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Devil Doll

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818 - Devil Doll
Air Date October 4, 1997
Movie Director Lindsay Shonteff
Year 1964
Cast Bryant Haliday
William Sylvester
Yvonne Romain
Preceded by 817 - The Horror of Party Beach
Followed by 819 - Invasion of the Neptune Men


Contents

The Movie

Synopsis

Ventriloquist/hypnotist The Great Vorelli has an amazing dummy named Hugo. Vorelli's act with the dummy is intense, complete with harsh insults and threats. Hugo is scary enough just sitting there, but when he walks and talks on his own and threatens the audience with a knife, yikes! And yet people applaud! People applaud when Vorelli convinces a guy he's about to be shot too!

After Vorelli meets beautiful heiress Marianne Horne, he hypnotizes her, causing her to suffer from a severe fever that spirals into a baffling coma. Marianne’s boyfriend Mark, a newspaper reporter (2001's Heywood Floyd, Riding with Death's Leonard Driscoll, Gorgo's Sam Slade), is suspicious and starts investigating Vorelli’s past. He discovers that a man named Hugo was killed several years earlier during one of Vorelli’s shows in Berlin. Apparently Vorelli stole Hugo’s human soul and transferred it into the body of the dummy.

Marianne awakens from her coma, and announces she will marry Vorelli. The triumphant hypnotist brags to Hugo about his plans for Marianne and his plot to transfer her soul into a female dummy. A violent confrontation between Hugo and Vorelli results in a chilling climactic switcheroo.

Information

The Episode

Host Segments

Mike as Hugo

Prologue: It's Friday at the dorm! Mike and the bots have an open window frathouse party. Just a window. No music or booze.

Segment 1: Mike wants Tom to send the window back to the store, but a delusionally drunken Crow smashes it, shouting “Debbie!”

Meanwhile, in Rome, Apearlo and Brainguyus liven up a dull Roman party with - pants!

Segment 2: Crow expresses interest in Pitch’s line of devil dolls. Mike disapproves.

Segment 3: The bots have set up a British pub, with an impossibly stout ale on tap.

Segment 4: Pitch helps Crow transfer Tom’s soul. Mike disapproves.

Segment 5: Tom's soul has been transferred into a giant toaster strudel with great gams. Crow has dressed Mike up as Hugo and built a cage around him. Mike disapproves.

Meanwhile, at the Lesser God Day celebration at the Coliseum, Apearlo and Brainguyus suddenly see a familiar face - Bobo!

Stinger: Argh! Look out, Vorelli! Hugo's kicking your ass!

Quotes & References

  • "Let's all go to the lobby, let's all go to the lobby..."

Referencing a famous short film shown in theaters during intermissions to boost concession sales.

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