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Weekend Discussion Thread: Dangerous Stunts

Alert reader Charles suggests:

What about dangerous stunts? There is a scene in the “Beast of Hollow mountain” where a stuntmen and horse fall down a mountain. I had to look up whether that stunt man was killed. It sure looked like he was seriously hurt.

One of the things I like about season 11 is that they pay attention to this — like the fire pellets being shot at the stars of “The Land that Time Forgot.”

What are your most egregious stunts in MSTed movies?

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Weekend Discussion Thread: MST3K-Inspired Scare Houses

Our pal Projected Paul suggests:

I was just in Orlando to see the MST3k Live shows there. While in Orlando, and I attended Halloween Horror Nights at the Universal Studios theme park. The event is composed of several horror-themed houses filled with scare actors and atmospheric effects from licensed intellectual properties like the “Stranger Things” TV show and films like “Poltergeist”

It got me thinking, given that Halloween is near, that a number films from MST3k and other B-Movies would make for good Scare House events at theme park-like environments.

I think “The Brain” film from the 2018 MST3k Live Show could be the basis for a scare house. House attendees could be terrorized by the monstrous brain creature puppet, as well as the evil employees of the Psychological Research Institute from the film, as well as film characters hypnotized into murdering people by The Brain, who’d be portrayed by scare actors. You would go through rooms modeled after locations from the film, in which would mimic the hallucination scenes the characters experience in the movie.

For other MST3k films, I think “Squirm” and “The Killer Shrews” would make for good Scare House properties.

I would have to go with “Being from Another Planet,” and visitors would walk through an industrial basement that get’s scarier and scarier, but nothing happens. And you’ve spent $20. I didn’t say it would be a GOOD scare house!

Your pick?

RIP James Karen

LOS ANGELES — James Karen, the instantly recognizable character actor perhaps best remembered as the shady developer in “Poltergeist,” died Oct. 23 at his home here. He was 94.
He was also noteworthy in such films as “The China Syndrome” (1979) and “The Return of the Living Dead” (1985) and on the finale of NBC’s “Little House on the Prairie.” But MSTies will remember his role as corrupt university president Dr. Wendell Rossmore in the movie in episode 405- BEING FROM ANOTHER PLANET.

The Hollywood Reporter has the story.