IT'S A REVOLUTION MOTHER - Harry Kerwin - "Biker Babylon" (1968)

Friday night is outtasight when the groovy new world begins, and it's a good time for some of that "Beyond" stuff, and what we have here is beyond almost everything, it's a short film posing as a documentary with it's own bent slant 1968 style. Seems director Harry Kerwin was the only one with enough huevos to step up to the plate and admit any association with the film!

And speaking of huevos, just in case you thought all them hippies was vegans!!

By the looks of Harry's résumé, he just might have been a character. He worked as director on a couple of real classic TV shows, "Make Room For Daddy," Sea Hunt" and "Here's Lucy," but never for more than one episode. Was it the classic, 'it's just not gonna work out, Harry' scenario or what?

This film makes a lot more sense when you find out the original title was not "Biker Babylon" but "It's A Revolution Mother" because it really only focuses on bikers at the beginning before launching into a counterrevolutionary 60's diatribe of peace and love!

Used to be, we'd call these good ole boys, not hippies or bikers!

They even had a rain storm to help you think this might be Woodstock!

Get me some footage of the guy in the tie-dyed shirt and the feather in his hat, that just screams hippie!! I'll even bet you his name is Macaroni!!!

Ressurected from the dead by the amazing Johnny Legend, this film can seen as part of a triple feature including "Rebel Rousers" and
"The Wild Ride" available on Netflix!!

THE MAD MONSTER / Producers Releasing Corporation - 1942

Welcome everbloody, to Wednesday B+W Oldie/Moldie Flicktime here at the Dungeon! THE MAD MONSTER wuz director Sam Newfield' 108th assignment and he finish with 272 including title like AUNTIE'S ANTE, A GYM DANDY, MAGIC, BUSTER'S SPOOKS, PEEK-A-BOO, GHOST PATROL, THE TERROR OF TINY TOWN, HITLER - BEAST OF BERLIN, THE INVISIBLE KILLER, DEAD MEN WALK, THE BLACK RAVEN, NABONGA (love that name!), FIGHT THAT GHOST, THE FLYING SERPENT, GAS HOUSE KIDS, WILD WEED, RADAR SECRET SERVICE, LOST CONTINENT (1951) and even 12 episode of RAMAR OF THE JUNGLE for TV!

"The blood of a wolf he placed in the veins of a man... and created a monster such as the world has never known!" reads the tagline... THE WOLFMAN came out only a year earlier!

Today' soundclip feature original music by Russian born David Chudnow, who retire in 1956, and die in 2002??! This the kind of music meant to jar and shock as you will hear once Piff push big old red 'GO' button, because today it his turn!.. THE MAD MONSTER!

George Zucco play Dr. Lorenzo Cameron. Now, here is real 'mad' scientist to be sure!!

Sadistic bastard like to give shots of wolf blood to Dungeon pal, Glenn Strange!

Glenn play Petro, he get all change into snarling werewolf by doc. Tabonga love Glenn' flour sack shirt!!

Dr. Cameron like to have imaginary pal he hate come and debate crazy theories he have inside his head! (Glenn Beck!)

Petro like to pick flower for doctor' daughter, Lenora (Anne Nagel).

When people getting old, sometime eyeball play trick on self!!

Doc never stop coming up wif' devilish plan for revenge!

This time, he take Petro to guy he want dead and then leave. Guy is supposed to try and figure out what wrong with Petro in upstairs department!

Slick dirty trick! Doc know that Petro starting to turn into werewolf unpredictably now... So, it just a matter of time!

Another revenge plan by doc is for this dude to drive Petro somewhere on foggy night!

Curiosity kill the daughter!

Poetic justice... Doc create monster, monster turn on doc!!

Great part as Petro give Dr. Cameron well-deserved strangling!

Again, fire disinfect everything an' everbloody can get good night sleep!.. Well, except doc an' Petro!

IL ROSSO SEGNO DELAFOLLIA - Sante Maria Romitelli - "Blood Brides" (1970)

I've said it before, I don't really like slasher flicks that much, but I trust Mario Bava! And bigger than anything, this here "Honeymoon Hatchet" jumps right out of the box, with blades a gleaming, interspersed with wacky psychedelic arty scenes, and Mr. Bava almost lost me, but by the time I got to the end I was quite surprised to find myself laughing, alot!!!

Psychomaniac John Harrington killed something like five brides before this movie even got started!! He is portryed perfectly insane by Stephan Forsyth!

This film would be the last straw in Stephen Forsyth's acting career! I think by the time we get to the end of this, you'll know why!

Yes, there's a killer on the loose, and all the mayhem is happening to the music of one Sante Maria Romitelli, a man whose career ran the gamut from "Love Hungry Girls" to "God's Gun" and back again!

Let's start with the fact that John inherited his mother's bridal gown business! Now that's macho!

And John can always find solace somewhere!

John is big and rich enough to own his own crematorium, which is very helpful when you have a lot of dead bodies to dispose of!

Cut to the next morning toast burning scene, and John's wife Mildred says, "Do you smell something burning?"

And speaking of Mildred, here's the nagging bitch right now! Mildred Harrington was played by Laura Betti fairly early in her career! She went on to work up into the 2000's until her death in 2004. Interestingly enough, Laura started her career as a jazz singer!

So it seems John's had enough of killing other people's wives, now it's time to kill his own!!!

When John busts out in the bridal veil with the meat cleaver, you know he's gone too far!! It's starting to make "The Shining" look like "Sesame Street!"

All Mildred's bloody screaming got some attention, and Jesús Puente as Inspector Russell shows uo to see what's going down! Too bad he never looked up!!!

And why? Becasue John's excuse for the screaming was he was watching a Horror movie! The movie just happened to be one of Mario Bava's earlier films, "Black Sabbath" starring our hero Boris Karloff!!

So with Mildred gone, John can just about dress any way he wants to!!

But is she really dead? Mildred is looking dead on dressed in black!!

Mildred questions John's choice of velour at a time like this!

This is where it starts getting fun! When John is alone, he sometimes sees his dead wife, but when he's out in public, he doesn't see her, but the other people do!! What better time for some classic 70's music!

Mildred was bugging John more dead than when she was alive, so he figured he'd cremate her remains, and that would take care of it! So he carries the bag around and goes to the local bar, and orders a whiskey, and when the waiter comes back, he has John's whiskey, and a sherry for the lady!!!

Mildred just sits there, minding her own business, like nothing happened at all when John tries to pick up on this chick, and starts going on about doing it in front of his wife!!

The bouncers unceremoniuously toss John out on his ear for being a pervert, and one yells out to him, "Here's your bag!"

Cremating her didn't work, so John figures he'll toss the ashes, and that should do the trick, but no cigar!

Back in John's private world, you start getting the feeling that maybe his problems go back farther than we know about!

Inspector Russell finally busts John and takes him off in the paddy wagon, but he doesn't care anymore, as long as he is finally away from his wife.....

...But guess what? That ain't gonna happen!!!Have a nice forever John, at least you'll never ever have to worry about being alone!!! Isn't that comforting??? Thanx Mario!!!