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Coming Tomorrow (Aug 21) ... something

Started by Compound, August 20, 2012, 01:38:19 PM

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Compound

Teased by Mike on Twitter:

QuoteBelieve it or not, this thing isn't the funniest element of the movie we're releasing tomorrow. pic.twitter.com/NYoc9siu



Any guesses?

Pak-Man

I searched Google for "Flytraps for hands" and came up with this:

http://archive.org/details/BodyOfThePrey1966

From one of the comments:

Subject: Competition For Manos
There is so much that is bad about this movie. A person could spend the rest of her/his life listing it all. It's just stupid and awful, but there was enough that was amusingly bad to get me through it. I couldn't watch all of the movie in one sitting.

There is a definite Plan 9 from Outer Space vibe to the characterizations and story, but without that movie's charm. The plot and several story elements come from the 1931 Frankenstein movie. The dialog is mostly inane as the story meanders from scene to scene. The cinematography is really bad.

The star, Anger Man, is apparently a space research executive, who through overwork in finishing a project has had a breakdown, so he takes a vacation to pursue another interest. Anger Man nuts up over anything and nothing throughout the film. Perhaps seeing a therapist would have been a better choice than a vacation, but then we wouldn't have had this movie. Anger Man has a Japanese friend who agrees to help him cross a Venus flytrap with a rare Japanese carnivorous plant that she has heard may exist near her family home. They go to Japan, eventually finding the plant. He crosses them, making a ridiculous, green, man shaped monster with roots on its head, red Venus flytraps for hands, light yellow petals around its neck, and a kind of evil looking face with hollow eyes. This all proves his thesis that man descended from plants. Yeah. In a twist on the Frankenstein story, rather than the monster getting the brain of a murderer, Anger Man injects it with blood he takes from a deranged person so that it can walk. I guess he's completely around the bend by this point, but it works.


AdamCerious

Gah, I've seen this twice! I gotta stop watching bad movies before the Rifftrax comes out.
         

Johnny Unusual

Quote from: Pak-Man on August 20, 2012, 01:49:39 PM
Subject: Competition For Manos
There is so much that is bad about this movie. A person could spend the rest of her/his life listing it all. It's just stupid and awful, but there was enough that was amusingly bad to get me through it. I couldn't watch all of the movie in one sitting.

There is a definite Plan 9 from Outer Space vibe to the characterizations and story, but without that movie's charm. The plot and several story elements come from the 1931 Frankenstein movie. The dialog is mostly inane as the story meanders from scene to scene. The cinematography is really bad.

The star, Anger Man, is apparently a space research executive, who through overwork in finishing a project has had a breakdown, so he takes a vacation to pursue another interest. Anger Man nuts up over anything and nothing throughout the film. Perhaps seeing a therapist would have been a better choice than a vacation, but then we wouldn't have had this movie. Anger Man has a Japanese friend who agrees to help him cross a Venus flytrap with a rare Japanese carnivorous plant that she has heard may exist near her family home. They go to Japan, eventually finding the plant. He crosses them, making a ridiculous, green, man shaped monster with roots on its head, red Venus flytraps for hands, light yellow petals around its neck, and a kind of evil looking face with hollow eyes. This all proves his thesis that man descended from plants. Yeah. In a twist on the Frankenstein story, rather than the monster getting the brain of a murderer, Anger Man injects it with blood he takes from a deranged person so that it can walk. I guess he's completely around the bend by this point, but it works.

And then the Power Rangers show up.  Right?

TheUnabeefer

Quote from: Johnny Unusual on August 20, 2012, 02:30:05 PM
Quote from: Pak-Man on August 20, 2012, 01:49:39 PM
Subject: Competition For Manos
There is so much that is bad about this movie. A person could spend the rest of her/his life listing it all. It's just stupid and awful, but there was enough that was amusingly bad to get me through it. I couldn't watch all of the movie in one sitting.

There is a definite Plan 9 from Outer Space vibe to the characterizations and story, but without that movie's charm. The plot and several story elements come from the 1931 Frankenstein movie. The dialog is mostly inane as the story meanders from scene to scene. The cinematography is really bad.

The star, Anger Man, is apparently a space research executive, who through overwork in finishing a project has had a breakdown, so he takes a vacation to pursue another interest. Anger Man nuts up over anything and nothing throughout the film. Perhaps seeing a therapist would have been a better choice than a vacation, but then we wouldn't have had this movie. Anger Man has a Japanese friend who agrees to help him cross a Venus flytrap with a rare Japanese carnivorous plant that she has heard may exist near her family home. They go to Japan, eventually finding the plant. He crosses them, making a ridiculous, green, man shaped monster with roots on its head, red Venus flytraps for hands, light yellow petals around its neck, and a kind of evil looking face with hollow eyes. This all proves his thesis that man descended from plants. Yeah. In a twist on the Frankenstein story, rather than the monster getting the brain of a murderer, Anger Man injects it with blood he takes from a deranged person so that it can walk. I guess he's completely around the bend by this point, but it works.

And then the Power Rangers show up.  Right?

OMG! As someone who is currently watching season 14 of the Power Rangers (or 15... I lost count), that was my FIRST thought at that picture!!!
...and there he was, reigning supreme at number two.  The One... The Only... The Unabeefer.


Bob


Edward J Grug III

FINE

ScottotD

Yay! A thing for people not in US cinemas!
Scottotd on Instagram

"A thing I like that there was no chance would ever continue until recently is now continuing but it doesn't meet my exact personal specifications so fuck this"

- how I read any complaint about MST3k (or Star Wars or Ghostbusters)

losingmydignity

My google search pulled up the Hunger Gams. Most of the movie is just a Jennifer Lawrence look-a-like being swallowed up by various monsters. Kind of Creeping Terror fetish type thing.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go start a thread complaining about how vile it is for Rifftrax to do this before I even see it....

Compound

Quote from: losingmydignity on August 20, 2012, 02:59:02 PM
My google search pulled up the Hunger Gams. Most of the movie is just a Jennifer Lawrence look-a-like being swallowed up by various monsters. Kind of Creeping Terror fetish type thing.

They made a  vorarephila film? Lovely.

goflyblind

Quote from: Compound on August 20, 2012, 03:34:58 PM
Quote from: losingmydignity on August 20, 2012, 02:59:02 PM
My google search pulled up the Hunger Gams. Most of the movie is just a Jennifer Lawrence look-a-like being swallowed up by various monsters. Kind of Creeping Terror fetish type thing.

They made a  vorarephila film? Lovely.

dF = 0
d*F = J

Zombie Monty

I am still hoping for The Hunger Games at some point...

This looks like it has potential though.  Still way behind on my Rifftrax VOD viewing.  Gotta catch up somehow!

eegah

#12
Google image search gives me The Revenge of Dr. X (1970) (alternate title: Venus Flytrap)

Written by Ed Wood!!!!

I'm certain that I'm correct, since many review sites have the same image.

losingmydignity

Quote from: Compound on August 20, 2012, 03:34:58 PM
Quote from: losingmydignity on August 20, 2012, 02:59:02 PM
My google search pulled up the Hunger Gams. Most of the movie is just a Jennifer Lawrence look-a-like being swallowed up by various monsters. Kind of Creeping Terror fetish type thing.

They made a  vorarephila film? Lovely.

Sorry, my own sick joke. Move along, people, nothing to see......

RVR II

ANUTHERN ???

These VODs are somethin else yo :o