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this one looks bad even by my standards.
speaking of which:
http://www.geek.com/science/doctors-planning-the-first-human-head-transplant-1620076/
Yes! Yes! Yes!!! I have been wanting them to do this movie for years! I added it to the RiffTrax suggestions list a few weeks ago and they actually did it. I think I should get a free copy of the riff for suggesting it.
A little backstory on my history with this movie: When I was 6 or so I used to watch a daily kids’ show from the Bay Area called Captain Cosmic. It was hosted by Bob Wilkins in a really bad costume with his robot partner, 2D2. They would show cheesy shows like Ultraman, Captain Scarlet, Johnny Sokko and His Flying Robot, and stuff like that. Bob also hosted the Friday night horror show, Creature Feature and they would advertise that week’s Creature Feature at the end of Captain Cosmic. One week they ran the trailer for The Incredible Two-Headed Transplant and, at my young age, was terrified by it. Nightmares for weeks imagining what horrible things must happen in the movie, not to mention the thought of having my head cut off and put on someone else’s body. Over 25 years, though, I began to wonder if the movie was real or if I’d imagined it. Lo and behold, I finally found a DVD containing it and The Thing With Two Heads. It even included the trailer and was exactly what I remembered. Fortunately, seeing the movie in my 30s did not give me nightmares, just fits of laughter.
Well, gotta go download the movie! :-D :-D :-D :-D :yes: :yes: :yes:
#3: I saw that very same trailer on the same show you referred to (I think: it gets confusing because I grew up in Davis, but my grandparents lived in Marin County, so I was familiar with Wilkins in the Bay Area as well as Sacramento), and it scared the heck out of me!
I’m glad you’re excited about this one, but I’ll confess that I have trouble with movies from the early seventies, as I find them more ugly than charming. I’m glad they’re doing one of your requests, though — that’s very cool! And I hope they cough up a copy of the movie for you (or maybe Satan himself will :) ) — you’ve earned it!
Wow, Marilyn Munster is in this! (Pat Priest).
I just love these 1970’s movies…There was a sort of eerie creepiness that you would get from these movies that I actually liked…Not that there was anything wrong with the films of the 1950’s and 1960’s.
Watched this last night and it is sooooo bad. I don’t know why I still find myself asking logical questions while watching these things…
Another riffed film that’ll require a shower afterwards. The jokes are so-so, what Sampo might call a “good but not great” track. The movie, though, feels icky from the first minute to the last. It’s not that it’s filled with anything terrible content-wise that we haven’t seen before; it’s just that you can feel the grime getting on you.
As a final note, I’ve never seen anyone try so hard to get fired from a role as Bruce Dern does here. He literally refuses to be “in” any of his scenes. I’m actually a little surprised the riffers didn’t make more of this particular fact.
I was kidding about that final note thing. I looked up Dern’s “highlight reel” from AFI Fest a couple of years ago (introduced by Tarantino) and a couple seconds of this film actually made it in there… including the monkey genitals. Baffling.
I loved it. Another WTF ’70s movie, my favorite genre. Marilyn Munster as the hot love interest. Casey Kasem as the Ralph-Furley-esque-dressed friend. Bruce Dern as Bruce Dern. Sweaty monkey testicles. What is not to love?
Yep, Bruce Dern plays his usual madman, John Bloom (who was in the Oozing Skull (Brain of Blood), curiously enough, another brain transplantation movie — which was riffed on CT) as his typical idiot, and Marilyn Munster as the cutie. And I had forgotten that Casey Kasem is in the film. So, agreed, what’s not to love. Of course, we bought this one in a New York minute.
Well, I hope they follow this up with The Thing with Two Heads. After all, you got Rosey Grier and Ray Milland trading 70s racial epithets, Rick Baker as a two-headed gorilla, and a waka-chaka car chase with about 51 cop cars crashing into ditches! Gotta love blacksploitation movies.
Hmm. MS BirdBrain proposes “transplantation” for “blacksploitation.” Irony, thou hast no shame…
We should really name this movie’s genre “transploitation”. There’s enough examples of it to qualify: The Brain That Wouldn’t Die, The Thing With Two Heads, The Atomic Brain, The Man With Two Brains, The Thing That Couldn’t Die (kind of), The Man With the Screaming Brain, The Man With Two Brains and They Saved Hitler’s Brain. Plus the Futurama episode “Put Your Head on My Shoulders”.
It took me a while, but I came up with something good to say about this creepy film. Both of the actors playing the “heads” are pretty good at pretending the maniac is in control of the gentle giant’s hands. They must have rehearsed! Other than that… just yuck.
And don’t forget The Simpsons Halloween takeoff: Mr. Burns sharing Homer’s body –
BURNS: I suppose you’re wondering why you have two heads. Well, my body was crushed, and so I had my head placed on your, shall we say, ample frame.
HOMER: No! It’s just a dream!
BURNS: Yes, it’s just a dream. Or is it?! (Evil laugh)
ANNOUNCER: Next week, on The Simpsons…
LISA: Don’t forget, Dad, we have all you can eat spaghetti at my school tonight.
HOMER: Hmmm, spaghetti.
BURNS: But Homer! We have that dinner with Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands!
HOMER: Oh, I hate having two heads!
I don’t know – Rick Baker designed the fake heads in The Thing With Two Heads, so they’re a lot more believable than the ones in 2-Headed Transplant. The guys thought the heads were pathetic in a couple of places…
Ah well, Rifftrax left a comment on the site with a tease that they may actually do The Thing With Two Heads at some point. We can but hope.
I’m very happy with what they did with this movie! There were a few places where they didn’t make jokes I expected them to, especially early on. The places where I didn’t see the jokes coming were the best, though, especially the deputy with the voice of a cartoon bear. They also did a great job getting out of the way of the movie and let its insanity do the work in just the right places. For me they started firing on all cylinders in the last third of the movie and I couldn’t stop laughing.
I saw the hint that they might do The Thing With Two Heads, too. Can’t wait to be able to do a double-headed double feature of those two!
I’m very happy with what they did with this movie! There were a few places where they didn’t make jokes I expected them to, especially early on. The places where I didn’t see the jokes coming were the best, though, especially the deputy with the voice of a cartoon bear. They also did a great job getting out of the way of the movie and let its insanity do the work in just the right places. For me they started firing on all cylinders in the last third of the movie and I couldn’t stop laughing.
I saw the hint that they might do The Thing With Two Heads, too. Can’t wait to be able to do a double-headed double feature of those two!
I’m very happy with what they did with this movie! There were a few places where they didn’t make jokes I expected them to, especially early on. The places where I didn’t see the jokes coming were the best, though, especially the deputy with the voice of a cartoon bear. They also did a great job getting out of the way of the movie and let its insanity do the work in just the right places. For me they started firing on all cylinders in the last third of the movie and I couldn’t stop laughing.
I saw the hint that they might do The Thing With Two Heads, too. Can’t wait to be able to do a double-headed double feature of those two!