilah's back and neck massage goes a bit awry!

I actually forgot what the Hell this was, but it looks pretty cool you have to admit!

"Wheeeeeeeeeee..........!

It's nothing by "Walking Dead" standards, but this movie is pretty grisly just the same!

There's an ax murderer posing as the ghost of the late Father Charles!

Is she the murderer?

Or is he the murderer?

Or is Luddy the murderer? 

It's a real shame, but you're just gonna have to figger that one out all by your little ole self!