Monday, January 12, 2015

2015: The Year of 100 Mad Scientists (Er, In Film)

So here it is, my tentative list of mad science movie titles for the year. 


The List:
  1. 4D Man
  2. The Adominable Dr. Phibes
  3. The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (as with several on this list, I've seen it, and it's not really what I'm looking for when I'm looking to perv all over a mad scientist movie, but Lithgow's performance is iconic.  I'll probably use this review also to post about Back to the Future, which I didn't put on this list, but which imprinted on me in uncomfortable ways that probably go a long way toward explaining who I am today.)
  4. Altered States
  5. Andy Warhol's Frankenstein (Flesh for Frankenstein)
  6. The Astro-Zombies
  7. Attack of the Puppet People
  8. Atom Age Vampire
  9. Beast of Blood
  10. Beyond the Black Rainbow (one of my top five favorite movies of all time; I'm glad to take the opportunity to gush over it)
  11. Beyond Re-Animator
  12. The Black Hole
  13. The Black Sleep
  14. The Blood Beast Terror
  15. The Body Snatcher
  16. The Boys from Brazil
  17. The Brain that Wouldn't Die
  18. Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
  19. Bride of the Monster
  20. Bride of Re-Animator
  21. Captive Wild Woman
  22. Chandu the Magician
  23. City of Lost Children
  24. The Clones of Bruce Lee
  25. The Corpse Vanishes
  26. The Curious Dr. Humpp (softcore porn, and not in the way that Andy Warhol's Frankenstein is softcore porn.  Why is it on this list?  I just thought it looked funny, there in the middle of my original handwritten list.  Plus, I just assume that when anyone calls me and I don't pick up my phone, they assume I'm watching something called The Curious Dr. Humpp.)
  27. The Curse of Frankenstein
  28. The Devil Bat (it's not an Eyeshield 21 doujinshi; it's about a scientific-magical aftershave)
  29. The Devil Commands
  30. Dr. Cyclops
  31. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)
  32. The Evil of Frankenstein
  33. The Face of Another
  34. Fiend without a Face
  35. The Flesh Eaters
  36. Flesh Feast
  37. The Fly (1958)
  38. The Fly (1986) (also definitely imprinted oddly on me as a kid; also also is the reason I don't even fantasize in theory about teleportation - I just see that exploded monkey thing in my head every time.  This has really brought down some people when they've been thinking how nice it would be not to be late for work, or whatever.  I suck.)
  39. The Flying Serpent
  40. Frankenstein (1931)
  41. Frankenstein 80 (1972)
  42. Frankenstein Created Woman (how many of these titles have the name Frankenstein in them?)
  43. Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed
  44. From Beyond
  45. Godzilla vs Biollante
  46. I Heart Doomsday
  47. The Human Centipede (I would be more than willing to not put myself through watching this one again, although Dieter Laser is freaking hilarious in it.  But things like this are on here because it's actually harder than you'd think to find 100 mad scientist movies to watch.  Please make better suggestions and I will gladly consider them...)
  48. I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957)
  49. The Invisible Man (1933) (I suppose I could always stick on another Invisible Man movie if I run short, but I can't take Kevin Bacon seriously as a mad scientist...)
  50. The Invisible Ray
  51. Island of Dr. Moreau (1977) (Even I draw the line at the Marlon Brando one, because old Marlon Brando = no.  And because that movie's just bad.)
  52. Island of Lost Souls
  53. Invasion of the Bee Girls
  54. The Killer Inside Me
  55. The Lady and the Monster
  56. Last Frankenstein (1991, Japan) (I'd very much like more Japanese films on this list, but my knowledge of Japanese cinema is lacking.  Anime and manga I can do  Film, not so much.  Again, please make any suggestions you might have.)
  57. Latitude Zero
  58. The Mad Doctor of Market Street
  59. The Mad Ghoul
  60. Mad Love
  61. The Mad Monster
  62. The Man with Nine Lives
  63. Man-Made Monster
  64. Maniac (1934)
  65. The Manster (One of my favorite words of all time.  Sometimes I call one of my dogs this)
  66. Mesa of Lost Women ("Mesa" sounds so specific here, for some reason)
  67. Metropolis (I knew a guy I used to date was not the right choice for me - I'm only partially kidding - when he told me he'd never heard of Metropolis but loved The Matrix.  I'm really only partially kidding with this anecdote.  In my defense, he wasn't saying that he thought The Matrix was just a fun spectacle or something.  He was saying he thought it had a message.  For the record, he was not fifteen.  And this was 2014, when this happened.)
  68. Metropolis (Osamu Tezuka version) (I've actually never seen this!)
  69. The Monster Maker
  70. Monstrosity (The Atomic Brain)
  71. Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932) (Despite The Following's best efforts otherwise, I still think Poe is kind of cool.)
  72. Natural City
  73. Psycho a Go-Go (another freaking classic name)
  74. The Rage
  75. The Raven (1935)
  76. Re-Animator (Dr. Herbert West!)
  77. The Revenge of Frankenstein
  78. Robot Carnival (in particular, the Franken's Gears and Presence portions)
  79. Rubber's Lover (well, it's not a mad scientist movie, but it's got a lot of mad science, and I'm a cyberpunk fan)
  80. She Demons
  81. SOS Coast Guard
  82. The Strange World of Planet X
  83. Stereo
  84. Superbeast
  85. Teenage Zombies
  86. Terror is a Man
  87. This Island Earth
  88. The Tingler
  89. Tokyo Gore Police
  90. Torture Ship (1939)
  91. Trinity
  92. The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll
  93. Underworld (1985)
  94. The Unearthly
  95. Vampire Girl vs Frankenstein Girl (I pulled this out and rewatched it the other day, but I'm going to start with a less...loaded....title, I think)
  96. Voodoo Man (1944)
  97. The Wasp Woman
  98. The Woman Eater
  99. X: The Man with X-Ray Eyes
  100. Les Yeux Sans Visage (Eyes Without a Face)





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