MSTable movies: Q

Q: THE WINGED SERPENT (aka THE WINGED SERPENT) (1982)

It's a 1982 movie direted by Larry Coen about a reptilian creature that terrorizes Ney York City. Oh yes, theres something about Aztec style human sacricies in the movie too. wheres King Kong when we need him?

Chanya Harris, harris.chanya@epamail.epa.gov

QUEEN OF OUTER SPACE (1958) Allied Artists

Americans (led by Capt. Patterson) land on Venus. They start in a NASA craft and land in something a little more spacey. They find Venus inhabited only by women in heels and short dresses, one of whom is Zsa Zsa Gabor, and with this Queen Yllana who wears a mask for almost the entire movie and hates all Earth men. Most everyone else on the planet also hates Earth men except for the four that go off with the four Earth guys. Later we find out that Yllana wants to go to war with Earth because of the same reason she wears her mask: Earth men somehow caused her face to be scarred by a nuclear bomb. But Zsa Zsa's character is the leader of an anti-war movement.

Mirjen, mirjen@ibm.net

QUEST FOR FIRE (original title LA GUERRE DU FEU) (1981) 20th Century Fox

In a word: YUCK. It starts out with some Cro-Magnons, hangin' out 'round the fire. Squarejawed Cromagnon leader (Ron Perlman) sits around while one of his two goofy pals goes and rapes a chick down by the river.

Neanderthals attack, and a lot of people (??) die VERY gorily. CroMag gets his nutsack bashed. (_OW!_) CroMagHero, his goofy sidekicks, and some other guys, including a guy who looks like the love child of Danny DeVito and Riff Raff from Rocky Horror, and gets to carry the fire, all run away to the middle of a lake(?) where their fire goes out. Handsome CroMag and hte goofy sidekicks set out to find fire, ergo the title. Along the way, they find some cannibal Cro Magnons, and meet the inimitable Rae Dawn Chong, butt nekkid and painted to look an awful lot like the inimitable Marilyn Manson. She whines in caveman speak. They all get chased by "sabretooth tigers" (i.e., lionesses from the local zoo with fake sabreteeth.) CroMag Leader finds a tribe of advanced Homo Sapien. They're Miss Manson's people. She's there, since she ran off after she got gangraped by CroMag, who she really loves, and his protohomeboys. CroMag is accepted into the tribe, but first he has to get it on with some naked fat chicks who are painted up to look like the Insane Clown Posse.

We had to watch this for my Anthropology 101 class.... Disturbing stuff....

EmarZero, emarzero@aol.com

THE QUICK AND THE DEAD (1995) TriStar/JSB Productions

What the hell was Gary Sinise thinking? At least his character dies after about 5 minutes on-screen. But this joke lasts much longer, giving viewers the chance to see Sharon Stone shoot, undress, and fake her own death. My mother & I watched in horrified fascination and MST'ed ourselved through it.

Plot makes a fleeting appearance - something about Stone's character wanting to avenge her father's (Sinise) death so she enters a shooting contest. As for acting, well, it's Sharon Stone. 'Nuff said.

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