THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME In Color / RKO - 1932

Welcome everbloody to a colorized Moldie Oldie Monday here at the Dungeon. Tonight we gots a great RKO follow up to KING KONG starring the great Joel (SADDLE TRAMP) McCrea, Fay (DOCTOR X) Wray, Leslie (CHAMBER OF HORRORS) Banks and Robert (THE SON OF KONG) Armstrong!

This classic plot is very simple... An insane hunter arranges for ships to be wrecked near his island where he can then indulge in the hunting and killing of the passengers as sport.

Music is by super heavyweight Max Steiner, Max had 250 composing credits beginning in 1916!! Some of the movies he worked on are CRACKED NUTS, PEACH-O-RENO, THE MONKEY'S PAW, THE SON OF KONG, SHE, THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER, CONFESSIONS OF A NAZI SPY, THE GAY SISTERS, CASABLANCA, ARSENIC AND OLD LACE, THE BEAST WITH FIVE FINGERS, THE FOUNTAINHEAD, THE JAZZ SINGER, THE CAINE MUTINY, THE SEARCHERS, A SUMMER PLACE and THE DARK AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS!

Awright then!.. Let's bring in lil' Dungeon helper pal, Rufus The Gnat, so's he can send our Eariffic Earclip on it's way to yer impatient, waiting earifice! Rufus has been eating his Wheaties and is ready to be pushing that big red 'GO' button. Hit it Rufus!.. THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME!

Joel plays Bob Rainsford, the world's most famous game hunter. Here, him and his friends have their cruise interrupted by a reef!

Bob is the only survivor, one friend was eaten by a shark! He makes his way up a hill where he sees a huge stone mansion.

Bob shows himself in and eventually gets to meet Fay Wray, as Eve Trowbridge, who with her brother, were also shipwrecked and stranded on the island!

Here's a nice closeup of Fay to show how beautiful the lady was, requested by Eegah!!

Robert Armstrong plays Martin Trowbridge, the two-fisted drinking brother of Eve. Leslie Banks plays Russian Count Zaroff, owner and master of the island. In actuality, his men set the bouys in the wrong position, causing boats to end up on the reef, for nefarious reasons...

An American lush has no soft spot in the heart of the Count, and Martin is dead by the next morning. Hunting accident!

Bob and Eve do a little exploring of the mansion on their own...

They find some things they shouldn't know about...

And, get caught, what else?!

The big guy in the gold shirt is the awesome black actor, Noble Johnson, in white face, playing the intimidating... Ivan!

Bob keeps tripping up the Count, so the Count calls out his hunting dogs to even the playing field.

Some of the KING KONG sets were reused for this film.

The Count corners Bob and Eve near the falls. The Count shoots at Bob, and Bob goes over the edge! Eve is devistated.

Uh!.. Oh!..

Gee, I thought you were dead!.. I was just playing a happy tune on the old pee-nano!

Judging by what he has just lived through, and then what he does to the Count and his pals after all that, well, Bob is surely one tough mutherfucker!! Check out this most excellent backbreaker he puts on a poor henchman! No, really, he breaks the dude's back!!

Bob gets the key to the boat, but has to polish off one last lackey with his pistol before him and Eve can leave the wicked island.

Critically wounded, the Count makes one last attempt to threaten Bob and Eve as they make their escape in his motor boat, but then falls out his third story window to join his beloved hunting dogs below! Poetic justice to be sure...

Ghoulnight everbloody!!

LA NOCHE DE LOS ASESINOS - Carlo Savini - "Night Of The Skull" (1976)

Welcome all you wild cats and cool kittens to the Saturday Night Spooktacular down here in The Dungeon, Post #1013, to be precise, which means it's time to break out something that is the epitome of what we're trying to present around here in sound and pictures, another Jesus Franco Freakfest for your late nite Breakfast, a film that has been released under various titles, like "Night of the Assassins" or in this case, "Night Of The Skull!"

Well, actually they meant Rubber Skull Mask, and the guy wearing it is really pissed off, as you can tell!

The composer of the music for this film was Maestro Carlo Savini, a brilliant man, who also worked with the other Euromaster of horror, Mario Bava, on films like "Lisa E Il Diavolo!" His other film work includes a crazy palette of movies ranging from "Kill The Poker Player" and "Naked Girl In The Park" to "School Of Erotic Enjoyment" and "Thirteenth Is A Judas" just to mention a couple!

The story is an amalgamation of thoughts from the team of Edgar Allen Poe, Edgar Wallace, and Jesus Franco, or was it really John Willard and James P. Johnson? Probably nobody really knows except Jess Franco!

Just a simple question. Would you have sex with this version of Yelena Samarina?

We've seen him before as Morpho, but in this film, the renown Luis Barboo has the role of Rufus!

Just like in Edgar Wallace's "The Terror" there is the reading of a will, and the one subsequent character unhappy with the outcome! Mildly Giallo and Gothic in nature, "Night Of The Skull" is actually a pretty straight ahead affair for being a Jess Franco flick!

The killer has a penchant for literature, and likes to play by the rules of "The Apocalypse," and the first line reads, "Earth to bury us!" or Tierra Para Enterrarnos!

"Wind to scourge us!" Vendaval Para Arrasarnos!!

"Water to drown us." Agua Para Ahogarnos!!!

"Fire to burn us!" Fuego Para Incinerarnos!!!

They intentionally left out the line, "Wine to drunk us!" Vino Para Beber Con Nosotros!!!

Now this is some freaky-deaky crapola!

What are you talking about? There aren't any zombies in this movie!!

The line of the century! And what if they hadn't been, then what kind of trouble would you be in??

Very few of Jess Franco's main squeeze, Lina Romay's roles are as innocent as she is here, as Rita Derian, and boy, is that an understatement!

"I woke up in a Soho doorway, a policeman knew my name, He said you can go sleep at home tonight, if you can get up and walk away, I staggered back to the underground, and the breeze blew back my hair, I remember throwin' punches around, and preachin' from my chair!" - Pete Townsend

And finally a big shout out to Tabonga's little button-pushin' buddy!! The little guys behind the scenes never get enough credit! This one's for you pal!!

PHANTOM FROM SPACE In Color / Planet Filmplays - 1953

Welcome everbloody to another Friday Night Drive-In here at the Dungeon, with host Tabonga and little Dungeon hunchback helper pal, Ralphie The Tarantula! Tonight we gots a colorized version of that early fifties sci-fi classic, PHANTOM FROM SPACE! This flick has excellent special effects and was produced and directed by W. Lee Wilder, who also brought us KILLERS FROM SPACE, THE SNOW CREATURE, MANFISH, THE MAN WITHOUT A BODY and SPY IN THE SKY!

The music is by the awesome Mr. William Lava and includes the theramin! Get ready for this!.. William had a mind boggling 520 composing credits starting in 1937!! One of his last credits was for Al Adamson's DRACULA vs FRANKENSTEIN...

So, wif'out any further adieu, here's Ralphie to push that big red 'GO' button and start our Eariffic Earclip on it's journey to the center of your mind!.. Here's that PHANTOM FROM SPACE!

We skipped all the stock footage at the beginning, sorry about that. So anyway, a UFO has been sighted over Morro Bay and has now crash landed/disappeared near Santa Monica! Bottom pic shows the boys at 'Central' as they direct 'Mobile 1' and 'Mobile 7' in trying to track down the object.

Here's a shot of 'Mobile 1' which we refer to as a 'Radar Ford' around here!

This lady's husband was attacked and killed by what seemed to be a spaceman!

Dungeon pal Michael (THE WASP WOMAN) Mark plays a watchman, he verifies that the guy in the drawing was responsible for another death and a fire where he works. Funny thing too, there was no head in the helmet, thus making him, ta-da, a phantom!

Great shot of Harry (TALES OF TOMORROW) Landers, James (THE WAR OF THE WORLDS) Seay and Rudolph (SHE DEMONS) Anders! Check out Harry's cool socks!!

'Mobile 7' hiding behind a branch!

The Phantom gets cornered in an industrial complex, so there's lots of 'cat and mouse' chases going on...

To allude his stalkers, the Phantom sheds his suit!

Back at the lab, they experiment with the Phantom's spacesuit. It won't burn, they can't cut it and there's no weave when inspected under a microscope!

This is Noreen (GIANT) Nash, she plays Barbara Randall, a classic hot science chick of the fifties. Looks like she just got a Toni!!

She figures out a way to get a peek at the invisible nude stranger!

During a confrontation, the Phantom drops and destroys the helmet he needs to breathe with!

They finally locate the invisible spaceman with their ultraviolet lamps.

Dick Sands plays the Phantom and had a total of 5 acting credits. Here, Dick evaporates right in front of your eyes! It's fairly certain that THE THING had a big influence on the look of the Phantom...

Goodnight, sweet Prince Of Space!