DINOSAURUS! - Ronald Stein - "Julio Meets The Neanderthal Man" (1960)

I always thought that "Dinosaurus" was a tricky little title, just adding that one little syllable was pure 1960 genius! Leave it to Jack Harris to come up with something like that, and I love any title that has balls enough to use an exclamation point! Right on!!

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Lucky for us they spend a lot of time in the cantina in this film, and Hey, isn't that bad guy Mike Hacker there in the middle, leaving the joint?

Diabolical and despicable Mike is played by none other than Folksinger Fred Engleberg in his last film performance! Remember Fred? He was the guy singing the song in the TV studio in "The Lost Missle." What a great actor, what happened to that guy?

Hard to find much info on except he recorded a couple of albums for Elektra Records in the 60's! He doesn't seem to want to offer up that much biographical information, because it sure is scarce! Too bad he doesn't perform in this movie!

Our hero Ward Ramsey as Bart Thompson and Kristina Hanson as the lovely and charming Betty Piper relax in the cantina to the soothing sounds of some calypso band nobody bothered to credit!! The rest of the soundtrack is composed by the irrepressible A.I.P. stalwart, Ron Stein!

Probably the best possible idea is to leave the local drunk in charge of the dinosaurs that have been discovered and dragged up on the beach!!

There's a lot of stuff going on in this movie, including this Neanderthal man running around with his comedy act!!

Veteran actor Gregg Martell lends his own particular humour to this film, like this one scene where he's peeping in this lady's window and they scare each other!!

The lady ran out of the house screaming, so the cave man decides to try on some of her clothes! Eegah!! could take this guy easily, I have no doubt!!

This is what happened after he flushed the toilet! This is really some funny stuff!!

Then the movie takes another turn when the Neanderthal man meets the little boy Julio, and they become best buddies!! Life is good!!

Nice compact cel phone, circa 1960!!

I can't believe Kristina only ever did one more film and that was 19 years later, she's so classically classy! Check out that look, as Gregg inspects her!!

The locals all gather for the annual T-Rex BBQ and Rib shindig!

Okay Kids, see how bad smoking can be for you! So Don't do it! Thank-You!! Visual effects by Marcel Delgado!!

Gee Julio, I'm sorry about what happened to your cave man buddy and all, but little dude, look around you, you really ain't got it that bad, so snap out of it!!

I honestly can't believe, out of all the cool footage they shot for this movie, they used the cheapest looking toy shot for the lobby card. Oh, well, nobody's perfect!!

HOUSE OF THE DAMNED - Henry Vars - "13 Keys" (1963)

"You're Damned Right It Is!!"

The music for "House Of The Damned" was composed by the brilliant Henry Vars towards the end of his amazing career that started way back in 1930 Poland, and ended with his death in 1977! Methinks he did a damned fine job!!

Last time we saw Richard(Rocky Jones)Crane he was turning into an alligator!!

Now how could this be a bad movie with the multi-faceted talents of Ron Foster, Merry Anders, and Richard Crane as the main principals?

I think Ron and Merry make for a pretty cool couple, and they work together nicely!! The pair are architects and they were celebrating their anniversary when Richard called and wanted them to check out this old 'castle' on the California coastline! Right about here's where the niceties stop, and the movie starts getting pretty creepy!

First we have the appearance of John Gilmore, the legless man, and the spooky factor gets turned up a notch real quick! Pretty dang eerie!!

One year after his masterful performance as "Eegah!" Richard Kiel lends his mighty talents to the scary in this flick as original character, "The Giant!"

Erika Peters as Richard Crane's wife Loy gets the bejesus scared out of her by the big guy!!

Frieda Pushnik, the legless woman, watches all the action from behind a hidden screen, it's really starting to get good now!!

The owner of the house isn't open to any questions as to what is going on around there, because she's already about 18 yards south of reality, and would make a loon look like a Rhodes' scholar!!

Then Ron decides to take on The Giant one on one, and it looks like this movie is really starting to cook, and then......

What?? There's no monster?? Huh? It's just a bunch of harmless, misunderstood, sideshow freaks?? No!!! NO!!!!

So you get this whole big sad story from Ayllene Gibbons as the Fat Woman, about everything that happened to them, and instead of scary, you feel sorry for them! Too bad, because I really kind of liked this movie til the end!

Can we just hear one big collective sigh? Aaaahhhh!!

THE MUMMY'S SHROUD / Hammer - 1967 / Music by Don Banks

Tabonga takin' ever'bloody to Egypt for tonight 'mummy' music posting. This is wild little flick from Hammer with great cast as usual and include André Morell, John Phillips, Elizabeth Sellars, Richard Warner and Michael Ripper.

Even though music guy Don Banks have very short career, he compose for some cool movie like NIGHT CREATURES, PANIC, NIGHTMARE, HYSTERIA, DIE, MONSTER, DIE!, THE FROZEN DEAD, THE REPTILE, TORTURE GARDEN and more!!

So, here is... THEME and TOUCH of HORROR!

Okay, so you in Egypt, minding own business in ancient tomb looking for stuff to take back to England to make fortune with... Then dude pop out from behind a brick and yell at you!!.. What kind of mondo we live in?!!

Actually, dude and fortune teller mom is bad guys! They know how to control mummy, so better watch out!!!

Tabonga warn him to watch out, but, he no listen to Tabonga, so, get what he deserve!!

Mummy iz one mean SOB, no kidding! When is last time you see mummy with axe?!.. DAMN!!

Okay, we try everything else, just hold up shroud and see what happen!!..

GOING!..

GOING!!..

GONE!!!.. Huh?.. It woiked?!!

Tabonga signing off 'til next Tuesday... Have a happy nightmare, or two!!

LA VAMPIRE NUE (The Nude Vampire) - Yvon Serault - "The New Era Of The Mutants" (1970)

I ain't even been right lately, and I didn't even know this French film was made in 1970 until I sat down to do this, but it's too late now. The date on this Freaky-Deaky WTF movie doesn't really make that much difference, I didn't know what the Hell was going on half the time I was watching it anyway, but I will tell you one thing, it's got a weird free jazz world music soundtrack that's hard to beat!! The wild score for this flick was written by some crazy cat name Yvon Serault, in his solo film outing as far as I can tell, and that's about all the info you can beat out of me without any further torture, because I need to crawl back into the cave!!

"There were never any vampires, but there are mutants!"

So here's what this movie is about! There is these three cats enjoying this gal's dance just a little too much!

You've got this painter artiste guy!!

This is his model!! She seems to have some real serious issues!!

Then there's this gal!!

And then there's these girls!!

Wrap it all up with a speech from this mutant goober priest, and don't forget to remember "You are helpless against evolution!!" And that's just about it!!