So what pair of episodes works together for an awesome double feature? (Triple feature?)
My pick: “Catalina Caper” and “Horror of Party Beach.” Little Richard meets the Del Aires.
What’s your pick?
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Weekend Discussion Thread: Episode PairingsIn the episode guide discussion this week, somebody suggested a good episode that would go well with “City Limits,” and I thought, hey…!
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South of the border triple feature! Robot Vs Aztec Mummy, Santa Claus, and Samson Vs the Vampire Women.
Or a season one robot triple feature of Aztec Mummy, Robot Monster, and Robot Holocaust.
How about a triple feature showing The Rebel Set, Final Justice, and Operation Double 007 (aka Op. Kid Brother)?
What ties these movies together is they all feature a villain disguised as either a priest or nun at some point in the movie.
I think there are one or two more episodes which fit that theme but I can’t recall them at the moment.
Well, excluding sequels:
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians and Santa Claus was the double feature that got me hooked on MST3K. So, that’s a must.
Lippert padding extravaganza: The Lost Continent and King Dinosaur
TV movie time: San Francisco Int’l and Code Name: Diamondhead
Joe Don! Mitchell and Final Justice
Depressing Duo: The Violent Years and High School Bigshot
Twice the Tommy Kirk! : Village of the Giants and Catalina Caper
Codename: Diamondhead had Ian McShane as a bad guy dressed as a priest.
Revenge of the Mysterions from Mars and Invaders From the Deep, natch! :-)
Triple Beverly Garland: It Conquered The World, Gunslinger, and Swamp Diamonds! :-D
A Christmas marathon featuring all the episodes that are set at Christmas time, including the obvious “Santa Claus Conquers the Martians” and “Santa Claus”, plus the less obvious “Mitchell”, and “The Girl In Gold Boots.” Have I missed any others?
Ah yes! Thanks, I knew I was forgetting one.
Mitchell and The Brain That Wouldn’t Die – because the Joel to Mike transition is epic.
I like the idea of combining “It Lives By Night”, “Track of the Moon Beast”, and “Werewolf”, because these movies all think that showing lots of scenes of unappealing guys sweating feverishly and acting like they’ve got a bad case of gas is scarier than showing an actual monster.
Of course they’re different. One of them is a Space Chef vehicle with Nazi department stores blowing up & the other isn’t.
How about RING OF TERROR & PUMAMAN? They both have guys saying “Puyma” a lot.
A little thin, I admit…
The Planet Killer Triple Feature with The Deadly Mantis, She Creature, and Riding with Death.
Boggy Creek II and…
Dad Blame!! Nothing goes with Crenshaw, The Outhouse Scene, Shirtless Twig Boy, and the other Little Creature. If you folks out there can think of an episode that goes with BC II then you best slap it on here faster than a gar can gut nine minners! Gotta go tend to mah fires.
How about a double feature of The Day the Earth Froze and Jack Frost. Both evil witches are hysterical.
And San Fransisco International has Tab Hunter’s crook disguised as a priest, also. So that’s four evil priests plus a naughty nun. You could throw in Future War, too, for a little more sister action.
I prefer to pair Outlaw with Deathstalker. Smug blonde doofuses in leather engaged in a smarm-off to the death. Count me in! Would also work well with Quest of the Delta Knights.
I would try to get as much of the good and beautiful from Mst3k that I could out of the episodes. First, of course, is “Manos”. Easy? Yes, but it’s such a well-rounded episode. Horrible movie, 10+ RPMs, great short, great host segs, check. For Mike, I REALLY want to go “Jack Frost” here, but “Space Mutiny” seems a better option. It’s classic Mike and Bill-Crow and has a decent RPM of ~9.5, but what really does it for me is that the movie itself is just so… darn… FUN! It perfectly contrasts the darkness of “Manos”. Aside from that, the only other vitally important thing we’re missing is a good black-and-white monster movie. I’ll go with “Beast of Yucca Flats” which is yet another 10+ RPM episode with not one, but TWO amazing shorts. Yup, that sounds like the perfect triple-feature: “Manos”, “Beast of Yucca Flats”, and “Space Mutiny” featuring the shorts “Hired 2”, “Money Talks”, and “Progress Island, USA”.
Did you hear that “boom”? That was the dynamite.
I’d pair “Boggy Creek 2” and “The Final Sacrifice”. In both you have the late arriving, and highly riff able hillbillies. In BG2 its Crenshaw. In TFS its Pipper. Both are comic gold consarnit!
How about a sports theme? If you enjoy the classic wrestling theme you could have Samson Vs. the Vampire Women followed by Racket Girls! If you want a triple feature you could show the exciting new sport of Sidehackers. Or a short featuring Crash Corrigan in the Undersea Kingdom.
The Crawling Eye and Diabolik. From first episode to last.
Parts: The Clonus Horror and Touch of Satan.
Both were made in the 70s, both featured dull, myopic protagonists with pro-golfer physiques who found themselves in strange circumstances and who ultimately lost their freedom forever. Only difference was one drove a pretty car and the other rode a bike. Badly.
Dad Blame if you didn’t do the undoable and find a partner for Boggy Creek II as requested in #63! Not only does Final Sacrifice have its own version of Crenshaw, but it’s also got it’s own Twig Boy in the form of Larry Czonka’s son. Well done!
I would pair up “Riding With Death” and “Space Mutiny”. They’re cut from the same low-budget, made-for-TV, 1970s cloth (even though “Space Mutiny” is from the late 80s), and Reb Brown and Ben Murphy are like long-lost, bland cousins.
The Projected Man, Werewolf, and Track of the Moon Beast. The Paul monsters attack.
The Atomic Brain and The Unearthly.
Don’t forget The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies (with the gypsy lady hypnotizing Nicholas Cage to commit a few murders).
I always thought they were perfect together. My fantasy MST3K reunion featured Mike and the bots going through the wormhole and suddenly the SOL set is half Joel era and half Mike, with 2 of each bot with the differing voices. Also we would have half Deep 13 and half Castle Forrester with every mad represented. Movie segment 1 would have Joel, Trace and Josh, followed by Joel, Trace and Kevin, then Mike, Trace and Kevin and finally Mike, Kevin and Bill. The reason I mention this is I wanted a segment with Torgo and Ortega trying to out disgust each other.
Good thinking! When linking up Crenshaw and Pipper, I never considered the connection of Troy and Tim “do a pushup kid” Thornton. Well done to you too sir! Fiddlesticks!
Earth vs the Spider, War of the Colossal Beast, Tormented and The Magic Sword. What do they all have in common? Merrit Stone! Of course, follow it up by watching The Rebel Set, which has the Merrit Stone sketch :)
Rifftrax’s “The Galaxy Invader” right into MST3K’s “Pod People” so you would get deja vu during the opening credits.
“Angels’ Revenge” and “Alien From L.A.” would be a good, “vacuous women” double feature.
Conversely, “Cave Dwellers” and any of the “Hercules” movies for a “vacuous men” double feature.
“Mitchell” and “Soultaker”, natch.
Oh! Oh! Double feature of “Teenage Werewolf” and “Werewolf”, BUT not just because they are both werewolf movies. They also both have the idiotic plot device of a scientist who thinks turning people into murderous beasts against their will and without their knowledge, will somehow make said scientist rich and famous rather than disgraced, imprisoned and sued.
Apologies in advance if any of these have already been posted:
Prince Of Space and Invasion Of The Neptune Men. The obvious classic pairing.
The Brain That Wouldn’t Die and The Thing That Couldn’t Die. Because evil disembodied heads.
Cave Dwellers and Deathstalker. A double dose of dumb-ass sword’n’sorcery fantasies.
Earth Vs The Spider and Giant Spider Invasion. Because you can’t get enough of stupid giant spider flicks.
Monster A Go-Go and Giant Spider Invasion. A Bill Rebane Festival.
The Sinister Urge and The Violent Years. An Ed Wood exploitation double feature.
Bride Of The Monster and Devil Fish. Decide for yourselves which giant aquatic monster was more realistic.
Robot Holocaust and Warrior Of The Lost World. The post-apocalyptic hellscape was never stupider.
The Skydivers and The Starfighters. Because airplanes! …and because I still maintain that Starfighters was directed by Coleman Francis under an assumed name.
Y’know… now that you mention it, I think Manos and Screaming Skull would be good together as they both have supporting characters who are speech impediment-afflicted, slightly tetched-in-the-head caretakers with odd hobbling walks.
I’ve always thought that Mickey was the Torgo of the Sci-Fi Years.
…and also because both movies are so wonderfully, sublimely, ferociously bad. Bad photography, bad editing, bad writing, bad acting, bad directing — a “perfect storm” of badness.
I have both of those episodes as part of a marathon “mix” I like to call the “Third-Rate Festival” — along with Incredibly Strange Creatures and RiffTrax’s Plan 9 From Outer Space.
And, how about Frank’s first and last episodes: Rocketship XM and Samson Vs The Vampire Women.
…and while I’m on the subject of rasslin’, I also enjoy watching Racket Girls and Samson Vs The Vampire Women back-to-back.
I don’t know about you, but I thought the “hero” in They Live By Night made the Pumaman look like The Incredible Hulk.
I always felt like Mickey was a prequel to Torgo. After his murderous boss was killed by a screaming skull, Mickey moved to Texas, got mixed up in a sinister-yet-goofy cult, became even more messed up, and changed his name to Torgo.