THE MAN WITH TWO BRAINS - Steve Martin - "Screw Top, Zip Lock Brain Surgery" (1983)

I didn't intentionally mean to do two mad scientist comedies in a row, but then I didn't mean to do my taxes either! Tonight's feature should probably be a Saturday Night Special, but because there is no schedule or concept. tonight's fully whacked out feature is:

"The Man With Two Brains!"

"The Man With Two Brains" came out in 1983! I just saw it last week because I only have one brain, and I think it's starting to malfunction!

Directed and produced by Carl Reiner, and starring and co-written by Steve Martin, that's a major pile of laugh power! Right out of the box, there's this scene where there is an accident and Steve Martin tells this little girl to go get some medical help, and she recites all the medical jargon back to him perfectly, and then some!

There's lots of sight gags!

More sight gags!

Steve Martin is a brain surgeon named Dr. Michael Hfuhruhurr, and there is always this cat in the operating room during surgery!

Dr. Hfuhruhurr's favorite movie is "Donovan's Brain!"

In a nutshell, the Doctor hit money-grubbin' Dolores Benedict (Kathleen Turner) with his car in the beginning of the movie. She now has a plate in her head, and they are about to get married, but even though her brain doesn't work 100% correctly, she is still in it for the money!

Tension ensues!

Sexual tension ensues!!

And then the Doctor meets somebody else. The only problem is that she doesn't have a body! I say "The Man With Two Brains" owes quite a little bit to "The Brain That Wouldn't Die!"

I give this movie extra big kudos for carrying on the tradition of the Gorilla Suit in the movies!

The woman he loves has no body!

His wife has no brain!

This gal looked like she was going to be the perfect body candidate for a brain transplant until she opened up her mouth and had the most annoying voice ever!

Steve Martin looking demonic as Hell!

The serial killer turns out to be marvelous Merv Griffin!

This is one tough D.U.I. test!!

"The Man With Two Brains" is funny, it's stupid, it's Steve Martin, and if you want to laugh your ass off, it's a no brainer!!!

LIFEFORCE / Golan-Globus Productions - 1985

Here's a movie directed by Tobe Hooper, screenplay by Dan O'Bannon, it's all about the space shuttle Churchill, assigned to observe Halley's Comet, when a strange vessel attached to the comet is seen, a team is sent to investigate. They find three humanoid life forms in caskets and bring them to the Churchill. Earth loses contact with the shuttle and the Space Research Center sends another spacecraft to search for the Churchill, they find the crew dead, the shuttle burnt and one rescue pod missing. They bring the humanoids to Earth and soon it's discovered that the Space Girl is some sort of vampire that drains the human life force.

The poster shown is for its alternative Euro title.

The movie stars Steve (BARB WIRE) Railsback, Peter (THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER) Firth, Frank (SHAFT IN AFRICA) Finlay, Mathilda (NEMO) May and Patrick (X-MEN) Stewart...

Well, four men from the Churchill enter the strange vessel near the comet and discover a hidden world inside...

They find three glass coffins with humanoid bodies inside. They detach the coffins and return to the Churchill shuttle.

Back on Earth, the Space Girl seems to be in a coma, but, I don't think that's the case!

She's just waiting for the right dude to enter the room, and, she puts the make on him big time! Then, she starts kissing and sucking his life force out of him!

Things are out of control as they try to stop the Space Vampires from further mayhem. But, nothing seems to be working!

Patrick plays Dr. Armstrong, he gets caught up in the fun as he fights to stop the invaders.

But, it doesn't look good for him!!

Steve Railsback plays Colonel Carlson, he has become Space Girl's chosen one. When one of the original three aliens rams a special sword into Carlson's gut, he changes into a real nightmare from Hell...

The alien dude takes his weapon and continues on his quest to foil the space invaders.

Carlson grabs the sword from the alien and rams it through both him and Space Girl, causing them to return to the strange vessel and takes them back to where they belong, away from Earth!! Tune in again Wednesday when we continue down the dusty old Dungeon trail...

THE NUTTY PROFESSOR - Les Brown - "The Greatest Drink Since Dracula Discovered Bloody Marys" (1963)

Welcome to yet another Saturday Night Special in The Dungeon! Tonight's feature is the classic 1963 adaptation of Robert Lewis Stevenson's "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" as portrayed  by one of the most popular guys in France, Jerry Lewis! Pre-ratings, "The Nutty Professor" is like a Disney movie for adults! It's insipidly stupid, but just plain fun to watch!

I watched "The Nutty Professor" a couple of weeks ago and it was the reason I got sidetracked on the whole lengthy film history of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

 The great Jerry Lewis is Professor Julius Kelp, the Dr. Jekyll character in the movie!

 The Professor is trying to get into shape, but the workout is not working out too well!

 In a literal walk through scene, Dungeon Super Hero Richard (Eegah!!) Kiel, strolls through the gym just to set up....

 .........this short but uncomfortable encounter with Julius!!

Without his thick glasses on, Julius bowls over a group of kids he thought were bowling pins and is very excited that he got a strike!

 In the older Dr. Jekyll movies, the transformation would have stopped here, but in the hipper 1963 version, there's time for one more change!

Who shows up after that? The ultra cool Mr. Buddy Love!

 The Hyde character is no killer, but he does have quite an attitude problem! I've often heard that Jerry Lewis wasn't always the nicest guy in the world, and Buddy Love might be a little closer to the real Jerry than the goofball we all grew to love! Comedian/Actor Buddy Lester is the sarcastic bartender feeding it back to him.

 Lucky Jerry gets to have Stella Stevens as his love interest!
Maybe he did the casting himself!

 I think you get the point! The poster besieged me not to give out too much information, so I think I've gone too far already!

 This is a great shot!!

 The music by Les Brown and his Band of Renown swings from start to finish, and makes the party complete! Here's about a minute and a half from the ending credits! Pretty sweet!

 When Mr. Cool Buddy Love's voice starts reverting back to the nerdy squeak of Professor Kelp, the crowd of new and adoring fans are shocked back to their senses when he reveals the truth and changes back completely to his former self!

In an otherwise classic tale, the 1960's nerdy guy wins the gorgeous gal in technicolor with cool music! It's about three bikinis, and two surf bands short of being a beach movie, 

but that's all right with me! I liked it almost as much as when I was fifteen!