LOS INVISIBLES / Filmadora Chapultepec - 1963

It's Friday Mexican Cinema Drive-In Theater with Tabonga, here at The Dungeon!.. We gots another Viruta y Capulina comedy, this time they invent an invisible paint that gets stolen by a local criminal. Viruta y Capulina were actually accomplished musicians and singers, a must for any Mexican flick.

Eegah!! sent over a cool little soundclip of the theme, sooooo, you can push that there big red 'GO' button next to the smoke machine, NOW, Ralphie The Tarantula! Here's our audio offering for... LOS INVISIBLES!

And, here are our heroes working in a doll shop, they like to sing while they work.. Abbott and Costello were the perfect pair to parody, although, Viruta was pretty goofy for the straight guy.

They work with their girlfriends, played by Martha Elena (FRAKENSTEIN, THE VAMPIRE AND COMPANY) Cervantes and Rosa María (THE BRAINIAC) Gallardo. Here they are inventing invisible paint with their special machine.

The local thief catches wind of the invention and makes plans to steal the paint and replace it with a bogus batch.

So, they go to the boss to show him their uncanny invention. First, Capulina uses a brush... He should be turning invisible any second now...

Hmmm, well, maybe he needs a little more!..

In the meantime, the thief turns himself invisible with the good stuff and heads to the local bank to make a withdrawal and tickle the gals there.

Viruta and Capulina happen to be at the bank too, so, they mess with the crook, unseen under a desk... Poor Viruta.

Okay, here's a joke I've been saving for the right time ~ Remember the 7 years Cheney went missing?!.. That's him there on the right.

Dude likes to get invisible and read the paper in a rocking chair! One time in German class, Eegah!! had his chair tilted back against the wall and fell over. Our teacher from Austria, Mr. Pokorny, told him that if he wanted to rock in a chair, he could go to his grandmother's house!

Finally, the boss catches the thief and the case is solved.

The boys get their paint back, then, accidently toss the whole batch onto the girls...

And, sometimes you get lucky and get to see an added bonus! Other bonuses are Faith Domergue coming out of water in THE ISLAND EARTH and Gloria Talbott doing the same in THE CYCLOPS.

In another second, both girls totally disappear.

THE NAKED ROAD - "Unbelievably Fantastic" (1959)

Back in the 50's there was a great show on TV hosted by Art Baker called "You Asked For It!" This is not that show! Welcome to Weirdo Wednesday and a movie from the Something Weird "Weird-Noir" series of films titled "The Naked Road!"

Here's what I have to say about "The Naked Road!" Any aspiring filmmaker who wants to make a movie, and doesn't have a lot of dough, would be well advised to make a remake of "The Naked Road!"  It could be done with a handful of so-called actors, and a budget a homeless person couldn't live on!

First off, cheat a shot from outside any restaurant anywhere! For the music, go down to the Goodwill or to your local swap meet and find an old 45 nobody's ever heard of or cares about, and you've got it made!!

Second, you need a car, and a convertible would be the vehicle of choice just because it's easier to shoot around, but it's not mandatory if you can borrow something else for free!

Probably one of the biggest expenses is going to be police uniforms! Just fake it!!

This is supposed to pass as a judge's office! You can cover almost anything with curtains except a room full of mirrors as we found out in real life while trying to make a movie called "Voodoo Club!"

OK, this is a restaurant!  A table and five chairs, a coat rack, more curtains and food cut-outs pasted on the wall! I would be surprised if this shot cost fifty cents!

Make sure you get an actor who talks real slow, and is a master of the long pause in between words and sentences, you can probably add an extra 15 minutes to the run time!!

Get some ultra honey oak contact paper and glue in on a piece of plywood and presto, the perfect boarded up window look! You can get a piece of plywood for $12.97 and the contact paper is $11.99 plus tax!

One thing though, tell your actor not to stand around with his hands on his hips the whole time, it gets real annoying after a while!!

A nickel ninety-eight and you've got yourself a 'superintendent's' office!!

One costume change for the leading lady is all that is necessary!

Get a half a dozen of your friends to pose as cops, buy them a pizza, and you've got the big crescendo! All you need is some more fake cop costumes! I think the whole film could be made in about 6 hours!

$29.99 for a fog machine, and you're out of there!! Run the closing credits!!

The best thing about "The Naked Road" was that when I was searching for a picture of the movie poster, a photo of this Heavy Metal parody band Steel Panther showed up in the Google search!! I'm so happy to know that these guys aren't serious!!

THE DEVIL DOLL / MGM - 1936

Tabonga's back from computer limbo, hopefully, better than ever!.. Our feature is a great little film from MGM, directed by Tod Browning and based on the story "Burn, Witch, Burn." It's all about a former banker who was wrongfully accused of fraud by his partners and spends 17 years in prison before making an escape with another elderly inmate, a proclaimed scientist. They make their way to the scientist's house, where he and his wife have invented a way to minimize objects, in an attempt to reduce the size of people in order to save space and food in the future.

Eegah!! sent over a nice little soundclip from the movie, sooooo, you can push the big red 'GO' button there next to the flying saucer kiddie ride, NOW, Ralphie The Tarantula! Here's our audio offering for... THE DEVIL DOLL!

Here are Lionel Barrymore as the wrongfully accused Lavond, Henry B. Walthall as the scientist Marcel and Maureen O'Sullivan as his wife, Lorraine. Marcel is showing Lavond some of his little creations.

Then, Marcel and Lorraine miniaturize their maid, experimenting on a human this time! But, there is a problem, the process damages brains in living beings, reducing them to puppets that can be easily controlled by thoughts and words.

Lavond is horrified by all this at first, but after Marcel dies, he decides to move him and Lorraine back to Paris, where he can open a doll shop near his enemies, the one's who had lied and sent him to prison.

Wearing the disguise of dollmaker Madame Mandilip, Lavond is filled with hate for the ones that did him wrong, especially since his wife committed suicide and it turned his daughter against him! Tonight, he has a little (ha ha) surprise for one of his old friends!

His gift, the miniaturized maid, to the small daughter of his foe is activated, she goes first and recovers some of his dead wife's jewelry stolen from his estate. She drops the jewelry out the window and it falls into his bag!

Then, she sneaks up to her victim and injects him with a permanent paralyzing serum!! You can read about it in the papers...

The fear generated by Lavond's dolls gets the last dirty filthy bastard to confess to the crime, finally vendicating Lavond.

Lavond tries to convince Lorraine to destroy the shop and everything in it, the jig is up and there is no sense to continue the experiments... Lorraine doesn't take the news well...

She throws the vile of explosives and demolished the shop completely, allowing Lavond to escape the murder charges, since it's believed that Madame Mandilip was the killer!