Filename: MST3K - 405 - 3 - Being From Another Planet.avi Filesize: 648,894,464 bytes Length: 01:30:06.88 MD5: 6431d52e8cd3b9f7f9b60479e853ad69 Brought to you by the MST3K Digital Archive Project: http://www.nicarus.org/MST3K/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 405- BEING FROM ANOTHER PLANET First shown: 7/4/92 Opening: J&TB playing movie slogan 20 questions Invention exchange: Tragic moments figurines, Jack Palance impersonation kit Host segment 1: Bill Mumy tribute Host segment 2: Playing haunted house with Joel Host segment 3: Holoclown fun on the Hexfield End: TV's Frank shopping network, letter, the "die-master" Stinger: The heartbreak of extraterrestrial psoriasis -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Info from Daddy O's Drive-In Dirt (www.mst3kinfo.com/daddyo/) 405 - BEING FROM ANOTHER PLANET (public domain title; 1982; PG; 86m) a.k.a. TIME WALKER (original) a.k.a. TIMEWALKER (variation) Ad: "Nothing Can Stop Him. Not Even Time." Plot: Alien mummy from King Tut's tomb is resurrected and wants his crystals back from thieving undergrads. Exec: Robert A. Shaheen Prod: Dimitri Villard (also actor; Flight of the Navigator) Prod: Jason Williams (also actor; Danger Zone 1-3) Dir: Tom Kennedy (TV game show host/You Don't Say) Scr: Karen Levitt Scr: Tom Friedman (Danger Zone; prod/Danger Zone 2) Sto: Tom Friedman and Jason Williams Cin: Robbie Greenberg (Youngblood; Free Willy; Under Siege 2) Ed/Sound FX Ed: Joseph Yanuzzi (sfx/Lifeforce) SFX: Laurel Klick (The Terminator; Braveheart) Cos: Sarah Bardo (Easy Wheels; Dr. Alien) M/U: Sue Dolph (Alligator; Battle Beyond the Stars) Asst Dir: Jack Cummins (The Howling; Runaway Train) Asst Dir: Nancy King (Runaway Train) PMgr: Mark Allan (Patty Hearst) PMgr: Tink Ten Eyck (Weekend at Bernie's II) ADir: R.A. Burns (The Howling; Re-Animator) ADir: Joe Garrity (Forbidden World; Runaway Train) Asst ADir: Pamela Warner (adir/516-Alien from L.A.) Set: Sydney Ann Kee (The Ninth Configuration) Stunts: Harry Wowchuck (Air Force One; Lethal Weapon 4) Stunts: Victoria Vanderkloot (Titanic; Firestarter) Sound Sup: Dale Johnston (Emmy noms/Lou Grant, etc.) Sound Mixer: Mark Ulano (403-City Limits; won Oscar/Titanic) Sound Mixer: Bud Grenzbach (won Oscar/Platoon) Sound Mixer: John Wilkinson (won Oscar/Platoon) Sound Mixer: Terry Porter (Oscar nom/Star Trek IV; Aladdin; Beauty and the Beast) Music Sup: David Franco (Not Quite Human) Score: Richard H. Band (110-Robot Holocaust; 706-Laserblast; Puppetmaster 1-5; Troll) Professor Doug McCadden / Ben Murphy* Susy Fuller / Nina Axelrod (Motel Hell; Cross Country) Peter Sharpe / Kevin Brophy (Hell Night; The Seduction) Jack Parker / Robert Random (523-Village of the Giants; Danger Zone 2-3) Dr. Wendell Rossmore / James Karen (Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster; many commercials) Dr. Ken Melrose / Austin Stoker (814-Riding with Death; Assault on Precinct 13; Twisted Brain) Linda / Shari Belafonte-Harper (TV's Hotel; French Silk) mummy Ankh Venaris / Jack Olson Dr. Hayworth / Antionette Bower (Die Sister, Die!) Jeff / Jason Williams (Flesh Gordon; Danger Zone 1-3) pawnbroker / Alan Rachins (TV's L.A. Law; Always) Willoughby / Clint Young (Family Plot; California Suite) Serrano / Sam Chew Jr. (Forty Carats; The Sweet Ride; Rattlers) Jennie / Melissa Prophet (Looker; Blame It on the Night) Plummer / Darwin Joston (Rattlers; The Fog; Assault on Precinct 13) Sherri / Greta Blackburn (48 Hours; V--The Final Battle) Bill Vogler / John LaVachielli (The Lords of Discipline) Courtney / Ken Gibbel (Protocol; Up the Creek) Michael / Gary Dubin (Jaws II; Diamonds Are Forever) kissing girl / Susan Curtis (Octavia) Stanley / Warrington Gillette (Friday the 13th Part 2) cameraman / J. Michael Hunter (Rollercoaster) janitor / Hugo L. Stanger (Vice Squad; Joysticks) kissing guy / Alan Stock (Whose Life Is It Anyway?) student in lab / Vanna Bonta (Beastmaster; Demolition Man) co-ed #2 / Sandra Carey (Devil's Garden; Curse of the Alpha Stone) newswoman / Joy Grdnic (How to Party) frat boy #2 / Kelly Junkerman (Rio Diablo; The Gambler V) Greg / Gerard Prendergast (Bachelor Party; Basic Training) Wrapper / Jeff Yesko (Killer Klowns from Outer Space) Abdellah / Behrouz Vossoughi (Caravans) party girl #2 / Victoria von Voorhees Ellen Winters / Greta Stapf frat boy #1 / Royce Alexander Sarah / Michelle Avonne (Flicks) co-ed #1 / Annie Barbieri party girl #1 / Marie Briguglio student at dock / Richard Hoyes co-ed #3 / Diane Terry co-ed #4 / Ann Trussell reporter / Donald LaFontaine (A Man Called Sarge) nurse / Allene Simmons (Porky's; The Malibu Bikini Shop) tall reporter / Dimitri Villard (also producer; Easy Wheels) Classic Line: "You don't think it's walking around on its own, do you?" Trivia: Born in 1941, handsome and athletic BEN MURPHY has had most of his success appearing on the small screen. Among his TV series are: "Alias Smith and Jones"; "Griff"; "The Chisolms"; and "Gemini Man", two episodes of which were incorporated into the TV-movie 814-RIDING WITH DEATH. Besides the TV mini-series The Winds of War, Murphy's done many TV-movies. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List: The Ludlum Library (Susan Fleming jestocost@sprynet.com) - The Horshack Conspiracy - The Forbin Conundrum - The Slingshack Congealment - The Migraine Containment - The Crankshaft McNogginbee - The Polping Po-poopoo - The Klingla Kogluglu - The Shreenshrack Regeengyne - The Momaw Ma-moomoo - The Greengreen Gagrinegagrinega - The Lala Kalingalingaling - The Kriskrack Krakrakra (to which Tom adds, "We're glad there's always Tourette's.") - Zinga Zingaza - The Macheengo Conghelium (as added during the credits) - The Mingmang Patingtang -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Critics Reviews (tilt.largo.fl.us/critic/mstcrit.html): Greg Eichelberger's reviews 405-"Being From Another Planet" (aka-"Time Walker") (1982)-More like "Sleep Walker". Film makes the case that an alien kill Egyptian boy-king Tutankhamen, and is buried in his stead. His alien fungus then infects any who touch it, except hero Ben Murphy ("Alias Smith & Jones"), who finally proves that the alien is "goodhearted". Another in a long list of repackaged, renamed and re-released films that had absolutely no one clamoring for such efforts. Shari Belafonte-Harper, showing none of the talent of her father, portrays a disk jockey. The terrifying alien turns out to be a cheap, latex "special effect" and we're left feeling just a bit empty inside. Good joking, and great invention exchange ("Tragic Moments Figurines") help this one rise above mediocrity wit a B- grade. The Great Science Fiction Pictures (New World, 1982) C 83 mins. Review: The 3,000 year old mummy of Tutankhamen is brought to the California Institute of Sciences and is accidentally given a huge overdose of X-rays and this releases an alien whose touch has killed the Pharoah and whom the Egyptians had buried in their ruler's body. Buried with the mummy are the crystals the alien needs to reactivate the transmitter which will return him to his own dimension. A student steals the crystals thinking they are jewels and the revived mummy goes in search of them, the student having given the gems to co-eds he has been romancing. Meanwhile Professor Doug McCadden (Ben Murphy), who brought the mummy to the Institute, figures out what has happened and attempts to stop the alien as the aged space visitor leaves a trail of corpses due to the touch of the green fungus which surrounds this floating visitor. As the mummy gathers the final crystal it is cornered by McCadden who is transported into another dimension by the alien. Although cheaply and crudely executed, TIME WALKER is at times a scary film, with the alien mummy a frightful persona. If only the human performers had as much panache as the title character! Variety Magazine film reviews SUMMARY: Old-fashioned mummy picture with sci-fi angle. Weak outlook. (Boca Raton, Nov. 11.) REVIEW: "Time Walker" is a low-budget science fiction film posing the odd thesis that an alien space vistior's deadly touch killed Tutankhamen and that this voyager, named Ankh Venaris by the Egyptians, was buried in King tut's tomb. Weak execution of this flimsy material makes for a ver minor New World release. Ankh Venaris is brought to America by California Institute of the Sciences prof Doug McCadden (Ben Murphy). Wrapped in mummy "bandages" in its sarcophagus, the extraterrestial goes on a rampage when revived by overexposure to X-rays, searching for five jewels stolen from its box by a student. The gems are crystals needed to activate Ankh's transmitter for (presumably) returning home. Filmed with a homemade look by director Tom Kennedy in mainly local school locations, picture plays as a traditional mummy film, with campus youngsters falling prey to the deadly, green fungus touch of the alien. Only noticeable switch from stock format is that unlike the shambling gait of dozens of traditional cinema mummies, Ankh on screen scoots along via an unseen ramp or rollers. His on-screen appearances are kept to a minimum, with first-person, green-filtered footage subbing. Tech credits are chintzy and acting is modest within the confines of a formula script. Abrupt ending is very unsatisfying. (Lor) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MST3K Digital Archive Project Encoding Quality Key 5) TV Quality. Virtually no noticeable defects. Clear picture and sound, well edited and complete. This is as good as it gets. 4) Near TV Quality. 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