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JoCoCruiseCrazy Videos

From the recently completed JoCoCruiseCrazy Cruise…

“Sparkly Vampires.”

Bill and Kevin riff “Shake Hands with Danger”

What I’m guessing is a new RiffTones song, “It’s a Trap!”

And, finally, JoCo and the whole crew join in for a re-creation of the United Servo Academy Choir.

Shout! Factory Press Release on Two Upcoming Single-Disc Re-Releases

Here’s the press release for Shout’s upcoming single-disk re-releases of “Incredibly Strange Creatures and “Beginning of the End.”

Update: And our pal Bruce Westbrook has some thoughts….

Mystery Science Theater 3000: Beginning Of The End
Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living And Became Mixed-Up Zombies

THE NEWEST MST3K DVDS AVAILABLE FEBRUARY 15
FROM SHOUT! FACTORY

From 1988 to 1999, the hilarious and widely beloved space travelers on The Satellite of Love from Mystery Science Theater 3000 skewered B-movies and in the process made them masterworks of comedy. Hot on the heels of the recent Mystery Science Theater 3000: Volume XIX limited-edition 4-DVD box set, Shout! Factory, in association with Best Brains, Inc. proudly presents Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living And Became Mixed-Up Zombies, and Mystery Science Theater 3000: Beginning Of The End, available on February 15, 2011 from ShoutFactoryStore.com.

In Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living And Became Mixed-Up Zombies, a playful trip to a carnival turns sinister when a trio becomes the target of a mysterious zombie plot hatched by the enchanting stripper Carmelita and her fortune-telling sister Estrella. Zombies! Fortune-tellers! Acid-wielding henchmen! Showstoppers! That’s right! It’s the world’s first monster musical!! The bizarre plot, song and dance numbers and relentless riffs have made The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living And Became Zombies a favorite amongst MSTies. Now you can see why for yourself!

Mystery Science Theater 3000: Beginning Of The End’s Dr. Ed Wainwright (Mission Impossible’s Peter Graves), reporter Audrey Aimes and a deaf-mute gardener fight together to eradicate swarms of gigantic, radioactive locusts that are demolishing entire towns and cities in Illinois! Mike and the ’bots use this hilarious classic from the fifth season’s Turkey Day to help illustrate the point that anyone can write a repetitive screenplay revolving around Peter Graves—including the SoL’s own Crow!

New Short from RiffTrax…

Anybody else notice how many of these peoples’ problems could be solved if they had computers?

Anyway, see a free sample and download it here.

By the way, RiffTrax is running a “remix” contest, asking people to use RiffTrax audio as riffs for a video of your choosing.
More info here.

RIP Juan Piquer Simon


MADRID–Juan Piquer Simon, a Spanish director and producer of “exploitation films,” for more than two decades, died here Friday, Jan. 7, from lung cancer. He was 74.
MSTies know him as the director and screenwriter for 1983’s “Los Nuevos Extraterrestres” the movie seen in episode 303- POD PEOPLE.
“I know I’ve worked in a manner and with a genre that critics do not appreciate much,” he said in an interview.
Thanks to DreadCentral.com for the news. Their site has a short bio. There’s a short item (in Spanish) here.

Weekend Discussion Thread: Best/Worst KTMA Episode

Alert reader Phil notes that as we go through the seasons updating the episode guide…

…how bout summarizing the season with a Best/Worse episodes thread. Even though we finished up the KTMA last month we can start with that one

Good idea! Now that we’ve finished up with KTMA, let’s hear it.

My picks:
Best: K13- SST: Death Flight. You really get a sense of the potential this show has.
Worst: K05- Gamera. Joel riffs alone, and even an accomplished riffer (which he is) can’t tackle this giant turtle by himself.

What are your picks?