DEATH BY INVITATION / Kirt Films - 1971

Here's one I got off of TCM Underground a few years ago, now, it's time to check it out. It's all about a young woman who learns that one of her ancestors had been burned at the stake as a witch, so, she decides to seek revenge for her on the descendants of the people who put her to death... Okay, this is another movie from Kirt Films in New York, producers of the gawd awful CURSE OF THE HEADLESS HORSEMAN and CARNIVAL OF BLOOD, which we've already reviewed.

I have a sound clip for your approval, sooooo, you can push the big red 'GO' button located there by our charred witch post, NOW, Ralphie The Tarantula!.. Here's a sample from... DEATH BY INVITATION!

The story starts with a flashback from the past, the most exciting thing for the whole family to do back then was to burn people at the stake!! I mean, like, what the Hell else was there to do?

This was Shelby Leverington's first acting credit, she plays vengeance seeking, Lise. Man, the seventies was a weird time for fashion! Nerds in suits...

Wow, what a great place for a picnic, you go girls!

Here's Jake and his family at dinner, they appear to be very religious...

If you're going to make a horror flick, well, you definitely need a scene at a cemetery!

Here's Peter, boyfriend of Lise, he's going to show everyone how strong he is and put this kid's arm right through the plate glass on this coffee table!

Loving Lise is tough, she's a whacko bird! While she sleeps, he goes into her closet that has blood all over the floor.

That's because there's a decapitated head and some guts leaking blood out of a plastic bag there. So, Lise is the ax murderer??..

Naw, it's freakin' Jake, his ancestors were responsible for crimes from the past, and, he's actually the crazed ax murderer!

Lise has a vision during the altercation, confirming who the ax murderer is, I guess!

And, mean old Jake gets his just desserts, a nice ax slice of neck with cherry syrup! So, we're back Wednesday with more craziness, just for you...

DER HUND VON BLACKWOOD CASTLE - Peter Thomas - "The Horror Of Blackwood Castle" (1968)

"The Hund Von Blackwood Castle" is one of the strangest movies you might just possibly get your grimy mitts on! It's not real scary, but it sure is odd, and THIS really gone musical introduction from the genius mind of  Dungeon hero Peter Thomas that seems to have escaped from some insane asylum somewhere might just give you a clue as to what I'm talking about!!

The plot of "Der Hund Von Blackwood Castle" is too incomprehensible to explain in such a limited amount of time, so I'm not even gonna try!

With a movie like this, you just have to sit back and and enjoy the ride, because it's going to be a wild one!

 

In February 1939, it was reported that Alfred Hitchcock would direct a British Lion production about the life of English writer Edgar Wallace, but unfortunately, it never happened! It might just have been one of the greatest movies ever! Two of the trickiest minds of all time together, wow, that would have been great!!

You're never going to know what's going on until the end, so don't even try and make any sense of it!

Down the road from Blackwood Castle is an inn that houses a number of interesting people!

There's Agnes (Dr. Mabuse Vs. Scotland Yard) Windeck as Lady Agathy Beverto, Alexander (Death and Diamonds) Engel as Doc Adams, and Tilo von (The College Girl Murders) Berlepsch as Agathy's husband, Lord Henry Beverton!

Heinz (The Avenger) Drache is another resident known as Humphrey Connery!

This is the place where it's all happening,
Blackwood Castle!!

The owner of Blackwood castle has died, and his estranged daughter, Jane Wilson, who has never met him, is summoned to the castle to collect her inheritance, the castle itself!

Jane Wilson is played by Karin ( What Have You Done To Solange) Baal.

The castle is full of surprises, and horrors, some real, and some not, like this empty pair of rubber boots!

Arthur (Zimmer 13) Binder as the late Captain Wilson's main man Grimsby, plants one of the Captain's snakes in his daughter's bed, just for kicks!

Karin Baal seems like a real good sport during the whole snake crawling around her head routine!

You know they had to have a great shot or two like this!

Jane Wilson's Mother is a burned out singer in a high class joint called the "Red Rose!"

Edgar Wallace in colour = Eye Candy, as this shot attests to!

Time to bring in the backup team, Siegfried Schürenberg as Sir John of Scotland Yard, for the 12th out of 13 times, and his assistant Ilse Pagé in her 2nd of five appearances as Miss Finley!

Sir John and Miss Finley have a most interesting relationship!

Jane Wilson's Mom, Mady (Dem Täter Auf Dem Spur) Rahl handles snakes without a problem!

The literal translation of "Der Hund Von Blackwood Castle" would be the hound or dog of, not the horror or the monster of! This Dobie is getting some dental implants full of the black mamba's deadly venom, just in case getting chewed up into little pieces isn't enough!

Horst Tappert as Donald Fairbanks is up to his ears in deep shit!!

And NOW he realizes it!!

Will Miss Finley save the day??

That's not for me to say because this hound is a bitch!
I've just barely scratched the surface of this film, but if you want the whole story, it streams on Amazon for $1.99, and that's a pretty good deal!

CREATURES FROM THE ABYSS / Production Film 82 - 1994

Here's an Italian production filmed in Florida, it's all about five teenagers who embark on a boating trip off the coast of Miami and get lost at sea after they're caught in a fierce storm at night. Fortunately, the teens stumble across an abandoned yacht in the middle of the ocean with a mysterious biology lab on board, but, there are also ferocious mutated prehistoric fish running amok. A pretty strange poster for the nineties.

I have a sound clip for your approval, sooooo, you can push the big red 'GO' button located there by our atomic mutant lab, NOW, Rufus The Gnat!.. Here's some... CREATURES FROM THE ABYSS!

Welp, the teens find that yacht and board it. Inside, they cannot find anyone there, but, something there is definitely watching them!

There are tons of bizarre and creepy specimens of sea life in the lab to check out.

One of the guys takes a dead fish and slimes it on a chick's leg for the thrill, or, he's wanting to make a fish sandwich, there's the buns! Your choice of condiments...

You can hear the girls in the sound clip discuss the look of the jarred up little critters.

Something weird is going on in here, better send in the stupid guy to figure it all out.

The yacht is plush, they have booze and music and the girls are scantily clad... Party!!

I like this shot for some reason! Anyway, the girls cook up some fish for dinner for the gang.

Well, the fish makes everyone sick, and, for a damn good reason.. That's some great barf there!

Here are some cool looking fish they find in a freezer, all freaky little prehistoric monsters!

This is an erotic lamp that when you stroke the shaft, well, the bulb gets brighter!!

One guy empties a barrel of fuel onto the floor and lights in on fire, trying to eradicate the terrifying little creatures from the abyss!

One of the guys (the ass hole) gets totally infected and turns into a truly creepy monster dude! He uses the tentacles to whip and beat his victims into submission!

The guy who created the creatures sacrifices himself to the thing, what a way to go!! The ship burns down and only one makes it to safety... We're back tomorrow with more from... The Dungeon!!