MST3k 808 - The She-Creature
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- Dr. Carlo Lombardi works out his issues with women in this sensitive (if not creepy and oily and filthy and Freudian) film about a hypnotist and his devoted assistant. John Agar fills a portion of the screen as dependably as ever, this time doing a very good Jack Nance impression.
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Me, who watches mst3k out of order: "oh, so THIS is the episode where brain guy joins Pearl and Bobo."
I saw some of the original series on the Comedy Channel in the early 90s (before it was Comedy Central). It was weird for me to get used to different hosts, though, they're all pretty different, and also it was funny to see "Dr. Forrester's mom" get younger and turn into "Pearl."
I missed a huge chunk of MST3K when it was on tv because life was insane for my in the late 90s/early 00s, I was so confused when I came back to the show years later and the entire show had been recast. I finally started watching them here on RUclips, out of order, and had this very reaction.
@@Sidneycozzoi yeah I've really come to love the late Joel and Mike episodes, I've seen some of the newer shows but honestly it's harder to see those because of paywalls. I've listened to interviews with Emily who seems really smart and funny but I'll have to see for myself once I can actually afford to get into the new Gizmoplex lol
...there's certainly no order to any of this.
You don't have to watch this in order at all.
In a way, by uploading these onto RUclips, the "circulate the tapes" mantra still lives on, just on a grander scale. This show never gets old! Thank you MST3K!!
TheEmbessyNetwork haha that’s a good point :)
@@Emiliapocalypse The tag on the newer episodes updated it to "Circulate the URL"
Holy shit
It is kind of a bummer, Joel is anti that mantra now.
@@christophercantrell2821 not at all, that only applies to the new netflix series which got scrapped due to low demand anyway. The real problem is that most of the planet's population doesn't live in the US so even though I do have Netflix, it locks off MST3k seasons 11 and 12, making my subscription meaningless for joel. Keeping the tapes circulating like this is still vital for the fans.
"She's in the ocean preparing to come out!"
"So she's a scuba diving lesbian?"
Must be open water certified.
So that makes her a muff diver?
@@cityhawk No, BO, that was Wilt Chamberlain.
@@cityhawk Zing! Good one!
I have a particular weakness for riffs in which the bots needle Mike about his upbringing, love life, etc. My all-time favorite example occurs in this episode, when the pathetic drunk staggers up to the woman at the party and announces that he's going to give her one last chance to marry him, prompting Servo to ask, "Look familiar, Mike?" (37:34)
Or earlier at 35:50, that one cracks me up. “You’re just a dumb square head, aren’t you Mike?”
@@guiltygearalonecompl Another great one is in "The Giant Spider Invasion:" "Ah, greasy guys carrying unconscious girls. A comfortable 2 p.m. beer buzz. Homesick yet, Mike?"
@@tomh.2405 Magnificent
@@guiltygearalonecompl One last one (and I'm probably going to garble this a little because I can't find the exact quote online): In the "Space Mutiny" episode, during a shot that lingers on the blond, beefy, bland hero, Crow says something to the effect of, "He's you, Mike. Take away his muscle mass and the fact that women are attracted to him, and he's basically you."
_Laserblast_ is also a great vein of these jokes. "Another slice of your life Mike? Just you, a ribbon of highway, your tapes?"
Just the way I like to watch my MST3K... blurry VHS quality with color bands where the commercials were cut out.
Perfection.
just as we all used 2 watch it :)
Boo hoo
Somewhere I still have a shoebox with old MST3K and Who’s Line Is It Anyway? episodes on tapes, it’s my cancer plan. If laughter is the best medicine, that box will keep me kicking for generations
Classic movie and format. Win-win!
as long as the commercials are cut out.
Paul Blasdell plays the "She Creature". Born in 1929 and died of stomach cancer in 1986, I believe. He is noted for making this costume and others for such movies as "Voodoo Woman", "The day the World Ended" and "It conquered the Earth". He really didn't get the credit he should had for his work, but some people in Hollywood regarded him a very talented gentleman.
Wait I thought H.J. Heinz made It, The Conqueror.
Thanks for helping to keep his story alive.
"It Came From Bob's Basement," written by sci-fi prop historian Bob Burns, describes his early friendship with Paul when they were publishing a cheap monster fan magazine. He mentions working with Paul on making the She-Creature and the Venusian from "It Conquered the World." But Paul eventually became so bitter with Hollywood the friendship collapsed. Just looking at Bob made him bitter because their connection was through film.
1927 - 1983
"Oh, here's something!"
"Of course you can say that about anything..."
That was so random, so true, so hilarious!
14:20 "The only movie based on a lens flare."
Upon hearing this, J.J. Abrams said "Challenge accepted!"
Me too.
Too true!
J.J. Abrams : "Hold my beer." FIFY
Actually, CSI Miami beat him to the lens flare. "YEAH!" (Puts on mirrored glassess and says something cliche.)
That moment when you realize that Mike Nelson has destroyed more worlds than Thanos.
And all by accident, while Thanos ENJOYS doing it. XD
How about Sam Carter
Ugh the thought of Disney ruining MST3K like they have Marvel and Star Wars...
@@darthbigred22 Star Wars I agree with, but IMHO they've done wonderfully with Marvel. Endgame was phenomenal, and all the series that have been leading to Phase 4 so far (like WandaVision and Loki) have been excellent too. They've had their misses--Captain Marvel, Iron Man 2-3, etc.--but those misses are the exception as far as I'm concerned. It's the opposite with SW; Rogue One was amazing, but all the other movies they've done are utter crap.
@@dorkandproudofit
What's it like to be so utterly wrong?
and the funny thing is, her previous incarnation is supposed to be upper-class (i think), yet she's doing a (bad) cockney accent.
I'm Canadian and even I could tell how wrong that accent was!
I tell you, it's uncanny! 😆
the whole time i was wondering why some harborskank knew so much about the politics of her day.
Lombardi is played by Chester Morris, who was a very handsome leading man during Hollywood's Golden Age. He played criminal-turned-detective Boston Blackie in fourteen movies in the 1940s, and was even nominated for an Oscar in 1929.
"Now you are traveling back through time and space. Farther, farther back..."
"You've canceled the paper, you've stopped the milk."
Have to give the producer some credit here for going out of his way to hire many older character actors who needed work, in place of unknowns who hadn't paid their dues, who were looking for a break who would've acted for free or peanuts just to get a credit. Alex Gordon was a movie fan in real life and a fan of many of the actors he grew up with. He brought in a few younger people (like Lance Fuller) but mixed in those older veteran actors (and even the comedian El Brendell!) on this film, as he would on a number of other movies he produced (like THE ATOMIC SUBMARINE and THE DAY THE WORLD ENDED)...a mix of the old and the new. I have heard that he developed scripts to make sure there were parts for older and out of work actors to have parts.
Use to watch with my kids and my late husband. So funny, I tell myself stop laughing out loud like that but I cannot help it.
♥️
I'm so sorry for your loss, I hope you are doing well and still enjoying the show. Please don't ever stop laughing out loud, you brighten up the world, Birdie!
@@ramseydoon8277 awe thank you so very much I dream of him every night and miss him every day but there are warm smiles instead of tears now.
Good! Don’t stop laughing, Birdie!
@@birdie58 that’s what I hope for, too… I hope you keep smiling and laughing. It’s what your husband would have wanted, for SURE!
"She gets up to faint."
"Who am I kidding, I'm not a She Creature, I'm a She *Loser*"
I'm surprised nobody commented on the funny foreign butler pouring champagne at 35:55 ... with the cork still in the bottle.
William R Warren Jr Haha!!!! Nice catch!!!
🤣🤣 never noticed that
The unforgettable EL BRENDEL!
(And that's his real-life wife - and vaudeville partner Flo Bert as the maid!)
I can't tell if that's a blooper, was intentional, or the filmmakers couldn't afford to have them actually drink the champagne.
The pair vaguely reminds me of the old couple in the classic Casablanca practicing English. That's the only thing in The She-Creature that reminds me of Casablanca. Oh, and both movies are in black and white.
"Cracking good toast this morning, eh what?" LOL! I love how random the references in MST3k are. The other day I was watching Devil Fish, and Mike made a reference to PaRappa the Rapper. Now THAT'S random.
@@andrewfrankovic6821 "Donations in lieu of flowers should be sent to Bodacious Ta-Tas Monthly"
No it is not 'random' - it was relevant at the time.
Yeeeees. Random USA culture.....
@@shanlange6331 The parody they were making was a riff on a certain British aristocratic archetype so it's not so much "USA culture".
Kick, punch, it's all in the mind.
39:55
"I shall touch you and you will be asleep"
"So every night."
I've watched this movie at least 15 times, and I still have no idea what our "hero" said. At any point. In any scene.
Oh
I'm pretty sure he says "Rehblehmehelbhelmlemherehmleh"
He says "I'm a psychhicolgoutificator escpspurtjj.
@@HylianFox3Lol!
'Meanwhile, on a nearby wedding cake.' Sheer class.
Out of everything that has ever happened in the many, many, many movies that MST3K looked at over the years, the single most unbelievable, immersion-ruining thing is the idea that Dr. Lombardi's act would catch on and make money.
I dunno, the fact that nobody was able to outrun the 0.15 miles-per-hour Creeping Terror, when they can dance the Watusi, was a bit harder 4 me to swallow.
eh, past-life regression was kind of a huge fad in the 50s.
@@HylianFox3 yeah maybe as a one on one type of entertainment, not a crowded auditorium full of boozy old folks.
How about the sold-out crowds watching a ventriloquist act in Devil Doll?
@@Noyoutubehandlesforme ham-based entertainment was also huge at that time
As creepy as "Dr." Lombardi is, which is pretty creepy, there's something unsettling about Ted as well. His forehead takes up half his face, and the way he stares at Andrea with that sick smile when she arrives at the party pushes my 'Yuk' button. If it was me he was looking at that way, I'd run away screaming! 😨
Ted definitely has an Uber Creepo vibe.
Tom: "TO INFINITY AN--"
Crow: "Shh! Disney. Lawsuit."
Tom: "A-AND SOME OTHER PLACES!!"
XD
Where
Icequeen NinjaWarrior - The ending host segment.
1:27:51
Excellent.
"Mike, I accidentally lied" :D MST3K is the greatest show ever
Amerikaner25 i def agree with this comment!!! i watched this show when i was a kiddo with my older brother, i was prolly 10,11 x he was in his 20’s so i def didn’t get half the jokes that he was laughing at.
recently netflix revamped this show in honor of their 30th anniversary x my memory was triggered. so after watching the revamp i came to youtube, prepared to PAY to watch some old episodes/seasons but i’m so happy nearly all the episodes are here x free! this will get me thru this semester of school forsure, especially bc i’ll watch some of these more than once! television has never been so funny! such a classic show!!! 🥰🥰😎
Amerikaner25 2020
MST3K is way better than watching FRIENDS!!!
@@theOstenHugo Not sure how many MST3K there actually are.
@@iworkout6912 12 seasons number of episodes: 217 final episode date : September 19 , 1999 first episode date : November 24, 1988
Sometime I watch this episode before I go to SLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!
Um... sleep?
ha, I get it
I'm firing this up to fall asleep to.
I can't SLEEEEP this is making me laugh too damn hard!
"You will find neck waddle sexy."
This movie is really putting me to .... SLEEP!
Fountain O' Hair...SLEEEEEEP!
(squeak)
"if ever wanted to put a moving in a stump grinder this is the one" LOL what a line!
Anyone else binge watching MST3K in 2019?
All the time always. Complete Ordered MST3K Collection playlist for the win.
Yup. A whole bunch of episodes every year.
pretty much every year
I binge MST erryday.
I'm on my third full run, apart from a couple I really can't take. No puppet movies. Puppeteers are as bad as mimes. Isn't iT ironic? Not?
How to perfectly summarize Lance Fuller's acting in this flick:
(Monotone) "Ow. My Elbow."
Schone23666 Acting? 😖
"........my boat." 😐
@@DRChupacabrah (Fuller puts on a lab coat, lights some Bunsen burners and mumbles some dialogue. Again, monotone) “Look. I am a scientist.”
@@Schone23666 (does science while dejectedly staring without focus into the distance, boringly)
@@DRChupacabrah _Oh,_ he's a grad student.
You know what's funny is that throughout the film the "hero" insists that Lombardi is a fraud. But it is clear that Lombardi *does* in fact have the powers he describes.
At least the cop was right about him being a killer.
Actually, the “hero” insists that Doctor Lombardrdrr... 😒 issafrdhh…transmirghhe…
Because heroes of stories never realize at the end they had been wrong all along.
Clearly the man is evil but he was not a fraud
@@dougjb7848Lol!
Tickle Me Carlo Lombardi was the funniest/scariest skit ever
It makes some of the Mads' inventions look downright tame.
XD Absolutely.
Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
Well, I mean, we get it unstuck from Mike, of course, and then chuck it out an airlock first. Then nuke it.
that laugh is downright eerie
Creepypasta material right there.
"I command you, leave your body..."
"We can always pick it up later."
"Leave the body. Take the cannoli."
"You ever prune your ferns?" - one of the most underrated lines, always gets me, especially hearing Kevin actually crack up afterwards.
I know they ad-libbed infrequently, but I think this might be one of those rare times. It is very funny either way.
My favorite moments in the show are when they genuinely crack up, hearing them actually lose it either from something in the movie or a joke someone makes. I think it's one reason I love the early Sci-fi channel episodes, everybody just seems a little giddy, enjoying being Back At It again.
"Oh it's Helen Keller's room"... shame on you Servo (lol)
Living right down the road from Keller's childhood home, I was just thinking about this reference. She was reported to be ornery as caged boar before she could communicate and completely trashed her room repeatedly as a result. I imagine this was what he meant. You might well have already known, and that's cool. I just thought it blunts the sharpness of what could otherwise be taken as a kind of offensive joke.
Paul Blasdell is the person inside the "She Creature" suit. He made it along with other costumes for movies around that period: "The Day the World Ended", It Conquered the World" & "Voodoo Woman".
And, or course, IT THE TERROR FROM BEYOND SPACE! ---his second favorite (behind THE SHE-CREATURE). Thanks.
Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds; as powerful as Galactus!
Alexandre Martins
In the series finale of MST3K, I honest to God thought he was going to destroy Earth. Thankfully, he didn't.
Any wonder Pearl leaves Art in charge when she does?
Analogkid01 - you are awesome! Thanks so much for the channel...it makes my day.
Analogkid is now in the running for coolest dude on Earth. He is a real hero.
"You'll be with me on the plane."
"...and I get your peanuts."
"Who's the reigning monarch?" well, my answer to that would be Dr. Mrs. The Monarch, but that's hitting a joke on the head with a (Doc) Hammer.
I got a .... Brock Samson on hold for you, says to tell your husband to stop trying to kill some guy named Rusty?
@@dougjb7848 😂 👍
"Lady!" "Doctor!" "Doctor Lady!"
thanks for reminding me to watch the movie they made a few months ago.
Character: "She's a carnival follower. Every time we hit a new town she'd be there".
Crow: "That would make her a carnival preceder"
(OR---since "preceder" isn't really a word, perhaps I could invent another word that looks ---to me---a tad more like how it is pronounced, "preceeder".) End of "technical" note! ;-)
I believe that was Tom Servo’s quip 🤫🥸
@@abigailfeldman Yes, think so. My error. But it's funny whoever said it.
I laughed about that one for years after I first heard it.
*preceder
"LOOK DEEP into my eyebags."
I'm not a big "laugher", even at things I find funny. I very rarely laugh at anything. Every once in a while, however, about once every two years or so, something will just strike me as somehow so ludacrous, so goofy, and so silly that I just bust out uncontrollably laughing. The "Tickle Me Carlo Lombardi" sketch did that to me in this episode, especially when Crow started singing.
Detective: Here's something!
Crow: Well you can say that about anything...
Why was Lombardi hellbent on staying at that old man's house?
worse still, that childish tiff becomes both their undoing.
Maybe he was just being a jerk and rubbing Tom Conway's face in it.
It was an early attempt of what the cool kids call a "pro gamer move". Also, because SLEEEP
"Is this the Mr Kite everyone's always doing things for the benefit of?" Genius.
I love that line! 😂
‘You’re putting her in a cataleptic state.” Wisconsin?
Observer is gonna curse her to be a raging Packers fan for the rest of her days.
the best thing about Tickle Me Carlo Lombardi is that he's sticky
He'll be your friend forever
"Come now, doctor, we're too old for fairy tales."
"Not me!"
I love this show more than words can say.
"The Ru-Paul Story". Hahaha!
NowI'mMe She-Creature LMAOOOO! oh Servo!!! 🤦🏾♂️ 😂 😆
The She Creature -- the perfect role for Rosie O'Donnell !!!!
the tickle-me-carlo lombardi is the scariest damn doll they've had on the show, before the time of Mikey and Mike's Socksey but during the time Little Robot Mike, Goosio and Evil Black Crow.
What kind of twit thumbs down a MST3K?
MITCHELL!
"That voice didn't come from you."
"YES IT DIIID"
"Look into my oily T-zone."
Look deep into my eyebags...
"Space is warped and time is bendable!"
Looking forward to hearing that in every single episode of Linkara
"Man, if I ever wanted to put a movie into a stump grinder, this is the one!"
You actually put a stump grinder ONTO a stump, you might be thinking of a wood chipper.
51:28 "She's in the ocean now preparing to come out!"
"So she's a scuba diving lesbian?"
"I got to levitate over to Denny's for my shift."
My impression of Ted:
“Doctor Lombardrdrr... 😒 transmigrasshhrh... 😒 deep hypnossterrsss... 😒 reincarserrsss...attacked by a dog...😒”
That's the great Chester Morris as Lombardi. one of the great actors of the 1930's.
Boston Blackie! Love the guy.
One of the sexiest men in Hollywood when he was young.
He was a stage magician too...
And star of the Boston Blackie series and The 🦇 Bat, an early sound film.
+
lelandjr2 Yes indeed! So Handsome.
Joel and Jonah are like fathers while Mike is like an older brother!
this is one of my favorite seasons of this show.
1:25:57 Mike: "Who was that lethargic lunk-headed stranger?"
1:26:48 "Man if I ever wanted to put a movie into a stumpgrinder, this is the one!"
The way Bill talks during the doll sketch gives me the creeps, but I love it. Also, the doctor could have been arrested. I'm pretty sure he could be charged with obstruction. Obstructing a double murder is very serious. He also tampered with evidence by entering a crime scene. That's a felony for sure. Considering that, they could have charged him for sure.
Okay, who wins for creepiest practicioner of the dark arts for fun and profit: Doctor Carlo Lombardi or the Great Vorelli?
At least Lombardi had his own shitty facia hair
If I'm following this movie right (its incredibly grating to follow, so I might not be) there's a lot of circumstantial evidence from the police's point of view that Lombardi is a serial killer that somehow leaves no physical evidence, but leaves calling cards that relate to his act on the bodies. Even if he couldn't be arrested he'd probably be run out of town.
P.S. scientist misses glasses levitating off and on his face because he "doesn't believe"
There are any number of charges they could book him on. Criminal mischief, obstruction of justice, withholding information, and tampering with evidence just to name a few. He could possibly be charged with conspiracy as well. Well, him, the fruity newspaper puff, and doctor can't act.
I’d bet he’d be killed by a mob of angry victims, a la Freddy Krueger.
@@dustincantrell6712 back in those days they'd beat him with phonebooks or oranges in socks until he told them everything. the law wouldn't abide this black magic tomfoolery.
{30:55) "...The big lie -- that's what sells!"
Every episode of MST is just chock-full of clairvoyant madness.
Loved these folks since '91. Long live MST!
" Coulda done more...pshh...coulda saved more people .." (As he rolls his eyes)
My favorite thing is when you're watching with someone and they get a reference that you never had (despite watching 100 times). One of the greatest shows ever for sure
@LamangoKaijura Dear god... The bit with Pearl threating Bill's brain was priceless, Mary, Bill, Kevin, Paul, Mike, all yelling... Classic.
For context: LRH's "Dianetics" book had just come out a couple years before this movie, and it was a best seller. Past Life Regression Parties were actually kind of a fad back then.
Oh Barbara. That's the dumbest thing ever.
10:28
"He puts this girl into a deep trance and takes her back 300 years and she told him about her life in England!"
Is this movie a sequel to The Undead? Or in The Undead universe lol?
Huh, good question lol.
Not gonna lie, I loved The Undead.
Age Regression was kind of a huge fad back in the 50s, _The Undead_ originally had the much more sensible title _The Trance of Diana Love_ , but then age regression was out and zombies were in, hence the nonsensical new title.
this is the second episode I've watched where crow referenced Strom Thurman
I would love to go on a roadtrip with Pearl, Bobo, and Brainguy. :)
Love 💕 Pearl
"Now, you can hear everything I say."
"Yes, I am peer evelyn ping you day."
I've listened to/watched this movie so many times but today that really cracked me up!
Wow, that dog is 'Old Yeller'. About the only one in the movie to star in a major film.
Sometimes when I have troubles on my mind I take out my Tickle Me Carlo Lombardi doll and then I can SLEEEEEEEEP!
"Audience is invited to finish this scene themselves."
I love Mike's acting practice from The Lance Fuller Acting Course, "mumblemumblecouldabeenacontendermumblemumble". Glad they're bringing the show back--they've got some big shoes to fill!
Paul Blasdell is the actor inside the "She Creature". He also designed the suit h's wearing but he did other 50's horror & sc-fy movies
Your only the 4th person to point that out
21:53
"....and he ducks out of the scene."
“Eisenhower. P.I.”
"Can the She-Creature begin killing now?"
Reading the comments. it's cool to see that people actually remember Chester Morris from his acting career in the 1930s. You wouldn't know it from this movie but he was very handsome when he was younger.
"Cracking good toast, this morning, eh what?"
RELAX it's just menthol action, folks.
"What's that? Grandpa Lombardi fell down a well?!"
Thank you for having this available! We love you! ♥️
“Keg in the bathroom as usual.”
Oh, that Crow. If he's not hating on Maltese men, he's hating on squareh-- I mean, Swedes.
He also has a diatribe about Japan in one of the Japanese movie host segments. ("Neptune Men", maybe? That movie would make anyone hate Japan.)
I would totally go to a show of a band called Funkasaurus
"I want those Glen Gary leads". Line from one of the most underrated movies:'Glen Gary, Glen Ross'. Another line "You see this watch? This watch cost more than your car". Last one:" Coffee is for closers!"
There's almost as much mumbling in this as that X-Files movie.
_Almost._
“Sculmmmm, the trummmm is oudhrrr.”
i’m so appreciative for these uploads of my favorite show ever! instant sub, analogkid01!!!
Totally - I had to watch The Ring afterward just to give myself a good laugh.
The thing is, it's a pretty interesting premise for a movie. BOTH the sleazy promoter AND the skeptical scientist believe Lombardi is a charlatan, but ironically, he's not. He's a selfish sleazebag, but a genuine mystic. Tragically, he is fully aware that he can compel what's-her-name to ACT like she loves him, but can't actually make her love him. He knows that his dysfunctional manipulations result in senseless murders, but he's too much in love to stop. Fortunately, the movie itself turned out to be...one of the best episodes of MST3K.
Like a lot of B movies. Interesting premise, just either no/low budget, bad acting, bad scriptwriting, shonky editing and/or bizarre directing choices cost it from becoming a half decent film.
To be fair... this story probably would have made a good episode of Monk or The Mentalist
Mike Nelson Destroyer of WORLDS!!!
john agar was brilliant doing the lance fuller as eraserhead! and brando as king! he can play anything! perfect! clark gable as Lombardi wins the coveted ray stevens award though! oh, I nearly 4got, but...soylent green is now available at the concession stand. people!
"I feel her presence even now..."
"No presents before Christmas!"
King is Old Yeller, by the way.
MovieBuffGinna What a great actor he is, yesss he is!!! Who's a good actor, King??? Yes you are!!!
I thought Old Yeller was shot for rabies?
@@erikhertzer8434 this must have been made pre rabies.
The plot itself is legitimately kinda creative and interesting. A hypnotist is able to control a prehistoric part of the brain that leads to the victim becoming a physical manifestation of of the creature that existed when operating with that specific portion of the brain. Some thought was put into that compared to the trend of radiation spawned monsters of the time. Plus the monster’s costume is well done.
This movie seems like the actors have no idea which character they're portraying, and what the plot is. More than usual.