JACK THE RIPPER / Close Your Eyes And Whisper His Name,, - 1976

One good Klaus deserves a bad one. Welcome to our Friday Flip-Out Feature, Klaus plays a serial killer whose mother was a prostitute, and he starts killing streetwalkers as a way of paying her back for her abuse... Not exactly a Jack The Ripper story, his name isn't even Jack, it's Dennis! Only tie-in is the street girls, he also likes women who perform at cheap bars.

You gotta love Klaus Kinski, a real original. The one day I worked as an extra on the set of TIMESTALKERS, Klause took a wild ride on an ATV and drove through the lunch area, real fast, while we were eating. The weird smile on his face was priceless, I couldn't tell if he was acting or not... Tell you one thing, the dude could ride a horse! Man, he died at age 65.

Well, well, well, who could this be hiding in the shadows at night, stalking women?..

There's the victim, wrapped and ready to be dumped into the stream. But wait a minute, why is there a big old lady tossing the body out of the boat? Oh great, now we gots two mysteries!!

Here's a good portrait of Dr. Dennis Orloff... See, it's a freakin' Orloff flick!

An interesting character is this old blind man who tells the Inspector that he can help the case with some details, as he was witness to the murder. He says that by being blind, his senses are heightened and he can give unique qualities of the person.

In the meantime, Orloff's having a fever dream about Cynthia, a ballet dancer, and girlfriend of the Inspector. She's telling him to come and get her, she's just like his mother, a whore...

My favorite part is when his landlady lets him know that she wants to be his girlfriend... She pours a cup of tea and offers it to him. After a few very weird expressions on his face, Orloff knocks the tea cup out of her hand (you gotta see it, wow) and it flies out of the scene, He gets up immediately and tells her something like... Screw you and your doddamn tea parties!! Needless to say, it horrifies the woman. She starts crying and goes over to the window, with her back turned. He reaches into his bag and pulls out a knife, he walks toward her, but, at the last second decides to go out to find his next victim. Klaus looks sooo strange in this one!

Shame on you prop department! A fisherman snags this mannequin hand (with a painted on light brown patina) and goes to the police... And, they take it as evidence!!!

So, the police bring in a sketch artist to try and figure out what the killer looks like, by interviewing witnesses to the murders. The sketch definitely looks like Orloff, drawn in a modern art style!

No kidding, watching the movie, next scene starts, there's a closed curtain on screen... It quickly opens and we're treated to this fine... Her pose in the bottom still sez it all. Then I thought, hmmm, the audience is a mile away, there's no way they're seeing what we're seeing!!

Orloff captures Cynthia and is torn as to what he wants to do with her. Before he can harm her though, the Inspector and the police show up.

Yeah, his helper's there to the stinking end...

The Inspector tells Orloff to come down from his perch and give up, he's surrounded. After one cop fires a bullet near him, he surrenders with no problems. This one has too many standard story lines to get excited about, it's just a weird one! Tune in tomorrow for more fun, here at The Dungeon!!..

TABONGA'S TV-MOVIE CREDITS (1986 - 1988)

Tonight I've got a most special Whacked-Out Wednesday X-Mas present for you!!
In the 1980's Tabonga moved to L.A. and tried his damnedest to carve out a career in the movies!
He was the guy known as 'The Extra!'

 In 1986 the movie "Stand By Me" came out, so to get in on the whole MTV video type scene, they brought out the original singer of "Stand By Me" Ben E. King to make a video that included some of the kids from the movie! 

Tabonga got a gig as an extra in the crowd, the guy up in the top left corner! It's almost like Tabonga was the precursor to the whole photobomb movement, and who else was cool enough to have shades on? Nobody in this scene! Tabonga's roles in both this video and movie dominate the screen, and have left viewers gasping for more! And here's what I'm talking about:

This shot is even better, you can see how he demanded to be center, and to further prove his talent, if you watch the video, you'll see that he's the only one swaying in the right direction, everyone else is going the other way! 

I don't know how the Director could put up with that many people out of synch! Check it out for yourself right

HERE!

 In 1987, Tabonga, on the right, had the almost co-star, but not quite credited hillbilly-in-long-johns role in "Timestalkers!"
 

Then in the 1988 James Woods' movie "Cop," they needed somebody with strong character to stand in the background with his pregnant wife answering cop questions while the main action was a conversation between the two detectives!

 Tabonga killed it in this performance! It was so easy for him, he even got to smoke a cigarette!
 

 And not to be content with that, Tabonga was one of the Storm Troopers in the 1988 Michael Jackson project, "Moonwalker" He's the one circled on the poster, and yeah, I know anyone could make that claim, but this time, it's actually true!!
The man was an icon of the late 80's, despite the fact that nobody knew it!

And finally, here he is on the left, in the yellow bumpcap as Race, on the legendary L.A. public access TV show "Offbeat" as one of the Offbeatniks, and to his left, or my right, is me! The other characters are the Brain on the bass, and Andy and Reverend Tom in the background! It wasn't weird at all, it just looks that way!

TIMESTALKERS - "It's Way Past Time To Kill The Future" (1987)

It's not often I delve past the 70's, but tonight's feature is an extra special affair, so climb on board, and set your co-ordinates for 1987!

It's called "Timestalkers," and it's a 1987 TV movie about time traveling that has an stellar cast! It's not the best or the worst movie in the world, being neither great nor horrible, but it is special for a couple of reasons! The executive producer of "Timestalkers" was none other than Bill Hole, the guy who directed two of The Dungeon's favourite movies, "The Ghost Of Dragstrip Hollow," and "The Devil's Hand!"

"Timestalkers" stars Bill (The Dark Knight Rises) Devane as Scott McKenzie, a college professor fixated on the olde west!

In the opening scenes, Scott McKenzie's wife and son are killed in a fiery auto accident!

About a year or so later, Scott and his pal go to a western auction and buy these two chests!

Inside the larger trunk, the one that has the bullethole in it, there's an olde tintype photographe, and the time differential sequences begin! Enter Klaus Kinski as gungslinger Dr. Jospeh Cole!

Upon closer scrutiny, Scott Mckenzie realizes the gun in the photo was actually made in the 1980's, so he naturally figures the photographe is phony!

But then................Maybe not!

Enter Lauren (Once Bitten) Hutton as Georgia Crawford, a woman from 600 years in the future!

So what's the deal? Georgia and Dr. Cole are both from the future, and he's going back to the past in order to change history because he's pissed at her Father, and she's traveling through time to try and stop him!!

So now we come to the best part of this movie! Back in the past, a small gang of cowboys are partying down by the olde waterhole, and bigger than shit, I'll be damned if that isn't Tabonga there on the right in an un-credited role! He probably should have won some award for those chicken skin lookin' long johns, but we've never had that kind of luck!

Tabonga has told me that Klaus Kinski was all kinds of crazy on the set! Considering most of the roles Klaus had over the years, it would be pretty difficult to imagine that he wasn't a very strange man in real life too! Klaus is forever enshrined in the Dungeon Hall of Fame, and this is a great shot of him!

For some odd reason, 600 years in the future looks like a 1970's disco!

He looks great here, but this was the last movie Forrest Tucker would ever make, in fact, he passed away about 5 months before it was released! Forrest Tucker was in "The Abominable Snowman," "The Strange World Of Planet X," "The Crawling Eye," and will always be remembered by connoisseurs of 60's TV as Sgt. Morgan O'Rourke in the cowboy sitcom "F Troop!"

I actually liked this part of the movie a lot! Forrest Tucker's character was a wise olde gentleman named Texas John Cody, whose collection of historical cowboy songs provide clues that help solve this whole mystery!

It doesn't take much at all for Klaus Kinski to look like a complete and total train wreck! For some people it's just an inherent natural ability, and Klaus was one of the masters!

S H A Z A M ! ! !

This is my new favourite shot of the week!