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Summary: A good first outing for Mike Nelson as host
Review: A fairly strong episode of MST3K, especially considering it's Mike Nelson's first time as the host on the Satellite of Love. The movie is a lurid and gruesome "B" grade picture about a doctor who keeps his girlfriend's head alive well past its freshness date while he seeks a body on which to transplant it. The MST3K crew provide many laughs throughout this lurid melodrama, many of them food references as during their Amazing Colossal Man episode of the show. The absurdity of the movie and these jokes really keeps you laughing throughout. Look for the hilarious host segment at the end where they interview "Jan in the Pan" played by writer Mary Jo Pehl.
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Summary: WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: In this entry of the "Mystery Science 3000" series, the three witty viewers watch the sci-fi flick "The Brain That Wouldn't Die." This movie sux so bad!!! The plot, if you could stretch the word as far as the east is from the west, is about a scientist who keeps alive the decapitated head of his fiancee after she is injured in an auto accident. Slowly, she goes mad while he searches for another body. Well this is the first film Mike Nelson becomes the main host, and after getting trapped on an orbiting satellite, an unlucky soul must watch some of the silliest movies ever made as part of a fiendish experiment dreamed up by a group of sinister scientists. But as he views the films with two robots, he actually starts having a good time. He and his companions begin to make fun of what they see up on the screen and their observations are hilarious. I must say the movie's bad, but well Mike, Crow, and I aren't, so get up and get out and buy this episode.
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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 new job for Mike Nelson, a new hat for Jan-in-The-Pan
Review: So, what will the fashion-concious severed head be wearing this summer? Tune in this episode of MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 and you'll find out. This is also the maiden voyage aboard the SOL for Mike Nelson, who should say something to the temp service who sent him to work at Gizmonics, if and when he gets back. In the meantime, having put in some serious training with his robot companions, he proves himself a worthy adversary in his first outing THE BRAIN THAT WOULDN'T DIE. Or is it THE HEAD THAT WOULDN'T DIE? That's the title that shows up in the end credits, but you probably won't care by the end. The film itself, credited to someone named Rex Carlton, is like an episode of BEN CASEY gone psycho; moody doctor (Herb Evers) fiddling around with transplant experiments, beheads his fiancee (Virginia Leith) in an auto accident, and keeps the head alive in what looks like the world's most elaborate turkey-roasting pan (would you like gravy on the head and the stuffing?) while he goes out looking for a nice body to go with it. This leads to strip-club cat fights, leering on the streets, and a stint as a beauty-contest judge. Meantime, back at the lab, his assistant with the withered arm and the Mittel-Europa accent is fighting with the head, which seems to have found true love with The Thing in The Closet, a sensitive fellow who can only express his deepest inner feelings by ripping people's arms off and biting off large chunks of their necks and spitting the results at the camera. Visually, the film wobbles between TV slickness and wobbly, grainy footage shot in some of the least attractive stretches of Connecticut. The actors are, for the most part, quite competent, and in the case of Evers, capable of Deep, Actors Stuido-ish Commitment to the role, which makes the whole thing even fruiter than it already was. Oh, and check out that brunette stripper-I'll bet you thought that Renee Richards was only a tennis player.
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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: This Talking Head is a Psycho Killer!
Review: Evil scientists, bizarre medical experiments, and a body-less head that floats about in a dinner pan - what more could a boy ask for? Mention the phrase "typical 50s science fiction B-movie" to someone, and you'll undoubtedly conjure up an image of something that's not wholly unlike THE BRAIN THAT WOULDN'T DIE. Yes, the classic movie where the evil scientist boyfriend keeps his favourite chick alive by pulling her head off of her body in a car wreck and setting it up in a laboratory in his basement. Somehow having her head cut off gives the girlfriend special powers of telepathy but only (and here's the catch) with really ugly monster experiments. Oh, and it also turns her evil, I think. This is Mike Nelson's first movie as a member of the crew onboard the Satellite of Love, and he fills Joel's shoes admirably. The jokes are mostly on target and the host segments are quite good. This isn't one of the best episodes of the show, but it's certainly an enjoyable one and quite an entertaining way to spend an hour and a half. The DVD version of this release comes with the uncut, full-screen format of the film on the flip side of the disc, if you're in a particularly masochistic mood. Highlights of the film include: the film title changing between the opening and closing credits, a decapitated head with attitude, and a mad scientist out prowling for spare heads at stripping diners.
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Summary: Bye Joel, Hi Mike
Review: The transition from the droopy-eyed, slow talking Joel, to the squeaky clean, somewhat ingenuous Mike was no problem, as this episode makes obvious. Mike Nelson had been the show's writer for years; it is little wonder that the leap to lead actor would be such a piece of work.
And speaking of a piece of work, "The Brain That Wouldn't Die" was the perfect B-movie clanker for Mike's inauguration. This movie would inspire other B-films like Re-Animator and Frankenhooker, but that's besides the point. The 'bots and Mike have a party skewering this thing. As always, the trio never misses a beat. My favorite line happens when the camera passes through the mad doctor's laboratory and pans over a tray that is covered with hypodermics, to which Crow exclaims: "Hello, welcome to Kurt Cobain's and Courtney Love's home!" For any MST3K fan, this is a must.
Rating:
Summary: WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: In this entry of the "Mystery Science 3000" series, the three witty viewers watch the sci-fi flick "The Brain That Wouldn't Die." This movie sux so bad!!! The plot, if you could stretch the word as far as the east is from the west, is about a scientist who keeps alive the decapitated head of his fiancee after she is injured in an auto accident. Slowly, she goes mad while he searches for another body. Well this is the first film Mike Nelson becomes the main host, and after getting trapped on an orbiting satellite, an unlucky soul must watch some of the silliest movies ever made as part of a fiendish experiment dreamed up by a group of sinister scientists. But as he views the films with two robots, he actually starts having a good time. He and his companions begin to make fun of what they see up on the screen and their observations are hilarious. I must say the movie's bad, but well Mike, Crow, and I aren't, so get up and get out and buy this episode.
Rating:
Summary: A good first outing for Mike Nelson as host
Review: A fairly strong episode of MST3K, especially considering it's Mike Nelson's first time as the host on the Satellite of Love. The movie is a lurid and gruesome "B" grade picture about a doctor who keeps his girlfriend's head alive well past its freshness date while he seeks a body on which to transplant it. The MST3K crew provide many laughs throughout this lurid melodrama, many of them food references as during their Amazing Colossal Man episode of the show. The absurdity of the movie and these jokes really keeps you laughing throughout. Look for the hilarious host segment at the end where they interview "Jan in the Pan" played by writer Mary Jo Pehl.
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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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