THE HOWLING / AVCO Embassy Pictures - 1981

Let's get this show on the skids... Eegah!! is out of town today fulfilling a dream of his so we can salute him for that. I'm stuck at the Dungeon doing what I do, this post! We have a werewolf movie that employs the same transformation effects as in AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON. Also, check out all the greats appearing in this flick... Kevin McCarthy, Patrick Macnee, John Carradine, Slim Pickens, Kenneth Tobey, Dick Miller, Forrest J Ackerman and Roger Corman!!

I have a sound clip for your approval, sooooo, you can push the big red 'GO' button located there by our mean little midget wolfman, NOW, Ralphie The Tarantula!.. Here's a bloody taste of... THE HOWLING!

By the early eighties guys were very style conscious and looked dapper indeed in their threads!

Our heroine gets a call from an old 'friend' and goes to see him at a porno parlor, you can hear the dude get shot six times by the cops in the sound clip. Thing is, you can't kill a werewolf with regular slugs, which, everybody except these guys already knows!

John and Slim are out hunting for werewolves, pretty funny since they're both old wolf monsters themselves!

If you want to make my day, just show me a picture of Dungeon Gods Dick Miller and Forry Ackerman together!!

One of our heroes gets bitten by a werewolf and turns into one of them hisself.

Here's the room that this werewolf seems to feel comfortable in, there are also nude photos of women tacked up amongst the litter.

Well, you can chop off a werewolf's arm but the sucker will just grow the damn thing back!

Our real hero shows up and takes on the wolf pack and burns down the barn with them inside.

The two barely escape the community and when they get back to LA, our newswoman goes on TV to show the people watching at home that she's now a werewolf and that everyone better be concerned about them!

I'll end with this parting shot of burgers on a grill, m-m-m-m.. Nothin' better than a good old wolfburger with cheese!

BIMBO in THE ROBOT - Max Fleischer (1932)

83 years ago there was a cartoon dog named Bimbo! B-I-M-B-O, B-I-M-B-O, B-I-M-B-O, and Bimbo was his name-o!

Bimbo is an inventor, and is pretty smart for being a dog!

It's hard for me to realize that the concept of television even existed back in 1932, but then that's how far Bimbo was ahead of his peers!

Bimbo uses his television to spy on his girlfriend! This is not her, but in later cartoons, Bimbo's girlfriend was Betty Boop! The boy gets around!

Bimbo's girlfriend thinks it would be a good idea for him to enter this contest!

He's not called "One-Round Mike" for no reason! Here's the rest of his victims!

One-Round Mike is ready to take on the next challenger, Bimbo!!

Bimbo comes up with a quick plan on how to turn his car into a robot!

At first, Mike gets the upperhand!

But the robot car comes back with a vengeance and kicks Mike's butt all over the place!

The title Bimbo in "The Robot" has double meaning since that's exactly where Bimbo was the whole time, inside the robot! What a weirdo!!

ALIEN FROM L.A. / Golan-Globus Productions - 1988

here we go with an unlikely little flick starring the very cute Kathy Ireland as mousey girl, Wanda Saknussemm. After appearing on CHARLES IN CHARGE in 1985, Kathy landed this role and also did the follow up feature as Wanda in JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH the same year.

It's all about a girl named Wanda! Yeah, big deal, I have a cousin named Wanda too.

Anywho, Wanda wants to know why handsome surfer dude Robbie doesn't like her and you will hear what he has to say about that in the sound clip...

I've got a little sound clip for your approval, sooooo, you can push the big red 'GO' button over by our underground fort, NOW, Rufus The Gnat!.. Here's a sample of... ALIEN FROM LA!

Believe it or not, Wanda discovers a hidden world with the help of some writings by her uncle or something (it's sooo hard for me to try and follow lame stories like this).

She falls down a cavern (I think) and lands in a big pile of sand. There, a weirdo in a weird vehicle gives her a ride to wherever the Hell she's going...

The underground world she discovers looks like an excuse to show off the contemporary LA music and art scene at the time. You don't have to spend money on costumes because the extras just show up as is..

Okay, this shot I like! I swear, I would give my left elbow for a home like this, no kidding!!

This is my favorite part of the movie. They crop the shots to make it easy to imagine that Wanda is nude, even though she has a towel around her. At least they did something right!

Anyway, Wanda is starting to feel sexy and all... Hoo-ray!!!

This jerk is a big shot in Stupidville, he has Wanda drugged, wonder what's on his mind.

Here you go, three too happy inhabitants showing off their chops!

Some science geeks (I believe) shoot Wanda back up to the land of suntans... Whoosh!!

Robbie is intrigued by the new Wanda, and, why not!?.. Tune in tomorrow when we're back with more fun just for you!

THE FARM OF TOMORROW - Tex Avery (1954)

Well, this will be the last installment of the Tex Avery 'Tomorrow' series around here! 

Don't you sometimes wish your name was Tex? I do!

 Here it is, "The Farm Of Tomorrow," 1954 style!

Very high tech, neat and clean looking, that's for sure!

Science has done wonders in the future, and most of it is what we like to refer to as twofers!

That's a two for the price of one deal in a combination of two things, like in this case, a toaster, and an incubator that hatches chicks in the same time it would take to make a piece of toast!

Tex Avery's chickens were well taken care of with spacious cages decades ago. Too bad this part was only a cartoon!

 This whole cartoon is an assortment of sketches of the future followed by how it would all pan out, like in this case, the combination of a chicken and a parrot! 

 What do you get? A chicken that lets you know when there are eggs to be gathered!

 A cross between a chicken and an ostrich produces............

..........Much bigger drumsticks! There's lots of hungry mouths out there, so more production is a major deal!

Same thing here, a cross between a chicken and a centipede also produces.......

 ................A lot more food!

 A cross between a beaver and a cow makes a cow that can swat it's own flies!

A cross between a cow and a kangaroo produces.......

 

.......A cow that delivers it's own milk!

 Don't like plucking a duck? This one peels like a banana!

 Now this is a good idea! I saw a tree one time in the Fresno Underground Gardens where a guy had grafted about 13 different fruit onto one tree, so it's not completely as crazy as it appears!

 A giraffe crossed with a race horse makes it a winner even if it's in last place!

 IF all that wasn't odd enough, the real freak show is in the 'Reject Barn!'

This is a stool pigeon! 

And last we have this cross between an owl and a goat that produced a hootenanny! 

Don't blame me, I just work here!