Monday, October 22, 2007

The Shadow - The Gibbering Things (9-26-43)

Not one of the Orson Welles episodes, but Holy Moly! Did they really broadcast this stuff for kids? The German-accented villain paints a delicious word picture of Margo Lane handcuffed and tied to an overhead iron pipe in a windowless basement room (hubba hubba!). Meanwhile, dozens of mutant, toothless mini-vampires (think The Brood crossed with leeches) wait in cages for a taste of crimson arterial nutrient from the professors herd of 'human cows', kept docile through the judicious use of a revolver. The sound effects man must have had a field day between the cries of the 'cows' and the skittering squeeks of the things...

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