THE KILLER SHREWS In Color / Hollywood Pictures - 1959

Welcome to Friday Night Drive-In here at the Dungeon, with your host Tabonga and his little helper pal, Ralphie the Tarantula! Tonight we have a colorful reprise of the Texan made fifties lo-budget classic THE KILLER SHREWS that we posted originally back in Jan. 8, 2009! Next Friday it will be the other flick made in Grewbeard Country by Hollywood Pictures for a double bill, THE GIANT GILA MONSTER, in color! Those two titles are the only movies Hollywood Pictures ever made!

Legend Films has done a swell job of restoring and colorizing a number of older titles like SHE, THINGS TO COME, PHANTOM FROM SPACE, BRIDE OF THE MONSTER, THE LAST MAN ON EARTH and LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS!

Tonight's music maestros are Harry Bluestone and Emil Cadkin, who both had a limited career in music composing, but who both ended up on the soundtrack "Ren & Stimpy 'Adult Party' Cartoon" from 2003!.. Weird.

So, on wif' da show, as they say in filmland... Lil' Ralphie's saying that he's ready to push the old 'GO' button once again, and start our Eariffic Earclip rolling down the lane and into your brain! Here's... THE KILLER SHREWS!

A storm's a comin' so captain James (FRANCIS GOES TO WEST POINT) Best and crewman Judge Henry (MY DOG, BUDDY) Dupree look for cover for their sea cruiser.

For some reason, this scene always gives Tabonga a twitch of vertigo, trying to comprehend it's surreal perspective!..

Boy, it didn't take James long to make friends! 'Rook' stays back with the boat because he don't drink.

Dr. Baines lets James hold a for-really shrew!

As poor old 'Rook' ties the boat up to a tree, he hears some mysterious rustling in the brush!

Unbelievably, they're still hungry!

Looks like some of the stuff Eegah!! and Tabonga made in woodshop back in 1959!

Oh God! Let's hope it didn't!..

Wow, phew!.. That was a close one!!

It looks great as the shrew chews, rips and pulls on this rubber leg!

"Take that, you dirty varmint!"

Sounds cool if you imagine Queeksdraw saying that line!

Ken Curtis did almost entirely westerns, playing the big dumb galoot. This role does not disappoint!

Ken really shouldn't have pointed that rifle at James!.. Look where he ended up!!

Hey, is anybloody to home?!

Portrait of a dead shrew on the living room floor, with gunsmoke.

Some people can hold their booze, and some can't!

Whooz der?..

Ingrid (THE BIG BEAT) Goude can't take much more of this psycho-drama!

If you look closely, you can see Ken's feet up in the air as a pack of killer shrews pounces on his sorry ass!

Getting to the shoreline is fraught with plenty of long sharp teeth!

They make it to the sea and swim to the boat for safety. Luckily, killer shrews don't like water!

That shrew running there looks like Tabonga's old Terrier named, oddly enough, 'Killer!'

THE TWO FACES OF DR. JEKYLL - Heneker/Norman - "House Of Fright" (1960)

Tonight's WTF? feature film was originally going to be "Robo Vampire," one of the most WTF? movies I've ever seen, but there's another completely different film that's been hanging around here for for almost two years that I need to get out of my system first, and since we just did "The 7 Faces Of Dr. Lao," seems like it's finally the prefect time for "The 2 Faces Of Dr. Jekyll"!!

So here's the two faces, and just like Jerry Lewis in "The Nutty Professor," it's the reversal of the original tale, the good doctor goes from basic bland to wild nightlife playboy! Unlike Jerry Lewis, I cannot for the life of me get into the character of Paul Massie as Dr. Jekyll, it just doesn't work for me, and even his voice bugs me, other than that, it's a pretty damn good movie!!

The best part of the whole film for me is the appearance of Dungeon Hero, Oliver Reed, in one of his earliest roles. Talk about your single degrees of separation, one of Oliver's earliest credits, was also one of the main quotes from "The 7 Faces Of Dr. Lao," a movie entitled, "Life Is A Circus," done the same year as this film!

To show you how tough Mr. Hyde is, they have him beat the living crap out of Oliver Reed! Yes, that is Christopher Lee egging him on!

London had a pretty swingin' nightlife back in 1874 according to this movie, and if too many of them swingers had personality defects like Mr. Hyde, then it might just be a stone's throw away from Gommorah!

Norma Marla puts in one of only two career credits, as Maria, the exotic dancer with a short life expectancy! Norma was also in another Hammer Dr. Jekyll vehicle one year earlier, "The Ugly Duckling!"

Now Ladies and Gentlemen, we present to you the next new mixed tag team champions of the world, Mr. Edward Hyde and diva Maria!!

Poor Maria, she seemed like such a worldly and intelligent gal, but she just wasn't a good judge of character, and that bad boy thing only goes so far!

I'm sorry but that narrow little bench Chris Lee is sitting on just doesn't look comfortable!!

The city is only wicked if you're poor, but Mr. Hyde's got money!! Yeehaw!!!

This is a very good message, and some quite sound advice for all you retro home buyers out there! "Beware of bad houses!"

"The Two Faces Of Dr. Jekyll" is quite lively musically, and sexually for a period piece, and not that far removed from an episode of American Bandstand!! Musical credits go out to Monty Norman, who also composed the original James Bond theme (Wouldn't you like to have those royalties?), and David Heneker, whose few other credits are mostly TV.

As long as he was high on absinthe or opium, Mr. Hyde remained pretty cool, but it was when he had to deal with his own mind, that the problems arose!!

Don't F with Mr. Hyde! You're his best friend one minute, the next minute you are dead!

The whole damn thing has gotten out of hand, and it's time to turn this matter over to the authorities! Hey, who's out on patrol?? No wonder the world has gone mad with debauchery!!

SPOOKS RUN WILD / Monogram - 1941

Welcome to Moldie Oldie Monday at the Dungeon! Tonight's featured flick is a fun little thriller from Monogram as they match the East Side Kids with good old Bela and his little helper Angelo (FREAKS) Rossitto, Sam (THE WEREWOLF) Katzman is producer.

Uncredited music is by Johnny Lange and Lew Porter. Mr. Lange wrote the songs "Mule Train" and "Clancy Lowered The Boom" and did mainly just westerns. He passed away in 2006 at the age 100! Mr. Porter had 69 composing credits including THE TERROR OF TINY TOWN, THE GIRL FROM RIO, ONE DARK NIGHT, THE LONE RIDER IN GHOST TOWN, JUNGLE SIREN, PRAIRIE PALS, JIVE JUNCTION and MURDER IN THE BLUE ROOM!

Lil' Dungeon helper Rufus the Gnat is here with Tabonga tonight. He scream to Tabonga that he been eating his Flintstone Kids vitamins and he all ready to push that big red 'GO' button once again and start our Eariffic Earclip rollin' an' rollin' an' rollin'... SPOOKSTERS RUNNIN' WILD!

The boys have to go to summer camp because, what else, they're underprivileged! A minute later they blow tailpipe exhaust into, what else, a counselor's face!

Muggs, Danny and Glimpy end up at a small restaurant, ordering drinks and getting fresh! Margie, what a moniker!

"All citizens are warned to be on the look out for the monster killer, who's believed to be in this vicinity!" Over and out...

This was hi-tech in 1941, today's kids would go into a coma!!

Did you hear the one about the guy who could read in the dark?

This gas station attendant can't believe the strange people dropping in, looking for the old same place!! ...You can't get there from here!

Muggs sees this skull in his cup and gets the heebie-jeebies!

This flick is No. 1 when it comes to spiderweb overkill, almost every room looks like this, or worse!!

Scruno gets to keep an eye on Peewee, who seems to have turned into a zombie!

Bela mentally outmaneuvers Muggs!!

It's the ghost of the black widow spider!.. G'wan! Git!!

Oh, come on!.. Two knights?!!

Peewee's wandering all over the place!

"How to meet'cha!!"

I thought there was something weird about this gravestone!

At this point, Muggs and the boys try and scare Bela into confessing that he's the killer! After Bela faints from fright, they tie him up so he won't get away.

Here, everbloody finds out from Muggs that Bela is the good guy! A very nice twist!!

This is the real monster killer!

The monster killer has the door locked, so Muggs crawls out his window and into his, then takes him on!.. Go Scrappy Doo!!

Bela gives a special performance of his magic show for everbloody! Muggs thinks he's going to hook up with some hot chick behind the curtain!

Awwwww shucks, ma'am!