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Weekend Discussion Threads: Joel/Mike Double FeaturesAlert reader Mike in Portland writes:
For me, I’d have to go with Bride of the Monster/The Violent Years. Plenty of Ed Wood to go around! What’s your pick? 98 Replies to “Weekend Discussion Threads: Joel/Mike Double Features”Commenting at Satellite News
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Going for the gold:
Mitchell with Final Sacrifice :smile: .
Cyanide- did you mean- Mitchell with Final Justice?
How about a Michael Pataki doubleheader? Sidehackers with It lives by night.
Operation Double 007 and Danger Death Ray. A double bill of spy silliness.
I love bad space movies so my double feature would be Rocketship X-M & 12 to the Moon.
Untamed Youth / Teenage Crimewave
The Day The Earth Froze / Jack Frost
The Brain that Wouldn’t Die / The Thing that Couldn’t Die.
Earth Vs. The Spider / Giant Spider Invasion
Viking Women vs. the Sea Serpent and Squirm, for Coily and the waffley tribute to him/her/it.
Not Joel/Mike, but I always liked the idea of the Bryant Haliday duo Devil Doll and The Projected Man
Secret Agent Super Dragon and Agent for H.A.R.M.
Or Catalina Caper and The Horror of Party Beach.
I’m thinking Kids-n-Crime: I Accuse my Parents and Teenage Strangler!
The Trippy Russian Folk Tale Double Feature of Sadko (cuz he’s not Sinbad)/Jack Frost.
DG @7 Great double feature! I wanted Catalina Caper but could not think of a good Mike episode that was teen musical, shame on me.
How about a Ray Dennis Steckler duo with Eegah and Incredibly Strange Creatures etc.? Unappealing musical numbers for all! Or maybe you could do a giant animal double feature of Giant Gila Monster with either Beginning of the End or Deadly Mantis. And you do a Worst of Japan IIIIIN SPAAAAAACE with Fugitive Alien and Prince of Space.
How about a sausage eating flabby fest of Mitchell followed by Final Justice?
I would probably go Monster A Go-Go with Hobgoblins
Daddy-O and Racket Girls. Besides being two of the funniest standalone episodes ever, they would work well together and each has good riffing by Joel & the ‘bots and Mike & the ‘bots, respectively.
You could do an epic pairing of Mamie Van Doren movies (with her epic pair ;-) ) with Untamed Youth and Girls Town.
For a Goofy Fantasy Adventure combo, you could pair up Viking Women with either Outlaw or Deathstalker.
Or you could have a Weird Italian Post-Apocalypse duo of Warriors of the Lost World and Escape 2000.
How about Joel in the Crawling Eye and Mike in Danger Diabolik!. From first to last.
Hmm….
Maybe I could go for some crime/drama films. So I’ll go for Girl in Lovers Lane/Kitten with a Whip
Cave Dwellers and Quest of the Delta Knights, or any number of sword-and-sorcery outings (but those happen to be two of my favorites.)
#15, I agree with you. And I am sure if K01 was not a lost episode, you would agree with me that that with 1013 would be good!
Mitchell and Final Sacrifice. Not so much for the
movies (although Rowsdower and Mitchell would make an
interesting- in a really scary way- cop buddy movie :shock: )
but for both Mike and Joel being in each- and Joel’s Zenlike
advice to Mike.
You’re thinking of Soultaker, ck.
For me it’s and The Indestructible Man and The Amazing Transparent Man, a Joel/Mike super-powered criminal double double feature.
Speaking of Mirchell and buddy cop pairings ;-) :
It’s a few years after Mitchell took down Martin Balsam,
Mitchell’s erascible superior decides to pair him up with a new
recruit, who turns out to be the kid matching “wits” with Mitchell
outside his car. It seems the kid is now a gay teetotler (sp.?)
and hilarity ensues, abetted when his mom, an ex-high class
hooker, turns up.
Oops, make that “Mitchell.” Wish you
could edit posts here.
Good correction (and Fast!) by Trilaan.
Thanks.
Just trying to help out, it’s a pairing I was also thinking of at first.
Monster A-Go Go/The Wild World of Batwoman or Red Zone Cuba – Fry your brain to understand the plot.
Warrior of the Lost World/Space Mutiny or The Pumaman – Moronic heroes to the rescue/Sidekicks know best.
I Accuse My Parents or The Beatnicks/High School Big Shot – Opposite endings/From bad to worse.
The Girl in Lovers Lane/High School Big Shot – Bleak endings.
I Accuse My Parents/Girl in Gold Boots or Soultaker – Lame happy endings.
For me it’s gotta be Mitchell/Final Justice; Mike’s “escape” in the water heater is the cherry on top of this double feature.
I would pick “Robot vs. the Aztec Mummy” and “Samson vs. the Vampire Women”, both are Mexican movies dubbed in English.
Manos the Hands of Fate, and The Final Sacrifice.
Eh, in tone, Mitchell/FJ is too much like a Mike/Mike double feature…
Not as compared to the aforementioned Aztec/Samson, Santa vs. Santa, or Froze vs. Frost.
No mention, however, of a USA double feature, Rocket Attack vs. Invasion.
How about a holiday double feature of “Santa Claus Conquers the Martians” and “Santa Claus”? Or the narrator’s theater of “Monster-A-Go-Go” and “Creeping Terror” (or alternatively “The Atomic Brain”)? Going the sword and sorcery route, I’d pair “Cave Dwellers” and “Deathstalker and the Warriors from Hell.” Or Ed Wood Opus night with “Bride of the Monster” and “The Sinister Urge!” Well whadaya think sirs (and ma’ams)?
I’d go with “The Amazing Colossal Man”/”Village of the Giants”, two Bert I Gordon giant-themed pieces of s**t that go together in spite of some obvious differences.
I love the pairing of “Catalina Caper” and “Horror of Party Beach”. Very inspired!
(And just to devils-advocate, isn’t this idea really just pointing out how much the Mike years ended up cribbing off the cult associations of classic Joel-era episodes for a quick revival?
What next, “Alphabet Antics” vs. the Rifftrax “Mr. Moto Takes a Walk”? :razz: )
I must say that klish (#15) has hit the perfect duo. First and last indeed.
Make it a double-dose of Dick Contino and 50’s-era angst with a musical twist:
Daddy-O and Girls Town.
Maybe too obvious, but how about “Mitchell” with “The Brain That Couldn’t Die” — Joel’s last and Mike’s first.
Or a Mary Beth Hughes double-feature — “I Accuse My Parents” with “Last of the Wild Horses.”
I can’t believe that no one mentioned Santa Claus Conquers the Martians/Santa Claus? Maybe it was too obvious of a choice . . . You can go Tor vs. Tor AND Ed Wood vs. Coleman Francis with The Bride of the Monster/The Beast of Yucca Flats. You can also have Giant Monsters Protecting their Young with Gamera vs. Guiron/Gorgo. It Came From Roger Corman! with Gunslinger/The Undead which has the ADDED bonus of not only being directed by Corman (instead of JUST being produced by him which he would do a lot) BUT both movies use a number of the same actors as similiar character types AND sets! It gives the audience that genuine low budget, Roger Corman double dipped experience!
I’d go with FIRE MAIDENS OF OUTER SPACE and 12 TO THE MOON.
#38 – mechagamera
If you want to talk about Roger Corman films reusing certain things, go with Teenage Caveman/Night of the Blood Beast.
That parrot-looking monster appears in both movies.
How about Manos/Red Zone Cuba? Probably the worst movies that both were forced to watch. Frank & Forrester apologized for how bad Manos was and the bots were falling apart. Red Zone Cuba turned Mike into Carol Channing.
How’s about a prozac pairing of Tormented with Skydivers, talk about a good downer. :sad:
Start out with Warrior of the lost world and end on a bang with Werewolf!
A double dose of my favorite episodes. Teenagers from Outer Space and Time Chasers.
How about Joel’s The Magic Sword with Mike’s Merlin’s Shop of Mystical Wonders?
Three combos I always watch together:
rcfagnan, I agree with you on both the “Santa” double bill and the combo of “Monster a-go-go” and “Creeping Terror.”
One I love is “Manos” with “Incredibly Strange Creatures…” as a chaser. Torgo and Ortega make a wonderfully disgusting pair.
Give me a double of John Agar please! How about Women of the Prehistoric Planet and Mole People.
Wild Rebels/ Giant Spider Invasion. Or Space Mutiny/ Warrior of the lost world.
‘Master Ninja I’ and ‘Riding With Death’ for a night of failed TV series goodness.
Monster A-Go-Go and The Starfighters for an “absolutely NOTHING happens in the movie” double feature.