Line #9 Film/TheUnearthly


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:Lured into the house of monsters...[[FanService and butts.]]]]
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5	A NoBudget BMovie thriller from 1957, directed by Boris Petroff and starring Creator/JohnCarradine, Allison Hayes, Myron Healey, and Creator/TorJohnson.
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7	Professor Charles Conway (Carradine) is a MadScientist attempting to develop the proverbial FountainOfYouth by creating "the 17th gland". Ignoring all aspects of scientific ethics, Conway uses as his research subjects people who have no family and are under the impression that he can cure their depression. The research has been unsuccessful, however, and his subjects have all wound up as grotesque zombies. Some of Conway's patients begin to catch on to his scheme and intend to stop him.
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9	For the ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' version, please go to the [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S03E20TheUnearthly episode recap page]].
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12	!!The Untropely:
13	* ActorAllusion: Creator/TorJohnson's character being named Lobo is probably a reference to his similiar role in ''Film/BrideOfTheMonster''. It's unclear whether he's supposed to be the same character or not.
14	* HoistByTheirOwnPetard: [[spoiler:Conway is stabbed to death by his earlier test subject Harry Jethro, who turns out to be NotQuiteDead.]]
15	* HulkSpeak: [[TheIgor Lobo]], as portrayed by Creator/TorJohnson. His line "Time for go to bed!" in particular underwent MemeticMutation.
16	* InstantDeathStab: [[spoiler: At the end of the movie Harry Jethro stabs Professor Conway in the abdomen]], who instantly falls dead without uttering a sound.
17	* MadScientist: Professor Conway is obsessed with making people immortal, and won't let little setbacks like his experiments leaving them disfigured or catatonic stop him from trying again and again.
18	* OminousPipeOrgan: Conway treats his guests to the [[StandardSnippet/ToccataAndFugueInDMinor Toccata and Fugue]] on his living room Hammond.
19	* PublicDomainSoundtrack: Several of the musical cues in this film would reappear in ''Film/{{Bloodlust}}''.
20	* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Danny Green's first appearance is a temperamental one, abusing the other patients and Lobo. He only becomes truly sympathetic when he sacrifices himself in helping Mark escape.
21	* ThisCannotBe: Conway's response on seeing [[spoiler:Harry Jethro coming to kill him]] is a [[OhCrap horrified]], "No! You're ''dead!'' I had you ''buried!''"
22	* UndercoverCopReveal: Mark enters the plot as a drifter who Professor Conway suspects of being a murderer, and gets blackmailed into joining the Professor's current group of test subjects. Conway and the audience soon learn that Mark is actually a cop sent to investigate the Professor's operation.
23	* WeWillUseManualLaborInTheFuture: Conway has a bunch of cavemen in his basement, turning some sort of power turbine to keep his machines running. It's not made clear if they were his first failures or the source of his glands.
24	* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Discussed by Mark and Conway when Conway offers to turn Mark into a test subject and grant him eternal life.

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