Saturday, February 19, 2011

JIANG TOU - Yung-Yu Chen - "Black Magic" (1975)

"Black Magic" It's not a love triangle, it's a Love Pentagon!!

Lordy, Lordy, I do hope that's true!! Roll the intro!

"So........Am I supposed to think there is something weird about that?"

The music for "Jiang Tou" was composed by Yung-Yu Chen, a man with an amazing 175 composing credits including everything from "The Five Fingers Of Death" to "Tang Lang Zui Hu Wu Ying Jiao!"

Here's where the story really starts! Introducing Lung Ti as Xu Nuo, just a regular, every day, construction worker guy whose life is about to become very complicated because of.........

....this vixen, Ni Tien, aka Tanny, as Luo Yin, who just can't get Xu out from underneath her skin!

Filmed in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where it no longer looks anything close to this!

Lily Li as Quming is Xu's fiancee! Lily was also in "The Oily Maniac" and a Shaw Bros/Hammer crossover spy flick we'll be doing soon entitled "Shatter" with fellow co-star in this film, Lung Ti! Lily was the go to girl, when they needed somebody who looked very innocent, and had a great pout!

Right about here is where it starts getting really complex. The guy who thinks he looks cool in really loud patterned shirts is Lieh Lo as Lang Jiajie, a great actor who had 215 career films! Lang wants Luo Yin just as much as she wants Xu Nuo, who really only loves Quming, and Lang and Luo both end up going to see this magician, the guy with the longer gray hair, Feng Ku as Shan Jianmi to get spells to make the other person fall in love with them!

The love spells are very expensive, and require gathering all kinds of strange objects, that then in turn have to be placed in odd places or ingested, but when it all gets done, the spells do work!

There's only one problem, the spells aren't permanent, and now it's time for Lang Jiajie to pay up! It's not good news when a magician of this calibre tells you good-bye, because unlike the spell, good-bye is permanent!

Lang quickly finds out that love ain't worth the high price, and that it would have been much cheaper to just find a prostiture. The end results would have been the same except that he wouldn't have suffered a slow and miserable death!

In the meantime, Luo Yin is getting her own spell together. Part of the woman's love spell is that she has to give some milk, a task Shan Jianmi always seems to relish!

Luo Yin's spell works perfectly after she gets everything in place, and is waiting for Xu Nuo in his aprtment! She seduces him, but just like when Lang did the same thing to Luo, the spell is not permanent, and actually wears off quite rapido!

Umbrellas in graveyard scenes always look cool!

In a big turnaround Shan Jianmi decides he now wants Luo Yin, and he puts his own spell on her!

Shan Jianmi shows up at Luo's pad all cleaned up and spiffy looking like a big pimp daddy, and with all his spells in place, he then seduces her!

Unlike most other Shaw Brothers features, there's no Kung Fu or much real fighting at all, but there is this big shonuff showdown between Shan Jianmi and Wen Chung Ku as the Shaman Fu-Yung in the end! Wen went on to have his own failed Krispy Kreme franchise!

It's all enough to make anybody's head spin like Linda Blair, and Xu Nuo is a blithering idiot by the time it's all over!

The moral of the story is, as so eloquently stated and sung by The Blenders, "Don't Fuck Around With Love!"

Friday, February 18, 2011

CARNIVAL OF SOULS in Color / Harcourt Productions - 1962

Welcome everbloody to Friday Frights with Tabonga, here at The Dungeon!.. Tonite we have a special reprise of an older post, this time in undead color! If you don't know the storyline of this flick filmed in Lawrence, Kansas by now, well, shame on you! Tabonga's not your parrot!

It starts so innocently, a simple drag race between guys and gurls... An early sixties battle of the sexes.

But, it's the same old story, them crazy wimmen drivers!

Composer Gene Moore gives us some great sleazy juke-box background music for the sleaze being dished out in this sleazy little bar scene soundclip Eegah!! has put together for our listening enjoyment...

Now, it's time to bring in that little 6-eyed fuzzy Dungeon fiend, Ralphie The Tarantula, so that he can be pushing the big red 'GO' button and start our Eariffic Earclip for... CARNIVAL OF SOULS!

Candace Hilligoss plays Mary Henry, the only survivor of the accident, and, she's got the religion now! She's also the organist at the church. That's her blue Chevy Biscayne there.

Mary relocates to another church and city. She tries to relax a little with a bath, but, lover boy John can't help knocking loudly on the door to bug her with his lousy social skills!

Johnny boy peeks while she changes out of her towel...

Mary becomes very curious about the abandoned amusement park outside of town, so, pays it a visit.

Herk Harvey plays 'The Man' who is following her around, this is the only film he produced, but, has 46 directing credits which consists of mainly shorts. His last directing assignment was READING RAINBOW for kid's TV!

A few days after visiting the amusement park, Mary starts playing the organ as if possessed by the Devil, so, she's fired on the spot by the minister!

John replays that certain song Mary seems to like on the juke-box.

Oops, there's his pal, Chip! John doesn't want Mary to think that he knows creeps like him, though!

John's starting to think this chick's from Weirdsville!

Mary tries to leave town on the Greyhound, but, she's allergic to zombies!

It's almost certain that she's losing her freaking mind!

This pic would make a great album cover!

I swear, looks like it'd be a lot of fun, being a zombie!

At the end, it's back to reality, the car is found and pulled out of the river, this time with Mary and her friends inside, all dead!

Ghoulnight Everbloody!!..

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