Posts

Showing posts from January, 2012

GALAXY OF TERROR / New World Pictures - 1981

Image
Welcome to Monster Monday wif' Tabonga, here at The Dungeon!.. Tonite's offering is another ALIEN inspired movie produced by Roger Corman and New World, FORBIDDEN WORLD being the other. Budget estimated at $400,000, stars Edward Albert, Erin Moran and Ray Walston. And, get this, James Cameron only gets unit director credit at the bottom of the credits and Bill Paxton is uncredited for set decoration! Music for this one is by Barry Schrader, who has only 9 composing credits. I think that music meant sci-fi sounds in 1981. Barry also plays himself in the 2010 documentary, TALES FROM THE LUMBER YARD: THE MAKING OF GALAXY OF TERROR. I actually visited Corman's lumber yard studio in 1984. Letz bring in our Dungeon helper and button pusher, Ralphie The Tarantula!.. Bueno, Ralphie. The lil' guy is here to start our show, sooo, push the big red 'GO' button there by the pinball machine, now, Ralphie! Here's some spacey noise from... GALAXY OF TERROR! The story&#

THE HOUSE THAT DRIPPED BLOOD - Michael Dress - "A Vértöl Csöpögö Ház" (1971)

Image
Just got back from a couple of days in Computer Hell, and you know that's never any F'n fun! Now on the other hand, what IS fun are compilation films! "The House That Dripped Blood" is a right fine example! "A Vértöl Csöpögö Ház" is the title in Hungarian! How many times have you said, "that would have been a pretty good movie if it would have only been about 20 minutes long?" This film is just that, and is more like four short stories, three of them having been written by one of THE top writers ever, Robert Bloch! IF you don't know who Robert Bloch is, I only have one word to say to you, "PSYCHO !" The good thing about movies like this is that there's no time to waste! An author of horror stories and his wife are the first victims to move into the "House That Dripped Blood." The author's sketches of his character have come to life, and come to get him! Everybody has a skull, it's just that most people choose