“Greydon Clark. The Producer of Hobgoblins! We’re doomed!” Actor, director, writer, producer. He appeared in plenty of B Movies and ultimately directed them. The Bad Bunch (1973), Black Shampoo (1976), Satan’s Cheerleaders (1977), Hi-Riders (1978), Angels Revenge (1979), The Return (1980), Without Warning (1980), Wacko (1982), Joysticks (1983), Final Justice (1985), Uninvited (1987), Skinheads (1989), The Forbidden Dance (1990), Dance Macabre (1992), Russian Holiday (1993). Cinematographer Dean Cundey worked on 5 of Greydon’s films and actor Joe Don Baker starred in 3. Blaxploitation, Horror, Action, Greydon spanned genres and three of his movies were chosen by MST. Angels Revenge, Final Justice, Hobgoblins. His schlock had a lock in the Mike Era. Brash, crude, direct. Subtlety is not his forte. Maybe one day Without Warning will join them. Take Me To Your Leader or Just Say No?
There are definitely a few Greydon Clark movies that MST3K hasn’t riffed that are ripe for it. I would love to see them riff Without Warning as well. Jack Palance cheesing it up as a weird kind of hipster gas station attendant, and Martin Landau playing a crazy Vietnam vet in a plot obviously inspired by DC comics supervillain Starro… the riffs just write themselves.
The Greydon Clark movies that MST3K have already riffed are classic. He never met a movie genre he could not make cheesier, and I thank him for it.
