Hysterical Woman of The Week! Olive Deering as Thelma Tompkins from (1959)

Alfred Hitchcock Presents-

Season 4, Episode 25

The Kind Waitress (29 Mar. 1959)

Eleanor+Parker+Hope+Emerson+Olive+Deering in Caged — ***Olive Deering* in Caged (1950) starring Eleanor Parker and *Hope Emerson***

Olive Deering (Caged 1950, Shock Treatment 1964) plays Thelma Tompkins a kind hearted waitress who toils in a hotel restaurant. She’s attentive and thoughtful doting on old Mrs.Sara Mannerheim (Celia Lovsky) who eats in the restaurant every evening.

Mrs. Mannerheim tells Olive that she is her only friend and has decided to leave her in her will, also bestowing on Thelma a brooch. But like all dark fairy tales, as the months creep forward, Mrs. Mannerheim becomes increasingly demanding,and Thelma becomes unhinged. You see…

Thelma’s musician boyfriend Arthur gets the idea to precipitate the old woman’s demise, instead of waiting for death to take her by inches, so, Thelma poisons old lady Mannerheim’s tea. Unfortunately for Thelma, the old woman has a constitution of stone and it doesn’t work.

Driven by an obsession to keep her boyfriend happy, and sick and tired of care taking, Thelma cracks and let’s loose her fury on the old lady.

Have some tea-MonsterGirl

the clip joint- Fourteen Hours (1951)

FOURTEEN HOURS (1951)

Directer Henry Hathaway’s (The Dark Corner 1946) taut film noir, about a desperately unhappy man who threatens to commit suicide by standing on the ledge of a high-rise building for 14 hours.

With an all star cast- Paul Douglas, Richard Basehart, Barbara Bel Geddes, Debra Paget, Agnes Moorehead, Jeffrey Hunter, Howard Da Silva, Grace Kelly, Martin Gabel and Jeff Corey.

“From the edge of the ledge he defied them all!”

Don’t jump off now…MonsterGirl, helping you down off the ledge

A Trailer a day keeps the Boogeyman away! The Mini-Skirt Mob (1968)

“They’re hog straddling female animals on the prowl.”

THE MINI-SKIRT MOB (1968)

Diane McBain plays Shayne the ruthless head of a motorcycle gang who is obsessed with punishing and getting her ex-lover Jeff (Ross Hagen) to come back to her no matter what it takes. Shayne ignites a sadistic onslaught against her ex-lover and his new bride Connie.(Sherry Jackson)

061120064218_d6dz6izyo5 — *Patty McCormack* as little Rhoda Penmark in Mervyn LeRoy’s 1956 psychological thriller THE BAD SEED

Also starring The Bad Seed’s 1956 nefarious little psychopath Rhoda, Patty McCormack as Edie, Shayne’s younger, naive yet ethical lil sister. Cast includes Harry Dean Stanton as Spook and Jeremy Slate as Lon. With a score by Les Baxter that makes this cheesy 60s exploit more fun.

“Nothing is more vicious than a scorned, guilt ridden blonde!”

MonsterGirl back on the prowl!

Hysterical Woman of the Week! Louise Sorel in The Fugitive from (1965)

As of late, I am finding myself drawn to David Janssen, his quiet charisma and sexy self-restrained smile that just kind of makes me swoon. I’ve been devouring as much of his work as I can, guilty pleasures like Once is Not Enough 1975, and tv movies like The Golden Gate Murders 1979, Warning Shot 1967, and his other tv persona as cheeky private eye, Harry O.Each night I coil up with an episode of that quintessential noir television thriller, The Fugitive to waltz me into slumberland.

And so, in honor of this wonderful actor who left us way too early …I’m kicking off this new Last Drive-In offering, Hysterical Woman of the Week, with one of the most powerful episodes from the series about the man who runs away a lot… the valiant and zen Dr Richard Kimble.

So with just a little further MG ramblings here’s a little ‘hysteria’ god how I resent, no!…abhor this archetype which is why I harp on it perhaps way too much, The Hysterical Woman…!

Here’s the pretty and unsung Louise SorelÂ portraying Edith Waverly getting a little upset with mother Edith (Ruth White)

*years later she would do hysterical brilliantly yet again as Velia Redford in one of my favorite episodes of Rod Serling’s Night Gallery’s The Dead Man.

from television series ‘The Fugitive’: episode The Survivors (2 Mar. 1965)

Ever Hysterically Yours-MonsterGirl

The Wonderful Jack Klugman dies at 90 today Dec. 24th 2012 …we’ll miss you so much!

JACK KLUGMAN DIES AT AGE 90

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2012/12/24/us/ap-us-obit-klugman.html?hp&_r=0

No one quite like Jack in the world… smoke a good cigar in Heaven for me old friend-MonsterGirl

Just in time for Yule & Christmas… The Last Drive In warns: Beware of Bad Santas!

A moment from Freddie Francis’ Tales From The Crypt (1972)

Pay back is a psychotic escapee from the local asylum when Joan Collin’s whacks her husband with a fire iron to get his large life insurance policy. In the 1st segment calledÂ And All Through The House

Just one of the five stories told by the crypt keeper Ralph Richardson, to the five guests who learn of the ways in which they have met their deaths. Based on E.C. Comics, it’s Classic horror at it’s very best!!!!!

And remember…Don’t open the window, door or chimney flue to anyone in a red flannel suit and phoney white beard unless it’s your jolly uncle Stanislaw-MonsterGirl

A trailer a day keeps the Boogeyman away! Wicked, Wicked (1973)

“See the hunter, see the hunted – both at the same time!”

WICKED, WICKED (1973)

Directed and written by Richard L. Bare who usually wrote for television offers us this classic schlocky & obscure little horror thriller from the 70s boasting the technique of ANAMORPHICÂ DuoVision, employing the use of split- screen to tell the story about a psychotic killer in a creepy fright mask dismembering blondes at the Grandview Hotel. Starring Tiffany Bolling (The Candy Snatchers 1973, Kingdom of the Spiders 1977) as singer Lisa James, Scott Brady plays Police Sgt. Ramsey and Edd Burns (77 Sunset Strip) is ‘Hank’ Lassiter a sleazy lifeguard. With appearances by Madeleine Sherwood, Arthur O’Connell and Roger Bowen.