Blackenstein (1973)
Bad science was never as bad as it is in Blackenstein. This is one of those flicks that probably did well in dollar theaters in the ‘70s and in video rental stores in the ‘80s when VCR machines became affordable to the masses. The title alone is enough to tell you that it was written and produced with pocket change in a week or so purely for fun and profit.
For the most part, the script sucks, the acting is terrible, the music is inappropriate and the dialogue is moronic. The “black” thing, as fans of this specialized horror genre would expect, is purely an excuse for a catchy title to cash in on the popularity of low budget “black” movies being made at the time. It is clearly not meant to have any sociological significance or socially redeeming value. For the most part, it doesn’t.
However, the top notch directing and one intelligent and insightful scene in a VA hospital with a sadistic orderly and a quadruple amputee vet tell another story. They tell you that the moviemakers knew what they were doing. They let you know that the casting choices, lines, props, music, sets and clichés were conceived to capitalize on a successful formula. It is oddly as though writer/producer Frank (as in Frankenstein) Soletre and director William (as in Billy) Levey tried to conceal their real talent and couldn’t quite pull it off. As silly as it sounds, given the time, money and incentive to make a well crafted sci-fi movie like Gale Anne Hurd’s The Terminator, these guys probably could have done it.
A close study of this awful gem shows you that many production “errors” were made on purpose for laughs and some actual mistakes were left in on purpose. For instance, a police captain introduces his partner to Dr. Stein as “Lieutenant Jackson,” but in the credits, the captain is a lieutenant and the lieutenant is a sergeant. One of the funniest lines in the movie is at the bedside of Eddie Turner, a vet with no arms or legs (like Sherilyn Fenn in Boxing Helena). His fiancée, the beautiful and brilliant Dr. Winifred Walker, tells Eddie that there is hope for him if he will let Dr. Stein help him. She says, “Dr. Stein just won the Nobel Peace Prize for discovering the genetic code!”
As you will see, that’s only a small sample of “goofs” that keep the viewer coming back for more. You get the same sort of thing with the preposterous action shots.
A man (Robert L. Hurd) making out with a woman in an alley, decides to rip the top of her dress (had to put those great boobs on display somehow). She screams in horror but because she sees the monster reaching for her alley date. He whirls and fights valiantly with a flurry of left and right punches to the midsection. A ring announcer in a boxing match would call that kind of pounding, “hammering blows” because of the force generated by the way he delivers them as only a boxer or a martial artist could. In the movie sequence it looks ridiculous. After all, this is a Frankenstein monster he’s hitting with his fists. You know that ain’t gonna work.
Naturally, the monster is undaunted by the body shots. He strangles the man, disembowels the woman and eats her guts. You see one heel of the monster’s spanking new high-top shoe as he steps across the face of the man, leaving him dead in the alley.
The 7 26 birthday that appears so strikingly in Fuhrman-related movies could be a code for his badge number as he wrote it in Murder in Brentwood. This is how you find the code:
Mark Fuhrman inserted his last name (which is also his mother’s last name) and his badge number above his notes for the book and titled it, “MARK FUHRMAN’S NOTES THE SCENE AT BUNDY.” The first three digits of his badge number are 214. However, he wrote it in such a way that it can also be read 714. That's the Babe Ruth career home run record that stood for nearly 40 years. Black baseball star "Hammerin' Hank" Aaron broke it in 1972. Hank Aaron and Mark Fuhrman share the same birthday. 714 is also the badge number of former WW II Army Air Force bomber crewman Jack Webb’s Dragnet character Sergeant Joe Friday. The dynamic trademark of that Jack Webb production is a sweaty hand pounding the “MARK VII” (7) logo into a metal background with a hammer.
You can decipher this logo-birthday-calendar year code easily using an analogue Swiss Army watch as a decoder and substituting the hours with anything that can be represent by numbers. Nicole Simpson was wearing a Swiss Army watch when her attacker hit her in the back of the head with something hard and heavy enough to cause brain damage. The watch face is ringed with large outside numbers from 1 to 11. The Swiss Army logo represents 12. The day of the month is in a little box in the 3 o’clock position (March). Inside of the large 1 to 11 number ring is military time (a small-digit 24 hour clock) with 13 aligned with 1, 14 aligned with 2 and all the way around to 23 aligned with 11. Reading the 7 in civilian time (7) and the 2 in military time (14) gives you 714. If you read the 2 in civilian time (2) and read it again in military time (14) you get 214. 7 and 2 can also give you 7 26 on a 36 hour clock. Clocks that go past 24 hours are sometimes used to countdown to "zero-hour" in military operations.
Military dates are written the same way they are in Europe, with the day ahead of the month. You have only to reverse the order with the birthday of Mark Fuhrman’s mother 28 (17 in military time on a 36 hour clock for her day of birth) and March (civilian code 3) to get the Army’s 173rd Airborne Brigade (a.k.a. the Herd) link to Robert C. Hurd Jr. This murder victim was never in the Herd. The link is to his name with the identical pronunciation, and to Mark Fuhrman’s false assertion that he retired from the Army as a master sergeant. .
From 1984 through most of 1995 Mark Fuhrman lived in Redondo Beach on the western border of Torrance. On July 26, 1989 an actor in Blackenstein named Gerald Soucie died in the Torrance Memorial Hospital of burns he suffered in a motorcycle accident near his home in Valencia on June 30, 1989. Valencia borders Santa Clarita (where Ron Shipp and Ron Phillips lived) on the south.
Gerald Soucie was born on
March 31, 1936 in Maine and served in the
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Nelson’s girlfriend goes outside in her negligee to see what happened to him. The monster, lying in wait in the bushes, jumps out and kills her.
The girlfriend is Liz Renay, a former Las Vegas showgirl from Arizona and girlfriend of mobster Mickey Cohen. She appeared in a 1972 episode of Adam 12, a Mark VII production. A woman named Cohen said she wrote the Mothers poem in front of Nicole’s courtyard gate. The first signature in Mark Fuhrman’s Murder in Brentwood version of that poem is Adam. The second is Allie. Liz Renay’s daughter died on her 39th birthday in 1982.
In the 1983 pilot episode of Mike Hammer with Michelle Phillips (Billie in Dillinger ’73), Hammer’s daughter dies on her birthday. Hammer is an ex-soldier in the pilot. Tom Atkins is an ex-Marine pilot. In The Ninth Configuration with Stacy Keach, he’s a Marine Corps sergeant. In Lethal Weapon he’s a former Army officer who served with Danny Glover’s character Roger in the 173rd Airborne Brigade – the Herd. Roger is now an LAPD homicide detective. He is also a sergeant. He has a cat named Burbank. When you see flock of sheep in Fuhrman's movie, you might recall this dicey situation line from Lethal Weapon -- Riggs: Let's do what one sheepherder said to the other sheepherder....Roger: What's that?... Riggs: Let's get the flock out of here!
The movie begins at night with the 22-year-old daughter of his old Herd buddy plunging to her death from a tall building. Roger investigates her death the next morning on his birthday. That morning was also the death day of two drug dealers killed by an troubled undercover cop named Riggs (Mel Gibson). The morning after that, Riggs becomes Roger's new partner. When it looks as though Riggs is going to shoot himself, Roger stops him by jamming his thumb between the receiver of his pistol and the cocked hammer just as the hammer comes down.
In a Dragnet-1967episode, LAPD Det/Sgt. Joe Friday and his partner Bill Gannon (Harry Morgan), are called to the scene of an elderly man beaten to death with a hammer in his home. A patrolman in his mid 20s named Goldman is the first officer on the scene. He briefs Friday and Gannon on what he found. The Los Angeles homicide detectives discover that two items are missing from the victim's home and a car parked in front of his building was stolen. A 19-year-old male and 17-year-old female are arrested in Cottonwood, Arizona driving the stolen car. Friday, Gannon and police woman named Dorothy fly to Cottonwood to question the couple. They find one item that was missing from the victim's home in the trunk of the car and the other, a braded gold wedding band with blue stones, on the woman's finger The couple was married in Nevada. The ring belonged to the victim's deceased wife.
Robert Charles Hurd Jr. was the "Las Vegas," Nevada man that Mark Fuhrman said in Murder in Brentwood was beaten to death with a hammer in his home, put in the trunk of his car and left in an alley in Los Angeles. Fuhrman referred to him in Murder in Brentwood only as a retired Army master sergeant and the uncle of a black woman named Connie Law. Fuhrman said he put his arm around her on an impulse of compassion. Hurd was murdered on March 21, 1994, four days shy of his birthday and seven days shy of Billie Fuhrman’s birthday. On March 25, 1994, Robert C. Hurd would have been 75 years old.
Thanks to Lollie, we now know that Robert C. Hurd Jr. was not a master sergeant (pay grade E-8) when he retired from active military service in 1971. He was a sergeant major (pay grade E-9). He joined the Army in 1943 and served his entire Army career as a combat engineer (cross-trained in infantry, construction and demolition). He worked primarily in field and headquarters engineer battalions as a first sergeant, a construction foreman and an operations sergeant in Europe, Korea, Vietnam, Fort Knox, KY, and Fort Leonard Wood, MO. He received numerous Good Conduct Medals but other awards and badges that should accompany them given his available record were been redacted, including his primary weapon qualification badge. You can't get out of Basic Training without receiving one.
A curious feature of his honorable discharge in January 1971 that would have been of special interest to Mark Fuhrman, was his "transfer" in July of '71 to the Army Reserves. From there he appears to have switched to the Air Force Reserves based on an Internet search Lollie did for Robert Charles Hurd, Jr., which turned up a man by that name with the same birthday as a retired Air Force sergeant major.*
In 1986, Fuhrman enquired about joining a Reserve unit at a Marine recruiting station in Redondo Beach. The sergeant he met with was the son of a WW II Marine Corps pilot and Medal of Honor winner who ended his military career as a general in the Air Force Reserves.
* Unsolved Mystery: The primary source for this information can no longer be found. The available record shows only that a U.S. Air Force E-9 named Robert C. Hurd (no middle name and no Jr. served in the Regular Air Force, not the Air Force Reserves)
A U.S. Army Air Forces recruiting poster during WW II could remind you of Mark Fuhrman, a self-proclaimed “war and history buff” who established his casual dress TV persona wearing a similar dark brown leather jacket. The airman on the poster is holding a bomb. The only person in the O.J. case who managed to work a bomb into any O.J. story was Mark Fuhrman (Murder in Brentwood, page 80). He got there directly from a story involving an armed robber he shot named Joseph Britton.
The largest allied bombing campaign against Nazi Germany, as depicted in Twelve O’clock High with Gregory Peck (went to Fuhrman’s military school) and Dean Jagger (died on Fuhrman’s birthday) was launched from air bases in Great Brittan. 12 o’clock on the Swiss Army watch is the Swiss Army Logo. The July 26 link to the Jagger name is British rock star Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones. He was born on July 26, 1943. The U.S. Air Force was born on July 26, 1947 when The National Security Act of 1947 became law. This was the law that gave birth to the CIA on the same day.
The problem with the only name Fuhrman gave in the Hurd case, Connie Law, is that “National Security gives you the Scrabble letters you need to spell Connie and the “Act” was a law. Fuhrman’s omission of her murdered uncle’s name told those of us who know his storytelling patterns of inclusion and exclusion that the missing name meant a lot to him. It was too much like the heavy bronze heel of the German Stiletto that was designed to use like a hammer. Fuhrman hid that feature of the knife in his book for no legitimate reason. Nicole’s autopsy report shows that someone almost certainly used that knife on her in that way.
In the Hypotheses of a Murder chapter of Murder in Brentwood, Fuhrman imagines that an
Mark J. Fuhrman’s middle name, like O.J. Simpson, is James.
His mother lived in a Las Vegas suburb in ‘94. Billie is a feminine variant of William.
Mark Fuhrman operated a joiner in a wood shop during his interrupted active duty in the Marines. That’s one of several dangerous power tools in any wood shop. To prevent needless eye injuries from flying wood chips, protective goggles are a must. If you don’t know what they look like, you’ll see them in a hilarious Blackenstein “operation” scene.
Mark Fuhrman associated himself strongly with birds, aircraft, pilots and paratroopers. All Air Force personnel are represented by a logo with two gold wings and a five-pointed star with a red dot inside a blue circle. The Army’s logo is a white five-pointed star with a gold border on a black background inside of a gold-border square with rounded corners. All Army airborne soldiers wear “jump wings,” a silver badge with a parachute joined on both sides near the point of the lines and the base of the canopy by curled wings. In Murder in Brentwood, Mark Fuhrman said that he identified with William Wallace, Mel Gibson’s character in Braveheart. In Lethal Weapon, Gibson is a LAPD detective who was an Army Special Forces (airborne) sniper in Vietnam. You see in a black and white photo that his LAPD partner, played by Danny Glover and Tom Akins’ character, were in the Army’s 173rd Airborne Brigade together in Vietnam by the Herd patch on Glover’s shoulder. In Lethal Weapon, Glover is the black man you see in an alley. Only he isn’t dead, just bloody. He has a gun aimed at the man in a car who kidnapped his daughter and nearly beat him to death. He cocks the hammer and shoots
An irony of history is that bonnets were taken away form all field solders of the 173rd in 1971 because of stories in the American press about Herd soldiers cutting off the ears of enemy dead. This could be significant because of the long stabbing wound in Ron Goldman’s neck that went all the way through and cut his ear on the opposite side.
The point is this: The murders of Ron Goldman, Nicole Simpson and Robert C. Hurd are two parts of a whole. They are linked by way of the name Hurd (Herd) and other names, by the weapon used to incapacitate Nicole and to leave a 6 ½ “wound path through Ron’s neck. They are also linked by an obscure, low-budget movie called Blackenstein, and by the first lead detective on both cases – Mark Fuhrman.
Solitaire1's discovery of the name Robert Hurd and Rovaan’s discovery of when he died and the wars he served in (WW II, Korea and Vietnam) led us to Blackenstein. Of the tens of thousands of movies in the IMDB it was the only one with an actor named Robert Hurd. The idea for Fuhrman’s family crest, by the way, which was based on Young Frankenstein and a Scottish Rights tombstone, came two months before we knew about Blackenstein. It all came from what we knew about Fuhrman and the Bundy murders.
The Herd was the first American combat brigade in Vietnam. It was supplemented by combat units from Australia (a.k.a. Oz) and New Zealand. Fuhrman made his Murder in Greenwich movie in New Zealand with many New Zealand cast members. In that movie, where he investigates the death of Martha Moxley who was beaten to death with a golf club, he shows his character in the “bomber jacket” and a herd of sheep on his ranch.
The bloody glove on Bundy implicated O.J. because one naturally shed limb hair like the hair that grows on the back of the hand inside the glove belonged to a black person. And the Rockingham glove implicated O.J. because it had O.J.’s blood with his DNA in it. Blackenstein covers that, too.
In one Murder in Brentwood paragraph where Fuhrman talks about feeling down in an airport he says, “I sat at my gate’s waiting area. Within in minutes, a lady asked me if I was Mark Fuhrman. I responded that I was not, but thanked her for the complement. The scotch still had ahold of my humor.” He was in a big airport waiting to fly into a small airport. In that paragraph, he also wrote that he “didn’t need a drink” but ordered scotch. The bartender poured him “a tall double.”
Mark Fuhrman made the discovery that the Bronco near the Rockingham gate on 6 13 1994 was leased to O.J. by Hertz. He said that the Bronco was parked in Nicole’s alley.
O.J. was doing running-through-the-airport commercials in 1979 for Hertz when he played astronaut John Walker in Capricorn One, a movie about a staged trip to Mars. Mars is the Roman god of war. Marz is the German name for March.
Mark Fuhrman was a bodybuilder and an athlete who tried to sell a screenplay with Laura Hart but was rejected. He was also rejected as a technical advisor.
The Bundy monster wore new, high-top shoes and left a heart in blood on a heel print. Fuhrman made an issue of Ron Goldman fighting the killer and the heel print between his boot and Nicole’s head. Next to the heart in blood is an arrow in blood. Fuhrman argued that the murders were motivated by a love (heart symbol) triangle (the head of the arrow) with jealousy as the potion that turned O.J. into a monster. .
Fuhrman hunted deer with a rifle and bow and arrows. A mature male red deer is a hart. A person dear to you is someone you love.
Fuhrman’s movie shows a standing statuette of Mother Mary draped in white and blue.
Fuhrman speculated that the dog might have bitten the killer.
Blackenstein Cast and Crew
The best place to start is with these actor and their characters in the following order: Fuhrman bell-ringers are in bold type:
Robert L. Hurd is Black Man in Alley John Hart is Dr. Stein Ivory Stone is Dr. Winifred Walker
Joe DeSue is Eddie Turner Gerald Soucie is Nelson. Liz Renay is Nelson’s Lover
Bob Brophy is Hospital Attendant Roosevelt Jackson is Malcomb Nick Bolin is Bruno
James Cousar is Police Lt./Sgt. Jim Jackson Don Brodie is Police Capt/Lt. Tucker.
James is a Fuhrman triple bell-ringer because its his middle name as well as O.J.'s and because the Bundy killer played the part of a black man. Both homicide detectives are Fuhrman bell-ringers because Fuhrman was a homicide detective. The white lead detective is a double Fuhrman bell-ringer because race is a big issue with him and he was the lead detective in the Bundy case. Don Brodie is a single Fuhrman bell-ringer because he appeared with O.J. in Goldie and the Boxer. Fuhrman said that his top athlete was boxer George Foreman.
You see other Fuhrman-bell ringer names in the starting credits, notably Lou Frohman credited along with Cardella Di Milo for the original music, and assistant director Don Goldman in the end credits. You see Gerald Soucie as Nelson and as the makeup artist.
The name Di Milo is a variant of Venus De Milo, the armless statue of the Roman goddess of love discovered in Milo, France. This is a mother link and a link to the arrow and the heart drawn in blood on the Bundy murder scene. If you know the story of Venus and the errand she sent her winged son Cupid on to make the unsurpassed beauty of a mortal girl named Psyche a curse, you don’t have to ask how it fits into Fuhrman’s love triangle theory of O.J. murdering Ron and Nicole.
Here it is in a very small nutshell: Venus got jealous of Psyche (which means “butterfly” and “soul”) because of her beauty and popularity. She sent cupid to give her a magic potion while she was sleeping that made her utterly unapproachable. But while he was at it, he accidentally pricked himself with one of his love arrows. He made her his woman on the condition that she didn’t look at his face. He was a great lover and provider but she had no idea who he was. One night when she was overcome with curiosity she lit a candle to see what he looked like. She saw that it was the god of love but while she was looking at him hot wax from the candle dripped on his face and woke him up. Both of them went though hell to get back together.
Now you’re ready to see where everything comes together in Blackenstein
Dr. Winifred Walker arrives at the small Hollywood-Burbank Airport. She walks down a corridor in the terminal where you see “GATE 6” in a lighted rectangular sign near the ceiling and a similar box farther down the hall on the opposite side – gates. You hear a female blues singer singing, “Sometimes I drink. Sometimes I cry…”
She picks up her rental car from Hertz. Outside, a black man in a sky cap puts her luggage into the trunk. You don’t see him while director of Photography Robert (as in Robert C. Hurd) Caramico’s name is being display because his upper body is inside the trunk
. At the totally tasteless “castle” home of Dr. Stein, her mentor in collage before she got her PhD, Dr. Stein’s servant Malcomb, lets her into the gated door. He invites her to have a seat next to a life-sized statue of Mother Mary with a halo of Christmas lights around her head.
When the suave, snowy-haired Dr. and his lovely protégée get together he invites her to have dinner with him. They sit at opposite ends of a long table with a large, tacky reproduction of Antonio Canova’s 1787 Cupid and Psyche statue as a centerpiece. You can’t tell what it is at first because the first thing you can see clearly is one white wing pointing up. Then you see two wings but you still can’t make out what it is until the camera circles far enough for you to see the winged male figure with a female in his embrace. That statue on the table is Dr. Stein’s idea of sophistication. He wears a shirt, tie and sports jacket ensemble that looks like it belongs on a carnival barker as he sips his wine and converses with Dr. Walker through a small gap in the statue. That’s his idea of elegance.
Dr. Walker looks impressed. However, she has something very serious on her mind. Her fiancé Eddie Turner lost both arms and both legs in a landmine explosion in Vietnam.
She thinks Dr. Stein can help him with his wondrous DNA formula that can reverse the aging process in some patients and restore the lost limbs of others. It has a few kinks in it as he showed Dr. Walker the evening before they visited the hospital.
A 90-year-old patient named Eleanor who looks 50 is taking a variation of the formula. Dr. Walker tells Eleanor to call her Winifred. The downside of Eleanor’s treatment is that she needs injections every 12 hours to keep from going back to 90 and aging rapidly from there. Dr. Stein is trying to find “a locking mechanism” to stabilize the beneficial effects.
As Stein and Walker are driving to the hospital, you see poor Eddie on his back in bed with no arms and legs asking the hospital orderly for some ice cream to sooth his dry throat. The orderly taunt him by suggesting that he reach over and pour himself a nice, cold drink of water. But then the writher and director do something amazing. They lead the orderly into a monologue in which he tells Eddie, “You think you’re special just because you’re laying there.” He berates Eddie for his stupid “patriotism.” He says, “You didn’t have to go.”
The orderly tells Eddie in an unguarded moment of spontaneous recall that he was called to the service. He was a bodybuilder and super athlete. His friends gave him a terrific send-off party with neat little gifts for the patriotic super soldier he knew he was going to be. He doesn’t say it, but you can see in his face, his gestures and in subtle camera moves that it was the proudest moment of his life.
He went to the induction center.
He got rejected. He had a defective heart.
He had to return to his friends who gave him the party in shame. You can see that he hasn’t been right since. His body is flabby. He can’t have any friends because his personality sucks. But now you know why he treats Eddie the way he does. Even as a quadruple amputee, he sees Eddie as more of a man than he is by how he measured manhood when he answered the call and then got rejected because of his heart. He’s jealous.
Eddie gets shipped to Dr. Stein’s, house/laboratory/ clinic and begins his special DNA treatment. It looks like he got the right sets of arms and legs the same day because Dr. Stein is wearing the same clothes. He might have been a tad off in the measurements, though, unless Eddie was formerly the tallest center in history for a professional basketball team. You see the same, dangerous electronic lab equipment that Dr. Frankenstein used to make his monster in 1931. Dr. Stein protects his eyes from the man-made lighting with welder’s goggles. Judging by Dr. Walker’s protective eyewear, she seems to think that sharp wood chips are going to start flying out of Eddie’s body at tremendous velocity.
The first operation is a success. With two more procedures to go using the trusty old spark and arch machines and Eddie’s custom DNA formula, he’ll be ready to boogie in two or three more days. But before the brilliant doctors can perform the second operation, jealousy rears its ugly head again.
It was a dark and stormy night – with a full moon. Malcomb (the Fritz/Igor guy) follows Dr. Walker down a dark corridor lit only with a few flickering candles. He worships her from afar and tells her the next day before the second big operation that he has thought of nothing but her since she arrived. He tells her that he is in love with her. She tells him that she likes him but she loves Eddie and when he’s all better they are going to be married. She says that she hopes that won’t affect their friendship.
Wanna guess how that little friendship speech went over?
Jealous and rejected, Macomb uses his access to the laboratory to sabotage Eddie’s DNA formula. He takes the vial marked “Eddie” on one side and “DNA” on the other and pours it into an empty beaker. He puts Bruno’s DNA formula into Eddie’s vial and Eddie’s DNA from the beaker into Bruno’s vial.
When the second operation is over, Eddie doesn’t feel right. There’s something slightly wrong
Apart from the minor physical problems with Eddie that his ace doctors can see and his complaint that he didn’t feel right, he seems okay. They put him back on the operating table. When things look shaky, Dr. Stein orders Dr. Walker to give him “50 more cc’s” of DNA.
All done…
The next time you see Eddie, he’s lying asleep on a slab in the cell. Dr. Walker slides the gate back to check on him. She leaves it open when she leaves to study the problem further. You don’t see his face. You just see his fiancée’s face. She looks a bit worried – the way you would look if you thought you might added a bit too much salt to your casserole. She sits at a work table, moves a pencil around aimlessly and falls asleep.
Eddie sits up, steps down and stalks slowly and stiffly out with his arms raised and elbows locked in front of him.
He leaves the house. Now you see that his face is really messed up. It looks horrible. His forehead is grotesquely distorted and he’s way off color to the gray-side. No wonder his fiancée was a bit disturbed by his appearance. He is sporting a nice, neat Arfo, though. And he’s wearing a dark suit and shiny new high-top shoes.
Somehow Eddie, the monster, walks to the hospital without anyone noticing him. He goes inside and finds that the only one there is the orderly who gave him a hard time about the ice cream and the water. He rips off the man’s arm then strangles him to death..
His next stop is Nelson’s girlfriend’s house. You know that story.
After the monster’s gut feast, he walks back to his cell unnoticed, closes the gate, and goes to sleep. You’d think that he would have blood all over him. But he doesn’t. No blood anywhere -- except, perhaps his socks. There are no close-ups of the driveway or the foyer floor, so he might have lefts some drops there, too.
The next day, police detectives Tucker and Jackson show up at Dr. Stein’s house. They tell him about some murders in the area and ask him if he saw anything unusual. He tells them about his staff and his patients. No leads there. The detectives leave the house.
The following night, the monster goes out for another stroll in the neighborhood. He kills a woman abandoned by her lecherous boyfriend in a park . You see the monster dragging her away through a lens of her glasses that she dropped when the monster attacked.
Meanwhile, inside a nightclub, a comedian tells a joke about a man going into a bar and asking the bartender to pour him two shots of scotch, one for himself and the other for his talking dog. He finishes his act, turns the stage over to a lady blues singer (Di Milo) and goes outside to the alley for a cigarette. He sees the monster approaching a man and a woman in the alley kissing amorously. The man, as you would expect in a 1973 movie without a woman’s shower scene, suddenly rips away the top of the woman’s dress…
You know how the rest of that story goes, too.
This time when the monster comes back to the house – with no blood on him anywhere – he walks up the stairs and sees Malcomb trying to rape Winifred. Malcomb fights with him, giving him several punches in the gut with his fists. The monster pushes him away. Malcomb runs to another room, comes back with a pistol and shoots the monster five or six times in the body with no effect. The monster kills him. Then he goes after Bruno, fights with him and kills him. On his way out he strangles the young-looking old lady. The monster then goes after Winifred who is now in the lab. Something in her beautiful face and plaintive voice stops him. Dr. Stein rushes in. The monster kills him and leaves the house. The detectives come in. The captain tells the other detective, “Jim, call an ambulance, code 3!” Instead, seeing how distraught the woman is over the death of the man who was probably like a dear uncle to her, the young detective puts his arm around her shoulder on an impulse of compassion.
It looks for a while that the monster’s last victim, who he attacks while she is having trouble staring her dune buggy in an alley, is going to escape. She doesn’t.
Through a cyclone fence, you see a yellow van pull up with “Los Angeles County Canine Corps” written on the side. Two vicious dogs leap out. They attack the monster and do with their teeth what Malcomb’s bullets couldn’t do; they make him bleed. They bite his hand and arm. They rip open his stomach and eat his guts.
Next you see Winifred and the compassionate young detective almost nose to nose outside of Dr. Stein’s house in the dark. They look like they are about to kiss, although she is still, understandably, pretty sad under the circumstances.
Thunder crashes. Dr. Stein’s house is illuminated in lightning flashes. Credits roll down.
Did any of this look familiar to you or sound like something you might have heard? –Jasper
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1967. He was a movie industry makeup artist by profession. His greatest professional claim to fame was his work on 
obsessively jealous O.J. lost control in an argument with Nicole and struck her “with a pounding blow to the top of her head.” That’s not quite right. The “pounding blow” was to the back of her head. Fuhrman doesn’t say what he hit her with. Instead, he makes a detailed argument that the murder weapon was a Swiss Army knife. Still, there was no innocent reason for him to go out of his way to hide the hammer-like quality of the German Stiletto’s heel and the name of the Las Vegas man killed with a hammer. You can see exactly how they are related with the heel of the bayonet on the Herd patch. 
Another patient named Bruno has lost both legs. Dr. Stein was able to attach one new leg with complete success. But something about Bruno’s other leg attachment turned it into a tiger leg. Dr. Stein hypothesize that it’s some kind of genetic throwback to a primitive time (that somehow crossed species). Nevertheless, he’s confident that he can help Eddie. 
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