MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000: XXII IN STORES DECEMBER 6 FROM SHOUT! FACTORY
\nFEATURING TIME OF THE APES, MIGHTY JACK, THE VIOLENT YEARS, AND THE BRUTE MAN<\/p>\nOur long cultural nightmare is over. On December 6, Shout! Factory, in association with Best Brains Inc., will release Mystery Science Theater 3000: XXII, a 4-DVD set that includes “Time Of The Apes,” “Mighty Jack,” “The Violent Years,” “The Brute Man” and a cornucopia of extras worthy of the holiday season. All four episodes are previously unreleased on DVD, and “Time Of The Apes” and “Mighty Jack” are two of the most beloved and most requested episodes of the comedy phenomenon!<\/p>\n
Disc 1 of Mystery Science Theater 3000: XXII features “Time Of The Apes,” which enjoys a mythical cult status among MSTies. Adapted (i.e., shredded and stitched into incoherence) from the 1974 Japanese series “Saru No Gundan<\/em>,” “Time Of The Apes” follows the travails of a scientist and two small children who are accidentally frozen and thawed into a future ruled by apes. The plot may sound familiar, but the riffs are absolutely unique.<\/p>\n
Over on Disc 2 we have the long-awaited “Mighty Jack,” one of the funniest episodes of one of the funniest TV series ever made. The Japanese apparently had a license to kill television when they handed this prized Tsuburaya production to Sandy Frank. Long before \u201cjunk bond\u201d joined the English lexicon, the 007-ish exploits of Mighty Jack \u2014 a government organization created to defeat the notorious crime syndicate known as \u201cQ\u201d \u2014 took everything that was bad about cool and thrilling espionage movies and threw the rest out. Fortunately for us, Joel and the \u2019bots had a license to riff. And fortunately for you, Shout! Factory has a license to release it on DVD.<\/p>\n
Next up, “The Violent Years” is a tale from 1956 of girls gone wild. Mike and the \u2019bots take on this low-budget black-and-white potboiler about a neglected rich girl and her hardened gang of babes who, thanks to inside information from her unwitting father, always manage to stay one step ahead of the police. In this delirious episode, we find the Mads \u201csoftening to reach a wider audience,\u201d which includes performing their new theme song, \u201cLiving In Deep 13.\u201d The DVD also includes the 1952 short film “A Young Man\u2019s Fancy,” wherein a visiting young man prefers the household electrical appliances to the teenage daughter.<\/p>\n
Last but not least, Mystery Science Theater 3000 presents “The Brute Man.” Rondo Hatton plays a disfigured man, a\/k\/a \u201cThe Creeper,\u201d who hunts down and kills the people responsible for his deformity. During his downtime, he falls for a blind woman and engages in some light felony by stealing to pay for an operation to restore her sight. She may regret that. The DVD includes the 1948 short film The Chicken Of Tomorrow. Remember the stylish sequence in Casino that takes us through the mechanics of the operation? It\u2019s like that, except with chicken farming and without the style.<\/p>\n
Bonus Features Include:
Here’s the official press release for Vol. 22. Nothing in here you don’t already know (and I’ve deleted the boilerplate stuff at the bottom).<\/p>\n
\nNew Introduction By Mary Jo Pehl
\nOrigin Of The Creeper: Birth Of A B-Movie Icon
\nIntroductions By August Ragone, author of Eiji Tsuburaya: Master of Monsters
\nThe Making Of MST3K (1997)
\nMystery Science Theater Hour Wraps
\nEd-ucation: Archival Interviews with Delores Fuller & Kathy Wood
\nThe DVD Menus of MST3K
\n4 Exclusive Mini-Posters By Artist Steve Vance<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000: XXII IN STORES DECEMBER 6 FROM SHOUT! FACTORY FEATURING TIME OF THE APES, MIGHTY JACK, THE VIOLENT YEARS, AND THE BRUTE MAN<\/p>\n
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