Thursday, May 15, 2008

The Munsters: The Most Beautiful Ghoul in the World (1966) (TV)

Synopsis [spoilers]: The Munsters receive a package in the mail and it ticks; they think it's a bomb so they dip it in water (and it's supposed to disarm it, go figure). It's a letter from a relative in Transylvania leaving them an inheritance of $10,000. They decide to split the money fifty-fifty between Herman and Lily, so that each of them will invest it in his (her) own way. Herman invests his share on an invention by Grandpa which will transmit electricity wirelessly; Lily opens a beauty parlor. Lily's peculiar concept of beauty transforms her two first customers in horrible monsters, and Grandpa's first field test of his machine damages the public energy system. They are sued and constrained to pay an enormous sum unless they repair the damage they made. Lily says she will undo the customers' make-up, but when they are in the hair dryer Grandpa performs a test which sends an electrical signal to Lily's parlor and therefore also to her customers' heads. As a consequence they become totally bald. Now Lily is in deep trouble; at home she finds out that it was all Grandpa's fault. Suddenly, there's someone at the door: Lily answers it and it's her customers with their hair grown back and more beautiful; the shock waves worked as a hair treatment; they propose to set up a business together. Lily goes back in the house and is dismayed to learn that Grandpa has destroyed his machine.

Saw it dubbed in Portuguese.

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