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Dr. Otto is a mysterious villain with a hand attached on top of his head. He is plotting world domination using his "gloom beam," an electromagnetic device that he uses to launch attacks on financial institutions to erase their contents and cause worldwide chaos.
Dr. Otto and the Riddle of the Gloom Beam is a 1985 science fiction comedy film starring Jim Varney as Dr. Otto, an Always Chaotic Evil scientist who uses his gloom beam to make money worthless, requiring the answer to a riddle in order to stop it.
Dr. Otto and the Riddle of the Gloom Beam: Directed by John R. Cherry III. With Jim Varney, Glenn Petach, Myke R. Mueller, Jackie Welch. Dr. Otto grows a hand out of the top of his head and tries to destroy the world.
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- Jim Varney, Glenn Petach, Myke R. Mueller
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is a 1985 American science fiction comedy film starring Jim Varney. It was written and directed by John Cherry. It is the first film to feature the Ernest P. Worrell character. However, it has a slightly darker tone than his later films. It was shot in Fall Creek Falls State Park, Boxwell Scout Reservation, and Nashville, Tennessee.
In a pre-credits scene, Ernest P. Worrell is showing off a new device he has bartered from a guy off the street. He called it a "changing coffin" that transforms the user into any disguise. Ernest enters the coffin as Vern flips a switch, then Ernest gets pulled in screaming.
Dr. Otto is a mysterious villain with a hand attached on top of his head. He is plotting world domination using his "gloom beam," an electromagnetic device that he uses to launch attacks on financial institutions to erase their contents and cause worldwide chaos. In a broadcast signal intrusion, Dr. Otto announces the "Riddle of the Gloom Beam:"
Dr. Otto's first target is Cincinnati, Ohio, where a bank affected by the Gloom Beam decides to disrupt Dr. Otto's scheme before it can cause world chaos by sending in his archnemesis: all-American boy Lance Sterling, born on the same day in the same hospital as Dr. Otto. While Lance was a gifted child born to loving parents, Dr. Otto was the result of a botched abortion, neglected by his parents (whom he later kills). To foil Lance, Dr. Otto uses a "changing coffin" and transforms himself into various characters in an effort to stop the heroes: Rudd Hardtack, Australian trainer of child militants; Laughing Jack O'Cockney, pirate captain; Auntie Nelda, the cantankerous elderly woman; and Guy Dandy, wealthy playboy.
Lance and his sidekick Doris Talbert escape each disguise in unusual ways: they survive Hardtack's game of Russian roulette; when Laughing Jack uses Lance as bait to catch a swamp monster, the monster turns out to be an old friend of Lance's, who lets them free; when Auntie Nelda drugs them into a trap, Lance is able to sway Tina (a woman Dr. Otto used as bait) into using Dr. Otto's transporter blanket to get them out; and they stumble into an elevator that leads straight to Dr. Otto's lair during a chase with Guy Dandy. Meanwhile, the gloom beam continues to cause chaos around the world, with comical effects.
Lance and Doris face off against Dr. Otto, all his disguises, and his robot henchman. In the end, it comes down to Lance choosing between a conspicuously labeled "Right Button" and "Wrong Button." He chooses the Right Button and a massive electric bolts fire off in all directions, the lair self-destructs.
The scene then flash-cuts to Doris, Lance and Tina pushing their car down a road. At a gas station, they encounter Ernest, who informs them that they have had no gas since the money went bad. As they all push the car down the road, Ernest takes his hat off to reveal Dr. Otto's third hand.
•Jim Varney as Dr. Otto Schnick / Rudd Hardtack / Laughin' Jack / Guy Dandy / Auntie Nelda / Ernest P. Worrell
•Glenn Petach as Otto's Head Hand
•Myke R. Mueller as Lance
•Jackie Welch as Doris
•Daniel Butler as Slave Willie
•Esther Huston as Tina
The film was originally distributed on VHS by GoodTimes Home Video in 1992. It was digitally remastered and released on DVD by Echo Bridge Home Entertainment in 2007, and was later included in the Best of Ernest DVD boxset released by Image Entertainment in 2012.
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•Dr. Otto and the Riddle of the Gloom Beam at IMDb
•Dr. Otto and the Riddle of the Gloom Beam at Rotten Tomatoes
Dr. Otto and the Riddle of the Gloom Beam is a 1985 comic science fiction film starring Jim Varney. It was written and directed by John R. Cherry III. The film does include Ernest P. Worrell, but takes a slightly darker tone than his usual appearances.
Dr. Otto and the Riddle of the Gloom Beam. Summaries. Dr. Otto grows a hand out of the top of his head and tries to destroy the world. Ernest P. Worrel tries out a strange contraption he bought cheaply called the Changing Coffin. The machine turns him into his opposite - a mad scientist and supervillain bent on world domination called Dr. Otto.
Evil baddie Dr. Otto Von-Schnick-ick-ick tries to take over the planet by first destroying all of our financial systems, collapsing the world's economy and sending populations across the globe into mass panic!
