SATAN'S BLACK WEDDING / A Blood Marriage Of Ghouls! - 1976

In the quest to post as many movie reviews as we can before we grind ourselves into dust, well, here's another one to add to the list. It's a direct to video story about a man from LA who travels to Monterey Bay for his sister's funeral, he wants to find out why she has killed herself. He discovers that she is actually a vampire that has returned from the dead to take revenge on her family!.. Since when is a Vampire a Ghoul?!

This 61 minute movie stars Greg (only acting credit) Braddock, Lisa (only acting credit) Milano, Ray (BLOOD ORGY OF THE SHE-DEVILS) Myles and Barrett (NIGHT OF THE DEMON) Cooper...

This thing gets going when Nina Gray opens a casket with a vampire inside! Then, she starts making weird sounds, slits her wrist and dies, huh?

Mark Gray, Nina's bro from LA, is staying at her house until he solves the mystery of her death. A detective drops in and tells Mark the haps. Nina died at a different location and Mark wants to know what's up with the blood in her room...

Mark finds the novel Nina's been working on, it's about the 'high' worshiping of Satan, whatever that's supposed to mean!

A visiting family member gets attacked by vampire Nina while just going upstairs! Mark her off the list...

Then, Auntie hears some strange sounds outside her bedroom (she lives there) and is shocked when Nina 2.0 appears bearing the goofiest fangs ever! You can take Auntie off the hit list too!

Here's yet another shot of a vintage record player in a movie that we always like to show.

Mark wants to check out the location where Nina died...

Now what?!!.. So, check out the blood, you can see that it was painted on with a flat tip brush, where, they should have used a round tip, dummies!

It's a nice foggy day in Monterey Bay!.. Whoa, I'm a poet an' don't know it.

Anyway, Mark goes back to the vampires' lair to confront their leader, Father Daken.

So, Mark realizes that he's a bit outnumbered by vampires!..

Then, they roll out the detective to show Mark what could happen to him! The moment he gets the chance, Mark runs like Hell out the door!

Some vampire goons chase Mark all the way to his car, he barely gets away only to crash his car and die on his way back to LA! There you have it, the end to this little horror flick...

MR. WIZARD - Don Herbert (1951 - 1972)

 Not to be confused with "The Wizard of Mars," or "The Wizard of Oz," "Mr. Wizard" was real, and he was also legit! So come on in, cause it's a Wizard Wednesday down in The Dungeon!

It's quite possible that "Mr. Wizard" was a witch or brujo. The first show aired in 1951, and was on the air in some shape or form until 1972. Stare at the words long enough, and it looks like Mr. Witchard, and he does things that are beyond human comprehension, kind of like David Blaine does today!

This episode was titled "Six Kinds Of Electricity," and aired in 1964. Mr. Wizard has got some electronic beats circa "Forbidden Planet" going on when his little pal Alan drops by!

That's right, a speaker, a measuring spoon, and a funnel is what's driving this crazy sound!

Mr. Wizard could take a dog turd, a paper clip saturated in sodium silicate, and some tin foil, and make a mini-nuclear power plant out of it, and every Saturday morning right around seven or eight, before or after "Sky King," or "Fury," I was glued to the TV watching this stuff!

This is a perfect example of the same stupid curiosity that keeps me going today! "Mr. Wizard" has built a Rube Goldberg device comprised of six electric sources all just to automatically adjust the volume control on this record player! If you don't know what a record is, then skip to part 13!

The thingamajig makes the whatchamacallit create static electricity which makes the balloon move, and allows the projector to cast light on the sensor on the right!

Which in turn fires up the bike tire generator.......

.......And you know, there absolutely had to be a mousetrap involved in this Gyro Gearloose contraption somewhere!

Oh, an ionic flambastic bionic transformameter, I get it!

 All I could think of was a twenty-two year old Lou Reed watching this show and getting inspired one Saturday morning!

As it turns out, there are many ways to create electricity, like chemicals.

Heat also works to make current!

Crystals can be manipulated to create a minor amount of electricity via the Piezoelectric method of power generation! (That's really krazy!)

So they literally fire up this automatic volume control adjuster to see if it works!

Those chemicals catching fire was part of the plan! Don't try this at home kids!

And after it goes through all the various sources of electricity, the volume on the record player does go down! For most people, a hand-worked volume control knob is good enough, but not for "Mr. Wizard!"

Here's a fact about Don Herbert that thousands of people wish they had in their biographies, he, along with Bill Murray was one of the guests on the first "Late Night With David Letterman" in 1982!

Alan didn't do much after this, but if you watch the movie "Little Big Man," he's playing the character of the adolescent Jack Crabb!

When you're full of despair, and you've got nobody else to turn to, you can always call out for help from Mr. Wizard, as Tooter Turtle used to do back in 1960!!

"The bottom just fell out of everything, Help Mr. Wizard!!"

THE OUTER LIMITS: The Bollero Shield / Season 1 Episode 20 - 1964

Today's classic story's about Richard Bellero, a dedicated scientist, he's working on experiments involving sending laser beams into outer space! But, his father believes he isn't capable of taking over the Bellero business empire. In the meantime, Richard's wife Judith has more than enough ambition for the two of them and Richard, through a freak accident, reels in a being from another dimension with his experiment. The being has a small device that can project a shield that no force can penetrate! Judith sees the alien and the shield-projecting device as a means to power and while Richard is away, she tricks the alien to deactivating his shield device, then, shoots the alien to prevent him from departing Earth, what a bitch! She removes the hand held device while failing to notice it was connected to a vein in the alien whose bodily fluid is the key to operating the device.

This episode stars Martin (ED WOOD) Landau as Richard Bellero, Sally (MASH) Kellerman as Judith Bellero, Chita (SAMMY AND COMPANY) Rivera as Mrs. Dame, Neil (BATMAN) Hamilton as Richard Bellero, Sr. and my favorite, John (ATTACK OF THE PUPPET PEOPLE) Hoyt as the 'Bifrost' Alien!

Things are happening at the Bollaro estate, Richard and his father are working on an experiment that sends a laser beam into space to see its effects. But so far, pops thinks his son is on the wrong track for a successful outcome...

I like this machine, boy, what they could get away with in the sixties for scientific equipment that would actually work!

Here's Richard with wifey Judith. they are both disappointed at the results of the experiments so far. Judith is bent on success so that she can rub it in Richard's father's face, who she doesn't like very much!

Judith finds Richard's experimental laser ray gun and tests it on a bottle of wine, it disappears but within a few moments...

This creepy thing appears in the room with her... Like, help, Mr. Wizarrrd!!..

Judith tells Richard about the incident so he and Mrs. Dame go to the room with her to see the mysterious creature. The alien tells them all about what brought him there and shows them his device that can make a force field that cannot be penetrated!

While Richard is away, Judith shoots the alien and removes the shield device that was attached to the alien by a vein...

Judith shows the device to Richard's dad, she gloats as she explains what she has in her hand.

She activates the shield and has pops use the ray gun to see if it can penetrate it. The gun fails but when she tries to deactivate the shield, well, she remembers that she forgot to ask the alien how to do that!.. OOPS!!

Judith is trapped inside the shield, Richard and his dad try just about every way to get through and rescue her, axes, hammers, drills, torches, you get the picture! Anyway, Judith is starting to go bonkers thinking she'll never get out of the shield! I kept thinking... What if she needs to go potty!

They find the alien in the basement, he's barely alive, Richard gets him to help Judith get out of the shield. He's barely able to remove the shield before he keels over and dies...

With the shield gone, Judith has gone mad and thinks she's still trapped, a fitting end!! Check in again Wednesday when we continue down the dusty old Dungeon trail...