SHREEMAN FUNTOOSH - Kishore/Kumkum - "The Funny Man" (1965)

"Shreeman Funtoosh" is one of the rare 60's Bollywood excursions into anything resembling Sci-Fi. It's not a bad movie, although, with a running time of around 2 1/2 hours, you might want to make sure you have a pillow!! Kishore Kumar plays the ambitious lead role of Kishore 'Shreeman Funtoosh,' a very funny guy, and it's a good thing, otherwise, he'd be really scary!!

The woman that Kishore is madly in love with is portrayed by the kinda chilly, but quite lovely Kum Kum as Meena!

There are basically three musical numbers in this movie and they just get better the more you listen:

"Woh Jharoke Se" features Kishore pursuing and serenading Meena through the streets and in this cool park, that has what looks to be a full size airliner in it besides a bunch of other odd stuff!!

One of the coolest concepts ever happens here as Kishore struts along, he picks up a group of street musicians who follow him and just fall right into tune and stride, and pump the song up even one level higher!

He follows her all the way home and right up through the window of her apartment! He really loves her a lot!!!

So then there's a whole lot of business about Meena's father's lab and Kishore gets into something, and the next thing you know he's a man of iron!!

So Kishore has some fun with his new found skills!

He took care of these bad guy chumps with no problem, even bullets didn't work against him! Sound familiar?

The second number, "Yeh Dard Bhara Afsana" is also performed by Kishore, but with a hot band this time, that takes place in a club!


This is a great song, and this is a great shot, too!!

Then the effects start wearing off and Kishore starts shrinking, the madness just never stops!!

But the professor is able to bring Kishore back to normal, or well, at least as normal as possible, just in time!!

The third song, "Tujhse Neha Lagaye Jao" is spectacularly and very seductively performed by Meena! It's one of the most enticing scenes I've ever seen in my life!! Bollywood, here I Kum Kum!

Man, that Kishore is one lucky dude!!!

Dance for me some more!!

Last time I checked, this movie was available on Netflix!!

CON LA RABBIA AGLI OCCHI - "Death Rage" (1976)

Damn!! Possibly the most frantic and funky song from any film of any era, tonight, we got the theme from the 1976 Italian action flick, "Death Rage"!!!

Who cares anything about this movie and/or what genre or year it is, this song is a santicmonious piece of freak film history, and nothing less than the soundtrack of a blown mind!!!

Peace!!!

MACABRE / Allied Artists - 1958 / Music by Les Baxter

With MACABRE, William Castle decide he want to produce horror, not cowboy flick no more! After this, he make in a row... HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL, THE TINGLER, 13 GHOSTS, HOMICIDAL, MR. SARDONICUS, ZOTZ!, 13 FRIGHTENED GIRLS, THE OLD DARK HOUSE, STRAIGHT-JACKET, NIGHT WALKER, I SAW WHAT YOU DID, LET'S KILL UNCLE...

Theme play at end, and for Tabonga, not really match what I see on screen for last hour and 15 minute!! But, typical goofy when you have Jay Ward-style credits like LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS! Theme sound full of fun and have grand scale feel, but flick down and dirty, mean and nasty all the way through!! But, call on awesome music genius Les Baxter anyway!!

Hit it, Ralphie!.. Here is lighter side of MACABRE!

Jim Backus pretty sure he know a sleaze ball when he talk to one.

Many unreal thing start to happen after William Prince hear that daughter is buried alive in graveyard...

Okay, here is best example ever of Castle gimmick!! Turn out... It her father come to help!!! Oh, and one for Kreng!

Coo coo kachoo!..

While looking for daughter in funeral home, Jim find William and give him nice stiff jab to face before excellent punch to stomach!! By far, Tabonga' favorite part of flick!

Funeral at midnight, in rain?!

Guess what inside coffin?

Right, William' daughter!

Gramps have big cardiac and fall face first in open grave where they luckily store running camera!!

Philip Tonge die next year after appear in INVISIBLE INVADERS as Dr. Adam Penner.

Weirdo Ed spill beans with doll and then throw payoff money back in William' face. William make up everything to kill gramps for money, it work, but he get caught and expose for greasy weasel that he is!!.. Now pretend you hear Woody Woodpecker give laugh to William, bonified A-HOLE #1!

Cool credits!!