Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #18773 in DVD
• Released on: 2000-04-25
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Animated, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 97 minutes

Amazon.com
Mystery Science Theater 3000 experienced a changing of the guard with this fifth-season episode. Departed series creator and lead Joel Hodgson was replaced by head writer Mike Nelson, playing a hapless temp named... Mike Nelson, who was sent into space to cover for Hodgson's escape. The opening credit sequence and title theme (warbled by Nelson) were also new, but the show's basic premise--poking fun at atrocious B movies--remained the same.

Nelson's debut "experiment" is the delirious 1960 head-transplant horror The Brain That Wouldn't Die. And while Nelson is occasionally stiff, particularly during the invention exchange (a longtime Hodgson staple, and soon to be excised), he and robot pals Crow and Tom Servo rise to the occasion during the film, which is filled with memorable zingers (Crow: "He's keeping her alive with Grey Poupon!"). Rhino's DVD presents the uncut, slightly gory version of Brain with and without the MST3K treatment. --Paul Gaita

From the Back Cover
It's Mystery Science Theater 3000, America's only show that makes fun of really bad B movies from the comfort of a spaceship floating above Earth. Mike Nelson, along with his mechanical companions, wisecracking Crow and well-read chick magnet Tom Servo, make suffering through Hollywood's worst films a breeze. Adding their own dialogue, barrage of witty remarks, and an occasional colorful skit, they next hour and a half will fly by like it were only 90 minutes. There's no ushers with flashlights, crying babies, or women with big hair to spoil the fun. It's Mike Nelson's voyage on The Satellite of Love, and boy does his crew have a girl for him in The Brain that Wouldn't Die. Unfortunately, she's only a head, but you know what they say, sometimes you have to do things just to get "a head" in this world (har, har). This story finds a young doctor climbing back to his wrecked car only to discover his fiancie has been decapitated. Scooping up her noggin like a linebacker and running off, Crow blurts out "He's at the 20. He's at the 10. No one will catch him." Then later in this flick, as our leading lady floats in a tray of magical life-sustaining liquid, Tom Servo remarks, "Look. She makes her own gravy." If that wasn't enough, don't miss the onboard interview between our three pals and the decapitated diva. It's a hoot!

Customer Reviews

HEAD GONE BAD
This was rather a Mystery Science Theater milestone, as the first Mike Nelson hosted episode (replacing Joel). Mike does a fine job.

MST3K provided Mike great source material. The Brain That Wouldn't Die is an infamous painful '50s sci-fi B-movie. An overview . . .

Brilliant surgeon is moonlighting in full body transplantation research -- girlfriend is decapitated in car crash -- surgeon preserves her functioning head in a pan in his lab as he scouts a replacement body for her (by functioning, I mean talking and the whole bit). She really has a bad personality now, sitting there in her little pan, with tubes running in and out. (Mike and the 'Bots get a lot of humor mileage out of the pan juice thing). Somehow she "communicates" verbally and telepathically with her new soul-mate, the frankensteinish goon locked up in the closest. Goon eventually eascapes, havoc ensues.

This is a very good MST3K effort, but I think the comedy, although good, was slightly tenuous due to the transition from Joel to Mike. I also think that they missed a great opportunity for a sketch with one of the robots heads functioning in a pan. Enjoy!

best ever
this or pod people was, next to soem of the shorts, the finnuest episode i ever saw. the first time i watched it i laughed so ahrd i ahd to watch it twice mroe jsut to ehar all the stuff i was busy laughing over the first and second time i watched it

Pure Fun
If ever I need a good laugh, I watch this. Mike Nelson and friends rip this cheesy film to ribbons. This is my favorite MST3K movie (and I've seen a lot). After experiencing Mike, I find his predecessor Joel listless and not nearly as funny. Mike is so sharp with his sardonic humor and his fantastic pop culture references. Who wouldn't want to watch b-movies with him?
There are so many quotable, fun lines throughout this movie, you have to experience it for yourself. This is a highly recommended helping of silliness.