THE VEIL (Tales Of The Unexplained) - "Food On The Table" (1958)

"The Veil" was a television show from 1958 that ran for 12 episodes, and was hosted by Mr. Boris Karloff! Boris also acted in a number of the episodes! Since the stories were all supposedly based on true tales, a more appropriate and mysterious re-release title was "Tales Of The Unexplained!"

Welcome to Wednesday Weirdness down in The Dungeon, and the third episode of the veil, which was entitled "Food On The Table!"

"The Veil" is not much more than a showcase for Boris Karloff, and what could possibly be wrong with that?

This is probably just stock footage, but it's still a pretty cool shot!

Great matte painting of the olde homestead!

Bars will be bars!!

Well, Captain, you've been out to sea for 3 months, don't you want to get home and diddle your wife?  

No, it's all right, she'll still be there when I get there!

This place has always felt more like home anyway!

Boris plays Captain John Elwood! You gotta love Boris, but John's a bastard!

Kay (THE GHOST BREAKERS, THE SQUARE JUNGLE, PANIC!) Stewart is Captain John's wife Ruth Elwood! Kay also had the super rare distinction of playing Maynard Krebs' Mother in one episode of "The Many Loves Of Dobie Gillis!" When John didn't come home, Ruth went to the club to look for him, and when John told her to go on home, and he'd be there when he gets there, she leaves through the banquet room and upends all the food and dishes that were spread out on the table for John's big welcome home party!

The Captain already didn't like his wife, so this little incident didn't help things at all! The very distinctive face of Captain Barney there on the right belongs to Tudor Owen of "The Black Castle," "101 Dalmatians," "Jack The Giant Killer" etc fame! Tudor also starred in the"Twilight Zone" episode called "Captain of Lusitania!"

The Captain's ship was inundated with poisonous snakes, and one came on land via his luggage, and when Ruth Elwood goes to unpack his case, she gets bitten by a snake!

Throwing away a good opportunity to rid himself of Ruth forever, Captain Elwood saves her life just in time!

Ruth Elwood is so thankful to her husband, she really wants to make it all up to him, and be the best wife in the world! My Grandma used to make Afghan quilts just like that one!

Captain Elwood finds out from Captain Barney that one of the ladies in town just recently became a widow, and that she was heir to twenty thousand dollars, enough to buy him a new vessel, so he suggests to Ruth that the next time he goes out to sea, she should go with him! It'll be a lot of fun! She protests because she is super prone to seasickness, but the Captain insists, so she goes along!

His real intention was to poison her after they got far far away, and beyond help!

Before she dies, the Captain confesses what he has done to her!

Captain Elwood is just cooling his heels for a year when Captain Barney suggests to him that maybe enough time has passed since his wife's death, and he should seek greener pastures like that widow lady!  Captain Elwood weakly resists, but then decides to agree with Captain Barney!

Time for another celebration, and the dishes and food go flying all over the place, and land in the same exact positions as they did when Ruth turned the whole place topsy-turvy the first time!

I didn't kill her I tell you!!!! (Nobody said you did, but since you brought it up!!!)
All 12 episodes of "The Veil" are available in a two disc set for next to nothing! A better bargain will be hard to find!!

BLOOD FROM THE MUMMY'S TOMB / EMI Films, Hammer Film Productions - 1971

It's another day at The Dungeon, this time we gots a deadly little mummy flick that doesn't even have an actual mummuy! It's all about an archaeological expedition that brings the coffin of an Egyptian queen to London. Known for her magic powers, her spirit returns in the form of a young girl. Some think that the production was cursed itself, first, Peter Cushing was involved for the first two days of shooting but had to leave due to his wife's death, then, director Seth Holt had nearly finished the film when he died of a heart attack!

Here's a nice little sound clip from this Hammer flick, sooooo, you can push the big red 'GO' button located there by our mummy latrine, NOW, Ralphie The Tarantula!.. Here's... BLOOD FROM THE MUMMY'S TOMB!

In a flashback, the Queen gets a good snort of blood to give her immortality.

Here are James Villiers and my favorite bad guy, George Coulouris. James was in THESE ARE THE DAMNED, REPULSION and THE NANNY, George was in THE MAN WITHOUT A BODY, THE WOMAN EATER and CLOCKWORK ORANGE. They were both part of the expedition to Egypt and have the Queen's mystical ring in their possession.

I just couldn't resist showing this interesting still of Valerie Leon as Margaret, soon to be taken over by the Queen's spirit.

Another flashback has the expedition back in Egypt during the opening of the sarcophagus.

Back to the present, one of the members of the expedition gets a visit from an angry Egyptian god. Love that awesome hallway, wish I had one!

Margaret is possessed by the Queen and she deep sixes Doctor Putnum, played by the great character actor, Aubrey (BLOOD BEAST FROM OUTER SPACE) Morris.

The Egyptian gods are angry and ready for revenge!!

James Villiers, as Corbeck, gets his just desserts, a blood sundae!

There's Andrew (QUATERMASS AND THE PIT) Keir as Fuchs, trying to end the madness, but, gets stabbed and dies from the wound.

Then, the whole place collapses from the torrent of ancient evil forces!

Margaret ends up in the hospital after the incident, only to still be possessed by the dead Queen! Tune in Wednesday for more February Madness, here at The Dungeon...

CAPTIVE WOMEN - Charles Koff - "1000 Years From Now" (1952)

Howdy Ya'll, and welcome to the Saturday Night Valentines Day 2015 version of The Dungeon, and tonight's extraordinarily special feature film.....a movie about true love.....

"CAPTIVE WOMEN!"

Tonight's ridiculously hard to find film should not be confused with any of these movies, from 1943, "Captive Wild Woman," or "Hercules And The Captive Women" from 1961, and for damn sure not the Nazi sexplotation flick from 1977, "Captive Women 4!"

"Captive Women" is set in the year 3000 in New York City! After the nuclear holocaust, society became divided into three separate communities, the Norms and the Upriver peeps, and folks like this guy, the Mutant Mutates, and naturally, none of them get along!

The norms still know how to hang out and be cool!

This guy is from the Upriver Norms community, but he looks like a mutant in this shot! By his side is Norm Gal Ruth as played by The Flying Nun Sally Field's Mother, Margaret Field! Margaret was also in "The Man From Planet X," and she was Emma Senescu in the "Twilight Zone" episode titled "The New Exhibit!" If her name doesn't sound that familiar, it might be because in the "Twilight Zone" show and in many of her other appearances, Margaret was billed as Maggie Mahoney!

There's a big wedding going down between Dungeon Hall of Famer Robert (THE MAN FROM PLANET X, THE ASTOUNDING SHE-MONSTER, THE HIDEOUS SUN DEMON) Clarke as Robert, and the out of this world Gloria (ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN, SPACE PATROL) Saunders as the amazing two-faced witch bitch Catherine!

The music in the sound clip from this festive wedding celebration was created by Charles Koff who composed the music for two of the other Robert Clarke features, "The Man From Planet X," and "Sword Of Venus!" Charles also wrote the theme song for the "Topper" TV series

The Norms opened their hearts and their gates up in a show of good will, and let a small faction of the Upriver people unarmed to the big party, but the dirty bastards rode in on a Trojan Horse, and when the opportunity arrived, they attacked and killed the Norm elders, and anybody else they could get their greasy hands on!

I apologize for the quality of the stills from this movie, but this was the best copy I could get my hands on! Consequently, I don't exactly remember what was going in here, but this is a pretty weird shot nevertheless!

One of the most recognizable faces in Hollywood history (But you probably don't know his name) with a mere 369 acting credits to his name, here's yet another Dungeon Hall of Famer, William Schallert as the Mutate rebel-rouser Carver! Here's just a couple of pages out of William's immense catalog: M, THE MAN FROM PLANET X, THE GIRLS OF PLEASURE ISLAND, RIOT IN CELL BLOCK 11, PORT SINISTER, GOG, THEM!, TOBAR THE GREAT, THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN, THE MONOLITH MONSTERS, and I'll just cap it off with his appearance in the"Twilight Zone" episode "Policeman!" William's going to be like 93 on July 6 of this year!  He was an ass in this movie, but he was a champion in real life!!

Gloria Saunders is so wicked in this film! She plays up to whichever man is in power, and switches her allegiance at the bat of one of her beautiful eyes!  Gloria's birthday is the day after mine, and she passed away in Bakersfield in 1980 at what we would consider the young age of 52, and we never even knew it! Sometimes life just ain't that fair!

Meanwhile Margaret is doing her stint in the Go-Go cage! (The reason Ruth is incarcerated is because her and Catherine got into a big ole catfight!!)

Ron (The Girl In Black Stockings) Randell is Gordon the Mutate that matters! The sentiment that backfires in his face is "Can't we just all get along?" Stuart Randall is also in there somewhere and was in all these 1950's gay porno movies: RUSTLERS ON HORSEBACK, ROUGH RIDERS OF DURANGO, INSIDE THE WALLS OF FOLSOM PRISON, FIXED BAYONETS, MEXICAN MANHUNT, and MAN WITH THE STEEL WHIP!

I'm sure this matte painting of the New York City skyline looked cool, but this is the best I could come up with these days! At least you can vaguely get the idea!

Catherine is used one last time as bait, but with fake whiplashes this time! "Oh, please help me kind sirs," or some bullshit like that! She's gone way beyond crying wolf! Nobody's falling for her crap any more, and she's about to pay for her infidelity!

And the walls came crumbling down! Run like Hell before the whole river comes crashing in on your future primitive skulls!

This film is called "Captive Women" because whenever they get the opportunity, the Mutate's capture Norm women in an attempt to birth future generations of normal children! The happy ending to this sad tale is that Ruth is the first Norm woman to voluntarily try to be part of the equation, and isn't that what you would expect from Sally Fields' Mom? One other thing you can know for sure, and that is Eegah!! and Tabonga! love you!