THE BOOGIE MAN WILL GET YOU / Columbia Pictures Corporation - 1942

It's Friday Frights with Tabonga, here at The Dungeon!.. Here's a fun flick that stars two of our heroes, Boris Karloff and Peter Lorre, Boris plays the nutty Professor Billings and Peter plays jack of all trades, Dr. Lorenz. A mistake left in the film is pretty funny, one actor calls Peter's character.. Dr. Lorre. Check out the tagline on the poster!

Eegah!! sent over a kookie little soundclip for our enjoyment, sooooo, you can push the big red 'GO' button there next to the boogie-woogie machine, NOW, Rufus The Gnat! Here's our audio offering for... THE BOOGIE MAN WILL GET YOU!

It all starts with the sale of this charming old dilapidated inn...

Winnie buys the old fixer-upper and her boyfriend, Bill, drops in to help her out.

Boris has a mad lab in the basement where he works on his mysterious experiments.

Peter plays mayor, coroner, justice of the peace, notary public, sells insurance, loans money and is the sheriff when necessary! But, when he discovers that Boris is making zombies in the cellar, he wants in on the action because they're being created as supermen to win the war!

There's never a dull moment while they're fixin' stuff in the old place!

Enter the next victim, travelling salesman 'Slapsie' Maxie Rosenbloom. He's ticklish on the top of his head! You can hear Maxie doing some of his lines in the soundclip.

Winnie and Bill spook themselves when they wake up on slabs covered in sheets.

Then, two bumbling state troopers get thrown into the mix.

Then then, enter Frank Puglia as Italian madman, Silvio Baciagalupi.. The Human Bomb! Frank also played Dr. Leonardo in 20 MILLION MILES TO EARTH.

HORRORS OF THE BLACK MUSEUM - Gerard Schurmann - "Fear Beyond Belief" (1959)

Tabonga has been getting to do all the redux around here lately, but tonight it's my turn! "Horrors Of The Black Museum" was one of the first films I did back in 2007 when the focus was almost strictly on the music, but now it's time for the full monte! I like this version of the poster, it's totally nutzoid, and it has all the right elements!! Big Thanx to Greg Goodsell for providing the disc!!

"Horrors Of The Black Museum" is a 1959 Michael Gough classic without a doubt!

Pretty weird, they waste 13 minutes at the beginning of the movie to explain Dr. Franchel's theories on Hypnotism because supposedly Michael Gough has his assistant hypnotized in order to do his evil bidding, but in reality, he was shooting him up with some kind of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde fluid! Maybe I missed something, but then maybe it's because I almost fell asleep! Do yourself a favour and fast forward through  the first 13 minutes, and just skip to the chase!

It all starts off innocently enuf once it gets started, when a beautiful young gal receives a gift from an anonymous admirer, binoculars that when focused shoot spikes into the unwitting victim's eyes and right into the brain causing instant death! It's just the next victim in an ongoing series of copycat events from Scotland Yard's Black Museum!

The rogue Michael Gouge is the author and celebrated journalist Edmond Bancroft whose writings document the current ghastly wave of murders! He's a real pain in Scotland Yard's ass with his investigative reporting!

Edmond Bancroft also has his own personal Black Museum of horror, but of course it's all in the name of research!

Edmond has a hot girlfriend in red, known as Joan, who is fed up with all his phony bullshit! Joan was played by June (Part-Time Wife) Cunningham!

I will never give up an opportunity to show a picture of a classic jukebox!! This one is a ROCK-OLA!

Joan/June has a chance to entertain the locals with a little exotic dance number! Put a dime in the jukebox, put down that martini, and enjoy the swingin' sounds of Gerard (KONGA, THE HEADLESS GHOST) Schurmann!!

Joan/June goes back to her flat after her night out, but after she undresses and goes to bed.......

.......This is what she's faced with when she looks up!

Some crazy mofo confesses to all the murders! That just helps screw everything up since he has nothing to do with any of them!

All the time people tell me to smile, and I tell them to F off! Would you rather I put on a phony face like this? I didn't think so!

Edmond's doctor senses something is amiss! Every time there's a murder, his patient comes to see him and his blood pressure is 200 over 110, and he assumes something isn't kosher! When he confronts Edmond with the fact that as his doctor, he thinks he should get some help, this is what he gets for his concern, followed by an acid bath!

Meanwhile Edmond goes to a book signing for his latest work! I love how almost every book in the store is his!

Back at the lab, Edmond's assistant Rick as played by Graham Curnow is busted by Edmond with his girlfriend Angela played by Shirley Anne (These Are The Damned) Field!

The happy couple go to the carnival, but not before Edmond shoots up Rick with some more of that Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde juice!

Angela is thrilled to no end to ride on the Tunnel Of Love with the man of her dreams!

In real life, Graham Curnow was gay! His lifelong partner was Victor Spinetti, a gifted actor who was in all of the first three Beatles' movies!  After this little incident, Rick and Angela's marriage plans are put on permanent hold!

Stupid kids never understand anything and taunt Rick even further to what will be his inevitable demise! "Horrors Of The Black Museum" scared the crap out of me as a kid, and is still pretty dang creepy to this day! If you've got 95 minutes to literally kill, this is a good place to go!

REPTILICUS / American International Pictures - 1961

It's Monster Monday with Tabonga, here at The Dungeon!.. It's also time for us to redo this flick from a previous post we did way back in 2008. Eegah!! and I saw this one at the theater in 1961 and thought it was fairly kitsch. We also saw ANGRY RED PLANET and JOURNEY TO THE SEVENTH PLANET at the time too, two other movies produced by Sidney Pink. This story's about the tail of a prehistoric reptile that's discovered in Denmark, it regenerates into an entire reptile that then proceeds to destroy buildings, scare people, eat livestock and it even spits deadly green acid!! I had and read the paperback novel that came out before the movie did, it actually had sex in it!..

Eegah!! sent over a soundclip with two musical segments from the movie, sooooo, you can push the big red 'GO' button there by the pink rubber dragon, NOW, Ralphie The Tarantula! Here's our audio offering for... REPTILICUS!

A field worker in Denmark digs this piece of flesh out of the drill bit they're using. Okay, bring in the scientists.

The tail's taken to the science institute where they keep it frozen to preserve it. And, it must be kept exactly at this temperature, got it?!!

Doofus provides the comic relief, here, he sticks his finger in a tank of electric eels! I love his attire. Speaking of attire, I just rewatched DAUGHTER OF DR. JEKYLL over the weekend, John Agar's striped jacket totally ruined that movie for me again, it's so goddamn ridiculous looking. I mean, seriously, WTF!!

Here's Birthe Wilke belting out "Trivoli Nights" for the audience at this popular Copenhagen nightclub, as heard in the soundclip...

This absent minded professor's at the science institute on a stormy night. After Reptilicus breaks out and destroys the building that night, all they find is his glasses on the floor! This shot reminds me of working on my comic art late at night, when I used to do that.

At certain angles and distances, Reptilicus looks pretty cool!

This effect where Reptilicus eats a farmer is so crude that I'm not even sure how they did it!

They bring in the flame throwing tanks to see if Reptilicus can take the heat! You can see it spitting green acid at the soldiers.

Then they drop depth charges on its ass when it tries to recover underwater from the burns, and, blow off one of its legs. At the end of the movie, they show this leg regenerating into another monster, a leg with an eyeball!!

Just a a few laffs before these two doomed beach goers get covered in corrosive green slime!.. Why in the Hell would anyone in their right mind go to the beach when they knew Reptilicus was hiding there?

Susan and Mary Test are brought in to come up with a chemical formula of doom for the almost unstoppable monster.

They load it into a bazooka shell and General Grayson fires it into the throat of Reptilicus, bringing its reign of terror to an end.. But, don't forget about the leg under the sea!