THE STONE TAPE / British Broadcasting Corporation - 1972

It's Friday Fright, here at The Dungeon!.. Here's a rare little British TV movie written by the awesome Nigel (Quatermass) Kneale. The story goes like this... A research team from an electronics company move into an old Victorian house to start work on finding a new recording medium, but, when a female team member witnesses a ghost, the team director decides to analyze the apparition. He believes a psychic impression is trapped in a stone wall in the basement and decides to exorcise it, with terrifying results!

I've got a wild little sound clip from this movie for your approval, sooooo, you can push the big red 'GO' button over by our missing wall stone, NOW, Rufus The Gnat!.. Here's a sample of... THE STONE TAPE!

It starts with some fun when one of the team members dresses up like an alien.

The group leader is Peter Brock, played by Michael (TORTURE GAEDEN) Bryant, also there is the only female member, Jill Greeley, played by pretty Jane (ALFIE) Asher. Here they are going over the game plan and inspecting the basement where they discover the wall stones. That's not a stone he's holding, it's a can of rations from WWII.

The locals are suspicious of the outsiders showing up at the supposedly haunted estate. I personally wouldn't want to get on the bad side of the waitress there!

Well, the experiments start and strange things begin to happen to some of the team members, which seem similar to the events that happened in QUATERMASS AND THE PIT.

I wanted to show this still because I'd really like to have this ghost monitor in The Dungeon!

Things are not going well and tempers are beginning to flare up, so...

A new special machine is loaned to the project by the military, now they should start getting the results they're looking for.

And, they do!.. Something has been released from the stones and seek out Jill!

The things are blobby like forms that seem overly aggressive, and, are actually a group of aliens from space.

They attack Jill and knock her off the stairs, killing her! Yep, Jill dies.

Later, when things have calmed down, Peter goes back to the basement only to be attacked and also killed! Not a great ending... We're back tomorrow for our Saturday the 13th posting!

~ CHRISTOPHER LEE DIES AT AGE 93 ~ It's The End Of An Era!

It is a very sad day, here at The Dungeon...

.......And here's just a handful of images that will explain exactly why!!!

Rest In Peace Sir Lee!

THE TROUBLE SHOOTER - (1957)

Here we go with another WTF!? Wednesday! Tonight's featurette is what you can find if you do an internet search for 'bizarre cartoons!" "The Trouble Shooter" is at the top of the list, and as far as I'm concerned, for good reason! It's hard to get much weirder than this in 7 minutes and 22 seconds!

Just an ordinary work bench with ordinary tools!

But wait! When self-assembled, bits and pieces of stuff turns into our hero, "The Trouble Shooter!"

And "The Trouble Shooter" is off to do a days worth of troubleshooting, and he's going to have his hands full by the time it's over!

First stop is out in the freakin' desert, just this side of nowheresville! There's a little boy who needs some help! His scooter has broken down!

So "The Trouble Shooter" gets to work, and before you can Jiminy Cricket..............

.......The little boy is on his way again! Now what the Hell this kid's doing all alone out in the middle of the desert I have no idea! All I know is that these days, his parents would be going to jail!

I could find no reference to this cartoon on IMDB, but the Youtube comments say that his film was made in the Soviet Bloc country of Georgia in about 1957! Now it's starting to make a little sense!

"Help, Help" cries out this little girl!

So what's the problem? This nasty frog has stolen her toy boat, and now it's up to "The Trouble Shooter" to get it back!

"Thank-You Mr. Trouble Shooter!"

 

 "The Trouble Shooter's" cool little car also converts into an airplane! Is there nothing this little guy can't do?

Part three is the weirdest of all! "The Trouble Shooter" stops to help a young boy in super short shorts with his atomic cannon!

The kid is just radomly shooting at stuff, and upsetting all the barnyard animals!

WHAT FUN!!! 

I wish I had an atomic cannon when I was this kid's age! I would have blown up the whole neighborhood!

"Mr. Touble Shooter," what a guy!

Don't believe what you see? Here's the link to the video, just be mentally prepared when you get around to watching it! I will not take responsibility!

JAPANESE TV MONSTERS AND HEROES

So, it's Monday and time for a pile of fun from the land of the rising sun. What you don't know about Japanese TV superheroes protecting the world from all the bad monsters might surprise you, here are some cool shots from what seems to be a never ending supply of insanity for our enjoyment, looks like 1970s to 1990s here. The DVD I took this from is in Japanese so there will not be any names given for identification, I'll just be having some fun with it...

I have a sound clip from this wild collection of craziness for your approval, sooooo, you can push the big red 'GO' button located there by our monster cyclopedia, NOW, Ralphie The Tarantula!.. Here's... JAPANESE TV MONSTERS AND HEROES!

No, you are wrong you stupid Earthling... You cannot see us!!

Now, here's a scary looking guy, must be what you don't know about him that's terrifying!

I showed this still because I love that super-duper looking patrol car in the background.

I'll just let you try and figure out what's going on here with this super-girl...

This water spigot monster takes one right in the chops!

Dude, I'm really sorry about that, let's shake on it!.. Come on, what are you afraid of?

HIIII-YAH!!.. That reminds me, girls are lucky, they have built in air conditioning!

Every now and again, really cool looking bad guys show up, like this killer robo-fiend!..

Or, like this neato underground demon bent on destroying more puny humans, what else?!

This big old stupid blabbermouth monster just won't shut the Hell up, jeez!!

That's right, that's a big rubber hand riding in the Jeep, coming to grab our hero big time!

FREAKIN' BANANA PEEL!!!!

Seriously, what the Hell kind of monster is this?!!..

Let no stone go unturned has to be the motto of these Japanese monster designers!

These monster makers seem to always have weird surprises in store for the viewer!

Or, how about this bad guy that can turn into a fully armed destroyer cannon?!

Here's kind of an Alien creature that takes our hero to another dimension to fight it out.

This cracks me up, a family confiding in a monster!

HOLY CRAP!!.. RUN LIKE HELL!!!!

I'll end with this giant amoeba thing, it somehow reminds me of the giant monster in THE FLESH EATERS!.. Anyway, check in Wednesday when we'll be back to have your back when it comes to your wild 'n' weird side!