"X" THE MAN WITH THE X-RAY EYES / He Stripped Souls As Bare As Bodies! - 1963

It's time for a Dungeon Redo of this wild and weird Roger Corman flick that I saw with my cousins way back in 1963... The story's about Dr. James Xavier, a world renowned scientist experimenting with human eyesight. He devises a drug, that when applied to the eyes, enables the user to see beyond the normal realm of the light spectrum and also gives the user the power to see through objects! Xavier tests this drug on himself when his funding is cut off and continues its use as time progresses. He then begins to see, not only through walls and clothes, but eventually through the very fabric of reality!

This thing stars Ray (PREMATURE BURIAL) Milland, Diana (THE SWIMMER) Van der Vlis, Harold (THE INVISIBLE BOY) J. Stone, John (ATTACK OF THE PUPPET PEOPLE) Hoyt, Don (MUSCLE BEACH PARTY) Rickles and features Morris (EARTH vs. THE FLYING SAUCERS) Ankrum, John (THE OMEGA MAN) Dierkes, Dick (WAR OF THE SATELLITES) Miller, Jonathan (NOT OF THIS EARTH) Haze, Barboura (A BUCKET OF BLOOD) Morris and more.

The Story starts with Dr. Xavier showing Dr. Diane Fairfax his experiments with increasing the possibilities of eye sight in animals and humans. He has had some success with his monkeys...

The doctor's funding gets cut off, so, he decides to test his sight enhancing drug on himself, you know, like, why not?!.. Right?

Diane thinks it would be a good idea for the doctor to take a break so they go to a party.

The serum kicks in and Dr. Xavier sees some pretty interesting sights! And, he even gets a peek at Diane in the nude, which makes him blush.

The doc keeps on using the serum and things are getting extra weird. When Dr. Stone tries to inject Xavier with something to counteract the serum, well, Xavier pushes him aside and his friend falls through the window of the five story medical building!

Xavier disappears after the accident and reappears as a psychic at a carnival. He now has a helper named Crane who takes questions from the audience. Dungeon heroes Dick Miller and Jonathan Haze are in the audience, and Dick is being a dick. It all backfires on him when Xavier tells the audience all about what a fuck up he is, funny stuff!

Crane finds out that Xavier is actually a medical doctor and wants to make more money by having him diagnose the sick, so they move into an old medical room. Things are going well until Diane shows up, and she takes the doc away from the setup against Crane's will.

She takes him to Las Vegas, he has a plan...

The Doc cleans up at the '21' table and the supervisors get suspicious when he wins ever time!

His glasses get knocked off and it reveals his mutated eyeballs! Now he's seeing psychedelic skeletons instead of people,... Help, Mr. Wizard!!

Dr. Xavier takes Diane's car and drives into the desert, chased by a heckilopter even! He crashes the car and starts walking, then, he hears some noise. It's a holy roller revival, he stumbles to the entrance.

The doc testifies, he tells the crowd of the things he has seen. They respond with, "If thine eye offend thee... Pluck it out, pluck it out!" So's, he plucks each eyeball out... Kind of a crappy effect, but, it gets the point across! Tune in again on Wednesday as we edge our way toward 'Halloween Countdown!'

THE BLACK CASTLE - "Serenata No.13" (1952)

What can I say about a film this classic that you haven't read, heard or seen before? If you haven't seen it, please do so, you can find it on Netflix, and if you have seen it, then watch it again, I'm sure that just like me, you've probably forgotten how good a film it really is!

Here's the star of the movie, William Castle's granddaddy, "The Black Castle" itself!

Besides the people that dwell here, The Castle has issues of it's own! I was just reading about a 45 room place in England for sale, that had no indoor pumbing! Something like 4 and a half million dollars and no bathroom, what a deal!!

You've all heard the song about the "Green Door," but if you really want to get pickled, you need to head on over to the "Green Man" bar! The "Blue Man" group plays there every other Thursday!

On the left is Stephen (The Fiend Who Walked The West) McNally as the oh so sinister Count Karl von Bruno, and on the right is Richard (143 episodes of Robin Hood) Greene as Sir Ronald Burton, alias Richard Beckett, a man out to find out why a couple of his best friends died mysteriously!!

The always amazing Boris Karloff is Dr. Meissen! Boris not only makes a great Frankenstein, he also can play a benevolent Doctor with ease, and he's not messin' around!

Rita (The Body Snatcher) Corday is the evil Count's wife, Countess Elga von Bruno! I can't imagine why Rita changed her name from the name she was born with, Jeanne Paule Teipotemarga!! Even more so, her credits on this film are as Paula Corday!

Well, you can see where this is going, Sir Ronald and The Countess are getting along a lot better than him and The Count for some reason!

This is what you call a very strategically placed clue!!

What a pair of scalliwags! The Count is joined by his best buddy, Michael (Curse Of The Undead) Pate as Count Ernst von Melcher! It's amazing, not only do these two look like brothers, they're in the two movies in title that I always get mixed up about, "The Fiend That Walked The West," and "Curse Of The Undead!"

The duo of doom are joined here by yet another incredibly amazing talent, John (Attack Of The Puppet People, 2 Episodes of The Twilight Zone, and 3 Outer Limits) Hoyt as Count Steiken! It seems like the word Count must have been a pseudonym for stinkin' bastard back in the day! If there would have been two more counts, we could of had a "Psychotic Reaction!"

Okay, if you're not convinced yet, Lon Chaney Jr. is also in this film as the big lummox Gargon always sneaking into somebody's bedroom at night!!

Just in case he's not crazy enough, here's a hint as to why Count von Bruno wears an eyepatch!!

Just for kicks, The Count and his castle also sport an alligator pit that has to be circumvented thusly!!

Now if he just had a computer sitting in front of him, I'd say this is what I look like a lot of the time lately!!

"The Black Castle" might be 60 years olde, but I'm still not going to tell you how it started or ended! It's just that damn good! Don't take my word for it, see for yourself!!

BEANY And The BOO BIRDS / Bob Clampett - 1962

Today is Special Dungeon Halloween Treat for everbloody and is special request by Tabonga' cute lil' pet Ralphie the Tarantula an' Piff the Gnat...

Bob Clampett is Tabonga' very favorite cartoon director, when working for WB he direct PORKY'S HERO AGENCY, PORKY'S PARTY, PORKY IN WACKYLAND, PORKY IN EGYPT, THE DAFFY DOC, PORKY'S TIRE TROUBLE, PORKY'S MOVIE MYSTERY, PORKY'S HOTEL, JEEPERS CREEPERS, PREHISTORIC PORKY, GOOFY GROCERIES, THE HEP CAT, TORTOISE WINS BY A HARE, FALLING HARE, BIRDY AND THE BEAST, THE OLD GREY HARE, THE GRUESOME TWOSOME, THE BASHFUL BUZZARD, BOOK REVUE, BABY BOTTLENECK, KITTY CORNERED, THE GREAT PIGGY BANK ROBBERY, THE BIG SNOOZE and many more classic cartoon! If you not familiar wif' doze particular toons, well then, Tabonga pity you poor soul in funnybone department!!

When Tabonga was lil' twig in 1st grade of school he use to watch Bob' puppet show TIME FOR BEANY on TV. Then in 1962, BEANY AND CECIL cartoon was on TV with bad guy Dishonest John in many episode!

In early sixties, this episode was used as example of 'too much violence on TV' by American snoots! Original music department give credit to Eddie Brandt, Hoyt Curtin, Jack Roberts, Robert Clampett, Sody Clampett, Melvyn Lenard and Winston Sharples, very cool indeed!!

Anyway, Eegah!! make another nice soundclip so might as well get show rolling... Piff and Ralphie gonna press big old 'GO' button together, since this was their idea!!! 'DA BOO BOIDS!!

Beany, Cecil and Uncle Captain are on vacation. Map say to Booware of the Boo Birds! Cecil sit in bucket of ice cubes and sneeze into sail to propel Leakin' Lena along!

Cecil plow into land and ice cube go flying everywhere! So, he have to go up to old spooky hotel to get more!

Hey, give 'boo chip' stamp here! Tabonga used to get 'boo chip' stamp at Miracle Market back in '62!

Is anybloody ta home?!

Boo Birds come up with game plan.

Today's FRIGHTDAY!!!

Menu look like place have interesting food!

Here is gag used as 'too much violence on TV' example.

Here is 'nother example for 'too much violence on TV' argument. Same thing happen to The Three Stooges.

Cecil had enuf of Boo Bird prank and so vaccuum up into bag and going to drop like hot potater! But, Boo Bird pretend to be Cecil conscience and mess with him even more!

Awwwww... Boo Birds really nice and love Cecil! So, they get to join with gang on Leakin' Lena for vacation!