Season Nine Episode Four: Werewolf
Network: Sci-Fi Channel
Riffers: Tom Servo, Mike Nelson, and Crow T. Robot
Mads: Pearl Forrester, Professor Bobo, and Brain Guy
Plot Synopsis: A team of archaeologists unearth a skeleton at a dig in an Arizona quarry. The Native Americans on the dig instantly recognize it as the remains of a werewolf, so the team leaders immediately take it to their lab. Yuri siezes on greater ambitions when one of the dig assistants, who injured himself on the remains, becomes infected and turns into a werewolf in full view of hospital personnel. Yuri then conducts an experiment to infect other people in town to see if they turn into werewolves as well. When Paul arrives at the lab to assist in analyzing the remains, Yuri infects him, too. After Paul's transformation, Natalie tries to save him.
Host Segments:
Prologue: After a fall, Mike thinks that he's James Lipton and interviews Crow, thinking the latter is Ray Liotta and interviews him about his film career.
Segment One: Crow hits Mike with a clown hammer, restoring him to his senses. Mike attempts to affect an escape, but accidentally lands in Castle Forrester. Mike decides to give up after Brain Guy produces a cannon and points it at him.
Segment Two: MatBs speculate over whom they would cast in their werewolf movies, using famous celebrity relatives (including Spike Knotts and Chip Hitler) as characters. All Crow can come up with is Ray Liotta.
Segment Three: Mike and the Bots dress up as a '60s girl group and sing "Where, O Werewolf", about "Cindy" (Mike)'s doomed relationship with her werewolf boyfriend.
Segment Four: Mike cuts himself on Crow's head and begins turning into a Werecrow. Servo is horrified, but Crow warms to the idea and tells Mike what to expect from his transformation.
Ending Segment: Mike is even further along in his transformation, but Servo comes up with an antidote. Unfortunately, Servo is now transforming into a Weremike. At Castle Forrester, Pearl attempts to create her own werewolf, but Bobo produces a cocker spaniel instead.
Stinger: Natalie's flat emotionless delivery of the line "This is absolutely fascinating."
Review:
The recent movies shown on MST3K, Werewolf is a relatively poor B-Movie that has a nonsensical plot, bad Non-English speaking actors (speaking English throughout the movie), a full moon every night, and.. Joe Estavez. This is the third movie to deal with werewolves (After Season One's Mad Monster and Eight's I Was a Teenage Werewolf). As a movie, it seems it asks a lot of it's audience. It assumes the audience not only be dumb enough not to recoginze when someone drives by the same gas station five times (in the span of three minutes) but also assumes the audience doesn't know when a full moon happens. That's asking a lot, isn't it?
The riffing was very enjoyable during this movie, with plenty of riffs thrown at the incosistent werewolf costume, not sure if Joe Estavez is even supposed to be in this movie (and him just disappearing after the first twenty minutes) and how Natalie's terrible English makes for some awesome riffs over how badly she pronounces some words. The host segments are vary from relatively funny (Mike turning to Were-Crow, Mike trying to escape the SoL) to kinda dull (Mike as James Lipton.) Overall I'd say this is one of the better episodes of Season Nine. 9.5/10
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