LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD AND THE MONSTERS / Azteca Studios Mexico - 1965 / Music by Raúl Lavista

Tabonga finish off week with 'nother flick from Weirdsville. This time from south side...

Tabonga show all three title: Original Mexican title 1962, K. Gordon Murray title 1965 and theatrical re-release title year unknown.

Flick pretty much a musical!! Lot o' clumsily translated lyric for you listening enjoyment tonight! Music man Raúl Lavista have 274 composing credit including LA LOBA which Tabonga have on order! RED, TOM, STINKY, EVIL QUEEN AND MONSTERS!! Sound like Mighty Mouse singers!

Story about bad Queen who jealous of Red Riding Hood. What she want is kill Red with monsters!

Wow, look at great set and costume!! Top pic look like freakin' Dali painting!!

Red actually opera singer in disguise, and she have all the moves. Oh, there Tom, Stinky and White Fang too!

Flick have some really ugly part. Torture very popular for Dick Cheney, but should not show to kids. Monsters tell kid, "We boil you alive!" or "We gonna skin you!" Turn Tabonga off, big time!..

CARRUMBA!! Big dumb robot from SHIP OF MONSTERS and ROBOT vs THE AZTEC MUMMY show up in tonight fairy tale! Viva la Mexico!!

Then, after Red let loose, kid play pinata party with oaf who have them captured in cave!

Oh, and Queen have kool mad lab to make monster!!

Here monster dude catch Red and gang in cave! But, 30 second later Tom start him on fire with torch and then he get beat up by kid slapping him hard!

Queen' henchmen ready to saw giant and big bad wolf in half! Wolfie spit on bad guys for comedy relief. Finally, Red come in and save dude' sorry asses! So, Red and gang save the day... Hooray!

THE REPTILE - Don Banks - "Ilizardization" (1966)

I don't know what it is with me and Hammer Films, they just don't ever seem to put me in the mix!! Every time I sit down to watch one, I get real excited because they look so classically and colorfully fantastic, but then about half or two thirds through the movie I generally lose interest for some reason or another! "The Reptile" is no exception! It starts off like a house on fire with Charles Spalding getting killed by some monster and dieing a gruesome horrible death, all quite mysteriously! The music is provided by Mr. Don Banks, who had quite an impressive run from 1964-67 that included titles like The Evil of Frankenstein", "Hysteria", "Die, Monster, Die!", The Frozen Dead" and "The Mummy's Shroud!" A lot of Don's music is just dark and foreboding, instead of cool and rockin' or swingin' and largely orchestrated, and that's mainly the reason we haven't written about more Hammer films here! "The Reptile" just kind of slides in because of some terrific sitar music, and I'm not even really sure who gets the credit for that!!

Usually crazy guy's bring a bit of comic relief to the table, this cat, John Laurie as Mad Peter is just generally annoying!!

Australian born Ray Barrett had a nice career than included the voice of John Tracy in over 30 episodes of "The Thunderbirds" and he was also the voice of DJ Ricochet and many of the other voices!!! And did you check out the lugs on that cat??

So here's the deal, your brother wills you his farmhouse, and you're told he died of a heart attack, but all the locals are really uptight when you arrive, including your new rich neighbor, one of those guys with Dr. in his name, who just walks into your house looking for his daughter and then talks rude to you, but when you need help, he always tells you, he's not that kind of Doctor, but then invites you over for supper, and of course you go!!!!

So, here's where the sitar music comes into the scene, after dinner when his beautiful daughter Anna plays some awesome music for you, the Doctor freaks out and smashes the sitar right in front of you, so you decide to excuse yourself and go back to your new house! That's right about where they lost me, this movie is over, you people are nuts, and I'm outta here!! Exit stage left!!!

Last year, the lovely Jacqueline Pearce moved to South Africa to help take care of orphaned Vervet Monkeys.

Accomplished Indian actor Marne Maitland takes the role of The Malay quite seriously, and played guys with names like Turk, Ismet, Abdul, Ganga, El Karish, Majarajah, Hassan, Pandit, and Gaafar and many more for 41 years before passing away in 1991!

The beautiful girl is the monster, and everyone else in the movie can die, I just don't care!!

Roy Ashton's makeup for "The Reptile" mask is quite a bit more effective and scary, when it's just a little blurry, I think you'll agree!!

MONSTER OF TOROS aka Toros Canavari / Be-Ya Films Turkey - 1961 / Music by ?

Hello everbloody!.. Tonight Tabonga go to brink of Weirdsville to bring you this Turkish delight! An' boy, it weird!

There no music credit of course, but dude kickin' butt on sitar!.. 1961!.. MONSTER OF TOROS! Oh, no title card neither, Nancy.

People lookin' for some cavedude in mountains so get musical send-off from locals.

See what can happen when distracted by sex?!.. Doofus cavedude find you first!!

Look interesting, so cavedude give it a try!..

Oh, look, gurlie wakin' up!

Hey babuh!.. What you sign?!

Beautifil gurl show stupid idiot how to drink water and look at result!! Brainiac give monster bad name!

Great, now show off eating skills. Dude really startin' to get on Tabonga' raw nerve!

Then, cavedude get to listen to swingin' music on gurl' radio!.. This where Tabonga want to toss grenade into room!

Okay... He not all bad!

Finally, people find cavedude outside and shoot him in back! Then they put him in barn where old maid lady comfort him before place start on fire and kill them both!!..

DAAAANG!.. Oh well, at least someone love him!

I WAS A TEENAGE WEREWOLF - Ken Miller/Paul Dunlap - "Well, People Bug Me Too" (1957)

"I Was A Teenage Werewolf" is the definitive reason we started this blog; it was low budget films like this one, "How To Make A Monster," "Blood Of Dracula," and "Frankenstein's Daughter" that featured at least one complete song that defined the era, and this particular flick is the epitome of what we're talkin' bout here!!! We've been saving this one for awhile now, and I didn't think we were ever going to get to it, so before the world implodes, you've still got a chance to see this movie. Well, kinda, why in the heck is it almost impossibly hard to find any Herman Cohen produced films in distribution. Who'd Herman piss off? I'd like to see how many hits Netflix gets for people looking for this movie, and it just ain't hardly out there. I really think it's weird!!!!

Rockin, Rebel, and Scary!! What else could you possibly want?? Eat this psycho pretty boy!!! More weirdness, Tony on Tony! Michael Landon is Tony Rivers, his Foe Jimmy, is played by Tony Marshall!!

Oh, Wow!! Man, is this not like the ultimate 50's home scene, with the uptight beer-drinkin', solitaire-playin' Dad, and the snooty, just sittin' there doing nuthin but knittin' and bitchin' Mom!! How are you doing, Son?? Uh, Swell!! Actually, even though, they really do want to get out of there and go to their club, Arlene played by Yvonne Fedderson, and Tony are really good kids, they get good grades and they don't drink or smoke or fornicate, it's just that, well, Tony has a temper!!!

Kenny Miller as Vic gets the honor of performing the Jerry Blaine and Paul Dunlap classic "Eeny Meeny Miney Moe," and does a great job!! You might remember Ken in his role as one of the little people in "Attack Of The Puppet People," and he also had a part in the Sal Mineo JD classic, "Dino!" If you're lucky, you might still catch him at some movie convention one of these days!! The rest of the cool soundtrack was composed by the amazing Paul Dunlap, who we've written about too many times already!!! "Eeny Meeny Miney and a whole lot Moe"

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Here, Kenny and Cynthia Chenault as his girlfriend Pearl, break into an almost vaudeville dance routine during the song's instrumental break!! Cynthia was also in "Dino!"

It's a Halloween party, and everybody's having fun scaring each other, then after his song, Ken is guided to go into the door with the bucket of water over it!! He's looking pretty manic himself right here!!

So in return, Vic innocently goes over and blows a noisemaker horn into Tony's ear...........

Pow! I told you Tony had a temper, probably really was a good thing he didn't drink!!!

So, finally, after losing it a number of times, Tony gives in and goes to see the local hypnotist Doctor, who just happens to also be the meanest S.O.B. on the planet!! Whit Bissell does such a fantastic job as the evil bastard doctor in this film, and in "I was A Teenage Frankenstein" that it's really hard to believe that it's not true!! He's that convincing!!! So, just in case you don't know the story, the good Doctor Brandon starts shooting Tony up with crap that turns him into a werewolf, in a effort to make some kind of stupid scientific breakthrough! Right!!

At first the attacks only happen at night, but after leaving the Principal's office, where Tony was congratulated by The Principal for turning his life around since he's been seeing Dr. Brandon, he happens to notice Jimmy's girlfiend Theresa hanging around after school!

A little too much testosterone, and Tony should have never stood that close to that bell..

Director Gene Fowler Jr. shows us the first good clear look at the werewolf, but it's upside down from Theresa's viewpoint!!

Theresa was played by May 1957 Playmate Of The Month, Dawn Richard!

Another classic shot of Whit Bissell, in Herman Cohen's UK features, it was Michael Gough who always got the call as the seemingly nice, but truly inherently cunning and evil character!! They're both very good at it!! To top it all off, this film also included class performances from more great names like Barney Phillps, Joseph Mell and Louise Lewis!!

The Teenage Werewolf has got the biggest and fuzziest pompadour combover ever, only to be outdone by singer, "The White Knight Of Soul", Wayne Cochran!! Find a copy somewhere if you can! When's somebody going to release the definative Herman Collection anyhow??? It's long overdue!!!!!