THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - 1945

It's time for a classic forties horror flick that was filmed in black and white with special color segments used for shock value. It had a hefty budget of $3,500,000 and was filmed at the MGM studios in Culver City, released a few months before the end of WWII. The story begins in London in 1886...

Eegah!! sent over a sound clip from this movie for our earjoyment, sooooo, you can push the big red 'GO' button located there by our portrait gallery, NOW, Ralphie The Tarantula!.. Here's a taste of... THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY!

Man, that song in the sound clip is like claws on a chalkboard for me, youch-a-roonie!!

Hurd Hatfield is Dorian Gray, he also played the Prince of the Lionians in TARZAN AND THE SLAVE GIRL and was in the LIGHTS OUT episode of "The Masque of the Red Death" in 1951. Notice his youthful face with not a wrinkle to be found!

In a color segment we see Dorian's beautiful portrait, he wishes that the figure in the portrait would grow old instead of him and he gets his wish because of an ancient Egyptian statue that's in the room!

He goes to a side show at the Two Turtles in a poor part of the neighborhood where he gets to see this weird puppet show that features the woman showing her ware!

Then, he sees Sibyl Vane doing her song for the drunk crowd, as heard in the sound clip. He invites her to his place, she falls in love with him but he ultimately rejects her and she commits suicide. Sybil is played by the great Angela Lansbury.

Here's a nice shot of youngsters Donna Reed and Peter Lawford.

The portrait is changing in weird ways, not only is it aging, it also seems to be taking on the sins of its vain owner!

Dorian kills the artist that did the portrait because he thinks he's the one making changing on the painting!.. Paranoid much?!

Then, the painting changes again and gets even more gruesome with signs of the artist's murder. The paintings were done by the English painter, Basil Hallward.

Dorian doesn't fit in with the rest of the people where he lives and is considered to be a weirdo or worse! They want to know why he doesn't seem to age after 20 years.

Dorian is trying to change his ways and notices the painting changes for the better when he is kind to people. So, he decides that destroying the portrait will get rid of the evil and he plunges his knife into it!

He unknowingly stabs the knife into the heart, causing the painting to revert back to its original form, a handsome young man! Did it work?..

I don't think so!!.. Nice horror makeup job by Jack Dawn.

Virus Man is here on Wednesday with more delirious, delightful Dungeon mayhem!! Later, dudes and dudettes.

WONDERWALL - George Harrison - "After All" (1968)

Welcome to yet another Psycho-Delicious Psaturday down deep in The Dungeon! From 1968, it's "Wonderwall," and what a wonder to behold it is!

I used to see the internet as one big window into the world, and that's kind of like what a "Wonderwall" is too, but on a much smaller, and more personal level! I'm thinking that's where the ww in www. originated!

Jack (THE GIANT BEHEMOTH, THE BRAIN, THE FEARLESS VAMPIRE KILLERS, HOW I WON THE WAR) MacGowran is the absent minded, but brilliant Professor Oscar Collins! Oscar has to constantly remind himself to do almost everything!

After a long week's work, the rather eccentric Professor returns home to his flat to relax for the weekend when he notices a strange little beam of light and the silhouette of what appears to be a beautiful girl dancing projected on his wall! The Professor wastes no time trying to get the hole open a little larger so he can get a better view!

The Professor gets quite an eyeful, and nobody on the other side ever seems to notice that he's spying on them!  The gorgeous gal that inhabits the next apartment is Jane (BLOW-UP) Birkin as the very lovely and uninhibited Penny Lane, and she is indeed inside the Professor's eyes and ears! Jane has continued to work steadily through the years, and currently has a film in post-production!

A lot of reason for all the flamboyant imagery is because Penny Lane is a fashion model, who specializes in having her legs shot!

And when her boyfriend comes over, she is also a specialist in having her legs spread, and it's all to the Professor's delight!

The Professor becomes so possessed, he almost destroys his apartment in an effort to be able to see even more, and ends up making almost as many holes as there are in Albert Hall in the wall to further his voyeuristic viewing pleasure!

Like in "What's Good For The Goose," "Wonderwall" is steeped and heaped with a wide array of male mid-life crises, and man's never ending pursuit of what he thinks love is, a young and beautiful sexy young lady! With his mighty pen at hand, the Professor is ready to do battle with Penny Lane's boyfriend, and run off with her to sexual Neverland forever! The boyfriend was played by Iain (THE FEARLESS VAMPIRE KILLERS) Quarrier.

"Wonderwall" is almost a silent movie, so it had to have some good music to keep it going, and that's where George Harrison of Beatles' fame and fortune, during his highly influenced Indian music period, comes into play! George wrote an outstanding soundtrack and you can buy it from Amazon right here!! 95% of the music is ragas, sitars, and tablas, but there are a couple of rockin' segments too! Here's just a slight taste of one of Tabonga's favourite riffs!

The Professor is now to the point where he has become so obsessed with this whole scene, that he's almost destroyed his apartment, and isn't taking care of himself at all! He's a literal mess!

The Professor has some incredible fantasies about Penny Lane, like her being at his lab!

Up to this point, the Professor still hasn't met Penny, only the boyfriend! It's pretty sad that when they throw a party on Penny's side of the wall, the Professor decorates his side, cleans himself up, and parties by himself from a distance!

The Professor is too caught up in his own fixations to even notice that everything is not exactly as perfect as it looks on Penny Lane's side of the wall!

More fantasies, and one including an apple, huh, can you imagine that?

The Professor is totally gone now, and his fantasies have become his realities! He really wants Penny Lane bad! He has to have her, and he decides to sneak into her apartment!

Finally, the Professor gets to see what the other side of the wall looks like!

This is the sad and lonely side of Penny Lane that the Professor never sees or knows exists!

Penny Lane attempts suicide by taking a bunch of sleeping pills and turning on the gas while the Professor is hiding in her closet!

In the end, The Professor not only gets to meet Penny Lane, he also gets to save her, and is declared a hero, which is about as close as he's ever going to get to fulfilling his fantasy, but it's good enough for him, and why not!

HORROR HIGH / Crown International Pictures - 1974

It's Friday the 14th High School Freak Out with Tabonga, here at The Dungeon!.. Our feature was distributed by Crown International, if you know what that means, you know what I'm saying! It stars child actor Pat Cardi in his last role, Pat also played a young chimp in BATTLE FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES.

Eegah!! sent over a sound clip from this flick for our approval, sooooo, you can push the big red 'GO' button over by our atomic chemistry lab, NOW, Rufus The Gnat!.. Here's a little taste of... HORROR HIGH!

The last part of the sound clip sure sounds like a nice Emerson, Lake and Palmer rip off!

Really, the first thing I noticed was all the weird seventies clothes that were in style at the time! How about that guy's pants?! I wouldn't be caught dead in them! Filmed in Irving, Texas.

Pat plays Vernon Potts, a skinny little nerd that gets the low IQ jocks all riled up because he's not a muscle bound jerk ass hole like them! Again, those stupid looking clothes, jeez!!

If that isn't bad enough, the weirdo janitor, Griggs, is also a tormentor. Griggs forces Vernon to drink one of his secret chemical formulas, which transforms him into a...

Vernon wakes up in his bed, covered in blood and no memory of what the Hell happened.

Texas may have been a leader in seventies fashion, but, that dress is just a boner butcher!!

A girl finds this in the science lab's acid barrel and you get the feeling that maybe old Vernon's involved, especially since the police identify the skull as Mr. Griggs, the weirdo janitor!

Vernon wants more revenge on the ones who done him wrong, this time it's his teacher, Miss Grindstaff. Throughout the movie she has this huge paper cutter on her desk, and, the blade's always in this position! Needless to say, Vernon uses it to chop her fingers off, obviously!!

As they cart the dead old teacher out of the room, the police photographer seems more interested in the nude mannequin!

Next, it's the athletic coach's turn. Notice he's holding his Texas-sized swat paddle, a nice weapon to use on intruders if needed... When Eegah!! and I met in 1959 in sixth grade, our home room teacher, Mr. Altman, gave out swats whenever a student earned it. You had to pull your punishment out of a hat that contained a number of options to pick from, like, one swat, two swats, etc. There was one that we always strived to pick, that was... the Delayed Swat! Yes, Eegah!! and I got swats!

Here's a close up showing the Hyde-Side of Vernon as he attacks the coach! He's as strong as a gorilla and easily tosses the 250 pound coach against the wall!!

Then, he uses track shoes with cleats to rip the coach's flesh, and, whoa, jumps up and down on him. This part is a little hard to watch because it looks 100% real!!

Back in '74, cops were cool and would chat with you as you cruised along on your bike!

Vernon's addicted to killing now and turns on his one friend, Robin. What I want to know is, why in the Hell would you hide in a brightly lit area?!.. Bib-bida, bib-bida.

He's finally brought down after being shot about 50 times, bringing our tale to an end!

Look for Eegah!! tomorrow with more cool junk from The Dungeon!!