~ Late 1990s EEGAH!! & TABONGA! Tag Team Computer Art ~

It's time for something completely different from Tabonga, here at The Dungeon!.. Eegah!! and I got computers in 1996, back then, some of the free software included very good programs, like Picture Publisher. It was great, we loved it, very easy to use, and, perfect for us to do some wild 'n' weird tag team artwork, basically using images from photos of my sculptures. The way it worked was, Eegah!! would make the first move by doing something fairly drastic, he'd email it to me and I would work on it some, then, send it back to him for more changes before I'd finish it off when he sent it back. What's so great about the art is that we did it just for fun, so, enjoy!

This is my favorite piece... Come ride The Psychotron!.. If you freakin' dare!!

Here's the famous make believe British Mod Leather Band... The Boggles!

Three team members of The Musty Mashers playing in the Monster Football League.

Elvix has finished his set and is addressing the audience... It's not supposed to make sense!

I did a lot of 'part skull' sculptures that we used to our ghoulish delight!

Here's a piece that speaks for itself, no matter what galaxy you're from!

The NRA actually endorsed this patriotic American piece here!

We did a pile of monster cars, this one is a favorite of mine.

I like this piece, has a nice late fifties/early sixties feel to it!

There's nothing much more funner than owning a pair of Fun Puppets!

The cosmic table's turned on the Men In Black!

You can figure this one out on your own, it shouldn't be too difficult.

I'll be posting final part 2 of Late 1990s EEGAH!! & TABONGA! Tag Team Computer Art next Monday, see you then!

UNEARTHLY STRANGER - "Beyond The Stars" (1964)

Howdy Ya'll! Tonight's Saturday Night Spaced-Out Special is an odd little film made in the UK that's hard to track down these days, but I'll go out on a space walk platform here, and say it's worth the effort!

"Unearthly Stranger" was released in 1964, but to me this film looks like it was made in about 1959! One poster screams out "Terrifying, Weird...and Macabre!" I'm more inclined to go with Droll, Tidy...but Neat! It's kind of like an elongated "Twilight Zone" episode, and I mean that in a good way!

"Uearthly Stranger" is told in flashback form! The very talented John Neville is Dr. Mark Davidson, a man on the run for his life, literally! John has been marvelous in roles as everything from Sherlock Holmes to Baron Von Munchausen, and he's the one who keeps this movie moving! Here's a minute or so of what he's got himself into!

Dr. Mark is employed by a place that is working on the concept of traveling through space via mind control! Seems pretty far-fetched but some of his co-workers have been getting their brains sonically destroyed by something, so there's obviously something going on!

The big space mural they have on the wall makes for great background shots like this!!

Here we come to the crux of the story! Dr. Mark recently got married in a whirlwind affair while he was out of the country! People around him are dieing violently, and nobody knows anything about his new wife! Is there any correlation between these two events? Considering the nature of John's business, it's worth investigating! Dr. Mark's blushing new bride Julie is played by the alluring and quatro-lingual Gabriella (Casino Royale) Licudi!

Dr. Mark has invited his associate, Professor John Lancaster over for dinner to once and for all meet his wife and clear the air, but instead, Professor John gets quite an eyeful when by happenstance, he sees Julie taking dinner out of the oven without using any hot pads, just her bare hands! Ouch! Something is definitely not right in this house!

We get a shot of Julie in town shopping or whatever to show how normal she is! Blogger once again decided that some of these photos would look better in sepia tones instead of black and white for some reason!

First Julie makes a baby cry, and then when she innocently looks over the fence at these school kids........

.........Suddenly, all the kids start walking away from her backwards, and back toward the classroom just to get the Hell away from her, because as sweet as she seems, the children can sense that she is evil!

Julie is crushed and when she cries, the tears burn deep lines into her face! One thing that Dr. Mark thought was strange about his new wife was that she never blinked! She does blink a couple of times in this closeup scene though, maybe the burning tears offset the non-blinking disorder, or maybe they just didn't want to shoot the scene again!

I just had to use one of these lobby cards because they are so unearthly in colour! That's Patrick Newell there laying down dead as the investigative Major Clarke! He's so annoying, you don't really care that he was just murdered! Patrick packed in almost 150 credits before passing on at 56, and among them were almost 20 episodes on the great TV series "The Avengers," as Mother!

I love this shot of John Neville, a remarkable character who also was the voice of Eternity on the "Silver Surfer" TV series, and will always be remembered by "X-Files" fans everywhere as "The Well-Manicured Man!"

Cut to the music of Captain and Tennille and "Love Will Keep Us Together! Julie's just too emotional for this job, somebody else is just going to have to do it!

The guy's secretary Miss Ballard breaks the bad news to them, they are basically now a minority that is shrinking really fast, and they can't do anything about it! Their little mental space travel trip is never going to happen!! The familiar face of Miss Ballard is Jean Marsh! So let me think, what has Jean Marsh not done? Really nothing, she's basically done it all, and then some, including the "Twilight Zone" episode titled "The Lonely," and in "Dr. Who" as Morgaine, and she doesn't seem to be quitting any time soon! Awesome woman!

So you can see "Unearthly Stranger" has a stellar cast, and you only saw the back of his head before,  but there's still one more actor who deserves credit, and that's Phillip Stone there on the left as Professor Lancaster! Not very many actors can claim credit for being in a handful of films like "A Clockwork Orange," "O Lucky Man!," "The Shining," and "Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom," but he can, and that's a very nice run!

If you can't tell what happened by these last three photos, well then I'll tell you, the guys don't stand a chance in Hell! The world is doomed, and they don't want you to find out about it, so all you guys, be wary of what you're sleeping with, you might be shocked when you find out the truth because this has been going on for some 50 years, and they must all be infected by now! Watch your back!

'WAY OUT ~ The Croaker / Talent Associates - 1961

It's the last installment for this way out TV series with Tabonga, here at The Dungeon!.. Today's weird story is about a mischievous boy, played by very young Richard Thomas, who allows his neighbor's pets to escape, then earns a reward for returning the animals, a sweet deal if you can swing it! Anyway, he meets a strange new neighbor, Mr. Rana, who has an affinity for frogs and even has a frog pond in his house! Neighbors start disappearing but more frogs are appearing, and so, the boy makes a deal with Mr. Rana to catch flies for his amphibians.

Eegah!! sent over a soundclip from this wild episode for our earjoyment, sooooo, you can push the big red 'GO' button there by the atomic frog maze, NOW, Rufus The Gnat! Here's a little taste of... THE CROAKER!

Blogger is up to its old tricks by tinting and fading the black and white photos we post, trying to make us look stupid, I guess..

Host Roald Dahl introduces the tale as he puffs away on an L&M, as heard in the soundclip.

Breck had become a new sponsor, so, let's go behind the scenes to the artist's studio where this gal is being turned into the latest 'Breck Girl' and could be found on the back cover of numerous magazines.

John McGiver plays Mr. Rana, he catches young Jeremy Keeler in his house and is furious, but, by the time Jeremy leaves, they have a business deal, he will catch fresh flies for the old weirdo for 25 cents a jar!

Fred and Cora Tench catch Jeremy in their house and he tells them that Mr. Rana has a frog farm next door!

Fred is looking for any chance to get away from nagging Cora, so, he goes next door to chat with his new neighbor. Mr. Rana has a special brew he puts into his drinks, and, before long, Fred starts croaking!

Cora calls the cops to report a missing husband and dog. Police Sgt. McGoogin tries to piece together who Cora's talking about, hubby or the dog! There seems to be all-out war of the sexes in this episode, earlier, Fred told Cora that she looked like their dog!

Fred comes home in the form of a frog and freaks Cora the eff'ing out!! I swear, it looks like they were having a hoot taping this one, Madeleine Sherwood nails this comedic scene, she totally hates frogs!!

She runs out of the house and goes next door for help, and, runs into Mr. Rana. He finally calms her down and slips her a froggie!

Soon, Cora starts croaking like a frog and joins the other neighbors.

Roald sums up the damage and has an L&M as he does so.

Light 'em if you got 'em!.. Tune in tomorrow when Eegah!! unveils another surprise from his bag of rare tricks!!

AGENTE SEGRETO 777 - INVITO AD UCCIDERE - "Secret Agent 777 - A Ticket To Die" (1966)

This weeks Super Spy Secret Agent feature is what you might call different, so let's get this crazy 7 train rolling with three times more sevens for your money and something that's usually a good thing to see on a slot machine, the cousin of the beast, 777!

It's titled "Agente Segreto 777 - Invito Ad Uccidere" and was released in English as "Secret Agent 777 - A Ticket To Die!" Do you think that the fact that The Beatles had a massive number one hit a year earlier with "Ticket To Ride" had anything to do with it?

This is Tiziano Cortini as Lewis Jordan, Agente 777! Tiziano also acted using the pseudonym Lewis Jordan in most of his credited roles! 777's life is a mess! After 14 years as a spy, he has been drummed out of the ranks because for being medically unfit, and he needs money! He knows that there's a secret formula floating around out there, and he figures if he has it, he can sell it to the highest bidder! There's only one problem, the formula is divided into 3 parts, and he's not quite sure where they all are, but he's got some leads!

He knows the first piece of the puzzle is in this "Van Gogh-like" artiste's studio, so he quickly goes there and shoots the guy and retrieves what he is looking for!

777 is kind of a loose cannon, sure, he's only killing bad guys, but he's being pretty rogue about it, and it's upsetting a lot of the people around him! They must have had some money to burn on this movie, because they destroyed a couple of cars in fiery blazes!

Pretty cool Volkswagen Bus ambulance, but I'm not too sure about the colour of that paint job!!

This is Claudie (Flashman, Crossplot) Lange as Elsie, 777's main squeeze! She seems to have a set of birthmark buttons on her breast that he needs to put in the code in order to enter, or something like that!

Part of the reason 777 needs money is because of his high standard of living! He dwells at the "Excelsior Palace!"  I don't know if I'd call it a palace, but it's a pretty fancy pad!

This guy is spying on 777, and off screen there's an Asian guy spying on this guy!

777 enlists the help of an old buddy, but while the guy is talking to 777 from a phone booth, this giant claws comes down and scoops up the telephone booth he's in and unceremoniously drops it back on the cement where the guy is pronounced dead on the scene!

The secret agent guy bosses tell one of 777's old pals to check up on what he's doing, because they don't trust him. On the left is Umberto (Mr. X) Raho as agent Linus Jericho, but in the English version, his name is Clyde! 777 challenges Clyde to a very intoxicating version of the game normally known as Checkers!

Just like everything else in this movie, they don't exactly explain the rules, but as far as I  can tell, it's like Beer Pong without the ping pong ball! Now that would be a good reference point! Needless to say, Clyde gets exceptionally fucked up, and 777 has to put him to bed, and then he hangs with him, they're that good of friends!

Here's one thing you'll never see James Bond do, pop a pill!! It turns out that maybe part of 777's health problems are connected to the fact that he's a speed freak! Can you spell Benzedrine?

So let's get this straight! 777 is a cold-blooded desperate killing machine with no job, no money, and a drug habit, what a prefect 1966 role model!

Do not throw a knife at the dude, that really pisses him off, just like throwing peanuts to a monkey in a zoo, and then it turns around and pisses on you, only this time it is lethal!

Clyde is told by the boss that it's necessary to take 777 out, and even though Clyde protests a little, the bottom line is that he's a company man, and he'll do whatever he's told to do whether it means killing his best friend or not!

Here they are, two pieces of the secret formula puzzle that when put together contain secrets that will bring world powers to their knees!

Hélène (My Friend, Dr. Jekyll) Chanel as Jeanne Cartier, 777's supposed partner shows her true colours!

Lucky for triple seven, Clyde loved him more than Jeanne Cartier!

Honestly, I don't know, "Agente Segreto 777 - Invito Ad Uccidere" is an unrelentless tough and gritty movie! Compared to 007, I guess # 777 was quite a bit down the line! I'll bet there's a lot of other cool untold stories from  Agents 13, 69, and 666 etc. that will never be told! What a shame! Once again, where can you get it? Cult Action Films is the only place I know of!