{"id":19584,"date":"2015-03-07T08:30:29","date_gmt":"2015-03-07T13:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/?p=19584"},"modified":"2015-03-06T18:11:53","modified_gmt":"2015-03-06T23:11:53","slug":"weekend-discussion-thread-msted-movies-what-ifs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/?p=19584","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Discussion Thread: MSTed Movies &#8216;What Ifs&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>Alert reader Jeffrey suggests:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I was watching The Brain That Wouldn&#8217;t Die recently and was thinking about what would have happened had there never been a car crash which removed the unfortunate woman&#8217;s head. The movie might have been renamed &#8220;The Thing in the Closet&#8221; and taken on more of a Frankenstein tone, with Bill and Curt regretting their mistake to create the monstrous creature who eventually escapes and rampages through town. Maybe the plucky Jan, who never ends up in the pan, finds some way to save the day.<\/p>\n<p>What other movies deserve the WHAT IF treatment?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Bloodlust!&#8221; What if the motor on the boat was properly maintained, or somebody on the boat could fix it? I think it might turn into a tense relationship drama, a la &#8220;Who&#8217;s Afraid of Virginina Woolfe?&#8221; in which a terrible secret comes out about Johnny (Robert Reed). I think you know where I&#8217;m headed.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s your pick?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>Alert reader Jeffrey suggests:<\/p>\n<p>I was watching The Brain That Wouldn&#8217;t Die recently and was thinking about what would have happened had there never been a car crash which removed the unfortunate woman&#8217;s head. The movie might have been renamed &#8220;The Thing in the Closet&#8221; and taken on more of a Frankenstein tone, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-msties","odd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}