Test Your MST-Q

Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 8:58 am

So what's the best kind of MST film, in your eyes:

the goofily sci-fi B-movies like Manos: Hands of Fate or The Creeping Terror?

-OR-

the less-fantastic movies (usually trying to cash in on an existing franchise), while using crappy budgets and actors, like Angels Revenge or Mitchell?

I submit that a good marriage between the two is Boggy Creek II, which wanted to be part "Monster in the woods" and part "Lake Wobegon Days: Arkansas Chapter."

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The bestest films to laugh at are the ones which had the budget and talent in them to be truly spectacular failures.

Dino Di Laurentis, we salute you.

Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 10:41 am

The Russo-Finnish co-productions like Jack Frost fit squarely in that category -- enough money to make some truly spectacular effects for its day, but really, superimposing a woman's head on a bird still is what it is.

Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 12:47 pm

Generally the sword and sorcery ones are the more genuinely interesting. All of the russian/finnish ones, along with The Magic Sword and others. The Ed Wood films are also fun because even with his shortcomings, Ed Wood clearly loved to make movies. Manos is just so awful that attempting to watch it by itself is tantamount to a suicide attempt. You can just tell that absolutely no joy went in to the production of it. Roger Corman films swing wildly from the campy and fun to the purely awful, usually in the same film.

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I think my favourite bad movie element is the enlivening non-sequitur. I'm thinking of the film Piranha, Piranha! (frequently sold as the Joe Dante film "Piranha" to the unsuspecting) in particular, where for no apparent reason the two main characters head out and engage in a truly bizzare and slightly surreal motorcycle race, purely because one of them is William Smith.

Other than that, though, awful film. Although the very ending was kind of cool.

Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 1:33 pm

Metaphoragizery wrote:

Here's another question:

In which episodes have multiple Tom Servos been shown onscreen or least alluded to? (I can think of 4 episodes, but there could be others.)

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The Human Duplicators, The Legend of Boggy Creek II, Diabolik... Hmm.

Dunno about the last one.

The four episodes I had in mind were Danger: Diabolik, The Quest of the Delta Knight, Giant Spider Invasion, and Future War.

Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 2:14 pm

Also The Starfighters.

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The first few I got on tape, from a family friend in Sacramento because I did not yet have cable, Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster, Home Economics/Viking Women vs. the Sea Serpent, and First Spaceship to Venus, are still among my favorites.

Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 3:59 pm

I like to call Season 8: The season of a disproportionate number of evil hypnotists. That's sort of an unweildly name, but it'll do.

The Thing That Wouldn't Die featured a severed head with the power of hypnosis. In The Undead, a hypnotist sends a girl back in time, toying with the natural order of things. The Terror From the Year 5000 could hypnotize people with its multicolored jumpsuit. Oily hypnotist Carlo Lombardi regressed a girl back to her most primative form, The She Creature. Micheal Landon proclaimed I Was A Teenage Werewolf after Whit Bissel tried essentially the same thing as Dr. Lombardi. The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies were creations of a filthy fortune-teller/hypnotist. Hugo, the Devil Doll was put in his plastic prison by the Great Rumbaldi, hypnotist and fake-beard enthusiast.

So seriously Season 8, what's the deal?

Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2006 12:33 pm

Oh my goodness. MackJ, I recognized the band in your new avatar before I even noticed the silhouettes of Mike and the 'Bots. If that's a problem, it's the kind of problem you want to have.

In any case, that movie had some great lines.

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