THE DEVIL BAT In Color / PRC - 1940

Welcome to Wednesday Moldie Oldie B+W Flicktime Bijou Theater, featuring Bela and THE DEVIL BAT, here at the Dungeon... But, this time IN COLOR!!

Storyline goes like this... "A mad scientist develops an aftershave lotion that causes his gigantic bats to kill anyone who wears it."

Here's a list of other colorized horror + sci-fi flicks on DVD that you can pick up at a number of places online: SHE ('35), THINGS TO COME, NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, CARNIVAL OF SOULS, EARTH vs THE FLYING SAUCERS, IT CAME FROM BENEATH THE SEA, HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL, LAST MAN ON EARTH, BRIDE OF THE MONSTER, PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE, LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS, CREATURE FROM THE HAUNTED SEA, THE KILLER SHREWS, THE GIANT GILA MONSTER, PHANTOM FROM SPACE, PHANTOM PLANET, MISSILE TO THE MOON and a few SHERLOCK HOLMES titles!! Oh, yeah, they've even done some Little Rascals and The 3 Stooges! On VHS there's THE THING, KING KONG, MIGHTY JOE YOUNG and THE CAT PEOPLE. MISSILE TO THE MOON is probably the best one for a reason I will not reveal at this time, but, we'll be bringing you that one in the upcoming months, so you can see for yourself!!!

Great title card! Mr. David Chudnow is the musical director here, assembling uncredited previous PRC compositions. Sounds dated, for sure!

Today we gots Ralphie the Tarantula what's gonna start the show by pushin' that big old red 'GO' button, which activates the tumbler and lets our 'eariffic earclip' out of it's cage! So, here's... THE DEVIL BAT IN COLOR!!

Bela always seems to be having a good time, especially when he's up to no good!!

He targets the family that bought the rights to his popular shaving products, they've made millions while he got diddly-squat. Here's one of the sons trying out Bela's newest creation, Bat-Bite cologne!

"Use a lot, and, rub it all over your neck!"

Bela lets Devil Bat out, Devil Bat bites guy, guy dies, Devil Bat flies back to house. Viola, perfect Area 51-style crime! (Bat looks like stealth bomber!!)

Reporter Johnny Layton and photographer 'One-Shot' McGuire descend on Heathville, to get a story of course. They start the questioning with the sheriff, then move to the family home of the rich murdered son. Wow, party! Bela's even there!

Tabonga couldn't resist showing this hot pic of the maid!

Does Tabonga really need to say something here? If you can't follow that, well... Tabonga feel sorry for you!!

Bela delightfully listens to the radio as Prof. Raines denounces the Devil Bat's existence because of a price tag in a photo that 'One-Shot' took of the fake one!

'One-Shot' has to be the bait for another Devil Bat attack by wearing some cologne...

No big deal, we'll just make another one!!

Finally the good part, the greedy dad gets his!

Great shot, but those awkward, uncooperative bat props!!.. Is there ever a time they actually look real??!! Even the damn ears look crooked!!!

Johnny splashes some cologne on Bela, then forces him to sit and wait...

The table gets turned on Bela this time!

"RAUMPATROUILLE - DIE PHANTASTISCHEN ABENTEUER DES RAUMSCHIFFES ORION" Angriff Aus Dem All - Peter Thomas - "Attack From Space" (1966)

A while back, I did a generic write up on "Raumpatrouille" that I pieced together with info I was able to grab off the internet, but now, at long last, because of the overwhelming generosity of one certain madman from Texas, I am able to give it another shot, but this time with a much better sound clip and better quality stills, and that's something this German "Space Patrol" deserves!!

This was the first episode of the seven they filmed, and was entitled "Angriff Aus Dem All" or, that's right kids, "Attack From Space!" So first we had a Japanese attack in 1965, and then a German attack in 1966, so hold on to your flaming bratwurst, cause here we go....!!

Okay, first off, let's establish the fact it's the future! You can tell it's the future because everything looks so spacey and futuristic!! They spent a lot of Deutschmarks to make it look and feel that way!

"Here we come, walkin' down the street, we get the funniest looks from Every one we meet. Hey, hey, we're the Raumpatrouille!"

This is the A+ team, starting on the left, Ursula Lillig as Lt. Helga Legrelle, Wolfgang Völz as Lt. Mario de Monti, Dietmar Schönherr as Major Cliff Allister McClane, Friedrich G. Beckhaus as Lt. Atan Shubashi, and Claus Holm as Lt. Hasso Sigbjörnson!! We salute you!!

I still have not been able to come up with a name to give credit for the weird futureass choreography in these bar scene background dances, but whoever it is, was some kind of genius!!

Maybe some traditional folk or square dancing was the main inspiration, take that and cross it with some "Do The Robot" and you're starting to get the idea! Put your knees together, and your hands behind your neck!

Hook your arms together and do the chicken peck.....

Stretch, sway, stretch, sway...

The ultra hip music was composed by the remarkable Peter Thomas! What can I say? The man was a freakin' prolific genius that you should go out of your way to get your hands on everything he ever wrote! I'm not kidding, every single note!! In the meantime, Major Cliff and Lieutenant Hasso are just drinkin' and talkin' the night away, hey, hey, hey!

A giant Fabergé egg is the brains behind everything, who came up with that concept??

Not too dang bad for 1966 spacial effects!!

This first episode is mostly about Hasso and Atan who are sent out to investigate an outpost gone quiet, and stumble upon a weird extra-terrestrial squatter of the future.

All's well that ends dead!!

Peace Out!!

ATTACK FROM SPACE / Japan - 1965

Finally, here's our last installment of Starman, in this feature edited down from the Japanese TV series. One of the best ones, ATTACK FROM SPACE!

Dungeon Master, Michiaki Watanabe, did the great sci-fi music today. Some other interesting titles he worked on are THE GHOSTS OF KASANE SWAMP, BLACK CAT MANSION, FEMALE SLAVE SHIP, SINNERS OF HELL, QUEEN BEE AND THE SCHOOL FOR DRAGONS, INVASION OF THE NEPTUNE MEN, ATOMIC RULERS, INVADERS OF SPACE and YOKAI MONSTERS!

Lil Piffles the Gnat, Tabonga' smallest pet say he all ready to be pushing that big red 'GO' button for today' show! An'a one, an'a two, an'a way we GOOOO!!!.. ATTACK FROM SPACE!

Starts at the Emerald Planet, Starman is called on by the bla bla bla bla, bla bla bla... bla bla, bla bla bla!.. Super smart way to kill 10 minute at beginning of every Starman feature!!

Back at Earth, dudes prepare for space invasion they see coming their way in telescope by making spaceship!

Then, hoodlums on Earth start kidnapping certain important peoples!

Simple, yet, effective!

Starman pays the invaders' space station a surprise visit.

HAI-YEEEEE!!!..

Naziesque dudes from Earth also aid the invaders with their take-over plans.

Tabonga sez!.. Hubba, hubba!!

The Earth ship is forced to land on the invaders' space station.

Believe it or not, this is a firing squad line-up on the space station!! Now, that's creative.

But, Starman shows up in the nick of time!..

Poetry in motion! Ken Utsui is Starman...

The rocket takes off without the girl! What the Hell!! So, Starman flies her to the ship using his uncanny powers to travel through the universe, unscathed even!

Ken steers the rocket into position, ready to push a red missile launch button...

And, it's a direct freakin' hit!! The bad guys can say goo'night to everbloody, now!!

Goodbye, Starman, call when you get back to the Emerald Planet, so's we know you made it okay!! Love you!