Also, two other options for a final movie for the series:
“The Giant Claw” if you can get past how the bird looks.
And a more terrible movie in the friendly weird creature film: “Nukie”.
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There’s an MST3K effect on IMDB where movies that are on MST3K (and to a lesser extent, Rifftrax) have their scores driven down just by virtue of having been featured.
So when you come across a film like Nukie, which hasn’t been on MST3K, and yet scores lower (1.7) than Mac and Me (3.3), Munchie (3.7) and even Hobgolins (2)…you almost have to respect it.
Joe Bob Briggs mentions Child Bride in his How Rednecks Saved Hollywood. I think it may be the first “hicksploitation” flick. I got the impression that it does the classic exploitation gag where they spend 95% of the time on the forbidden thing and then add in a few minutes of “you shouldn’t do this” to keep it from being labeled pornographic (see everything from Reefer Madness to all those “naturalist” films of the '50s)…
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However, I will note that it being on the web series “The Cinema Snob” MIGHT have helped the bad reputation Nukie gets.
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Joel has tormented me for years now by stubbornly passing up my suggestions to do this one, even going so far as to pick the other unriffed movie from this batch for the current season. But it will all have been worth it if the show ends on the high note of the giant flying turtle…
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I’ve seen Child Bride before out of curiosity and I don’t blame them for passing on that one. Though parts are definitely riffable, it’s something they’d have to be careful with. It’s definitely one of the more uncomfy movies I’ve seen.
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Indeed. It was a lot easier to tell what the MST3K effect was when the Web was young.
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Nukie didn’t need anyone’s help to gain a bad reputation, it earned that all in its own.
Child Bride? I remember when Mike and Kevin wouldn’t cough up the title… so of course everyone searched for it, found and watched it out of curiosity anyway.
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At some point they need to riff the Beast Must Die…
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or a snuff film
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This is one of my favorite movies and I think it could be a very interesting Riff.
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I like Green Slime as it gives circularity while also being completely new to 99.9% of viewers as an MST3K episode.
i sort of like the idea of Jonah’s last episode being a Netflix Original like iBoy just for some payback.
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Jonah turns the table on Pearl and Kinga and they end up having to watch a Lifetime Original together. Alternatively, it’s Kinga and Max and they have to watch Death Bed: The Bed That Eats together.
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Song of the South ?
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…rephrase:
Worst live-action Disney movie that Disney dosn’t want you to forget exists.
I mean, they’re even re-doing Splash Mountain to get rid of references to that movie (Replacing it with Princess and the Frog stuff for the record).
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Ah, that’s different.
According to this, the worst-rated Disney movie per Rotten Tomatoes is the live action Jungle Book 2, with John Goodman and Haley Joel Osment.
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Wait. That’s the cast of the direct to video animated sequel.
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For all of its race problems, which are glaring, Song of the South, purely from a filmic perspective, is not a bad movie. It’s also a complicated situation because James Baskett (deservedly) won an Oscar for the role of Uncle Remus, making him the first black man to do so. I’m not defending the movie. As I said, the racism is glaring, but looking at it purely as a film, Disney has made much worse.
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I dunno, the child character in the movie is fairly terrible. I hope the actor went on to better things, though.
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I mean that’s just child actors at the time. Most of them were terrible.
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Maybe the finale could be a nod to the giant looming “WORST MOVIE EVER MADE” cassette at the end of Laserblast, and the handful of clip show specials the SciFi channel did.
Dr. Kabal whisks everyone away to a game show set on the astral plane. Each team of riffers, plus the Mads, must make their pitch for which film wins the mantle of Worst Ever. Complete with the appropriate clips or “highlights.” [ahem]
I’ll bring the popcorn and Libbyland™ Dinners.
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