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Night of the Blood Beast (Turkey Day)

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701T - Night of the Blood Beast (Turkey Day)
Air Date November 23, 1995
Movie Director Bernard L. Kowalski
Year 1958
Cast John Baer, Angela Greene, Ed Nelson, Ross Sturlin
Preceded by 624 - Samson vs. the Vampire Women
Followed by 701 - Night of the Blood Beast

Contents

The Short

Once Upon a Honeymoon (1956)

Synopsis

A songwriter's wife, frustrated about not having sex with her husband for a year after marriage, fantasizes about new home decor with matching colored phones, with the help of a fey bespectacled angel.

Information

This short was included on Shorts Vol 3, released by Rhino Entertainment on VHS in Janurary 2001, and on DVD in August 2004 as an limited time exclusive bonus for ordering MST3K: The Essentials from a specially created Rhino site.

The Movie

Synopsis

Hooray everyone! It's another Roger Corman movie! This time the inimitable Cor-man presided over the three or four days worth of shooting from the lofty perch of producer. As a result some of the shots may have had two or even three takes and the camera occasionally pans and zooms.

But, in the end, the slightly better than typical Corman acting is just window dressing. This, folks, is 100% pure drive-in fare. The story is full of plotholes, the action is almost non-existent, and the entire movie is painstakingly and repetitively explained to you by 'actors' standing and talking and talking and standing and standing and talking and talking and talking and talking.

Of course that doesn't matter to you. You were making out with your high school sweetheart before they changed the first reel. Or at least that was the plan.

Plot Synopsis (snort), like you care....

An astronaut returns from space, dead. The base that recovered him (staffed by three men called Steve, one called Dave, and a a lady Doctor) is then cut off from the outside world by an alien. The revival of the dead astronaut, the death of a scientist, and the discovery of alien embryos inside the resurrected astronaut's body bodes ill for the survival of those trapped at the base and for the rest of humanity. [1]

Information

  • This was released in one of American International's prepackaged double features. It was paired with Roger Corman's She Gods of Shark Reef (1958), which had been sitting on the shelf for a year and a half.

[2]

  • The 'Blood Beast' costume was also used (and was worn by the very same actor, Ross Sturlin) in Teenage Cave Man.

The Episode

Host Segments

Dr. F, Jack Perkins, Mr. B Natural

Prologue: Happy Thanksgiving! Did you see the game? Any guess as to which sport it actually is, as Gypsy points out.

Segment One: Dr. F’s Thanksgiving party continues, and it's pretty swinging. Dr. F introduces Pearl to the crew, but it turns out she somehow already knows Crow as "Art". He's forgotten to get a movie to show to the SOL crew as that was Frank's job; fortunately, Pearl has one.

Segment Two: Crow and Tom put on a skit to explain to Mike why stuffing is superior to potatoes. Stuffing has pulled children from burning buildings while potatoes watched helplessly as innocents were beaten to death! Mike's revelation that both would be served is met favorably by the Bots.

Segment Three: Everyone gathers around to hear Michael Feinstein play. Pearl takes a break from the festivities to chat amiably with "Art" for awhile; alas, she is no more prone to pushing the "bring down the SOL button" than Frank was.

Segment Four: It's time for Thanksgiving dinner on the SOL and after the hymn, the crew finds Crow has disappeared. Turns out he slipped into Deep 13's dinner instead. Each party member goes around the table and gives thanks to God. Pearl thanks Him for Clayton...kind of. Clayton is thankful for his mom and his evilness. The other party guests requests are just as strange.

Segment Five: The Bots present their skit on Mincemeat vs. Pumpkin. They are slightly biased against mincemeat. In the meantime, Pearl’s "turkey surprise" has incapacitated all of Dr. F's party guests, except for a sobered-up Jack Perkins, who helps the Mads wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving.

Stinger: "A wounded animal that large isn't good..."

Other Notes

"Anyway, that's how I got neutered!"

Guest Stars

Miscellanea

Obscure References

Mr. B gets some unwanted attention


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