SWING YOU SINNERS! - Sam Coslow & W. Franke Harling (1930)

In 1930 Max Fleischer made one of the most bizarre cartoons of all time, and it was called "Swing You Swingers!"  So if you think you're hip enough, then hang on to your beret, and we'll just find out! The killer music in this strange little cartoon was created by Sam Coslow and W. Frank Harling whose music has been used in movies for decades! Among a massive host of other things, Sam wrote the classics "Everybody Loves Somebody," and "Cocktails For Two," and Franke was responsible for the music in tons of films and serials like "The Invisible Ray," and "Tailspin Tommy In The Great Air Mystery!" The original title of the song was "Sing, You Sinners," instead of "Swing You Sinners!"

Bimbo is up to no good, and gets caught red handed stealing a chicken!

 

He goes to a graveyard, and the gates close behind him effectively sealing him in!

And then it all begins.......after that, "Swing You Sinners" is just a bunch of different haunted characters randomly thrown at Bimbo!

This Grave Guy looks like his breath would smell pretty bad!

What the Hell are these, Cyclops-Seal-Mermaid-Ghosts?

Looks like Satan himself decided to show up!

Hey Bimbo, we've got a room waiting just for you!

If that's not nightmarish eough for you, then how about.....

......A giant chicken reminiscent of "The Giant Claw!"

This guy looks very familiar!

Ghosts living in the stairwell!

If the ghost chasing Bimbo with a horn isn't weird enough for you, what's up with the little guy?

Straight razors always make for good comedy fodder!

A pre-fab mobile monster!

The creatures and the characters just keep on rolling in!

And they keep getting weirder!

And weirder!

And Weirder!

And even weirder!

This cartoon is approximately 8 minutes long, but it looks like they had enough ghosts to on for hours! In case you want to watch the whole thing, and I do recommend that, then here's the Youtube link, and thanx to McSchwartz for posting it!

TABONGA'S MOVIE MONSTERS And MORE!

Back in 1960 Eegah!! and I started collecting monster magazines, FAMOUS MONSTERS was the very best of the publications and coupled with the great movies from the fifties, I started my very weird career in monsters by being stuck in the past for my inspiration. Here are some of my pieces to prove my point...

This piece was obviously inspired by Paul Blaisdell's tree monster in FROM HELL IT CAME. But, I thought, I'm going to make a female version of the thing, her name is TOBANA...

This is a colored pencil drawing of another one of my favorite fifties movies that I saw at the theater in 1957, THE BLACK SCORPION!

Here's a recent oil painting from THE CRAWLING EYE, love these wild looking aliens!

I just can't get enough of those freaky tentacled cyclops aliens, here's another recent oil painting from THE ATOMIC SUBMARINE.

I also love those crazy creations from THE OUTER LIMITS, these are two standing creatures from this year that were inspired by that great TV series.

Here's one of my meteor monsters, inspired by another favorite, FIRST MAN INTO SPACE.

A piece inspired by Paul Blaisdell's Venusian monster from IT CONQUERED THE WORLD.

Here's a cool monster that looks a lot like the thing in THE QUATERMASS XPERIMENT.

Atomic bomb radiation fallout created this deep sea killer cyclops clam terror!

This is an oil painting of my hybrid being, FRANKENSTEIN FROM SPACE.

Here are two zombie dudes, zombies are always fun to make, you can really mess them up!

And then, there is this creepy crawler that reminds me of the crawling body parts in the Amicus production, ASYLUM. This piece is actually for sale on eBay now, if you're interested in checking it out, search there for... Horror House - SOMETHING YOU DON'T WANT IN YOUR BASEMENT.

I saved this little treat for the end, it's a wild music piece from our Dungeon band, HERMANOS GUZANOS. From 1987, here's... BRAIN EATERS!

GARDEN OF THE DEAD - Jaime Mendoza-Nava (1972)

With a title like "Garden Of The Dead," you know they were reaching for immortality! What could possibly be next? "Fruitstand Of Freaks?" "Farmer's Market Of Horror?" "Swapmeet Of Terror?" I don't know, and I'm sure as Hell not in any mood to try and find out!

So, it's time for another Saturday Night Special in The Dungeon, and tonight we're celebrating the fact that a movie called "Garden Of The Dead" might have been a lot better off if it had stayed buried, but there is one thing that you cannot deny, and that's the music composed by the mind of the genius Jaime (Orgy Of The Dead) Mendoza-Nava is exceptional, and almost makes the whole experience worthwhile, almost, so if you're really experienced, then dig in and enjoy!

It's hard, I mean it's not hard, to believe that "Garden Of The Dead" was filmed in only 10 days! As you can clearly see, the quality of the production is impeccable!

What? I dunno! There's a prison that's also a formaldehyde plant, and when they can get a chance, the prisoners get high inhaling the stuff?

Pretty freakin' desperate bunch if you ask me! I'm not sure what they do when the lights go out, they never delved into that area!

Well, Hot Damn, I feel pretty freakin' good! Before Viagra, they had formaldehyde to keep you stiff!

One of the prisoners has a hot girl friend that drives all the guys wild when she comes to visit! Susan Charney had the role of Carol Johnson in her solo on screen performance!

The prisoners loaded up on formaldehyde plan a daring escape, and in the process, they all get killed, and then buried in the prison yard, aka the garden!

Public Service Announcement: For all of you out there that don't know already, it turns out that sniffing formaldehyde isn't that great for you after all! I don't know why? It's only used to preserve dead bodies!

The only other female in the movie gets killed by a zombie for wearing that quilt! These zombies don't like light, and it was blinding them!

Don't be fooled by how good these stills look, this really isn't the greatest movie in the world!

Unlike "The Walking Dead" zombies, these guys can think a little, aren't really into eating flesh that much, and don't mind using tools like axes to do their dirty work! They also know how to run!

It's truly amazing how important light is to film making!

These zombies don't really crave blood or flesh.................

They're a bunch of druggies, and what they want is more formaldehyde!

Nice pair of trucks!

Second on the zombie shopping list after formaldehyde is Carol Johnson! They remember her from when they were human, and they might be zombies, but they know a good thing when they see it!

They set Carol up as bait!

And then they open fire! Ya'll don't come back now, ya hear?

Zombie Target Practice!

IF you're a zombie completionist, then you're gonna want this movie fer sure and you can get it at Sinister Cinema! The rest of you might want to take a bye on this one!