MST3K 624 - Samson vs. the Vampire Women

624 - Samson vs. the Vampire Women
Air/Release Date	March 25, 1995
Running Time	89 min.
AKA	El Santo Contras las Mujeres Vampiras; Santo Versus the Vampire Women (UK); The Saint Against the Vampire Women; Santo Contra las Vampiras
Movie Director	Alfonso Corona Blake
Year	1962
Cast	Santo, Lorena Velazquez, Maria Duval, Jaime Fernandez
Preceded by	623 - The Amazing Transparent Man
Followed by	701T - Night of the Blood Beast (Turkey Day)

The Movie

Synopsis

The vampire women in Mexico have awakened from their sleep, commanded by their master, The Evil One, to find him a bride. They choose as their target the beautiful daughter (Duval) of a local professor (Augusto Benedico). To rescue his daughter, the professor calls El Santo, a silver-masked wrestler, for justice. [1]

Information

Rodolfo Guzman Huerta achieved an enormous amount of fame in Mexico as pro wrestler El Santo, El Enmascarado de Plata (The Silver Maskman). Not just for his wrestling talents, but also because he stood for decency and fair play, El Santo was beloved and adored by his many fans. When movie character El Santo wasn’t wrestling, he was a crimefighter, traveling in the silver Bentley which matched his silver mask and cape. El Santo always wore his mask whenever he was in public, even when he was not performing. When he retired, his son took over the role. He continues to wrestle under the name El Santo, and, like his father, always wears the mask. This movie is the sixth of about fifty movies which have starred El Santo (superfluously renamed “Samson” in English language versions).

The Episode

Host Segments

Prologue: The Satellite of Love has a moment of silence. Tom enjoys his by talking incessantly.

Segment One: Deep 13 receives some Chinese food from an ethereal white deliveryman. Frank accounts for the great majority of the order, and kindly sends some up to the SOL. Frank's fortune cookie specifically hints at his imminent death. Crow enjoy his lo mein, Mike has difficulty with his hot and sour clam soup, and Tom's hot dog gives him kisses.

Segment Two: While the crew plays Stratego in their own way, Crow spies a mysterious figure outside the ship and receives an ethereal message.

Segment Three: Torgo the White, complete with reconstructed knees, arrives in Deep 13 and takes Frank to Second Banana Heaven.

Segment Four: Dr. Forrester receives the news from the SOL crew and realizes Frank is gone for good. Distraught, he sings the touching tribute "Who Will I Kill?"

Segment Five: The Bots read their letters to Frank; however, only Gypsy's is actually appropriate for the occasion. Frank visits a mourning Dr. F from the ethereal outer world and pushes the button one last time for old time's sake.

Stinger: "Chief, I saw two corpses in the garden."

Other Notes

Guest Stars

• Torgo the White: Michael J. Nelson

Miscellanea

• Frank Conniff's final regular appearance as TV's Frank. The Brains chose Samson and the Vampire Women for Frank Conniff's final episode due to Conniff's fondness for Mexican wrestling movies. Frank would later come back for a cameo in the episode Soultaker.
• This was also Torgo's final appearence in a mst3k episode.

Obscure References

• Torgo the White

"Torgo the White" is a parody of the heavenly transformation of Gandalf from "Gandalf the Grey" to "Gandalf the White". Torgo reacts the same way as Gandalf did when asked if he was Gandalf: "Yes, that was the name. I was Torgo..."

• '"One of Newt's orphanages."

Newt Gingrich, former Republican Speaker of the House and Presidental candidate, and all-around idiot, once infamously sugested that the govenrment should re-establish orphanages to raise poor children, rather than giving their parents welfare benefits to allow them to raise the kids themselves.

• "Something's going to happen, Mike. Something WONDERFUL!"

Crow is referencing 2010: The Year We Make Contact, and the recurring David Bowman entity who kept stating "Something's going to happen. Something wonderful."

• "Oh look, 'Capitol Critters' is on!"

Capitol Critters was a short-lived animated TV series from the early 1990s about rodents and insects living inside the White House.

• "Why do they have the Blue Mosque as their symbol?"

The Sultan Ahmed Mosque, also known as the Blue Mosque, is an Istanbul landmark.

• "She's dressed like Jeremiah Johnson!"

Jeremiah Johnson was a 1972 film starring Robert Redford as a mountain man.

• "Hmmm, great! You know that thing from 'Peanuts?'"

Referring to the Peanuts' gang characters created by Charles Schulz, and the jazz piano theme entitled 'Linus and Lucy' that was synonymous with them..

• "He's got a picture of Reddy Kilowatt up over there!"

Reddy Kilowatt was an advertising character used by the electricity-generation industry.

• "It's Butterfield Ocho!"

Butterfield 8 was a 1960 movie starring Elizabeth Taylor.

• "Now when was I a Flying Leatherneck?"

Flying Leathernecks was a 1951 movie about Marine aviators in World War II.

• "They didn't count on Carlton the Doorman!"

A reference to a character from the 1970s sitcom Rhoda.

• "Ah, the Rainforest Cafe!"

The Rainforest Cafe is a chain of restaurants that feature elaborate jungle scenery.

• "Well, I've got a golf date with Randy the Macho Man."

Randy "Macho Man" Savage was a professional wrestler for the WWF (later WWE).

• "She looks like a Magic Eye picture!"

Magic Eye was a series of books, posters, calendars, etc. from the 1990s that contained 3-D images the viewer could see by focusing on patterns.

• "Sade!" "Your love is king..."

Sade is a Nigerian-born R&B singer.

• "They're making the beast with two butts!"

"Making the beast with two backs" is a euphemism for sexual intercourse (famously used in Othello).

• "It's a Robert Mapplethorpe photo session!"

Photographer Robert Mapplethorpe was known for the homoerotic and sadomasochistic content of his work.

• "The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small!"

A quote attributed to Woody Allen from the movie Annie Hall.

• "Where Devils Go, Trouble Follows!"

Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows was a 1968 comedy film about Catholic schoolgirls on a cross-country field trip.

• "The Keystone Vampires!"

The Keystone Kops was a series of silent comedy movies about bumbling policemen.

• "It's a sign that says 'Wall Drug, 10,000 Miles'!"

A reference to billboards advertising Wall Drug, a South Dakota tourist attraction.

• "This scene was edited out of Spartacus."

References the infamous "oysters and snails" scene between Laurence Olivier and Tony Curtis in Spartacus, which was cut from the original release for homosexual content.

• "Run, it's Butch Patrick!"

Butch Patrick played Eddie on The Munsters.

Video Releases

• Commercially released on DVD by Shout! Factory in July 2012 as part of Mystery Science Theater 3000 - XXIV, a 4-DVD set along with Fugitive Alien, Star Force: Fugitive Alien II and The Sword and the Dragon.

References

preceded by: Season 5		MST3K Season 6					followed by: Season 7
		1994 - 1995
601	Girls Town	1994-07-16	609	The Skydivers	1994-08-27	617	The Sword and the Dragon	1994-12-03
602	Invasion USA	1994-07-23	610	The Violent Years	1994-10-08	618	High School Big Shot	1994-12-10
603	The Dead Talk Back	1994-07-30	611	Last of the Wild Horses	1994-10-15	619	Red Zone Cuba	1994-12-17
604	Zombie Nightmare	1994-11-24	612	The Starfighters	1994-10-29	620	Danger!! Death Ray	1995-01-07
605	Colossus and the Headhunters	1994-08-20	613	The Sinister Urge	1994-11-05	621	The Beast of Yucca Flats	1995-01-21
606	The Creeping Terror	1994-09-17	614	San Francisco International	1994-11-19	622	Angels Revenge	1995-03-11
607	Bloodlust	1994-09-03	615	Kitten with a Whip	1994-11-23	623	The Amazing Transparent Man	1995-03-18
608	Code Name: Diamond Head	1994-10-01	616	Racket Girls	1994-11-26	624	Samson vs. the Vampire Women	1995-03-25