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[This is a review of the DVD version] If you worship outmoded terrible SF movies but haven’t ever seen them given the Mystery Science Theater treatment, you owe it to yourself to capture up this DVD! Mike Nelson and his robot pals Crow and Tom Servo peer this relentlessly comic turkey of a movie (a scientist saves the severed head of his girlfriend and puts her in a pan, where she pleads with him to let her die. How sloppily-put-together is this film? The filmmakers apparently forgot their fill title and call it “The Head That Wouldn’t Die” in the waste credits.) –and throughout the entire film, Tom and the `bots mercilessly riff on the film with droll comments and jokes that’ll have you rolling in your seats. Long a staple of Comedy Central and the Sci-Fi Channel, this is one of the first DVDs of this classic comedy series (many others are available on VHS) . In addition to the pristine and definite describe you acquire with DVD, Rhino has also included the burly *original* version of “The Brain That Wouldn’t Die” on the flip-side of the disc so you can peek it without Mike and the `bots (to riff on your hold, perhaps? ) . The DVD menus are innovative and worth checking out unbiased for the clever swish-pan of the bridge of the Satellite of Cherish (Crow, Servo, and Gypsy flash past us) . If I had any quibble at all it’s a minor one… why is the DVD chapter that begins the film entitled “It’s Movie Time!” when every MSTie knows it should be “We’ve got Movie Trace!”? But I’ll keep up with minor problems like that as long as Rhino continues to give us these gigantic reissues of classic MST3K episodes. Now if they’d only release “Santa Claus Conquers the Martians” and “Outlaw”… (Also recommended in this series: the DVD version of “Mystery Science Theater 3000: Eegah.”)
I first saw this movie when I was in the 4th grade or thereabouts, and it terrified the living bejesus out of me.
But what do you know when you’re in the 4th grade?
Now that MST3K has reissued this movie and I’ve watched it perhaps 10 times, I laugh all the draw through it. The dialogue is abominable. The basic location recalls countless puns about folks who lose their heads and flash-in-the-pan actresses. Wrathful Scientist Bill Courtner’s girlfriend has lost hers in a fiery car demolish (“Honey roasted,” comments one of Mike’s companions) . Obsessed scientist that he is, he keeps her head alive in a lasagna pan elephantine of “adreno-serum” in the basement laboratory of his country status. She says, “Let me die!” enough times that you’re ready to oblige her, then strikes up a liaison, sort of, with the thing that lives in Bill’s closet–the product of an earlier experiment that went awry. (When Bill looks in the closet, you’re dying to hear, “Omygawd, it’s Rosanne!” but Mike’s pals missed that one.) The scene in the seedy strip club sends me into hysterics. Best line here, robot Crow observing one of the girls: “I must have blood before the night is done!”
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There are some godawful blunders. For example, the scene in which Bill enters the country status with a recent girlfriend follows very closely after his assistant Curt’s having stumbled around the same room bleeding profusedly from … shall we say, a farewell-to-arms type encounter with the thing in the closet. So where’s all the blood?
The ending is a bit gory (though tame by today’s standards) . The thing in the closet certainly wins the unpleasant award for that year. But when he/it turns away toward the stairwell after making mayhem starting a fire in the lab and taking a bite out of terrible Bill’s throat, we contemplate another sinister flaw: you can actually stare where the conceal is tied on at the befriend of the actor’s head! Now THAT’s laughable!
Not to mention how Bill’s old-fashioned girlfriend, detached in her pan at the kill, manages to laugh without the serve of chest, diaphragm or lungs. (I forgot, she has neck juice.)
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Incidentally, in my version the slay credits also screw up the title, calling it The HEAD That Wouldn’t Die.
Mike and his robots’ running commentary, though, offers nonstop comedy you can savor over and over again. I haven’t been panning this movie. (Sorry!) Four stars for amusement value.
Steven Yates
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