SILVER ANGEL vs THE DEATH ZOMBIES / Wray Film Productions - 2003

It's Monster Monday with Tabonga, here at The Dungeon!.. What we gots is the second movie the Dungeon Gang produced for our 13 O'Clock Theater series, the first being a b/w horror comedy, THE CREEP, in 2001.

We're reviewing it in an effort to create some interest in our movies offered there on the sidebar, both our DVD features for $10 with free shipping! Check it out! This poster was a 1-sheet printed by Budweiser for our local premiere. NEUTRON vs THE DEATH ROBOTS was pretty much the model for our script, I dig vintage Mexican monster movies the most!

We used royalty free sound files to create the music for our soundtrack, which is the way to go for quality and convenience when on a shoestring budget. But, you still have to compose all the pieces, I really like the theme, has a latino feel! Sooooo, push the big red 'GO' button there in front of your mandible, NOW, Ralphie The Tarantula! Here's our soundclip for... SILVER ANGEL vs THE DEATH ZOMBIES!

This alley urchin (our pal, Donicio) is the first victim of the punching pink robot! We wanted the color burgandy, but, you can't dye tyvek, it will only tint! We kept them, concluding that pink was actually pretty cool considering our budget restraints.

Here are our heroes... Crime fighter Silver Angel and his gadget toting sidekick, Professor Valdez. World champion kickboxer Allen Tackett plays Silver Angel and Joey Garza plays the Professor. Joey was the first pick to star in CHICO AND THE MAN, but, turned it down! Allen got to meet Bruce Lee. The silver mask is a Santo knockoff from Mexico.

These are the bad guys... Dr. Mercury and his twisted little bald helper, Pluto! Robert Hernandez plays the mad doctor, who has visions of taking over the world with the use of his zombies, some of which are robots. Rodney Lee plays Pluto, Rodney was also The Creep!

We like to film at night, and, there are some exciting chase scenes that'll get your adrenaline flowing! Angel's Camero (owned by his friend) ran on jet fuel and I had to pay a staggering amount to run it!!

The robots are out collecting people for their brains so that Dr. Mercury can create more zombies. Eegah!! is piloting the main robot there, you can barely see him through his glass shield. I'm bringing up the rear, I just beat up a guy in the house.

Dr. Mercury's lab is pretty cool with it's lead walls and all, that way, it can't be located by radiation detectors!

The police find brainless 'Frank' laying in the woods after Pluto and the robots dumped him there!

Pluto asks Dr. Mercury if he would put his brain in a robot if he crashes the van and gets killed!

Eegah!! was given the task to learn some special effects software for this scene where Dr. Mercury blasts Silver Angel and Professor Valdez with this electric raygun, you can hear it electrocuting them in the soundclip.

What a great promo shot of Robert as Dr. Mercury!

Pluto collects the 'meatheads' from more of the doctor's victims!

There are even scenic nighttime shots of the city.

Great fight scenes with some of Allen's monster buddies, they weren't afraid to make the action look real. A friend of mine commented recently after seeing this for the first time, hey, the fights look real! Allen even kicked me real good a couple of times! Then, I tore my arm up when I fell back into a pomegranate tree. Mars was at it's closest point to Earth back when we were filming, and, my apartment building nearly burned down and I had to move, and, came close to losing everything! I ended up on the TV news holding one of my paintings, WTF!!

The professor shoots Pluto in the side and Dr. Mercury gets some revenge for Pluto screwing up another assignment by giving him an experimental booster shot, this is one hilarious scene! By the way, we don't do parody.

The zombies are back for more mayhem but are foiled with some quick thinking by Professor Valdez...

Even though Dr. Mercury and Pluto made their escape, Silver Angel is ready to strike back against any and all crimes that may come his way!.. Remember to check out our ad for our cool movies, Forry Ackerman hosts THE CREEP!

EINER FRISST DEN ANDEREN - Ines Taddio - "Dog Eat Dog" (1964)

"Dog Eat Dog" is a strange cross between 1960's American Pop Culture, and WTF!? German film making, or in other words, the prefect motion picture for an audience like all you folks way out there! The title "Dog Eat Dog" has become very popular in the last decade, and has been used at least eleven more times since 2001! Woof Woof!!

Ivor Salter as Dolph Kostis/Mr. Smithopolis is a maniac to the fourth degree! Although not that well known in the U.S., Ivor was quite busy in the U.K. with movie and TV titles like "The Men from Room 13," "Bootsie and Snudge," and "Here Come The Double Deckers!" He was also Dragger in the 1961 TV show "You Can't Win!"

In this publicity still, Ivor pays off his partner, the ever present Cameron Mitchell as Lylle Corbett, for a job well done in the bank robbery they just pulled off, with a kick to the head!

In the beginning of the film as the credits are rolling and the music is jumping, Jayne Mansfield as Darlene/Mrs. Smithopolis, is tossing around 1000 dollar bills, and cranking the sounds on the radio courtesy of Carlo (CRYPT OF THE VAMPIRE, SPACE MEN) Savina!

There's a knock on the door, and when Jayne opens it, she is confronted by Pinkas (THE HUNCHBACK OF SOHO, THE ZOMBIE WALKS) Braun, the sleazey Hotel Americano manager, Livio Morelli, who tells her to turn the music down, but also notices that something isn't right when he finds a thousand dollar bill just laying on the floor!

When Jayne's husband shows back up, it's the dirty scumbag meets a rotten sleazeball showdown!

Livio Morelli concludes that the happy couple are the bank robbers, and sends his bad little sister Sandra to go put some explosives on their boat, figuring he'll just go out and gather the money up off the water when they're gone! Sandra was played by Dodie Heath. Dodie was also Susanna Kittridge in the "Twilight Zone" episode "Long Live Walter Jameson." Unfortunately for Sandra, Cam didn't die when Ivor kicked him off that cliff, and now he's very pissed!!

Meanwhile, back at the club, the joint is jumpin' to the swingin' sounds of Ines Taddio and her band!

Ines Taddio was an Italian born singer who won the coveted Miss Carnia beauty contest in 1945, and then went on to take second place in the Miss Friuli-Venezia Giulia contest! She sang fluently in Italian, English and German!

As everybody tries to escape and/or outfox each other, all the participants end up on this supposedly deserted island, but as fate would have it, a one Lady Xenia has come back to her old homestead on the island to die! She is joined by her butler Jannis! Elisabeth (DAS PHANTOM VON SOHO, THE TERRIBLE PEOPLE) Flickenschildt as Xenia and Werner (DR. MABUSE VS. SCOTLAND YARD, THE CARPET OF HORROR) Peters as the butler will be very familiar faces to any fans of 60's German Edgar Wallace flicks!

Cam and Jayne stay pretty beat up looking for most of the movie, and if you think this film is a joke or a comedy, you would be completely wrong!

Okay, let's just say Mr. Morelli has got himself into quite a pickle!

Cam can't stand Werner's piano playing, and slams the keyboard cover down on his hands to make him stop, and it works quite successfully!

The money is hidden somewhere, the police have started searching for them, and one by one, they start getting picked off. Dolph gets his throat slit, Jannis is stabbed, and Morelli is set on fire and tossed off a cliff!

By the time the money is located, Cam has almost lost his mind! Cameron Mitchell had an amazing 236 acting credits to his name, and probably would have had many more if he wasn't such a heavy smoker! Cam died of lung cancer back in 1994!

"Dog Eat Dog" is another verrückt film that you can find on Netflix, and if you've got nothing better to do, I'd recommend it!

BLOODLUST: THE VAMPIRE OF NUREMBERG / Manfred Dome - 1977

It's Friday Night Fright with Tabonga, here at The Dungeon!.. We gots a really weird one for you, all about a deaf and dumb accountant who suffers from psychic trauma caused by incidents in his childhood. He collects porcelain dolls, displaying them in his living room, and, he mutilates female bodies at the mortuary in his spare time. After his secret love dies in an accident, he starts killing.

Eegah!! sent us over a very nice soundclip that sez a lot about this flick, sooooo, you can push the big red 'GO' button there directly behind you, NOW, Rufus The Gnat! Here're some cool twisted sounds from... BLOODLUST: THE VAMPIRE OF NUREMBERG!

Werner Pochath plays the cursed accountant. Here's his sadistic boss telling him off for being dense, which doesn't help the situation much.

He lives in a dreary apartment complex and rides his lil' mini scooter everywhere. He's secretly infatuated with his neighbor's daughter, although, mom keeps an eye on him because she thinks he's a weirdo...

When he was a kid, his father crushed his sister's doll by stepping on it repeatedly in his drunken rage. His mother had died years earlier so there was only the abusive father. This all effected him in curious ways, like, dropping a doll from the balcony to see what it looked like after hitting the ground.

He hangs around at the bars, occasionally trying to score. I was stationed in Germany in 1969 and had a few awkward encounters with some wimmen of the night (who didn't?), but, what I remember most was a drunk guy laying in the gutter, moaning! The name of the area was called 'penis strasse!'

The thing that drives me craziest in this world is child and animal abuse, it was hard for me to watch the dad use this poor kid, quite literally, as a punching bag and stunt double!! This is the uncut version, so, there are a few shocking scenes with the daughter, too! Anyway, the father is a bastard creep from Hell!

A lot of red ink gets spilled at work!

Learning in school was another challenge he faced while growing up, and, he was always fascinated with mosquitos for some reason.

To satisfy his bloodlust, he starts breaking into the mortuary where he mutilates women corpses for parts!

He also likes to drink their blood through a glass tube, thus, the mosquito tie-in! He likes to share the blood, too.

He tries to act as normal as possible when dealing with prostitutes, it just doesn't work out that well in the end. Love that orange phone!

A very hypnotizing pic!

Prostitues and assholes at work fill his mind with perverted images!

This just reminds me of simpler times, without all the bells and whistles and Wal-Mart...

When the girl he loves dies in a falling accident, he takes her out of her coffin after the funeral and sits her on a bench, but, someone comes along and he flees the scene before he can satisfy himself. The cops don't know what to make of any of it!

Then, he starts killing to make up for the loss with his lover.

But, the police are finally able to tie him to all the mutilations and murders... Poor deluded soul!