QUATERMASS II / BBC TV Mini Series - 1955

It's British Sci-Fi Monday with Tabonga, here at The Dungeon!.. We gots a rare 6 episode, 3 hour mini TV series produced by the British Broadcasting Corporation from the story by Nigel Kneale. Nigel also wrote THE QUATERMASS XPERIMENT for the 1953 BBC TV mini series, QUATERMASS AND THE PIT for the 1958-9 BBC TV series and QUATERMASS for the 1979 BBC mini series, all of which were made into movie versions.

Eegah!! sent over a soundclip from this British TV series, sooooo, you can push the big red 'GO' button there by the vintage space helmet, NOW, Ralphie The Tarantula! Here's our audio offering for... QUATERMASS II!

Here's the rocket built by Professor Quatermass and his crew, he's trying to perfect a dangerously unstable nuclear-powered rocket engine.

John Robinson plays Professor Quatermass, aka, The Rocket Man! Take that, Elton John!!

While visiting the Professor, Captain Dillon draws attention to strange meteorite fragments that fell during an Army training exercise.

Quatermass and Dillon decide to investigate and discover the Professor's Moon Project facility being built in full scale. After coming in contact with noxious gas contained inside a meteorite, Dillon is taken away by the plant's security guards.

Quatermass finds this nearly complete meteorite and asks his men to come up with the original design of the thing before it entered the Earth's atmosphere.

Then, while visiting the facility, which is supposed to be manufacturing synthetic food, Mr. Broadhead accidently falls into a vat of the corrosive slime!

This great looking logo for the BBC pops up in the middle of the show, nice little bonus!

Quatermass dresses in a guard's uniform to escape detection and catches a glimpse of one of the freaky alien blob creatures inside a dome!

In order to save Earth, the Professor has to convince this infected soldier to let him and Dr. Pugh board the rocket and launch it into space, and... It works!

Quatermass and Pugh plan on going to the asteroid where the creatures are coming from and destroy it before things get worse!

But, the doctor decides to sabotage the plan and Quatermass destroys his gravity device, sending him spiraling into space!!

Quatermass barely escapes in the nose cone as the creatures try and cover the rocket. The Professor makes it safely back to Earth for more sci-fi adventures, so, worry not... Check in Wednesday to see what Eegah!! has brewing!

PROJECT: POTEMKIN - "The Night The Stars Fell From The Sky" (2014)

Welcome everybody to the Super Saturday Spoonful Of Stars Special and part two of  the "Project: Potemkin" project!!

If you thought the first part of "Project: Potemkin" was good, well, hold on to your hats and tighten up your seat belt, because these amateur film makers dare to go where no man has ever ventured before! While most of their projects are shorts, this is a full-blown one hour adventure! Well, it would be an hour if there were commercials every 15 minutes!

The title is quite poetic, "The Night The Stars Fell From The Sky" and it sets a friendly tone for what is about to take place!

Unknown Planet? Now that can't possibly be good news! Better go down and check it out and find out what's going on!

Jeffrey Green is back as the hand wringing Captain Alec Grigory! He's got his sweaty palms full this time! Joining Jeffrey is Christin Woods as the Vulcanized Ensign T'Noshi! Jeffrey also directed this full length episode!

This young fellah has an attitude to go along with that horn growing out of his head! He's got a future in the future!

Beaming up or down makes for such iconic imagery! I was amazed when we were doing our public access TV show years ago called "Offbeat," how simple this very effective effect really is! The cool thing is, you never get tired of it!!

Randall Landers told me that "The Night The Stars Fell From The Sky" took 17 weeks to shoot, and 27 months of post production! That's a little over two years of probably every spare minute they could find, and guess what? It shows! Pretty impressive, you gotta admit!!

The crew is greeted by Eric Holt as Kalv, a member of a civilization of Vulcans! Like an act by some Noah of the future, this primitive tribe of Vulcans was relocated to this planet many years earlier by The Preservers to keep them from dieing out as a race, like other endangered species of the universe! The makeup is almost as good as the special effects!

Captain Grigory does the hokey pokey in an attempt at communication with the Vulcan! That's what it's all about!

Ensign T'Noshi figures out that these people are so primitive, they don't even understand the basics of being a Vulcan, so she attempts to teach them a few things, like how to throw a Vulcan gang sign!

"The Night The Stars Fell From The Sky" was shot entirely (except for the interior scenes) at Radium Springs Gardens in Albany, Georgia, and that just might have something to do with the natural looking radioactive atmosphere! Randall says it was hot and humid, and there was an incessant drone of cicada that caused endless sound problems, but you have to admit once again, it might have been hot, but it sure looks cool!

While you admire this shot I'll tell you that the music for "The Night The Stars Fell From The Sky" was written by Steve Gallant! Here's a short sample for your enjoyment!

Are you convinced yet?

In a world gone mad, it's a rare moment when you can get something cool for free, but every once in a while..........Here's a link that will allow you to watch this whole project for absolutely nothing! You're welcome!

In this scene, Sara Higgins Mackenzie as T'Hima takes out incompetent guard Krin-tu as played by Randall Landers!

The leader of the backwoods Vulcans is called Sarat, and was played by Dennis Proulx! He's a pretty evil bastard, and after he got his hands onto Ensign T'Noshi's raygun, he shot his own man Krin-tu, then T'Hima, and then he started taking out the kids! Not a nice person!

After being separated, Captain Grigory and Ensign T'Noshi' are reunited back on board the starship! Nice view!!

Captain Grigory has taken a sworn vow never to interfere in other civilization's business unless members of his crew are involved in a life threatening situation, but it's just eating way at him that Sarat is getting away with being such an asshole, so he returns to the  planet, only to find that Sarat has now torched the entire living area of his rivals!

That did it! Vow or no vow, it's time to wipe the smirk of this jerk's face for all eternity!

How do these M-rays taste, sucker??

I wish I had time to put up a still of each and every character involved in this project, because they all deserve kudos, but that's just not in the stars, so for more info, here's the IMDB link!

Here's one final group shot of some of the main cast members from left to right, Bill Mackenzie as Lt. Quentin Caley, Jeffrey Green as Capt. Alec Grigory, Eric Holt as Kalv, Christin Woods as Ens. T'Noshi, and Richard Thornton as Lt. Darrell Frazier!  I don't know what else to say except "Do You Measure Up to What You Aspire to Be?" And if not, then why not?? These people sure do!!

THE FLESH EATERS / Deleted Nazi Experiment Sequence - 1964

Welcome to our Special 4th Of July Post with Tabonga, here at The Dungeon!.. A lot of people are unaware of the Nazi experiment scenes that were deleted from the final cut of this classic horror flick, so, that's where we come in!

Love the way the title flickers while shown, in fact, this whole film is nothing but creative!

In this deleted scene, Professor Bartell decides to tell Grant and Jan all about the bizarre secret experiments by the Nazis which he continues to work on...

Anyway, Nazis are creating microscopic critters to strip the flesh off people they don't like.

You see, the goal is to dissolve the flesh off as quickly as possible! Here's a male victim.

Alright then, it's time to bring out the nekkid chicks!.. ROLL CALL!!

SALLY!....... As you can see, Sally's a blond and has a cute little bum...

JANET!...... Janet's a brunette with sexy tan lines and a very nice caboose...

You'll notice that things don't turn out too well for these gals! Tune in tomorrow for Eegah!!