SNL - "Vincent Price's Halloween Special" (2008)

Here's a cool little Countdown To Halloween "Saturday Night Live" Special for you.

 

"Vincent Price's Halloween Special" was a sketch from the October 25, 2008 show starring Bill Hader in the role as the host, Vincent Price. Bill is an incredibly talented fellow, who besides his 161 credits on Saturday Night Live, is also an active voice over artist, doing voices in everything from "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" and "South Park," to "Toy Story 4," and "The Simpsons."

Vincent is joined in this sketch by Kristen Wiig as Gloria Swanson, and Jon Hamm as James Mason.

Besides her 139 appearances on "Saturday Night Live," Kristin Wiig is also a voice over artist who was the voice of Lola on "The Looney Tunes Show." Among other things, she co-wrote and starred in the popular film "Bridesmaids." 

Jon Hamm was not a cast member of SNL, but he did appear in six episodes. He's been a voice over artist in cartoons like "Spongebob Squarepants," and "Family Guy." He was also the star of the Hit TV show "Madmen."

 

Just in case you don't know, here's what the real Gloria Swanson looked like in "Sunset Boulevard."

And this is what James Mason really looked like in "Lolita."

Kristen's portrayal of Gloria Swanson is over the top hilarious.

 

Bill does a pretty good job with the Vincent Price one raised eyebrow look!

The hilarious Fred Armisen is also in there as Liberace. Fred was in 236 SNL episodes, and yes, he is also a voice over artist having done voices on "Squidbillies," "Los Espookys," "Archer," and he was the voice of Speedy Gonzales on "The Looney Tunes Show." Quite a versatile guy, Fred was also a drummer in the band Trenchmouth in the 90's.

Gloria and James were supposed to be in costume, and she claims to be a pirate.

Trick or treaters show up at the door. The little girl is a Princess and James Mason asks the boy "if he is dressed as some brand of homosexual" to which the young man exclaims, "You're mean, I want my Mom" and perennial ladies man James replies "That makes two of us!"

 

So that's it, six minutes and thirty-three seconds of nothing but Halloweenie fun, that anybody can watch for free right HERE!

DUNGEON HALLOWEEN COUNTDOWN Celebration Check-In

So, we're checking in on the action after 8 days of celebration, fights and accidents, here at The Dungeon!.. And contrary to popular belief, yes, The Dungeon is a real place!!

We start off our check-in with these five precision costumed daredevils taking a dive off a tall building, look at that beautiful form!!

Just amazing what talent these guys have! Unfortunately, perfect form didn't help them much when they hit the ground!!

Some of our participants are just nuts. Here are a few guys flying around, doing flips and twists, using their hi-tek trampolines to get super bounces. It was a crack up though when they would miscalculate and crash into one another! I mean.. Hilarious hilarious!!

Here are two more dramatic jumps from crazy people, but at least these guys landed on the people below to soften the falls. One of the jumpers broke his nose and the other one lost a few fingers. Other than that they were fine, but thirteen observers on the ground got hurt pretty bad.

Oh yeah, we got our virtual giant robot battle game working after a few bugs had to be exterminated and the kids lined up in droves to command the battle of the giants.

The kids can have the giants punch it out or even stomp on houses! The game will do anything their little untethered brains can conceive! Oh, to be a kid again!

They can have all kinds of fun with their minds, and destroy lots of buildings to boot.

It really is a a kick to watch some of the battles these little brainiacs come up with, we could all learn something from them... ?

Also for the kids was this super ninja dance move demonstration by two professional costumed dancers here for the celebration.

Oh, there were a few problems too. These two participants are looking for someone who made fun of them, to exact their revenge on. All they know is, his name is... Allen!

Here's Allen on his cycle, that uses jet fuel, making a run for it. Besides the two others looking for him, Allen's being followed by a guy who's bike he kicked over, and is now chasing with a bazooka. Allen hasn't been seen for two days.

Ouch! There was another incident where a giant monster stepped on a cameraman. The poor guy is pretty flat but remember, we have a whole staff of mad scientists here to assist in situations like this (and other situations just as bad).

And, Sooper-Rooter is available for unclogging your drains, just give him a ring and he'll come a runnin'... Call 313-1313 NOW!!

RAGE - FURIA PRIMITIVA - "Primal Rage" (1988)

 

This Wednesday's Countdown To Halloween feature is a 1988 wackjob courtesy of goremeister Umberto (Kriminal) Lenzi.

 

You gotta admit this title card looks pretty primal raging!

Actor/stuntman Doug Sloan is one of the characters in this film, a creepy dude with anger issues named Lovejoy!

Doug actually has a credit as the 'head animal wrangler' in a 2004 flick called "Dead Birds."

Lovejoy and his buddies are jerks of the highest order!

These guys are so disgusting, they decide to molest a sick girl they find wandering down the avenue.

As rapists, these idiots are going to deserve anything and everything that happens to them, and more!

Their victim doesn't turn out to be that defenseless after all.

In fact, these boy's lives have just gone down the toilet, and now's the time to flush their sorry asses!

The sick girl bites!

"Primal Rage" is a popular pairing of two words, and in 1994, there was a video game released with the same title where you choose one of seven dinosaurs, and then beat the Hell out of your opponents while you battle for domination of Urth.

 

The same terminology was used in 2018 for the movie "Primal Rage: The Legend Of Konga." It didn't work for them either.

There's a lot of crazy Halloween party goers. The guy with the saw in his head is special indeed!

The list of the bands who made the music for this film is a who's who of who the Hell are you talking about! A few of the more well known groups are Mondo Boffo with Scorpio, The Fast Food Girls, and Steel Grave.

My focus here has only been on one small segment of the film, the rest is equally preposterous!

I'm not a big fan of this genre of film making, but this is not about this movie, it's about Halloween, and the fact that I'm running out of material after thirteen years of doing this Countdown!

Aw Jeez, Lovejoy's condition is getting worse by the minute. He just wasn't doing a good job of staying ahead of the curve!

This is what happens when you lose your mind and your head goes with it!

Have a nice day in Hell!!

DUNGEON HALLOWEEN COUNTDOWN Update #1

Welp, we're four days into our costumed Halloween Countdown Celebration, here at The Dungeon!!.. So, here's an update on the events and mishaps that have been going on. First were a bunch of group introductions to get out of the way. Above are a gang of Kamen Riders that showed up!!

Then, some giant rubber monsters waved to the crowd, like Metal Mo here!

Moon Menace gets a few waves in before the spectators start throwing spark plugs and bottles at him from the peanut gallery!

Bonko got a mixed response...

Oh yeah, we got our virtual hot air balloon ride up and going. It was a hit! The passengers can have the balloon run into telephone poles that fry their asses, they can fall out of the balloon, they can crash it into buildings, get struck by lightning, whatever, so, you can see why everyone loved it!

There was also a posing contest, these guys need some work!

Missy-Might has a wardrobe malfunction, her skirt flies up as she makes a jump down an incline in the mountains out back.

Old Crazy Face simply cannot believe what he just witnessed with Missy... Wowzers!!

Doll shows this harasser what a kick to the head feels like!

Missy-Might was walking back to The Dungeon when a group of these grey guys start making fun of her because everyone saw her undies. They even taunt her...

And when they wouldn't stop, well, this was the outcome. Word is now, don't mess with Missy!

And Allen's back! This time he requested that him and his cycle go up against a huge block of granite, you know, to see who will win.

It doesn't go well for Allen... He's okay but his face got blown off, luckily we have a bunch of mad scientists that will get him back to his old self!

There were a couple of accidents unfortunately. Here, the guy on the left shot an arrow straight up and it came down right into his buddy's chest. They were all looking up, watching the arrow come back down, when it happened.

Another thing that went south was a cannon demonstration by a group of misfits. Someone exchanged the blank used for the demonstration with a live round!!

And of all things, it hit the explosives/candy storage shack and all the candy was destroyed!! Of course we had to order another shipment of candy.

Phil was so pissed off while waiting for the candy to arrive, he punched one of the cannon guys in the face, really hard!! My favorite part of the last four days...