It's that time again -- for MST3K on April 16!
I've allowed the ones that got votes (but not enough to win) to be entered back into the running. Go to this survey and let me know which movie you'd like to see!
The Unearthly
A mad scientist is obsessed with finding "the 17th gland" that is, apparently, the source of eternal youth. His research subjects are people without families seeking a cure for depression; they tend to become zombies. This is a very short movie, so it's accompanied by two moralizing shorts that are entertaining in themselves ("Posture Pals" and "Appreciating Our Parents").
Teenagers from Outer Space
Aliens with a zest for killing and torture plan to colonize Earth as a place to farm their enormous lobsters (excuse me -- "gargons"). Suspiciously-sensitive Derek runs away and falls in with some Earthlings. Truly cheesy '50s sci-fi at its best, including waving lobsters in front of the camera people can run away from them.
This Island Earth
This was the MST3K movie released to theaters, and as such has often served as a more gentle introduction to the series. Scientists who receive a strange package and assemble its contents successfully are taken to another planet, where nuclear war has devastated society. But in spite of that, not much happens, and it doesn't change the characters in any discernible way.
"Manos": The Hands of Fate
This is consistently ranked very highly on fan sites. A family on a car trip deep in the sticks of Texas takes refuge at a "lodge" that turns out to be the secret headquarters of a deadly cult. Contains a short ("Hired!", part 2) in which a sales manager gets career advice from his handkerchief-wearing dad.
The Giant Gila Monster
I had to include a great big monster movie this time. A thirty-foot lizard is loose in the woods near some rowdy, dancin', hot-roddin', rockin'-and-rollin' teens. It knocks over a lot of stuff that resemble models of stuff.
Time of the Apes
Japan saw our successful Planet of the Apes movie and apparently decided that they wanted one, too. Instead of Charleton Heston, though, they have a female scientist and two kids. And instead of making a movie, they stitched together two episodes of a TV show and released it as a movie.
