TERMINATOR II (SHOCKING DARK) - "Contaminator Alienators" (1989)

Tonight's Saturday Night Special from 1989 is titled "Shocking Dark!" Why is it called "Shocking Dark" you might ask, and the answer is.....

The actual original title was "Terminator II," and that just wasn't going to fly! Arnie's first "Terminator" movie was released in 1984, and they obviously had planned a sequel, and this wasn't it, nor does it have anything to do with that movie!

Just like this wasn't a "Terminator" sequel, there is also nobody named Vincent Dawn. Bruno Mattei is the Director of the film in the guise of Vincent Dawn, As far as I can tell, Bruno never used his real name as Director, and if he wasn't Vincent Dawn, then he was Pierre Le Blanc, or David hunt, or Martin Miller, or William Snyder, or Herik Montgomery, or Frank Klox, or David Graham, or Michael Cardoso, or Bob Hunter, or Gilbert Roussel, or Stefan Oblowsky, or Jimmy Matheus, or maybe Jordan B. Matthews!

For release in the U.S., they had to change the name to something else besides "Terminator II"  so they chose "Shocking Dark" for some reason.

The future Venice, Italy is not a pretty place!

Can somebody get me out of here??

In a maze of underground madness beneath a polluted sea, there is a crew that is calling out for help! Something has gone wrong, and they want the Hell out!

Send in the 'A' Team! 

(No, not the TV show guys, but the best the future has to offer!)

The first thing they encounter is this krazy guy!

Then shit starts going sideways!

 This is not going to be their lucky day!

A nostalgic look at the beautiful and romantic Venice of the past!

It really should have been "Totally Tubular Corporation!"

Meanwhile, back at the ranch!

 "What do you mean, there are monsters?" "Yeah, two cheeseburgers, and a small pizza to go!"

The monsters are a bunch of genetically morphological out of control freaks! There is no reason to know why they exist, what they are, or where they are going! They're just freakin' monsters!

There's more than one way to look at this situation!

Not exactly original, but effective!

Oh, Yeah, and there's lots of pumped up action like this!

There's lots of these mean ole monsters, and they're all the same but different!

Running down tunnels, hallways,and corridors, and away from the monsters is a key plot element!

"Contaminator" gets my vote for coolest alternate title, but the Japanese title "Alienators" is not bad either! So I think you got it, this is not a movie to take seriously on any level, but if you just want to spend a mindless hour and a half not having to think about anything important, this is the perfect film!

THE THREE STOOGES In Color: Disorder In The Court - 1936

Since Friday the 13th is one of our favorite days, I thought I'd feature our favorite guys, The Three Stooges! Today, the Stooges are witnesses at a trial where their friend, a dancer at a nightclub where they work as musicians, is accused of murder. The Boys manage to disrupt the proceedings but save the day when they discover the real murderer's identity with the help of a little green parrot...

Gail Tempest is on trial for the murder of Cock Robin, the prosecutor gets personal and the defense attorney calls him out for badgering the defendant...

And that, he's also insulting the intelligence of the fine people of the jury!

When it's time for the boys to testify, well, they seem to have gone to lunch! But when they're located, they're found in the damn hallway rollin' dice!

Curly uses the old machine-gun routine on the defense attorney!

So, the boys reenact what was going down at the nightclub the night of the murder...

The judge just cannot believe he has to put up with this young lady shaking her ta-tas.

The clerk's toupee gets mistaken for a varmit by Larry and he screams... A TARANTULA!! This is probably my very favorite Stooge moment!

When the bailiff comes up to see what going on, Moe grabs his gun and shoots the toupee!

They finally finish the dance number. All the guys in the jury are gawking away, and the women are insulted!

Moe uses Curly to show some of the mayhem they witnessed that night at the club!

The defense attorney wants Curly to try and pull the trigger on the murder weapon, stating that it would take the strength of a mule to pull it, thus proving the innocence of Gail Tempest!

Moe has a big gob of Curly's gum stuck on his nose, so, Larry volunteers to help out!

After the gum is removed, Larry beats his chest and yells like Tarzan, bringing the courtroom to a complete frenzy.

It's found out that there's a note tied to the parrot's leg naming the real killer. The bird gets away so Curly chases it with a big freakin' hammer!

Then, Curly uses the fire hose to bring the bird down, it all backfires of course!

Moe and Larry get a hold of the parrot, the name of the real murderer is announced, and...

The boys pose for a picture for the newspaper!.. They're heroes!!

Only problem is that the knot Curly tied in the hose is about to cause a big surprise ending!!.. Hey, tune in tomorrow for a wild 'n' weird post from Eegah!!

DECOY - Episode #25 - "High Swing" (1958)

It's a Lucky 7-11 Wholesome Wednesday in The Dungeon, that is, wholesome if you consider murder and heroin addiction wholesome, which oddly enough, a lot of people do these days!

"DECOY" was on TV for what they considered one season in 1957 and 1958, but that one season consisted of 39 episodes!

The reason I was interested in watching "DECOY" was because Dungeon fave Beverly Garland as New York City policewoman Casey Jones, is the star! Here's just only two reasons to love Beverly Lucy Fessenden aka Beverly Garland, "It Conquered The World," and "Not Of This Earth!" Case closed! And if that's not enough, then throw in "The Alligator People!"

Episode # 25 that aired on March 31, 1958 was a sweet and sour story titled "High Swing."

Casey Jones is having to escort a young lady to the hospital in the ambulance because she has seemingly overdosed on heroin, but....in her dying words she says all she did was drink some coffee.

There have been a string of robberies in the neighborhood, so Casey sets up as a decoy in a local dive. In an effort to draw attention to herself, she steals a guy's wallet, and takes off!

She goes down the street and pretends to hide in a doorway.

The perp whose attention she was trying to get catches up to her and offers her a business proposition!

So, it turns out the man's wife is crippled from a circus accident! She explains to Casey that she was a high flying trapeze artist, and one night she looked down, and her husband, the dirty scoundrel, was with another woman, and she missed her catch, fell, and has been paralyzed from the waist down ever since! Her husband has been been trying to make it up to her ever since, because this is really a sad love story! Edith Atwater is the lady in the wheelchair, Lily Flagler. Edith had an amazing career that included films like "The Body Snatcher," "Mr. Sardonicus," "Strait-Jacket," and "Die Sister, Die!"

"Dr. Cyclops" himself, the equally amazing Albert Dekker, has the role of the husband Otto Flagler!

Otto's plan is that Casey will go out and entice some guy to come with her, and Otto will hide behind the door, and jump out and put a sleeper hold like this on the guy! Otto is an expert in Judo, but............he has to be really careful, because he accidentally killed a guy one time!

It's finally time to put the plan into action. Otto has no idea that the victim is really a cop, and Beverly is looking as gorgeous as ever!

After the job is done, and back at the Flagler's apartment, Casey finds a picture of the girl that worked there before her in the closet. The bad news is that it's the same girl who overdosed in the opening scenes. That girl was played by Zohra (Posse From Hell, Hey, Let's Twist) Lampert who just had her 81st birthday last May 13th.

They use a lot of head shots in "DECOY" like this, so I thought I would too!

 They were just doing it because after the accident Lily Flagler got hooked on painkillers, and later heroin, so Otto was just out robbing people to get the junk for his wife who was in a lot of pain. Lily brings out some coffee to share, but this time the heroin was in her and Otto's cups!

It's really a bittersweet love story, but did they really have to end it with Bev and a freaky clown portrait? I guess so. Anybody who has an Amazon Prime account can watch all 39 episodes for no extra charge. It was a 30 minute show, so without commercials, they run about 26 minutes, and it really goes by fast! You really can't lose, except for the clown part!