DAS RASTHAUS DER GRAUSAMEN PUPPEN - "Inn Of The Gruesome Dolls" (1967)

 If there is such a thing as an Über-clusterfuck, then this Saturday Night Special is one of the leader's in it's class!

  Auf Deutsch es ist "Das Rasthaus Der Grausamen Puppen," or as you see it translated here, "The Roadhouse Of The Violent Dolls," aka "The Inn Of Gruesome Dolls," and it was even released as "The Devil's Girls" at one point.

The basic story line is pretty simple! It's about a Bonnie and Clyde type botched robbery! It's after this that it gets out of control!

 The Bonnie in question is Essy Persson as Betty Williams, a woman caught up in a world she didn't create. Her boyfriend just ran over a cop, crashed the car, and took off running, leaving Betty behind to take the rap! The big problem is that despite it all, she still loves him!

 Betty gets sentenced to ten years in the Pen, when all she was doing was waiting in the car for her boyfriend!

 The seductive Ellen (The Invisible Terror, The Brain) Schwiers is the Superintendent at the prison with the unfortunate name of Francis Nipple.

 Superintendent Nipple has Betty Williams brought to her room for some fun and games, but Betty doesn't swing that way, and ends up shanking her instead!

Betty's whole life just took an even bigger turn for the würst!

 Betty now has to escape, and a handful of other girls go with her!

 Karin (Night Of The Vampires, Web Of The Spider, The Demons) Field has the role of the hot sexpot!! The rest of the girls are Dominique (The Unnaturals, Argoman) Boschero as Sylvia, Gabriella (Transplant, Seven Blood-Stained Orchids) Giorgelli as Esther, and Helga (Murderers Club Of Brooklyn) Anders as the innocent one, Linda.

Still not realizing what a scumbag he is, Betty tracks down her former flame who is totally aghast to see her. She is now going to proceed to totally destroy his life with her undying love.

Erik Schumann is big loser Bob Fishman. Erik was very popular in Germany during the 50's and 60's but barely even heard of in the U.S.

As I watched "Das Rasthaus Der Grausamen Puppen," I couldn't help but think about another German film with a bunch of half dressed women running around in it, "Ein Toter Hing Im Netz," better known as "The Horrors Of Spider Island."

Betty's got more problems than drinking too much wine will fix!

Bob Fishman is such a horndog, that even after telling Betty he loves her, he's caught in the sack with one of the girls in just a few hours after they first meet!

Bob apologizes and they go to bed to make up, but for some reason, Betty just cannot get into the mood! Go figure! At this point, she's already killed two or three people to get to this lovely place in her life!

Besides all the wanton tragedy, there are also a few scenes of comedy relief, as they try and hide all the dead bodies!

Essy Ingeborg Vilhelmina Persson was born in Sweden. In the 1980's she quit acting and went to art school, and became a visual artist! Essy had a very distinctive look, and is well known for her work as Siv in "I, A Woman," and "Cry Of The Banshee" with Vincent Price.

One year later after "Das Rasthaus Der Grausamen Puppen," was made, Essy was Thora in "Mission Stardust."

What a difference a year makes!!

That is a real good question! By this point, besides Inspector Nipple, Betty has shot the old Funeral Director who was nice enough to give them a lift, and she's shot the innkeeper who was nice enough to let them stay, and the local gossip fell out of a second story window, trying to get away from her.

And this guy, who has been in the middle of the whole mess, and not noticed a thing is a real fine example of how this film rolls!

 That was the big problem throughout the whole thing. Nobody really cared that the girls were escaped convicts, and everybody tried to help them, but they end up killing them all anyway!

This guy got lucky, and it's only a flesh wound!

Betty never gets it right from start to finish. The only time she was innocent was at the beginning of the film, but it's never too late. Eventually, Bob Fishman and her will spend eternity together.....
in Hell!

ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN / "The Evil Three" - 1953

Here's a stocking stuffer for you... In today's adventure, Perry White and Jimmy Olsen are on a fishing trip end up staying at an old rundown hotel. It has only three occupants, two men who want to kill one another and a wheelchair-bound old woman who laughs like a maniac. Superman races to help his friends before they fall victim to the crazies.

Well, here it is, the old Bayou Hotel, looks like it's seen better days!

Before Perry White and Jimmy pull up to the hotel, two men are battling it out inside. It has something to do with hidden money stashed somewhere in the joint.

Anyway, the boys are looking for a room for the night. The clerk warns them about staying but Perry says they're staying, and that's that!

So, at 9 o'clock, Perry goes out to his car and calls the office, Kent answers the phone. He tells Kent that he smells a story, and that he'll call him back in an hour with an update...

In the meantime, Jimmy is seeing and hearing weird stuff!

When Perry hears the maniacal laughter, him and Jimmy start searching around for a door, which he finally locates...

They go down into the basement only to be attacked by Macy and Col. Brand.

Well, it's 10 o'clock and Clark has not heard back from Perry, so, he heads off to the hotel. I was able to get this still capture of the spring board Superman uses to launch himself into that air. Also, it doesn't look like 10 o'clock at night!

Superman lands and has a little conversation with the coo coo Col. Brand, who tells our hero that Perry and Jimmy are not there. but, he'll take him to them...

Perry and Jimmy finally meet Elsa, she's actually the sanest member of the trio. The boys say they will help her recover the money so she shows them where it's hidden.

But, Macy shows up and pushes Elsa down the stairs in her wheel chair!

Superman has had it with Col. Brand's lies, he pushes him aside and heads back to the hotel.

In the basement, he uses his x-ray vision to see through the rocks. He finds his pals and rescues them from the death trap... YAY!!

So, the cops show up and everyone is taken away, the men in handcuffs. Check back in tomorrow where Eegah!! will have something special for us, here, at The Dungeon!!

THE LONE GUNMEN - "Diagnosis: Jimmy" (2001)

I seriously thought that tonight's Wacky Wednesday presentation was a Christmas episode from "The Lone Gunmen," but it wasn't, and you get to hear about it anyway!

"The Lone Gunmen" was a TV show from 2001 that ran for one season only. It was created by Vince Gilligan of "Breaking Bad" fame and fortune, so you know the stories are going to be good and the characters are going to be offbeat!

Well, it might not be Christmas, but it sure looks like it! The funny thing is that this episode, which was number nine out of thirteen, actually aired in April of 2001.

After "The Lone Gunmen's" less than stellar run, Vince Gilligan went on to produce 127 episodes of "The X-Files," after that came "Breaking Bad," and the rest is history!

Last year, I told you about the pilot episode of "The Lone Gunmen," but I barely introduced this wild team of investigative reporters, so, here's Tom (Nightmare Cafe) Braidwood as Melvin Frohike.

On the left is Bruce (The Flash) Harwood as John Fitzgerald Byers, and on the right is Dean (Dead And Deader) Haglund as looney toon Richard 'Ringo' Langly.

The fourth member is Stephen (Fancy Drinks) Snedden as Bond, Jimmy Bond!

The boys are trying to get some dirt on a known Grizzley Bear poacher, when Jimmy Bond has an unexpected encounter with a tree!

Jimmy has to be taken to the hospital!

Nurse Marilyn is quite smitten with Jimmy, and tries really hard to get his attention, but it's all to no avail. He's focused on trying to remember what happened so they can catch that poacher!

The really cute Nurse Marilyn is played by Shawn Batten who hasn't done any acting in the last thirteen years, but in the late 90's, she was Sara Cummings on 243 episodes of the TV show "Sunset Beach."

She was also married to Toto guitarist Steve Lukather for eight years.

The side story is that Jimmy Bond saw on "America's Most Wanted" that there was a fake Doctor who was poisoning patients, and Jimmy is convinced he works at the hospital that he's in!

Meanwhile, Larry, Moe, and Curly are spying on the poacher from their camouflaged van, when all of a sudden he starts shooting, and it scares the crap out of them!

It turns out that he was just doing some target practice!

The Mad Doctor also has a sweet tooth!

Disgustingly enough, the worst part is the poacher is killing the bears only for their gall bladders which are worth a lot of money in the Asian black market!

Richard (Starship Invasions, Duct Tape Forever) Fitzpatrick is the evil poacher! Richard has been a very busy man, and has almost 200 acting credits!

When I first quickly glanced at this show I saw this, which I thought was Rudolph!

Luckily, Yves Adele Harlow shows up at the hospital to save Jimmy a lot of embarrassment!

Yves is played by the always alluring Zuleikha (Once Upon A Time In Wonderland) Robinson.

Almost all of the characters also appeared on "The X-Files" at one time or another!

The boys tail the poacher and nail him and the people he's selling to before they get caught! 

Luckily, the Feds were on the case too, and save the day!