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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’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).
:lol: I have Werewolf, the Boggy Creek Creature and Final Justice – I had to buy them because the MST3k versions were so funny.I did see Puma Man on VHS once but I don’t have a VCR anymore and passed it up (what was I thinking?)lol
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. :sad:
And I just wanted to find out what happens in the last 3 chapters of Commando Cody. :mrgreen:
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 :mrgreen:
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 :oops:
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.