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Experiment 0320 - The Unearthly


 


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Movie Summary


 Shorts: Posture Pals | Appreciating Our Parents: 

Posture Pals: Teacher Miss Martin illustrates the evils of poor posture, and posture "royalty" is elected.

Appreciating Our Parents: Tommy becomes enlightened about his parents' sacrifices for him, and becomes part of the family team.


 Movie: The Unearthly: 

John Carradine plays a benevolent but mental doctor who performs experiments on unwitting human subjects. Tor Johnson, the human monolith, is his assistant, Lobo. Carradine tries to discover the "seventeenth gland," the gland of youth, so he can arrest the aging process in his patients. The experiments go awfully awry—oops—and Carradine accidentally hastens the aging process, turning everyone into beef-jerky-faced zombies. In the end Carradine is stabbed by one of his zombie creations, and the police arrive on the scene to discover a cellar full of mutants.

— Mary Jo Pehl

Host Segments


 Prologue: 

The robots make a spontaneous nutty home movie directed by Gypsy, for America's Goofiest Home Videos. Features flames and extreme danger.

 Invention: 

The Mads create Hard Pills to swallow - one has a fish hook attached, and another a tiny time pill with a gerbil inside. On the SOL, Joel and the 'Bots come up with Celebrity Home Appliances, like the Emilio Esto-pez and the Jimmy "J.J." Walker.

 Segment 2: 

Crow thinks hard—as hard as he can think, anyway—about all that Gypsy does for the SOL.

 Segment 3: 

Crow and Servo present The Many Faces of Tor Johnson, and with the help of the video toaster show the range of Tor Johnson emotions.

 Segment 4: 

Servo and Crow combine all their games to form a new game based on The Unearthly. Its got a nifty Tor Johnson pop-o-matic and each player begins with a billion dollars and six hotels.

 Segment 5: 

Joel, Crow, and Servo talk the lingo—it's anybody's guess what the hell they're talking about. Frank eats au gratin potatoes and declares it good grub.

 Stinger: 

Tor states boldly, "Time for go to bed."


Reflections

This movie was so bad, so hurtful, and difficult to watch, it disturbed me on a level much deeper than I can explain, perhaps by confessing my actions you will come to understand what a film can do to a fella.

I didn't realize what I was doing to Paul until they pulled me off him. They told me they had to pry my hands from around his neck. It took three people. When I came to, I was pale and shaking, and Paul was in the bathroom, crying. I blame it on the film. Just thinking back to the spooky shots of Carradine ogling and pawing dumb-acting women in spiral cup two-piece swimsuits; and the guy in the basement with the horrible twitch; the references to a series of painful injections; hopelessly confusing cutaways; the rumpled skull of Tor Johnson; the sudden unexplained appearance at the end of the film by dozens of furry mutants straight out of The Island Of Dr. Moreau. I guess I needed to hurt, and Paul just happened to be there. It was the film hurting Paul, not me. Can you blame me?

— Kevin Murphy


 
       
 
 
  
 
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