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Housesitter: The Night They Saved Siegfried's Brain
USA 1987/2018
produced by
Richard Gasparian, Robin Nuyen, Marc A. Nuyen (executive) for Basement Productions
directed by Robin Nuyen
starring Richard Gasparian, David Karsten, John Olive, Dani Carpenter, Vern Stillwell, Lyda Stillwell, Robert Small, Mark Pitta (voice), Cindy Coggins, Peter Strong, Robin Nuyen, Phillip B. Siegfried, Steven Van Hoof, Joe A. Nuyen, Armen Gasparian, Chris Nuyen, Vivant Angie, Art Andonian, Robert Small, Jack Ragotzy, Frederick Eagle Royce III, Renee Zak, Holly Kaplan, J.W. Fletcher, David Perrine, Sandra L. Simpson, Carlos Nucci, Stephen James Carver, John Zito, Eric McConnell, Richard Flaherty, Mark Saughnessy, Tami Strong, Sharon H. Williams
written by Richard Gasparian, Robin Nuyen, music by Steve Yeaman, head of special effects: John Schneider
review by
Mike Haberfelner
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Andy (Richard Gasparian) is a student dabbling in the field of brain
transference. But when he presents his findings to the science council of
his university, the experiment fails big time. However he impresses Dr.
Ambrose Crosby (David Karsten), whose researches cover the same area, but
who realizes Andy has actually succeeded in some aspects he has failed.
Dr. Crosby though has sinister motives as he wants to transfer the mind of
brilliant scientist Dr. Siegfried into his own brain. And thus he and his
wife Cora (Lyda Stillwell) spring fellow scientist Dr. Himmel Schwartz
(Vern Stillwell) from the madhouse, then Crosby asks Andy to be his
housesitter for the weekend, as he knows Andy's best friend Mitch (John
Olive) will persuade him to throw a big party there. Why is that a good
thing? Because Crosby needs 13 brains of recently deceased people for the
transference to succeed, and how to better get freshly deceased bodies
than killing them at a student party where everyone's too drunk to notice
anyone else missing. So while Andy sings for his girlfriend Babe (Dani
Carpenter) in Elvis Presley outfit, Crosby starts killing. And Andy would
be totally unaware of that if it wasn't for Crosby's son Roger (Robert
Small), a man with the mind of a boy the good doctor has experimented on a
few times too often, who eventually kidnaps Babe - after saving her from
her rapey ex (Peter Strong) -, and while looking for her, Andy stumbles
into Crosby's secret (black and white) lab, and the corpses that come with
it ...
Actually filmed in its entirety in 1987 but then spending 30+
years on the shelves, Housesitter: The Night They Saved Siegfried's
Brain is not exactly a lost classic - but a fun reminder of what made
80s horror comedies so much fun: The plot is basically as ridiculous as it
is far-fetched and an excuse for crude humour sprinkled with violence - or
the other was round, really -, made all the more funny because it's about
as irreverent as the hero wearing an Elvis costume during most of the
film. So there's no message, no deeper meaning here, no satire or ironic
hindsight, this is just fun for fun's sake, and even if the jokes might be
on the hit-or-miss side, the whole thing is a nostalgic and highly
entertaining ride.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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