THE TROLLENBERG TERROR FOR HALLOWEEN

For monster films you should really try to see The Trollenberg Terror.

Renamed The Crawling Eye for the US it is the movie version of a BBC TV story from the 50's. 

The movie stars Forrest Tucker. It was I believe a British newspaper review of this film that transposed the first letters of his names to Torrest F....................!

It was a lot scarier on TV possibly because of the home invasion possibility and I was younger.

Terranova47

Trollenberg

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Woodsy replies: I agree Terran, its a classic! The Trollenberg Terror Scared the bejeebers out of me when I saw the first headless climber in the comfort of out TV room! Never before seen anything headless when I was wee monster fan in the Sixties. I'm amazed these films were on TV back then. We only had 3 channels in the UK and black and white monster films were on all the time thank God! Yay!

By the power of the tinterweb here's the full US film courtesy of You Tube while it lasts. No breach of copyright intended.

Not sure if any toys were ever made. You?

NOT FOR CHILDREN: SCARIEST SCREEN SCREAMS: HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL

Screams on the hill.

NOT FOR CHILDREN: SCARIEST SCREEN SCREAMS: VAULT OF HORROR

Always gives me the creeps!

F I E L D R I T E

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NOT FOR CHILDREN: SCARIEST SCREEN SCREAMS: AMITYVILLE

Makes my skin crawl every time!

C L A S S I C F O L K H O R R O R: M U R R A I N

Watch if you dare!

hallowscream

My friend Be. I asked her to scream for Halloween!

TROPE ON A MOTORCYCLE: MOTORBIKES IN HORROR AND FILM

Motorbikes are a staple of horror films.

A trope in fact.

They often crash, stranding the main characters in an evil place and as such start the eerie tale.

A good example of this can be found in the Legacy starring Sam Elliot, Katherine Ross and Roger Daltry of the Who no less.



The crash at the beginning can lead to much more gruesome events as in Canadian shocker Rabid by David Cronenberg.

Although not a crash, perhaps the most iconic of all horror bikes is Death riding a motorcycle in the Monkey's Paw from the original Tales from the Crypt.

Motorbikes became psychopomps in Psycomania, literally carrying the dead back from the grave. How society must have feared the black leather-jacket to have made a film like this. Hell's Angels!

Leather was sex itself in Girl on a Motorcycle as motorbikes became objects of desire in many films and not just horror.

and finally a film on my bucket list, the bikes really are the stars in Electra Glide in Blue.

Have you a favourite motorbike flick or do you know of any more horror bikes?

B E N E A T H T H E W E E P I N G

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ROLLAKAZOLLA'S CURIOUS SIDESHOW of HALLOWEEN ODDITIES BY TONY K

''Roll up... roll up... ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, step inside the tent and see Rollakazolla's Curious Sideshow of Halloween oddities...''

1. EMBALMING FLUID

2. HAUNTED MINDSCAPE

3. LUCINDA - 'Hello Mr. Wolf... didn't your mummy tell you it's dangerous to walk through the woods on your own!' 

4. DEATH BY ENCHANTMENT

5. SELFIE - The marked deck of Mauser Bentley; tarot reader for the condemned, insane and the deceased.

6. ROLLAKAZOLLA - Laughing Klaus Lurrrvs Jane Doe

7. ASYLUM OF DECAYING BEAUTY

8. 'Sshhhh... Dennis Wheatley made me do it!'

9. SPELLBOUND - 'Don't worry darling! It's okay to have imaginary friends, they aren't real!'

10. OUIJA BOARD

11.The little toy box of Emily Egg

12. GHOSTS OF OCTOBER'S NEON BOARDWALK

13. PUMPKIN SEADS AND WHISPERS 

- She peered at me through the raised spy glass and quietly said, 'Within each of us exists another person whom we do not know!'

14. The cocktails, the laughter and the music played on... long after the party had died in the fire

15. Inner demons of Herbert Fink

16. Sounds of the departing Carnivàle carried in the cold night air. I wanted to follow; but I was stuck, entwined in the rust and the roots of my own haunted mindscape. I'd simply grown old.

Tony K

P O W E R S

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T H E M A S K

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TONKA SUPERNATURALS: HORRORGRAPHIC KNIGHTS

C R E A T U R E S

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A W O R D F R OM O U R S P O N S O R

Shine a light its All Hallows Eve!

Halloween at Castle Ev!

 

Hi Woodsy. I don't know about Plastic Fangs, but the misses is as bad as the kids who visit trick or treating!

You can publish these... Bill Ev!

WITHOUT A PADDLE ON HALLOWEEN

Browsing my photos I had to chuckle at this one I took last year.

Its a pumpkin in a canoe!

Have you got a humorous Halloween picture?

I SHOULD HAVE GOT ONE FROM THE CLEARANCE SHELVES

They were selling these toys off cheap at Toys R Us back in the early 1990's. The big boxed Tower was tight there in front of me but my arms were full!

Did you or have you got any Supernaturals?

FANGS ARE IN ORDER

Will you or your kids be wearing plastic fangs today?

DEVILDAY

COUNT US IN

ITS HALLOWEEN!

I BID YOU WELCOME!

HOWLING FOR HALLOWEEN

I love horror movie locations.

Check out the locations of the Howling and get ready for Halloween. 

I found a few myself over the years as well as props but here's a site that lists loads of locations in the werewolf flick.

Enjoy. Grrrrr!

http://www.thennowmovielocations.com/2015/01/the-howling.html

Scooby Do Mystery Incorporated: Modern Scooby Tube

https://youtu.be/eL7s1RHxKQ8

For the upcoming Halloween!

from Mark J 

Southcoast Base 

COLLECTING TAXIS: THE LAST STOP

To round off this short series of posts about Terranova47's fascinating taxi collecting here's a link to a much longer article he wrote in the magazine of the London Vintage Taxi Association in 2015. Enjoy.

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0?ui=2&ik=caf1b9f869&attid=0.1&permmsgid=msg-f:1615759334099632149&th=166c548dbf87c015&view=att&disp=inline

I hope you've enjoyed this series and the other occasional forays into non-Sci Fi  related subjects that I feature now on Moonbase Central.

THE DARK SEASON WAKES

Taxi!

 Seeing Terra's Taxi posts put me in mind of some Kinder Surprise Taxi models and other cars, I had used to make some vintage style photos a while ago.