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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?
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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.
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!
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.
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 !
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.
I’ve got The Giant Gila Monster, which came in a 2-pack with the silent version of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World (still haven’t watched it). Used to have a buddy who was really into Godzilla, so I have Godzilla vs. Megalon floating around on VHS somewhere.
I’ve also got that 50 Movie Pack: Horror Classics, which is cheapie public domain films that I could have just watched online. MST3K films included: Attack of the Giant Leeches, The Screaming Skull, Beast of Yucca Flats, The Killer Shrews, The Brain That Wouldn’t Die, The Corpse Vanishes, Swamp Women, and Bloodlust.
Some of these, I got just to see what MST3K cut out. Others came in Mill Creek 50-film sets. I bought still others just because I like serials.
Radar Men from the Moon
The Mad Monster
The Corpse Vanishes
The Phantom Creeps
The Ring of Terror
First Spaceship on Venus (and I’ve seen the original version, which I can’t remember the name of)
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
The Giant Gila Monster
Teenagers from Outer Space
Undersea Kingdom*
The Indestructible Man
Hercules Against the Moon Men
Manhunt in Space
Crash of Moons
Bride of the Monster
“Manos,” the Hands of Fate
The Painted Hills
Santa Claus
The Amazing Transparent Man
This Island Earth
The Thing that Couldn’t Die
I Was a Teenage Werewolf
The Giant Spider Invasion
Parts: The Clonus Horror
Jack Frost
Riding with Death
The Phantom Planet
Gorgo
Horrors of Spider Island
Plus, I bought “Blood Waters of Dr. Z” on a super-cheap SLP-mode VHS, watched it, and taped it over before MST3K riffed it.
*- On my website (click my name), I’ve been editing chapters of “Undersea Kingdom” into much snappier ten-minute installments. This weekend, I’m finishing it up. My Chapter One has some material that MST3K cut out. I can’t remember about Chapter Two.
I have all the Ator movies. I wish they would have done each of them.
Only one I actually own (on VHS, no less) is “Bride of the Monster”. I had bought an Ed Wood “multi-pack” back when the Tim Burton movie came out (yeah, I’m Mr. Bandwagon). It included “Glen or Glenda?”, “Plan 9″ and “Bride”.
Only MSTed movies I had even ever SEEN prior to them being MSTed were “Laserblast” and “The Incredibly Strange Creatures, blah-blah-blah…” Funny enough, my friend and I rented those movies specifically to riff on (MST-style) at home. We were in our local video store looking for movies that might be fun to riff on, based on their video covers, and those two seemed promising. (Although while “Laserblast” was enjoyable enough, TISC was really difficult to get through.)
I once saw Future War on DVD at a used video store for $2, but considered that too much for it. Honestly, its probably still there.
I have Squirm,Eegah,Mitchell,The Brain That Wouldn’t Die,Giant Gila Monster,The Slime People,First Spaceship On Venus,Beast Of Yucca Flats, and probably one or two more that I can’t think of right now.
I got them mainly to see what MST cuts out and because I like bad movies.
I’ve been a fan of some of the MST3K movies before MST3K began.
Bought Tormented (dollar DVD) beacause of seeing it on MST3K.
Believed I taped the The Last Chase on VHS.
Wouldn’t mind having The Crawling Eye,Godzilla vs Megalon,
Have Beginning of the End on VHS. My favorite giant cricket movie with Peter Graves.
Have Amazing Colossal man on VHS.
The Giant Gila Monster on VHS, bought it because of MST3K.
Have Hercules on DVD (dollar dvd). Always been a fan of Reeves.
I’ve got a couple of those 50 movie packs, bought just for the unriffed versions. I also have Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster, which we bought maybe 15 years ago, when I was in grade school, and they cut a fair amount out for the episode. For years it was my favorite movie, and I don’t apologize for that.
I have not quite waded through my Mill Creek collections, but it is always a nice surprise to see a familiar movie pop up, amongst so many that desperately need be riffed.
I own these 50-dvd sets because I love crap (and they’re dead cheap considering the sheer hours of torture contained within).
Recently I noticed Santa Claus vs. the Martians under a slightly different title at 99 Cent Ming City… couldn’t quite go for it.
Agent Double 007 also known as Operation Kid Brother! That Neil Connery, whew! Gives me the spells…
I have about 90.
I received that 50 Horror Classics DVD pack that many of you have, so I was delighted to see all the MST3K titles that were included.
I also have a VHS copy of Warrior of the Lost World.
For better or worse I actually own every film in its unMSTied form. Like my other compulsive collecting habits once I started I wasn’t happy until I had them all. Of course there isn’t much to do with them now that I have them.
Just like BobNotThatBob (#33 above) I also got a screener copy of Sidehackers from the Ross Hagen fan club. I also had to transfer about six movies from film including Radar Secret Service and Last of The Wild Horses.
The last one I picked up to complete the set was San Francisco International.
It is kind of fun to compare them with the MST episodes to see what was cut and why. Most wasn’t for sex or violence. Most scenes cut were for shear boredom and repetition.
I have a double-sided disc with The Indestructible Man/Amazing Transparent Man; Teen-Age Strangler and The Violent Years, courtesy Something Weird; The Beast of Yucca Flats; Bride of the Monster; a double-sided disc of The Magic Voyage of Sinbad/The Day The Earth Froze; Gamera vs. Barugon (The Alpha Video, non-Sandy Frank release); and the best: Ilya Muromets in the original Russian (with English subtitles of course) – aka “Sword and The Dragon.”
That company also released Sadko (the original Russian version of tMVoS), but I never bought it, since it was frightening little-different in Russian. I’m holding out hope they’ll release “Sampo” someday.
Years ago I worked in a small video store that had the complete “Master Ninja” video tape set. I used to put on Master Ninja II when things were slow and just recite the riffs. Some people didn’t know I was reciting.
I have ‘Bride of the Monster’ as a part of an Ed Wood box set, ‘Attack of the Giant Leeches’ as part of a two-in-one “Drive-in Classics” DVD and ‘The Brain That Wouldn’t Die’, ‘Teenagers From Outer Space’ and ‘The Killer Shrews’ (although I haven’t gotten around to watching any of them yet)as part of a 4 DVD box set I picked up for about $5.00. Coincidentally, the latter two DVDs both include ‘The Wasp Woman’ of Cinematic Titanic fame.
I saw “Santa Claus Conquers the Martians” when I was young, long before MST3K did it, so when they did, it was pretty neat that they did one that I had seen unMSTed. I saw “It Conquered the World” a couple of years ago on one of those “classic” movie stations, unMSted, just as funny that way. I caught “The Magic Sword” playing on a public access station, and I started to watch it, but just couldn’t do it for long. Those were the only ones I’ve seen unMsted (though I think I may have caught “The Amazing Colossal Man” at some time in my younger days).
And I’m pretty sure I saw part of an Ator movie, though it wasn’t “Cave Dwellers”.
As for owning any? I can proudly say NONE.
I have –
on DVD:
The Mole People
The Deadly Mantis
The Leech Woman
Robot Monster
on VHS:
Revenge of the Creature
The Incredible Melting Man
It Conquered the World
Rocketship X-M
Viking Women
I Was a Teenage Werewolf
Bride of the Monster
The Giant Gila Monster
Attack of the Giant Leeches
Laserblast
Soultaker
Blood Waters of Dr. Z (Zaat)
This Island Earth
I’m going to make the claim that of all the MSTed movies, the very best one on its own merits is I was a Teenage Werewolf – I think it really works well as a Jekyll-and-Hyde metaphor for teenagerhood.
Also, I really do love the mood of Giant Leeches and the sexual politics of The Leech Woman.
#9: that is not Tony Dow in Squirm.
I got Daddy-O on VHS when I was 12, a year after it aired. Needless to say, I taped over it.
Oh yeah I also have
Horrors of Spider Island from Something Weird DVD,
This Island Earth from Universal DVD,
Earth vs the Spider/Teenage Caveman on DVD from Lionsgate
Sidehackers from Cheezyflicks (havent watched yet)
I think that covers it
* “Bride Of The Monster” VHS (and other nonMSTed Ed Wood films) – I’m sick
* “Screaming Skull/The Giant Leeches” Double Feature DVD
* “Giant Spider Invasion” DVD and “Werewolf” DVD – They are two of my favorite episodes.
For a short while, Best Buy had “Incredibly Strange Creatures…” and “Hobgoblins” but I missed the opportunity to get them. I am always on the lookout for “The Undead”.
Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster — ’cause it’s funny as hell.
I have Future
waxWar on dvd. The cover has absolutely nothing to do with the actual movie.I really want Time Chasers, Space Mutiny and Hobgoblins uncut. I can take it!
Also, I have to echo what happened to the Time Chasers anniversary edition?
Three that haven’t been mentioned are “Devilfish” , “Puma Man” and “It Lives By Night”. “Devilfish” came in a cool clamshell VHS case. Ooooo!!
mst3ktemple #62 – As far as what to do with them, I like to watch them and see how many riffs I remember. You can even make a drinking game out of it!
I forgot Robot Monster and Beast of Yucca Flats. I’ve never seen the MST’d versions, so it was easy to overlook. I will say that I got into both these movies after getting into MST3K. I also forgot about the Horror at Party Beach. Mainly for the soundtrack. I don’t care what the squares might think! Get hip to the Zombie Stomp, Daddy-o!
* THE GREEN SLIME
* LEGEND OF THE DINOSAURS
* THE CRAWLING HAND
* THE BLACK SCORPION
* All of the Gamera movies and the Godzilla movies (Japanese and American versions)
* GORGO
(” ” the above titles I love UnMSTied)
* whatever MSTied movies are on MillCreek’s “SciFi Classics” 50-movie pack (I don’t go out of my way to watch most MSTied movies).
I hooked Cheepnis up with a bunch of the UnMSTied versions years back for trade (which I acquired through ebay, Alpha video, etc), but even those I never bothered watching before sending them off.
I have several 50 DVD sets from Mill Creek Entertainment that have un-MSTied movies on them including:
“Horrors of Spider Island”
“Track of the Moon Beast”
“Santa Claus Conquers the Martians”
“Teenagers from Outer Space”
“Crash of the Moons”
“Hercules Against the Moonmen”
“Hercules and the Captive Women”
“First Spaceship on Venus”
“The Phantom Planet”
“Eegah”
“Attack of the Giant Leeches”
“The Screaming Skull”
“The Beast of Yucca Flats”
“The Giant Gila Monster”
“The Mad Monster”
“The Killer Shrews”
“The Brain that Wouldn’t Die”
“The Corpse Vanishes”
“The Indestructible Man”
“Ring of Terror”
and “The Phantom Creeps”
I had a copy of “Teenagers from Outer Space” a few years ago. Saw it in a CVS one year around Halloween with a selection of “scary movies”. Lost it when I moved once.
I don’t buy DVDs anymore, except MST3K releases and similar stuff from the gang (like Cinematic Titanic). But I often hit Netflix for newly-released un-MSTied films. My two usual reasons are (1) to see what got chopped, sometimes to discover points raised in Wikipedia articles; and (2) to hear the un-MSTied songs — I find many of them rather enjoyable.
I saw War Of The Colossal Beast, Creeping Terror and Godzilla Vs The Sea Monster on Saturday afternoon TV back when I was a kid.(I pondered the same question about the Director’s fetish in Creeping Terror as Mike and the Boots did)
On VHS I have The Amazing Colossal Beast.
I have the 41st anniversary DVD edition of The Incredibly Strange Creatures… which contains the option of commentary from Joe Bob Briggs -
Interesting facts behind the development of the Movie’s title (which involved a lawsuit by one Stanley Kubrick over the simularity of Steckler’s working title and Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb) This is the only Mstied movie I got before watching MST3K’s version (I stopped getting cable around mid ’95 – never had it since)
I have Rocketship X-M on a triple feature DVD by Reel Values that has Devil Girl From Mars & Monster From Green Hell lumped in.
I have The Atomic Brain on Something Weird DVD along with Love After Death & The Incredible Petrified World.
I have a “Digiview Entertainment” release of Rocky Jones Space Ranger that list 6 episodes (2 “movies” split into 3 chapters each). One is Crash of Moons which I also have on a Reel Values triple feature. However the other is “Beyond The Curtain Of Space” were Rocky really gets into sexist splats with Vena and the Profeesor and Bobby are held Hostage – prime riffing potential here. This “movie” should have been done by BBI along with the other two and should be considered by Rifftracks. I still want “Manhunt In Space” if I can find it cheap (as it should be) as I got this for a buck at Walmart.
I have a Troma Triple B-Header DVD with a film called “Blood Hook” listed as “from the creator of Mystery Science Theater 3000″. James Mallon is in the opening credits and it’s actually good compared to the other two: Zombie Island Massacre & Blades (a film about a large golf course mower that comes to life and mows down golfers).
Some un-MSTed movies I own that were also done on MST3K:
- Indestructible Man. I bought it on VHS years ago in a bargain bin before it was done on MST3K. I love Lon Chaney, Jr. and old B-movies of this type, but this movie’s fun value definitely benefits from the MST3K treatment.
- Robot Monster. Bought that one on DVD after it was done on MST3K because it seemed like it would be fun all by itself and it is. Really funny all on its own. It’s pretty cheap too.
- Sword and the Dragon. Bought on VHS before MST3K used it. Actually, a pretty entertaining and spectacular fantasy movie all by itself.
A ton of them. I had this idea to go through them, find the scenes that MST3K deleted, and add them to my DVDs as a special feature. Guess how many I’ve done? Zippo. Maybe someday…
This guy has done that for youtube, btw: MST3K cut scenes
The Violent Years, Gamera Vs. Guiron, and the complete Radar Men From the Moon serial.
The Violent Years was a one of the episodes I had missed, and so I took the opportunity to watch the un-MST’d version before seeing the episode later on.
As Gamera Vs. Guiron, I was the lucky winner of this DVD in a trivia contest.
And I just wanted to find out what happens in the last 3 chapters of Commando Cody.
Godzilla vs. Megalon
Godzilla vs. The Sea Monster
All of the Gamera films
The Crawling Eye
The Mole People
Devil Doll
Phase IV
Boggy Creek II: And The Legend Continues
Cosmic Princess (2 episodes of Space 1999)
Deadly Mantis
I’m basically into horror and science fiction so a lot of these I had before they were on MST3K. I just HAD to see the edited out Mad Dog scene from Boggy Creek II so I got that after I saw it riffed. It was everything I had hoped for and more.
I’m kind of surprised so few people listed “Revenge of the Creature”–Universal put out a nice “Creature From the Black Lagoon” three-movie set as part of its ‘Legacy’ collection, I’d have thought some people would have that.
(That’s what started this thread in my head, in fact; I watched the uncut “Revenge”. Oddly, the MST3K edits improved the movie–they eliminated a long, pointless swimming sequence that really picks up the pace. I then went back and re-watched the MST version, wondering why they made no comments about John Agar’s weird Popeye-like facial expressions.)
But I’m pretty sure that’s the only one I have, unless you count the several copies of “Night of the Living Dead” that don’t have Mike Nelson’s commentary on them. What can I say, everyone doing a horror multi-pack tosses ‘NotLD’ on there. It’s free, after all.
The original ‘This Island Earth.’ And I finally figured out why the Interoceter was able to shoot lasers at Tom’s head. It does the same thing in the original movie but they never showed those scenes in the riff. Wierd.
I collected Godzilla movies-primarily the ones in which Godzilla is the good guy (& hence the nick name “Smog Monster”) long before Mystery Science Theater 3000. I also have Gammera. I also bought Time Chasers because of MST3K.
I saw Squirm on Encore a few months ago. I don’t outright own any MST3K movies though.
Me and my wife found and picked up a copy of Mitchell on VHS at a Goodwill. The cover art is great, in that it shows ore action than is in the entire movie. Best $2 ever spent
Only counting commercial releases, I have (in original airing order):
Gamera vs. Gaos
Gamera vs. Guiron
Humanoid Woman
The Crawling Hand
Robot Monster
Catalina Caper
The Hellcats
Godzilla vs. Megalon
The Unearthly
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
The Giant Gila Monster
Attack of the Giant Leeches
Hercules Against the Moon Men
Tormented
Crash of the Moons
Bride of the Monster
Manos: The Hands of Fate
Eegah
Mitchell
The Brain that Wouldn’t Die
The Wild World of Batwoman
Beginning of the End
Santa Claus
The Creeping Terror
Bloodlust!
The Skydivers
The Violent Years
The Sinister Urge
The Beast of Yucca Flats
The Giant Spider Invasion
Prince of Space
Invasion of the Neptune Men
The Phantom Planet
The Screaming Skull
Future War
Final Justice
Horrors of Spider Island
Squirm
Ah! I have another one. I have one of those $5.00 el-cheapo 2 DVD sets that contain 5 movies between them. One of the movies is “Night of the Blood Beast”. That was done my MST3K in the short season seven.
I actually own the DVD of “Laserblast” just to see the parts cut out from the MSTied version. Very interesting. I paid like 8 bucks for it 7 years ago. LOL. Thats all I have. I did see the full uncut version of “This Island Earth” on the Sci-Fi channel. And, then saw “Merlin’s Shop of Mystical Wonders” on the then cable channel “Flix”. Finally, These are the MST movies that I have seen in big chain video rental stores thru the years: (Like Blockbuster, Hollywood, etc…) :
Soultaker
Werewolf
Mitchell
Alien From LA
The Incredible Melting Man
Escape 2000
Etc.
I once bought a VHS of Laserblast used from a video store, and then eventually wound up turning it around on ebay. In the description I wrote it was featured on MST3K. I also included a picture of the video box.
The poor guy who won it misunderstood and thought he was buying the MST3K episode. I don’t think I owned that episode at the time, if I did I woulda sent it to him just to be a buddy. But even though it was his fault for not reading he auction more carefully, I still feel bad about it.
My dad has a couple of the Hercules movies, since he used to teach Greek mythology. The only MST movie I saw before it was riffed was “This Island Earth.”
No one has a copy of Pod People, this saddens me.
My drama teacher showed us a copy of hangar 18 unedited. He claimed it was a cheesey movie but it tought about how the government used alien technology to create cell phones and other junk.
both godzilla movies. (a nice copy of sea monster megalon still isnt available ina nice region 1 copy though)
and revenge of the creature.
i keep thinking of picking up the clonus special edition but havent gotten around to it.
and of course all the unedited versions that are included as special features though i have never watched one of these
Came with Rhino DVD of MST3K version:
Beginning of the End
Bloodlust
The Brain That Wouldn’t Die
Catalina Caper
The Crawling Hand
The Creeping Terror
Eegah!
The Hellcats
The Skydivers
The Wild World of Batwoman
The Day The World Ended / She Creature (2 Movie DVD)
Final Justice
Future War
Girl In Gold Boots
Hobgoblins
Horrors Of Spider Island
It Conquered The World
Manos: The Hands of Fate
Phantom Planet
Space Mutiny
Squirm
Time Chasers
It Lives By Night
Track of the Moon Beast
Boggy Creek II
Soultaker
The Final Sacrifice
The Touch of Satan
The Incredible Melting Man
PumaMan
Giant Spider Invasion
Terror from the Year 5000
Clonus: The Parts Horror
The Sinister Urge
The Giant Gila Monster
Attack of the Giant Leeches
The Screaming Skull
The Beast of Yucca Flats
The Killer Shrews
Tormented
Swamp Diamonds
I really want “Werewolf” and “Mitchell”, but those DVD’s are hard to find…
Movies I own:
Jack Frost (aka Father Frost)
The Incredibly Strange Creatures…
Operation Double 007 (aka Operation Kid Brother aka OK Connery)
Manos: The Hands of Fate
Movies I’ve rented:
Space Mutiny
Parts: The Clonus Horror
I also own the soundtrack for OK Connery.
I have a good handful but my “favorite” is Riding With Death.
I just love the sheer amount of people that have Un-MSTed movies, and yet admit that they haven’t watched it yet. I don’t have any, and I think that I would be in the same boat of not wanting to devote time to watching it.
Okay, maybe I would watch Time Chasers.
Hey Outerspace (#96) – I’ve got “Pod People” on VHS as “The Unearthling,” and on DVD as “Extraterrestrial Visitors.” The quality on the VHS is actually a little better than on the DVD, but both are nothing to write home about. The DVD is not hard to find, but I wish someone would care enough about it to clean it up.
( wow, I don’t get this one at all, either the activity being discussed or the number of people doing it )
Giant Spider Invasion
This film takes me back to 1975–my last year of college–for a lot of reasons: hair styles, the Dodge Dart at the junkyard, that charming little bar and restaurant, but mostly, its about the underpants.
The two I am most “proud” of are:Prince of Space and
Invasion of the Neptune Men.
I purchased them from Amazon as self punishment.
ometiklan – I have a couple of Starman dvds that I purchased from Something Weird Video. If you want to continue with your self punishment theme of Japanese superheroes who should wear more supportive underpants, I highly recommend them!
Space Mutiny was discovered by my friends and I some years before it was on MST. I saw the VHS at Best Buy for five or six dollars, and I bought it sight unseen simply because of the obvious recycled Battlestar Galactica effects on the back, and the presence of Reb Brown. Boggy Creek 2 was also a favorite of my brother and I for many years (actually the whole Boggy Creek series has been) before MST did it and we had an old former rental VHS copy we bought at a video store clearance sale. I had also seen Laserblast long before MST, but have never owned it in it’s original form. I own Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, Mitchell (which I proudly purchased at a truck stop along with the classic “Bronx Executioner” in the two for $5 DVD bin), Danger Diobolik.
Susan #100 WHERE THE HELL CAN I GET A DVD COPY OF OPERATION DOUBLE 007 (aka Operation Kid Brother, aka OK Connery)???!!!?!??!!!?!?! I REALLY WANT THAT UNCUT!!!!!
Oh and I also have the uncut version of “Side Hackers/Five The Hard Way”, but that is just a divx video that I downloaded somewhere.
None. I have seen Squirm on tv, the skinny redheaded woman is flat. MST3K really didn’t even need to edit that shower scene.
hey 99 you can get werewolf on netflix
Thanks Rob Willsey.
I’ll be doing that tomorrow.
None. I’m one of the few people who ever watched this show that was NOT a cheesy movie fan. I hated these movies….all of them. That’s why I’ve loved the show for all of the 19 years that I’ve been watching it. Somebody else saw what I saw in these movies, nothing!
This IS an easy one.
“Which MST3K films do you own in non-riffed (i.e., original) form?”
The Corpse Vanishes
Robot Monster (own in 3D and 2D versions)
The Slime People
Godzilla vs. Megalon
Appreciating Our Parents (short)
The Giant Gila Monster
Attack of the Giant Leeches
The Beatniks
Bride of the Monster
Eegah!
Teen-Age Strangler
Girls Town
The Violent Years
The Amazing Transparent Man
The Leech Woman
Gorgo
…”And what made you acquire them?”
In the famous words of Tom Servo, “I’m not sure I understand the question.”
I actually saw a copy of “Boggy Creek II The Legend Continues” at my local video store.
I recently purchased an uncut, restored copy of First Spaceship on Venus – DVD title is Silent Star.
The film is much more anti-nuclear and anti American in its original form, and I can see why the US release was cut so much.
Still, it’s an interesting film to watch. I was inspired to purchase it because of the wild sets.
I also have:
Bride of the Monster
Santa Claus vs. the Martians
All the Hercules films
The Brain That Wouldn’t Die – my all-time favorite!
I recently spied a copy of the DVD for Track of the Moonbeast, and my blood ran cold! I might have to buy it!
#108
I got my copy of Operation Double 007 from Ebay. There is some guy from Canada that sells copies of it. They are self-made copies and the quality of the print isn’t that good (the one used on MST3K is better). However, since it’s not officially available, it’s better than nothing.
Most of the unMSTed movies I own are ones I have a great affection for and I actually enjoy unMSTed. The exception would be Manos. I bought that one out of morbid curiousity.
On one birthday my dad had given me this DVD set of B movies which included The Brain That Wouldn’t Die and The Atomic Brain. I’ve never actually gotten around to watching them. The Brain That Wouldn’t Die is pure pain even when being riffed. As for The Atomic Brain, all it has going for it is the nude chicks held onto slabs with strategically placed straps.
Well, I’m out of the loop for this one since the only ones I own are the uncut versions that come with the MSTed versions from Vol. 1 + Hellcats and The Crawling Hand.
@Mark #113
It’s not like any of us think these movies are actually really good, and deserve to be appreciated on their own. I grew up my entire life “riffing” bad movies with my father and brother, long before MST was on. When we bought our first VCR we got 100 free rentals (rent one get one free) at the store, which also had a pretty large video rental section. We rented movies nearly every night, and it was almost always one movie we actually wanted to see, and one movie that looked absolutely horrible. A lot of times we wound up having more fun making fun of the horrible movie than watching the other one, so it became a quest for terrible movies.
So the reason I (and I’m sure many of the people here) really like having some of the unMSTed versions of the movies is mostly because I don’t always need other people’s riffing over bad movies to have a good time with them. I have far more terrible MST quality movies on DVD that were never actually on MST than I have DVDs of movies that were. I watch them with friends and family and we have at them ourselves. In fact with a movie like Boggy Creek 2, which was a favorite target of our mockery for years before MST did it, I think that the MST version is rather mediocre. I do think their version is funny, but I had so much more fun watching that movie unMSTed over the years before MST did it that their episode could never live up to those other viewings.
I don’t own it, but I did see “Ator: The Blade Master” several years before I saw “Cave Dwellers” on MST. And I enjoyed it.
I do own the first move “Ator: the Flying Eagle”… which is even more hilarious than the flashbacks you see in Cave Dwellers.
I have a suggestion for next weekend’s thread: Movies that have been featured on MST3K that are actually enjoyable to watch without the riffing.
MSTRaxx !
As weird as I think this thread is, it does resurrect something that I’ve been wondering about. Would it be conceivable, profitable, possible for BB et al. to sell synchable audio tracks of the riffing that could be played in conjunction with the unMSTed version of the film ? I know the cutting could screw the timing up but hey its the 21st Century, it shouldn’t be insoluble.
I have an enormous collection of fifties and sixties sci-fi flicks on VHS and DVD, and so I probably have every mstied movie that fits in that category. The wonderful thing about MST3K is that I love these movies in their unaltered version,(especially the AIP movies), but it’s just an added treat to see Joel/Mike and the bots skewer them as well. It’s really like having twice the enjoyment at half the cost… or something like that. I can still remember vividly the day “Indestructible Man” debuted back in 1992 I think it was. I couldn’t wait for it to finally come on! And they trashed it thoroughly, and it was one of my favorites as a kid!
The movies I can think of off the top of my head are:
The Crawling Eye
Killer Shrews
This island Earth
The Legend of Boogy Creek II
I found The Crawling Eye at wal-mart for 4 dollars. This Island Earth was 7 at borders and I found Boogy Creek II at Rite Aid during Halloween one year for 2 dollars.
I can bring myself to watch Boogy Creek II without the MST gang……I might not survive.
I also forgot to mention that I have an Ed Wood DVD collection that contains all his movies unaltered.
*Whew* If I read all of the previous posts first, I’d have to wait ’till next weekend, so please forgive any redundancies:
Have 2 of those 50 movie DVD packs, but can’t remember which MSTed films are on them: ‘Nightmare Worlds’ and ‘Drive-In Classics’. (BTW, the former’s version of “Alien Contamination” is the edited, R-rated cut; Euro-gore fans BEWARE!)
Have VHS of Mitchell with bad drawing of him and Linda hanging in mid-air. Same store had an old VHS of “Time Walker” (Being From Another Planet), but it disappeared. Could still be buried in their For Sale shelves, it’s a messy old store. Anyway, I have a policy of not paying money to see the regular version of anything the Brains suffered throught 10 screenings of until I’ve seen the actual ep, and since I didn’t have cable in the CC era, that’s quite a burden. “Robot Holocaust” and “Warrior of the Lost World” were especially tempting in rental stores, since those Mad-Max cash-ins are likely among the last eps we’ll ever see on DVD.
Accidentally violated that policy with “Legend of the Dinosaur”, since it has about half-a-dozen titles. Once saw it referenced as “The Chinese Legend of Dinosaurs and Monster-Birds”, although ‘The Chinese’ may have denoted its country of origin rather than part of the name.
Oh, and the FVI bits someone mentioned were those jerky-half-motion into/outros for “Cave Dwellers” and “Pod People”, right? While I’d like to know what movie they used for the Cav-e Dwellers credits, I do have a VHS of the one used for Pod People: It’s called “Galaxy Invader”, and was hard to find for a while due to being made from embezzled funds. I gotta’ tell ya, I wasn’t worth the felony. You can find it in some of those bargain basement DVD packs, but if you have any curiosity, please, IGNORE IT! DO NOT EVER WATCH “GALAXY INVADER”! This is coming from someone who gladly sat through not only uncut Mitchell, but relishes completely silent (without even music) movies: AVOID AT ALL COSTS! “Galaxy Invader” is so nihilistic and pointless, it makes MANOS look like a labored study of the human spirit in the face of inescapable doom. Even the Season 4 Brains + Josh and Bill couldn’t have made this any fun whatsoever. Watching it may diminish your enjoyment of any future viewings of Trumpy and friends, so just enjoy J&TB’s amused bafflement of what little you see there, and let your imagination construct what you think you missed: you’ll come up with something 100X better than the actual movie. It’s made me think twice about actually seeing any movie Videohound gives a *WOOF!* to.
Well, they also give a *WOOF!* to “THE PUMAMAN”, which I could’ve rented the uncut VHS of. Passed it up, but like “Mitchell”, its box art amusingly shows nothing from the acutal movie: Just a cat sihlouette running past the Aztec mask, and a tagline asking, “Can…Mankind…Be Saved?”
For that matter, have had a VHS 2-pack of “Killers From Space” with “Monster From Green Hell” for 10 years, neither of which I’ve ever watched. I’ve already gotten too far off-topic though.
Oh, and I have that recent 4-pack of DVDs from that late, great maestro of the midway, Ray Dennis Steckler. This of course includes “The Incredibly Strange Creature Who Stopped Living And Became Mixed-Up Zombies”. Haven’t gotten around to watching any of ‘em. Gotta’ rent as much as possible before that next video store disappears and takes the last known copy of that snuff film or Philippino women-in-prison movie with it. MY DVDs can wait…
This will probably show how much of a movie buff I’ve been since the foruth grade.
On a mixture of VHS and DVD.
Green Slime
Legend of Dinosaurs
All the Gamera films (both the Sandy Frank editions, ADV, and AIP versions)
The Crawling Eye
The Robot Vs. The Aztec Mummy
Robot Monster
The Slime People
The Black Scorpion
The Phantom Creeps
Godzilla Vs. Megalon ( box art with Godzilla and Megalon fighting on the Twin Towers)
Godzilla vs. Sea Monster
Amazing Colossal Man
It Conquered The World
Earth Vs. Spider
War of the Colossal Beast
Santa Claus Conquers The Matians
The Giant Gila Monster
Teenagers from Outer Space
Attack of the Giant Leeches
The Killer Shrews
The Magic Sword
Bride of the Monster
Swamp Diamonds
Eegah
The Brain that Wouldn’t die
The Beginning of The End
Village of the Giants
The Creeping Terror
The Beast of Yucca Flats
Night of the Blood Beast
This Island Earth
Revenge of the Creature
Deadly Mantis
She Creature
I was a Teenage Werewolf
Phantom Planet
Space Children
Gorgo
The Screaming Skull
DIABOLIK!
I’m currently trying to track down a copy of the dvd release of Prince of Space and Invasion of the Neptune Men.
You can still get Prince of Space/Invasion of the Neptune Men on Amazon.
@120: “It’s not like any of us think these movies are actually really good, and deserve to be appreciated on their own.”
I do. Well, maybe not the “really good” part, but I beleive they deserve to be appreciated on their own. They may have problems, they may not succeed in the way they intended, but they are works of art. People put effort into them (well many of them, anyway) and that effort deserves to be appreciated. Anytime someone tries to create something, it should be appreciated, even if it fails. Not everyone has the guts to try, let alone succeed, in getting a film made. It’s a difficult job and my hat’s off to anyone who does it. Yes, even Harold P. Warren.
I rent unmsted movies…
It’s safer.
The Crawling Eye
The Black Scorpion
Moon Zero Two
Lost Continent
Godzilla vs. The Sea Monster
The Deadly Mantis
I bought “The Crawling Eye” after seeing the MSTed version. I thought it was a pretty creepy B movie with lots of atmosphere, even thought the effects left something to be desired. I bought “The Black Scorpion” long before I saw it MSTed because I’m a fan of stop-motion animation, and one of the DVD’s bonus features is the opening scenes from “The Animal World” (I’m also a dinosaur fan). The animation here is quite good, it’s just unfortunate that they ran out of budget, necessitating those cheesy-looking black silhouettes and the seemingly endless repetition of the helicopter scene during the final battle. I bought “Moon Zero Two” only because it happened to be part of a double feature DVD which I bought for “When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth”, again because I’m a stop-motion and dinosaur fan. I haven’t watched the unMSTed “Moon Zero Two” yet, and I may never watch it. I bought “Lost Continent” for the stop-motion dinosaurs, and also for the novelty of seeing Ward Cleaver as a scientist/adventurer. I bought “Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster because I’m a Godzilla fan, even though I admit most of the Godzilla movies are very cheesy, this one included. “The Deadly Mantis” came in a bundle with a few other B-movies, one of which was an extremely cheesy Lost World picture that I was interested in owning.
Does anyone know where to find a “clean” copy of Night Train to Mundo Fine (AKA Red Zone Cuba). I’d like to complete my collected works of Coleman Francis. It was released on VHS at some point as part of the “Tony Cardoza Classics” (seriously), but I have not been able to find it on DVD. Any ideas?
Ok, here we go. The Green Slime, All the Gamera movies, Phase IV, Time of the Apes, The Crawling Eye, Robot vs The Aztec Mummy, The Crawling Hand, Robot Monster, The Slime People, The Hellcats, All Godzilla movies, Pod People, The Amazing Colossal Man, It Conquered the World, Earth vs the Spider, Teenage Caveman, Viking Women vs the Sea Serpent, War of the Colossal Beast, Santa Clause Conquers the Martians, The Giant Gila Monster, Teenagers from Outer Space, Attack of the Giant Leeches, The Killer Shrews, Attack of the Eye Creatures, Monster A-Go-Go, Bride of the Monster, Manos-The Hands of Fate, Eegah!, The Brain that Wouldn’t Die, Wild Wild World of Batwoman, Beginning of the End, The Atomic Brain, Santa Claus, Village of the Giants, Zombie Nightmare, The Creeping Terror, The Violent Years, The Sinister Urge, The Beast of Yucca Flats, Night of the Blood Beast, Deathstalker and the Warriors from Hell, The Incredible Melting Man, Escape 2000, Laserblast, Revenge of the Creature, The Mole People, The She Creature, I was a Teenage Werewolf, The Giant Spider Invasion, The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-up Zombies, Prince of Space, Horror of Party Beach, Hobgoblins, Gorgo, Horrors of Spider Island, and Squirm. I bought them because I just love bad movies. lol The only ones I hadn’t seen and bought before they aired on MST3K were The Hellcats and Manos-The Hands of Fate. Now if I could only find an uncut copy of The Sidehackers.
Dr. Batch says:
January 31st, 2009 at 7:07 pm
#9: that is not Tony Dow in Squirm.
Sadly, yes it is. He changed his name briefly to R.A. Dow (the “A” stands for Anthony) to disassociate himself from the Leave It To Beaver character.
NOW YOU GON’ BE DA WORMFACE!
“Sadly, yes it is. He changed his name briefly to R.A. Dow (the “A” stands for Anthony) to disassociate himself from the Leave It To Beaver character.”
No, it isn’t. Here’s a picture of Tony:
http://www.speaking.com/speakers/tonydow.html
Still basically looks the same. And *nothing* like R.A. Dow.
the only uncut ones i have is a few that rhino released on dvd as a bonus on their MSTied movies…
Beginning of the End
Eegah
some others… i forget.
I have grabbed a couple of these whenever possible mainly due to the famous incident where Sci-Fi showed the unedited / MST3K version of one of the movies that the gang already handled.
Those SHOUT! FACTORY double packs of Elvira Presents have many of the shows on them but contain, thus far, half of the CT shows produced. Frankenstein’s Castle of Freaks and Legacy of Blood are just two of the ones that got packaged as part of her program. Breast Blimp not included.
IMDB.com has two seperate biographies for both actors (well, one actor and the guy in Squirm).
The Amazing Transparent Man – on Strange Tales, one of those public domain collections.
Godzilla vs Megalon – cheapie VHS copy.
Hercules Against The Moon Men – cheapie VHS copy.
The Incredible Melting Man – recorded.
Marooned – recorded, unwatched, the Film Ventures version was tedious enough.
Night of the Blood Beast – Strange Tales collection.
Squirm – recorded; allowed me to finally see what happened to Momma, and what I swear was a set-up for the sequal, with Roger biting Antique-Man’s ankle.
War of the Monsters – Strange Tales, the alternate better dub of Gamera vs Barugon.
Strange Tales also has Doomsday Machine – when I heard CT was doing I was like “Hell yeah, rip that turkey!” My least favorite on that collection. It also has Prisoners of the Lost Universe, starring Richard Hatch and John Saxon, which is the movie Film Ventures got the opening sequance for Stranded In Space from. I also bought a small collection called “Killers Collection” which includes Arch Hall Jr.’s “The Sadist”.
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians was a goofy family favorite long before I ever purchased the MST version that came in the Essentials set.
The Violent Years
Bride of the Monster
Robot Monster
I have a Gamera VHS I bought off someone at work for $1 – haggled down from $2
. Still haven’t watched it years later.
Sampo, you’ve done it again….come up with a weekend thread that’s close to my heart!
My unMSTied versions include “Marooned” (aka “Space Travelers”) on vhs, Gamera vs. Barugon (both full version and MST3K version from a guy on ebay who’s a BIG mstie and has almost every episode on dvd-r), “The Beatniks” (with “Wild Guitar”), both the Santa Claus movies, as well as all the Rhino releases that include the original films.
To #104: the reason so many of us do this is probably because we have a curiousity about certain movies being riffed; what was cut out, why it was cut, etc. For myself, I thought I was the only one who had somewhat of an obsession with some of these pieces of dreck. As it turns out, I seem to have alot less than others! (although I’m constantly looking at places such as rental stores, antique & collectible shops, and Goodwill to find some of these movies. Yes, I admit, I’m that insane about the show!) It all comes down to morbid curiousity, at least that’s how I look at it.
Pretty much every single one of the ones that has a sci-fi/horror/monster element to them. I collect this sort of movie anyway – even the bad ones, so had many of them before I ever saw MST3k.
You can add “Village of the Giants” and “Squirm” to that list, thanks to my favorite store, Newbury Comics! Both well under $10, too.
I’m a big fan of the C-Movies, so I have “Robot Monster” and “The Beast of Yucca Flats” even though I haven’t seen the MST3K episodes yet. I also have “The Creeping Terror,” “Bloodlust!” “Catalina Caper,” and “The Skydivers” in their uncut form on the first box set. Yeah!