POLL: What's the WORST MOVIE ever shown on MST3K?

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Devil Doll for me was really hard to like lol

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I have not made it through Atlantic Rim and I donā€™t think I will ever be able to

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I hit ā€œRed Zone Cubaā€ so hard, my finger shattered the screen.

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Castle of Fu Manchuā€¦ But, to throw another option out there, how about Invasion U.S.A.? Who doesnā€™t love a schill for the military-industrial complex?

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That oneā€™s godawful too, but itā€™s almost saved by Graham Greene and the rapper dude.

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I agree that all of the films in the poll deserve their place.

But Iā€™ve got another vote for Blood Waters of Dr. Z.

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My personal pick is Monster A-Go-Go. And to prove it to myself Iā€™m going to go watch it and cringe and cry all the way through it.

Excuse meā€¦

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I meanā€¦ They all have something to recommend them as ā€œworstā€, butā€¦ Red Zone Cuba is just unbearable on every level. That song at the beginning haunts my nightmares.

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@SquareMaster says Atlantic Rim.

I said Red Zone Cuba because Iā€™m allergic to Coleman Francis.

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The Starfighters skirts the lowest possible threshold of actually being a film and not just a stock footage compelation

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Red Zone Cuba. Put over the top as it was the only Rhino episode I had on VHS for awhile, so I ended up sitting through it a lot. Not sure I have the strength to watch it again.

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The Wild World of Batwoman should be in the running. That crap heap haunts me to this day.

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The Bubble had heart.

Overdrawn at the Memory Bank had ambition.

Manos: The Hands of Fate had effort.

Red Zone Cuba had boldness.

Monster A-Go-Go had vision.

The Castle of Fu Manchu had me bleeding from the ears and eyes.

Itā€™s gotta be The Castle of Fu Manchu by several light-years, the only episode of MST3K that has me tapping and yelling ā€œI QUIT I QUIT I QUIT I QUIT I QUITā€

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It bore one of the best riffs of the Netflix era: ā€œheā€™s like if a pukka shell necklace was a personā€

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Hamlet. Almost could not finish it.

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Iā€™m not entirely sure The Starfighters wasnā€™t part-funded by Lockheed in an attempt to publicize the F-104. It came out around the time they were bribing governments to buy the things.

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It packs one hell of a punch, for sure!

Also, welcome to the forums, glad to have ya here!

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The Wild Wild World of Batwoman. Iā€™ve seen that episode so many times and I still donā€™t know wtf itā€™s about. Some middle aged woman in a homemade costume with a big bat drawn on her chest, probably in eyeliner. And thereā€™s a super racist scene involving a dead ā€œChineseā€ guy? And women in bathing suits drinking soup and dancing. I have no idea what any of these things have to do with each other but somehow itā€™s a movie. :woman_shrugging:t2:

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There are two: Rocket Attack USA, because why? What did it do? What? Ugh!

And there is one episode I literally cannot watch because of all the trucking. I wonā€™t watch it. It gives me such a miserable headache. We like to say there was more trucking than Peterbilt.

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I think have to go with Fu Manchu cause, unlike some of the movies that could anger or depress me, itā€™s so traumatically bad I can never remember what happens in it afterwards, like a veritable trauma the brain has blocked out. Itā€™s Schrodingerā€™s movie, itā€™s only knowable when itā€™s being played.

Coincidentally, a tiny bit of the same thing happened to me when a watched Yongary for the second time, I suddenly realized why I couldnā€™t remember how the movie endedā€¦ now the reverse happened, I can never forget.

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