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Post by Mike Flugennock on Oct 23, 2014 12:32:21 GMT -5
Being From Another Planet. It's the only episode with Halloween-themed host segments (haunted house, etc) and a Halloween-themed movie. It's the only logical answer. Oh, wow, yeah. I totally forgot about that one, and it was an instant favorite, too... it's got a space alien mummy in it, f'cripesake (because that The Gods Were From Outer Space horsehockey was really big then).
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Post by nondescript spice on Oct 23, 2014 14:59:48 GMT -5
ha - kolos, i thought about that one too, but it's such a hard one to get through...may ben murphy forgive me.
i watched tormented last weekend and enjoyed it as i most always do. that's one of those movies that if it had a bigger budget could have been pretty good, but it comes off sounding like a lame story someone told you as a kid to try and scare you but even at 10 you were like - really? as annoying as little sandy was, it seemed to be more her movie than anything. i swear that kid had more lines than anyone else in the movie. and i love the "beatnik" trying to blackmail tom, dig?
i looked up the guy that played tom stewart on imdb because he always looks so familiar to me when i watch tormented. he had quite a long career in movies and tv shows, from 1935-1975.
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Post by sirsethunriffed on Oct 23, 2014 15:50:12 GMT -5
Based on what I see in the stores, Santa Claus or Santa Claus Conquerors the Martians seem appropriate.
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Post by geminiman112 on Oct 25, 2014 5:48:22 GMT -5
I can think of quite a few:
The Crawling Eye The Mad Monster The Corpse Vanishes The Crawling Hand The Black Scorpion Ring of Terror Earth vs. the Spider Attack of the Giant Leeches The Killer Shrews Tormented Bride of the Monster Manos: The Hands of Fate The Brain That Wouldn't Die The Atomic Brain The Dead Talk Back Zombie Nightmare The Creeping Terror Samson vs. the Vampire Women Night of the Blood Beast The Brute Man The Incredible Melting Man The Projected Man Werewolf The Deadly Bees Hobgoblins The Touch of Satan The Final Sacrifice The Screaming Skull Soul Taker Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders Blood Waters of Dr. Z Boggy Creek II Track of the Moon Beast It Lives By Night Horrors of Spider Island Squirm
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Post by nondescript spice on Oct 28, 2014 10:58:25 GMT -5
finished the dead talk back last night. i always feel so cheated that the dead never actually does talk back to anyone. one of the most flimsy stories out there. let's make a movie about this guy who is sort of a scientist - i mean, he's not really recognized for anything more than occasionally helping out a couple of loser detectives on stupid cases - but he makes this device that can communicate with the dead! cool! yeah, but he never actually does communicate with the dead. what? why not? well, you'd have to be a scientist to understand. but he'll set it up like he is, he'll pretend to, and it will be JUST AS COOL. great! here's fifty bucks! make your movie!
anyway.
before that, i watched ring of terror. i usually save that one for this time of year - another stupid plot - it would've been a lot better if the corpse at the end actually stood up and tried to strangle lewis moffitt. but no, the hand just gets caught on his sleeve or something? wtf? it makes sense that he would die from a heart attack since he was so old. actually, the old jokes from joel and the bots get a little tiring for me - they really oversold it. but still entertaining - the just awfulness of that movie is enjoyable - the fat jokes, the lame attempts at jokes made by those powerfully irritating frat boys - i love how everyone talks about how fearless lewis is, when he is actually a very mild mannered guy who may or may not have killed a snake with a stick once.
p.s. also, out of boredom & curiosity, i looked up the age of the actor that played lewis moffitt. he was 42 when ring of terror was made.
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Post by slotman on Oct 28, 2014 18:19:32 GMT -5
I think I'd start off with Devil Doll and Tormented, both of which have some creepy moments before they start getting silly (especially that creepy dummy in Devil Doll.) Then Bloodlust (one of my favorite experiments in general; it's also a competent, fun movie) and then send them home happy with Zombie Nightmare and Incredible Melting Man.
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Post by nondescript spice on Oct 30, 2014 12:12:03 GMT -5
tiscwslabmz - it hasn't been all that long since i last watched this one, but i think i could watch it about anytime, as it is one of my favorites. i just can't get enough of those musical numbers. so cheesy, so horrible. i love jerry's effed up dream. i love his pointy girlfriend's cotton candy hair. i love ortega. madison. there's just so much to love. i would have thought mike and the bots would have put in a lot more nic cage jokes in than they did - ray dennis steckler looked so much like him! my favorite riff - when the carnival barker asks one of the dancers out for a date and suggests she cooks a couple of steaks for him and she asks who will do the dishes - he cocks his hat to the side and says he will as mike says, "with my hat." i don't know why, but that line gets me every time. horror at party beachhow were there so many monsters? we saw the first one created from the radioactive waste changing the skull or skeleton under water. but how did the others come into existence? were there a whole mess of other skulls laying around on the ocean floor? that always bugs me. i confess i don't hate the music. i don't love it. and i'm not saying i do the zombie stomp in the privacy of my own home...i've probably said too much. favorite riff: when elaine calls to tell her friend she isn't coming to the slumber party and mike says, "i don't like slumber parties now that i'm in my forties." amen.
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Post by Mike Flugennock on Oct 31, 2014 18:33:20 GMT -5
For the record, I'm right now in the midst of my Halloween MST3K Marathon, starting with Attack Of The Giant Leeches, then moving on to another cheesy aquatic guy-in-a-monster-suit stinkbomb, Blood Waters Of Dr. Z.And right now, I'm about half an hour into The Brain That Wouldn't Die: "They saved Sister Bertrille's brain!"
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Post by nondescript spice on Nov 3, 2014 16:43:27 GMT -5
i watched samson vs. the vampire women halloween night and thoroughly enjoyed it as i always do. that moment samson first walks on screen is one of the most surreal moments of my life. over the weekend i watched the undead. i almost have this one memorized, as it was one of my early favorites when i didn't have many episodes on hand to watch, so i watched it over and over. love it. for some reason, my favorite riff is after those three women - ghouls of some kind - do that weird dance by those graves (servo: ahh! spaz attack! spaz attack!) and as they lay back down on the ground in front of the tombstones, mike, in his best girl voice says: debbie? you're in my grave. always makes me laugh. finished it up with the screaming skull. it wouldn't be halloween without people yelling mickey? mickey! mickey!?? over and over.
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Post by Mike Flugennock on Nov 6, 2014 18:28:18 GMT -5
...finished it up with the screaming skull. it wouldn't be halloween without people yelling mickey? mickey! mickey!?? over and over. Oh, wow, what an awesome shot. The Screaming Skull was an instant favorite for me, largely on the strength of Mickey. Mickey, to me, is the Torgo of the Sci-Fi years.
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Post by nondescript spice on Nov 6, 2014 19:28:54 GMT -5
very astute, mike. i agree.
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