THE VAMPIRE'S GHOST - Republic Pictures (1945)

That was an awful little side trip Tabonga took us on, but now it's time to get back to the reel thing, but before we go any further, it's my sad duty to report that a lot of the cool olde classic films that Netflix was offering streaming are now kaput!! I guess it wasn't lucrative enough for them, so a lot of titles they had available a mere few months ago, have now expired!! I'm talking titles like COUNTESS DRACULA, GODZILLA RAIDS AGAIN, BLOOD AND ROSES, HANDS OF THE RIPPER, THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM, FACE OF MARBLE, LADY AND THE MONSTER, THE CATMAN OF PARIS, CRACK IN THE WORLD, AT THE EARTH'S CORE, WITCHFINDER GENERAL, and TALES THAT WITNESS MADNESS, just to name a few!! Yes, indeed, interest in the past is waning, without a doubt!

"The Vampire's Ghost" is a cool little film from 1945 that clocks in at just under an hour! Like all those other movies I just mentioned it will be streaming on Netflix for just a day or two longer! Luckily, sites like Amazon seem to be picking up the slack!

There have been several suspicious murders of late, and the incessant sound of drums is making all the locals uptight! The ignorant might just think it's another Iron Butterfly drum solo, but for those who understand the drums, it spells trouble!!

Charles (Swamp Fire) Gordon and Peggy (The Ghost Goes Wild) Stewart are the happy lovers whose life is just about to go into turmoil! Charles was only in 9 films, but Peggy has like 123 titles to her credit, and was in the "Twilight Zone" episode titled "The Shelter," and not that long ago was in one of my favourite modern day shows, "Weeds," in the episode titled "Su-Su-Sucio!"

Man, back in 1945, people understood entertainment! What a four piece band we have here, jungle kettle drums, squeeze box, fiddle, and flute, and one hot gal doing the dancing, and Here's what it sounds like!!!

Dude, maybe you need to get some of those dollars changed into quarters, and get directions to the local laundromat!

The owner of the club is Webb Fallon, a rather strange and mysterious fellow played by John (The Gorilla Man) Abbott! It might just be hearsay, but it's rumored that the internet is named after him!

Webb's been around for 400 years, but he still looks pretty good as long as he keeps his casket dirt with him!

Martin (Voodoo Woman) Wilkins as Simon Peter is the first person to think there's something suspicious about Webb! Here he's looking at a mirror that doesn't show Webb's reflection!

There are so many different variations on what a vampire can and cannot do! Unlike Dracula, Webb can go out into the sun, but he has to wear shades!!

Weird racist concepts abound, all the white people get top billing in the movie, but the black guys are the only ones who understand what is going on! I'm pretty sure that's Floyd (King Kong) Shackleford as the other native. One of the greatest athletes of all time, Native American Jim Thorpe, also had a role as one of the other natives!

Dumbass white guy removes the silver arrow that Simon Peter used to try and kill the vampire with, and now he's totally under Webb Fallon's control! I guess he's gonna get what he's got coming to him!

Nice shot of what used to be a state of the art music player!

So Dirty and Dancing try and cheat Webb out of some cash using marked cards! It's going to be safe to assume that that's not a good idea!! Dude's 400 years old, he's seen every trick in the book and then some!

Roy (Radar Men From The Moon) Barcroft had some 376 acting credits to his name! He was born in Crab Orchard, Nebraska, (Great name for a town), and he's about to meet his maker! Moral of the story, never try and cheat a vampire!

Arlyn (The Phantom Speaks) Roberts as the dancer, is just about to meet the same fate!!

Who is going to win this battle? Vampire or Voodoo??

Got a little time to kill, so Peggy decides to go out on a nice zombiefied stroll!

Finally Webb entrances Peggy to go back to his roots spot, Charles snaps out of it, follows along and burns the whole place to Hell! Bam, just like that, 400 years worth of work gone in 55 minutes!

REEL HORROR / The Movie Outfit - 1985

I don't know where to start with this excuse for entertainment, but, we can only blame lame-o Ross Hagen and his pals (the executive producers were women) for this piece-o-crap from New Shitzville... I couldn't resist the 5 cent price tag on Amazon and since I love the lure of unknown atrocities, I got a copy. All I can say is, dude... PHEW-EEEEEEE!!!

Here's the list of stars that appear in this flick, in mini versions of a number of obscure films they appeared in... Catherine Bach, Victor Buono, Leslie Caron, John Carradine, Wally Cox, Christopher George, Ross Hagen, Nancy Kwan, Mark Lawrence, Julie Newmar, Donald Pleasence, Jennifer Rhodes, Katharine Ross, Talia Shire, Vic Tayback, Joe Turkel, Jesse Vint, Ultra Violet, Robert Walden and Carmen Zapata!

Eegah!! sent over a soundclip of the sing-along tune from this stink bomb for us to marvel at, sooooo, you can push the big red 'GO' button there next to the febreze air freshner, NOW, Rufus The Gnat! Here's our audio offering for... REEL HORROR!

The storyline goes something like this... Evil spirits emerge from film canisters in an old movie theater and terrorize a neighborhood! To break up the boredom during the showing of the movies, our hosts delivery a ton of intermittent stupidity in between! This carpet chewer is meant to rip off Grandpa. Lame.

Then, there's the audience watching the train wreck. They act stupid 107% of the time.

They mime singing along to the lame sing-along song heard in the soundclip! I showed these stills to illustrate the continuing lameness.

One segment stars Donald Pleasence, where he captures a leopard in the jungle and it leads to his family's demise...

Now, this guy's got some problems, that's a manikin he's making out with. A moment from now, he stabs it!

Anyway, bikers kidnap some girls for fun, but, both bad guys kill each other in a knife fight!

One segment has to do with butcher shop horror, what else?

One segment has to do with this guy and that stuff! Who cares, Ross Hagen!!

At this point, our hosts decide to have a lame seance, ho-hum.

This lil' movie's all about sloppin' da hogs! Something similiar with the compositions of those last two stills...

IL MARCHIO DI KRIMINAL - "We Are Waiting For You" (1968)

Say hey to all you cool cats and kitties, this week's installment of Wild and Weird Wednesday is part deuce in the "Kriminal" series, "Il Marchio Di Kriminal," aka, "The Mark Of Kriminal!"

Like I've said many times before, it's pretty tough to come up with anything totally new and original talking about movies any more, so if you want to read a real in depth and lucid review of "Il Marchio Di Kriminal," head on over to The Lucid Nightmare!

I don't know how they get away with it, but if you want to watch a full decent quality version of this film in Italian, then check out THIS! The fences are down, it's a free concert, and it's nuckin' futs!!

As previously established, Kriminal, as played by Glen Saxson is a character from the comics! Playing both sides of the fence, he's more bad than good! I wonder if there's some deep roots that would divulge that he is actually related to The Seeds' vocalist, the amazing Sky Saxon!

The authorities of the world are without a doubt, pushing Kriminal too hard! The music in this film is pretty cool as it is in most Italian 60's films, and it was created by the legendary Manuel (Mr. X, Satanik) Parada! Here's a tasty morsel for you to digest with your choice of some Black Mountain Cabernet, some Cabrito Reposado, or a big fat one! The choice is yours!

There is actually very little on screen time devoted to Kriminal in kostume, but when there is, it is generally very creepy!

Kriminal has cojones the size of meatballs when he goes to the wedding of his arch nemesis Inspector Milton in disguise and delivers a very special wedding present!

You would of thought it was true love forever, but when Kriminal's girlfriend Janet double crosses him, he has no scruples about electrocuting her ass in the bathtub! (Okay, give him a break, she WAS going to poison him!!!)  Evi Rigano as Janet was in "The Three Fantastic Supermen" as Natascia, and was also one of the victims in "The 10th Victim!"

So, whose gonna be the next in line, who'll be the next in line for heartaches? Who'll make the same mistakes I made over you? The devine Helga Line, that's who!

Yet another amazing disguise!

"Cercate" translates  roughly to the lyrics of one of The Coasters' greatest hits, "Searchin!"

And "scherza" translates to joke, play, jest, wanton, kid, frolic, dally, trifle, coquet, you get the idea!!!!

Andrea (Danger: Diabolik) Bosic as Inspector Milton finally gets the last laugh as Kriminal goes off a cliff in a ball of flames and glory!

But the Devils get the truly last laugh when they say to Kriminal, "Ti Aspettavamo" - "WE ARE WAITING FOR YOU!" They've got a hot seat saved for him!!! Personally, I don't think it's too late for at least one more sequel!

THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES / Hammer Film Productions - 1959

It's Hound From Hell Monday with Tabonga, here at The Dungeon!.. This is a great little Hammer film that was one of the first horror movies Eegah!! and I saw together at the movies after we became pals in 6th grade. If there's one thing Hammer delivers, it's definitely thrills!..

Eegah!! sent over a soundclip from this fun flick for our listening enjoyment, sooooo, you can push the big red 'GO' button there next to the boiler room door, NOW, Ralphie The Tarantula! Here's our audio offering for... THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES!

Seriously, this fucker here's the despicible, sadistic Sir Hugo Baskerville, he's the one who brings the Curse of the Baskervilles to his family (as heard in the soundclip)! In the little time he's on the screen, he shows just what too much money and power can do to a little bitch! He has just murdered a girl for making him look like a fool in front of his jerk friends, then, he screams like a little girl when the Hound from Hell gets him!

Here's Peter Cushing as Sherlock Holmes, Francis De Wolff as Dr. Mortimer, André Morell as Dr. Watson and Chris Lee as Sir Henry Baskerville, what a bunch of acting talent in one spot!

This may be the textbook example of ~ Bonnie Lass!

Dr. Watson gets off the beaten path and into some quicksand while exploring the scruffy countryside.

Holmes had been pretending to be away, tending to other matters but was actually hiding in the moors, observing things from there. He's smarter the the average bear!

Classic portrait of Peter...

Holmes has a flair for the dramatic!

In a thrilling moment, Holmes is nearly run over by an ore cart that then causes the mine to collapse on him! After trying to rescue Holmes, the others find him waiting for them in the carriage, and, he got hurt pretty bad.

Sir Henry finally realizes that he has been played the fool by his lover, Cecile, and, he's on the devil dog's menu!

It was all a hoax kept alive by Sir Henry's neighbors, for revenge concerning land rights. The dog wore a mask to make it appear like a monster mutt!

And, Cecile meets her demise in one of the quicksand pools! The dog had just killed her father before it was shot by Holmes.