Honey, I’ve watched a marathon of Roger Corman. Many of his movies feature things that can’t be put into movies these days. Glorified sex crimes, rampant drug use/ poisoning, disturbing violence, and I feel like I’m forgetting something. The ones featuring Vincent Price are family safe, if they’re as messed up as me.
Watch the Toxic Avenger series in one sitting, if you’re an adult, and you’ll get what I mean about endurance. Coleman Francis is redundant in the movies I remember. I’m used to nagging. My cats were very bossy. If anything it helps me flex my sarcasm muscles.
I thought of this one while watching Devil Doll on twitch this afternoon. The “Leave Robert Denby alone”-athon. First, the three William Silvester “films” that have graced our silhouettes.
Riding with Death
Devil Doll
Gorgo
Then Ed Nelson (Robert Denby himself) was in 5 episodes. More if you count the extended riffaverse. So to round us out to 6 total episodes in our marathon:
(Just highlighting “turned out”, as if Corman didn’t produce dozens more films after MST3K was canceled and didn’t have three projects currently in the works. He makes Clint Eastwood look like a lazy nonagenarian.)
Might I suggest, for the legions— legions!— of viewers who can’t decide between watching an episode of MST3K or doing a round of hide and seek, a best-of-both-worlds MST3K marathon that features long (long) sequences of characters shouting other characters’ names while looking for them? Some possible contenders:
Squirm (“Mr. Beardsley!”)
Horrors of Spider Island (“Gaaaary! Gary!”)
Eegah (“Roxy!!”), technically to a slightly lesser extent, but not with Joel and the bots’ riffing
I’m sure there are others I’m forgetting… Hercules Against the Moon Men almost makes the cut for “deep hurting,” except that there’s no repeated name-yelling in that scene. But the tedium and aimless wandering fit right in.
Hercules And The Captive Women does have limbo-bound Androcles calling for him a few times. Also, even before the joke about how they used to date, it was pretty obvious that they did.
Don’t forget “CABOT?.. CABOT?..”, etc. (though forgetting that may be a boon to sanity) from Outlaw.
If you count J/M/J & the bots, there’s the legendarily overdone “…Chief? McCLOUD?” from that rarely seen episode Pod People.