OUTER LIMITS / It Crawled Out Of The Woodwork - 1963

Let's start off the month with this wild little tale from the mind of Joseph Stefano, head writer for the Outer Limits series. It's all about an energy-being that overruns an experimental power station after being accidentally created. Anyone killed by the thing can be restored to life with electronically-controlled pacemakers and are made to service the "being" by a fanatical scientist who pretends to be looking for a way to destroy it.

We have a sound clip from this episode for your approval, sooooo, you can push the big red 'GO' button located there by our lint bunny monster, NOW, Ralphie The Tarantula!.. Here's... IT CRAWLED OUT OF THE WOODWORK!

Here's where the problem starts, located near to where I first lived in LA. Hell, I even had to live through the Northridge Earthquake after that!.. Get me outta here!!

Here's Michael Forest as Professor Peters who's applying for a job at Norco, Kent Smith plays the head of the facility, Dr. Bloch. Michael was in these Roger Corman flicks... VIKING WOMEN AND THE SEA SERPENT, BEAST FROM HAUNTED CAVE, SKI TROOP ATTACK and ATLAS.

Peters is introduced to Professor Linden, played by Joan Camden, who wears a strange looking pacemaker...

She tells Peters to go into a long corridor, then closes the door behind him and sics the terrifying energy monster on him!.. I want my BANKIE!!

Peters shows up at his apartment and his brother, played by Scott Marlowe, wants to know where the Hell he's been. After a scuffle, big bro ends up falling into the bathtub and gets electrocuted big time because of his pacemaker!

Ed Asner is Detective Sgt. Siroleo, he has some questions about the disappearances of a number of people who worked at the facility. He gets more than he bargains for though...

The thing gets loose from its room and goes on a tear inside the building. After destroying a bunch of junk and killing another person, it goes back to its room and is contained again.

Do you have enough guts to take another look inside the thing's rubber room?!

It just keeps on regurgitating its victims for a real horror show!!.. We're back on Wednesday with more from the Dungeon Pit of Terror!

TO SPRING - A Harman - Ising Cartoon (1936)

Happy Harmonies to you all, and welcome to the Saturday Night Seasonal Special down in The Dungeon!

I probably should have done this about three months ago, but since it's just the beginning of Summer, well, there's no time like the present!

"To Spring" is a testimonial to the changing of the seasons, and is really quite an eye opener!

This little dude has been hibernating underground all Winter just like a bear!

Gotta be rested, because when it starts warming up again, it's time to sound the alarm, and for everybody to get their asses in gear! It's Time For Spring!

I have to admit that before I saw this, I had no idea what controlled the seasons! I never knew there were a bunch of little guys living underground, who at the appropriate time, make it all happen! These guys aren't anything like the guys I work with, there's no pissin' and moaning, and no bitching and complaining, they just get to work and get the job done!

I love this shot! "It's Time For Spring!"

I'm not real big on conspiracies, but it's pretty obvious why this is on a DVD titled "Top 10 Forgotten Cartoons," the authorities want to keep us all in the dark as to the real truth!

If people knew the truth, there would be all kinds of drilling and exploring in an attempt to exploit all this hidden energy, and then, everything would go to Hell, and there'd be no seasons! I don't think that's something any of us would like to happen, so it's just better that this information is only shared among a few select people! Shhhh.....Mum's the word!

One of the few times the word 'Technicolor' really makes sense!

I'm really hoping that's not cholesterol in those vessels, because if it is, that would explain a whole lot of things about what has happened to our environment over the last 76 years!

Olde Man Winter tries to put a damper on all the Spring festivities!

Despite several attempts to stop Spring from happening, the little guys persevere!

And all the colours they've worked so hard to mine, produce a beautiful lush landscape, and another changing of the seasons! No more myths, no more legends, just the truth!

~ BATCH OF WILD 'N' WEIRD POSTERS FROM THE PAST ~

Here's my last post for May, so, lets take a look at a few cool posters I've compiled to get your juices flowing, here at The Dungeon!..

There were a number of great posters created for FRANKENSTEIN in 1931, I like this one especially because of the wild contortions of Frankie's body!

This is an interesting foreign poster from 1941's THE WOLF MAN with Lon Chaney as the man.

Love this poster showing Rondo with hypnotic electric eyes in HOUSE OF HORRORS from 1946. I'll be reviewing this movie next month, it also stars Martin (THE FLESH EATERS) Kosleck.

Here's an interesting poster for the silent serial THE HOUSE OF TERROR from 1928, remember, there was no Motion Picture Production Code until 1934, which lasted until 1954. Boobs were popularly exploited items before that.

This is a nice RKO poster for MEXICAN SPITFIRE SEES A GHOST from 1942, it starred Tarzan's real wife, the very wild gal, Lupe Valez.

We also love those bad girls at the Dungeon, this poster for PICKUP in 1951 sez it all!

I mean, like, is this the coolest poster for TARGET EARTH in 1954 or what?! Those pinchers look absolutely terrifying, but, thing is, the pinchers on the robots in the movie were small and goofy looking! Also, there was only one robot made for the production. Looks like a lot of bait and switch going on here...

Here's a really nice poster for Universal's THE MOLE PEOPLE from 1956 with good old Dungeon Hero John (HAND OF DEATH) Agar.

This Japanese poster for THEM! in 1954 looks great, the monsters are very creepy looking.

Check out this awesome foreign poster for 20 MILLION MILES TO EARTH from 1957. What's interesting to me is that the poster says... 30 MILLION KILOMETERS TO EARTH!

HORRORS OF SPIDER ISLAND from 1960 had a number of eye catching posters, like this one! I used to have the 1-sheet from this fun flick.

Honestly, this 1-sheet from THE CREEPING TERROR in 1957 has got to be one of the worst, kitschiest posters in the history of posters, unbelievable!! But, better be ready to pay big bucks if you'd like to collect one of these suckers!

Look at this odd poster for DR. TERROR'S HOUSE OF HORRORS in 1965, has a comic book feel.

Here's a nice 2-color foreign poster for the very creepy ISLAND OF TERROR from 1966.

We'll end with this very classy Mexican poster for EL MEDICO DE LAS LOCAS in 1956. Tune in tomorrow for our last post in May!

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