THE 30-FOOT BRIDE OF CANDY ROCK - Raoul Kraushaar - "Main TItle" (1959)

This isn't exactly pleasant, but sometimes you just have to do it! Copies of "The 30-Foot Bride Of Candy Rock" are pretty hard to find, but maybe that's really not such a bad thing! I don't know, it just seems like this whole movie takes it's stupidity too seriously! Forced might be a good description! You've got a fine cast with Lou Costello, Dorothy Provine, Gale Gordon etc, but this film should really probably have been a 30 minute pilot for some TV sitcom. Even the music by the brilliant Raoul Kraushaar is pretty limp, and, the theme would be befitting to a Ma & Pa Kettle episode!

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Filmed in 'Wonderama' and 'Mattascope', Wow! I think maybe it was too much!!

Sadly, this would be Lou Costello's last film & the only one without Bud Abbott! Maybe it's me, maybe it's just this picture, but Lou looks a little lost and alone to me.

Here's the basic premise, Lou, as Arnie Pinsetter(and you do have to love that name)and Dorothy Provine as sweet little Emmy Lou Rossiter are going to get married. He has built this machine, and then everything goes wrong!!

Dorothy looks great no matter what size she is, but is not real happy with her boyfriend Lou after he transformed her!

Here's two way too cool guys! Joey Faye is the one on the left. Joey was one of 3 or 4 guys who staked claim to the burlesque bit "Slowly I turned, step by step" made famous by The Three Stooges, Abbott & Costello and more. Doodles Weaver on the right, worked with one our heroes, Spike Jones, and was the voice of the announcer in Spike's horse race version of the "William Tell Overture" etc, etc. Unfortunately, even talent of this caliber can't save a film like this! Doodles Weaver is actually Sigourney Weaver's uncle, can you see the resemblance?

So the Boosters help Artie get Emily set up!

Emily is in the barn taking a shower, with Artie providing the water with a firehose!!

Right about then, this gooberfied helicopter pilot, played by Jack Straw (Father of singer and actress Syd Straw) who is supposed to be guiding the troops, flies over the scene, and totally looses control when he spots Emily!!!

The really not too bad special effects were done by the wizard Jack Rabin, and the 'giant' scenes are literally head and shoulders above movies like "The Cyclops', but you still gotta wonder if Mr. B.I.G. would have made a better version of this film than this!!! Dorothy has just had about enough of this crap by this point!!!

THE CREEPING TERROR - Frederic Kopp - "Don't Be A Weiner" (1964)

Anywhere, The All-American City, U.S.A. circa 1964!!!

Arthur Nelson White or as he would prefer to be called, Vic Savage, was the brains behind this whole mess, I mean spectacle, as he starred in, directed, and produced "The Creeping Terror"!!!

Vic's wife Brett was played by the stunning Shannon O'Neil. This movie must have effectively ended her career, because she never made another film appearance!

They claim Vic disappeared after this movie, basically never to be heard from again! Not hard to imagine! Here the movie is just getting started and he's already drinking!

There's lots of makin' out in this movie, and with a distraction like that, it makes it a whole lot easier for the monster to sneak up and eat you!!!!

This is what a helpless victim looks like to the monster!!

And this is what a monster looks like to you as you're about to be eaten!!

Uuummm!! Tastes like chicken!!

Still neckin', even at the Hootenanny!!

I have come to the conclusion that the singer here is Buddy Mize, songwriting brother of the Bakersfield sound's, world famous singer and steel guitar player on the "Cousin Herb Henson" TV show, Billy Mize!!!

Fans of the genre are familiar with this funzoid Hootenanny scene, and this song, "She Left Me Lonely"! Here's like a studio version, and the version plucked right outta the film along with some other assorted maiming!

"She Left Me Lonely & more"

The Creeping Terror is without a dang doubt, one of the worst movies ever made, but somehow, it manages to keep your interest despite everything it has going against it. Yeah, sure, all the monster scenes are way too long and lame, but the crazy music and the sheer lunacy of the fact that this monster moves slower that a plate of escargot being delivered by a turtle, and yet it still is able to catch and eat all kinds of people without a problem, is stupefying at best. I guess if everybody just got up and slowly walked away, the movie would be even stupider, no, wait, that's not possible!! But you know what, the music is Great, and that's what we're here for!!!

The "Dance Hall Twist" we featured here before, but this dance goes on and on, and on, because once again, this is a another film about party monsters! They've got nothing else to do til The End!

The 'cougars' are out on the prowl tonight!!

Check out those cool shoes!!! Here's the music from the rest of this swingin' party!! The "Dance Hall Twist Part 2"!!! I love the recurring "Yows!" throughout the whole soundtrack!

Everybody's just having the time of their life until the real monster crashes the party! Once again, crashes isn't quite the right term, it's more like it slowly drags itself to the party!!

Now it's time tho throw this party mayhem into high gear, one girl at a time!!

Here the monster gobbles up a cheeseburger!!!

"This story has a real problem"!!! Did you have to come right out and say it Vic??

Wow, maybe we shouldn't have been laughing so much, this looks pretty serious after all!

MESA OF LOST WOMEN / Ron Ormond & Howco - 1953 / Music by Hoyt Curtin

Tabonga goin' crazy for tonight with pics and info! This is Tabonga very favorite weirdie flick, it totally mind boggling to say least and will make head swim. Just to start, Tabonga own poster showing here!.. See, crazy!!

This is more crazy... Hoyt Curtin is AWESOME dude!!!! Here is small list of TV or flick he do: PETE HOTHEAD, Ed Wood's JAIL BAIT, Mr. Magoo, Howdy Doody, Ruff & Reddy, Peanuts, Flintstones, Top Cat, Scooby Doo, Lost In Space, Smurfs, GoBots and tons more! This the man!!

But for this flick, it most irritating and grating!.. Oh well, makes better!! Theme and Spider Mama Mambo Eegah!! already post most irritating part, do search for that one where Tarantella get shot!

After rescued from el Muerto Desert, Grant tell tall tale of Dr. Aranya, giant spider and spider mamas! Only Pepe believe him! Pepe die after this flick!!

Then there Alan (PREHISTORIC WOMEN) Nixon and Richard (MISSILE TO THE MOON) Travis! Uncredited writer Orville H. Hampton go on to write ATOMIC SUBMARINE!! See, more crazy!!

And, would you know?.. Katherine Victor!, Jerry Warren's very own 'go to' girl here playing chauffer spider mama!! She bringing Dr. Leland Masterson to see mysterious genius, Dr. Aranya!

He greeted by Angelo Rossitto and Tarantella!

Then he watch Uncle Fester, Jackie (THE SPACE CHILDREN) Coogan give spider mama sensual massage and he starting to get creeped out!

Okay, but what make him really flip lid is... doctor show him big giant spider! So, he go all Looney Tunes and end up here, in loonie bin!.. C'mon, that just crazy!!

But, Leland slippery eel and escape prison and go out on town! He one cool dude!! Oh look, bartender actually passes gas onscreen!!

Leland look around and see beautiful doll with big dork!!

An'na one... An'na two... Hey, wake up!

Tarantella start big dance routine, sexy and silly at same time, best way! All guys captivated of course!.. Now who come to sit down at table too?! That right, George (Ro-Man in ROBOT MONSTER) Barrows, he looking for Leland and work for hospital.

Leland stand up and shoot Tarantella!

Dude not happy about that!!!

Moral of story... Bring booze!!

Sitting in woods with dwarfs and midgets is Dolores Fuller, wife of Ed Wood, Jr. and writer of songs for Elvis flicks and LPs!! She also star in GLEN OR GLENDA with Ed.

At end, Leland turn back to normal and get last laugh. He tell Grant and Doreen to split, then he blow the place up. Dr. Aranya die. Oh, look like big giant spider the same one in CAT WOMEN OF THE MOON amd MISSILE TO THE MOON!!.. See, one crazy flick!!!

GOO'NIGHT EVERBLOODY!