Thread poster Mitchell “Rowsdower” Beardsley, in our discussion of “12 to the Moon”, mentioned an Anthony Dexter triple feature. Tempting, but what are some other favorites? What shows just go well together? For my money, back-to-back eps “King Dinosaur” and “First Spaceship on Venus” go well together as they are not only similar genres, but are good examples of the show’s ascent. In that vein, “Boggy Creek” and “Track of the Moonbeast” remind me how great the final days were.
My double feature pick: Catalina Caper and Horror of Party Beach. Lots of teener action.
As for a triple feature –and, wow, if you can manage a triple feature of MST3K you are hardcore (but if you frequent this site, I guess you are) — I would suggests a tribute to 1987: Alien From L.A., Robot Holocaust and Space Mutiny.
What would you pick? Use any criteria you want.
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An obvious one would be Mitchell/The Brain That Wouldn’t Die since it ends the Joel era and begins the Mike era. But I do enjoy the idea of a Manos/Incredibly Strange Creatures… double feature. Creepy hunchmen madness!
Biker 3X = Sidehackers/Wild Rebels/Hellcats
Spider 3X = Earth Vs The Spider/Giant Spider Invasion/Horrors Of Spider Island
Spy 3X = Secret Agent Super Dragon/Operation Double 007/Agent For HARM
Super Hero 3X = Wild World Of Batwoman/Puma Man/Diabolik (Wiki lists him as an anti-hero comic character/close enough)
Something Fishy Around Here 3X = Revenge Of The Creature/Devil Fish/Blood Waters Of Dr Z
Excuse me, I think I have to go to Wendy’s for a Triple Baconator and Burger King for a Triple Stacker.
A Christmas Double Feature with Santa Claus Conquers the Martians and Santa Claus.
For the triple feature, I’d go for a giant bug theme, with The Black Scorpion (scorpions are bugs, right?), Beginning of the End, and The Deadly Mantis.
I swear we’ve done a topic like this before. Sampo, you really should keep a record of the used topics and provide a link to it with each Weekend Discussion.
Aw, ya got my 80’s triple!! Oh well, great minds….
The “Tales Told Thru Nararration” Double Feature-
Monster-A-Go-Go and The Creeping Terror
The Ed Wood Triple Play-
Bride Of The Monster, The Violent Years, and The Sinister Urge. Top it off with Rifftrax doing Plan 9 for a full marathon!!
When I feel a little paranoid I like a double feature of Rocket Attack USA and Invasion USA.
Double feature:Untamed Youth and Girlstown. Back to back Maimie Van Doren!
Triple Feature: It Conquered the World, Master Ninja I, Master Ninja II. 3 from Lee Van Cleef
Some obvious ones:
Master Ninja I/Master Ninja II.
Manhunt in Space/Crash of Moons.
Some less obvious ones:
Revenge of the Creature/The Mole People, “it’s a veritable John Agar filmfest for you.”
City Limits/Zombie Nightmare, for that eighties bad film feeling.
@Speedy (#2)
A slight re-working of one of your suggestions…
Euro-Spy Triple Feature: “Secret Agent Super Dragon”/”Operation Double 007″/”Danger! Death Ray”
For my troika I’d open the 9’th gate of hell with a Coleman Francis triple feature, all three films in order (Yucca Flats then Skydivers then Red Zone Cuba). I’d even make a little party of it where coffee and frog legs would be served, perhaps some beans if someone brings a can.
I’d pair I Accuse My Parents with The Violent Years, just to show how awful parents are, what with throwing money at their kids.
Then I’d have Daddy-O and Girls Town, for the wronged teen who proves his/her worth. Yay, teens!
Cambot J. Nelson, @9, make sure you don’t forget the coffee. I like coffee.
One more-the 80’s “Future’s So Dim, I Gotta Wear Spikes” Triple Feature-
Warrior Of The Lost World, City Limits, and Alien From LA.
Actual double and triple features my GF and I have watched on gentle winter days:
Rocket Attack USA & Invasion USA
Cave Dwellers & Pod People
Daddy O & The Beatniks
Fugitive Alien one and two
The Amazing Colossal Man & War of the Colossal Beast
Santa Claus conquers the Martians,Santa Claus & Jack Frost
Master Ninja one and two
Giant Gila Monster & Attack of the Killer Shrews
City Limits & Escape 2000
Being from Another Planet & Riding with Death
Hercules & Hercules Unchained
The Magic Sword, Deathstalker & Quest of the Delta Knights
Both Rocky Jones movies
Fire Maidens of Outer Space, Twelve to the Moon & The Phantom Planet
The Rebel Set & Teenage Crimewave
Bride of the Monster & Manos
Secret Agent Super Dragon & Danger Death Ray
EEGAH & I Accuse My Parents
Untamed Youth & Girls Town
Girl in Lovers Lane & The Painted Hills
It conquered the World & Gunslinger
Mitchell & Final Justice
The Brain that Wouldn’t die, The Atomic Brain & The Thing that wouldn’t die
Teenage Strangler & Wild wild women of Batwoman
Beginning of the End & Clonus
Outlaw & The Incredible Melting Man
Teenage caveman & Robot Monster
The Dead Talk Back & Zombie Nightmare
The Creeping Terror & Bloodlust
Red Zone Cuba & Beast of Yucca Flats
The Sinister Urge & Racket Girls
Kitten with a Whip & The Brute Man
Radar Secret Service & The Amazing Transparent Man
Headhunters movie & Sampson movie
Night of the Blood Beast & Space Children
Laserblast & Revenge of the Creature
Mole People & Deadly Mantis
Undead & Starfighters
Teenage Werewolf & Werewolf
Agent from HARM & Puma Man
Prince of Space & Invasion of Neptune Men
Devil Doll & the other Vorelli movie
Space Mutiny, Time Chasers & Overdrawn at the Memory Bank
Deadly Bees & Gorgo
Hobgoblins & Boggy Creek
Final Sacrifice & Devil Fish
Girl in Gold Boots & Squirm
Soultaker & Merlin
ZAAT & Touch of Satan
Crawling Hand, Crawling eye & Diabolik
Giant Spider Invasion, Horror of Spider Island & Earth vs Spider
Johnny Longbow movie and bat people movie
Hamlet & Kathy Ireland movie
We also will warm up with TOS Star Trek episodes and follow with Last of the Wild Horses
Or mix and match Rifftrax and CT sometimes
Life is good, and my fingers are tired.
Oh- and all Five Gamera movies on Saturday, and the two Godzilla on Sunday!
@ #6- nothing like a pair of Mamies, or, back to back Mamies :)
The Side Hackers, Wild Rebels, and The Hellcats.
8-)
Riding With Death and The Pumaman.
#9 My thoughts exactly. I would be curious to see how many of your guests would have the uncontrollable urge to slash their wrists after watching the Coleman Francis Trilogy.
I recently watched season one eps in “Commando Cody Order.” And I always feel a duty to the other Gameras if I watch any one of them. Same with the Master Ninjas, the Rocky Joneses and the early sci-fi’s that were all Universal B/W’s. they’re like comfy, feng-shui’ed furniture.
Since I’m something of an Anglophile, I would go with The Deadly Bees and Gorgo…Oh The Hard Times of Old England!
A dinosaur fesival:
King Dinosaur
Gorgo
and, of course, Future War (featuring John Claude von Darn)
And for t and a:
Angels Revenge
The Horrors of Spider island
Swamp Diamonds
(Honorable?) mention, since I can’t think of its title.
.What’s the movie where in the beginning
there’s a shot of a nude woman swimming in a water tower? Is it the one where Joel opens an
umbrella to cover the naughty bits?
I love Allison Hayes, so a triple feature co-starring her:
Gunslinger, The Undead and The Unearthly (which also happen to be some of my favorite episodes).
The Crawling Double Feature: The Crawling Eye and Hand
Beverly Garland Triple Feature: Gunslinger, Swamp Diamonds, It Conquered the World.
The Evolution Of Anthony Cardoza:
Beast Of Yucca Flats, Skydivers, Red Zone Cuba, and Hellcats. Guaranteed to leave you as comatose as his acting skills.
Very obvious, I realize: Earth Vs. the Spider and Beginning of the End for my double-feature choice. B.I.G. Bugs. ‘Nuff said?
I also love Sampo’s choices, though, so inspired by him I’m going to go with Daddy-O, Girls Town, and, yes, I Was a Teenage Werewolf for my triple-feature choice, since the latter features some cool “jive-talk,” and thus puts it in the vicinity of the other two (sort of). (Also, it seems to me that Mamie Van Doran could easily whip Michael Landon, and it would be fun to watch her do so.)
Just to see the differences in the series run, my triple header would start out with The Crawling Eye (101), then Eegah!(506), and to close, Diabolik (1013).
Well, seems like almost everything has been mentioned already, so I’ll throw out “Teenagers from Outer Space” and “Ring of Terror” for a double feature full of middle-aged “teenagers.”
@#3 Sitting Duck — there have been some similar weekend discussion threads, but not this exact one. There was “Joel/Mike Double Features” in 2010, https://www.mst3kinfo.com/?p=7145 and then “Mixed Double Features” (one from Cinematic Titanic or Rifftrax and one from MST3K) in 2011, https://www.mst3kinfo.com/?p=10609 .
I have a Halloween theme that I’ve actually planned titled “Werewolves and Zombies and Heads, Oh My”– consisting of “Werewolf,” “Zombie Nightmare” and “The Thing That Couldn’t Die” I could extend it to a five-film extravaganza with “I Was a Teenage Werewolf” and “TISCWSLABMUZ”–but this’ll do for a start.
trickymutha–you actually have double/triple features with your gf on gentle winter days?–You are one lucky dude. Hang on to her man, she sounds like a keeper!
At #28- Yes sir! she speaks fondly of her days at The University of Chicago and Turkey Day Marathons. She is a keeper!
(aka Andrew)
A fun-loving “Deathstalker” sandwiched in between the sub-heros Cabot and Watney in “Outlaw” and the highly-effective Ator and Mila in “Cave Dwellers” is nice. A marathon of the entire Shorts library is great! With Halloween approaching, “Tormented” and “Screaming Skull” over a never-ending bowl of Kit-Kats and Three Muskateers sound appetizing. The possibilities are endless!
Someone already mentioned “Cave Dwellers”/”Pod People”. That’s a great one!
Untamed Youth, Daddy-O, and The Beatniks are great for a triple feature about 50’s angst and musical numbers.
Manos, The Incredible Melting Man, and Hobgoblins would be ideal for a worst-of-the-worst endurance test.
For a perfect whiny protagonist double feature, try Teenage Strangler and The Final Sacrifice. You’ll be convinced that there needs to be a TV show where Mikey and Troy team up to solve crimes in the wussiest manner possible.
Triple feature rip-off of Bond movies, Operation Double 007, Secret Agent,Super Dragon and Danger!Death Ray.
I suppose you can try a Catherine Schell double feature with “Space Princess” and “Moon Zero Two”, with “Return of the Pink Panther” thrown in for fun.
“The Thing that Couldn’t Die” goes well with “The Brain That Wouldn’t Die” ’cause we get both a male and female perspective on not having a body, and two heads are better than one.
For a triple feature, I like “Teenage Strangler,” “Teenage Crime Wave,” and “I Was a Teenage Werewolf” because it’s important for us all to be more aware of the issues facing today’s youth of today.
Shouldn’t “Untamed Youth” and “Girls Town” be a Mamie Double D Feature? :-D
How about a Skipper Triple Feature with “The Crawling Hand”, “Angels Revenge”, and “The Giant Spider Invasion”, followed by a Professor Double Feature of “MST3K: The Movie” and “The Space Children.”
Maybe a Depressed Dad Triple Feature with “High School Big-Shot” and “I Was a Teenage Werewolf”, followed by the oft-referenced and much better “North By Northwest” (For those who don’t know, the same actor was in the crop-duster scene with Cary Grant).
“Then I’d have Daddy-O and Girls Town, for the wronged teen who proves his/her worth. Yay, teens!”
Also makes for a Dick Contino film festival.
Guess I’ll have to be the official hack and suggest THE CORPSE VANISHES with BRIDE OF THE MONSTER. Belarama!
We might also have SANTA CLAUS, SANTA CLAUS CONQUERS THE MARTIANS, GAMERA VS. GURION, and JACK FROST for a children’s matinee from Hell.
Of course, we might also toss in MONSTER A-GO-GO and THE BEAST OF YUCCA FLATS for a Fun With Found Footage Twofer.
Aw! Sol-survivor just mentioned one of my ideas! Yes, Depressing Dad, who inspired my handle.
What about a William Sylvester triple feature: “Devil Doll,” “Gorgo,” and “Riding with Death.” You know, I don’t think he was all that bad an actor, and he’s got a fierce chin dimple.
Angel’s Revenge with Girl in Gold Boots for more jiggling than a bowl of jello being held by a guy having a seizure during an earthquake .
‘the Black Scorpion,’ ‘Giant Mantis’ and ‘Beginning of the Emd’ for my ‘these movies really BUG meeee!’ trifecta
or
‘RZC,’ ‘Hobdoblins’ and ‘Fu Manchu’ for my ‘stay away from sharp objects’ triple threat
-Riding with Death and Being from Another Planet. . ..it’s a Ben Murphy double feature!
-Laserblast and Diabolik. . ..the “end” double feature!
-EEGAH! and Human Duplicators. . ..it’s a Richard Kiel double dip!
-Attack of the the Eye Creatures and Attack of the Giant Leeches. . .double attack feature!
-Robot Monster, Robot vs. Aztec Mummy, Robot Holocaust. . .Season 1 Robo-triple feature!
-Parts: The Clonus Horror, Horror of Party Beach, Horrors of Spider Island….oh the HORROR triple feature!
-Cave Dwellers, Outlaw, Deathstalker. …80’s fantasy triple feature!
-Teen-age Strangler, Teenage Crimewave, Teenage Caveman, Teenagers from Outer Space!. . . it’s a teenage quadruple feature…with NO teenagers!!
A Richard Kiel double feature X2. The first will be the season 4 episodes “The Human Duplicators” and “The Magic Sword”. The other double feature will be “Eegah” and “Phantom Planet”.
Prince of Space and Neptune Men – The Children With Upsettingly Tiny Shorts Save Japan Double Feature
Teenage Strangler and Time Chasers – Amateur Hour Double Feature
Rocketship XM (Frank’s first episode), Samson vs the Vampire Women (Frank’s last episode) and Soultaker (Frank and Joel guest star) – Tribute to TVs Frank
Manos, Operation 007, Village of the Giants, Danger! Death Ray!, San Francisco International and Samson vs the Vampire Women for a Torgo 6 Feature!
MASTER NINJA 1 and 2 I suppose. I watch one, I tend to watch the other.
1) Rocketship X-M, First Spaceship On Venus, 12 To The Moon
2) Lost Continent, King Dinosaur, Jungle Goddess
3) Hellcats, Wild Rebels, Sidehackers
4) Any multiples of the five Gamera movies done on the show
5) The Corpse Vanishes, Bride Of The Monster, The Unearthly
6) Manhunt In Space, Crash Of The Moons
7) Godzilla Vs. The Sea Monster, Godzilla Vs. Megalon
8) OK Connery (aka Operation Double 007, Operation Kid Brother), Secret Agent Super Dragon
9) Robot Vs. The Aztec Mummy, Robot Monster, Robot Holocaust
10) Amazing Colossal Man, War Of The Colossal Beast, Beginning Of The End
11) The Magic Sword, Magic Voyage Of Sinbad, The Day The Earth Froze
I could do this all day, so I’ll stop there.
I would suggest a 70’s Drive-In stravaganza! Blood Waters of Dr. Z-Track of the Moon Beast-Laserblast. The other disc could contain The Touch of Stan-The Incredible Melting Man-Giant Spider Invasion. Or a “True Crime” feature: “The Violent Years-The Beatniks-The Rebel Set-Teenage Crimewave-The Sinister Urge. Or a “Stop this damn movie!” pack: Castle of Fu-Manchu-Monster a go-go-Wild World of Batwoman-Hobgoblins.
And another, even though it might have been said already-
The Swinging Sixties Shindig Dance Party Double Feature, with Catalina Caper and Girl In Gold Boots….I’d throw in the party scenes from Horror Of Party Beach, Wild World Of Batwoman, Hellcats, and others, but this is full features, not a youtube montage.
Speaking of, I guess because they were all too expensive to get, none of the films referenced in the Rocky Horror song “Science Fiction Double Feature” were ever on the show, nor have they been done by Cinematic Titanic or Rifftrax. The more you know….
For the record, they are-
The Day The Earth Stood Still
Flash Gordon (serials or films)
The Invisible Man
King Kong
It Came From Outer Space
Forbidden Planet
Tarantula!
Day Of The Triffids
Curse Of The Demon
When Worlds Collide
I’ve been known to do Werewolf and Soultaker back-to-back for a Joe Estevez double-header. And shorts-wise, there’s always the overcaffeinated-women duo of Mr. B Natural and Design for Dreaming (especially since one’s a tribute to the other!).
OOPS-and Dr. X.