LA RESIDENCIA / Spain - 1969

Hello everbloody, here you are at The Dungeon for our Friday Night Drive-In, and tonight we have another movie all about women in charge! This particular flick has the alternate titles of THE HOUSE THAT SCREAMED, HOUSE OF EVIL, THE BOARDING SCHOOL and THE FINISHING SCHOOL!

It's about a French boarding school for wayward girls. The owner and mistress is the unforgiving and sadistic Senora Fourneau, played by Lilli Palmer, and enforces a strict discipline over her girls. There's also an air of mystery that surrounds the place. This movie gets high marks for sets, photography, directing and acting, and is considered a precursor to many of the Euro Gothic films to come.

Argentina born Waldo de los Ríos composed the music for this classy horror story. Unfortunately, Waldo took his own life in 1977 at age 42.

Alright!.. Here's Ralphie The Tarantula to start the show for you's. All he has to do is push that there big red 'GO' button right over there, and the soundclip will transfer itself directly into yer waiting earifice! Sooooo, Hit it Ralphie!!.. THE HOUSE THAT SCREAMED!

...GURLZ!!!

But, there's also the darker side of Gurlz.

Then, it's off to ballet class!.. Women in a natural habitat!!

Hey, look!!.. A guy!!!

One by one, girls are starting to disappear. There's a murderer afoot at the estate, but who could it be?!

John (VAMPIRE CIRCUS) Moulder-Brown plays Luis, Senora Fourneau's son. Here, he sneaks a peek at the gurlz as they take their showers.

And, that would be the gurlz there!.. There is no nudity in this flick, not even in the uncut version!!

There are some lesbian overtones, of course. Hey, nice painting!

Senora Fourneau finally gets to see some of the results of her oppressive practices.

Luis totally enjoys hearing his mom cry out in horror inside the locked room at the end of the movie and the soundclip! After all, mom made him crazy!!

Ghoulnight Everbloody!

THE SEVEN SECRETS OF SUMURU - Daniel White - "The Girl From Rio" (1969)

To take "The Girl From Rio" seriously would be to fall into that "surely, you jest?" category, but it's a good, fun, and loose Jesus Franco excursion into the wild and weird....

....and if you had a chance to go film a movie in Rio de Janeiro, what would you do?

"Future Women" as this film is also known, is essentially a sequel to that 1967 classic, "The Million Eyes Of Sumuru" which is like almost impossible to find, reprising Shirley Eaton's role as Sumuru and a civilization dominated by the female species, Hell bent on taking over the whole world, and then some!

"The Girl From Rio" predates "Girls Gone Wild" and Action Girls" by a good 30 years!

This movie is nothing but high camp exotic pop prefect for a Saturday morning viewing of a intentionally wasted day, or if you don't have a anything better to do, any day of the week!

Oh, just shoot me and get it over with, cause you're killing me already!!

We've written about the gifted composer Daniel White many times before for his countless soundtrack work, but Daniel was such a prolific musician that he also actually released record albums under various pseudonyms like Emile Doryphore on a comedy album, Virginie Morgane on a record of organ music, and rock records as Guy Forlane.

Richard Wyler is secret agent/detective Jeff Sutton, a role he should be plenty prepared for after starring in 39 episodes of the TV show "Man from Interpol" as Interpol Agent Anthony Smith in the early 60's! For the first 10 years of his career, he used the name Richard Stapley! Richard just passed away earlier this year!!

If for nothing else, Shirley Eaton will always be remembered in Pop Culture History for her iconic role as Jill Masterson, the "Golden Girl" in the James Bond classic, "Goldfinger!"

You know that feeling you get when you know you're not in the right place?

Elisa Montés is stunning and fascinating, as The Boss's girl, Irene!

What a cool pad, and what a shot!!!

If you can't get enough of Elisa Montés, try checking out some of these 60's flicks, "Island Of The Doomed," "The Cobra," or "Island Of Despair!"

Anybody else but George Sanders would have to pay to get a role like this, go to Rio, and hang out with beautiful women like Elisa, tough gig!!

It's amazing how many movies have been made about a female dominated society like "Queen Of Outer Space," and the one thing the women never forget, even after they are in charge, is to dress in skimpy little outfits, which means one of two things, they either dress like that for themselves, or there is actually a man in charge, calling all the shots behind the scenes, like Jesus Franco!!

There is a also a bunch of stock like footage of the carnival in Rio, but it's really good footage!!

Jess Franco's finest hour? Lighten up, it's Rio, and if it looks good and tastes good, it must be candy! These days, I understand, just like a lot of the rest of the world, it's not near as much fun as it was back then, and if you're going to Rio, remember this: Don't Drive, You're just asking for trouble!!

MAN MADE MONSTER - 1941

Hello everbloody!.. Here we are with another installment of Moldie Oldie Monday, here at The Dungeon.

ATOMIC MONSTER is the reissue title of this very decent sci-fi flick starring Dungeon favorite, Lon Chaney, Jr. Director George Waggner was also busy writing and producing some quality productions in the thirties and forties, and ended up directing a ton of TV shows! Check out some of these titles he wrote scripts for!.. GORILLA SHIP, HE COULDN'T TAKE IT, GIRL O' MY DREAMS, THE NUT FARM, THE COWBOY MILLIONAIRE, DIZZY DAMES, KEEPER OF THE BEES, SEA SPOILERS, BLACK BANDIT, MYSTERY PLANE, STUNT PILOT, QUEEN OF THE YUKON and THE CLIMAX!

Tonight's Eariffic Earclip has plenty of electrical shocks comin' at'cha, so be prepared for a brainfull o' monsterous type static!!

And, so's not to get any static from our lil' Dungeon helper, Rufus The Gnat, here he is to push the big red 'GO' button and start the show!.. MAN MADE MONSTER!

'Dynamo Dan' McCormick, a sideshow worker, is the only survivor when the bus he was in careened off the road and into an electical tower. Dan sure doesn't seem very upset that the all others died in the crash!!

Lon did ONE MILLION B. C. in 1940, but this was his first starring role in horror flicks!

He's invited to the home of Dr. John Lawrence, to be studied as to why he's immune to high voltage electricity.

While there, he's under the care of psycho scientist, Dr. Rigas, played by the great Lionel Atwill.

Never has Tabonga ever seen such a flagrant use of shadows!!!

After many experiments on Dan, Dr. Rigas finally produces his secret atomic superman!

Dr. Rigas orders Dan to touch Dr. Lawrence, then tells him that it's his fault the doctor's dead because he touched him! Pretty clever.

Dr. Rigas gets to go to the hearing for Dan, he holds him in a trance and Dan finally confesses in a slurred hypnotized tone... "I.. killed 'em!"

SEE!!.. But, they don't use slang in newspaper headlines!

Time is up and Dan is taken to the electric chair for his execution!

Durr... Hey, them dials never done that before!!

...BOOOOWAHH!!!

Dan escapes from the prison and heads back to the lab for his insulated suit. In the meantime, he starts a hayride on fire with an electric bolt!

Dan shows up at the lab and puts an end to Dr. Rigas and all his evil plans for atomic supermen!!

All the coppers can do is watch as Dan's suit gets tangled and torn in the barbed wire, thus dispelling all his life forces...

Dan didn't want to be a monster. Our little friend Sparky puts the icing on the cake... Ghoulnight Everbloody!!