"Worst" Movie Screened on MST3K

[Trekker4747]

Mind you not the "worst episode" - though it's possible both could go hand in hand- but what movie was the worst one they screened? One that made you bury your face in your hands and wonder what posessed them to "riff" on this one.


My money goes to "The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed Up Zombies."

Jesus, was that a giant turd-burger. Mike and the Bots did the "best they could" with it and what results is a mildy, but barely, watchable episode.

Secondly? Hamlet. A dour, dark, greasy, Danishy, Hamlet.

 

[Trekker4747]

Shit! I meant to post this in the SciFi forum!

:head smack:

 

[msbae]

The episode where they riffed on some Russo-Finnish production of an old fairy tale. I can't remember which fairy tale was being re-told by the film. I want to say Cinderella for some reason but, I doubt that's right.

 

[Trekker4747]

The episode where they riffed on some Russo-Finnish production of an old fairy tale. I can't remember which fairy tale was being re-told by the film. I want to say Cinderella for some reason but, I doubt that's right.

Jack Frost?

 

[Christopher]

I'm confused by the question. Are you asking about the movie which is the worst in general terms, or the one which was least appropriate as a selection for MST3K? Because those strike me as non-overlapping categories. The more utterly abysmal and agonizing a movie is, the more perfect it is for MST3K.

Manos is the obvious category for worst movie. I think there were one or two others that I found so unpleasant to sit through that I couldn't bring myself to watch those episodes again, but I don't remember what they were (probably as a defense mechanism).

Part of what confuses me is that you put "Worst" in quotation marks. Some people use quotation marks for emphasis ("I really mean this"), even though that's pretty much the opposite of how they should be used ("I don't really mean this"). So were you just trying to emphasize the word "worst" (in which case you should've used asterisks or something), or are you saying "not really the worst, but sort of worst by a specialized definition?"

 

[Trekker4747]

Part of what confuses me is that you put "Worst" in quotation marks. Some people use quotation marks for emphasis ("I really mean this"), even though that's pretty much the opposite of how they should be used ("I don't really mean this"). So were you just trying to emphasize the word "worst" (in which case you should've used asterisks or something), or are you saying "not really the worst, but sort of worst by a specialized definition?"

Umm. Yes?

I was meaning for the title to most simulate the "Best MST3K Movie" thread. In that I failed.

But to run with it, I guess in quoting "worst" I kind of mean that in a "worst for the MST3K format" or, a movie they couldn't do anything with and shouldn't have picked. Because, obviously, a "bad movie" is ideal for MST3K.

But some bad movies you just can't do anything with. The version of Hamlet they picked and TISCWSLABMUZ both are good examples. Both, for me, are abysmal episodes.

Manos, however, while often regarded as the worst movie ever made worked very well for the show and is even regarded as one of their finer episodes.

 

[Rat Boy]

Invasion of the Neptune Men. I felt as tortured as Mike and the bots until Krankor showed up.

 

[Harvey]

Mitchell. It's not even science fiction, or horror, or fantasy. It's a trashy cop movie that is so bad, even the guys can't save it. And it's the episode Joel goes out on, too. Such a shame.

 

[Christopher]

^It was never a requirement that MST3K films be SF, fantasy, or horror, except in the first SciFi Channel season. They did lots of things that weren't -- biker films, exploitation films, spy films, beach movies, crime movies, educational shorts, industrial shorts, you name it.

 

[Harvey]

That's true, but I always prefered it when the lampooned those genres. But, more to the point, Mitchell is terrible, regardless of the genre.

 

[Goji]

The Coleman Francis Trilogy, which are all tied for supreme awfulness. Although The Skydivers is arguably less awful, because it is at least coherent (unlike The Beast of Yucca Flats) and has something of a plot (unlike Red Zone Cuba). It's still a really cruddy movie, it's just not as bad as having to listen to poor John Carradine groan out "Night Train to Mundo Fine" or Coleman's truly thought provoking narration, which gives us such gems as "Flag on the moon. How did it get there?" and "Push a button. Things happen. A scientist becomes a beast."

 

[AdmiralGarak]

The Hellcats. The only episode of MST3K I gave up on.

The She-Creature. Most of the movie was lit too darkly to see anything, and the main character mumbled all of his dialogue. There's a recipe for success.

The Invasion of the Neptune Men was like an evil version of Prince of Space. That final battle was basically the same five shots of ships repeated endlessly over WWII stock footage of the filmakers' own home country being levelled by carpet bombing. (And it was made only a few years after the war for God's sake!) I read somewhere that the jackasses even used footage from the atom bomb explosions, too, but that Best Brains wisely edited out those shots.

On the plus-side, we did get one of my favorite MST3K moments from that movie.

 

[Ward Fowler]

Radar Secret Service. For me, that was the most boring movie they watched. So little happened in the movie that it was difficult for them to come up with funny riffs. I've only made it all the way through that one once.

 

[Prince of Space]

Along with Manos, I'd rate Monster-A-Go-Go and Wild World of Batwoman as among the worst offerings. Both movies were made from pieces of other movies, and are mostly incoherent. Hobgoblins probably wins the award for the most blatantly repulsive MST3K film, but at least its production values are slightly ahead of the aforementioned movies.

 

[AdmiralGarak]

Hobgoblins deserves a special nod for being so bad that director himself submitted it to MST3K.

(That didn't stop him from cashing in on the MST3K-generated fame to make a sequel, though.)

 

[Trekker4747]

Radar Secret Service. For me, that was the most boring movie they watched. So little happened in the movie that it was difficult for them to come up with funny riffs. I've only made it all the way through that one once.

Like RADAR!

Along those lines, the "Starfighters" which is literally 90 minutes of airplane refueling porn.

Hobgoblins deserves a special nod for being so bad that director himself submitted it to MST3K.

I'm actually watching Hobgoblins right now! So bad the bots even aren't sure they can put up with it just during the opening credits!

 

[Shurik]

Beast Of Yucca Flats. Bonus points for bizarre narration.
Robot Holocaust and Invasion Of The Neptune Men deserve a mention too ...

 

[Ward Fowler]

Along with Manos, I'd rate Monster-A-Go-Go and Wild World of Batwoman as among the worst offerings.

Monster-A-Go-Go is certainly a muddled-up mess to say the least, but I actually enjoy the movie to a certain extent. Any movie has a person making a ringing phone sound effect with nothing but his voice is A-OK with me.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Killer Shrews would have to be a contender. And what was the movie that starred Sean Connery's brother as a British spy pointedly not called Bond?

 

[The Evil Dead]

Red Zone Cuba or The Creeping Terror.