Here is an interesting thought. In a lot of bad movies, there is an antagonist that is perpetrating some sort of evil plan, plot, or form of skullduggery. Of the MST3K movies, which one of these plots hinges the most on requiring the complete, absolute, unknowing cooperation from the victim(s)? This could also encompass evil plots that require the most random chance and circumstance to impossibly fall into place in order to work.
There are other movies that could be in the list, but I am trying to avoid examples where things are outlandish but plausible in their own setting (such as Danger Death Ray or Double Double 07).
âDrive My Wife Crazyâ from The Screaming Skull
âDrugged Flowers & Funeral Kidnappingâ from The Corpse Vanishes
âStay In My House & No Questionsâ from The Atomic Brain
âCome Into My Parlorâ from The Brain That Wouldnât Die
âRandom Werewolf Maulingsâ from The Mad Monster
âPlease Dive Into My Lairâ from The Giant Leeches
âKeep Walking Alone So I Can Kill Youâ from The Girl in Lovers Lane
âWalk On These Loose Rocks, Pleaseâ from The Painted Hills
âStay In Town and Remain Isolatedâ from Zombie Nightmare
âCrawl In, Thereâs Plenty Of Roomâ from The Creeping Terror
âDonât Just Dogpile Me When Iâm In Armâs Reachâ from Bloodlust
âRemain Blandâ from Kitten With A Whip
âStay In Arms Reach & Iâm Immune To Bulletsâ from The Brute Man
âMove Slowly and Stay Close To Waterâ from Blood Waters of Dr. Z
I appreciate how much cooperation the victim has to put into ending up in the octopusâs arms and thrashing around in said octopus arms in Bride of the Monster.
Heh, Ed Wood can have that effect with his evil plots!
Also, when you think about it, Baba Yagaâs plan of getting her cat to trick Nastenka into freezing herself in Jack Frost required a Saw sequel-level of coordination for EVERYTHING to line up just right.
Out of these choices? Easily The Creeping Terror, because CâMON. Itâs not that the Terror was so deadly, itâs that its victims were exceedingly supportive.
Oh, no worries there, I wouldnât want you to change a thing here!
Your thread/poll brings up a lot of food for thought as to how many plots/plans had to rely on pure distilled cooperation/luck for things to move forward.
The Creeping Terror is just a tad on the unrealistic side. Iâm sure youâll notice that on most nature shows the prey DONâT want to be eaten. Goodness gracious, what kind of town did the Creeping Terror land in?!
While not mst3k fodder, the immediate thought I had were the first two Kingsman movies. Both had rather elaborate plans that sound more in line with b-movie fare.
K:TSS required the public to adopt the sim cards from Valentine wide scale.
K:TGC Poppyâs plan puts the lives of thousands on the line to provide her cartel the impunity to to operate without intervention.
I think (dis) honorable mention might need to go to the scheme from The Many Loves Of Hercules. âKill Herculesâ wife and hope he blames somebody elseâ has some flaws.
Same with Knives Out and Glass Onion. These movies are supposed to be âmysteryâ movies? The only mystery how something so patently stupid ever got greenlighted.
Voted for Kitten With a Whip because there were so many ways in which he could have easily gotten away.
But my money has to go to The Undead, where every single one of the evil witch/community theater Satanâs plans relies heavily on the victim being dumber than a sack of doorknobs.
It was so similar to The Corpse Vanishes that I just left it off, but it definitely deserves an honorable mention.
