I tried to abscond with a real "Body Fever" title card for you, but I couldn't even find one, so we have to be satisfied with this "Super Cool" DVD title, I'm to understand this film has also been released as "Deadlocked!"
A lot of the films we choose to write about have been covered so many times in print and on the internet, sometimes it seems redundant to do yet another review, but if my talking about "Body Fever" here tonight makes even just one person want to see it, then it's worth it! So welcome to the new Saturday Night Feature Film of the week, a truly awesome flick by another Dungeon favorite, the late Ray Dennis Steckler,
"Body Fever"!!
Not even close to being a monster movie, "Body Fever" is a pretty straight ahead detective flick, and really, it ain't half bad, and the music served up by Mr. André Brummer, credited as Henri Price, is frickin' cooler than a stainless steel martini shaker!
Detective Charlie Smith played by the one and only Dennis himself is offered a job to find a missing girl!
Say What??
Ray Dennis Steckler's charming first wife Carolyn Brandt is the gal everybody's looking for, Carrie Erskine, and why not, she's been in some of the best movies ever made, like "Eegah!!" and "The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!?" also "Rat Pfink a Boo Boo" and "The Mad Love Life of a Hot Vampire" just to hit some of the high points!
I've listed them before, but it's just too much fun to know that Ray Dennis worked using many different handles including Cash Flagg, Sven Christian, Wolfgang Schmidt, Christopher Edwards, Sven Golly, Max Miller, Harry Nixon, Sven Hellstrom, Michael J. Rogers, Sherwood Strickler, my favorite, Cindy Lou Sutters, and that's only about half of them!
This is the ultra hip pad of Gary Kent as evil tough guy Frankie Roberts!! Gary Kent might hold some kind of record for appearing in some really bad movies, having been in such mega stinkers as "One Million AC/DC," "The Mighty Gorga," "Dracula Vs. Frankenstein," and "The Incredible Two-Headed Transplant!" He was the guy to call when you needed a rapist, thug, biker, or just a guy called Gary!
One of the first in a series of very cool tikis and head props in "Body Fever."
This is a great scene where Dennis tries to act "Super Cool," and tells this guy Big Mac that he is a friend of Big Mac, and he doesn't even know he's talking to Big Mac himself!!!
I really wanted to show you a picture of Actor, Director Coleman Francis right about here, but I never did get a good picture, so you just have to know that Ray Dennis dragged Coleman out of the gutter to do this flick, but Coleman would never make it to his 55th birthday!
Now if you had your own jukebox in your pad in 1969, you were without a doubt a swinger!!
Which one is the alien??
Even Ray Dennis himself freely admitted that he had more than a slight resemblance to The Bowery Boy's funny guy, Huntz Hall, and he was right!!!
Time to take a break at the strip club, and what better way to kill some time?
Yet another head prop, a tiki this time!!
Ray Dennis's version of Through The Looking Glass!!
Not so long ago, I promised ya'll that we had some films on tap that were going to blow your mind, well, call me Wayne Fontana if that ain't the case tonight, cause this here film is a class A weirdo, and I'm still pickin' up pieces of what's left of my brain scattered all over the room since I watched it a few weeks ago. At first I was just dumbfounded, now I don't even know what dumbfounded means any more, so here you go, it's an odd little tale about a screamin' superfreak "The Witch With Flying Head!" Thanks to Professor Grewbeard for loanin' me his copy I guess!!
Of course she looks sweet enough at first appearance, but trust me on this one guys, this is not the girl of your dreams, and we don't even know what her name is!
Not to get overly expressive, but, No Shit! Those are snakes coming out of homeboy's mouth!! There are lots of snakes in this movie!! Lots!!
To freakin' quote Mahatma Fabrizi from Sri Lanka, "The title creature is one of the most grotesque monsters known to zoophagousdom. Neither gorgon, nor utukku nor amphisbaena, it is rather a flying head!" And fly she do, and chew up your neck too!!
Laser beam bad breath about 13 stages beyond a Tic Tac!
You have no idea what I'm going through right now!!
Well, I can't exactly see straight after that fifth Saki, so let me see if I can get this head to fly the old fashioned way!!
Do not ingest psychedelic drugs of any kind and watch this movie! I'm warning you right now, that is not a trip you want to take!!!!
Houston we have a problem, Come in Houston, do you read me? Houston, Come in, do You read me?
One concept I just have never been able to comprehend, is puking snakes!
When all else fails, the boy scout handbook says to try the inverted tinfoil swastika glued to your chickenbone trick, and if that doesn't work, get the living Hell out of there before you get your ass fried!!
Oh, Yeah, "The Witch With Flying Head" just getting warmed up!!
Aye Carumba, Ritmo Caliente!! Ouch, that Burns!!
Just to give it that extra snap, it's not just a head flying around, but more like the innards from half a torso, pretty dang funny!!!
So just remember what they say in Texas about blind dates set up by your cousin.....you ever ate possum?
All's well, that ends somewhere, and that somewhere be right about here!
