Archive for the TV Category
Colossus vs. the Headhunters: MST3K 605
Poorly dubbed 1960 Italian sword and sandal flick about a Herculean muscleman’s quest to save a kidnapped queen from headhunters.
Space Travelers aka Marooned – MST3K 401
Richard Crenna, Gene Hackman and James Franciscus star as astronauts trapped in orbit until heroic Gregory Peck shows up to save the day.
War of the Colossal Beast – MST3K 319
1958′s War of the Colossal Beast is the sequel to 1957′s The Amazing Colossal Man. In this outing, 60-foot-tall mutated Army Officer Glenn Manning is found looking for food and destroying Mexico in the process.
Squirm – Mystery Science Theater 3000
Mutant earthworms ravage white trash in backwater Georgia (USA) in 1976′s “Squirm” and a man learns of the horrors of a world without springs in Jam Handy’s most famous ‘short film’ (actually a promotional film for Chevrolet), “A Case Of Spring Fever” (1940)
Tormented – Mystery Science Theater 3000
A jazz pianist living at a beachfront community, his troublesome mistress slips off a lighthouse holding onto on of the rails with one hand. The pianist has a chance to save her, instead he let her fall to her death. Her ghost comes to haunt him and disrupt his upcoming nuptials, as his 8-year-old future sister-in-law grows suspicious.
Santa Claus, Punch & Judy – 1948
A washed-up looking Santa Claus presents a violence-filled Punch & Judy puppet show to some gleeful boys and girls. This show would never make past today’s children’s programming censors… or would it?
Danger! Death Ray – MST3K
Danger! Death Ray is an Italian eurospy film, “Il Raggio Infernale” (1967) as it appeared on Mystery Science Theater 3000. What can one say about “Danger!! Death Ray”? It was the late 1960s and James Bond knock-offs were many in number. Filled to the brim (and bathtub) with ugly Europeans and plastic toys.
Attack of the Giant Leeches – MST3K
Townsfolk begin disappearing near a Florida swamp, and a game warden discovers the culprits are mutant leeches. This video also features part 1 on The Undersea Kingdom, an adventure serial from 1936.
Prince of Space – MST3K
Japanese film, Yusei Oji (1959) as presented on Mystery Science Theater 3000. Dubbed version titled: “Prince Of Space”
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