HYPER SAPIEN: People From Another Star / TaliaFilm II Productions - 1986

It's People From Another Mother's Star Friday with Tabonga, here at The Dungeon!.. Some personal notes, for over two weeks straight now, our traffic has fallen off like 500 hits or more a day, consistantly! It's Just Weird... Anyways, I was looking at the budget for this flick, $13,000,000, and thinking of how many better movies the Dungeon Gang could make for that amount of cash. Lastly, in 2002, we signed a contract with a new TV network to produce our 13 O'Clock Theater series but they lost all their money ($25,000,000) in the stock market and we saw only a few bucks and never completed our next movie, VOODOO CLUB...

Eegah!! sent over a soundclip for our listening enjoyment, it explains the storyline and more, sooooo, you can push the big red 'GO' button there next to the broken hyper drive, NOW, Rufus The Gnat! Here's our Eariffic Earclip for... HYPER SAPIEN: People From Another Star!

Tavy and her little sister alien decide to pay Earth a visit since they just happened to be passing by and all... *Refer to soundclip, that is all, over and out!

I agree wif' da space goilies -- What It Is!!!.. Ricky Paull (THE BLOB '88) Goldin plays love interest, Dirt!.. Looks like he's just doin' his thang!

The girls bring along their companion and protector, Kirbi. This tripod thing is the best part of the film, the contortions and positions it puts itself into will definitely amaze you!

Back in space, the Hyper Sapiens decide that the girls need to be brought back to the mother ship since they refuse to return on their own... The primped out leader gets big and lectures the Earth.

Kirbi digs getting loaded on gasoline! Can you say... WHEEEEEE!!

Dirt has to go out and find the girls some undies, so, he steals some from his female neighbor. Needless to say, one of my favorite parts!

Keenan Wynn plays grandpa, this was his 174th and last role, he died that same year. We love Keenan...

Love this shot from the big barbecue! Them there's barbecued beans, boy!

Talk about product placement!!

The last part of the soundclip has these guys playing in the background.

There are lots of chases and explosions before this 92 minute flick ends, Dirt gets to ride on a space ship but both he and Tavy decide to go back to Earth and live their lives there... Happy Ending.

MURDER WITH MUSIC - "Mistaken Identity" (1941)

Tonight's feature is a tasty little morsel from 1941, and a great way for us to help celebrate "Black History Month" called "Murder With Music!" I bought my copy, but once again as I was writing this I found out you can download or watch it for free right "HERE" at the good old Internet Archive, so if you like music as much as I do, then head on over and check it out!

"Murder With Music" probably should have been called "Music With Murder" because it is approximately 85% music with just a thread of a plot to kind of tie it all together!

It starts off with this dude Milton (THE COOL WORLD) Williams as Ted Simmonds asking for a job as a reporter. The editor behind the desk is Bob (JUNCTION 88) Howard!  Bob is relating to Ted the story of the last reporter he hired, a loser named Hal!

Now Hal instead of being focused on his job, was more concerned with trying to make whoopee with this nightclub singer named Lola! Lovely Lola was played by a popular nightclub entertainer of the time named Nellie Hill! Nellie was only ever in one other movie called "Killer Diller," and in it she played a gal by the name of Lola! Hal was played by an actor named George Oliver!

Hal's lovemaking ideas get interrupted when Lola's attention is turned to this unnamed act on the televison doing a number by the name of "I'm A Cute Little Bangi From Ubangi" that really needs to be seen and heard to believed!! Lola must do pretty well, my parents never had a TV until the 50's!

That's the TV there in the flip-top box! The next thing you know Mike shows up but she thinks it's her boyfriend Lewis, and Hal has to hide in the closet! Mike has just escaped from a two year stint in prison and he thinks the smokes and drinks he sees are that of Lola and Lewis, he knows nothing about Hal!

If you ask my humble opinion, if they remade "Murder With Music," Mike's role would be perfect for Snoop Dogg as he's almost a dead ringer for Mike! Mike was played by Bill (HOUSE-RENT PARTY) Dillard! So Mike needs some new duds, so Lola suggests they go to the pad of the guy who owns the club she works at, a fellow named Bill Smith. She said Bill likes her so much, he'd gladly give Mike one of his suits!

There's only one problem, and that is that Bill Smith is at this party! Now why Bill and his wife who you can't see in this shot, are the only two people with masks on at the party is anybody's guess! As you can see, Bill Smith is quite popular with all the ladies! Bill Smith was played by Ken Renard and is one of the few characters in this film that had much of an acting career! Ken went on to be in "True Grit," Sparkle," "Exorcist II: The Herectic," and was even in an "Outer Limits" episode called "Corpus Earthling!" He was also in "Killer Diller" with Nellie Hill!

The band at the party is Nobel Sissle and His Orchestra, and they swing hard!

When Bill Smith and his wife return to their apartment, they have no idea that Hal the reporter is hiding behind a chair listening to their conversation!

Right about here it gets a little confusing! Bill Smith and his wife leave via the window, and then this police officer comes in through the window!

Lola and Mike show up at Bill's apartment, and tell the cop that they live there! Hal is still hiding behind the chair!

Meanwhile, back at the party the joint is still jumpin' with entertainment by  these tap dancers known as Alston and Young! Noble Sissle there in the middle keeps the music flowing! Noble Sissle wrote the song "I'm Just Wild About Harry" in 1921, and that song was used in like 27 different cartoons, movies and TV shows including "Harry And The Hendersons," and "The Muppet Show!"

Then it's time for the editor Bob Howard to join Noble's orchestra and sing "Too Late Baby!" The music refuses to stop!

Time for Nellie to break into her standout number called "Can't Help It" that was written by Skippy Williams. The uncredited policeman on the keys also does an outstanding job! 

Then there's this uncredited cat who breaks in on the editor 3 or 4 times talking in German, and then leaving post haste! A real honest to goodness case of WTF?! Weirdsville!!

The final moments include a stunner of an audition by Johnson and Johnson called "That's The Cheese you Got To Squeeze!" This piano and tap dancing boogie-woogie is so hot that it causes Bill Smith to say, "I'll buy that number!" The Skippy Williams Orchestra comes in on the end of the song to wrap it up tight!

Nellie reprises "Can't Help It" at the end of the film with Skippy's orchestra accompanying!

And then, just like the title suggests, somebody does indeed get murdered!! Best news of the year so far, I just found out that "Killer Diller" can also be downloaded for free at the Internet Archive! What a way to go!!

THE OBLONG BOX / American International Productions - 1969

It's Misshaped Monday with Tabonga, here at The Dungeon!.. Our feature stars Dungeon Favorites Vincent Price and Christopher Lee in a tale by Edgar Allen Poe about an aristocrat who keeps his disfigured brother locked in the tower of his mansion, and, for damn good reason! Produced in England for $175,000, I was surprised to find out that this was only one of three films actually produced by AIP, all other titles were for distribution...

Eegah!! sent over a soundclip from the flick, from the jungle to the pub, sooooo, you can push the big red 'GO' button located over there by the obtuse basket, NOW, Ralphie The Tarantula! Here's our audio offering for... THE OBLONG BOX!

Alister Williamson plays Vinnie's messed up bro, Edward. Alister was also in THE CURSE OF THE WEREWOLF, THE POT CARRIERS, THE BRAIN, THE EVIL OF FRANKENSTEIN, THE GORGON, THE RETURN OF MR. MOTO, THE DEADLY BEES and THE ABOMINABLE DR. PHIBES. You finally get to see his face in the last minutes of the movie.

There's lots of intrigue, it's got the old peep hole gag and it gots blow darts to the neck!

The river's the best place to get rid of the bodies of victims whenever Edward escapes and deep sixes them!

Chris Lee always fits the part, he plays Dr. Newhartt, Edward's doctor and someone who knows the whole horrible story.

They believe that Edward has died, so, they bury him! Upon further inspection, though, they discover that he's not quite dead...

Wearing a red hood, Edward goes to the pub for some entertainment. He ends up in a room with a prostitute and gets fleeced by her boyfriend, Edward then cuts her throat and beats the crap out of the guy!

Hey, Chris Lee!.. You're next!!

Vinnie shoots Edward in the foot to slow him down, fatally wounding him! Now we can see why everyone screamed when they saw his face!

When Vinnie goes over to console his dying brother, Edward bites him, giving him the gruesome disease!

Did I mention that this whole mess is because of a curse placed on Edward when he was in Africa?!.. Vinnie will pay for the sins of his bro!