Saturday 31 March 2012

PERFORMANCE (1970)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOHBIUvcWT8
I really don't know if this film belongs here, but it's here now! The plot is weird like all 60s/70s British movies so bear with me...
Chas (James Fox) is a bully boy for a London crime syndicate. He works the protection rackets and duffs up the ones that resist. He goes too far however, and has to go on the run, disguising himself as a juggler (!) and attempting to lose himself in the Bohemian quarter of Notting Hill. He blags his way into a house inhabited by Turner (Mick Jagger) and rents a room. Turner, however, is rather strange himself, being a rock star in hiding who is 'searching for his lost demon'. Along with Pherber (Anita Pallenberg) and Lucy (Michele Breton) he attempts to exorcise the demon within Chas...what a strange story! Also stars Anthony Valentine and 'hard man' John Bindon.
More weird wonders from Sneaky Elephant SOON!

Wednesday 21 March 2012

THE NINTH CONFIGURATION (1979)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZCcjzOeXlM&feature=related

THE LUNATICS ARE TAKING OVER THE ASYLUM! Also known as Twinkle, Twinkle, Killer Kane, this  is a mad film about madness and  madmen. The original story was written by William Peter Blatty, who was also responsible for THE EXORCIST , and he also produced and directed this amazing piece of cinema. It concerns a bunch of mentally damaged American military personnel, now being kept in a castle somewhere in America. Into this environment steps US Marine Colonel Hudson Kane (Stacy Keach), the new psychiatrist in charge. However, Kane seems to have a few problems of his own in the upstairs department, including recurring dreams of death. He befriends astronaut Billy Cutshaw (Scott Wilson) and the pair make a pact concerning personal sacrifice and the nature of life after death. Kane's true identity is eventually revealed, and Cutshaw discovers a truth of his own by the climax.
The story has some crazy humour and more twists than a worm in a salt bath. It is also memorable for the INCREDIBLE bar fight, in which Kane takes on an entire chapter of bikers barehanded.But why is he called KILLER KANE I hear you ask? Watch it and find out! A GEM!
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Tuesday 13 March 2012

The Exterminator (1980)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hex92J_b80A&feature=related
IF YOU'RE LYING, I'LL BE BACK! Robert Ginty is John Eastland aka THE EXTERMINATOR, a  Vietnam veteran who has trouble adjusting to civilian life. When one of his buddies is paralysed by a criminal gang, John deals out his own brand of rough justice...and it ain't pretty! Investigating further, he finds links to organised crime, but his vigilante activities draw the attention of not only the police, but also the CIA. As Eastland's one man war of terror escalates, the authorities close in...great stuff!
There is one big screen name here...SAMANTHA EGGAR plays a doctor...well, even big Hollywood stars must pay the rent I suppose, and this must have seemed like Hamlet to her after appearing in the travesty that was DR. DOLITTLE (1967).
This cult classic is a bit hokey in places, but you can easily see where Arnie Schwarzenegger stole his trademark line...even the title is similar to TERMINATOR, which came out four years later.It has to be said though, that the similarities end there.
 Ginty reprised his role as John Eastland in a by-the-numbers sequel, Exterminator 2, which is more of the same. More jungle japes from Sneaky Elephant SOON!

Saturday 3 March 2012

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)

http://veehd.com/video/4508541_Dead-Men-Dont-Wear-Plaid-1982
Whatever you do, don't mention the CLEANING WOMAN! Starring that wild and crazy guy Steve Martin, this film noir comedy is interspersed with clips from famous Hollywood thrillers of the 40s. Rigby Reardon (Martin) is a private eye on a case. With the help of various big stars such as Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, Vincent Price and Joan Crawford (and many others!) he attempts to solve the murder of scientist and part time cheese maker John Hay Forrest (George Gaines) and falls in love with Juliet (Rachel Ward) , daughter of the dead man. Rigby gets shot in the arm several times (always in the same hole!) but luckily the gorgeous Juliet is always on hand to suck out the bullet.
The idea for this movie came from a discussion between Martin,screenwriter George Gipe and director Carl Reiner (who also appears as the butler and the nasty Nazi). Martin originally had a screenplay which called for the use of an old film clip, and the project snowballed from there. The finished product uses scenes from 19 old thriller and pulp films, and you may enjoy naming the movies and stars as they appear. This technique of combining old and new footage was even copied by Heineken Lager for a series of adverts starring comedian Griff Rhys Jones...along with John Wayne and the cast of ICE COLD IN ALEX (1958)! Other movies have since copied the idea, notably Woody Allen's ZELIG (1983) and of course FORREST GUMP (1994) which was directed by Robert Zemeckis.
PS to watch this and all other films on VEEHD, open an account on the site...that way you don't need to download the horrible, virus-ridden codec to watch the movies!
More monochrome mayhem from Sneaky Elephant SOON!

Thursday 1 March 2012

Head (1968)

http://www.veoh.com/watch/v20042088bfMhPkcP?h1=Head+%281968%29

HEY HEY WE'RE THE MONKEES! I looked high and low for this one...it doesn't get seen much on tv. The Monkees were of course the American answer to the Beatles, being manufactured by Don Kirshner, a kind of 60s Simon Cowell. The Monkees tv show was essential viewing for all kids of my generation, and the boys took the charts by storm ( even my hero Jimi Hendrix supported them on their first American tour!) all over the world. This is their feature film, a strange mix of music and comedy. The cast list is AMAZING, featuring Jack Nicholson, Teri Garr, Bob Rafelson (who also directed), Dennis Hopper, Annette Funicello, Victor Mature, Toni Basil and of course Mike Nesmith, Mickey Dolenz, Peter Tork and Davy Jones. After watching this, you will understand why everyone was on drugs back then...it makes no sense without them... More far out films from Sneaky Elephant SOON!

Sunday 19 February 2012

Terrorvision (1986)

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFsVcflPFl4&feature=related
THIS SKY TV IS AMAZING! Stanley Putterman (Gerrit Graham) has just installed a new, state of the art satellite television receiver...unfortunately it picks up a signal from Pluton, a 'garbage disposal' planet that is in the process of beaming out the most dangerous life form in the Universe, an alien 'pet' that has a taste for human flesh. Guess where the creature ends up? That's right, in the Putterman's living room! The blobby, boggle eyed, two ton extraterrestrial is soon comfortably ensconced in the family home and begins to learn our human ways...while displaying a few nasty habits of his own. I won't give away much more of this uproariously funny movie, suffice it to say that the plot involves heavy metal, wife swapping and a visit from the alien sanitation officer! This encounter goes badly for the unlucky space garbage collector, as you will see. Also stars Mary Woronov, who was a pal of Andy Warhol back in the day. This is my kind of movie...mad as a box of frogs on mescaline! More entertaining effluent from Sneaky Elephant SOON!

Dark Angel (1990)

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pCiw0XwFSE
I COME IN PEACE! This very loud movie stars the amazing Dolph Lundgren, a hero hewn from the finest timber. He plays rule-breaking cop (aren't they all!) Jack Caine, a tough Texan lunatic who is after a narcotics gang called The White Boys. No, they ain't Nazis, they all have white collar jobs as a front for their crimes. Anyway, they steal a big pile of heroin from the FBI's own lockup, and the Feds take over the Police investigation. Caine gets a Fed as a new partner (Brian Benben) who tries to make him follow procedure etc. (just like all those other films right?). However, here's where it gets interesting...several of the White Boy soldiers are found slaughtered in a strange way. It turns out that they were killed by a razor sharp flying disc, similar to the one Predators use in THEIR movies! Also, bodies start turning up that have been pumped full of heroin, then had their endorphins extracted. Yes, you guessed it, an alien drug dealer is on the loose! This nice guy kills his victims with the smack, then sucks out the endorphins, which he then sells to addicts on his own planet. He extracts the gunk from the brains using a spiky thing strapped to his wrist...again just like Predator! (see the picture above).  Caine, the Fed idiot and an alien cop named Azeck must stop the nasty Talec (dumb alien names!) before he brings his druggy pals to Earth and wipes us all out for our brain chemicals.
I loved this movie when it was released, as the action makes up for the shortcomings in a big way. On reflection, it's just a twist on the vastly superior PREDATOR which came out two years before. Dolph is as wooden as a tree, as are the rest of the cast. The horrible Talec (Matthias Hues) is about nine feet tall and  looks like a pop eyed model for Mount Rushmore. This movie does have one big name star...Michael J. Pollard, who was in BONNIE AND CLYDE (he played CW Moss) and LITTLE FAUSS AND BIG HALSY (with Robert Redford), and many other films in a fine portfolio of work. However, Pollard's star was definitely on the wane by the time he appeared in this...he has a small cameo as a pool playing snitch. To sum up, this is a typical 80s movie, from the cast to the soundtrack (by Jan Hammer), and is easily Dolph's best film...it's a lot better than THE PUNISHER anyway.  ENJOY!
More intergalactic idiocy from Sneaky Elephant SOON!

Saturday 4 February 2012

Flesh Gordon (1974)

http://veehd.com/video/4534798_Flesh-Gordon-1974


You won't believe your (hogs) eyes! Emperor Wang the Perverted is the ruler of the planet Porno.He devises an evil plan to conquer the Earth by turning everyone into sex maniacs with his 'sex-ray', and only Flesh Gordon can save us! He sets off for Porno with his girlfriend Dale and Professor Flexi-Jerkoff to find the source of the ray and defeat the evil villain.This astonishing parody of the old Flash Gordon serials was released in 1974 and is about what you would expect from the title. Unbelievably stupid...but funny in places, and the special effects are better than many 'serious' movies.But remember...if you see the Penisaurus coming, RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!  More dirty doings with Sneaky Elephant SOON!

Trog (1970)

http://stagevu.com/video/ldhasiqnybrf

No, it's not a frog, it's a TROG! This movie, Joan Crawford's last, is so funny your sides will split. Miss Crawford ( she must have REALLY REALLY needed the money to appear in this) plays Dr. Brockton, an anthropologist who discovers a troglodyte, or caveman, hiding in the local caverns. A television crew manages to entice the hairy bugger out and the doctor shoots him three times with a dart gun (one hundred and eighty!). She then gets him back to her lab, where she teaches him the colours of the rainbow (ugh...red! ugh...green! ugh...blue!), what to drink (ugh..waa...terrr!) and even attempts a BREEDING PROGRAM (ugh...ugh...uuugghhh!), although not personally. The unfortunate cave dweller then has a bad reaction to rock and roll music, and has a tussle with a dog. He also undergoes brain surgery.The creature eventually tires of this treatment and goes on the rampage, murdering the local butcher, baker and candlestick...I mean greengrocer. Trog himself is played by Joe 'The Dazzler' Cornelius, a former professional wrestler who used to own a pub near Victoria Station many years ago.I met him several times and he was a lot nicer in person than he appears here, hidden as he is under crappy whiskers and a rubber mask that looks like it will fall off at any second, not to mention a pair of furry slippers.Also stars Michael Gough, who appeared as Alfred in four of the Batman films. Here, he plays a local businessman who takes an irrational dislike to the hairy fellow. Directed by Freddie Francis, who really should have known better. P.S. I was lying about the breeding program! More neanderthal naughtiness with Sneaky Elephant SOON!

Fahrenheit 451 (1966)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWFmKt9NVMw&feature=related

NO SMOKING! Guy Montag is a fireman of the future, but he doesn't put fires out...he STARTS THEM! This adaptation of the Ray Bradbury novel is directed by Francois Truffaut and stars Oskar Werner as Montag. In the near future books are banned, and readers are rebels against society. The firemen cruise around on their fire engine carrying out property searches, and any books they find are promptly set alight ( 451º F is the temperature at which paper burns) in public.Dissatisfied with his aimless life, Montag steals a book and reads it in secret... This fine film is somewhat dated now, but has a fine sense of style, plus some good performances.Unfortunately I could only find a version with Japanese subtitles, but don't let that put you off, as it's well worth a look. More hot stuff from Sneaky's trunk SOON!

Friday 3 February 2012

Heartbeeps (1981)

http://stagevu.com/video/lekzagucaidv
  Yes, it's HEARTBEEPS! Starring one of my comedy heroes, the amazing Andy Kaufman, this is one of the worst movies ever committed to celluloid. Andy is Val, a valet robot, who meets and falls in love with Acqua (Bernadette Peters) when they both go back to the factory for repairs. They steal a van and escape, pursued by Crimebuster, a sort of fat Dalek in a tank who is the local law enforcing robot. They also find time to produce a 'child' named Phil (allegedly Grateful Dead icon JERRY GARCIA...but all he does is bleep) out of spare parts, and fall in with a stand up comedy robot (who spends the entire movie sitting down!) named Catskil. This unfortunate fellow tells the lamest jokes you ever heard, the one about the man who thinks he's a fridge being typical of his repertoire. However, it turns out that he is conserving energy by selecting 'low power joke mode', and he finally redeems himself with a blinding mother-in-law crack at 1:04:48 into the film. This tale has an exceptional cast including Randy Quaid, Kenneth McMillan, Christopher Guest (Nigel Tufnel from SPINAL TAP) and Kathleen Freeman (The Penguin nun in THE BLUES BROTHERS). Also, the soundtrack was composed by John Williams...yes, the STAR WARS guy! Despite this,I'm warning you...it's  AWFUL!!! In fact, it did such dismal business on release that Kaufman himself apologised to his fans and offered to refund their ticket money during an appearance on the David Letterman show. Letterman's advice to Andy was to make sure he had change of $20! I loved every minute of it...but then I'm just a dumb animal...More dross among the diodes from Sneaky Elephant SOON!

Wednesday 1 February 2012

This Island Earth (1955)

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xgkf2m

Based on the 1952 novel by Raymond F. Jones, THIS ISLAND EARTH is a much-loved and influential classic sci-fi movie starring Rex Reason, Jeff Morrow and Faith Domergue. The planet Metaluna is at war with the evil Zagons, so they send their man Exeter (Jeff Morrow) to Earth to get some uranium for their weapons. Meanwhile, Dr. Cal Meacham (Rex Reason) orders some electronic components but gets some strange parts instead, plus plans to build a device called an Interocitor. When this machine is turned on, Exeter appears on the screen and recruits Meacham to his cause against the Zagon menace.He takes Meacham and his girlfriend Ruth back to Metaluna,where things are looking bad for the home side.A big-headed monstrosity called the Mut-Ant lurks in the corridors of the Metalunan city, adding to the general confusion.It turns out, however, that the Metalunans have a hidden agenda, and Exeter must betray his home planet in order to save the Earth. This film is packed with great ideas and special effects for the time, despite the lockjaw performances and wooden dialog! Sit back and enjoy a big chunk of Cold War era scaremongery, but mind the Mut-Ant doesn't get you! More alien antics with Sneaky Elephant SOON!

The Bed Sitting Room (1969)

http://www.veoh.com/watch/v18728107N337ZF76

‎'GOD SAVE OUR GRACIOUS MRS ETHEL SHROAKE!' This film, directed by Richard Lester, is based on the surreal play by Spike Milligan and John Antrobus. It concerns the survivors of WW3, slowly decaying amid the ruins and rubble of society. It stars many familiar faces from British television and film, notably Arthur Lowe,Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, Rita Tushingham and Dandy Nichols. The war only lasted two minutes and 28 seconds, but the lingering radiation has had catastrophic effects on the survivors....Arthur Lowe turns into a parrot (and is cooked and eaten), Mona Washbourne into a wardrobe, and Ralph Richardson into the bed sitting room of the title. Dandy Nichols plays Mrs Ethel Shroake, former cleaner to Her Majesty, and as a result the new monarch of England. Milligan himself is on his usual surreal form, and the screenplay follows the original story as best it can, despite the obvious limitations of 60's movie technology. I won't make any jokes about this one, it makes its point in tragi-comic style...More tales of wonder from Sneaky Elephant's movie alerts to follow!

Guest House Paradiso (1999)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHr1XaJCnck
 
This could well be the funniest film ever made. It stars the incredible Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson as the proprietors of the worst hotel in England, situated next to a nuclear power plant.Mayall is Mr Twatt (pronounced Thwaite!) the manager, and Edmondson is the bellboy, waiter, stand-in cook and odd job man. The guests include Bill Nighy, Simon Pegg and Fenella Fielding, all treated disgracefully by our dynamic duo. Throw in an Italian beauty and her violently jealous boyfriend and you have the makings of a fantastically funny romp.There are knob gags, fart gags, you name it and it's here. The movie also features the longest moped joke in the world, and a host of incredibly violent but side splitting fights. After seeing this, you will NEVER eat pea soup again. WONDERFUL! More from Sneaky Elephant's trunk of titters SOON!

Sunday 29 January 2012

From Hell It Came! (1957)

http://www.1channel.ch/external.php?title=From+Hell+It+Came&url=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5tb3ZzaGFyZS5uZXQvdmlkZW8vNGRjZWFmMzk1YjEzYg==&domain=bW92c2hhcmUubmV0&loggedin=0

AT LAST! I searched high and low for a link to this wonderfully bad movie, and now here it is in all its glory, albeit with French subtitles! This is a tale of murder and retribution in the South Sea islands...the young native prince Kimo is framed for the death of his father the Chief by the evil witch doctor Tano, the 'prime minister' Maranka and Kimo's own wife Korey, who is having it off with one or both of them. Before Kimo dies, he swears to return and avenge the wrongs done to him, and this he does...AS A TREE! Talk about Kimo-therapy! This murderous wooden stump (complete with a ludicrous 'face' on the front of his trunk)  lurches around the countryside chasing and killing the evildoers at a snails pace, while a bunch of white scientists try to figure out a way of capturing him. First they try to save it, then they try to kill it...bloody Yanks! However, one of them (the girl doctor obviously) looks great in a bikini, so bear with it. There is also an 'Australian' widow named Mrs. Kilgore, who seems to be played by a Dora Bryan impersonator. The tree is called TABANGA, and is apparently an evil spirit...he is also the least wooden actor in this astonishing production! Luckily for him, the natives are incapable of running or even walking briskly, thus affording him the chance to finish them off by squashing them against another tree or convenient boulder. Seems like I'm not the only one with a deadly trunk! The monster was designed by Paul Blaisdell, the same man who created 'Beulah' the Venusian cucumber alien in IT CONQUERED THE WORLD. Inside the Tabanga suit is professional wrestler Chester Hayes, who also plays the native Maku...I hope he got two paychecks for this. One of the finest crap movies ever, and well worth a look! More marvellous monster mayhem from Sneaky Elephant SOON!
WARNING! I nearly didn't include this movie as it takes a bit of commitment to actually get the link working, but as it is my VERY FAVOURITE MONSTER FILM OF ALL, here it is! Firstly, you will need the Div-X codec player in order to watch it. ON NO ACCOUNT must you download ANYTHING from the site showing the film itself. Instead, go to www.divx.com/ and download the viewer software and install it. Then, click on the link for the film and when it asks you to 'prove that you are human' click on the next link. You will then see the player screen. Click on the 'start' arrow and the film will begin. I repeat...DO NOT DOWNLOAD ANY CODEC OR PLAYER from the movie site itself as those links are just crammed with trojans and spyware. Anyway. the genuine Div-X player is well worth having, as there are many great films using this format on various movie sites.
I hope you make the effort to watch and enjoy this wonderful film...it's the very epitome of the term HORROR, and that's just the ACTING!

Monsturd! (2003)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjZqL2y67Eo


CRAP FILM ALERT! This astonishingly SMELLY motion picture concerns the evil DuTech Corporation that is developing chemical weapons for profit. One of the scientists dies in a bizarre laboratory accident, and her body is illegally DUMPED in the city drain system,where it mixes with human waste products. Meanwhile, the notorious serial killer Jack Schmidt escapes and goes on the RUN in Butte County where he takes refuge in the sewers. Guess what...he falls in the POO and becomes...MONSTURD! Now it's up to the cops to FLUSH him out and WIPE him from the face of the Earth. It's a BIG JOB but someone has to do it.The script isn't worth the TOILET PAPER it was written on, and the cast includes the directors, producers, their friends and families, in fact anyone who would work for next to nothing. As you will see, most of them have never acted before in their lives, and seem to be merely going through the MOTIONS for the camera. A typical Troma production, this has stupid jokes, amateur performances and the very lowest production values, but is still worth LOGGING on for. And no, I'm not PULLING YOUR CHAIN! More diamonds among the dung from Sneaky Elephant SOON!

The Twisted Nerve (1968)

http://stagevu.com/video/dmliumzixkeo

  Here's a typical 'swinging 60s' film, directed and produced by the Boulting brothers. Hywel Bennett is Martin, a disturbed young man who feigns mental illness in order to get into Hayley Mills' knickers. Posing as 'Georgie', he worms his way into her life but soon displays some strange tendencies. He also whistles the most annoying little tune... and gradually his sinister intentions are revealed! This film was criticised at the time of release for the way it portrayed Downs Syndrome. However, it's by no means the worst of its kind...and it has a certain flaky charm. More mental movies from Sneaky Elephant SOON!

Zontar, the Thing from Venus (1966)

http://retrovision.tv/freevideo/zontar-the-thing-from-venus-1966

  AIEEEEEE! It's ZONTAR, the big rubber bat from Venus! This is a terrible remake of the dreadful It Conquered the World, and features John Agar (he made LOADS of crap movies like this one) once more sweating to save Mankind. The monster is truly awful (although he is easily the best actor in this tale), and insists on trying to enslave the human race from his hideout in a cave. He causes terrible problems with his sinister shenanigans, and Dr. Taylor (Agar) has his work cut out trying to foil the flaky fruit-bat's dastardly scheme. I really feel sorry for the poor bugger in the 'alien' costume, after all he was never going to be asked for his autograph by even the most desperate film fan. This was made for American tv and it shows! A definite 0/10 for this one, what a classic! More Sneaky Elephant movie recommendations soon!

The Brain from Planet Arous (1951)

http://retrovision.tv/freevideo/brain-from-planet-arous-the-1951


  IT'S THAT MAN AGAIN! Even before grappling with the mighty ZONTAR, THE THING FROM VENUS, John Agar was sweating buckets against GOR, the Brain from Planet Arous. This is a classic crap movie, and the monster will make you hoot with laughter.....a huge brain with glowing eyes, dangling on a length of fishing line! The plot is simple enough...Gor crashes his light bulb into Mystery Mountain, and hides out in a tunnel. Agar and his pal detect Gor's radiation from 30 miles away (!!!?) and decide to investigate, whereupon Agar gets 'possessed' by the brain. He then has a session with his girlfriend and starts making unreasonable demands of the United Nations. Another brain comes after him and takes over a dog, which leads to further complications. The sweat patches on Agar's shirt come and go seemingly at random, and the acting and special effects are truly dire. The funniest thing you will see for a long time to come! More icky aliens and manky monsters from Sneaky Elephant SOON!

Invaders from Mars (1953)

http://retrovision.tv/freevideo/invaders-from-mars-1953

  This is a classic, a real gem. It concerns a young boy, played by Jimmy Hunt, who realises that something strange is happening to the grownups...his father, for instance, played by Leif Erickson (Big John Cannon in The High Chaparral), who comes home with an alien love-bite on his neck. Meanwhile, huge green Teletubbies with clarinets hobble about in underground caverns. And just wait until you see their leader! 'When I asked for a little head....' HAHAHAHAHA! More from Sneaky Elephant's UFO collection soon!

Sunday 15 January 2012

Quatermass 2 (1955)

http://www.videosurf.com/video/retrovision-media-presents-quatermass-2-episode-1-66657988

  OOOOO! The original BBC series! I wasn't even born when this was originally shown, but I found the paperback screenplay in a bookshop as a kid and never forgot it (well I'm an elephant). This is longer overall than the Hammer feature film starring Brian Donlevy,being more of a forerunner to Dr Who and having that old BBC 'style' to it.Look out for several familiar faces, including Hugh Griffith (the horse loving Sheikh in Ben Hur),Wilfred 'Old Man Steptoe' Brambell and a very young Melvyn Hayes, yes Gloria from It Aint Half Hot Mum! Turn out the lights and get ready for a nice creepy evening in with the Professor, played in dashing style by John Robinson...how English can you get?Trivia items: This tv series and the Hammer feature film have 2 things in common-they were both filmed at the Shell Haven oil refinery in Essex, and the part of McLeod was played by John Rae in both productions. There must have been a shortage of Scots actors at the time! This story and the first Quatermass tale were the scariest things that had ever been seen on British tv at the time,so scary in fact that questions were asked in Parliament about the suitability of such horrors being allowed into our homes!Wonderful stuff! More from Sneaky Elephant's movie alerts soon!

Frankenstein meets the Space Monster (1965)

http://www.horrorflixtheaters.com/apps/videos/videos/show/11376370-watch-frankenstein-meets-the-spacemonster-1965-horror-movie-online-megavideo-veehd

 A spaceship from a dying planet comes to Earth with one objective...to capture GIRLS for breeding with...the DIRTY BUGGERS! Another dreadful/brilliant sci-fi movie with crap monsters and actors alike! They seem to have thrown in as many random elements as possible in an attempt to please everyone...robot astronauts, rock'n'roll pool parties,bikini girls,a bald gay bloke with pointy ears,a gorgeous but mental Alien Queen and a BIG LOONY THING IN A CAGE! This movie was also known as Duel of the Space Monsters. Watch and enjoy! More essential viewing from Sneaky Elephant soon!

The Most Dangerous Game (1932)

http://www.megavideo.com/?v=EXI4NFZC 

  AARRGGHH RUN FOR YOUR LIFE! Based on 'The Hounds of Zaroff', the short story by Richard Connell, this great movie starred Fay Wray and Robert Armstrong,the two main (human) leads from King Kong.Also featured are Joel McCrea as 'the famous hunter' Robert Rainsford, and Leslie Banks as the evil Count Zaroff, who finds people better sport than tigers,pigs,bears etc. This film was banned in Britain at the time, the sight of Zaroff's trophy room (human heads on the walls!) causing the censor to faint! A wonderful story that was the inspiration for so many to follow, including Predator,The Running Man and Punishment Park. I'm glad Zaroff doesn't shoot ELEPHANTS! More Sneaky Elephant movie alerts soon!

The Green Slime (1968)

http://www.veoh.com/watch/v20261377FgtwN48C

 What's that on your shoe? UGGGGGG IT'S......THE GREEN SLIME!!! This odd Japanese/American co-production stars Richard Jaeckel (Sgt Bowren in The Dirty Dozen) and concerns an asteroid on a collision course with Earth. Some astronauts set out from their space station to blow it up, and in the process one of them gets a bit of lime jelly on his leg. Once back at the station this begins to grow at an alarming rate, and it eventually mutates into a bunch of one eyed jelly-men waving sparklers in their slimy paws. Throw in a REALLY REALLY dumb script and some of the ropiest sets ever designed and you get one STINKER of a story.Robert Horton is good as the hard-ass senior Commander from Earth who overrides Jaeckel's orders at every turn, then BLAMES HIM when it all goes tentacles up! Good for a laugh. More from Sneaky Elephant's big bag of bad movies soon!

Attack of the Giant Leeches (1959)

http://www.megavideo.com/?v=CQMKFK67

  Fancy a suck? It's the ATTACK OF THE GIANT LEECHES! Lust and death in the Florida swamps....A boozed up gator trapper claims to have seen a huge 'thing' out in the wilds, but the locals think it's just the whisky talking. They have to think again however, when bodies start turning up with big round 'sucker' marks on them.Then one of the rednecks catches his VERY slutty looking wife 'at it' with his best friend and.....well you'll just have to watch it, won't you? Not a bad little movie, but I never saw 'leeches' with arms and legs before! More from Sneaky Elephant's monster sack of movie mayhem SOON!

The Last Man on Earth (1964)

http://www.megavideo.com/?v=M5H33I28 THE LAST MAN ON EARTH

  THE LAST MAN ON EARTH.....This is the original film version of Richard Matheson's harrowing tale I Am Legend (remade in 2007 with Will Smith). This one stars Vincent Price in the title role, in an excellent display of anguish and determination. Obviously for a 1964 black and white feature, there are no CGI effects but the deserted streets and the reeking fire-pit are just as effective as any computer trickery. The vampires themselves are pretty hammy, but VP more than makes up for it, venturing out with hammer and stakes on his grisly day's work before the sun sets once again. FANTASTIC ENTERTAINMENT! More from Sneaky Elephant's heap of horrors SOON!

The Haunted Palace (1963)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVxYOdZ3h9c&feature=related

  I moved into my new house today, but the estate agent must have lied...it's THE HAUNTED PALACE!!! Roger Corman produced this wonderful mix of Edgar Allen Poe and HP Lovecraft stories to great effect. Everyone's favourite master of horror Vincent Price plays both the innocent Charles Dexter Ward and his diabolical ancestor Joseph Curwen, occasionally both at the same time! Gorgeous Debra Paget plays Mrs Ward, and Lon Chaney Jr lurks in dark corners, scaring her out of her drawers more than once..Also here is that familiar staple of movies for several decades, ELISHA COOK JR! Furthermore, there is a distant retarded relative of Kermit the frog, hiding in the basement and impregnating the local girls with his spawn.Matters come to a head when he tries to get his slimy flippers on Mrs Ward, and all hell breaks loose.Enough talk, go and watch it... More from Sneaky Elephant's trunk of terror SOON!

Killers from Space (1954)

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Peter Graves again, this time in a ludicrous 'invasion' movie. Graves is an atomic scientist who flies over the top of atom bombs as they detonate(!?) and collects data. One one mission his plane goes into a nosedive and the pilot is killed. Graves however, mysteriously survives...and reappears at the laboratory gates a short while later. A story unfolds concerning giant spiders and cockroaches, a lie detector, and a bunch of hilariously pop-eyed aliens who perform open heart surgery with welding torches. After appearing in stuff like this and It Conquered the World,  Peter Graves must have wondered if he would ever get a decent role again. Landing the part of Jim Phelps in Mission Impossible must have been like playing Hamlet for the poor guy! More interplanetary impostors from Sneaky Elephant SOON!

The Beast of Yucca Flats (1961)

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OK then, let's try to pick the bones out of this one...a scientist from 'behind the Iron Curtain' , Professor Turdinski (or something) has a briefcase full of atomic secrets which will somehow enable the USA to 'plant a flag on the Moon'. The KGB send a couple of agents to steal the plans and a laughable shootout ensues in the desert, during which several people die ludicrous deaths and the prof walks, rather than runs away from the gunfire.The fact that he is played by the enormously fat Tor Johnson may have something to do with this lack of athletic ability (Tor is most famously remembered for his performance as a zombie in Plan 9 From Outer Space, widely regarded as the worst film ever made). As he waddles across the desert, an atom bomb goes off, which has the effect of turning him into a mindless killer...yes, he's the BEAST of the title! He spends the next half hour or so 'strangling' several unfortunate people while various other characters rush aimlessly hither and yon to the accompaniment of a turgid voice-over. This film has no plot, story or dialog that I can discern, and its one saving grace is that it runs at a touch under 54 minutes total running time. THIS IS THE WORST MOVIE I HAVE EVER SEEN! It makes Plan 9 look like Lord of the Rings! More subatomic stupidity from Sneaky Elephant SOON!

Horror Express (1972)

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Hee hee! I cheated the railway company last week...I bought a return ticket but never came back! Just as well really, it was for a ride on ....THE HORROR EXPRESS! Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing together once more in this fine Spanish movie, directed by Eugenio Martin. Lee has a fossil in a box, which he believes to be the 'missing link' between men and apes. Speaking of fossils, Cushing plays a rival doctor,arriving with his midget assistant, Miss Jones. This woman has the most amazing eyebrows ever captured on film...they leap and dance from one part of her face to another at random, and frequently in totally opposite directions. The beastly box of bones causes mayhem and murder on the Trans Siberian express, possessing a police inspector and a mad monk (who looks EXACTLY like Charles Manson) to do so. Telly Savalas arrives, looking for rebel stowaways, and the creature kills again and again. A classic! More from Sneaky Elephant's trainset of terror SOON!

The Wasp Woman (1960)

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BZZZZZZZZ! This ridiculous tale concerns the female head of a cosmetics firm who is past her prime. So when a mad scientist demonstrates his new rejuvenation formula (he injects a guinea pig which promptly turns into a little white rat!) she WANTS IT! Unfortunately the gunk is made from wasp turds (or something), a stronger version of royal jelly (yeah right!), and just guess what happens to the poor woman who uses it? READ THE TITLE! The 'monster' is a joke, simply being Susan Cabot, still in her skirt and high heels, wearing a bee head and furry gloves whilst rolling around on the floor with her 'victim'. Another masterpiece from Roger Corman, king of the 'B' movie (grooaan!). More from Sneaky Elephant's hive of horror SOON!

Dark Star (1974)

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DARK STAR....the forerunner to ALIEN, made on a tiny budget ($6000!) by a bunch of film students including Dan O'Bannon, Ron Cobb and John Carpenter. The deep space ship Dark Star is on a mission to destroy unstable planets with intelligent bombs, one of which keeps threatening to go off every once in a while. To make matters worse, an explosion in the storage bays has destroyed the ship's entire supply of toilet paper. The commander is dead and stored in the deep freeze, but whenever the crew thaw him out he only wants to discuss baseball. Another crewmember is a daydreamer, yet another is a surfer who would rather be in Malibu, and the poor guy left in charge of this mess is convinced that he shouldn't even be on board in the first place.This crazy film looks much more expensive than it was and features an 'alien' that will make you splutter with laughter. More oddball aliens from Sneaky Elephant's movie alerts soon!

The Dunwich Horror (1970)

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 Who was that lady I saw you with last night? That was no lady, that was THE DUNWICH HORROR! This interesting film was produced by Roger Corman, and based on the famous tale by HP Lovecraft, whose stories of gargoyled gods and obscene beasts from other dimensions were mostly unfilmable before CGI came along. Not a bad stab at it here though, starring Sandra Dee and that great actor Dean Stockwell. Look out for Talia Shire before she married Stallone in the Rocky movies. More from Sneaky Elephant's pit of terror soon!

The Killer Shrews (1959)

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It's barrel-scraping time once again...with THE KILLER SHREWS! Two jolly sailors deliver supplies to an island inhabited by a professor and his daughter. Also present is a young man who is carrying several guns...obviously there is something loose on the island! The prof wants his daughter to go back to the mainland on the return trip, mainly to get her away from the other inhabitants....a token Mexican servant (Si Senor! is his only line) and another science type who babbles on about breeding and 'the Hoskins Factor', whatever that is.The professor is working to make humans half the size they already are, in order to solve the problem of overpopulation....fair enough. But why he has to breed shrews the size of St Bernards is a question unanswered in this story, HE JUST DOES, OK??? A hurricane is coming, so the boat boys decide to stay on land until it all blows over, but they soon regret this when the sinister shrews start spookily and stealthily stalking the sweaty sons of the sea ! In a 'shrew-d' move from the makeup department, the monsters are blatantly nothing more than DOGS WEARING MASKS!!! How cheap is that...This was just one of many wild and woolly monster flicks released in the 50's, typical drive-in stuff for scaring the kids. More from Sneaky Elephant's mousetrap of mayhem SOON!

The Reptile (1966)

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WHAT A LOAD OF OLD COBRAS! This great Hammer Horror film of 1966 stars Noel Wilman, Ray Barrett, and the familiar face of MICHAEL RIPPER! Ripper was a veteran character actor in scores of British movies, usually playing the innkeeper in Frankenstein or the farmer with the tasty daughter in Dracula. Also here is John Laurie of Dad's Army fame, playing a very funny part as the local nutter... Jaqueline Pearce plays the poor girl who is cursed to become a snake (wearing a terrible pop-eyed mask). This movie has some excellent moments, from the Malay snake-charmer (Marne Maitland at his most sinister) chanting to the creature writhing on her bed to the discovery of the cast-off skin when she has wriggled away to hibernate in the stables.. Trivia fact: The vicar is played by Charles Lloyd Pack, real life father of Roger Lloyd Pack who plays 'Trigger' in Only Fools and Horses. More from Sneaky Elephant's trunk of terror SOON!

Thursday 12 January 2012

Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women (1967)

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WHAT A MAD MOVIE! It opens with a sales pitch for Nasa, showing some rather shaky looking models, before getting down to the main event....a trip to Venus in a nice shiny rocket. On board are two 'astronauts', one of them so old he should be on a pension, and their tinpot robot, John, who walks as if he has had a 'toilet accident' in his pants. They stop at a space station to gas up and have the tyres checked, then arrive at Venus about a minute later...but something goes wrong with the landing! Luckily for them, back on Earth is a reserve crew in an identical rocket (except that this one has three humans...another old codger and two toughs with Tony Curtis haircuts, but no robot) who must set out after them in hopes of rescue. To make up for their lack of a mechanoid, they have a SPACE CAR! This mean machine rides on a cloud of smoke and has a bazooka on the roof but no alloy wheels or airbags. Meanwhile the intrepid pioneers are attacked by Venusian reptiles (bandy legged extras hopping about in Godzilla suits) but fight them off with guns and rocks while John goes for a walk to loosen his rusty nuts. The rescue party has a run-in first with the plant from 'Little Shop of Horrors', then later with the Venusian 'God', a very ropey looking rubber pterodactyl on a string which they kill with the gun on the 'space car'. The pioneers and their rescuers are finally reunited, and one of them displays an alarming habit of chucking rocks at the glass space helmets of the others for a joke! Gorgeous Mamie Van Doren and several other Playboy Bunnies in seashell bras provide the alien crumpet of the title, and Peter 'Last Picture Show' Bogdanovitch of all people does the narration. One item in the credits: 'costumes executed by Marion of Hollywood'...if only she could have done the same for the scriptwriters! More interplanetary ineptitude with Sneaky Elephant SOON!

The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari (1919)

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Is that your new Ikea wardrobe? No, it's...THE CABINET OF DOCTOR CALIGARI! This fantastic 1919 masterpiece of German cinema was directed by Robert Wiene and stars Werner Krauss as Dr Caligari. Conrad Veidt plays Cesare, the creepy somnambulist who has been asleep for decades, but leaves his casket  to carry out atrocious murders in the town of Holstenwall. The tale is narrated by Francis (Friedrich Feher), who is taken to the fair by his friend Alan and Jane, Alan's fiancee. They are introduced to the Doctor, who keeps Cesare in a box, only releasing him as part of his sideshow act to 'tell the future'. A prophecy comes true, bodies are discovered and Caligari's grisly past is revealed! This amazing silent film has English subtitles and captions, and still grips the viewer today, despite the theatrical arm-flinging performances.Cesare is REALLY CREEPY with his skinny frame and spooky panda eyes, and there is a humorously shocking twist in the tail! A SILENT CLASSIC! More monochrome madness from Sneaky Elephant's moody movies SOON!

Theatre of Blood (1973)

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MORE Vincent Price! This one is so similar to the Phibes movies, and was made around the same time. Here VP plays Edward Lionheart, a Shakespearean actor who doesn't take citicism lightly. With his daughter Edwina (Diana Rigg) to assist, he gives the cocksure critics their comical comeuppance in various inventive ways, although this time his inspiration is taken from the Bard's plays rather than the Bible or the Book of the Dead. Again, the cast list reads like a who's who of British film and television of the time, so have fun putting names to those familiar faces! Uncle Vince has a great time hamming it up as usual with tongue firmly in cheek. Enjoy! More deadly delights from the Sneaky Elephant movie guide SOON!

The Black Scorpion (1957)

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During the 50's everyone jumped on the monster movie bandwagon. There were killer trees, giant spiders, enormous ants, and then there was this.... You can guess the plot even before you see the film...volcanic activity unleashes a horde of huge mutated scorpions on New Mexico, and the square jawed scientist and his faithful pal must save the world. Quite how they managed to drag this out over nearly two hours is a minor miracle in itself, and the original film poster is a joke...a big fangy head with pop-eyes and a bikini girl looking over its shoulder. It does have some compensations though, among them the beautiful Mara Corday (she was in Tarantula and The Giant Claw, as well as several Clint Eastwood films) as the love interest for Richard Denning who plays 'Hank the geologist'. In fact most of the cast is Hispanic, which fits in well with the locations. Highlights include a death battle between two of the monsters, and a scene where a bunch of the giant creatures attack a blatantly obvious toy train! I'm being a little unfair perhaps, as this tale is a lot better than some of the stuff released at the time, and the action flows pretty well.Special effects were handled by Pete Peterson and supervised by the great Willis O'Brien, the man who brought the original King Kong to life. So kick back and enjoy...THE BLACK SCORPION! More monstrous moments from Sneaky Elephant's movie mountain SOON!

These Are The Damned (1963)

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Nothing to do with Village of the Damned, which was based on The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham. However, this film also concerns a bunch of spooky children. Alexander Knox keeps them in his cave in a cliff, where he has dosed them with radiation so that they can survive a nuclear war. You can tell that this story originated during the Cold War! Meanwhile, Macdonald Carey has moved to Weymouth from the USA to get over his divorce, and gets mugged by Oliver Reed and his biker gang. He becomes embroiled with Ollie's sister, Shirley Anne Field, and eventually the pair find themselves in the complex of tunnels running through the cliffs, leading to....THE DAMNED! Actually, you have to feel sorry for these poor kids because, due to their mutated genetic structure, they have no hope of survival UNLESS the atomic Armageddon takes place. This Hammer production was directed by Joseph Losey, who had to move to the UK after being blacklisted in Hollywood, so this tale echoes his own dislocation of life and career. Two years passed between completion and eventual release, during which the film suffered several minutes of cuts. This is a complete print, so please sit back and enjoy a very good British sci-fi story that is rarely shown today on tv. More megatons of mayhem from Sneaky Elephant's plutonium pile SOON!

Scream and Scream Again (1970)

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WHAT A MENTAL STORY! This one has everything...a vampire cyborg serial killer, a mad scientist, a nasty East European spy and Amen Corner! Vincent Price plays Dr Browning, a researcher whose female assistant has been found raped and drained of blood. Peter Cushing has a brief part as the leader of an unnamed militarist country which is holding a shot-down British pilot hostage. Christopher Lee is the head of British Intelligence who tries to trade the airman for the facts on the 'Vampire Murders' with the nasty spy but comes unstuck. Alfred Marks plays the cop on the trail of the killer. There is also a poor jogger who, after collapsing on a run, wakes to find himself in a strange bed and missing a leg. In fact, every time this unfortunate athlete wakes, he is missing yet another limb, and this puts paid to his sporting ambitions. He is attended by a silent nurse with the longest eyelashes you ever saw in your life. The English rock group Amen Corner are the resident act in the club where the vampire selects his victims, and the killer himself is played by the handsome Michael Gothard. This is a typical 60s/70s movie, full of long moustaches and garishly dressed hippy types. It is also the first of only two films in which the Unholy Trinity of Price, Cushing and Lee appeared together ( the second being 'House of the Long Shadows' in 1983). On being interviewed several years later, Price admitted that he had not a single clue what the plot of this movie was about, and he's not the only one! Still, it's well worth a look. More from Sneaky Elephant's mental movie list SOON!

Wednesday 11 January 2012

Tales of Terror (1962)

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Three tales for the PRICE of one! The first concerns a young woman who visits her father (Vincent Price) after being separated from him for twenty six years. However, he is not pleased to see her since he has 'mummy' in an upstairs bedroom! Part Two has Peter Lorre as a drunk who finds out about his wife's adultery with Vincent Price, a mincing wine taster. Lorre is very nasty to his wife's cat, but Puss has his revenge in the end. The third tale is based on Poe's classic The Case of M.Valdemar, and has Basil Rathbone as a nasty hypnotist who puts VP under at the moment of his death. He then makes a play for Mrs Valdemar, but ends up getting carpeted for his pains. Mr Price puts in three very different performances, and acts as narrator between sections...what a spooky movie! More ghoulish goings-on from Sneaky Elephant SOON!

Electra Gilde in Blue (1973)

http://www.veoh.com/watch/v20110128Jx6FCA7h

 
ELECTRA GLIDE IN BLUE.Made in 1973, this is a kind of road movie with a twist. It contains performances by members of Chicago such as Terry Kath and Peter Cetera, and was produced by James William Guercio, who also produced the band's albums. Also appearing are Billy Green Bush, Mitch Ryan and a fantastic Robert Blake as the hero, Big John Wintergreen, all 5 feet 6 and a quarter inches of him. Jeannine C Riley (she had a minor hit record once, Harper Valley PTA) plays the love interest.Best of all is ELISHA COOK JR as Willie.I swear that man was in every movie ever made! One of my favourite films ever, even though it was almost universally panned by critics at the time.It's worth watching for the locations alone, being shot in the area of Superstition Mountain in Monument Valley, Arizona. I LOVE THIS FILM! More rampant roadkill  from Sneaky Elephant SOON! (WARNING! Requires installation of VEOH Player to watch full movie, but it's virus-free so download with confidence and enjoy this wonderful movie!)

The Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)

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One of my favourite monster movies of all time! Doctor Maia and his team of wiggy natives discover a fossilised claw on the banks of the Amazon. Upon digging it out, the scientist finds it to be from a previously unknown species of creature. The expedition follows the course of the river into the infamous Black Lagoon in search of more fossils, but unknown to them there is a LIVE one lurking in the water! The 'Gill Man' spies the fiancee of one of the crew members and from that moment on has only one thing on his mind...and it ain't FISH! The scientists make several attempts to capture him, but our scaly chum is no pushover...This wonderful movie is a cut above nearly all other monster films of the period, from the excellent direction by Jack Arnold and atmospheric musical score (composed by Henry Mancini in his pre-Pink Panther days) right through to the star of the show, old Gilly himself. The costume is fantastic, and the scenes of him swimming and lurking beneath the boat convey a sense of rising panic and terror. A truly great film with a sympathetic monster...and the sequel wasn't bad either! More fishy flapdoodle from Sneaky Elephant SOON!
PS don't bother downloading the horrible, spam ridden Codec-C to watch this,as it's full of viruses. Instead, just make an account on VEEHD to watch this and many other great films in complete safety!

The Thing from Another World (1951)

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PRESENTED IN THE RARE COLORISED VERSION!!! This classic film is still remembered today for its intelligent plot, great production and fine acting, notwithstanding John Carpenter's fantastic remake in 1982. It was also the inspiration for many later classic sci-fi horror flicks such as ALIEN.As stated above, the staff at a research post at the North Pole find a huge spacecraft buried under millions of years worth of ice. When they try to blast it free it explodes, but the body of the pilot is thrown clear. Upon examination, he proves to be an intelligent vegetable! However, you never saw a carrot as angry as this one. Produced by Howard Hawks, written by the father of modern sci-fi John W Campbell and starring James 'Gunsmoke' Arness as THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD, this is one to watch and enjoy.More vagabond vegetables and curmudgeonly cabbages from Sneaky Elephant's allotment of horror SOON!

Dr Phibes Rises Again (1972)

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 AND HERE IT IS!!! Vincent Price returns as Dr Anton Phibes, still thirsting after revenge for the death of his wife. Perhaps not quite as much fun as the first film, but still Uncle Vince manages to amuse and appall in equal measure. This time Phibes attempts to revive Victoria so that they can once again be together 'for all eternity!'. Once again Peter Jeffery plays the overworked Inspector Haddock...er...Carp...Kipper....TROUT!, always one step behind the hideously disfigured organist Phibes and his gorgeous assistant Vulnavia (played this time by Valli Kemp).. Peter Cushing adds a touch of class to this production in a small cameo role, having been brought on board at the insistence of his good friend Price. I was lucky to find this on Youtube as all the movie databases have copyright restrictions on this one for the UK... so sit back and enjoy nine episodes of inspired lunacy as the evil doc sets about his grisly mission once again. Again this has a hugely famous cast, including a couple of faces from the first one! Play spot the star while you watch! More terrifying tales from Sneaky Elephant's spooky sack SOON!

The Abominable Doctor Phibes (1971)

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The first Dr. Phibes film, starring Vincent Price and a host of familiar faces of British movies and television in a riotous romp of revenge and murder. To pay for the death of his beautiful wife Victoria, the insane doctor plans nine biblical murders, each in the style of a curse against the Egyptian Pharaoh. Locusts, rats and a brass unicorn head fired from a catapult all play their parts in this evil plan, and Uncle Vincent displays his usual sly humour and charm.He is aided and abetted by the silent Vulnavia (Virginia North) and several crazy gadgets, plus the incompetent antics of the police, headed by Peter Jeffery as Chief Inspector Bream...or is it Codd...or Salmon....no, it's TROUT! See how many faces you can name as you enjoy this very funny outing! The second Dr. Phibes movie coming SOON courtesy of your host SNEAKY ELEPHANT!

The House on Haunted Hill (1959)

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WOOOOOOO! Would YOU spend a night in the HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL??? With an address like that, neither would I! William Castle was infamous for dreaming up gimmicks to add that little 'something' to his films. In this case it was a process called 'EMERGO', a glow-in-the-dark skeleton on a wire that would float over the cinema audience at a crucial point in the action (the audience would often pelt the poor skeleton with popcorn boxes and coke cans). To see 'Emergo' in action click HERE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I84IY4ooVv8&feature=related Vincent Price gives his usual assured performance here, along with his trademark sly humour.Also appearing is ELISHA COOK JR, who was a familiar face onscreen for decades,usually in supporting roles. By the way, this is the rare colorised version. BRRRRRR! You won't catch me in that ole house, not even for 10 thousand dollars! More from Sneaky Elephant's property portfolio SOON!

It Conquered the World (1956)

http://www.megavideo.com/?v=IG3UH44Q IT CONQUERED THE WORLD


A classic good/bad movie,starring two names who became VERY big later in their careers, Peter 'Mission Impossible' Graves and Lee Van Cleef, protagonist of a thousand spaghetti westerns. The Venusian Cucumber monster was designed, and I suspect also played by Paul Blaisdell, the same man responsible for the hideous 'Tabanga' tree stump of 'From Hell It Came'. Add to this some rubber bats hidden under the monster's skirt and a nailbiting showdown involving a blowtorch, and you have a classic hour and a bit of crap movie.This one scores five trunks out of five from me. More turnips of terror from Sneaky Elephant soon!