A LOOK AT TRICK-OR-TREATING FROM THE PAST!

Let's have a look at some fun pics from the past, they deserve a little time here at The Dungeon Halloween Countdown!

I freakin' love this shot, looks like it's from the thirties. This has to be the golden age of trick-or-treating, great costumes and excitement you can cut wif' a rubber knife!.. Go, kids!!

Here, we have Popeye, Uncle Sam and a skeleton, can't go wrong with those! Also looks like the little kid in front is going as an OUR GANG buddy.

This photo looks like it's from the late fifties, early sixties. You've got spacemen, The Phantom, the devil, some whatzits and a bunny wabbit!

It's lots of fun on both sides of the door at this mad house!

Heaven forbid if there's not enough candy to go around for this horde of little monsters!

Here's a Halloween costume lineup at a high school gym, love the shock mask in front!

Boys are Little Devils!..

Boys are Little Monsters!!..

But, Girls are Little Witches!!!.. Eegah!! and I fall into the 'Monster' category.

I like these very weird costumes, the clothing is freakin' insane!!

This one reminds me of something me and Eegah!! might come up with just for the halibut, a deadly duo going door to door for free treats!

And, for all the poor kids, well, creativity can trump $$$!.. For just a measley 13 cents, you can come up with costumes for the whole danged family!

This photo's pretty funny, how pathetic! What a poor excuse for a robot, I feel sorry for the kid! Cute in an ironic way.

We would go to our elementary school's Halloween festival, this was one of the things we'd participate in. I swear, this is totally impossible to do!!

Then, like in the eighties, Halloween became a little more edgy!..

Let us not forget the adults, they like to dress up and go to Halloween events too!..

And, to top the whole thing off, here's a special pic of costume design gone off the tracks, Halloween or otherwise!.. Enjoy!

Check back Wednesday for more Halloween Countdown, here, at The Dungeon!!

HAIR-RAISING HARE - Bugs Bunny (1946)

 We're halfway to Halloween, so it's time for a Scary Melodies Halloween Countdown Saturday Night Special cartoon!

 Tonight's feature short is called "Hair-Raising Hare" and stars Bugs Bunny! It was unleashed on the general public in 1946!
Now THIS is a great title card!

 Bugs Bunny is being spied on by some nefarious creature with a very modern 'Televisor'!

 The mad scientist doing the spying looks an awful lot like Peter Lorre!

I'd be curious to find out how much Warner Brothers had to pay to use the image of a star like this!

 The monster is kept behind locked doors and is hungry! This same concept would be used in "The Brain That Wouldn't Die" some 15 years later!

 The mad scientist has a lure to catch some food for the monster!

 Bugs Bunny is a horny little rabbit, so he falls for the bait, hook, line, and sinker!
Hubba, Hubba!!

 Bugs follows the hot rabbit robot right back to the evil scientist's humble abode!

More awesome artwork!!

 Bugs tells the evil scientist that he doesn't need to block the door, because he has no plans to go anywhere, that is until............

 

...His new girlfriend falls completely apart right before his eyes! 

Now he's ready to exit stage right!!

The scientist releases the giant and hungry beast on his helpless prey!

This is the first time this tennis shoe wearing monster was ever seen on the big screen! 

At this point, he didn't have a name, but the monster would reappear again in a 1952 cartoon called "Water Water Every Hare" as Ruda, and once again in a 1980 Duck Dodgers cartoon as Gossamer!

Gossamer is looking very Dr. Seuss-like right about here!

In normal cartoon style, once the monster is released, it turns into one big chase scene!

Here he tries to unsuccessfully hide! Valiant effort, but no cigar!

"Canned Monster" is the result of that fiasco!

Once out of the can, the monster finally catches up with Bugs Bunny!! I'll let you use your imagination as to what happens next!
Th, th, th, th, th,

"THAT'S ALL FOLKS!!!"

HALLOWEEN BAG O' FIFTIES 8mm HORROR BOX ART EYE CANDY And Fiends

My Halloween jokes bombed on Monday, so, back to something that everbloody can dig, more 8mm Horror Movie box art! This time, all from the fifties... I guess I'll have to give up my big dream of becoming a famous stand up comedian!

Here's a nice example of 8mm movie box art from I WAS A TEENAGE WEREWOLF, I'm sure you'd pay a pretty penny for most of the titles here if you wanted to collect these vintage movies!

This I WAS A TEENAGE FRANKENSTEIN artwork is a little whack, they use the monster from GHOST OF FRANKENSTEIN instead of the actual scarier image!

Here are the three CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON movies. This is the only Universal horror title from the fifties that had more than one movie in a series.

IT CONQUERED THE WORLD is my favorite piece here! Besides my eternal love for all the Paul Blaisdell monster creations, this box art kicks ass big time!

It's incredible how crappy this MONSTER THAT CHALLENGED THE WORLD artwork is! They had the chance to do a terrific image but settled for this stupid thing! Great monster, amateurish art... The guy on the left looks good because that's a photo image, what they should have done with the whole danged piece.

Enter THE DEADLY MANTIS!!.. Here's one I saw in 1957 at the theater, and I have to tell you, the movie was a true wonder for a nine year old monster nut!

Saw EARTH vs. THE SPIDER in 1957 too, a freaking awesome year for monsters!!! The movie ain't that great, but, that box art looks mighty fine!.. It must Eat You to Live!!

This RETURN OF DRACULA artwork is fairly simple but is attractive enough because of the subtle color changes. There's even a Halloween party with costumes in this one!

I was lucky enough to catch THE WEREWOLF at the time, man, that scene in the jail cell freaked me out a goodern!! If that wasn't bad enough, I saw it with TARANTULA!

Okay, here are the bonus Fiends as promised. As I was chasing images for the post, I came across these next three photos I thought were especially nice to include here, so, enjoy!

Nothing more Halloween than to dress up as witches and share a cup of old belladonna tea!!

I just love this photo, skeletons will forever capture the feel of Halloween! Skeletons scared me the most when I was a little guy!

What better way to end than with this beautiful picture of our gal holding a make believe copy of HALLOWEEN And SPOOK STORIES! We'll be back here tomorrow with more Halloween Countdown... From The Dungeon!!

THE OUTER LIMITS - "The Invisible Enemy" (1964)

You might wonder what this "Outer Limits" episode has to do with Halloween, besides being scary!

The answer is that this 7th episode from season two titled "The Invisible Enemy" was broadcast for the first time on Halloween night, October 31, 1964, and I think it was the first time I ever wanted to stay home and watch TV instead of going out trick or treating!

You just can't go wrong starting off with going to Mars! That concept still works some 52 years later!

Here's the crew!!!

The always, and I mean always, entertaining Adam West  has the lead role of Major Charles 'Chuck' Merritt! "Robinson Crusoe On Mars" also starring Adam, had just come out about four months earlier, so the timing was just right!

1964 Mars looks pretty groovy!

This shot just strikes me as being very strange!

"The Twilight Zone" was one of the greatest TV series of all time, but it was "The Outer Limits" that gave you real monsters each week! This particular monster had a bad case of post nasal drip!

Robert DoQui in his very first role as Lieutenant Frank Johnson, went on to have an awesome career in films like "Willie Dynamite" and the whole "RoboCop" series!

I'm coming to get you boy!!

No, you ain't!!!

C'mon Major, let's get the fuck outta here!

Here's a great shot of Rudy Solari as Captain Jack Buckley, the guy who saves the day!

A staple of 60's TV, Rudy had the distinction of being in two "Outer Limits" episodes, this one, and also "Production And Decay Of Strange Particles!!" (What a great title!)

The creature munched the other two crew members, and while not really invisible, it was well hidden under some Martian sand! This creature was not hungry or territorial, it was just mean, and as it turns out, he's got lots of relatives ready to meet and greet any other space explorers Earth wants to send their way!

We don't like your welcome wagon, Sayonara Motherfucker!!

Damn Adam, since you survived that ordeal, now you can go on and have an amazing career as 

BATMAN!!