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Weekend Discussion Thread: Truly Loathsome MST3K Movie CharactersI’m once again stealing a topic from Facebook, where a fellow named Luke Yount asked:
I would have to pick the two peeping tom military guys from “Attack of the the Eye Creatures.” I feel like they’d be clammy to the touch. (Ew.) Your pick? Keep sending thread ideas! 101 Replies to “Weekend Discussion Thread: Truly Loathsome MST3K Movie Characters”Commenting at Satellite News
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Mitchell!! (‘natch)
The Master from Manos. A pedophile who abuses his wives (especially in the uncut version) and has no patience for the hired help. I bet he even kicks his dog when nobody is looking.
Jack Elam’s ‘jessy’ from ‘girl on lover’s lane.’or the greasy Armenian crime boss from ‘girl in gold boots.’
Have to agree 100% with Kansas. The Master is truly loathsome. Second place for me goes to Gloria Henderson from “The Sinister Urge”.
Mincing man-pig from The Leech Woman. He verbally abuses his alcoholic wife, then wants to use her for his experiment. Then, to top it of, he wants to leave her in Griffith Park…er Africa as a diversion so he can get away with the Nipay.
Heathcliff from Wild Wild World of Batwoman. Soooo awful, with his grimaces and twitches and mugging and ogling of breasts and stroking of hearing aids and drinking of liquids and refusal of pills and….
Sorry.
Heathcliff was icky in a very special way.
Kermes from Colossus and the Headhunters is really slimy. He double crosses his king to get his throne, and treats Amoa as if she’ll be her slave rather than the next queen that he’ll “advise”.
Of course, there’s also Moon from “The Beatniks” who basically ruins Eddie’s teen idol dreams by being strange, then homicidal.
Ortega from Incredibly Strange… etc. –
Filthy, vile, reeking of nasty tobacco, probably got head lice. Not a ten foot pole, not even a Pole named Valter, would be enough insulation to make anyone want to touch Ortega. UGHH!!!!
I remember being especially disturbed by the motel owner from It Lives By Night. He hears Mrs. Beck having a nightmare and bursts into her room. Then, when he sees she is naked (except for a sheet), he decides to just stand there and have an awkward conversation. Its really uncomfortable.
I’ve ranted about Watney before so it’s hard to argue about him, but I’ll add “The lubricious serial killer in the multicolored sheath dress” from Attack of the the Eye Creatures and the entire cast of Hobgoblins. Plus Watney.
Dr. Bill Cortner from “The Brain(Head) that Wouldn’t Die”… shopping girls in strip clubs with the intent of killing them off to get a new body for his decapitated (er, decorpitated?) fiancee. Not to mention his horrific unethical experimentation, tampering in God’s domain.
On the “vile-o-meter”, he’s definitely pegging an eleven.
Hetty March in The Atomic Brain. An old lady with a voyeur mentality, addicted to smarmy comments
about the staffs “assets.”. Dr. Otto Frank is also quite repulsive, since both of them have zero consciences
about killing and using the young “foreign” women. Oh, and you are treated to perhaps the worst foreign accents
ever attempted by actresses. If ever shown in the U. K. the movie could repell Britishers more bigly than even
listening to Donald Trump for 10 minutes.
A tie between Griffin from Red Zone Cuba and Diabolik. Made worse by the fact that they’re suppose to be the lead protagonists in their respective films.
The biker gang from ‘Wild Rebels’. Truly despicable people.
Weekend thread idea: Favorite Dance Moves/Scenes from MST3K movies.
Mine, the Zombie Stomp from ‘Horror Of Party Beach’.
I don’t know if this has been discussed already so let me know.
So many good (er, bad) ones mentioned already. But I must put Dr. Z at the top of my list. So repugnant that I literally can’t bring myself to re-watch that episode, despite some great riffing. He is revolting even before we see him, with his lustful ode to fish delivered in that nails-on-a-chalkboard voice. By the time he starts stripping down to bathe in a giant tub full of brackish pond water… Ew, I’ve had enough!
Any Japanese parent who dresses their kid in extremely tiny shorts and sends them out in public.
Also, Butcher Benton From The Indestructible Man. Walking around the LA sewer system. Very repugnant.
I said something like this a while back, but I’ll reiterate: Thor from Teenagers from Outer Space. Not only does the kill the nice guy who gave him a ride into town, but he skeletonized little Sparky with his ray gun. There’s kind of an unwritten rule in movies that you don’t kill the little kids or the pets, so I’ve loathed Thor for decades.
Dad from Eegah. The shaving scene makes me need to take a long shower.
Yuri, the psychotic, narcissistic “archeologist” in “Warweelf” (??). Not only is he a dickweed, no one ever stands up to him, although he’s fouling everything up. Giving him a different hair style in every shot doesn’t make him any more appealing. Also Kalgon from Space Mutiny: every time I hear his laugh I want to crawl into the TV set and smack him. All choices so far are great!
The entire cast of The Dead Talk Back. We’re not talking “collective participants trapped in a bad movie,” here, as in, say, Teenage Strangler or Ring of Terror; we’re talking individually loathsome characters. Remember Mr. Cranky’s website, and the little nuclear-explosion GIF? “Proof Jesus died in vain.”
Crenshaw. He hijacks the little creature, tries to kill his momma, and worst of all runs around in a little one strap overall that shows his “curves”. Icky.
As Paul Chaplin put it once, many of MST’s films are “oily guys who turn the camera on themselves.” So there’s no shortage. A few:
Both Arch Halls in “Eegah!” Jr. for obvious reasons; Sr. for his creepy relationship with his “daughter.”
Ray Dennis Steckler in “ISCWSLABMUZ.” As they put it; “Is that a pullover or his skin?”
Paper Chase Guy and his motorcycle.
Jack Elam in “Girl in Lover’s Lane,” simply for killing Carrie.
The little kid in “Godzilla v. Megalon.” All together: “SHUT UP!!!”
Buffalo Bill in “Riding with Death.”
I can’t believe nobody has mentioned Ross from Catching Trouble yet. I have never longed for the painful death and dismemberment by a bear for any other MSTed character.
The evil step-mother from “Jack Frost”, and her daughter Mafoushka (sp??). Relentlessly abusive and condescending to Nastinka, who, despite it all, try’s to please, and even rescues her nasty step-sister from drowning. The dumb guy who comes a-courtin’, with his mother acting as attorney/negotiator, is pretty creepy also.
The greasy, drunk, abusive father in Girl In Gold Boots. Yuck!
“Is it because I secret oil?!”
Yes, and he asked her to “bring the baby wipes”.
how has the lactating farmer from ‘Giant Spider Invasion’ gone this long unmentioned?? okay…so i forgot him too…..
What about Roxie’s dad? Allowing his daughter to “give him something else” to Eegah’s advances??
Fu Manchu is a nasty piece of work…
There are so many loathsome characters to choose from, but for me, it’s a three-way tie between the niche reviewer from Merlin’s Shop of Magical Wonders, the pasta thrower from Zombie Nightmare, and the walking venereal disease that is the entire cast of Hobgoblins.
Michele’s father from Girl in Gold Boots is pretty loathsome, and that’s even if you ignore his sweat and body oil. Taking her $15 and cutting out may have been the only smart thing any character did in that movie.
Is it Angels Revenge that Crow describes as “a buffet of loathsomeness?” Cause it is… Pretty much every male actor in the film seems to be trying to out–sleaze every one else.
Manos is actually the “buffet of loathsomeness”, but yeah, Angels Revenge would also qualify. It practically reeks of the casting couch, if you catch my drift…
Everyone in Project Moonbase. And everyone in Hobgoblins. And most people in Horrors of Spider Island.
Every single person in Zombie Nightmare except the dad that gets murdered in the opening.
The world of that movie is dark. Same goes for Hobgoblins.
Mom in “Soultaker”.
It’s creepy enough to be peeped on taking a bath, but when it’s your mom……..
Among other things.
That wasn’t Mom, that was Joe Estevez disguised as Mom, which is somehow even creepier.
Heh. Good point. :D
Tom Stewart from Tormented, who would have killed that little girl. Also he seemed to be marrying into that family just for the money.
I’d never touch Terry. She’s dirt.
Bill courtner also preyed on the emotionally danaged model who trusted him when she didn’t trust other men. Smug deranged dude. Second place goes to all the creepy photographers in that movie.
I’d have to say Gloria Henderson from ‘The Sinister Urge’. Not only does she have poor taste in fashion and a voice that could cut glass and a abusive management style she also brings a criminal element into the honest and wholesome porno industry of the fifties.
The industry has never recovered.
Just got done with this one…
Lin from Painted Hills. Would have probably killed the whole cast including the kid and Lassie if he had the chance. he should be ground up into snausages.
Madam Estrella from @The Incredibly Strange Creatures… “deserves a mention as she turns drunks inti zombie-like monsters who caused all sorts of terror. Fingal is a slacker who plays havoc with the world’s weather, which may have, and probably would in the real world, cause a substantial loss of life. Dr. Carlo Lombardi is a one nasty dude as well.
In defense of Old Man Crenshaw’s fashion choices it must be said that bib overalls, sometimes referred to as “overhauls” in rural southwest Arkansas, can be a liberating experience for a free spirited fellow. Not so much for the ladies due to chafing issues caused by the bib and straps. Come to think of it maybe that is the causative factor in Crenshaw’s one-strap style.
On second thought, forgive me for even bringing the subject up. (Insert Lurch moan here)
Arthur Godfrey as Arthur Godfrey in ANGEL’S REVENGE.
And the Michael Pataki award for best actor in a sleazoid role goes to… It’s a tie!
Michael Pataki as J.C. in THE SIDEHACKERS & Michael Pataki as Sgt. Ward in IT LIVES BY NIGHT.
Whether strangling his girlfriend or ogling skinny Mary Tyler Moore impersonators the man could slime it up with the best of them.
I don’t think Watney Smith from Outlaw of Gor is the most openly loathsome character, he’s more annoying and obnoxious. There are more nasty villains in other movies that do horrible things to other people that are really loathsome characters.