Description: Journey once more through the portals on the Satellite of Love to the best of the worst that cinema has to offer. Joel, Mike, and their "robot friends" do another hilarious orbit around four full-length features, presenting the kind of skits and wisecracking commentary that are clearly written by the culturally insane.
I love this show Hobgoblins is such a horrible movie, it's fantastic. I can't wait for the infamous Monster A-Go Go. This is a great show and I miss it horribly.
MST3K! Keep them coming, they are all good in my opinion just silly fun and some wonderfully awful films.
Goofy fun While not the best selections from the MST3K vault, you can't go wrong with just about anything from this zany crew. I rarely recommend MST3K to others because the world seems to be divided into two categories of people--those that enjoy MST3K and those that don't. For my fellow MYSTIES: it's a great buy.
"Monster A Go-Go" (Joel), "The Dead Talk Back", and "Phantom Planet" are excellent, but the real treasure here is "Hobgoblins." After viewing this episode a half-dozen times, the lawn tools fight scene still brings tears to my eyes (for several reasons).
While on the subject, PLEASE, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD AND/OR HUMANITY, BRING THIS SHOW BACK!!! With hundreds of satellite and cable stations, surely SOMEONE should give syndication or (dare I say it?) new episodes (I dared) a try. If such "classics" as "Yes, Dear" and "Full House" can make it to syndication, why not this genuinely hilarious show?!!??
The best of the worst! I've always loved MST3K since I was a teenager, and now I get to cherish those old episodes with the MST3K collections. This one is perfect for newcomers and old fans alike, as some of the worst episodes they ever did are slapped together in a 4-DVD collection.
1.PHANTOM PLANET (#902) This 1950's (or early 1960's) sci-fi snooze is about an astronaut with a bad haircut having his ship drawn strangly to a small planet that looks like a piece of fried chicken (Oh no, it's deep fried!) and forced to live with very small aliens (Aka tiny earthlings.). This movie has a lot of stiff and boring acting, and wait until you hear the wonderful speech by the captain's co-pilot, who dies only 10 minutes later in the film. What kind of message were they going for?
2.THE DEAD TALK BACK (#603) This movie is just plain stupid. A freelance scientist (probably the director, since he's so into his role) invents a machine which, he claims, will allow him to talk with the dead and solve a woman's murder. Turns out it doesn't, which should've ended the movie the moment it began, but instead, we are dragged along for 80 minutes in a bad detective-story/sci-fi pile of garbage that tries to deliver itself as entertainment. Mike and the bots really let loose on this one, due to the film's bizarre plotpoints involving a stalker (It's hard to stalk people without a car!), bongo players, and a brain that looks like cauliflower. Nothing is known about this odd little independent film, except that it was never released. It does appear that besides the floating stool, the only other special effects were the actors' bad haircuts. The short that preceds it, The Selling Wizard, is a creepy advertisement on how to sell freezers. It's very amusing.
3.MONSTER A GO-GO (#421) Oh my God. This might be the worst movie I've ever seen. The plot, if there is one, involves a missing astronaut suspected of being a radioactive murderer. Too bad they only follow this plot for about 30 seconds. The remaining 60 minutes consist of scientists mumbling about how to kill the monster, shots of firemen working on sewers, and people left mutilated (not really, just in funny and akward positions.). Joel and the bots really let loose on this one, but by the "suprise ending," they are completly exhausted and sound like they're on the verge of mental breakdown. Notice the hilarious scene with the telephone!
4.Hobgoblins (#907) No, wait, this is the worst movie I've ever seen. From the director who brought you Vice Academy and Babe Watch, comes Hobgoblins, an extremely bad ripoff of Gremlins. The movie tries to have a plot involving goblins that can mess with people's minds, but then the movie trails off into bad sexual fantasies with Robert Plant (watch the movie for details), a ex-soldier who sets himself on fire in one scene, then comes back with a few scratches (What the hell?!), and some other things that scar the brain. See! The 47 car parking scenes! Hear! The Fish Picker Song! See! A really badly made no-budget horror film that makes no sense!
So there you have it, folks, some of the worst movies ever made with some hilarious commentary from MST3K. Enjoy.
One of MST3K's Best Compliations I currently have all of the Mst3k's compliation sets (I recently purchased vol.10) But I would have to say that this one which includes: "Monster A-GO GO" "Phantom Planet" "Hobgoblins" and "The Dead Talk Back" is one of the best. Reviews Below:
Monster A-GO GO - least favorite of the four. The plot is almost non-existent. It consist of an uber-tall guy with a bad skin condition walking around in a space suit strangling random people he happens upon. Then seemingly in another movie, scientists are having coffee and discussing issues that have very little to do with what is going on. Joel and the Bots riff away on this piece of celluliod cheese, however they seem exhausted by the end. This movie drains the very fabric of space and time.
Phantom Planet - "Everyday of my life I am reminded..." And the rest you'll have to see to get the whole quote. I honestly forgot it but it's funniest piece of drivel I've ever heard between two male characters in a movie who were not lovers. This movie was bad but not as bad as Monster A-GO GO which was almost unwatchable even with Joel and the Bots riffing at it. This one has Mike and the Bots riffing which makes this one bearable at least. I don't think Joel could've pulled this one off.
The Dead Talk Back - Funny as hell. Watch out for Ludwig Kruger, he's a sexual deviant! Oh and the crossbow killing is solved by tricking the idiot killer into believing that the girl he stuck to front porch of boarding house with an arrow through the heart is actually alive. "My name is REENE.."
Hobgoblins - Another movie with severval sexual deviants. The funniest of the four in my opinion. Stupid plot of course. People are getting chased around some (Canadian more than likely) town by grotesque green puppets. Never go to Club Scum.
This is definitely something you want in your collection. If you are a fan of the show you already know this.
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