So 2010 is "Dead & Buried," BAM!! Just like that, and now it's 01-01-11, and what better film title could you want to begin a year like this with, than
"I Start Counting." 
"I Start Counting" is a different film on a number of different levels, starting with the 17 year old star, Jenny(Logan's Run)Agutter as Wynne Kinch! Unlike a lot of others, Jenny is still working today!. Just to show you the diversity of her talent, Jenny also sang backing vocals on the 1990 Prefab Sprout song "Wild Horses." Jenny's real love in life is charity work for The Diabetic Association and NCH Action for Children, a charity that provides homes and other help for homeless children!
Wynne is adopted and her family is a little strange, there's Billy Russell as Grandpa, Madge Ryan as Mother Kinch, and Gregory Phillips as weirdo brother Len Kinch! Madge was also in "A Clockwork Orange" and Alfred Hitchcock's "Frenzy!"
But the biggest problem is that Wynne is totally infatuated with her much older brother, Bryan Marshall as George Kinch, and George has secrets!!
"I Start Counting" is a saucy little film, and the main guy stirring the sauce on the music was composer and drummer Basil Kirchin! Basil was also co-leader of The Ivor and Basil Kirchin Orchestra, sometimes know as The Kirchin Brothers, even though Ivor was Basil's father!! Basil has some swingin' horror credits to his fine name, like "Mutations," and "The Abominable Dr. Phibes!"
Wynne's best friend is the not as cute as she thinks she is, Clare(The Best Pair Of Legs In The Business)Sutcliffe, as the obnoxious little trollop Corinne Eldridge!
I really do miss going to the record store!!
Other songs in the film are "I Start Counting" sung by Lindsey Moore, "Homemade Aeroplane" sung by Jackie Taylor, and "They Want Love" and "Children" sung by Tony Kingston. All the lyrics were written by Pat Ryan!
Every Friday George goes off to build shelves for a neighbor lady, but when Wynne investigates, she finds out that the lady doesn't really have that many shelves at all!
The olde Kinch homestead has it's own stories to tell!
Wynne has quite a vivid dream, not too unlike one I had the other night for some reason!
Wynne tries confession without much results! George is 32 and she's 15, but it's rational in her mind, because they are not really related, since she's adopted, so it's not really incest, and she tries to properly explain that to the priest!
Wynne tells the tart Corinne that she's going on a date to have sex for the first time, and as she leaves on the bus, Corinne yells at her that she's done it seven times already, "Seven Times!!!!!!!"
This composite transition shot tells the whole tale, "Your dress is too short!"
And I really miss going to the record store that had listening booths!
When Wynne goes to George's work to tell him something, she gets a good eyeful of just what a dirty mind he has! Can't get away with that these days!
See it all started when Wynne was spying on George, and she saw some scratches on his back, and then he hid a blood-stained sweater, and there has been a serial killer on the loose, so she hides in his van and spies on him to see where he really goes!!
Well, it turns out George has a secret girl friend, and while he was inside her house knockin' it out, Wynne had nothing to do except drink George's booze. So now, they called out the autorities because Wynne is missing and when she finally sneaks back in her house, The Mother gives Wynne some more booze to calm her down, and we get some great acting by Jenny Agutter!!
Dungeon longtime pal, and writer extraordinaire,
Greg Goodsell turned me on to "I Start Counting," saying it had a swinging soundtrack, and Jenny Agutter in knee socks, how could you go wrong, and he was 100% correctite!
Creepy, but way different than anything Hammer was doing around the same time! Stick with it, it takes a while, but it gets pretty dark at the end!
Good horror wrapped up with murder and incest, but don't worry, Jenny will make it, she's still got a long career ahead of her! Long out of print, I do believe I recently saw that "I Start Counting" was available on Netflix, so now it's time for you to start counting too!
Tonight's wild card feature is a little joker called "Little Hillary In Dreamland" or "Thor Vs. The Amazon Women," and is another notch in the garter belt of 'Female Dominated Society' type of flicks like "The Seven Secrets Of Sumuru," "The Cave Of Silken Web," "Bees In Paradise," and "The Girl From Rio etc."
It's a woman's world, so what could possibly go wrong?? Fashion and fetish are some of the most important parts of this Amazon world, but what's more important is the third F.........
.........Fighting!!! Now if this was about guys, I'd call them a bunch of pussies for having bows and arrows instead of machine guns, but since it's women I can't do that!
"My baby does the Hanky Panky!" Actually, it's more like "Last Kiss" because these girls are getting ready to go into battle!
As far as I can tell, The Amazons need to hone up on their social skills!
I forgot what this gal did to get herself into this predicament, but it wasn't horrendous enuf to justify this kind of behaviour! Elf, elf! Elf, elf, elf!
This is not my idea of a threesome!
The guy guards have got this groovy viking dude with big teeth as their backdrop!
Then the "Yokai Monsters" all show up like it's some kind of krazy dream!
Janine Hendy is "The Black Queen" and is one of those rare anomalies of today, a person you actually can't find out that much about! Much hotter than Rosalind Cash for my cash, albeit a tetch meaner, Janine was in 12 Italian titles that included "Mole Men Against The Son Of Hercules" and "Passport For A Corpse." Do a search, you're more likely to find something about bi-sexual health care in Fresno than you will about Janine!
"Ashes, ashes, all fall down!!" or "Dogpile on the rabbit," whatever your choice!
Do not trifle with Amazon wimmen, unlike stoopid male driven society, they do not mess around, and have many ways of dealing with people who get out of line, like this old fashioned stretchem til they squeak tool!
The rest of the guys in this flick are a bunch of little weenies!!
Suzy Andersen is Tamar, a ravishing beauty with great access to makeup! Suzy was in 13 flicks, one of which was the Boris Karloff klassic "Black Sabbath," where she played Sdenka in "The Wurdalak" segment!
Remember that guy Thor, who was in the title? He's been in trouble the whole way, and now it's come to this! He's on top of a big elevated platform, surrounded by spikes in a monster tug-o-war with the whole Amazon army, and if he gets pulled off the front, he does a nosedive into a flaming rancid vat!! 
Tamar is busy battling for her own life in the small ring of this circus of thrills!
As the tug-of-war rages on, it's a good time to tell you that the standard sword and sandal music in this film was composed by Dungeon regular, Roberto Nicolosi! "Caltiki," "Black Sabbath," "The Evil Eye," and "Black Sunday" are just some of the titles in Roberto's body of work! It must be about time for us to compile a Dungeon Hall Of Fame!
After Thor defeats the Amazon army in the struggle-of-life, he upends the burning embers in their face! Joe Robinson is Thor! Joe and both his father and grandfather were world champion wrestlers. Joe was also a judo champion and a black belt in karate! This was one bad cat!! 
Thor's best buddy and sidekick is Harry Baird as Ubaratutu. There was an earlier scene where Ubaratutu and The Black Queen were having a splendid relationship, and Thor had to literally carry him away! Harry's first role was in 1955 when he played a boxer named Jamaica in a film called "A Kid for Two Farthings." 
The weenies are released and can now go out and conquer the whole rest of the world!
Ouch! The Black Queen takes one for the gipper with a spear thrown by Tamar!
Beauty remains supreme, and the Makeup Department consisting of makeup artist Marcello Di Paolo, wig maker Palombi, and hair stylist Lilla Polyák remain victorious!
