"Mystery Science Theater 3000" The Thing That Couldn't Die (TV Episode 1997) Poster

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hellraiser714 October 2020
Warning: Spoilers
Warning do not read unless seen epsiode.

This one's not a favorite but it's a good one I had fun with it. This film is a rather daft one as it's a witchcraft and zombie/vampire movie, where the antagonist's head and body are separated but didn't die and is trying to join again. Yeah, I know daft, why the heck the people of back then didn't just burn the antagonist is anyone's guess but then there would be no movie, which would have been for the best. I also remember this film was on one of those weakly Halloween blocks that Sci-Fi channel back then use to do called Anatomically incorrect.

Anyway, Mike and the bots head into this film (no pun intended) and we've their riff magic. And there are a lot of funny and memorable riffs. One scene which I found funny and has my favorite quote from the film "You're all horrible, I hope you all die, I hope a tree falls on you!" and of course, exactly that happens and hits one of the characters. Seeing that I couldn't help but crack up and also thought "damn missed the rest of them", but in that scene the MST crew have a couple of really good quotes; one mainly by Crow, "Good I hope it rises and falls on you again!"

Another is in the flashback scene with the main villain who really isn't in the film that much, let alone get to do much as he is a severed head with mind powers and curses only and gets other people to do his work for him. But in that scene when characters are carrying the villain's coffin, we then hear the crew sing the spooky version of the Lucky Charms song, that one just makes me giggle who'd of thought you can actually make a famous commercial jingle into a Halloween song.

And there is of course the last part where the main villain is resurrected and is now a vampire/zombie I'm still not sure which. Anyway, he is armed and now wants to drink blood but it can't be any blood, he has this really quick method of blood testing where he just looks at a character and tells the quality of their blood, which you could say reflect their souls. I don't know but really like once the villain starts doing pointing with the knife the MST crew they then say, "Him, him, him." Yeah at this point I'm waiting for someone to get it as there hasn't really been that many casualties. Even like one other thing they say about the pathetic ensemble that are trying to charge the main villain but of course fail, yeah, I agree guys not even close to "The Avengers".

The host segments are good, there is one by Crow I like that is an honorable mention in my book when he presents his documentary version of "The Civil War". The result I won't say what it is, I'll just say it's um... it's a documentary, I think.

Nothing left to say just remember, "Frosted Lucky Charms their magically delicious."

Rating: 3 stars
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