This week on SVENGOOLIE...

[EP Millstone]

I remember a thread like this from back on the TCM boards. I believe it was started and steadily kept up by Nipkowdisc.

Does anyone know if Nip made it to here after TCM message boards shut down?

As I recall NipkowDisc hated Svengoolie, and no, NipkowDisc did not join the SSO. He's on another forum that was created by the god formerly known as TopBilled.

[TikiSoo]

As I recall NipkowDisc hated Svengoolie, and no, NipkowDisc did not join the SSO. He's on another forum

Glad you know he's still with us...I thought we lost him to covid.

[LawrenceA]

[LostHorizons]

I remember a thread like this from back on the TCM boards. I believe it was started and steadily kept up by Nipkowdisc.

Does anyone know if Nip made it to here after TCM message boards shut down?

As I recall NipkowDisc hated Svengoolie, and no, NipkowDisc did not join the SSO. He's on another forum that was created by the god formerly known as TopBilled.

More accurately he enjoyed the crappy 40d B movies he played but hated the character/ on screen persona that’s about twenty minutes of the actual program out of two and a half hours.

[EP Millstone]

Konga with the man you love to see rage, Michael Gough . . .

The last time that I watched Konga, more than 20 years ago, it was with a gal with whom I was romantically involved. When Michael Gough (as Dr. Charles Decker) is grabbed and held in Konga's gigantic paw and begins screaming "HELP! HELLLLP!" my inamorata wryly commented, "His dialogue is going to be really simple from now on."

Michael Gough was producer Herman Cohen's "Vincent Price," enhancing Cohen's Horrors of the Black Museum, Black Zoo, Berserk, and Trog. Gough excelled at portraying supercilious, astringent villains, snarling snide insults and stinging threats with a distinctive lip-curling nastiness.

While I was in college, a teacher showed the Omnibus TV episode "Vincent the Dutchman" in which Gough portrayed Vincent Van Gogh. I was pleasantly surprised to see Gough triumph in a serious role. After he died, he was primarily and lazily memorialized in obituaries for being "Alfred the Butler" in Batman movies.

[TikiSoo]

I was excited to see a movie I've never seen before (KONGA) Sadly, I still haven't seen it, what a snoozer.

I did notice, both last week & this week, the movies do not start with the Universal logo, but the MGM lion logo and then American International Pictures logo. Wonder what's up, no more Universal stock contract?

[TikiSoo]

Again, another AIP this week. BLOOD OF DRACULA 1957. It was pretty cool and atmospheric at times, petty cool crazy teeth on the school girl. It was an interesting take on teen vampires.

But what was REALLY great was the Three Stooges short at 6pm- a very young Lucille Ball as a blonde playing a gangster's moll. And after listening to TCMs podcast, apparently art imitates life as Lucy was dating a gangster at the time!

[Dargo]

But what was REALLY great was the Three Stooges short at 6pm- a very young Lucille Ball as a blonde playing a gangster's moll. And after listening to TCMs podcast, apparently art imitates life as Lucy was dating a gangster at the time!

Well, then it sure is a good thing that that relationship would come to an end and that she'd later end up marrying a Cuban band leader, isn't it.

(...I mean and don't know about you, but the idea that a sitcom about a frustrated housewife wanting to break into THAT business sure doesn't sound nearly as funny as one about her wanting to break into show business, now does it)

[Intrepid37]

KONGA ... what a snoozer.

Is it ever.

Even as a kid, it put me to sleep.

[EP Millstone]

Again, another AIP this week. BLOOD OF DRACULA 1957.

Blood of Dracula is the distaff installment in the quintet of teenage monster movies produced by Herman Cohen, written by Aben Kandel, and directed by Herbert L. Strock, Gene Fowler, Jr., and Arthur Crabtree. The remaining quartet of flicks include I Was a Teenage Werewolf (directed by Fowler), I Was a Teenage Frankenstein and How to Make a Monster (ruddered by Strock), and Horrors of the Black Museum (helmed by Crabtree).

Writer Kandel lazily milked the formula he concocted for Teenage Werewolf: an older, authority figure dominates a young subordinate, turning his/her submissive victim into a monster, which he/she uses for murderous purposes. Miss Branding (Louise Lewis) in Blood of Dracula is the spiritually sinister "sibling" of Dr. Brandon in Teenage Werewolf and Dr. Frankenstein in Teenage Frankenstein (Whit Bissell), Pete Dumond (Robert H. Harris) in How to Make a Monster), and Edmond Bancroft (Michael Gough) in Black Museum.

Takeaway Moral of the Stories: Never trust anyone over thirty twenty.

[Intrepid37]

Again, another AIP this week. BLOOD OF DRACULA 1957. It was pretty cool and atmospheric at times, petty cool crazy teeth on the school girl. It was an interesting take on teen vampires.

And as a bonus it has that awesome 'Puppy Love' song performed in it!

I made a post of it a while back in the Songs in Horror Films thread, here: (it's currently the last post in the thread)
viewtopic.php?t=7300&start=30

[Hibi]

Definite Lesbian vibes in Blood of Dracula.

[Intrepid37]

Definite Lesbian vibes in Blood of Dracula.

For sure. Although, somehow I have the feeling that female vampires are bisexual.

[Hibi]

LOL.

[Swithin]

The first lesbian possibly bi-sexual female vampire was Countess Zaleska in Dracula's Daughter (1936), the first horror movie I ever saw, on Shock Theater in the late 1950s. Still one of my favorite horror films.