I’m watching the MST3K Turkey Day Marathon as I hoped to do on Thursday before my modem died.
This is fantastic and all, but I will say that the experience is lessened without being able to interact with y’all in real-time for it.
7 Likes
The Starfighters
“Goodbye, Pier One!”
5 Likes
Female Vampire.
Of course!
I’m not sure who (or whom?) to blame for turning me on to Jesús Franco’s movies, but I know it was somebody from on here!
4 Likes
There’s a decent possibility of Super Infra-Man/Infra-man getting a release from Arrow. Many of the martial arts films they are putting out in the USA are re-releases of ones we’ve had in the UK from Eureka and 88 and Infra-man was one of those. It was part of the original run of films put out by 88 that included Mighty Peking Man which formed part of the Shawscope volume 1 set. I don’t know everything Arrow have released in the US but I see their releases include Come Drink With Me, One-Armed Boxer and 8 Diagram Pole Fighter so they seem to be focusing on the heavy hitters first which is understandable.
4 Likes
88 have been releasing Shaw Brothers films as part of a numbered series in the UK over the past 4/5 years so here’s a full list as it might give an indication of what might get released in the US from 88, Arrow, Shout, Vinegar Syndrome etc. They’re actually not all martial arts films as some are horror, drama etc.
List of films
- Hex
- Black Magic
- Five Element Ninjas
- House of Traps
- Seeding of a Ghost
- Mighty Peking Man
- Killer Constable
- Masked Avengers
- Oily Maniac
- The Flying Guillotine
- The Bride From Hell
- Bewitched
- The Brave Archer
- Casino Tycoon
- One-Armed Swordsman
- The Dragon Missile
- The Enchanting Ghost
- The Ghost Lovers
- The Super Infra-man
- Black Magic part II
- The Spiritual Boxer
- The Human Goddess
- The Vengeful Beauty
- Come Drink With Me
- The 8 Diagram Pole Fighter
- Clan of the White Lotus
After those releases they stopped for a while until they released this next batch. At this point 88 started distributing in the US too and I think the following films were all released in the US as well.
- The Chinese Boxer
- Disciples of Shaolin
- The Flag of Iron
- Legendary Weapons of China
- Monkey Kung Fu
- Shaolin Mantis
- Human Lanterns
- Martial Club
- Hero
- Flying Guillotine part II
3 Likes
Roomie’s parents have been so good about watching MST3K and World Cup soccer with me this weekend that I am now returning the favor and watching the Alabama - Auburn football game with them.
Send help.
(I am very well versed in football; I have just never particularly cared for college sports.)
5 Likes
First, a doc on the Bob Wilkins (one person interviewed said that Horror of Party Beach was the movie shown on the premiere episode of Creature Features)
Now
3 Likes
The Batwoman
4 Likes
I’m sure it was accidental.
Every time I see this poster, I think of another poster (which I have an autographed copy of) from about 15 years ago. I guess it’s just a coincidence but…
I always watch Holiday Inn when I’m decorating the tree. Didn’t have time to start until today.
3 Likes
1 Like
Jusr finished The Last Woman on Earth on Rifftrax. Now I’m wondering what happened to all the submarine crews when the oxygen gave out? And why did it go out and then come back? And could it happen again? Gaah, Corman, you make my brain hurt.
2 Likes
Oh, and one of 12Tone’s exhaustive analyses, this time of “The Safety Dance,” which apparently was about being banned from clubs for pogoing.
1 Like
Shout’s Rollerball on 4K UHD recently came in the mail, curiously sans slipcover (their release of Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure was similar).
Oddly decided to watch the trailer and TV spots before watching the feature. It was one of those menus that only advertised a single trailer and ended up playing five in a row!
Anyway, have to admit, I skipped through most to avoid spoilers. But I did notice that each of them began with the phrase “In The Not Too Distant Future…”
Shout owns the rights to both Rollerball and MST3K. What a time to be alive (and a coincidence). 
EDIT: Good news after the first few seconds — I see the vintage United Artists logo! My video nerd pet peeve was that studios always used to paste over or edit out their original logos on home video releases. UA was one of the worst for that. Shout’s done really well in that area, as have other independent/third party labels. Credit where it’s due toward emulating the feel of the original theatrical presentation.
2 Likes
“Trumpy, you can do Godless things!”
3 Likes
The thing that frightened me most about Rollerball (other than its decidedly pre-Star Wars production design ) is the fact all print media appears to be discarded in favor of digital backups.
The irony in this is that the computer system/artificial intelligence holding that information, due to some form of glitch (or perhaps a HAL-like refusal) could no longer find any information about the 13th Century. The system administrator brushes it off. “Pity we lost the 13th Century. Oh well, not much happened, only a few corrupt popes.”
Kinda sat stunned for the next few scenes, especially after seeing “is reading long books really worth our time” discourse from tech Twitter this afternoon - won’t elaborate further for fear of breaking any rules.
Dated aesthetics aside, this movie still makes a ton of interesting, relevant thematic points.
2 Likes
Glass Onion is the second best movie I’ve seen this year.
2 Likes
Of…two?
I rather liked that one.
2 Likes