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Short: Once Upon A Honeymoon:
This short was produced for Bell
Telephone to show Americans how the telephone can help out in
everyday situations, or something—it's really hard to tell what
the film's message was supposed to be. A young couple is ready
to leave on a postponed (one year already!) honeymoon, but
they can't until the husband re-writes the "dreaming" song for
copper-bottomed ballerina diva Sonia. Thanks to inspiration from
the rotary dial of the telephone the husband, after smoking what
appears to be three packs of cigarettes, is able to finish the
song and the young couple is finally able to leave on their
honeymoon.
Movie: Night Of The Blood Beast (Turkey Day Version):
The X-100 is returning home after kissing the cheek of outer
space, but something goes wrong. John, the test pilot, struggles
to control the craft as it plummets toward Earth. Matters are
not helped by his deployment of the drag chute while still high
in the atmosphere (somebody forgot to explain how air resistance
works to the astronaut). As the scene fades out, we are left to
believe that John has become one with the landscape.
Dave, the angry radio operator and rocket designer, and Donna,
team photographer, rush to the crash site. Amazingly, the
capsule is intact and a small hole in the side of the capsule
reveals John's corpse, also in one piece. Anyway, the radio man
calls the other searchers and tells them the news. When Julie,
the team's doctor and fiancée of the now dead test
pilot, and the others arrive, we are treated to an inhumanely
brief moment of mourning, because Dr. Wyman tells her to just
get over it.
After the revival of the dead astronaut, the discovery of
his impregnation with embryos that resemble shrimp, the
death of a scientist, and the base being completely cut off from
the outside world by an alien, the scientists finally begin to
suspect that something may be amiss and so will you when you see
that they are all being stalked by the very same monster Roger
Corman used at the end of episode
0315 -
Teenage Caveman.
Said it before, say it again: Roger Corman just plain sucks.
Oh,
and watch for the beautiful mountains of Florida! Every glimpse
of the skyline in this movie is instant chuckles! |
