Thursday, August 28, 2008

PHANTOM FROM SPACE / W. Lee Wilder Productions - 1953 / Music by William Lava

This time Tabonga present underrated sci-fi classic, PHANTOM FROM SPACE! Hey, who know this fact?!.. Dungeon favorite dude, Forrest J. Ackerman, coin the famous phrase... 'sci-fi'!! See, now you informed!.. Also, this is earlier film by producer of KILLERS FROM SPACE, which I feature on Tuesday! W. Lee Wilder and brother make many flick in early '50s!! Phantom From Space

Tonight music genius is William Lava (great name!) who also work on these great flick!.. MYSTERIOUS DOCTOR SATAN, THE SMILING GHOST, THE GORILLA MAN, THE INVISIBLE MAN'S REVENGE, THE MUMMY'S CURSE, HOUSE OF DRACULA, SHE WOLF OF LONDON, MA AND PA KETTLE AT HOME and many many more!!.. He start in 1936! Okay, one more, Al Adamson's DRACULA vs FRANKENSTEIN in 1971, the year William die when he only 60!

Oh yeah, not to forget TV!.. THE (original) MICKEY MOUSE CLUB, THE TWILIGHT ZONE, Disney's ZORRO, CHEYENNE, PINK PANTHER, THE ROAD RUNNER SHOW, F TROOP, lots of Warner Bros. cartoon stuff and much more!! William is awesome!

So, Radar Ford track UFO to Santa Monica where it land or crash! Obviously, Phantom just here on vacation!!

Dungeon favorite Michael Marks tell 'dick' all about how he see same dude in drawing! Oh, and he have no face!!

And, here is new secret weapon!.. RADAR CHEVY!!

Everbloody meet at lumber yard and play fun game...'Catch that Phantom.' Nobody know why, but, Phantom like to run around on rooftop!.. One bad thing about Phantom though... He Pushy Pig!!

Trapped!.. Only one thing to do!... Off with the suit and helmet because!.. He invisible and dummies not see him!!

So what these rocket surgeons do when they find Phantom's stuff?!.. Try to burn it up!!!

Phantom need to put helmet on to breath better.

Science lady have fancy light to see Phantom!.. Going to kill her?! No, tapping out Morse Code for help...

Look like W. Lee very impressed with classic monster flick THE THING!! So, Phantom fall from apparatus and die, then turn to smoke and disappear!.. Earth sucks for vacation!!

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

SANTO VS LAS MUJERES VAMPIRO (Samson Vs. The Vampire Women) - Raul Lavista - "A Tribute To Lorena Velázquez" (1962)

As far as Mexican wrassler superhero movies go, the Americanized Gordon K. Murray versions are even tackier than the originals because of the overacted overdubs, but if that translates into the fact that Santo was introduced to American kids on TV, even if he had to have a major name makeover as Samson, then I guess it was worth it!

Here's all the info you need to know about The Musical Credits!!!

Lorena Velázquez and a classic Buick, you'll be hard pressed to come up with a better combination than that!!

For the coolest of the cool dudes, it was all about suave and debonair!!

Changing Santo's name to Samson was pure 1960's ignorance!

Spectacular vision of the future of big screen TV!!

Wrasslin' and Vampires is good stuff in any language, and any film with Lorena Velázquez will be considered excellent, above reproach, and without argument as to quality or taste around here!!

What kind of fool wouldn't want to join this party?? Everyone knows that soul's have been an overrated commodity for some time now!

Lovely Lorena as Thorina!!

Watch Out!!! They are beutiful, but they bite!!!!

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

KILLERS FROM SPACE / W. Lee Wilder Productions - 1954 / Music by Manuel Compinsky

Wow, Manuel Compinsky only compose for 3 flicks, KILLERS FROM SPACE, THE SNOW CREATURE and THE BIG BLUFF, 1954-5! Too bad, he make good stuff here! Theme and Other Cool Junk!

Peter Graves look safe in jet, then he crash and die! Colonel Banks tell Peter wife that Peter go poof and cannot find him!.. Whoa!! Wife cry for Frank while Colonel have a smoke. Very cool in '50s!!.. And look, Ike in picture hanging there, makes official, 1954! Later, Peter wander back to the base and surprise everbloody!

Do you think I look like I know what I'm doing?!.. Cause, I DON'T!..

Let Tabonga tell you a little story about Non-Flexible Collodian!! Well, you could buy at pharmacy and do crazy things on face, then scare living crap out of younger sisters!!! Ask Eegah!! he know.

Big eyeballs come into Peter bedroom at night and kinda bug him!

So, they give him truth serum to figure out what the hell going on around here!! Oh, see 'microphone' FBI dude holding?.. WRONG!

Peter start tell freakin' crazy story about bug-eyed space dudes with designer belts, big bugs and spiders in caves and space TV featuring bug-eyed Supreme Leader!.. So, no one beieve him!!

Finally, Peter figure out how space dudes stealing energy and he blow them sky high! Oh, same curtain in power plant and bedroom!!

Tabonga love make-up guy Harry Thomas, who come up with ping pong eyeballs for KILLERS FROM SPACE and he use again in FRANKENSTEIN'S DAUGHTER!

Monday, August 25, 2008

THE HORROR OF PARTY BEACH - Zebedy Colt (Edward Earle Marsh) - "Two Murders" (1964)

We've waxed on and on about The Del-Aires, and the rockin' music beyond compare in "The Horror Of Party Beach," but there was other music in the movie too, and that music was composed by a man who was a complete story unto himself way and beyond this movie. His name was Edward Earle Marsh, a child actor, musician, Broadway actor, and early innovator of 'queer cabaret' with his 1960's LP recorded with The London Philharmonic Orchestra, "I'll Sing For You!" In his later years, he turned to the adult film industry as a way of getting some money, and was actually in a 3-D porn movie!! Ed closed out his chapter in film history and passed away in Las Vegas, of all places, in 2004!

"Listen, we better skip this town, this is the place where they're having all the trouble!"

One of these vixen goddesses is Carol Grubman, and one is Emily Laurel, and I think the third one is Dina Harris, who all went on to having amazing film careers, like Nowhere!

It's no wonder the extraordinarily attractive East Coast chicks, soon to be murder victims, found the gas station attendant to be so cute, it's Del Tenney himself! Check out the price of that gas!! 10 cents for tax!!! Outrageous!!!

"He's cute, isn't he?"

This shot alone is amazing as incredible Chiaroscuro art!!! Be scared, girls!!

It's a crack up that the one girl escapes into the trunk of the car with the keys still in the lock, stupid monsters!!

Scene two of murder and mayhem includes these two drunk cats, who think they are capabbbbble of trying to get out of the parking lot! The music in the background was very muted so we brought the volume up so you could hear some of the best music ever recorded for a movie! Probably only Del knows who contributed this piece, it rocks like The Del-Aires, but it might be a Edward Earle Marsh composition also! Either way, it's definitely Boss!!!!!

"I guess we weren't capabbbble!"

Monster Music

Monster Music
AAARRGGHHH!!!! Ya'll Come On Back Now, Y'Hear??