Thanks to John Seavey for suggesting this thread topic. If you think you have a good topic, email me.
|
 |
Weekend Discussion Thread: UnMSTed MST Movies You OwnIt’s a simple one: Which MST3K films do you own in non-riffed (i.e., original) form? And what made you acquire them?
148 Replies to “Weekend Discussion Thread: UnMSTed MST Movies You Own”Commenting at Satellite News
We are determined to encourage thoughtful discussion, so please be respectful to others. We also provide an "Ignore" button ( Comments are closed. |
|
Satellite News is a fan site for the Mystery Science Theater 3000 television and Netflix series. It is an independent publication written and compiled by Chris Cornell (msampo@aol.com) and Brian Henry (erhardt4@aol.com). Satellite of Love, LLC does not maintain this web site, nor is it responsible for this site's content.
All content posted on Satellite News is copyright © 2024 by Chris Cornell and Brian Henry, except where otherwise noted. This Date in MSTory is written and compiled by Steve Finley, Chris Cornell and Brian Henry. Copyright © 2024 All rights reserved. Please do not reproduce This Date in MSTory items in any form without express written permission from the authors. Items of MST3K news may be duplicated or reposted, as long as Satellite News is cited as the source. The views and opinions expressed herein are not necessarily those of Satellite of Love, LLC. No warranty is expressed or implied that the information given herein is completely accurate, and in fact this information can and will change at any time. So there. Mystery Science Theater 3000, its characters and situations are copyrights and trademarks of Satellite of Love, LLC. Banner image created by Larry Lee Moniz. |
|
) to help our users cope with "trolls" and other commenters whom they find annoying. Go to our
I own a DVD copy of Santa Clause Conquers the Martians. The case makes no mention of the MST3K treatment of the movie. From what I can tell the Brains cut very little from the film for their adaptation. As to how it came into my possession, let us just say that the store in which I work is not known for picking the best selection of entertainment to try and sell to the customers. As far as I could discern I was the only person buy this DVD. I was cheep too.
All the Godzilla and Gamera movies, in their original Japanese. Don’t ask me where I got them. :wink:
I have Zombie Nightmare on VHS, and I used to have Warrior of the Lost World, but I sold it on E-Bay.
I forgot I have Hobglobins, but I had it way before it was riffed.
Time Chasers
Godzilla vs. Megalon
Revenge of the Creature
The Giant Gila Monster
The Screaming Skull
Bride of the Monster
Attack of the Giant Leaches
Track of the Moon Beast
Squirm
Eegah!
The Killer Shrews
The Crawling Eye
This Island Earth
Most of these I’ve caught on the UK Horror Channel or those bundled Drive-In DVD sets.
The only MST3K films I’ve ever owned are the two Steve Reeves Hercules films (“Hercules” and “Hercules Unchained”) both of which I still enjoy “unriffed” (they are quite different films as MST3K cut the heck out of both of them — they make very little sense in the MST3K versions).
They are what I think of as exceptions to the rule that I don’t want to see good films riffed — while they ARE good they are also goofy in the way that most muscle pics are, and you have to be in a certain frame of mind to enjoy them “straight”. But it’s no coincidence that these two films are what started the Italian muscleman craze here in the U.S., since they actually had some intelligence behind their making and starred one of the few hulks that could act.
I would *love* to see restored versions of these films, cleaned up and presented in blu-ray I think a whole lot of people would gain some respect for them. Then again, as I said, they are sort of goofy and share many things in common with the far lesser efforts made to cash in on the craze (many of which were also riffed by MST3K).
A fellow addict found “Mitchell” and made me a VHS copy about eight years ago.
The full version’s even worse than the MST3K version, except that it does explain two things: 1) what happens to Walter Deaney, and 2) why Mitchell’s sort of afraid of going into James Arthur Cummings’ house.
Neither plot point is worth suffering through the extended Mitchell-Greta action, though.
The only one I own is Danger Diabolik. Alot of footage was cut from this one for MST including the destruction of the tax system building and a sexy shower for the leading lady. Plus the film is fun in a campy 60s way.
I own “Squirm”. It was one of those movies I always saw as a kid on the local UHF station. Every Saturday Channel 48 (remember, this was UHF, waaaaaay before we had cable) would show stuff like “Squirm” and another favorite that I really wish would have been on MST, “Tourist Trap”. In fact, if perhaps someone from CT should happen to read this, PLEASE DO “TOURIST TRAP”- mannequins killing people, Chuck Connors in a dual role, Jocelyn Jones from “Great Texas Dynamite Chase” and Tanya Roberts in her very first movie. But I digress. I actually really like the movie “Squirm” and think that the special effects in particular were really well done (in the unedited version- the MST version has all the scary stuff chopped out). Little known factoid: R.A. Dow (AKA “Wormface”) is actually Tony Dow from “Leave It To Beaver” all growed up.
The green slime – the holy grail of MST3K.
The two puppet films episodes one and two from KTMA – Invaders from the Deep, Revenge of the Mysterians – rarer than a blue diamond. Since these are not available MSTed I had to see what I [and all of us] were missing. Hey jim, could you accidently [wink wink] leave your film vault unlocked one day – please?
I found Time Chasers in a grocery store. It was in a section of movies that didn’t even have cases, only cardboard sleeves, and I think it was a dollar. Anywho, I’ve never found the time to suffer through it unMSTed, but I like to bring it out to show to my friends who have seen that episode.
Hmmm…
Well, I have “Hercules Unchained” and “Sword and the Dragon” on VHS, mainly because I wanted to see what BBI had to cut for the episode. I also have one of those public domain sci-fi movie sets which includes movies that were MSTed (“Phantom Planet”, “Teenagers from Outer Space”) and ones that should’ve been (“Day the Sky Exploded”, “Assignment: Outer Space”).
A while back, I found a copy of the novelization of “Moon Zero Two” and thought it was pretty good, so I looked around and picked up the unMSTed movie.
There are a couple of unMSTed copies I’ve considered getting, like “Diabolik”, which works really well both riffed and unriffed.
I have Hobgoblins, Squirm, Werewolf, Horrors of spider Island, the screaming skull, phantom planet, and Boggy Creek II. i also have the first boggy creek movie (actually a docudrama), and Ator the fighting eagle, which is the prequel to Cave Dwellers.
As for Why I got them, what can i say? I’m sick
I found “Santa Claus” unriffed on DVD at the dollar store–but still haven’t sat down and watched the whole thing. A really cheap DVD–no chapters/menus.
Closest I have is “Plan 9 From Outer Space,” though of course that’s a Rifftrax. My Dad had a habit of rummaging the video bargain bin for a few Christmas gifts, so I have a fair collection of movies that would be up to snuff for riffing. I’ve seen plenty of MSTie movies for sale online and in retail stores, but can’t ever work up enough interest to view them un-riffed.
Anyone heard of “Future Hunters” with liquid Terminator/FBI agent Robert Patrick in a very early role? Great kung-fu scene with a ‘Bruce Li,’ (I kid you not), goofy leftover Nazis for villains, and Patrick’s acting consisting of screaming at the camera make for a humorous treat even without riffing. I remember actually e-mailing the show about this one during the Sci-Fi era and getting a polite response from Barbbb that they didn’t take submissions that way. Oh poopy! :eek:
Robot Monster, which I’ve always loved because it was in The Book of Lists as one of the worst movies of all time (Along with Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, Terror of Tiny Town and The Conqueror, which inexplicably casts John Wayne as Genghis Khan).
I probably have a number of the other 50’s sci-fi flicks hiding in one of those public domain box sets (I know I have Killers From Space), but that’s Film Crew…)
And I probably stand alone on this, but I would really like to own an un-MSTed version of Hired!.
I have a set with The Beatniks (along Wild Guitar (another Arch Hall Jr flick). Also I got Squirm after I saw that episode, and Eegah. But I had owned my set with The Beatniks on it for a long time before I knew MST3K did it.
I have The Killer Shrews. I hated it when I first watched it. After I saw it on MST3000, I immediately loved it.
I have every Arch Hall Jr movie on DVD.
I have one of those cheap 2 DVD sets that had “Gila Monster” & “Killer Shrews”. At the time I didn’t see them Misted so I got them to see what they were like. Of course, I got the Misted versions when they came out on DVD a few years later.
If I have an unMSTed movie, it’s because the curiosity factor was so high after watching the MST version.
I got Danger! Death Ray to find out what happened to the guy who was not the frog guy in the beginning of the movie, and what happened at the end of the fight between Bart and the frog guy. Oh so totally worth it.
I bought Hobgoblins because there seemed to be a lot of cuts in that one, but I still haven’t brought myself to watch it all the way through.
I have I Accuse My Parents because I find those songs incredibly catchy for some reason, and wanted to hear them without the riffing. No, really.
I bought Werewolf because the no pants lady seemed to have more of a role than was shown in the episode. Like, how did he get to the party by himself?
I also have Cave Dwellers (Ator the Invincible?) just because, and I’d love to get a copy of Space Mutiny and Time Chasers.
Sometimes my curiosity gets the better of me.
I found a couple of DVDs of the TV series “The Master”, AKA “Master Ninja”. I don’t know if you can really count those because they weren’t any of the episodes features in MST3K.
I have come across screaming skull and bloodlust (the interesting bit about bloodlust is that in it’s dollar bin plastic box it lists the cast as including tom servo and michael nelson) and I went out on a limb and got manos. I have yet to watch manos for some odd reason. Looking to get time chasers just to see what got left out and have seen werewolf and hobgoblins for sale not on the internet but refused to pony up twenty dollars a piece for them.
Good lord, a lot. Mainly because of those Mill Creek Entertainment movie packs. I do have a VHS copy of the Mole People. And Werewolf was on TNT, saw Gorgo on PBS, and Hercules on TCM (yes, TCM). Oh, and also remember those film venture international credit sequences? Yeah, I have a few of those movies as well. And I remember watching Master Ninja a/k/a The Master as a kid. I’m not well.
A good friend who knew of my addiction to the show very kindly got me an unMSTed copy of Manos, The Hands of Fate and I just didn’t have the heart to tell him that I’d rather chew on glass bottles for breakfast than watch it. It sits in my DVD case like a live bomb and I’m too afraid to touch it.
I taped Teenage Caveman off of AMC one day. And I had Merlin’s Chop of Mystical Wonders, which was the only movie that I saw unMSTed before I saw it MSTed.
I have Manos, Mitchell, and Time Chasers (called Tangents on my DVD cover).
#16 underwalk – you can get an copy of Hired here: http://www.archive.org/details/Hired1940
Most of the shorts done over the years can be found on this site.
I found a VHS copy of Space Mutiny in the clearance bin at Blockbuster years ago. I had to buy it, no original case but you do get to see some Grandma daughter boob.
Make that “#16 underwoc” – sorry about that chief!
I have a vhs copy of the Incredibly Strange Creatures…can’t resist that title!!!
I have The Brain that Wouldn’t Die, Danger: Diabolik!, and a lot of Arch Hall films. All of these were found after seeing them on the show because I liked the movies so much, riffed or not.
Almost forgot Monster-a-Go-Go, and Godzilla v Megalon, which I’ve had for years.
Bride of the Monster
And the MST DVD releases that contained the MST ep and unriffed movie on the flipside of the disc.
I own the cool “moving image” copy of Werewolf, some sleazy release of Master Ninja, Deathstalker III, Hercules Against the Moon Men, Mitchell (the VHS with him dangling from a Helicopter,) Gor, and a strange release of the Commando Cody series. Yes, at one time I thought it would be cool to own all of these, but I soon found that they provided little to no viewing pleasure.
I own nearly every movie unMSTied – I’d always wanted to make my own double-sided DVD’s with the MST version on one side and the unMSTied movie on the other side. Some of them were really hard to find – I got “Hamlet” on film and need to get it transfered, and I had gotten “Sidehackers” by borrowing and copying it from the Ross Hagen fanclub (it had a black bar across the bottom all the way through the movie with something about preview copy only…) thankfully that’s on DVD now. It’s been fun hunting them all down. I really always loved the old B&W sci-fi ones like “It Conquered the World” and “Earth vs. the Spider,” and so on, MSTied or not.
I own the cool “moving image” copy of Werewolf, some sleazy release of Master Ninja, Deathstalker III, Hercules Against the Moon Men, Mitchell (the VHS with him dangling from a Helicopter,) Gor, and a strange release of the Commando Cody series. Yes, at one time I thought it would be cool to own all of these, but I soon found that they provided little to no viewing pleasure. Now I feel ashamed.
I got Wild Rebels on Ebay, and Steve Lame-O does a whole song in it! Thankfully the Brains cut that out. Also Robot Holocaust is available from Amazon.com for some reason. Valeria may be the worst actor in MST history, but she does a topless scene in the uncut movie that makes up for it.
Oh, and I saw Laserblast when it was in theaters! My friend recommended it, and afterwards he was so sorry.
In no particular order:
Crash of the Moons
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
Teenage Strangler
Girl in Gold Boots
The Leech Woman
Attack of the (the) Eye Creatures
Teenagers from Space
Bride of the Monster
Robot Monster
AND….
The Incredible Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies
Sheesh, I _own_ all that? How depressing…..
I only own two:
Mitchell and The Incredible Melting Man.
Why? Hey, in the words of a certain character we all know and love “Pain don’t hurt.”
The Mole People because it came on a DVD set with a Monolith Monsters and The Incredible Shrinking Man which I think are pretty cool movies. The Mole People seems twice as bad unMSTed though.
I also bought two of those Mill Creek 50 Movies for ten dollars sets and each of those sets has a handful of MST flicks, some of which look like they were transfered from 3rd generation VHS tapes. Only one I’ve watched is Robot Monster. I have The Devil’s Gift on VHS because that was the movie that they used to make Merlin’s Shop I wanted to see the stuff they deemed inappropriate for a child’s eyes.
This begs a quesiton….anybody know what happened with the Time Chasers special edition DVD that was supposed to come out over a year ago? If you don’t know what I’m talking about, here’s the trailer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYWO70LsQX0
I’d love to add it to my collection, but I just can’t find it.
This begs the question…whatever happened to the anniversary edition of Time Chasers that was supposed to come out?? I’ve been excited about that one since I saw the trailer, but that was over a year ago. Anyone know what’s going on with that?
I have Manos Hands of Fate. Saw it on Amazon and couldn’t resist.
Like a lot of others, I have all those ones on the 50 great horror/scifi collections, but I also have Tormented. It came on the back end of a Something Weird Video, Monters Crash the Pajama Party.
Does the full version of “Mitchell” explain why he has baby oil on his bedstand? I never could figure that out. :oops:
I found a VHS copy of “The Magic Sword” in a used-movies bin in a small town a while back. It was about $2. Obviously I bought it for the MST3k connection, but also because I figured I’d never see such a thing again. I’m not even sure if it works properly – I don’t actually intend to watch it.
This particular release was marketed under the label “Critic’s Picks.” I always thought that could imply the critics had picked the worst dreck they could find, just as much as it could imply any other sort of selection criterion.
Thanks for the link, MyMyMyMyMitchell. I took a class in grad school a few years back that I wanted to show Hired! in, but I never found a decent copy. Oh well.
And don’t sweat the name thing. Recently re-watched Hercules Against the Moon Men and it’s inspired me to come up with a tough guy name. Maybe Biff Gneiss?
Ring of Terror Alpha DVD
Manos the Hands of Fate from Alpha
Magic Sword from MGM
Zombie Nightmare VHS
All the Gamera movies be it on VHS or DVD
It Conquered the World VHS
Amazing Colossal Man VHS
War of the Colossal Beast, Viking Women, She Creature all on DVD
The Phantom Planet Wade Williams DVD
The Lost Continent Wade Williams DVD
Jungle Goddess from VCI DVD
Gorgo from VCI DVD
Laserblast Full Moon DVD
Crawling Eye Wade Williams DVD
Slime People Rhino DVD
The Green Slime VHS
I was a Teenage Werewolf VHS
Giant Spider Invasion Retromedia DVD
The Mole People, Revenge of the Creature, The Leech Woman all Universal DVD
Squirm MGM DVD
Moon Zero Two DVD (I got it for When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth as it was a double feature)
Incredible Melting Man DVD Vipco
Godzilla vs the Sea Monster Sony DVD
Attack of the Giant Leeches Alpha DVD
The Killer Shrews/Giant Gila Monster Legend Films DVD
Hercules and the Captive Woman Retromedia soon to be Image DVD
Phantom Creeps VCI DVD
I Accuse my Parents Alpha DVD
Brain that Wouldn’t Die Synapse DVD
Beast of Yucca Flats Wade Williams Image DVD
God that is a lot…ok I like B movies.. and I regret nothing ! :mrgreen:
Oh and Legend of the Dinosaurs Media Blasters DVD LOL forgot one
I work for a company that deals with public domain films, as such I have actual masters for at least 50 movies done on MST3K.
My friend and I found a copy of SPACE MUTINY for $5 at a electronics store. Even says on the dvd cover that it was made famous from the MST episode and it’s all there in it’s unriffed, uncut glory. I’ve yet to see it since my friend bought it so I don’t know if I would watch it without the riffs.