| episode name |
notables |
rating |
| S1E1: The Crawling Eye (1958) |
AKA The Trollenberg Terror. The very first non-KTMA episode. In the Swiss Alps, two psychic sisters run into a detective who is investigating mysterious disappearances in the mountains, caused by a giant eye creature. I've seen this one many times, and the movie is a bit boring, but it's a great choice to start off with. The riffs haven't quite gotten there yet, but the bots are so cute. |
★☆☆☆☆ |
| S1E2: The Robot vs. The Aztec Mummy (1958) |
(includes Radar Men From The Moon, Part 1) Massive turd. A mad scientist creates a robot to steal treasure from a tomb guarded by a mummy. For most of this movie, the narrator would explain something, and then they'd show it painfully, slowly happening just to eat up runtime. Frustrating watch even with the mst3k crew there. ALSO the fight was BARELY a fight, I spent the whole movie waiting for the fight and .. they just kinda gently slapped each other a bit. |
★☆☆☆☆ |
| S1E3: The Mad Monster (1942) |
(includes Radar Men From The Moon, Part 2) A mad scientist takes advantage of his mentally-handicapped handyman, using him as a guinea pig in his experiment to turn him into a werewolf. Very slow-paced and super depressing. |
★☆☆☆☆ |
| S1E4: Women of the Prehistoric Planet (1966) |
Painful to watch, took me two sittings to get through because I kept falling asleep. A spaceship crashes on a strangely-familiar planet, with one survivor. Twenty years later, the rescue mission arrives, and one of the rescuers falls in love with the survivor. |
★☆☆☆☆ |
| S1E5: The Corpse Vanishes (1942) |
(includes Radar Men From The Moon, part 3) Kind of cute! A gutsy reporter investigates the mysterious deaths keeping a mad scientist's elderly wife looking young. Overall, kind of forgettable, but kind of cute. I loved the staged wedding idea, and Bela Lugosi is iconic no matter what he's in. |
★★★☆☆ |
| S1E6: The Crawling Hand (1963) |
An astronaut's severed arm, controlled by aliens, pressures a medical student to kill. The movie is quite forgettable, but this one has a really cute host segment where Crow goes bowling. |
★★☆☆☆ |
| S1E7: Robot Monster (1953) |
(includes Radar Men From The Moon, parts 4 and 5) A scientist and his family are the last people to remain on Earth after aliens send Ro-Man, a robot in a gorilla suit, to extinguish all human life. Ro-Man becomes infatuated with the scientist's daughter and kidnaps her. For some reason, I find this situation kind of sexy... Aliens who kidnap humans with misguided love are so dreamy. The ending is definitely a copout, but this movie is watchable on its own. As for the Commando Cody shorts... I'm a Commando Cody hater. These shorts suck. |
★★★☆☆ |
| S1E8: The Slime People (1963) |
(includes Radar Men From The Moon, part 6) Slime monsters invade Los Angeles. This episode did such a poor job of holding my attention, that when it finished and I went to log it on letterboxd, I had already forgotten everything about it. |
★☆☆☆☆ |
| S1E9: Project Moonbase (1953) |
(includes Radar Men From The Moon, parts 7 and 8) Probably one of the most heterosexual movies ever made. Three astronauts are sent to colonize the moon, when one of them is outed as a saboteur. The two remaining crew members get marooned on the moon, and to avoid a scandal while they wait for help, they get married so they can have moon sex in the meantime. |
★☆☆☆☆ |
| S1E10: Robot Holocaust (1987) |
(includes Radar Men From The Moon, part 9) Crow and Servo joke that this movie gives robots a bad name, and they're right. In post-apocalyptic New York, a guy and his robot agree to help a woman rescue her father from "The Dark One". |
★☆☆☆☆ |
| S1E11: Moon Zero Two (1969) |
The prettiest movie in season 1!! A 60's spy adventure set in space, with jazzy incidental music and a gorgeous, sapphire that's load-bearing to the meandering plot. The host segments here are cute, and the movie is goofy enough that it gives them plenty to work with. |
★★★★☆ |
| S1E12: Untamed Youth (1957) |
Two vagrant sisters are sentenced to work on a cotton farm in a corrupt town. Has some corny musical numbers, but it's ridiculous enough and the mst3k crew does a great job. |
★★★☆☆ |
| S1E13: The Black Scorpion (1957) |
boring - the only highlight is the drooling stop-motion scorpion. and he's not around for very long. |
★☆☆☆☆ |
| episode name |
notables |
rating |
| S2E1: Rocketship X-M (1950) |
---needs rewatch--- |
---needs rewatch--- |
| S2E2: The Sidehackers (1969) |
a slog, and not even the ridiculous made-up sport of "sidehacking" makes up for it. |
★☆☆☆☆ |
| S2E3: Jungle Goddess (1948) |
(includes The Phantom Creeps, part 1) the movie itself is super racist and insanely boring. the host segments really do make up for it, though, and Joel and the bots did a great job with what they had to work with. |
★★☆☆☆ |
| S2E4: Catalina Caper (1967) |
very cute host segments, especially Servo's song "Creepy Girl"! the movie itself was just boring. |
★★☆☆☆ |
| S2E5: Rocket Attack U.S.A. (1958) |
(includes The Phantom Creeps, part 2) really really bad. i took a nap in the middle because it put me to sleep. and i don't remember any of this. |
★☆☆☆☆ |
| S2E6: Ring Of Terror (1961) |
(includes The Phantom Creeps, part 3) the scenes with the fat couple are literally painful to watch. love yourselves... thank you Joel and the bots for helping me through this one. |
★★☆☆☆ |
| S2E7: Wild Rebels (1967) |
mst3k couldn't save this one. i really hated the main character. well, all the characters really. a retired racecar driver becomes an undercover getaway driver for a gang of polyamorous nazi bikers. |
★☆☆☆☆ |
| S2E8: Lost Continent (1951) |
the rock climbing sequences really did kill all momentum this movie had. thankful for the mst3k crew being there because this was a snoozefest on its own. |
★★☆☆☆ |
| S2E9: The Hellcats (1968) |
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| S2E10: King Dinosaur (1955) |
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| S2E11: First Spaceship on Venus (1960) |
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| S2E12: Godzilla Vs. Megalon (1973) |
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| S2E13: Godzilla Vs. The Sea Monster (1966) |
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