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Blood Waters of Dr. Z

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1005 - Blood Waters of Dr. Z
Air Date May 2, 1999
AKA Zaat
Dr. Z
Legend of the Zaat Monster
Movie Director Don Barton
Year 1975
Cast Marshall Grauer
Wade Popwell
Paul Galloway
Gerald Cruse
Preceded by 1004 - Future War
Followed by 1006 - Boggy Creek II: And the Legend Continues…

Contents

The Movie

Synopsis

First the good news:

Screenwriter/director/producer Ron Barton and set designers Roy Neering and Hal Henderson never made another movie.

Now the bad news:

They made this one.

Undoubtedly worse movies have been made. Undoubtedly. But somewhere around five minutes into this movie, you will be hard pressed to name any of them. After ten minutes, you will be hard pressed to name any good movies. After half an hour, this movie will have consumed most of your soul, and by the time the movie is over, there will be only a dry husk where once joy and laughter dwelt.

As far as plot goes, it's pretty simple: like The Projected Man, Dr. Z is a mad scientist seeking revenge against administrative types that have denied his perfectly reasonable requests for unlimited quantities of money and human beings. He also wants to get a girl (undoubtedly because focus groups insisted that 'love interest' was the only thing missing from this movie). And, well, that's about it. There's also your usual assortment of victims and clueless law enforcement.

Apparently shot on expired film that was x-rayed a few times for good measure, the cinematography looks like aunt Earlene's slides of the family trip to the Everglades in '68.

Dr. Z's laboratory is enough to make those people who think the government is beaming signals into their fillings shake their heads and say, "Boy, this guy's got problems."

His costume, while not quite as goofy as the outfits worn by the The Horror of Party Beach creatures is of that general ilk.

Trust me, what you've read here is all there is to this movie, and I've actually padded it some. This movie is about 3 minutes worth of plot crammed into an hour and a half.

Information

The Episode

Host Segments

  • Opening Scene: Crow takes up chewing tobacco. He keeps spitting the juice into soda cans, so Mike doesn't know which one to drink.
  • Segment One: Crow marks the cans he spits into so Mike won't drink it accidentaly, but Tom does. Pearl deprives the SOL of love, as part of an experiment.
  • Segment Two: Crow does an evil voiceover while watching Mike at the bridge, but he gets wedged in a bulkhead and Mike has to loosen him.
  • Segment Three: The SOL crew goes fishing while in orbit over a lake. However, the decompression makes their catches worthless.
  • Segment Four: Crow and Tom get Bobo and Observer to help convince Mike that nudity in acting is good. Mike is not convinced and asks the 'bots if they just want nude women.
  • Segment Five: The 'bots create personalized food carrying cases. Pearl turns Bobo into a mermonkey.
  • Stinger: Dr: Z. says, 'Sargassum: the weed of deceit!' over a shot of the plant.


Obscure References

  • "It's 'Andy Warhol's Swimming'!"
A reference to artist Andy Warhol's experimental film Sleep, which consisted of eight hours' worth of footage of a sleeping man.
  • "He's gonna try to win Ben Stein's money."
Win Ben Stein's Money was a 1997-2003 game show on Comedy Central where contestants competed for $5000 of character actor Ben Stein's own money.


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