I’ve got four of the five MST3K Versus Gamera movies not yet watched, so am in good shape for stuff to watch during the hurricane, if the power holds up. What MST3K movies are the ones to watch while waiting out a major weather event like a hurricane, blizzard, or anything else that just keeps you locked up at home for a couple days?
Okay, let’s assume you power isn’t an issue (say you have a really good generator). What’s the playlist? It can be whatever number of eps you want.
For me, I’m going to pick one ep from each season I always enjoy:
108- THE SLIME PEOPLE
208- LOST CONTINENT
307- DADDY-O
404- TEENAGERS FROM OUTER SPACE
505- MAGIC VOYAGE OF SINBAD
610- THE VIOLENT YEARS with short: YOUNG MAN’S FANCY
703- DEATHSTALKER AND THE WARRIORS FROM HELL
810- THE GIANT SPIDER INVASION
904- WEREWOLF
1001- SOULTAKER
What’s your pick?
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These are the eps I watch most often, in no particular order:
Girl in Gold Boots, Red Zone Cuba, The Beast of Yucca Flats, Skydivers, Devil Fish, I Accuse My Parents, Teenage Strangler, Warrior of the Lost World, and The Crawling Eye. I would also include the Gamera box set as well.
I’ll go with the one per season theme:
K-21 Legend of the Dinosaur
110- Robot Holocaust
207- Wild Rebels
311- It Conquered the World
423- Bride of the Monster
507- I Accuse My Parents
618- High School Big Shot
701- Night of the Blood Beast
MST- The Movie
821- Time Chasers
908- The Touch of Satan
1006- Boggy Creek
The ones that never get old for me:
Master Ninja I
Time Chasers
Space Mutiny
The Screaming Skull
Lost Continent
Terror From the Year 5000
Deathstalker
The Rebel Set
The Giant Gila Monster
The Pumaman
Living in FL, this is part of my disaster preparedness kit (given the last time hurricanes came through here, we were homebound due to conditions for two days. The extra movies are for extra preparedness:)
Women of the Prehisotric Planet
Catalina Caper
Godzilla vs. Megalon
Gamera vs. Guiron
Gamera vs. Zigra
Master Ninja II
Being From Another Planet
Attack of the Giant Leeches
Warrior of the Lost World
Eegah
Beatniks
I Accuse My Parents
Mitchell
Beginning of the End
Alien from L.A.
Village of the Giants
Zombie Nightmare
Violent Years
SkyDivers
Angels Revenge
Night of Blood Beast
Giant Spider Invasion
Prince of Space
Space Mutiny
Time Chasers
I more for the goofier titles. So Jack Frost, The Day the Earth Froze, Cave Dwellers, Wild, Wild World of Batwoman, Outlaw, The Magic Sword, and Puma Man.
In honor of the 20th anniversary of the first Turkey Day marathon this year, I’d recreate that very marathon https://www.mst3kinfo.com/ward_e/Listturk.html including the bumpers which I’ve bought from Cheepnis.
Since I don’t figure on sitting through a hurricane any time soon in Wisconsin I will instead do it over the Thanksgiving weekend next month.
The top 10 for me are:
Soultaker
Skydivers
I Accuse My Parents
Angels Revenge
Eegah!
Gamera vs. Guiron
Daddy-O
Teenage Strangler
Shorts V. 1
Shorts V. 2
I’ve actually used these to get me through a few days when I was laid up; there were many others I’d watch, but these were at the top of the list.
Puma Man
Operation Double 007
The Human Duplicators
Angels Revenge
Overdrawn At The Memory Bank
Pod People
Mitchell
Time Chasers
Parts: Clonus Horror
Leech Woman
Giant Spider Invasion
#6 – We interrupt this thread with a special historical news bulletin: Back in 1900, a major Hurricane struck Galveston, TX. It almost wiped the city completely off the map. The Hurricane then turned north, losing some, but not all, of its strength. It moved as far north as the Great Lakes, turned East, and then proceeded across the US and Canada before it finally hit ocean again.
Wisconsin is believed to be one of the places hit. So, it’s always possible…
We now resume our usual hijinx and nuttiness. Further historical weather bulletins as conditions warrant. :-)
Well, rather than just do a playlist of favorite episodes, I’d probably force myself to watch some eps that I usually overlook when looking for one to throw in or have only seen once-
110-Robot Holocaust
316-Gamera Vs. Zigra
403-City Limits
406-Attack Of The Giant Leeches
519-Outlaw
618-High School Big Shot
818-Devil Doll
905-The Deadly Bees
1004-Future War
I didn’t want to put any favorites on this list, as I fear that anything I have even partially memorized would allow my mind to be distracted back to the storm or illness or whatever I was trying to ignore for awhile. Rest assured, all-time favorites and “desert island” lists would look very different. This was fun!!! :cigarette:
Canucklehead #9> I actually was aware of that piece of history. By anytime soon, I meant hurricane season 2011 is pretty much over. But my crystal ball does admit Wisconsin is due soon now.
I always load MST3K or Rifftrax on the ol’ portable media player before a flight, and try to keep to a theme. They are pre loaded well in advance, to avoid last minute laziness. After seeing the Aaron Carter starring vehicle Supercross on a flight, I learned my lesson. The next one, I’m going for a black and white fest, with these ones:
1. Earth vs. Spider
2. Indestructible Man
3. Wild World of Batwoman
4. Jungle Goddess
5. Amazing Transparent Man
6. Killer Shrews
7. Rebel Set
8. Mole People
9. Prince of Space
10. Thing That Couldn’t Die
11. Brute Man
12. Devil’s Hand
A nice Joel & Mike mix, with enough riffing to last through both legs of a cross-country trip, and then some.
By far, my top 2 are:
Master Ninja I
Master Ninja II
Star Force: Fugitive Alien II
Manos: The Hands of Fate
Eegah!
Mitchell
Alien From LA
Village of the Giants
San Francisco International
Time Chasers
Hobgoblins
Merlin’s Mystical Shop of Wonders
Time Chasers on a constant loop.
Girl in Gold Boot – “I wish I had that pretty mind back”
Skydivers – “Coffee? I like coffee.”
The Creeping Terror – Worst movie ever made.
Hamlet – It’s classic, with or without Misting.
The Final Sacrifice – Rowsdow-ow-ow-ow-er.
Final Justice – Goosio!
Manos, Hands of Fate – It never gets old.
Prince of Space – Krankor, “Heah, heah, heah, heah, heah”
Quest of the Delta Knights – It’s got Leonardo DaVinci
Episode’s I’ll love forever:
All Gamera episodes
Catalina Caper
Master Ninja’s
Eegah!
Mitchell
Bloodlust!
The Violent Years
Kitten with a Whip
I could name more but that’s all I’m putting. ;-)
Some episodes I constantly return to:
1) Rocketship X-M
2) Rocket Attack USA
3) King Dinosaur
4) Magic Voyage Of Sinbad
5) Monster A-Go Go
6) Catalina Caper
7) Manhunt In Space
8) First Spaceship On Venus
9) Hercules Against The Moon Men
10) Robot Monster
11) Gamera
12) Lost Continent
That’s by no means definitive for me, but it’s a good start.
Last winter here in Wisconsin we had a major snowstorm. Kept everyone indoors for a day and a half. Robot Monster, Hercules vs. the Moon Men, and Soultaker kept me from cabin fever.
I think a consideration here is not just mst3000 movies you
like, but which are, for various reasons, engrossing for a
combination of movie plot, riffing, skits, etc.
I have to go with
1- Space Mutiny
2-Time Chasers
3-Quest of the Delta Knights (if only to marvel at Tor’s inventive invention
abilities while gliding through King Ludwig’s Bavaria
4-The Eye Creatures (nice film noir feel to it)
5-Spider Island (Babs and Co.)
6-Prince of Space
7-Overdrawn at the Memory Bank (actually, like Time Chasers, an interesting
concept, granted could have been rewritten a tad, but it does take some paying
attention to the plot, which has interesting concepts)
8-Mitchell II: The Search for Maltese macho males (hey, a pretty good travelogue)
What, you don’t agree. Think you can take me. Go ahead…oh, never mind, where’s
the buffet?
9-I accuse My Parents (hey, a hurricane’s here. Time for a musical).
10-Beginning of the End (although I can’t help but think Peter Graves is somehow
partially responsible for grasshoppers crawling all over postcards in the
terrifying climax.
1 – Gamera vs Guiron
2 – Daddy-O
3 – Space Mutiny
4 – Killer Shrews
5 – City Limits
6 – Master Ninja 2
7 – It Conquered The World
8 – Girl in Gold Boots
9 – Indestructible Man
10 – Boggy Creek 2
And, like everyone else, I could go on and on. Don’t have too many weather issues here in California, but every once in a while a drunk runs into a power pole.
Let’s see….MANOS: THE HANDS OF FATE, BRIDE OF THE MONSTER, EEGHA, GIANT SPIDER INVASION, JACK FROST, THE CRAWLING EYE, tHE TOUCH OF SATAN, WEREWOLF….to name a few.
Dan in WI, #11 – Just making sure you kept your eyes open. We gotta make sure those historical hurricanes don’t come back to finish the job…
K21- The “Legend of Dinosaurs”
111- Moon Zero Two
212- Godzilla Vs. Megalon
312- Gamera Vs. Guiron
411- The Magic Sword
502- Hercules
622- Angels’ Revenge
705- Escape 2000
814- Riding with Death
903- The Pumaman
1013- Diabolik
That’s one from each season, but if I could add one more it would be “316- Gamera Vs. Zigra.” In fact, all of the Gamera Eps would be nice. While I’m at it, also add:
211- First Spaceship On Venus
213- Godzilla Vs. The Sea Monster
The rest of the season 3 Sandy Frank eps, plus the Master Ninja eps and Fu-Manchu.
506- Eegah!
…and a few more of the KTMA eps:
K09– Phase IV
K10– Cosmic Princess
K11– Humanoid Woman
K13– SST: Death Flight
K15– Superdome
K18– The Million Eyes Of Su-Maru
That should just about cover it for me.
Oh yeah, just one more thing. I would absolutely have to have the 1991 Thanksgiving Day marathon bumbers.
To sort of follow Sampo’s format:
1: Crawling Hand and Robot Holocaust
2: Megalon and Sidehackers
3: Cave Dwellers and Pod People
4: Day Earth Froze and Eye Creatures
5: Outlaw and Warrior
6: Zombie and Dead Talk Back
7: Laserblast
8: Jack Frost and Space Mutiny
9: Werewolf and Final Sacrifice
10: Girl and Track of the Moonbeast
Sub for short Season 7: Santa Claus or Vampire Women, depending on the season
Catalina Caper
Hercules Against the Moon Men
The Beatniks
I Accuse My Parents
Santa Claus
The Dead Talk Back
The Skydivers
The Starfighters
The Undead
Prince of Space
Time Chasers
Overdrawn at the Memory Bank
i would go with….the crawling hand;king dinosaur;master ninja1;fire maidens from outer space;the painted hills;danger deathray;escape 2000;the deadly mantis;the final sacrifice and future war.
Cave Dwellers
Master Ninja I
Gamera vs. Guiron
The Giant Gila Monster
Mitchell
Teen-Age Strangler
Zombie Nightmare
Laserblast
Prince of Space
The Final Sacrifice
I’d do an alternating Joel/Mike schedule for 24 hours:
12n 212 Godzilla vs. Megalon
1:30 515 The Wild Wild World of Batwoman
3:00 303 Pod People
4:30 604 Zombie Nightmare
6:00 322 Master Ninja I
7:30 606 The Creeping Terror
9:00 421 Monster A Go-Go
10:30 610 The Violent Years
12m 423 The Bride of the Monster
1:30 613 The Sinister Urge
3:00 424 “Manos” The Hands of Fate
4:30 812 The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living And Became Mixed-Up Zombies
6:00 501 The Warrior of the Lost World
7:30 907 Hobgoblins
9:00 506 Eegah
10:30 1003 Merlin’s Shop of Mystical Wonders
Quest of the Delta Knights
Riding with Death
Merlin’s Shop of Mystical Wonders
The Crawling Hand
Monster A Go-Go
Girl in Gold Boots
Prince of Space
Manos
Manhunt in Space and Crash of the Moons
Gamera vs. Guiron
Track of the Moon Beast
The Amazing Colossal Man
Fugitive Alien
War of the Colossal Beast
Master Ninja I
Fire Maidens of Outer Space
Zombie Nightmare
The Sinister Urge
Riding With Death
Prince of Space
Track of the Moon Beast
I guess a hurricane-themed playlist should have weather-dependent movies, so:
Pod People (excessive fog)
Snow Thrills (excessive snow)
Squirm (storm, excessive heat and worms)
Hercules Against the Moon Men (sandstorm)
Crash of the Moons (space lightning)
Attack of the Eye Creatures (daytime night-ness)
The Day the Earth Froze (freezing)
Eegah (invisible snakes)
Colossus and the Headhunters (flood)
Last of the Wild Horses (ion storm)
Jack Frost (frost)
Werewolf (2-week full moon)
Gorgo (storm at sea)
Boggy Creek 2 (rain and boggy-ness)
I guess I’d take the opportunity to work on episodes that I’ve struggled to enjoy in the past. I’ve always had a hard time with the pace of many season 1 episodes, and I often lose interest and turn them off. Maybe being snowbound without a giant hedge maze would get me to sit down and really focus.
I love this type of thread, with everyone helping me do the job of putting a list together. There are at least 2 or 3 that would be a perfect playlist for me. Me, I would probably do something like trios featuring a particular actor, e.g.:
The Alan Hale project: “The Crawling Eye”, “Angels Revenge” and “Giant Spider Invasion”.
The Beverly Garland bevy: “It Conquered The World”, “Swamp Diamonds” and “Gunslinger”.
The John Agar smarmfest: “Women Of The Prehistoric Planet”, “Revenge Of The Creature” and “Mole People”.
On a side note, I am watching the Michigan vs. Michigan State game, and the halftime report featured Robert Smith. As an example of how much MST3K (happily) infects my life, all I could think of was Pearl receiving Howard as a gift for Lawgiver Daze”, and as he was commentating all I could think of was Mary Jo exasperatingly exclaiming “Now what am I supposed to do with a sweaty, servile, well-oiled hunk?” Eyebrows raise as the light turns on over her head, fingers run up his bicep: “Oh, Howard…”
In case of an emergency, I always have “Warrior Of The Lost World” and “Werewolf” available on my iPod.
At home my ‘Go-To’ collection remains Volume 10: “Godzilla Vs Megalon”, “Swamp Diamonds”, “Teen-Age Strangler” and “The Giant Spider Invasion”. This set makes for a pretty enjoyable evening.
1: 113: The Black Scorpion
2: 208: Lost Continent
3: 321: Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
4: 404: Teenagers From Outer Space
5: 507: I Accuse My Parents
6: 604: Zombie Nightmare
7: 706: Laserblast
8: 811: Parts: The Clonus Horror
9: 904: Werewolf
1001: Soultaker
Hooray, my topic! I’m finally in the cool club!
My thoughts for this were that the movies should run toward the Big Disaster themes, so you can snuggle in with a cozy catastrophe. There seem to be fewer end-of-the-world movies than I’d expect, but, how’s this for a lineup:
* Robot Monster (world destroyed, all destroyed, annoying kids survive)
* Rocketship X-M (visit to the destroyed world of Mars, nobody survives)
* The Day The Earth Froze (typical Minnesota April)
* Invasion U.S.A. (the completely unnamed foreign land of evil and infinite resources destroys every city in the United States and all Montana — but what is it a diversion from?)
* The Day The World Ended (the home game, and another after-the-end-of-the-world extremely tiny epic even by Roger Corman standards)
* Invasion Of The Neptune Men (showing the world after all dignity is destroyed)
* Squirm (showcasing a small southern town after, again, all dignity is destroyed)
That all should leave me ready to march out into the hurricane. What do you think, sirs?
101: The Trollenberg Terror, oops The Crawling Eye (Isolated in Swiss Alps)
108: The Slime People (Isolated in LA with no outside entertainment)
406: Attack of the Giant Leeches (Isolated in a cave with blood sucking monsters)
407: The Killer Shrews (Isolated on an island in a hurricane)
523: Village of the Giants (Isolated in a small town with giants controlling everything)
607: Bloodlust (Isolated on an island with a homicidal maniac
1011: Horrors of Spider Island (Isolated on an island after a wreck)
1012: Squirm (Isolated in Georgia with the power off and the roads out)
And finally, 910: The Final Sacrifice (Isolated in Canada, ’nuff said)
That should be enough
K13- SST- Death Flight
104- Women of the Prehistoric Planet
212- Godzilla Vs. Megalon
321- Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
424- “Manos” The Hands of Fate
506- Eegah!
619- Red Zone Cuba
706- Laserblast
820- Space Mutiny
910- The Final Sacrifice
1004- Future War
I’ll go for one from each season.
110 – Robot Holocaust
207 – Wild Rebels
307 – Daddy-O
423 – Bride of the Monster
512 – Mitchell
620 – Danger!! Death Ray
704 – The Incredible Melting Man
813 – Jack Frost
903 – The Puma Man
1012 – Squirm
I Accuse My Parents
Danger! Death Ray! (The music alone will keep me entertained for hours.)
Werewolf
Hobgoblins
Puma Man
Jack Frost
Master Ninja II (I love Crow’s turn as The Crypt Keeper.)
Last of the Wild Horses
The Skydivers
Red Zone Cuba
Manos: The Hands of Fate
The Sinister Urge
The Wild Wild World of Batwoman
104 Women of the Prehistoric Planet
212 Godzilla vs Megalon
303 Pod People
424 Manos the Hands of Fate
501 (Joel) Warrior of the Lost World
521 (Mike) Santa Claus
619 Red Zone Cuba
705 Escape 2000
811 Parts the Clonus Horror
907 Hobgoblins
1001 Soultaker
Those special episodes that I’d always turn to in hours of boredom or natural disaster are…
Pod People
It Conquered the World
Swamp Diamonds
Alien from L.A.
Santa Claus
Girls Town
The Skydivers
The Beast of Yucca Flats
Night of the Bloodbeast
The Deadly Mantis
The Thing that Couldn’t Die
The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Etcetera
Jack Frost
The Screaming Skull
Horrors of Spider Island
1. Women of the Prehistoric Planet
2. Godzilla vs. The Sea Monster
3. Gamera vs. Gaos
4. Being From Another Planet
5. Mitchell
6. Red Zone Cuba
7. Night of the Blood Beast
8. Prince of Space
9. Devil Fish
10. Hamlet
All of them.
And a palette of Dr Pepper.
I live in southern Louisiana & this scenario happens pretty regularly, though the power does tend to go out. It is good to be prepared regardless though! I like the one-per-season format, though it leads to some favorites being left out (Pod People, Mitchell, Prince of Space, Jack Frost, and Final Sacrifice might have been the toughest cuts.
107 – Robot Monster
212 – Godzilla v. Megalon
301 – Cave Dwellers
407 – Killer Shrews
505 – Magic Voyage of Sinbad
616 – Racket Girls
706 – Laserblast
820 – Space Mutiny
904 – Werewolf
1006- Boggy Creek 2
Godzilla vs Megalon
Monster a Go-Go
Bride of the Monster
Manos: The Hands of Fate
Mitchell
The Starfighters
The Sinister Urge
The Giant Spider Invasion
Hobgoblins
Werewolf
In no particular order:
Pod People
Manos
Eegah!
Wild Wild World of Batwoman
Mr B’s Lost Shorts
Legend of Boggy Creek 2
Giant Gila Monster
Giant Spider Invasion
Blood waters of Dr Z
Final Sacrifice
Werewolf
Jack Frost
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians…
Eeagah!
Terror from the Year 5000
Gunslinger
The Creeping Terror
Catalina Caper
Mole People
Devil Doll
Angels Revenge
#33. All of the time Robert “Howard” Smith is on TV.
I, on the other hand, would do something goofy like match the episodes to the weather. Let me see, which episodes had bad weather in them? Here’s a few I’ve thought of:
The Day the Earth Froze (blizzard)
Hercules Against the Moonmen (dust storm with added deep hurting)
The Killer Shrews & Gamera (hurricane)
Godzilla vs the Sea Monster & The Magic Voyage of Sinbad (Lots of thunderstorms, rain and, in the formers case, a lobster)
Lost Continent & The Black Scorpion (volcano…very homely in my case)
Then when the bad weather passed, I would watch Danger: Diabolik. Safe at home at last!!
For some reason, I couldn’t think of a Mike episode with bad weather. Did there just happen to be more bad weather episodes with Joel? I wonder. Or I could be drawing a blank for some reason. In that case, I’d add:
Track of the Moonbeast
Beginning of the End
Invasion of the Neptune Men
Beast of Yucca Flats
That way I could enjoy the company of Mike as well.