Which genre would you like to see return?

I’d love to see some dopey teenage caper movies make a return, like Catalina Caper or Village of the Giants.

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Questionably dubbed tv show episodes compiled into movie form.

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Monochrome Universal monster films are always welcome, but like you I really enjoy the JD films. And I agree that another Western would hit the spot. Also, another of the Russo-Finnish fairytale films, please.

A bad film in the Sherlock Holmes/Agatha Christie mold would be really cool as well.

PS - More things with beatniks.

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The old monster movies always seemed to be where they did their best work. Especially when the monsters were of questionable…monstrosity.

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I’d love a good (very silly) mystery.

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While it’s not technically a Western, I find I think of THE PAINTED HILLS being Western adjacent. So I think of Joel as having had two Westerns to Mike’s one problem at the (C)ranch. :slightly_smiling_face:

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Painted Hills is underrated, and not just because it has one of THE. Best. Shorts. Ever in it. :+1:

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Questionable tv movies. (Ideally Lifetime if they want to bring Pearl back to the theater section for an episode)

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I’d like more bandy-legged security guard genre movies. Oh… with giant eye brows

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I’d love to see more old sci-fi and horror films. I don’t care if some people are weirdly averse to black and white films. We have ways of dealing with them.

Meme Reaction GIF by MOODMAN

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I want to see more superheroes. Pumaman will always be a favorite of mine, and Rifftrax’s treament of Supersonic Man is amazing.

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One of those 50’s teensploitation movies a la Untamed Youth or Girls Town!

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Pumaman/Doctor Mordrid team-up when?

Yeah, I agree with the Teensploitation segment.

And of course, Jonah and Emily both need their own Joe Don Baker movies to do to solidify them as official MST3K hosts like Joel and Mike.

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Happily that is a rich seam to mine.

For Jonah, Speedtrap

For Emily, The Outfit

Optional choice for either, Checkered Flag or Crash or Mongo’s Back in Town

And for no one, ever, Golden Needles

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I want to see more “obvious blatant B movie rip offs of blockbusters” which spans a wide selection of genres. I love Mac and me for example.

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Actually, here’s a simple but expansive selection: any movie that released between Future War and Atlantic Rim. Especially that 2000-2010 frame which has no representation on the show yet.

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More really bad movies like Manos.

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There weren’t any beatniks in that movie.

There weren’t even any boatniks in that movie.

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I don’t know if it would be possible because of the aspect ratios of such movies (that is, fullscreen movies for a widescreen show), but I’d love to see a return of Musical Crime Caper films like Untamed Youth, Catalina Caper, Daddy-O, The Beatniks, Teen-Age Strangler, and Girls Town.

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