NIGHT OF THE GHOULS / Part 3 of Ed Wood's Trilogy - 1959

It's Ghoulish Monster Monday with Tabonga, here at The Dungeon! We gots a very Wild 'n' Weird flick with an interesting story, and, it's a redo post from from way back in 2007!! NIGHT OF THE GHOULS, along with BRIDE OF THE MONSTER and PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE, was part of Ed's big trilogy plan. It was filmed in 1959 but he could not come up with the money to process the film, so, it sat in a vault until 1983 when our pal Wade Williams took it and produced the final product. It premiered on TV in Finland in 1996.

It would seem very odd indeed, not having Criswell pop up in a coffin to set the stage for yet another nutty Ed Wood feature!..

Eegah!! sent over this soundclip from the embarrassingly funny seance scene, sooooo, you can push the big red 'GO' button there next to the mysterious floating machete, NOW, Ralphie The Tarantula! Here's our audio offering for... NIGHT OF THE GHOULS!

Harvey B. Dunn and his beautiful nagging wife encounter a White Ghost while driving through some hills outside of Sylmar, CA. I had a girlfriend from there. We fondly remember Harvey from his roles as Captain Robbins in BRIDE OF THE MONSTER and as Gramps Morgan in TEENAGERS FROM OUTER SPACE.

It's all in the hands... Looks like Bela's lessons in prestidigitation paid off!

Lobo is brought back from BRIDE OF THE MONSTER, this time he's badly scarred and seems to be experimenting with lipstick! I guess whatever makes you feel better about yourself. Tor also played a different Lobo in THE UNEARTHLY!.. "Time for go to bed!"

Okay, who wants to say grace?.. Kenne Duncan plays Dr. Acula, a fraudulant mystic who's out for one thing, bilking money out of superstitious elderly victims. Forry Ackerman played host Dr. Acula in our little horror comedy thriller, THE CREEP! The working title for the movie was DR. ACULA.

Here's all the weird crap going on in the soundclip!

The last still shows the Spirit Guide, here's what he trying to say... "Mongo, mongo! I am your spirit guide. Mongo! Mongo, mongo! From the everlasting pit of darkness. Dr. Acula calls and I obey! Mongo, mongo, mongo! I will lead you into the dark world beyond! Mongo, mongo, mongo! Mongo, mongo!" If you can notice at the top of his Devo helmet, there's a cool little skull!

Part of Dr. Acula's tricks is to have a handsome accomplice court the grieving widow and then use a look alike to serve as her dead husband. Of course, dead hubby tells her to give Dr. Acula all the money he wants!

What do you know?! There's Anthony (THE SKYDIVERS) Cardoza as Acula's helper, Tony!

Harry (KILLERS FROM SPACE) Thomas did Tor's makeup job, we used to see publicity stills of this Lobo in early issues of FM.

Patrolman Kelton is brought in for some cheap laffs, and, the coppers bring down the rampaging Lobo with a shower of bullets!

GOLDFINGER - "007 Is Paid To Take Risks, YOU ARE NOT" (1964)

 

 Time to climb out of the shadows and back into the mainstream with the second part of Eegah's!! "Gold Trilogy" that started last Wednesday with "Golden Claws Cat-Girl!"

Now of course tonight's film needs no introduction, and actually I hate even attempting doing something new and interesting with a film as classic as GOLDFINGER, so it's mostly just gonna be a bunch of pretty pictures, because let's face it, if you don't already know everything there is to know about Ian Fleming's "Goldfinger," you've obviously been living in a cave in Afghanistan for the last 40 years! But I'm sure there's still a few of you out there, so without any more bullshit, let's get it on with tonight's Super Saturday Night Special!

 

The tagline "007 Is Paid To Take Risks, YOU ARE NOT" was lifted from a 1964 British Safety Council poster!

This is Gert (The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse) Fröbe as Auric Goldfinger! Gert was one of the major players in many a German produced Edgar Wallace flick!

All those cards and he still has a pretty shitty poker hand!

The forever beautiful Shirely Eaton is the first victim of the touch of gold! Back in the 70's, I was hitchhiking back from L.A. and this gay guy gave me and my friend Chris Smith a ride. He was all hung over, and he told us he was coming home from a masquerade party. The bird finger on his right hand was still spray painted gold, and he told us he went to the party as "Goldfinger!" That's a true story!

This shot has all the right elements, modern architecture, and an ominous shadow! Will James be okay? Well, Jeez, I hope so, the movie just got started!

 No shit, is this possibly THE worst shot you've ever seen in your life?

The Lord only knows how I long for Drive-In signs like this! Now it's all golden arches and welcome to Walmart! Whatever happened to American ingenuity and the American dream? The future sucks!

Now I know a lot of you can't identify with the game of golf, but for us golfers, it's a real treat to see 007 on the links!

Oh, gee Mr. Goldfinger. I think that shot is out of bounds! Lovin' it!!

So the golf scenes are my favourite part of the movie! Everybody's got their problems! What a shitty caddy!

One of them shots I just like!

This shot explains in no uncertain terms why the TSA checks every Goddamn Grandma that gets on a plane! Honestly, who can you trust? Ian Fleming was obviously clairvoyant!!!

 

This is Goldfinger's main man Oddjob, a lot of people don't know this, but he has a sister named Handjob! Oddjob was an ominous figure at 5' 10" and 284 pounds! He was played by Harold Sakata, a former Olympic Weightlifting Silver Medalist, who was also active as professional wrassler Tosh Togo!!

 

Here are four words you wouldn't normally expect to see in one sentence!! Even if you drop out two of them you still have "Pussy Circus," and that just ain't right!!

From the most basic security........

.....to the most flamboyant security, "Goldfinger" has it all!

James flies back home safe and sound! Well, not quite, otherwise it wouldn't be a James Bond movie!

Tune in on Wednesday for the third and final installment of this golden series, "Goldface, The Fantastic Superman!"

THE OUTER LIMITS / Specimen: Unknown - 1964

It's Friday Sci-Fi Time with Tabonga, here at The Dungeon! We gots a little thriller from my fave, OUTER LIMITS, all about some deadly spore flinging flowers from space!.. Enjoy.

By the way, you can get all three seasons of this teriffic series on DVD for super cheap on Amazon!

Eegah!! just sent over a soundclip with some cool narration from this episode, sooooo, you can push the big red 'GO' button there next to the triffid corral, NOW, Rufus The Gnat! Here's our audio offering for... SPECIMEN: UNKNOWN!

The story starts on this space station, an above average model compared to some of the sorry looking space hardware they used in most episodes.

Dude becomes the first victim of the transformed 'space barnacle' that one of the crew found stuck to the outside of the space station. He gets a burial in space send off.

Not sure who the first guy is, but then that's Arthur (THE UNEARTHLY) Batanides, Richard (GREEN SLIME) Jaeckel and Russell (THE SPACE CHILDREN) Johnson in this scene.

Another superbly composed classic noir shot!

This shot almost looks like it came from PHANTOM PLANET.

A few barnacles make it onto the shuttle and transform as the crew's returning to Earth.

They incapacitate the crew members with toxins, causing the craft to crash!

When the military brass arrive, they notice that the ship is surrounded by an unknown species of weird flowers!

It's not long before things get totally out of hand!!

Like in DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS, water dissolves the Hellish spore fiends!