<b>(thunder crashes)</b> <b>♪ One day the devil came to him ♪</b> <b>♪ For he was a minor demon ♪</b> <b>♪ Asked him to torture some humans ♪</b> <b>♪ With his two friends in tow ♪</b> <b>♪ Mittens and El Sapo ♪</b> <b>♪ The Baron Mondo Von Doren ♪</b> <b>♪ On Nightmare Theatre ♪</b> Yeah.

Wait a minute.

That's how the papers covered it?

Sure.

They made it sound so horrible.

A man was drowning and another guy watched him drown and did nothing to save him.

A singer was on his balcony, witnessed the whole thing, but he wasn't able to do anything to help either.

He was horrified over how the man just watched the other guy drowning and did nothing to help.

So the singer invited him to the concert.

During the concert, the singer pointed out the guy to the cops, but there was so much more to it.

It went down like this.

The arena was packed, Mittens, packed to the gills.

The singer was singing this song, but he was also telling a story.

What?

No, it was a real story, not some urban legend.

See, a guy really was drowning, and another man just watched him struggling.

That really happened.

The newspapers got that part right.

But the man didn't drown.

He just floundered around in the water for hours like a fool.

Here's what happened.

The singer was singing one of his biggest hits, a song called In the Air Tonight.

And when the singer got to these lines, well, I was there.

And I saw what you did.

A saw it with my own eyes.

So you can wipe off that grin.

I know where you've been.

It's all been a pack of lies.

The police tried to grab the man.

They're about to rest the guy for watching the other man drown.

What?

What?

Note?

The guy didn't go to jail, much less prison.

How do I know?

Because that man was me.

The drowning man was Sapo.

Once I explained it, all the cops to the crowd and to the singer.

All was forgiven.

And we all had a good laugh at Sapo's expense, which, to be honest, is the best kind of love to have.

I was given a standing ovation.

In fact, I was invited on the stage and the singer and I did a duet of Easy Lover, and we brought the house down.

Wait, wait.

We're on.

Later.

I'll tell you about my Reg.

How the my red shoes gave David Bowie the idea for that song.

Oh, well, anyway, hello, folks, and welcome to Nightmare Theatre.

I am your host, the Baron Mondo Van Doren.

And here with me is Mittens, the Werewolf.

And we were just discussing crazy stories as we wait for the craziest story of all time.

I'll separate and presto to show up with tonight's movie.

I'm not sure where it could be, but you ought to be here any minute with them.

Oh, here.

I am, fellas.

Late as usual.

I am late.

The sea.

I was down at the bottle recycling center, and I ran into some delays and troubles.

Let's just call it that way.

We don't generate enough bottles to merit a trip down to the bottle recycling center.

We are tin can men, and we'll always be tin can men.

What were you doing down there with those bottle people?

Oh, that was it.

Drop it off.

I was picking up.

Pick it up.

I will not have bottles in this building.

Oh, I know.

I was going to keep them bottles out in the yard.

I needed as many as I could lay my four hands on for my new imitation goat milk business.

Stop right there.

I don't want to hear another word about this.

Well, you won't hear anything about it, because with no bottles, I won't need a jackhammer.

All that goat milk out of the tub.

I did my best to get the bottle.

So I snuck in and I fished a white lab coat out of the employee locker.

And I must say, I looked pretty good in that white lab coat.

Sapo, No wonder Earth looks good in a white lab coat.

No one.

Well, you might be right, because some clever security guard looked at me and said, Hey, where you going with them bottles?

We need a security guard like that around here.

So I dropped the balls and I took off running for my life and he was hot on my heels.

So I did a little spin move I saw in trials of life hunting and Escaping River.

That DVD?

Yeah, The Trials of Life.

Now, that was a great DVD set, but that was all about animals, wasn't it?

I learned a tip or two.

And these tips.

Were no, I tripped over my own two feet.

Oh, no.

Surprise.

There.

Get this, get this.

He tripped over me and he stumbled right down the stairs, and I. I checked on him, and he's okay.

And by the way, he must keep his wallet in his desk while he's on duty.

But by then, the word was out that there was an intruder in the bottle compound and all hands on deck.

So I ran into the employee break room and I hit out in New till the Heat died down.

Eventually I got out of the event.

So I'm guessing we have nothing whatsoever to show tonight.

Well, isn't that just great?

Wait, do you still have that hunting and escaping DVD you were talking about earlier?

We could show that.

No, I got.

I lost that in that car game that time.

So we got nothing.

Oh, but we do.

We do.

Where I was hiding.

And that employee breaking.

I was picking all the quarters out of the coffee fun.

$3.75, I might add.

Any rate, I was digging through the change fund and I found this film came at the bottom this is what was in that coffee for Wallace, though.

So with it, well, I climb upon John Steed and saw the fourth element in the quest of the dark territories beyond the castle.

Keep to find the old movie.

I've warned you about all that written fair talk.

You've been hanging out with those theater kids again, haven't you?

Just on the weekends.

Just on the weekend.

Saffo, Go find a movie now.

It's off stage, right?

That's stage left, dummy.

Well, I'm not sure what he gave us, folks, but.

Oh, who am I kidding?

I know exactly what he gave us deep down.

I know what it is, but I'd like to believe it's something cool like that.

Animal Hunting and Escape and DVD, or even a collection of bottle factory sanitation videos.

But deep down, deep down, I know what it is.

So, Mittens, let's just show it and I'll sit here and sob quietly to myself.

Got cash.

All right, Corrigan, this is your last chance.

Tell your friends to hand over that priming cutter.

I'm going to ram through those gates.

Go ahead and ram from the gate.

My ass in a box that back the atom guns Point of attachment.

Get the flaming powder from Sharon and warn him.

If you're not back in 5 minutes, I'll blast everybody in the car.

I'm not really your link to Camelot.

I've got to stop out of the black robe before you get that tiny powder right.

Another moment.

And he would have had this rocket motor.

This is one thing.

You can outsmart himself.

We have kept them hacker and the juggernaut over the years.

He will never rest until he is destroyed by the Kingdom of Atlantis.

But as long as we have this powder, he can take his tower to the upper world.

He still has Professor Norton in the tower and have Norton out of that target.

Aga Khan knows what's happened.

Take care of this prisoner.

I'm going to have a little talk with Hacker.

Hacker?

Yes.

His Majesty commands you deliver the crime.

Main power to Professor Norton.

Very well.

All right.

No.

All right.

Are you?

Leave the stables.

Gas powered.

Take him into the armory at once and take over the siege Equipment.

What about this man?

How?

I'll get you, Father.

Then be back in a minute.

Take him over and back at those doors and keep him company.

Professor Norton.

Who are you?

What are you doing here?

Don't you remember me?

We came down to Atlantis in your submarine.

Your son, Billy is waiting to help you escape.

Go away.

Leave me alone.

I must carry out my master's work.

You can certainly did a good job of transforming you.

I can see there's only one way to get you out of here, and that is by force.

And that is exactly what I intend to do.

Sorry of Pelham, but it's the only way to Oregon is Captain Professor Norton.

He's headed for the juggernaut.

The juggernaut with your control disk and cut off that escape from the Imperial Stables.

Yes, Your Majesty.

All right, then.

That's the only way I can get him out the juggernaut.

Don't wait to be operated by remote control.

Keep hacker cover with that atom gun until we get out of here.

good.

Here's the elevator.

Stand guard at the entrance.

The rest of you come with me.

We'll head them off upstairs after the tower, and we stop them before they can make an escape at the plate.

Hurry.

Now, plan.

What's that?

Well, funny looking airships.

That takes me out on the ball plane.

I'll hold them off.

Drop those swords and get in here and turn on that wall.

really?

I'll find a radio.

Your very own Majesty, the get away the ball player with the guards stuff.

They were too late.

This is the last time the cardigan will interfere with my plans to protect Decker.

And that's their finish.

PAM Hallelujah.

We saw that rocket blow them right out of the sky.

Despite a bad start.

I think this is going to be a great night.

There is no way.

No way they could have walked away from an explosion like that.

Welcome back, folks.

Well, that was the last we'll see of Crash and his band of morons.

I know I shouldn't revel in the loss of a person, but I just can't help myself.

I'm as happy as a schoolboy.

I'm as giddy as a drunken man is finally over.

What?

No, no.

There's no way they could have gotten away or jumped out at the last minute or been thrown clear or parachuted out or shimmy down a rope or a ladder or No way.

There's just no way.

I saw what I saw.

I know, I know, folks, look, that was yet another chapter of the Undersea Kingdom.

Chapter 839 or something like that.

I lost track.

Speaking of things I've lost track of.

I wonder where all Sapo is with tonight's movie.

He ought to be here by now.

I don't know where he is here.

I am, boss.

Here I am, Mittens.

It's about time I saw a little bit of the end of that thing.

You, Sean.

My gosh, boy, I sure hope those poor people were able to leave to see.

Don't push your luck, Sapo.

I'm going to ask you something.

I want an honest answer.

Do you have a movie for tonight?

I do.

I do.

I do.

And, boss, I think you're going to like it.

I think it's about spies.

An adventure in a city near the ocean.

When the night time rules in danger comes in with it or something like that.

Wait, what was that you just said?

I said or something like that?

No, Before that, did you say nighttime?

I sure did.

Sapo, this is nighttime.

Yes.

Catch the night, tired to adventure and excitement.

Or maybe it's a romance.

Night.

Night is the right time to be with the one that you love or something like that.

Fabio, it's not about anything like that.

Well, then what is it about?

It's about a sailor who falls in love with a mermaid at a local carnival.

Oh, get out of here.

That's crazy.

Nobody would ever make a movie about that.

Someone did.

This movie ain't about mermaids.

You.

You.

You can't fool me.

Well, yes, I can.

But this movie really is about a sailor and a mermaid.

It really is.

Well, if it has mermaids, sailors and folks in it, I did.

It is one fine, fine.

Movie, and you'd be wrong again.

Well, I bet it has at least something good in it.

Nope.

There's nothing.

Come on.

Come on, come on.

Spill it.

You know, there's something good here.

There must serve the stars.

Decidedly.

There is not.

There is not one good thing in this entire succulent mess.

There must be.

Why?

Why should there be something good?

Why do you always ask me that?

I think you do it just to aggravate me.

But there's something good in everyone and in everything.

A guy on TV told me that it's a universal law.

I think he was a preacher or maybe a professor.

And one of those tapes the judge made me watch, or maybe it was Jerry Springer.

There are two exceptions to that so-called universal law.

You and this film.

I admit I am a bit light on the good side and lightheaded, but there's got to be something good in this movie.

Are you doing this to press the issue all night?

There's nothing good here.

Well, unless you win.

Mom, I think we have something.

Okay.

If I were in a court of law and I was faced with perjury charges, I would admit there's one minor Good thing.

Marjorie Eaton.

Who is that?

Well, in this movie, she plays Madame Rabinovich.

She was in another movie you might know, in Mary Poppins.

She played a character called Mrs. Persimmon.

And that's good.

You like the Persimmons?

Are they your favorite fruit or something?

I guess.

But what I was going to say was this Marjorie Eaton played Emperor Palpatine in the Empire Strikes Back.

I would never have guessed if that was a lady.

Well, her face was obscured and the voice was dubbed by Clive Revell.

She was uncredited for the role, but it was her.

Wow.

So we have someone from the Star Wars in a movie we are showing.

Yeah.

We have a person whose face was covered and his voice was dubbed and whose name was left out of the critics.

Getting someone like that is a major score there.

Sapo thinking, Look, I don't wanna hear any more about it, so let's just get right into the movie that features mermaids, sailors, carnies, and a lady who was in one of the Star Wars movies here on Nightmare Theatre.

Excuse me, do you mind if I sit here?

I can't see anything with their backs from where I'm sitting.

Right.

Thank you.

That's really a great combo.

I'd like to listen to some.

That's a real fine music.

Is it?

Yes, I like it if I buy you a drink.

No, thank you.

I'd like to know.

Thank you.

From Sedona.

Got better?

Yes.

Me too.

Soon.

Lock up on leg for eating single man.

Nothing on me.

So not.

Who is that woman?

I don't know.

What did you say?

You?

Nothing.

Would you pay my check for me, please?

Thank you.

Hey, wait a minute.

Hi.

Hi.

Why are you following me when you left so fast?

I don't know how to reach or anything.

Like, I'd like to see you again if it's okay.

It's impossible.

Hey, wait.

Just let me talk to you for a little while.

I'll just walk along with you.

Shouldn't be all alone on a night like this anyway.

Would I be safe with you?

Yes.

Hey, I know that woman upsets you.

I thought maybe you'd need somebody to talk to.

Come on.

It's this the way.

Okay.

Okay.

Here's where I live.

It's a merry go round.

Do you live inside a wooden horse?

No.

My apartment is upstairs.

Must be pretty noisy, living over a merry go round sometimes.

But I love the music.

It reminds me of when.

When you were a kid.

Yes.

Well, good night.

Wait a minute.

I don't even know your name.

My name is Johnny.

I am called Maura.

Aren't you going to invite me upstairs for a while?

I have to go in just for a while.

Good night, Johnny.

Hey, Maura?

Where can I see you tomorrow, please?

All right.

I'll fix breakfast for you.

Okay.

What time?

Around 11.

Okay.

I'll be here.

11.

Good night.

Night.

Hello and welcome back.

To recap, we opened with a shot of waves coming in at night.

After night after night.

I guess the night tide.

That's why they call this the night time.

No.

And let me finish.

A sailor gets his pictures taken in a photobooth.

A sailor hits on a lady in that bar and follows her home.

Quite the compelling story so far.

Hey, boss, I'll tell you what I like about this film.

How could there be anything to like this early into the film?

I like that little scene in that cool Little happenin hip bar.

Yeah, that was a pretty neat place.

And it was full of cool cats, you know, like us.

Do you know who those people were?

I imagine they just put out a casting call for cool kids and hit dudes.

He said he cool things come in and hang out.

This happened in bar where we film this groovy movie.

Nope.

Hey, by the way, did you happen to catch the name of that bar?

It was the Night Tide Bar and Grill, right?

That's what it.

Was.

No, it was the Blue Grotto Bar.

It was a real place.

So these people were regulars?

Nope.

They were all friends of the crew.

There was no money to hire extras, so the cameraman tapped friends on the shoulder and said, Hey, pal, you want to be in a movie?

And people jumped at the chance.

However, to be fair, there are two notable patrons in the bar.

At one point you can see the world famous female impersonator Bar Bet he was born in Texas but became a star in France due to his trapeze skills.

He was in Jean Cocteau's 1932 short film Blood of a Poet.

You can also see Paul Matheson.

He painted the mural.

You will eventually see if you make it that far in this movie.

I doubt I will.

Write that bar scene, but part of it was weird.

Only part.

Yeah, well, I was talking about that weird old lady, the king of the sailor suit Sammy and murder all that gibberish.

What was she saying?

All of that will be revealed as this thing slowly oozes along.

Who?

Still wondering about the title of this thing, Night Tide.

That's got to come into play at some point.

Well, let me ask you something.

Do you know the name Edgar Allan Poe?

Yes, I do.

Really?

Yeah, I do.

He runs a railway in East Tennessee.

Maybe the well, the one I'm talking about is is a poet.

And he wrote a poem called Annabel Lee.

It was about eternal love.

Annabel Lee has died, and the speaker is mourning her, he says, And the stars never rise.

But I feel the bright eyes of the beautiful Annabel Lee.

And so all the night time I lie down by the side of my darling, my darling, my life and my bride in her sepulcher There by the sea.

In her tomb.

By the sounding sea.

My gosh, that is beautiful.

Yes, it is.

This film has another link to Poe also.

Really?

Yes.

But before I tell you what that is, let me tell you something else.

This movie was completed in 1960 and premiered in 1961, but wasn't fully released until 1963.

We are in a good sign.

No, it isn't.

There's always a reason the studio hold back movies for that many years and it's never a good reason.

You said there was another link to that Edmond Alvin poet guy.

Yeah.

Edgar Allan Poe.

Yes.

This film was released by American International Pictures as a double feature with The Raven, which was also based on a Poe.

Poem, The Raven.

Now, that sounds cool.

That sounds like a good movie, The Raven.

It is a good movie.

The Raven stars Vincent Price, Peter Lorre and Boris Karloff.

It would have been great if you had found that film, but nope, You found this one, folks.

Let's not talk about what could have been.

Let's instead rejoin the film that was kept on a shelf for three years and is based on two words out of a Poe poem, Night Tide here on Nightmare Theatre.

Good morning.

Good morning.

You open it up the merry go round already.

Your Sundays are big day.

Those look like beautiful horses.

Do you mind if I look at them?

Sure.

Go right ahead, sir.

Thank you.

So, customer for the love them horses are all hand-carved imported from the area.

Most people don't notice how special they are.

They're the finest in the country.

Morning, Dad.

Good morning.

I'm just showing this young man here.

What fine horses we got.

excuse me.

This is my granddaughter, Ella.

Hello.

Hello.

What's your name, son?

Johnny.

Johnny Drake.

How are you, Daddy?

You got the key to the cashbox?

yeah.

Got him here somewheres.

thank you.

I better be getting upstairs.

I'll see you around.

Hey, beautiful horses.

Who are you going to visit?

Well, I'm just going to visit a girl named Mora.

Mora?

I ain't never seen you around here before.

You just meet her or something?

No, no, I've known her for a while.

well, I'll see you around.

Well, so long son.

Okay.

Good morning.

Morning.

Come in.

Thank you.

How are you?

I'm pretty good.

Good.

This is quite a place you got here.

Thank you.

I collect things from the ocean.

Yeah, So I see.

Can I take your hat?

Are you hungry?

Yeah, I'm starving.

Good.

Breakfast is ready.

I have it on the balcony.

Okay.

Where's the.

Thank you.

Hey, Mara.

Yes, sure.

Have a great view.

Thank you.

I love it.

Let's make a toast.

All right.

To you and me.

And to the beautiful Pacific.

To us, Johnny, I hope you like fish.

I found this wonderful fish mackerel this morning.

I love food from the ocean, especially lobster and crab and sea urchin.

Do you ever read sea urchin?

No, I never have.

Maybe next time.

Okay.

I'm.

What do you do?

I mean, do you work or what?

Yes, I work back.

I have to work today, on Sunday.

What do you do?

And I told you my name.

Had you ever heard it before?

No, I don't think so.

I work on the amusement pier.

I'm an attraction.

What, are you dancing?

No.

They throw baseballs at you.

Don't they know?

Really don't think?

No.

My job isn't dangerous.

I give up.

What do you do?

I'm a mermaid.

You're a what?

A mermaid.

Have woman have fish.

I don't get it.

it's very simple.

I wear an artificial fishtail and I lie in a tank.

It looks like it's filled with water, and people pay $0.25 and come and look at me.

And that's how I make my living.

Don't you ever get tired of it?

Sometimes.

But it's restful anyway.

I told you about myself.

What about you?

Me?

I'm a member of the U.S. Navy.

You want to know?

Yes.

Well, my mother.

My father left.

My mother and I when I was very young.

So I became very close to my mother.

And I've always wanted to see the world.

And I never had a chance to.

I couldn't.

And my mother fell ill and died.

So I figured the easiest way to get out of Denver, Colorado, was to join the Navy, see the world.

But I haven't seen any of it yet.

You will hope so.

Watch them.

One will come too close.

They get bolder and bolder.

Hey.

Surprised you didn't die.

Where did you ever learn to do something like that?

I don't remember.

Probably on the island where I was born.

They're there.

Don't be afraid, little bird.

How old are you, sweet bird?

Don't be afraid.

And I like those poster.

is that supposed to be him?

It's the way I look when I'm in my costume.

Wow.

I didn't get to see this.

You will.

I wonder what Sam is.

Who?

Sam?

Hazy on the show.

My boss, as you say.

Hey, aren't you afraid people are going to see you out here?

No, they don't pay any attention to the presence of Sam.

Begin to spill.

yeah.

Cut you, Captain Murdock.

I beg your pardon?

I was.

I was just thinking about it.

Yes, I was.

I was merely contemplating some important matters in the quiet piece of the summer afternoon.

Are you so late?

I'm not living up to make any difference.

Run along now and get ready.

I will.

But I want to introduce a friend of mine.

This is Johnny Drake.

Captain Murdock.

How do you do?

How are you?

How are you?

Long.

I'll be warming up the amplifier.

All right.

I'm going to put my costume on.

I'll call you when I'm ready.

You're not going to be long.

I know.

Okay.

Sure is a hot day, Two days and.

Yes.

Yes, it is.

But tell me, young man, who will be sailing the seas for how long?

not long at all.

I've only gone as far as Hawaiian Islands.

I'm stationed down on Peter.

that's good.

That's a pity.

I thought we might reminisce, you know, compare notes as one seaman to another.

You know, I'm retired from His Majesty's service.

you mean the English Navy?

Precisely.

Precisely the English Navy.

Later on, I became captain of my own ship.

That's how I found her on one of my voyages.

You mean Mora?

Yes.

Well, perhaps she's told you all about.

No, she hasn't.

She told me something about coming from an island.

You know, you might be interested in that story.

It's a very unusual one.

How?

I want you to come and visit me sometime.

Well, listen, maybe I can come down to some weekend when I have liberty as yes and no hurry.

No hurry at all.

I tell you what, I'll give you my card.

I live in Venice.

It's not as grand as Italian namesake, but it has a certain charm nevertheless.

Captain Samuel Murdoch.

well, I'll see you around.

Yes, Yes, do.

Bye Bye.

Hurrah!

Ladies and gentlemen, all out in the main, the strangest creature in captivity.

Here I see her living under the water pipe.

WOMAN Half fish.

The strangest creature in captivity for $0.25.

Ladies and gentlemen, one quarter of a dollar.

The thrill of your life.

Only 25 and another two.

Hello, and welcome back.

What do you think of nighttime so far, folks?

There's been a lot of aimless wandering in this film.

I don't get it.

You know, I like that morality.

He has got it going on.

I don't know what that means.

I mean, I like the way she looks.

And I will tell you something else.

I like mermaids.

You do?

In fact.

Oh, he her.

Many years ago, I dated a type of mermaid.

You dated a mermaid?

Really?

Suffer.

What I tell you about Lion?

I mean, I'm okay with you lying to the taxman, to the guy who runs away.

But don't lie to me and Mittens.

I'm not lying.

Was there a menu or.

You remember that girl, don't you?

Definitely do.

Yes.

Yes.

It was back in my wild and wooly San Francisco free spirit.

Let it all hang out hippie days.

Come on, Mittens.

You remember?

You really don't remember that mermaid girl from down the way?

She was on the junior college swim team.

She liked to play the sitar.

She hated tacos.

And Glen Campbell.

Her name was Mavis.

Mavis Some mermaid.

And in the movie is more of the mermaid.

Okay.

Okay.

I think I see where this is going.

You really don't remember her?

Well, I was sure you would.

Oh, you know what?

That's right.

She didn't like you.

She always said I was spending too much time with you and not enough time with her.

But I still.

I just can't believe you don't remember her.

She was the one who told me I should grow my hair out real long and wear those bellbottom pants and take the busking life with the banjo.

You don't remember her?

Weird.

And just where was I when all of this mermaid romance was going on?

If you were dating a mermaid or anyone or anything at all, I'm pretty sure I would remember something like that.

You were off on that secret covert mission or whatever it was with Bert Convy and Norman fell.

Hey.

Well, that was only a week long trip to.

Well, I'm not at liberty to say where we were, but we were only gone a week.

How long did you supposedly date this alleged mermaid?

About a week.

That long?

That must have been a lot of challenges.

Was when it came to dating a girl like that.

What would the top half being a lady in the bottom half be in a fish?

Probably made going out to eat hard.

Probably difficult for someone with a fish fan to sit in a chair.

Oh, not all mermaids are like that, but some go the other way.

What on earth does that mean?

Some have human legs and human feet and our fish from the waist up.

That's not true.

It's just not true.

One.

Mermaids don't exist at all.

And two, the version you are describing would be ghastly unimagined, ably ghastly.

It is true, and I will thank you not to insult the memories of my time with dear readers.

Sapo, I don't believe you dated anyone, much less some reverse mermaid.

That sounds like something out of an H.P.

Lovecraft or.

Or Hieronymus Bosch.

True Nightmare Fuel.

Oh, yeah.

Well, yeah.

Smart guy.

Well, maybe this will change your mind.

What?

That's a fake photo.

Oh, it.

Really is me.

I really had hair like that, man.

I was a gorgeous guy back in those.

That's not what I mean.

And, you know it now.

Now, do you remember her image?

You remember this girl.

Sapo?

You clearly made this up, this so-called reverse made mermaid girlfriend of yours in an effort just to impress us.

Doesn't impress.

You?

No, not at all.

Not at all.

Mittens, does it impress humans?

Well, you know, at least I have this photograph to remember her.

And of happier times.

Folks, while Seppo here stares at his fake photo and pines for his fake lost love.

Let's get back to night Tide.

The movie One reviewer called one big drip here on nightmares.

Call me Mavis.

Call me Mavis.

I still have my banjo.

Call me Mavis.

Just stop it.

Hey, Ma, What's with this character, Sam?

Yeah, nothing.

What do you mean?

I mean, what's his story?

Who is he?

You've been thinking about him, haven't you?

Yeah, sort of.

Sort of A funny old guy.

He's just a lonely old man.

Do you know him very well?

Quite well.

He's my employer.

Sometimes I think my only friend.

He's your only friend.

What about me?

Of course you.

You don't know me very well.

Maybe after you get to know me, I think I know you pretty well on our third meeting.

No, but I'd like you to know me better.

I'm not afraid of that.

Why should you be afraid?

Tell me, did Sam say anything to you about me?

He said that he found you on some island.

Yes, he did.

He found me as an orphan on the island of Mykonos.

I was just a child and he adopted me.

You mean he's.

You're my guardian.

He's been like a father to me.

I owe him everything.

I'm sorry.

I didn't even realize I.

If I said anything and kind of bum.

I'm sorry.

That's all right.

I know that he's a strange man, but he's been so good to me, and I'm grateful.

And I know you can understand that because of what you told me about your mother.

Would you like some more coffee?

I love some.

You love this one, don't you?

Yes, son.

And the moon.

And the stars and the sea.

Yes, the sea.

Yes.

I love the sea most of all.

But I'm afraid of it too.

I guess we're all a little afraid of what we love a more.

Yes.

You're awfully far away.

And what are you gonna dad for us.

But I'm all right.

You just stay there for a minute.

It's all right.

You okay?

Could you get back a little?

You okay?

Yes.

It was that woman, wasn't it?

One woman.

Hello and welcome back to the Nightmare Theatre.

Are you enjoying night Tired?

This film vexes me, confounds me, frustrate me, and puts me in a bad spot.

One is that.

Well, to be honest, and I hate to having to admit to this, but it really does have some great shots.

It's almost like a noir film.

The cinematographer knew what he was doing, which is confusing because of the cinematographer was a guy named Willis Lapa Nix.

Uh oh, yeah, I know.

You don't have to say you never heard of him.

I must say, the man does a good job here, which is odd, because other than this, he really only did cinematography on TV shows like the Bold Ones, Kojak and MASH.

He sure made Kojak look cool, huh?

Did me Frank Burns, too.

He did a lot of TV.

But in fairness to the few movies he did, he got the hideous Sun demon.

And I swear I'm not making this up.

Pro football mayhem on a Sunday afternoon.

How?

He got the shots he got in this movie is beyond me.

Well, maybe he had a good director who helped him out.

The director's name is Curtis Harrington, and he would have been a no help.

Is he the brother of Pat Harrington, Jr?

No.

What else did he direct?

Harrington directed a ton of TV shows and the entire seventies cheese plate chock full of episodes of Charlie's Angels, Wonder Woman, Baretta and even Vegas.

You know, Ginger was the man on that show.

When you got that straight.

So as far as movies go, Harrington directed mostly broken down clunkers.

Like, how awful about Allen or What's the Matter with Helen but he's probably best known for who slew and Tea Room.

Hey, hey, hey.

Did any of those movies have mermaids in them?

Nope.

But hundreds of movies have had mermaids as central characters.

Off the top of my head, I can list Splash in 1984.

Miranda In 1948.

Mister Peabody in the Mermaid.

Also in 1948.

1948 was a good year for mermaid movies.

Apparently there was also a Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and 25 Porno and 28 too many to name.

I guess the most popular would be The Little Mermaid, which came out in 19.

Oh.

I remember that movie Scared the hell out of me.

I bet it did.

So did this Burt Harrington make any other mermaid movies?

It was Curt Harrington.

And no, he did not.

He did write the screenplay for this movie, which is based on a short story he wrote called The Secrets Beneath the Sea.

So he wrote it and directed it.

Was he in it?

No, but he was in the 1998 movie Gods and Monsters.

He was a man of many talents, not unlike myself.

Yeah.

He's also the one who got Universal to find a print of their 1932 film, The Old Dark House, which up to that point had been lost.

So I got to thank him for that.

Shame we didn't lose this film, folks.

Let's get back to more of Night Tide here Hi.

Hi.

How are you?

Thank you, my dear.

We were just having some tea.

Do you want to?

Well, I was just going out for some coffee.

you can have that here.

I just said tea, but I meant coffee.

Made a moment of it.

She was the only one who drinks tea.

Is it all young men?

What a dreadful invention these tea bags are.

If everyone insisted on using tea bags, I'd never be able to read anyone's TV.

That's so young, man.

Yeah, I guess.

Of course, for myself, it doesn't really matter.

I can't read my own.

Anyway.

Coffee.

Thank you.

How long you been in the Navy?

Just a little over a year.

What part of the country are you from?

I'm from Denver, Colorado.

Now, this is my first time out on the coast.

there you are.

All the visiting in our midst.

Yeah, I guess you could call me that.

I like it out here.

When I get out of the Navy, I'd like to look it out here.

Hello, folks.

hello, Dad.

It's Lieutenant Henderson.

how are you, Lieutenant?

Fine.

Would you like a cup of coffee?

No, thank you.

I can't.

You haven't seen anything new or unusual, have you?

No, I have.

And have you, Dad?

No, I.

How's things?

It's you, Lieutenant.

You come across any new clothes?

Maybe.

We're not quite sure about it yet.

There's not very much to go on.

It's nice to know you ain't just giving up.

Well, I better be on my way.

See you all again soon.

Well, I know Tennant.

Fine.

What was that all about?

That was Lieutenant Henderson of the Venice Police.

He was asking us about Mora.

Mora?

What about her?

You're a stranger here, and I guess you don't know what Everybody here.

Ellen, dear, you're meddling.

But I think you ought to know.

I think somebody ought to tell them.

Don't you dare.

Why, sure.

Certainly in no sacred in the past two years, Morales had two boyfriends, and they're both dead now.

What are the police think that had something to do with her?

Nothing's been proved.

No, not yet.

But don't you think the fact that it's happened twice is enough?

They were both nice boys.

They went around with her.

Then suddenly they disappeared.

A few days later, their bodies were found washed up on shore ground.

Nevertheless, my dear, there wasn't a shred of evidence that it wasn't simply the most unfortunate coincidence.

The police haven't been able to make a single arrest.

I know.

But if she didn't caused their death, then she brings bad luck.

And that's almost as bad.

I bet she didn't tell you about those boys, did she?

Hello?

Merry go round.

we were rather merry go round.

Okay.

I'll be right back.

Yeah, Just hold the line.

Hey, sailor, it's for you.

That's funny, because nobody knows I'm here.

Yeah.

Hello?

Hello?

Hello?

Who was it?

I don't know.

Look, something's come up.

I'm going to have to go.

Thank you for the coffee.

But the minute young man, you dropped Galaxy Cards material.

Great.

Well, hello and welcome back.

You know, the guy who made this movie, He started making movies when he was 14.

What were you doing at 14?

Sapo?

Well, I'll be.

Where did he go?

Hey, fellas.

Hey, fellas.

Love, American style.

True.

And then the red, white and blue.

What's gotten into, you.

Know, baby, that's where it's at.

Yeah.

Do you know what he's talking about?

What do you mean?

He's in.

Love?

He's right.

I'm in love.

When I say I'm in love, you best believe I'm in love.

Love with.

Who?

Or in this case, with what or who.

And I get You got I.

You got me.

Earlier, I made up that story.

I made up that story about me then.

But this time, Cupid's sparrow is right into my heart.

What is she this time?

Or reverse center or something?

No, but that would be amazing.

Boss.

She's a wonderful lady.

She's a wonderful lady, boss.

And she's a wonderfully smart lady.

And she's interested in you.

Oh, yes.

And she's real, right?

Yeah, as real as a smile on my face and as real as the song in my heart.

And I got another mash note from her today, and I'm just walking on air.

What?

Okay, let's start over.

How did you find this alleged a woman, love.

It's a lonely hearts club, and I've been writing her for some time now.

Is that a fact?

Yes.

And lonely lady in Lexington looking for love.

Wrote me back.

Wait, what's her name?

That's her username.

Mine is super sexy.

Sapo seeks suitable soulmate, and she and I have exchanged about ten letters.

You know, that's a lot of letters, right?

Ten letters.

Wow.

That sounds scary.

Some of them are more than one page.

And I wouldn't be surprised, boys, if she tries to make an honest man out.

Good luck to her there.

Many courts have tried to do that and failed miserably.

It's getting kind of hot and heavy.

I'll have you boys.

No, she just asked for a picture of me.

Ah.

There it is.

The truth comes out.

So she hasn't seen a picture of you?

No, no.

But that's what I'm going to do today.

I might have one of you fellas take the picture.

If I can't find my tripod.

Well, that will put an end to that real fast.

Once she sees you, she'll never write another letter to anyone living or dead.

Well, I don't know.

Both.

She could be the one.

She could be.

But the real question is, are you the one for her?

I think I might be.

Based on the letters you've sent, have you seen a picture of her yet?

Well, no, but.

Love is.

Blind.

Maybe in dreamland.

But in the real world, Lady love has got eyes.

Wait.

Does this lady in Lexington have eyes?

I believe she knows.

I think so.

Your toes.

Oh, I don't know.

She really wants to see me when she gets out.

I do want my boss Mittens.

I won't lie to you, fellows, but I won't lie to you guys again.

You lied about Mavis.

Well, I won't lie to you this time.

I'll never lie to you again.

I need a lady and I need a friend.

And I can't find one among the law abiding.

So I started writing letters to prisoners.

And this one wrote that?

Yeah, And it's pretty serious.

Very nice lady.

She asked me for my banking info so she could deposit some of her money into my account.

That's weird, though, isn't it?

How so?

In order to put money into my account, she had to take all the money I had out of my account so she could put hers in.

I think that's some kind of new law or something.

That seems legit.

I heard about that law.

And she's really worried about me.

She wants to take a life insurance.

Possibly.

I mean, she wants to build a life with me.

But to do that, she needs to take some insurance, you know, just in case something happens to me.

Yeah, that would be horrible.

Yeah.

She wants to make sure I get a good burial just in case something happens.

She don't want me winding up some part of her field somewhere.

Mittens, You see where this is going, right?

Sapo, that woman is a crook, and she's going to take you for every nickel you've got.

You're talking about the woman I love.

You know what?

Find some men have to touch the stove before they will believe it is hot.

If you want to make up stories about reverse mermaids or right, the criminals and prisoners then have at it.

She's paying her debt to society and you should feel sorry for her.

Her past four husbands have all died in swimming accidents.

Good thing you don't like the water.

And one of them died in a rock climbing accident.

Well, unless one of them died goofing off like a moron or sitting on his backside and ignores his jobs.

You're safe, folks.

Let's get back to Night Tide here on Nightmare Theatre.

Hey, I told her.

I told her about you and one of her roommate wants to meet you.

No, thank you.

Did you see a woman go by here?

Well, well, well, well.

A jolly surprise.

Come in, come in, come in.

Well, you find it inside.

You ought to be with us this year.

We were talking about my old girlfriend.

Well, what?

I have to say is rather difficult to explain, particularly to young people.

You know, I feel that young people nowadays form their opinions about life too soon.

One shouldn't do that.

But then perhaps you're different.

What were you going to tell me about me?

my dear, dear, dear.

Maybe you aren't different.

Patience, young man.

Patience is a virtue.

Learn that.

But you know, actually, what I want to tell you is difficult to put into words.

Certainly into words that you would understand.

However, I can put the basic fact quite bluntly, you are in grave and serious danger as long as you continue to see Myra, I'm in danger from you.

No, certainly not.

Then what are you talking about?

Myra, my friend Myra.

You must be crazy.

On the contrary, I'm quite safe.

And Myra is quite dangerous to you.

In what way?

Well, shall we say that she and she suffers from a certain compulsion which might cause her to take your life.

You're trying to tell me that she's insane?

Precisely.

But it might be better if you thought she were.

I wish you'd take my word for it.

Break off this acquaintance before it's too late.

You're a nice young fellow.

I wouldn't like to see you get hurt.

Another.

You get that stuff pretty hard, It may seem that way to your young eyes or to my age.

One needs a little stimulant.

You'll find that out later on.

You were going to tell me some more about more of it?

Yeah, So I was.

I want you to read the Greek myths.

You know, I haven't.

You certainly know the legend of the sirens, who in ancient days used to lure seafaring men to their destruction.

Yeah, I sort of heard of them.

Sirens were a strange race of sea people.

Half human, half creatures of the sea.

The female of a species were known popularly as mermaids.

That means women of the sea.

It's like that.

That act.

You and more.

Put them exactly.

But that's a fake, isn't it?

A sideshow illusion.

Who wouldn't believe that they actually exist?

Which.

No.

No, I wouldn't.

Let me tell you, young man, if things happen in this world.

Never dreamt of in your philosophy.

Well, I do think myths come from.

Do think they're just made up?

No.

They spring from truth.

Ancient truth.

Living Truth?

What does this have to do with more?

She was a sweet little thing.

She lived here with me up there.

That was her room behind that door.

I found.

I found it on an island.

I didn't know what she was to become.

I've become.

I didn't know that she belonged to that ancient race.

She's a monster.

And if you love her, stop seeing.

I watch you.

That's all I can do.

Look, just tell me one thing.

Captain Murdoch, there's a woman that's been bothering me more now.

I think she's here.

I just want to talk to you, that's all.

Well, I'm.

There wasn't anyone.

I'm all Captain Murdoch.

Captain Murdoch, Sir, I didn't want you to know he was right of him to tell you, but I didn't want you to know.

No, I suppose I. I won't see you anymore.

I don't think I believed in you.

But it's true, Johnny.

They are waiting for me to join the.

You've seen one of them.

Give me that.

Will.

You saw how she looked at me.

How she spoke to me.

She's one of them.

She's one of the sea people.

And she's here to remind me of the time that I must go to them in the sea or I don't know how or where you got these ideas, but they're wrong.

You see, these things don't happen, honey.

If only they didn't.

If only they couldn't happen.

Americans have such a simple view of the world.

You think that everything can be seen and touched in the way that measured.

You think you've discovered reality, but you don't even know what it is.

And you believe everything.

Sam told me the truth.

Almost everything.

Will you just tell me how you know?

Because I feel the sea water in my veins.

Lord, I stand.

I want to stand.

Forgive me.

And this is one of these things.

I was a kid.

My grandmother used to have one of these on her dresser.

That sound like the ocean.

When I made the voyage to this country from Greece, I carried such a shell with me over the land.

That way I kept the sea always with me, always close.

Tony, I'm so afraid.

Don't be afraid.

Look, I don't know what this is all about.

You see, I don't know what it's all about, but I know that I'm here and there will work this out of me.

Hello and welcome back.

Night Tide might be a bad movie, but again, there are some great shots in it.

I like that lead actor guy, that guy in the sailor suit.

He's playing a Jimmy Flake or something like that.

He plays Johnny Drake, and the actor's name is Dennis Hopper.

I never heard of him.

Was this his only role?

Oh.

No, not at all.

Hopper was a great actor before he went kind of off the deep end.

He was in some amazing movies like Cool Hand Luke in 1967, Easy Rider in 1969, Apocalypse Now in 1979, Hoosiers in 1986, and one of my personal favorites, Blue Velvet, which was also in 1986.

Man, he was great in that movie.

He was also in True Romance in 1993, which was a very good film.

He's played some amazing characters, man.

I'm looking forward to seeing how great he's going to eventually be in this movie.

Well, you're going to be sorely disappointed.

He is not very good in this movie.

He just kind of lumbers around, staring off into space, grinning like a loon wandering from scene to scene.

And some of that wandering got him in trouble with the man.

He got in trouble for being in this movie.

Did the cops hear about this silly movie and try to put a stop to it?

You'd think so, but no, I wish the police did have a unit specifically tasked with shutting down bad movies.

I would ride along with them at night looking for bad film crews.

But here's what really happened.

Dennis Hopper Sailor suit was slightly darkened, so it appeared better on film while he was wandering around the city.

The military shore patrol picked him up and threatened him to arrest him for being in a dirty uniform.

Once he explained how he was an actor in a movie about how a sailor who meets a mermaid.

He nearly got arrested for public drunkenness.

Oh, when that happens, they only hold you for a few hours and they usually throw in a shower or two, if that's your thing.

And sometimes they even feed you an hour for.

I'm going to defer to your experience on that one.

Bottom line is Dennis Hopper is very young in this movie.

He went on to play some iconic roles in some great movies.

But I guess everyone has to start somewhere.

Folks, please don't judge Hopper by this movie.

Go to the library and check out some of his other movies I mentioned.

Heck, check out speed if you can't find anything else.

That movie is Citizen Kane compared to this one, folks, Let's get back to the movie that almost got Dennis Hopper tossed in a military prison for wearing a dirty uniform.

Night Tide here, on Nightmare Theatre.

My dear, I hope you don't mind my telling you, but I will.

You come here.

I really did.

And I'm so happy that it worked.

really?

I know you have a problem.

A very serious problem, and I'm going to try and help you.

You can appreciate that.

After the reading.

After the reading is time enough to thank me.

How much does the reading cast like you can afford that party?

I'll show this woman to.

Have you ever had a towel reading before?

Now?

I've never been to Fortune television.

Don't use that expression.

Fortune teller.

It's so vulgar.

I prefer to be known as a Cairo.

So all cloud buoyant.

Now first we must find the card to represent you.

Here you are the Knight of cups.

Why is that me?

Because this card represents a fair young man, innocent and searching.

Take a good look at these cards.

Young men, they contain all the secrets of the universe.

How can a deck of cards contain all the secrets of the universe?

Each card is a symbol linked together properly.

The total of all these symbols contains the total of man's knowledge.

It's like a pretty message in the card.

Exactly.

Now, this is what crosses you.

This is what crown jewel is.

What is beneath you?

What is behind you?

What is before you?

This is you, Your house, your hopes and fears.

And this is your future.

What do you see?

How tree would you see?

The lunar card is most unhappily placed next to the card known as the hangman.

Or is the hangman me?

Tom, this is a card of profound significance.

The figure shows life in suspension.

It is often falsely been called a card of martyrdom, but martyrdom involves suffering.

And if you will look closely at the face of the figure, you will see that it expresses deep and transparent.

This card shows that a great awakening is possible and reminds you that after the sacred mystery of death, there is the glorious mystery of resurrection.

Well, is that good or bad, my dear boy?

The cards don't lend themselves to oversimplification.

But what about more Friend is caught in a vortex of evil and you?

It saddens me to tell you, but you are in danger.

Grave danger?

What kind of danger?

Now, that is a question you do not need to ask me.

The answer lies already in your heart.

Well, I wouldn't put much stock in what a fortune teller said.

I don't know.

It's just when you keep hearing things over and over again, you start believing it.

After a while, you said some things about more.

What do you really know about it?

I can.

Sorry about what I said the other afternoon.

It was really none of my business.

I was just telling you what I read in the newspapers because I thought you ought to know.

I just can't believe that.

Are you in love with her?

Yes.

It's a funny thing about love.

It can happen very suddenly.

You know what I mean?

Like when you're lonely, when you've been looking for someone, I don't know what to do.

For more.

See, she believes it to believe Sweat.

But she killed those boys.

You know, I. I can't explain.

Well, try not to worry about it.

Why?

Maybe things will turn out better than you think.

Much more coffee.

I'm going to go for a walk and have some time to kill before more gets home.

Is she working?

Yeah.

Well, Ellen, it is Ellen, I didn't think you remember Johnny.

Well, thanks for listening to me.

It's sort of hard sometimes when you don't have anybody to talk things over with.

I know.

Maybe you'll come around again soon.

Yeah.

Okay.

I'll see you later.

Okay.

Bye, Johnny.

Laura.

Hi.

I'm taking a bath.

She have a good day to day.

I sure did.

There were lots of people on the pier.

That's good.

I was sort of tired.

Why don't you lie down for a while?

You.

I think our world Mora?

shoot.

To film was called the CBS Late.

Movie.

CBS was on.

In the middle of the night, but they never really showed a movie.

It was never a show like Forever Night, that Canadian vampire.

That's not a movie that they showed.

And, you know, I don't sleep.

So they were showing the prisoner.

So I would stay up late and watch it every week.

What about Columbo?

Not an ever Columbo.

That was a different whole different.

Anyway.

Welcome back.

We're here once again.

And the subsub sub.

Uh, what's.

The one.

Sub basement of the television studio where the mysterious curator from the Merrill Movie Museum.

And he's brought another wonderful prop to show us today.

And I can tell you, I already know what this is.

I can look at it and tell you, because it's from one of the great comedies of the eighties.

And in one of the most Psych, I comic science fiction starships ever.

Yes.

This is part of the dashboard from the Eagle five.

From Spaceballs.

Yes, from Spaceballs.

The movie Move The movie.

Not the the.

Not the novel or the.

Yeah, Yeah, the musical.

So it's the Eagle five, of course.

Was it was Lone Star Ship.

The the Winnebago shaped Starship.

And this was the part of the dashboard.

And one of the things that really kind of stands out about this is if you've seen Spaceballs, you remember towards the end of the film when, they're getting ready to to make their escape and they look down and they see that the the fuel gauge is on empty and they tap the gauge and it shoots up to fall.

That's actually a gimmick that's built into the the dash where there's literally just a lever that somebody offscreen would pull.

And, you know, when it was powered, it would then move the gauge from empty to full.

And you can kind of say.

Boy, I wish I had my car.

Now.

It would be nice if it were not pretend.

Yeah, but yeah.

So, you know, there's a lot of, you know, a lot of fun and kind of sticking around on the on the dash itself and looking at all the various stickers that are there because some of them are just kind of very standard things that you might find in any kind of vehicle, you know, pressure.

And where's.

The.

Video cams?

Auto jams.

Yeah, yeah.

You're probably used to hearing horns, intercoms.

But then there's things like hover and power inverter and things like that.

So, you know, kind of a just a regular switchboard and, you know, you kind of see on the back, it's kind of built with all of the same kind of electronics that you'd seen so that things could light up.

But, you know, a piece of piece of a great comedy.

Yeah, some cinema history and not just a comedy, a mel Brooks comedy.

So one of the greatest.

You don't know anything.

They're one of the greatest film directors, comedy directors, especially of all time, great writer, a great producer, you know, produced movies that people probably wouldn't expect them to produce, like The Elephant Man and other things.

Mel Brooks, of course, a legend still with us.

And what, 96 now or something?

He's he's way up there, but he's he's amazing.

It's still amazing.

It's not not quite the 2000 year old man.

Not yet.

But he's getting there.

Yeah.

And yeah, he'll be he'll be there soon.

This course would have been operated in the film by the actors who were on set, which was Bill Pullman and John Candy, the late, great John Candy, who played Barf, the Mog.

And Iceman Half.

Dog.

He's his own best.

Friend, and some really are his own best friend and some really other great you know, we had Joan Rivers as a voice in the film, Daphne Zuniga, who was in a lot of eighties films at that point.

And Mel Brooks himself, of course, playing.

Yogurt.

Yogurt.

Yeah.

So it was a Star Wars parody, so that's not clear.

Yeah, I got to see that.

Rick Moranis Dark Helmet.

Yeah.

And the great Michael Winslow.

A lot of people don't recognize him.

He's out in the combing the desert for a while, you know?

So he was the Doobie Brothers.

When, you know, Michael Winslow was the guy from your favorite series of films?

The Police Academy movies.

He was the guy that can make all those sound effects.

So, yeah, really, I just a wonderful film that we all have fond memories of.

I think in the eighties, except for Soft focus, he never saw it.

He has, you know, he's more into the Olsen twin movies from the nineties and stuff like that.

So but anyway again, thank you for bringing us such an iconic, iconic piece of cinema.

And let's get back to the movie here on Nightmare.

I bet I could convince people that I could make these and I could get people to buy these.

No, you can't.

Nothing ever works for you.

You can't do that.

Stop.

funny.

I've been thinking about last night, and I've decided that I must have been walking in my sleep.

But I don't want to talk about it.

I. I'm going to forget it.

You know, that's the best thing I've heard you say.

You'll just forget about it.

All right?

So I've been trying to get you to.

Do you?

I know very well.

Forget about it.

All right.

So what are you doing?

Cleaning the diving equipment.

I was looking at the calendar, and I noticed the moon was full, and I realized that the tides will be just perfect at a place.

I know.

And I thought we could go diving there this afternoon.

I don't think it's a very good idea.

Why?

It's too cold.

The water is warm.

I just don't think it's a good idea.

I think you should rest.

I don't want to risk Johnny.

I feel fine.

He has such a short time on the weekends and I have the whole week to rest.

When you go, please go with me.

Right.

Where do you want to go, Diane?

It's not far from here.

You see.

Are you ready?

How do you know where we are?

Because I've been here before.

Must be awfully deep.

Here it is.

What's the point of diving here?

There are reefs under here.

You'll see.

Johnny Boy.

Stay close to me.

You mustn't become separated.

You.

Hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo.

Well, hello and welcome back.

So there are some interesting scenes in this movie, aren't there?

It certainly got me to thinking more about mermaids.

Your phony lost love notwithstanding, mermaids are not real Sapo.

They are just myths passed down from generation to generation.

Myths?

Yeah.

Just about every culture has a mermaid story.

I had one.

Hey, I know one of the earliest ones comes from ancient Assyria and goes as far back as 1000 B.C..

In that story, a goddess threw herself into the lake intending to become a fish.

Why would she want to do that?

Because she fell in love with a mortal man, but she accidentally killed him.

She was so sad.

She jumped into the water, intending to spend the rest of her days as a fish hiding in the lake.

But she was so beautiful.

The lake cannot conceal her.

So she became a half fish.

Half woman, the first mermaid.

Then there's the story of Alexander the Great Sister.

She turned into a mermaid when she died, and she kept the seas safe for certain sailors.

Ha!

So she was a good mermaid.

Are all mermaids good?

Oh, no.

British sailors thought mermaids were signs of bad luck.

The Japanese also viewed mermaids of sure signs of bad luck and catastrophes.

The Chinese, on the other hand, believe mermaid tears turned into pearl.

Interesting.

Some cultures believe that the beauty of the mermaid would draw men into the water, where the mermaid would try to drown them.

My name is Mavis was always asking me to go in a swim in, you know.

But I'm afraid of water.

Sapo, that reverse mermaid didn't exist.

You already said you made it up.

Sometimes my is confused.

Even me.

There are millions of mermaid myths across millions of cultures.

But you know something.

And none of them are the mermaid fish on the top and human on the bottom.

You just made it up.

I wonder why so many cultures made up Mermaid story.

Well, it's really simple.

Most of the countries would.

Mermaid stories live near the coastline and had large maritime operations, either large navies or large trading fleets.

And these operations men were at sea for a long time.

When a man is at sea for a long time, his mind is likely to wander.

I'm sure there is.

And I hate the sea.

So you can see now why in this movie, the sailor smitten with the so-called mermaid, he probably just got off a long sea voyage.

She's probably the prettiest woman he's seen in years.

He he she is a pretty lady.

And I can see why he is attracted to her.

But I don't explain all the other mermaid stories.

Well, the most likely explanation was the manatee.

What does that mean?

Bossa?

What the heck is a manatee?

A manatee is a great big sea creature with flippers and a tail from a distance adrift at sea.

A tired.

I could somehow mistake a manatee for a mermaid.

I still don't get it.

Well, here's a picture.

See how you can mistake this for a beautiful mermaid.

No, no, it doesn't mean either.

But we've not been at sea for months.

If we had been, I suppose a quick glance at something like this could confuse some seafaring men.

What do you think, Mittens?

Well, there you go, folks.

It's clear mermaids are just part of the fabric that holds the world together.

We may speak different languages, follow different creeds, worship different gods, but we all seem to have a mermaid myth how sailors all over the world can look at this and see a beautiful mermaid is a mystery to me in Sapo.

But it shows we might have common ground as a people.

I'll go even further.

If someone can look at this and see beauty, maybe there is hope for Sapo outside the confines of the US penal system.

Thank you.

Both Folks, let's get back to the movie.

It's almost over, I promise you, here on Nightmare Theatre.

What?

Oh, sure.

You can have you can have this picture and yes, I don't.

Oh... God.

Strange creature on the man.

But I left of a dollar more.

The condo.

La la la la la la la la la la la.

Or la or LA are among the ladies Who doesn't see her underwater by and by.

They just kept giving you five.

I. I knew he would come back to us.

The murderer always returns to the scene of his crime.

I know.

This isn't the exact spot where the deed occurred, but you had to see her, didn't you?

You had to see the results of your monstrous act.

But I love to do that.

I do know about love.

I've loved her ever since she was a child.

No, you did it.

And you must pay for it.

How did you find her?

God.

Well, she was such a sweet.

Good shot.

What was?

I thought the shooting gallery was closed tonight.

It is.

It sounded like it came over there.

What's going on here, buddy?

Come in, Johnny.

Sit down.

This is somewhat irregular, but Captain Murdoch here is agreed to give us a statement, and I ask that you'll be present.

You can go ahead now, Captain Murdoch, begin with.

I want you to know that no matter what I've done and how wicked or unreasonable it may seem, it was done for a love of Mora.

I've loved her ever since I found her.

She was a pathetic little thing in the Greek island.

The rich abandoned their too.

I'm a certain starvation if I hadn't taken her into my home.

But of course, I realize that, like all children, she would eventually grow up and leave that home that preyed on my mind constantly.

I. I couldn't face the thought of her leaving me, so I decided to plan some way to keep up with me.

Always the best way seemed to make her an entirely dependent on my love and all a to do this.

I. I told of the legend of the sea people.

Slowly I put into a young and pliable mind the idea that she was one of them.

Some day she must rejoin.

She couldn't expect to have normal relations with ordinary people.

But I never counted on the enormous power of her own independent will.

Eventually, My love wasn't enough for her.

She had to have another kind of love, and she began those relationships.

I decided the only thing to do was to cut them off the source.

So I killed those two young men, and I tried to persuade her in some way that she had done it under some strange influence.

You see, people there's a certain extent I succeeded.

I managed to cast a lot of fear and doubt into her mind, but she still demanded her freedom.

She left my home, She took an apartment, and then she met Johnny.

And he's told you the story.

Then you know the rest.

So I experiment in psychology failed.

Or perhaps it succeeded too.

Well.

She couldn't face a recurrence of what had gone before.

So rather than destroy the person she loved, she decided to embrace the rapture of the death.

That's what happened, isn't it?

Yes.

You loved her, didn't that perhaps you can understand just a little.

I do understand, Captain Murdoch.

There's one thing I've been wondering about.

Johnny told me about a woman who frightened Moira.

She was supposed to be one of the sea people.

I assume she was part of your plan.

Woman I don't know what you mean.

You know the one that I followed your house that day, remember?

I vaguely think you mentioned something about that before, but there wasn't any woman that I don't know what you're talking about.

I've told you everything.

I go guard.

But I saw that woman with my own eyes.

This wasn't just something out of Maura's imagination.

It's almost as if.

It's almost as if there was some truth to what she said.

I think it's more likely that Captain Murdoch is merely trying to protect the woman.

I suppose so, yes.

The Shore patrol men are here to pick up Drake.

It'll be right out.

Well, good luck, my boy.

Just down the hall there.

Hello.

I found out you were here, so I came down to see if there was anything I could do for you.

Thank you.

I'm sorry about your very late.

I hope maybe on your next.

Maybe come by, take a right and the merry go round.

And I could do that.

But I think I'll see you later.

You know, it's still great that it has to my letter next to.

Is that an ending?

Did you see any of that one coming?

So she wasn't really a mermaid?

Nope.

There's been a lot of fake mermaid stories tonight.

That one.

A weird guy made it all up.

That's horrible of that guy.

Listen, you're criticizing someone else for making stuff up.

Then you make up that story about Mavis.

Well, that's a good point.

I fell into my own trap.

But one more thing confuses me.

That guy.

Jimmy.

Johnny.

Johnny.

Johnny saw that old sea people woman.

Was she real?

Really?

That's up to the viewer to decide.

Maybe she was just a crazy old bat who lived by the sea.

Or maybe she was one of the sea.

People Remember when you asked me what that old lady said in the bar at the beginning of this movie?

No, I don't.

You said she was speaking gibberish.

What she said to Maura was actually Greek.

She said, Soon you will encounter your people, my dear.

Oh, yes.

We will be meeting again very soon.

Well, encountering people would scare anyone.

Especially if they're your people.

Folks, there's a lot of talk about love tonight in the movie Step Up.

Suppose made up story about Mavis Sapo's love letters.

Love is like a drug that has a hook in me, boss.

Oh, I bet folks, love is a complex emotion.

I don't know too much about it.

Who can figure out true love?

They say love conquers all.

You can't start it like a car and you can't stop it with a gun.

So.

Sapo Yes, boss.

If you that prison lady are still swapping letters 25 years from now, when she gets released, you can take the day off to go meet her at the prison gates.

Just don't bring her around here.

Deal.

What do we have on tap for next week?

Sapo we have this boss.

This is a UFO, an unidentified flying object.

Hundreds, even thousands of witnesses have seen similar things appear in the sky.

The official position is firm.

The evidence is erroneous, illusory.

But if in 1000 reported sightings, 1/10 of 1% could be fact, then that is one real existing.

The UFO.

My, my, my.

I think I might be going away myself for a few years.

If anyone catches me for what I'm about to do to Sapo.

Mittens!

If I wind up in the lockup, please remember to water my begonias.

So until next time, may all your dreams be nightmares.

Don't let me catch you writing to women in prison anymore.

I don't-