Halloween Moviethon Day 3: Part II - Satan's Bed

Batas Impian Ranjang Setan aka Satan's Bed - Time to get weird here. This is not the Yoko Ono film released by Something Weird, this is an Indonesian rip-off of Nightmare on Elm Street from 1986 that halfway through gets bored and decides to go Poltergeist on us instead. This is by all counts an undeniably bad movie, but I actually really liked it. There's plenty of dull stretches, especially in the first half, but once it gets going it's pretty rewarding for fans of tacky, absurd crap. There's actually a pretty spooky atmosphere here, good - though probably swiped from better movies - music and cheap, but frequently hilarious special effects. Have you seen ever a third rate Freddy Krueger and a sexy Dutch lady pull their own heads off and throw them at a shaman? I have.

Al Lewis is The Joker as Leatherface in Al Adamson's Texas Chain Saw Massacre

Things to watch for:

• The "Freddy" character here, who is in fact "The Devil", looks like a papier-mâché Leatherface.
• The spooky Tina in a body bag scene shows up here, though in this she's called Nina and she looks more like a cellophane wrapped gift basket than a dead body from a morgue.
• Exploding coffins and levitating skeletons.
• The dolls behind this girl's bed were far creepier than anything here that was intended to be creepy:

Addams Family Season 1 Episode 7: Halloween with the Addams Family - Bank robbers are mistaken as trick or treaters in their 40s and invited into stately Addams Manor to partake in some extra spooky Halloween festivities like "Bobbing For Crabs."

Ghost Whisperer Season 2 Episode 6: A Grave Matter - This episode takes place around Halloween. It's not any more Halloweeny than any other episode of the show, but there are pumpkins and shit. David Paymer plays the ghost of a dickhead writer named Godfrey who is annoyed because his body is in the wrong guy's grave and the wife of the wrong guy won't stop weeping at (not) his grave. Long story short, Godfrey was struck by lightning and killed. Wrong guy swaps wallets with dead Godfrey so his wife can collect his life insurance money. I know it's a show, but we're going by wallets to identify corpses now? He still had a head and fingers - he was burned a bit from the lightning, but he wasn't Sergeant Howie burned.

This is such an unbelievably sappy show, but I've always had a thing for Jennifer Love Hewitt, so this show is watchable enough for me once in a while. I find it funny that she's often dressed to show off pretty substantial amounts of cleavage while she's relaying sad messages from these dead people to their mourning loved ones. This is what she wore to a funeral in one episode:

Though, to be fair, this is what the corpse was wearing:

Ooky, Animated Volume 2

Here are 7 more episodes of the early 90's Addams Family cartoon. I know it seems like I'm running some kind of cartoon-centric site of late, but I assure you I have plenty more music and non-cartoon related material to put up after today's post.

The episodes:

Season 1, Episode 7: Sir Pugsley/Festerman/Art to Art
Original Air Date—24 October 1992
Season 1, Episode 8: Puttergeist
Original Air Date—31 October 1992
Season 1, Episode 9: F.T.V.
Original Air Date—7 November 1992
Season 1, Episode 10: Itt's Over
Original Air Date—14 November 1992
Season 1, Episode 11: Hide and Go Lurch/Hook, Line and Stinkers/A Sword Fightin' Thing
Original Air Date—21 November 1992
Season 1, Episode 12: Addams Family PTA
Original Air Date—28 November 1992
Season 1, Episode 13: Little Big Thing/Little Bad Riding Hood/Metamorphosister
Original Air Date—5 December 1992

The link:
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Ooky, Animated

Today, I have 6 episodes of the Addams Family animated series that ran from 1992-1995. The 90's series features the voice talent of John Astin (who also worked on the recently posted Killer Tomatoes series), Rip Taylor and Carol Channing. There was another animated series in the 1970's, but sadly I don't have any of those at the time. If anyone does, guide me to them.

I've posted all of the episodes on MegaUpload. As a Rapid Premium member I usually upload there, but Mega is much quicker for uploading TV shows. Plus they have the MegaVideo feature which allows you to just watch the episode, so that's a cool bonus.

The link to the folder with the links to the episodes lies beyond...


In my last post I mentioned the Hideous Sexy book put out by Penny Dreadful. I'm very impressed with CreateSpace, a mere two days after ordering the book, my copy showed up. And this is with me choosing the absolute cheapest shipping option, so I highly recommend ordering from them. The book itself is gorgeous, Simon did an outstanding job putting this thing together. I know, I know, it just sounds like friendly ass-kissery on my part, but this book just looks incredible. I've only had it in my possession for about 90 minutes so I haven't had a chance to read any of it yet but how could stories with titles like The Scalpel of Hate and Nudist Gym Death Riddle not be amazing? I'll report back with more of the gory details when I've given it a proper once-over.

I thought someone out there might want to see the ad I made for the site that shows up in the back of the book. I made it in color and had to convert it to grayscale for the book. Somehow I screwed up and didn't save this one in color, so what you see here is the grayscale version as it appears in the book:
And here's another I made that I decided against using. As you can see I hadn't quite finished it up before deciding to go with the other, so try and ignore that all the text at the bottom is the same:

This will be my last post for about a week. I'm going on a trip to visit family/friends out of state, so I'll be unavailable to do any kind of posting here or on Space Bastard during this time. When I return, I'm planning to start doing more compilations, and post more movies/TV shows. In addition to my usually music/other random crap posts. So once I return expect to see more Addams, Cartoon Killer Tomatoes, You Can't Do That On Television.