Saturday, July 4, 2009

4th of July Fireworks / INFRAMAN - 1975 / Music by Yung-Yu Chen

Okay here is Tabonga' best pick for 4th of July celebration, great flick from HONG KONG!! Hey, you like insane, non-stop action wif' craziest monster you ever seen? Then, INFRAMAN is flick for you!! Shaw Bros. produce one swell diversion, one of Tabonga' top 10 Weirdies of all time for sure!

Awesome music is by Yung-Yu Chen, he have 151 composing credit from 1971-82!!! That average to about 11 credit per year!!.. DUDE! All are action-whatever! A few other Chinese title he compose for are: THE LADY PROFESSIONAL, NEW ONE-ARMED SWORDSMAN, FIST ATTACK, THE HUMAN GODDESS, THE DEVIL'S MIRROR, SEVEN BLOWS OF THE DRAGON, MAN OF IRON, THE PIRATE, THE SUGAR DADDIES, BRUCE TAKES DRAGON TOWN, GHOST EYES, QUEEN HUSTLER, THE KILLER SNAKES, BLACK MAGIC, KILLER CLANS, CRAZY SEX, OILY MANIAC, MR. FUNNYBONE, THE KUNG-FU KID, BATTLE WIZARD and tons more!

So, here is little taste of master music man from Hong Kong work... INFRAMAN!! This flick was banned in Norway!!

Unexplained bad thing happening, so Science Rangers go into high gear trying to figure out why!

Dragon Mom and minions have invade Earth and want to take over!

This Tabonga' kind of monster here, he have rotating drill bit hand and super-excellent sense of humor!! Make great combo!

Time to make... INFRAMAN!

Monster guy capture Science Ranger dude and they have little surprise ready for him!

Time for brain redo, then he can be spy for Dragon Mom! Check out eyeball in hand, hell yeah!!

Monster have no chance against acrobatic move like that... JEEZ!!

Now, that Tabonga kind of pad!! Serious.

Okay, finally!.. HAPPY FIREWORKS DAY, EVERBLOODY!!

Three great pics!!

Inframan finally nail Dragon Mom with atomic fireball, and, well, that the end of her!!

Nice place, too bad it gonna esplode in about 7 second!

Too cool, Science Ranger gang get to leave on fancy boat!!

HAPPY 4th OF JULY!

Friday, July 3, 2009

DAWN OF THE MUMMY - Like a Tribute to Shuki Levy (1981)

Here's a good one for all you Mummy lovers out there! In a crapshell, here's what's going on! A high fashion photo shoot interrupts the unearthing and grave robbing of an ancient Egyptian tomb, which in turn, awakens the minions of the dead, who then dig their way back to life just in time to terrorize a local wedding party, before getting blown to kingdom come, and then some, maybe even to Hell and back!!!

Israeli composer Shuki Levy gets credit for setting the mood. Shuki was half of the European pop rock duo "Shuki & Aviva" in the 1970's.

Shuki Levy is one of the most prolific composers for TV and movies of all time, is still working today, and besides composing for way too many cartoons than I can list, he also gets credit as partner with Haim Saban in helping create the phenomomen of "The Power Rangers!" Period!

Make way, coming through with the pizzas you ordered!!

Ellen Faison as model Melinda, and Diane Beatty as model Joan needed some good background music for their shoot!! As far as I know, there was never a soundtrack released for this movie, I hope that Shuki doesn't mind if we showcase a little taste of his amazing work right here as a tribute to his awesome work over the years!!

Here you go, it's time for snippets and bits of "Dawn Of The Mummy"!!!! It's kinda like a movie trailer for what's left of your mind!! Whoa!! That's one ugly lookin' Mummy!! Good place for one of those, "Your Mummy's so ugly, even the dog wouldn't eat it" jokes!!

Introducing, The Dead!!!! They've been asleep a long time, and boy, are they hungry!! If just having zombies coming up at you in the desert, in the middle of the night, wasn't bad enough, let's throw in a few large cacti to make it even more uncomfortable!!

Aw, who cares?? Not John Salvo, as the model, Gary, in his mind, there's still time left for a Hootenanny and a Hookah Hullaballoo!

Meanwhile, Joan Levy as Jenny decided to go out shopping!! Should have stayed out of the bargain district Jenny!!

The guy who owned the Hookah House was also getting married, I'll just say, it doesn't really work out to well after all the dead boys crash the party and decide to munch down on the bride!(This is a dancer, not the bride, or the zombies would have been kept busy longer!!)

Barry Sattels as Rick went on to have quite a nice career in TV, and in this scene, he really thinks he's going to finally get the gold!! As Bill Cosby used to say, "Right!!"

Great seriously ugly makeup job by Maurizio Trani with help from Hassan Taha!

The stupid dead party crashers spoil the party again! This movie goes from laffs to guts in a few seconds time!! Those dead people are just out of control, I wouldn't even bother trying to socialize with them, I've tried reaching out before, but it's just not worth the effort!! Have a good weekend, but be careful who you hang with!!

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

THE AMAZING MR. X / Ben Stoloff - 1948 / Music by Alexander Laszlo

Tonight at Dungeon we have decent lil' flick from great year of 1948!! Star Turhan Bey, Lynn Bari (she replace Carole Landis, who commit suicide a few day before shooting start!), Richard Carlson and Donald Curtis. Great cast of actors in this ghost noir thriller, main writer was Muriel Bolton.

Dungeon love music guy Alexander Laszlo because he did stuff for NIGHT OF THE BLOOD BEAST and ATTACK OF THE GIANT LEECHES, both directed by Dungeon pal Bernie Kowalski! Mr. Lazlo also compose for BLACK MAGIC, HIGH POWERED, SCARED STIFF, JOE PALOOKA, CHAMP, HOT CARGO, TARZAN'S MAGIC FOUNTAIN, 56 TV episode of RACKET SQUAD, 13 TV episode of ROCKY JONES, SPACE RANGER and more!!

So, on wif' da show!.. Tabonga' pet tarantula Ralphie have honors tonight to push big red 'GO' button, drum roll pleeze... THE SPIRITUALIST!

Lynn Bari have big dilemma, should she remarry after 2 year of husband' death? She talk with fake spiritualist Mr. X about problem, then lover boy Richard Carlson show up at very bizarre beach, at night even!.. Nice hat!

Rich press issue as portrait of dead husband Donald Curtis leer at happy couple.

Is ghost real or not?!

Who the hell care? Time to get lit!!

Uh oh, Lynn hearing dead husband voice, how can that be, he... DEAD!! Time to pack bags for nut house!

Mr. X find out Donald still alive and is messin' wif' wifey for $$$$.

Richard get shot but still able to cut electricity in basement with ax! Good job!!

Things starting to unravel big time for Don as he try to shoot wife.

Rich try to climb stair to get to Lynn, but cops come in and shoot up Donald just in nick of time!

Mr. X and girlfriend like to talk to raven, take very serious, they not crazy though!!

Monster Music

Monster Music
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