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Summary: It is cool, if you can read megnetic tape!
Review: It's a video tape, not a book. The tape, which is a TV episode of MST3K, is cool. It was Mike's first episode! I like eggplant, as well. I put eggplant in my tomato soup. END
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Summary: What an entrance
Review: Mike's first show... perfection. The jokes are flyin and fresh from the electric skillet of comedy. An irrational doctor tries to restore his wife to her former self by cutting off another woman's head and replacing it with her's. And so, the body search is on...every sleazy nightclub and questionable beauty pageant will be perused by this devil of a man.
The jokes are great in this one. His wife is kept alive in a pan while her head soaks in some disgusting liquid (melted beets, possibly?). But, the doctor's skeleton in the closet gets him in the end... and by skeleton I mean horribly disfigured, living-dead hulk. It eats part of the doctor's neck and carries a girl to safety--But not before tearing the one good arm off of his lab assistant. "How am I ever gonna tell fish stories?" Crow says for the de-limbed man.
What I learned from this movie is that everyone trusts a crazy doctor who tries to measure the necks of women while simultaneously groping them.
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Summary: A Real 50's Classic
Review: This is an old classic sci-fi horror film which doesn't have any real science or horror in it. It deals with a doctor who is doing experiments with complete transplantation. The story gets underway when his girlfriend is killed in an auto accident in which he was driving. However, he is able to save her head. After her head is secured in his laboratory, the good doctor goes shopping for a new body for his girl.In my opinion, this episode has some of the funniest jokes in the series. One of my favorites is when the doctor is carrying his girlfriend's head under his arm while running, and then the crew makes a football joke. Basically, if you're a fan of black humor, you have to check this one out.
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Summary: A Good Episode
Review: This, the first episode to feature Mike Nelson as host of MST3K, is a pretty good episode. The movie, about a mad scientist trying to find an appropriate body for the severed head of his girlfriend, is ridiculous and sleazy horror exploitation, and it's hard to find a movie more suited for this show. The joking is often extremely funny, my favorite being, "Hey, you're not my dad, you're Hitler!" The intermission segments are pretty good as well.
Like nearly all MST3K DVDs, the image in the intermission scenes is bright and sharp, and about as good (if not slightly better) than broadcast or previous videotape versions. The sound is as good as it should be, and the riffing in the movie segments is easily heard. The movie itself is soft and scratchy, although that hardly matters.
The DVD includes a few special features, the only really important one being the uncut version of "The Brain that wouldn't Die" on the second side of the disc, which restores some scenes cut out of the MST3K version. Each side of the disc contains some humurously detailed instructions on how to flip the disc. Rounding out things are some fairly useless weblinks and "Other Rhino Titles" (basically a listing of other MST3K videos and DVDs).
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Summary: Hi! Im a doctor! I want to lop your head off!
Review: I first seen this movie when I was 6 years old on the old Nightmare Theater out of Salt Lake's Channel 4. I think it tweaked me to be what I am now! The second time I saw this film, was in my early 20's, when I used to "do colors." In that state of mind, the show was hillarious!! And now it has been given the coup' de Grace it deserves by Mike and our Robot Friends! This is one of the better MST movies. Mike and the bots are shotgun fast in their remarks and their critique. Our MST guys include literally hundreds of obscure comments here. They tie to other MST episodes, '60's TV commercials, and the sheer twisted God Complex of our hero, Dr. Cortner. He needs to lop the heads off of sleazy tramps to provide his ego with the perfect slutty body for his personal "football,", our beloved Jan in the Pan! Too bad that Jan got a mad-on against Dr. Killjoy and she allies herself with White Fang behind that door! Favorite Jibes! "Battery acid? U'r soaking in it!"
Why he gave my hand Rich Corinthian Leather, I'll never know!
No, White Fang, NO! Not the Custard Pie!
"Mitttchhhellll!"
That's one bad tasting Mc.Nuggett!
Hi! Im William Proxmire, put 'er there!
Honey! Dont forget my purse! Honey!
Hi! I'm a doctor! I want to lop your head off!
No thanks, Ill just see the menu. "I AM the menu!"
"Chi-Chit!" Chi-Chit!"
It looks like he just copped an attitude!
---------------------------------------- This is the MST to baptize novices into our cult with! Buy it, than hold a MST party and see if you and your friends can be half as fast at hurling insults and jibes at this movie as our Professional Robot Friends are!
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Summary: sweet neck juice
Review: all herald the new host: Mike Nelson! even in the joel years, mike was a head writer for mst3k, so there's no new humor to get used to here. the only thing to get used to is a more comfortable and funny host for the greatest show ever. brain that wouldn't die is a pretty typical mst3k movie, featuring a really evil doctor, a really annoying disembodied head, a really disfigured assistant, and really sleazy music. i love the sleazy music. it's comparable to the music in the sci-fi channel episode "horrors of spider island" this is the first mst3k dvd i owned, and since i didn't get in to the show until the sci-fi channel era, it was a great intro in to the comedy central years. but for a truly great first mst3k experience, check out "manos: the hands of fate."
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Summary: ReAnimator fans will cringe...
Review: Long before Herbet West creeped us out in the 80s, there was Dr. Bill. Bill has been doing some creepy things up at the cabin in the mountains, and this time, he's taking his fiancee up there with him. In an unexplained speeding frenzy up a winding road, they crash; Bill survives, but, well, only SOME of his girl Jan does. Bill scampers away from the burning mess of the car with a bundle, and we quickly realize it's Jan's head he's hiding in his jacket. Once he gets to the cabin, he sets Jan up with lots of tubes and percolating things and administers her this life-giving 'neck juice.' Is she happy to *somewhat* still be alive? Hell no! She's a freak now and ain't proud of it. The remainder of the film is Jan mocking Bill's eerie assistant and bitching at Bill. Funniest scene: Bill's method for shutting up Jan. Mike's first episode as the test subject of the 'Mads is definitely worth watching. Crow & Servo do their best to break him in, and it's a really great episode. Fans who find themselves missing Joel should know that, as the series head writer, Mike wrote many of the skits and lines Joel spoke, so while the host changes, not a lot else does. The Invention Exchange--a basic component of Joel shows--is slowly phased out, but Mike's invention is definitely a good one. A cameo at the end by Mary Jo as Jan is hilarious, and as is normal in most of the Mike episodes, Mike manages to tick her off too. Bill is creepy and easily unlikeable, especially when he goes trolling for a body for Jan! EWWWWW!!!! A must-see for Mike fans!
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