FIRST CAME THE TERROR OF
THE DEADLY MANTIS!
THE GRUESOME, GRABBY GILL MAN
CREATURE FROM
THE BLACK LAGOON!
AND THE GROTESQUE REPTILIANS
THE ALLIGATOR PEOPLE!
NOW HERE COMES AN EVEN
GREATER MENACE TO SOCIETY...
FRANK JUNIOR SERENADING
BIKINI CLAD GIRLS WITH
LOVE FOR SALE!!!
"Love For Sale" - Frank Sinatra Jr.
(Scopitone jukebox film)
YOU WERE REVOLTED BY
THE TERRORIFIC TUTORIAL
HOW TO MAKE A MONSTER!
YOU WERE APPALLED
BY TWISTED THRILL SEEKERS
JAMES SPADER & HOLLY HUNTER
in CRASH!
NOW A FRESH NEW TERROR
HITS THE SCREEN HEAD-ON...
CRASH CRADDOCK!!!
"Boom Boom Baby" - Crash Craddock
(Sept. 1959, B side of "Don't Destroy Me")
FIRST CAME THE MORBID MADNESS
TASTE THE BLOOD
OF DRACULA!
YOU THREW UP IN YOUR MOUTH
A LITTLE WHEN YOU SAW THE
JUICIEST HORROR FLICK OF ALL...
ATTACK OF THE
KILLER TOMATOES!
KILLER TOMATOES!
NOW HERE COMES A
SALTY SAGA GUARANTEED
TO TURN YOUR STOMACH...
POTATO CHIPS!!!
"Potato Chips" - Arlene Joy
(circa March 1962)
FIRST...
FRIDAY THE 13TH
ROLLED AROUND...
(AND SO DID THE HEADS
OF TEENAGERS AT
CAMP CRYSTAL LAKE)
GAME ON, JASON!
NEXT CAME THE
TERROR TALE OF
TEENS TRAPPED BY
A BEASTIE BULLY ON
THE 13TH FRIDAY!
NOW HERE COMES
THE VIRAL VID THAT'S
MAKING EVERYBODY SICK...
F R I D A Y ! ! !
"Friday" - Rebecca Black
(Mar./Apr. 2011, highest chart pos.
#1 U.S. Heatseekers/#58 Hot 100)
More deplorable ditties are lurking
in the shadows and waiting to pounce
in the next nauseating edition of
When
Terrible
Songs
Attack!
HAVE a SHADY DAY and a
HOOT of a HALLOWEEN!
"The Beach" (short mix) - New Order
{Apr/May 1983, B side inst. remix "Blue Monday"
scenes from The Beach Girls And The Monster (1965),
Horror At The Beach Party (1964) and
Exploding Whale broadcast (1970)}
What a fun post, Shady! The graphics alone are worth the price of admission! Seeing the Creature from the Black Lagoon reminds me of two things.... one, I have a coloring book full of movie monsters (perhaps I should do some coloring over the weekend) and two, one of my brothers put together a model kit of the Creature from the Black Lagoon.
ReplyDeleteHope you and Mrs. Shady have a fun Halloween!
Hi, Kelly!
DeleteThat's two Early Bird trophies in a row for you, dear friend. Thank you!
I'm happy knowing that you can relate to the Creature From the Black Lagoon, one of my favorite monsters of film land. I trust the infamous gill man is waiting for you to color him an eerie shade of green in that book you own. Wouldn't it be cool if he were the subject of one of your jigsaw puzzles? Thanks for telling me that your brother built a model of the Creature. I was age four in 1954 when my big brother took me to the theater to see Creature From the Black Lagoon. By then, believe it or not, I was already a "veteran" horror movie fan, because I started watching (and loving) scary films at the tender age of 3 in the summer of 1953 when I went with my folks and my cousin, aunt and uncle to see Vincent Price starring in House of Wax. That's the first horror film I remember seeing in a theater or drive-in.
Thanks again for coming early, dear friend Kelly. Have a safe and happy Halloween!
Shady you have really done it good today! So funny and fun and Halloweenie...not sure that's a word. Anyway, those songs were horrible but I did kind of like the Friday ditty. Maybe because we all love a good Friday don't we? I was so happy to see my favorite.."Attack of the Killer Tomatoes"! I can still hear that theme song in my crazy brain. I hope you have lots of treats and no tricks on Halloween and since you're closer to a beach than me, watch out for that black lagoon dude and the beach monster! Their horrible costumes are enough to kill you! Ha! Happy Halloween Shady!
ReplyDeleteHi, YaYa!
DeleteI'm happy to see you, dear friend! Thanks for coming early to check out my last H-ween post of the year.
Yessum, today's the day I actually hope friends will turn thumbs down on my musical offerings, because the songs are supposed to be terrible. The "Friday" ditty is special, because it has gained a reputation on Youtube (and gone viral) as the worst modern pop song and video ever made. If you check the stats beneath the video on YouTube, you will see that the number of dislikes greatly outnumber the likes. The singer, Rebecca Black, has been a good sport ever since the video was uploaded more than 10 years ago. She has graciously accepted the widespread criticism, and in recent years has vindicated herself, turning millions of naysayers into enthusiastic fans by releasing some very good songs and videos. She's every bit as good as any of today's big name female poppers. I will be proud to share some of her more recent works with you in future posts.
I'm glad you remember the Killer Tomatoes movie. How about that monster on the beach in the final video? :) The film's wardrobe department must have found his costume at The Dollar Tree. :) He couldn't scare a two year old!
Thanks again for joining the fun, dear friend YaYa. Have a wonderful Halloween celebration up there at The Pines!
Was that video included in Frank Jr's ransom?
ReplyDeleteI've seen most if not all of those movies. In the Monster That Challenged the World (actually just a small farming community in California), Hans Conried plays a non-mad scientist, the only time I can remember seeing him in a non-comedic role. It's not much of a role, but the acting was credible enough. As for Tim Holt--if it's the same Tim Holt--he played the spoiled rich kid in The Magnificent Ambersons, and Humphrey Bogart's prospecting partner in The Treasure of the Sierre Madre. His acting was credible, too.
The Alligator People. Beverly Garland was a mainstay sex symbol in a lot of those 1950's horror movies, her clothes often ripped to shreds as she dodged whatever monster was after her. Speaking of monsters, you'd think if you have Lon Chaney Jr in a horror movie, he'd play one of the monsters. Well, he's a monster of a sort as he attempts to rape Beverly at one point, but the onetime Wolf Man (as well as his lesser-known turns as the Frankenstein Monster and the Mummy once Boris Karloff tired of playing those roles) appears without makeup, though, truth be told, he was kind of scary-looking anyway.
"Taste the Blood of Dracula" was made in 1970, by which time those Hammer horror films had pretty much run their course, but Christopher Lee always made a great Count.
As for the music, it's not so much Rebecca Black was a bad singer as those lyrics (tied to a generic melody) were so ridiculous. Who cares where she sits in a car? I supposed if you heard the song on the radio, you might think the front-seat-or-back-seat words had something to do with sex, or least necking, but the video doesn't even exploit that assumption! There's more sex in a monster movie.
Well, that's all I got. Happy Halloween, Shady.
Hi, Kirk!
DeleteThanks for staying up late on night #1 of the run, and welcome to this week's spook show, good buddy!
I'm delighted to learn that you have seen most of the movies represented in this set of posters. My big brother took me to see The Monster That Challenged The World. Good point about Hans Conried, best known to me as Uncle Tonoose on the Danny Thomas sitcom Make Room for Daddy. It was indeed strange to see Hans playing it straight as a scientist. (Whit Bissell must have been shooting another picture and unavailable at the time.) I fell in love with Irish missy Audrey Dalton when I saw her in the 1953 film about the "Titanic" disaster. I liked her as a young mom trying to protect her child from a giant mollusk that emerged from California's Salton Sea in this 1957 sci-fi monster flick.
I loved actress Beverly Garland. I saw her in three earlier fright flicks: Roger Corman's It Conquered the World (1956) in which she co-starred with Peter Graves, Curucu, Beast of the Amazon (1956) and another cool Roger Corman horror film - Not of This Earth (1957). Good point about Lon Chaney Jr. Notice how he is listed on the movie poster simply as Lon Chaney, perhaps implying that, by 1959, movie goers had already forgotten about his great actor father's tremendous contributions to silent films. One of my favorite sci-fi horror movies starring an unmasked Lon Chaney Jr. is Indestructible Man (1956) in which he plays a convicted murdered who dies in the gas chamber chair only to be brought back to life, Frankenstein style, by a scientist administering jolts of electricity. (Where the hell was Whit Bissell?) Chaney then proceeds to go on a killing spree seeking revenge against people who crossed him.
Thanks for mentioning Christopher Lee and the famous Hammer Gothic horror film series.
Good observations about Rebecca Black's ill-fated pop song and video. You should read the hilarious comments posted beneath it on YouTube. Watching the video and listening to the lyrics, one would think "Friday" was intended as a pastiche to poke fun at the pop genre, but from all accounts it was meant to be taken seriously. As I mentioned in an earlier comment, Rebecca has redeemed herself in recent years and become a respected YouTube pop star with a load of faithful followers.
OMG! I see that you left a SECOND COMMENT!!! To avoid confusion, I will open a new comment form for my reply.
Oh, yes, The Creature from the Black Lagoon. Easily the best of the 1950s horror movies.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree! My big brother took me to see it at the age of 4 in 1954. I also saw the two sequels: Revenge of the Creature (1955) and The Creature Walks Among Us (1956).
DeleteThanks again for your early visit and great comments, good buddy Kirk. Have a safe and happy Halloween!
Love some of those old movies, don't know any of those songs, miss your colorful posts, Happy Halloween, my friend. Sorry, been absent for a bit. Trying to catch up is yet another time suck.
ReplyDeleteHi, b.a.f.!
DeleteIt's good to see you, my friend! Welcome to the last in a string of Halloween related posts for 2021 here at Shady's Place!
I try to pick the most repugnant and forgettable songs possible for this series, so don't feel bad if you never heard of them before. I haven't either. As it turns out, Arlene Joy's lip sync performance of "Potato Chips" took place on The Buddy Deane Show, the wildly popular music and dance program for teenagers that aired on WJZ in Baltimore and inspired the John Waters film Hairspray. Buddy Deane's show aired from the late 50s through the mid 60s, and I was able to pull in the signal from WJZ at my home in York. There's a good chance I actually watched Arlene's performance on the day of the broadcast in 1962.
Thanks again for coming, good buddy, and have a safe and happy Halloween!
P.S. - I left a long comment on your previous post and double-checked to make sure it was there. However, when I went back later in the day to see if you had replied, my comment was gone. I'll try again on your next post.
Friday by Rebecca Black is the only song I recognized. But I recognized a bunch of the movies. I do like horror movie especially this time of year.
ReplyDeleteHappy Halloween! I hope you get some trick or treaters and some good candy to snack on as well.
Hi, Mary!
DeleteThanks for coming to my final H-ween post of the year, dear friend, a salute to some of my favorite sci-fi and horror films, plus some of my least favorite songs. I scoured YouTube to wind the worst of the worst.
I'm pleasantly surprised that you recognize Rebecca Black's "Friday." song and viral video. It makes me happy that she has turned so many haters into enthusiastic fans in recent years by uploading some great pop song vids. I'll be bringing you some of her best in future posts.
Yessum, I know that you are a horror movie buff just like me. I'm glad you recognize most of the movies represented by these gruesome posters and production stills. I have seen all of these flicks, and a few I have watched multiple times.
I hope you, your daughter and Falcor have a happy Halloween celebration out there in Vegas, with no unexpected tricks from the sketchy neighbors.
Thanks again for swinging over and for your kind comment, dear friend Mary!
Happy Halloween, dear friend!
ReplyDeleteWhat a fun post! I enjoyed these movies and will have to check out a few of them. Friday the 13th and Halloween are my favourite.
I loved the commercials and the music you included. Tied up the movies perfectly.
Have a hauntingly good week.
Hi, Jessica Marie!
DeleteHappy fright night, dear friend, and thanks for coming to my final spook party of the 2021 Halloween season!
I'm glad you enjoyed the selection of scary movies referenced in the post. The music is best forgotten. :)
Items that nobody brought up so far that I wanted to make sure to mention for this post are as follows:
1) In the Frank Sinatra Jr. Scopitone film, I'm 99% sure the tiny girl dancing in the light blue bikini from the 2:00 mark on is Susan Bernard, who appeared in the role of "Linda" in Russ Meyer's 1965 exploitation film Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
2) The movie Crash starring James Spader and Holly Hunter is must see. They play a couple who, along with others, indulge in a deviant form of sexual activity in which people ride down the highway at high speed making whoopie, not paying attention to the road or even holding onto the wheel. They know that the car is going to crash and that they will suffer injury. However, that's a huge turn-on for the kinky couples who take part in the activity.
3) In the final video, in addition to the goofy looking monster that attacks bikini clad beach girls, you have a bizarre piece of news footage from 1970 in which a dead whale is blown up with dynamite on the beach. I suppose they determined it was easier to dispose of the carcass if it was blown to bits, allowing birds to haul pieces away and the tide to help sweep the remnants out to sea for sharks to eat.
Lots of weird stuff in this post, dear friend JM. Happy Halloween to you and have a wonderful week ahead!
Hi Shady,
DeleteCreature From the Black Lagoon is dad's favourite movie. He used to have it on 8mm film. Whenever it's on TV, we sit and watch it. It's a total B movie, but B movies are so loved.
Thank you for those snippets of information. I'm going to try to find these movies and watch them. I love old horror films, even if they are of the B variety. Sometimes shows like Off Beat Cinema play these gems.
Have a great day, dear friend!
Hi, Jessica Marie!
DeleteThanks for returning to chat, dear friend!
I'd love to know the story behind that rare news film of a beached whale being blown to bits. I never saw anything like it. If you like horror movies that are so bad they're terrific, then the no-budget flicks Beach Girls And The Monster (1965) and Horror At The Beach Party (1964) will be a hoot for you. In addition to the original Creature From The Black Lagoon, released in 1954, there are two sequels you could look for - Revenge of the Creature (1955) and The Creature Walks Among Us (1956). I saw all three at a little boy! I also highly recommend Russ Meyer's cult classic exploitation feature Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, a movie I studied in college! Some or even most of the above mentioned titles might be available for viewing free on YouTube.
Thanks again and have a happy Tuesday, dear friend JM!
I tried leaving a message before and it didn’t take. I think that Sinatra’s son sounds better than I thought it would be. He sounds and looks like his dad. The other music was fun especially seeing how badly they lip synch to their songs. That potato chip song made me laugh because the 2 gals on either side look so bored as they clap along. I love that last video and the poor whale being blown up made me laugh. I actually watched a documentary about whales and the mystery of them beaching themselves. They showed this video and talked about how they did not know how to deal with the situation. The powers that be at this small town thought the best way to get rid of the whale was to blow it up since it was pretty smelly. The dum bulbs did not think that when they blew it up, bits would fall all over the place including on cars and people. It was a big mess to say the least.
ReplyDeleteHi, Birgit!
DeleteHow are you feeling, dear friend? Thanks for returning to Shady's Place! I'm glad I skipped back here and found your comment. I am late replying to you and late getting to your post today because I needed to have an infusion this morning at a clinic quite a distance from home. It took the whole morning and I am just now getting back home and making my way around the blog circuit.
I'm glad you were pleasantly surprised by Frank Junior's singing in that wacky Scopitone film. As I mentioned in another reply, I am 99% sure the cutie in the light blue swimsuit shown dancing from the 2:00 mark on is Susan Bernard, who played the role of Linda in Russ Meyer's 1965 exploitation genre cult classic Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! Susan, who died a few years ago at the age of 71, was the daughter of famed pin-up glamour photographer Bruno Bernard, who photographed Norma Jeanne at an early age and was well known around Hollywood. When Bruno died, Susan took over his business ad published coffee table books of his pin-ups.
That awful "Potato Chip" song was performed on The Buddy Deane Show in Baltimore, the Bandstand style TV dance show for teenagers that inspired the John Waters film Hairspray. The kids behind Arlene do indeed look "underwhelmed." At least she could do the twist pretty well between verses.
You need to see the movie Crash starring James Spader as a twisted sicko (a stretch for his acting abilities) who hooks up with Holly Hunter. Together they indulge their favorite fetish - riding down the road at high speed making whoopee, not watching where they are going, not holding onto the wheel, knowing dang well that the car is going to crash any second and they will surely be injured, but that's the high, that's the big turn-on for them. It's a hoot. (Kids, don't try this at home!)
I'm delighted to know that you actually saw the exploding whale film footage in a documentary about the phenomenon of whales beaching themselves. I suppose they were hoping that scavenger birds would fly off with most of the bits and other parts would be swept away by the tide.
I hope you are feeling AOK and that you are in good spirits, dear BB. Thanks again for clicking back to this post you missed and checking out the vintage horror movie poster art and goofy music videos. Enjoy the rest of your week, dear friend!