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GURU, THE MAD MONK / Maipix Organization - 1970

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Welcome to Mondo Monday with Tabonga, here at The Dungeon! Tabonga got a stearn warning from the boss after he sat down and watched this title for the very first time. Andy Milligan is banned from Tabonga's house!! Truly, this POS super classic can especially shock those not prepared for it's full heaping helping of incompentence, garrish sets and costumes, and, a bunch of jaw-dropping ba-a-a-a-ad acting... The story is basically this... Father Guru, stationed on the island of Mortavia in 1480, is the schizophrenic, power mad chaplain of a Central European prison. And, he will murder or torture anyone he thinks might be threatening his little world... Even though this was a rush job for the drive-in circuit by Andy and company, that's no excuse for what goes on in this weird little 62 minute flick filmed in New York with a decent (for 1970) budget of $20,000. All I can say is, give Retromedia a helluva lot of credit for picking up this crappy title for distribution! Th

KYÔRYÛ KAICHÔ NO DENSETSU - Masao Yagi - "Legend Of Dinosaurs And Ominous Birds" (1977)

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Things are not well in Gotham City, but when the searchlight beams, the show must go on! "Legends Of Dinosaurs And Monster Birds" is not by any means your standard 1977 Japanese Big Monster flick! I don't even really know what to compare it to! Toei Productions were responsible for a weird handful of cool Sci-Fi films over the years like "Prince Of Space," "Invasion Of The Neptune Men," "The Terror Beneath The Sea," and "The Green Slime," but generally they didn't venture into the Sci-Fi Monster genre, it was Toho Studios who were the guys making all the big rubber monster flicks like "Gojira," and that's what makes this movie so different looking!! This opening scene concerns a young girl in the woods alone, who suddenly falls into a gigantic ice cave! What she sees will open a completely different chapter of Japanese Kaiju history, and a very violent one! The music by the Maestro Masao Yagi is superlative, and