THE CRAZY MAN ON THE STREET CORNER- A short story.

THE CRAZY MAN ON THE STREET CORNER.

     Tony Roland was showing his cousin around the city. It had been his first visit to the large city and Tony was acting as his guide.

            “Hey John. See that man over there?”

    John saw a dirty looking bum standing on the street corner ranting away about something. People walked passed him as if he was not there. He kept ranting away at people as if he had something important to tell them.”

          “What's the problem with that guy?”

          “We call him Weird Willie. He appeared here one day a few years ago and started yelling and screaming about monsters from outer space.”

          “Monsters from space?”

          “Yeah he goes on for hours on end about monsters from outer space and how they are going to invade the Earth.”

         “Sounds like he saw one sci fi film too many.”

   Fifty years later the invaders from outer space came.

   All over the Earth the incredibly large spacecrafts landed and the giant alien creatures who flew the spaceships to the Earth would leave the crafts each day to go out and hunt humans.

     A few years later most of the human race was wiped off the planet. The creatures from outer space started to burn down the cities of the Earth and build cities of their own.

     In a hidden basement lab a group of scientist was performing an experiment that might be the last hope for the people of the planet Earth.

     The volunteer for this experiment was William Bucket. The experiment that was being perform was to send him back into the past to warn the people of the Earth about the invasion so that the people of the Earth could unite and be ready to fight off the invaders.

     Three other tried this experiment and died in the time machine that the scientist had build.

     This was the last time they could try the experiment.

     The needed supplies to try the experiment were almost gone.

     William was placed in a narrow tube next to a large machine the scientist built.

     They started the experiment.

     In the tube William felt strange as if a great weigh was pressing down on him. He saw blight colors of light and then all went black. He passed out then.

     When he awoke he was in between two cars.

     He stood up and found himself in a parking lot.

     He looked on in amazement that he was in the middle of a large city that was not in ruins.

     He saw hundreds of people on the sidewalks walking out in the open. Not hiding from the space aliens.

     He ran out of the parking lot and up to the people on the sidewalk.

            “People!People!” He shouted. “Giant aliens are coming from outer space! They want to eat us!”

     He was surprised to see that no one was paying any attention to him. They walked passed him like he was invisible.

     He shouted louder to the by passers. He told them that they had to call the armies of the world to prepare a defense against the invaders.

     The only one who paid him any mind was a by passer who told him to go to hell.

     Years later he was still there trying to warn people. It was all in vain. The people of the city thought he was just another one of the mentally ill homeless people living on the streets.

THE END.

Copyright 2012 by Teel. Not to be reprinted or re posted without permission.

DRACULA IN PAKISTAN

     DRACULA IN PAKISTAN can be found on You Tube now. It's a print taken from a TV broadcast with no subtitles but you can fallow the story without any real trouble. It is a nice clear print.
     The film was made and released in Pakistan under the title ZINDA LAASH (THE LIVING CORPSE)in 1967. It was one of the first and few horror movies made in Pakistan.
     The film is more based on the movie THE HORRORS OF DRACULA (1958) than the novel by Bram Stoker. The general plot line fallows the earlier film and there is shots and scenes that seem to copy the style of that movie. In some shots of the film when the film is lit just right the actor playing the vampire looks a lot like Sir Christopher Lee.
     Like the movie DRAKULA ISTANBUL DA this is a modern dress version of Dracula. Never the less it was shot with a moody black and white atmosphere.
     The film gives the vampire a strange origin story. In a scene before the opening credits he is shown to be a scientist who drinks down something he made. He dies but comes back to life in his coffin and attacks a woman.
     A few years ago some filmmakers in Pakistan made an horror film called HELL'S GROUND. The star of DRACULA IN PAKISTAN makes a cameo in the film and someone comments that he looks like Dracula.

THE MONSTER AND THE APE Film serial poster.

     Some times I see a poster that makes me wonder if there is a scene in the movie that is as good as the scene being shown on the film poster. That is the case with the poster to the film serial THE MONSTER AND THE APE.
     I have never seen the movie but I will try to track it down. I want to see the scene of the gorilla fighting a robot.

MORE LO FI PHOTOS

     Once again I am posting some photos I shot using an el cheapo pocket spycam.

photo copyright 2012 Teel

Photo copyright 2012 Teel

MONSTER A GO GO (1965)

     MONSTER A GO GO (1965) Is one of those bad movies that make you wonder what went wrong. The story behind the film is an interesting story about low budget movies gone wrong.
    The movie was started by producer / director Bill Rebane under the title TERROR AT HALFWAY. Reband how ever ran out of money after shooting about two thirds of the movie and had to shelf it.
     Some time later film director Herschell Gordon Lewis (Best remembered for BLOOD FEAST) needed a movie to play on a double feature with one of his films.
     Gordon took the footage of Rebane's unfinished movie and spliced it all together into a short feature. He then added narration to explain what was going on and to inform the viewers about the scenes that were missing.
     The movie did not have an ending so at the end of the film the army is searching for the monster (Played by seven foot six inch tall actor Henry Hite) and the narrator tells the viewers that the monster had disappeared and that no one ever could explain what happen to it.

THE GIANT SPIDER INVASION Poster

     One of my favorite exploitation movie posters is the one for the sci fi film THE GIANT SPIDER INVASION.
     The art on the poster suggest that the film is going to be an epic. The poster shows a great city being attack by truly giant size monster spiders that are chasing a crowd of people.
     Of course the monster in the movie is nothing like the monsters in the poster. It is a giant spider but not as big as the ones on the poster art. It is a funny looking live prop with 'bug' eyes. It was built over a Volkswagen and looks a lot like a parade float.
      The monster spider attacks a small town. I saw this movie in a small theater in Chula Vista CA when the movie was first released and everyone in the theater was laughing when the giant spider came on screen and chased a crowd of people.
     The film was directed by Bill Rebane the man who gave us the schlock sci fi classic MONSTER A GO GO.

TRIPLE A ALIEN EXTERMINATION- A short story.

TRIPLE A ALIEN EXTERMINATION.

     Doris Johnson was looking for a can of re fried beans when she saw it in the in the cabinet.

     It was almost two inches high and wearing some sort of

a white space suit and a helmet.

     She was startle by it and quickly grabbed the fly swapper off the hook in the kitchen.

     She moved around the cans but was unable to find it again.

     Doris then remembered what she heard on the TV commercial. For every one space creature you see there's ten that you don't see.

     She walked over to the ice box and looked among the flier she had tack up with magnets.

     She then found the business card that was left at the front door a few weeks ago: TRIPLE A ALIEN EXTERMINATION- we wipe them out.

     Barely an hour after she called a green van drove into Johnson's drive way. On the side in large letters was the company's name TRIPLE A ALIEN EXTERMINATION. There was a cartoon of an alien creature with it's eyes X'd out.

     A tall man got out of the van. He was wearing green overalls that matched the color of the van. On the pocket of his overalls there was a sewn on patch with the name Ed on it.

     Ed johansson looked over the cupboards and the cabinets of the kitchen.

             “Look here ma'am.” He said to Doris. “See those cans over here?”

     Doris took a look at the cans. They seem to have little dents in them.

             “See ma'am. Those little alien buggers have been trying to open up some cans here.”

            “What for?”

            “To eat of course. These aliens things are not like wild animals that eat plants or other wild animals. When they infest a house they steal food out of the fridge and cabinets.”

           “Where do they come from?”

           “No one is really sure. Hundred of their little ships have been spotted flying here from space. Most of their ships burn up in the atmosphere. The rest make it to Earth and make pest of themselves.”

    Ed and Doris went into the back yard. Ed looked around under a couple of bushes and then found them.

    It was a small space craft about three feet long. Half of it was stuck in the ground. It looked like it landed there in a crash.

          “There's the source of them.” He told Doris. “I'll have to blow up the ship.”

          “Blow it up? Won't that destroy my yard?”

          “It'll be a small explosion. At worst you might lose that bush. It's the only way to really clean them out.”

    Doris was drinking a cup of coffee when the small bomb went off. She looked out the window into the back yard and watched the exterminator watering down the bush with the garden hose. There was a lot of smoke. A big chunk of the bush was gone now.

    Doris was starting her second cup of coffee when there was a knock on the kitchen door. It was the exterminator.

          “Well that blast seem to clear them away. I took the craft parts to my van to dispose of it.”

          “So you got them all?”

          “Most likely. I will leave you a few traps to put in your kitchen in case one or two was away from the craft while it was being destroyed. Will you be paying with a check or credit card?”

    The exterminator left her a couple of rat traps. She placed them on the floor near the cup board where the can goods were kept. She made a mental note to herself to buy some of that alien stray she saw in a television commercial.

END.

This story is copyright 2012 by Teel. Not to be re printed or re posted without permission.

INVASION OF THE BLOOD FARMERS (1972)

     INVASION OF THE BLOOD FARMERS (1972) Was a cheap little horror exploitation movie about a group of Druid cultists posing as hillbilly farmers in over alls who kidnap people and drain them of blood. They need blood to bring back to life their dead queen.
     The film had the two most important things an exploitation movie needs: A catchy title and a weird poster. The movie it self is pretty schlocky.
     I read some where that the film was made for 24 thousand dollars and never made back it's investment.
     But the same story could be made about many movies. Even the big Hollywood productions lose money.

DRACULA IN ISTANBUL Poster

     Poster for the Turkish movie DRAKULA ISTANBUL DA

DRACULA IN ISTANBUL (1953)

     If you want to see the rare Turkish movie DRAKULA ISTANBUL DA (DRACULA IN ISTANBUL 1953) it is now playing on You Tube in three versions.
     Version one is a second rate print with sub titles that seem to have been written by some one who  did not know English very well.
     Version two is a really nice print with no sub titles.
     And version three is the same nice print as version two with sub titles. The sub titles are written well but instead of playing as the actors speak the sub titles would play at the beginning of the scene to let you know what the actors were going to said.
     DRACULA IN ISTANBUL is a rather well made version of  the novel DRACULA with the film taking place in 1950's Turkey. Since Turkey is a Muslim country the people fighting the vampire instead of running him off with a cross they show him garlic which keeps him away.

Atif Kapton as Dracula in the Turkish film DRAKULA ISTANBUL DA.

THE BEAST OF YUCCA FLATS- A review.

     THE BEAST OF YUCCA FLATS(1961) Directed and Written by Coleman Francis
     With Tor Johnson, Conrad Brooks and Anthony Cardoza.
     Those people who insist on calling PLAN 9 FROM OUTERSPACE(1959; Written and Directed by Edward D. Wood jr) have not seen the BEAST OF YUCCA FLATS.
     The films stars ex wrestler Tor Johnson as a Russian rocket scientist who is caught in the blast of an atomic bomb and becomes a maniac who kills everyone he comes across in the desert.
     The black and white movie was shot without sound and people in the film talk with cheap dubbed in voices. They talk when their backs are to the camera or off screen. Director Francis narrates the film. On the sound track you can hear him saying odd things.
     Aside from The Beast attacking people there is a pair of highway patrol men looking for the killer. At one point in the film they shoot at a man assume that he must be the killer because he is walking around the desert.
    This review was first printed on Scribd.com

RETURN OF THE MEN FROM LUCHA-- Masked Mexican Wrestlers.

     If you like the old time Masked Mexican Wrestlers like El Santo and the Blue Demon then there is a feature on You Tube called RETURN OF THE MEN FROM L.U.C.H.A.
     The filmmakers have taken footage from various Mexican movies featuring Masked Mexican Wrestlers and re dub them with a funny sound track.
     The movie is a fallow up to a short film called THE MEN FROM L.U.C.H.A. which is also on You Tube.