HORRIBLE HORROR With ZACHERLEY, The Cool Ghoul -

Today we have a special treat, originally released direct to video in the eighties. It's a compilation of clips from movies he showed back in the day with some occasional rude comments plus segments in his castle between the clips. So, hit the 'GO' button there next to the detonation device there on the right and get this road on the show!!..

Zacherely the Cool Ghoul starts the show with a monologue be sets on fire, then goes to his film vault to cue up some vintage horror movie clips for us!

As we're watching a clip from THE INDESTRUCTIBLE MAN, Zacherely responds to the ultra hot gal in the scene! Weird, I have the same reaction every time I watch that scene!

Here's a great shot of Sid Haig as he crawls out of the limo in SPIDER BABY.

Then, he electrocutes a little walking reptile just for the Hell of it...

We even get to see a clip of the massive Westinghouse robot, Elektro! He actually smokes a cigarette too, letting the kids see how cool smoking is!

In this behind the scenes shot, we can see a guy pulling the tail of a lizard to make him move for a dinosaur fight scene.

This is one of my favorite and funniest shots from BRIDE OF THE MONSTER... Check out the stunt man's elevator shoes, now, supposedly, Bela is a full 5 inches taller than Tor!!

Back to Zacherely's antics. He tests some brains to see if they are defective or not. Then, he gleefully operates on a big pile of gelatin and broccoli!

A little reminder of those crazed SHE-DEMONS in their bamboo cages.

Anyone that knows what horror flick this still is from watches way too many bad movies!

Eegah!! and I almost believed it when we saw THE BRAIN THAT WOULDN'T DIE way back in 1962, it was definitely a WTF?! moment in horror movie history!

Here's a flaming 13 from the trailer of 13 GHOSTS, what Eegah!! and I saw in 1960.

Freakin' dumb ass teenagers!!

A shot of Zacherley and his guest in his early days...

That's one of the crazy coolest claims ever in horror movies! From THE GIANT GILA MONSTER.

Check out that awesome lettering from the INVADERS FROM MARS trailer!

When you go back and check out this scene from I WAS A TEENAGE FRANKENSTEIN, well, that leg is really hideous and super shocking for a fifties horror flick, seriously!

The tubes in this shot of Don Megowan from TALES OF FRANKENSTEIN look like plumbing!

A little comedy routine on the Abbott and Costello show, it's time to meet the Creature!

Zacherley ends the show with a monologue and a Transylvania banner, last words from the Cool Ghoul... Tune in Wednesday for more, from, the Dungeon Gang!

LI SAN JIAO WEI ZHEN DI YU MEN - "The Dragon Lives Again" (1977)

 Tonight's Saturday Night Special is either one of the best movies I've ever seen, or one of the worst! I just can't make up my mind! One thing that is for sure is that they double downed on the weirdness factor, now whether that works or not depends on how intoxicated you are. That being said, let's get this party started! 

 The movie is presented as a dedication to Bruce Lee's fans, when it's actually an exploitation of Bruce Lee's popularity that steals freely from every known action film icon the producers could think of. It's really a quite incredibly amazing piece of shit,.....I mean work of art! It's called "Li San Jiao Wei Zhen Di Yu Men," and is sometimes referred to as "Deadly Hands Of Kung Fu," or "The Dragon Lives Again!"

 This wild child of a story finds Bruce Lee, as played by Siu Lung Leung (Bruce Leong), has died and gone to Hell! In this burning inferno he meets a very weird assortment of famous people good and bad! Bruce doesn't want to be dead, and since he's not sure how to get out, he opens a gym!

Take your pick! 

This guy is either The King, The Devil, The Boss, or just some horny pervert! It's kind of hard to take serious a guy who wears what looks like a pearl lampshade on his head!

 I'm not liking the looks of this menu, just bring me a glass of ice water please!

The bosses of the Bad Guy's Club are The Godfather and The Exorcist, who are joined by soft-pore corn star Emmanuelle (played by Jenny in her only known role!) For the record, just in case this looks like a kid's movie, it's not! There is no graphic violence, but there are a couple of sex scenes that go on for quite a while!

Why Clint Eastwood and James Bond are also on the evil side, I have no idea!

 As is Zatoichi, the blind swordsman hero of Japan who rounds out this team of scoundrels!

 It might seem like overwhelming odds against Bruce, but he gets some help from Popeye and Shaolin monk and martial-arts expert Caine of "Kung Fu" fame!!

 Pull it I say!!

 Just to make it even less comprehensible, sometimes Bruce shows up as Kato, the role he had on "The Green Hornet" TV show!

 Oh, I almost forgot, Dracula is also one of the bad guys!

 Drac takes one for The Gipper!!

 James Bond is almost too easily disposed of!

 Clint Eastwood wasn't much more difficult!

 The Exorcist and The Godfather put up a pretty formidable fight!

 Bur Bruce is too much for them so they have to call in the Hoppin' Mummies chorus line!

 One of the greatest fight scenes in Kung Fu history!

 I don't think he really needed them, but Caine, Popeye, and The One-Armed Swordsman jump into the fray!

 And Yes Virginia, Popeye even has the requisite can of spinach he'll dig into before this fight is over!

Well, there's so much more to the story, but in The End, Bruce is released to go back to the Earth, and as he's whisked away, everybody left behind gives him a fond farewell. Bruce wanted to take everybody back with him, but The Boss said no because if he did, "The Earth would be an even crazier place!" Some things just aren't worth arguing over!

TALES OF TOMORROW: 'Test Flight' / Season 1 Episode 10 - 1951

Let's go back 67 years and check out this classic sci-fi TV episode from TALES OF TOMORROW... A headstrong, ambitious, sometimes unscrupulous businessman, an entrepreneurial capitalist, has ambitions to build a spaceship that is capable of interplanetary travel! Despite warnings about the foolhardiness of his undertaking, he's determined to follow through, especially when a meek scientist shares his ideas about utilizing magnetism as a propulsion system.

It stars Lee J. (THE EXORCIST) Cobb as Wayne Crowder, Vinton (THE MUMMY'S TOMB) Hayworth, Cameron (THE RAINMAKER) Prud'Homme and Harry (THE GREAT IMPOSTOR) Townes as Wilkins.

Here's Wayne Crowder, ambitious industrial capitalist, he's obsessed with the idea of building a spaceship that can travel throughout the galaxy!

His main concern is the propulsion system, so, he runs an ad in the newspaper in search of someone to help him in his quest.

Crowder's prayers are answered when a scientist named Wilkins shows up for an interview. He fills Crowder in on all the details of his propulsion system already being developed.

Crowder hires Wilkins but his financial director tells him that he has almost depleted his money supply and that if he wants to complete his pipe dream, he needs to take off like now, or, all his fortune will be lost!

Crowder goes to Wilkins' lab and tells him he has to speed up his development of his engine because the time is nigh!

So, Wilkins and Crowder finally take off in their V-2 rocket...

Crowder feels the g-force as they climb into space, they even use (new at the time) stock footage of their ascent, miles above the Earth.

After they have proved that the rocket works flawlessly, Crowder tell Wilkins to turn the ship around and head back to Earth. But, Wilkins has set the controls for Mars, Crowder freaks out and tries to choke him!.. Now what?!

Wilkins then transforms into a freakin' Martian!

And, Mars looms in the distance, the final destination for the two astronuts!! Hey, tune in tomorrow for a special Saturday post from Eegah!! Later dudes and dudettes!