Friday, December 5, 2014

THE OUTER LIMITS: Production And Decay Of Strange Particles - 1964

Here's your treat for the 5th Day Of XMAS, another fun little episode from the creative guys over at Daystar Productions, it's all about an accident at a nuclear research facility that creates a dimensional doorway that aliens need to widen in order to invade Earth!

Eegah!! sent over an excellent sound clip for our approval, sooooo, you can push the big red 'GO' button over by our own decaying particles, NOW, Rufus The Gnat!.. Here's a taste of... PRODUCTION AND DECAY OF STRANGE PARTICLES!

While working on a new element, there's a reaction that causes it to become unstable, and...

Workers are being taken over by a strange alien force!

This guy barely made it out of the lab and gets burned by the out of control element.

The workers at the lab try to use lead shields to stave off the increasing radiation.

But, the alien force continues to take over the minds and bodies of the men that are now trying to create the dimensional doorway.

Here's a nice still showing the shock of the Marshall family, owners of the facility.

Dr. Marshall figures out a way to reverse the situation by creating a mix of elements that will trigger the event. The men under alien control cart the mixture into the central lab, thinking it's more of the element they desire, like in KRONOS and X: THE UNKNOWN.

Dr. Marshall and his wife quickly drive to a bunker miles away from the unstable facility to see if their plan to close the dimensional doorway will work. Otherwise, all is lost for Earth! The lab explodes into an atomic blast...

Here are 2 great stills from the A-Bomb tests that took place in Nevada in the early fifties!

Well anyway, as luck would have it the explosion reverses itself, closing the alien doorway to another dimension!!

So, tune in tomorrow for more early Xmas presents from The Dungeon!..

Wednesday, December 3, 2014

LEAVE IT TO BEAVER - Season 5, Episode 35 - "Sweatshirt Monsters" (1962)

Here's a little something I had cooked up for the Halloween Countdown before I got sidetracked by all those cartoons! Somewhere along the line, I missed the episode of "Leave It To Beaver" when he went to the moon!

Welcome to Weirdsville Wednesday down in The Dungeon and every 60's monster kid's favourite episode of "Leave It To Beaver," Season 5, Episode 35 that was titled  "Sweatshirt Monsters!"

Here's the gang from left to right, Mark (The Alfred Hitchcock Hour) Murray as Alan, Richard Correll, who has directed a whole slew of popular kid's TV shows over the last 25 years as Richard, Stanley (The Lost Missile) Fafara as Whitey, and of course Jerry Mathers as The Beaver!!!

The boys have saved up all their money and can't wait to buy one of these cool Monster Sweatshirts! The sweatshirts were done by some studio artist trying to imitate the style of the airbrush master of all time, Big Daddy Roth!


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 Beaver wants the one with three eyeballs!

Richard wants the one with the fangs...

.....And Whitey wants the one with the blood!!!

The boys all vow to be rebellious, and wear their new monster sweatshirts to school the next day!

But that's just not the way it works out! First Beaver gets told along with all the other boys that he can't wear the shirt to school, but he made a vow, so he wears it under his other shirt, that he takes off after he leaves the house!

Once he gets to school, he finds out he's the only one out of four that stayed true to his word, and his reward is he gets sent to the Principal's office, where they call his house and his Dad has to come and pick him up, and then he gets confined to his room for the whole weekend!  And you punks today think you got it bad!
For another take on this whole subject in colour, go check out This Post at the Neato Coolville blog from about a year ago! F.Y.I - If you have a Netflix account, all six seasons of "Leave It To Beaver" stream there endlessly!

Monday, December 1, 2014

ATTACK OF THE 50 FOOT WOMAN / Woolner Brothers Pictures - 1958

Your Xmas Present is early this year, here's a Dungeon Redo of the classic schlock flick starring Allison (THE DISEMBODIED) Hayes as rich bitch booze hound Nancy Archer, who gets turned into the big old gal... I got to see this one in 1958 and thought the special effects were really lousy. This Mexican lobby card looked better than the other posters I came across, so, here ya' go.

Eegah!! sent over a sound clip from the bar scene for our earjoyment, sooooo, you can push the big red 'GO' button located there by our attacking 5 foot woman, NOW, Ralphie The Tarantula!.. Here's a taste of... ATTACK OF THE 50 FOOT WOMAN!

Here's the scene at the beginning where Nancy almost runs into the round glowing UFO that's parked in the middle of road!

There's no title card for this one, it would take four still captures and definitely look stupid.

Nancy has walked to town and is in a tizzy over the encounter. The deputy, Charlie, has come into the bar to warn her husband, handsome Harry, who's living it up with his girlfriend, Honey. William (THE SHE-CREATURE) Hudson plays a perfect Harry and Yvette (ATTACK OF THE GIANT LEECHES) Vickers is pure Honey!!

Back home, Nancy needs a stiff drink to get her mind off the adventure she just had.

Back at the bar, Honey is waiting for Harry to arrive, so, she cuts a rug with Charlie while she waits for him. Charlie is getting into it in the second still. Then, Harry arrives and doesn't like what he sees, you can see Charlie slipping silently out of the scene. Frank (THE CREATURE WALKS AMONG US) Chase is another actor perfect for his part and was a writer for TV.

Nancy has Harry drive through the hills, hoping to see the UFO and prove that she was not seeing things. Harry bolts and drives back to their house, leaving Nancy there! What a guy!!

This big guy from space is what spooked Harry...

Later, after Nancy is found in the back yard, she has become a giant in her bedroom, foiling Harry's plan to kill her with a lethal injection! I guess her legs must be sticking through a hole in the wall?

I'll never pass up a chance to show a classic fifties 45 rpm record player by a booze bottle!

Here are the two doctors trying to make Nancy comfortable in a pretty awkward scene.

Looks like the big space guy had to walk, his UFO's probably just out of gas or something!

Jess, the butler, and the Sheriff find the spaceship in the country and go inside to check it out. But, guess who shows up?!!

Here's a good look at our big old space jockey in his odd, medieval looking garb.

Nancy has crashed through the roof of the house so the doctor calls the Sheriff's office!

Nancy's mad as Hell and goes out looking for her cheating hubby!

She finds Harry with Honey at the bar and caves the roof in, crushing Honey dead!

Then, Nancy grabs Harry and walks around holding him, threatening to drop him, but, she gets near an electrical transformer and is electrified, killing her and her lesser half! Game over, man!

We're back on Wednesday with more Xmas treats for you and yours!

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