My blog: MST3K, Rifftrax, and Beyond

Also, heads up because mst3kstore.com is having a half off sale through the 15th. And when I say half off, I mean half off the listed price, not the SRP. So if the price says they've marked a box set down to $36, it's actually $18.

If you're behind on box sets, now is the time to catch up!

Last week's List Drive-In double feature is already behind us, but that doesn't mean I can't review the week before! Which starts us off with one of the more disturbing serial killer movies of the 80's, Maniac!

Follow that up with same valley girl death and mayhem. Joe Bob sits us down with a little detour in the Winona Ryder/Christian Slater vehicle, Heathers!

Reviews of this week's The Last Drive-In are still in the works (I've watched Brain Damage, but still need to start Deep Red), but hopefully I'll have them up by Friday! Stay tuned MSTies and Mutant Fam!

R.I.P. Not familiar with his work for Rifftrax, but I do know his scenes in Best in Show are gutbustingly funny.

Prepping for tonight's Last Drive-In? How about a reminder of last week's! The first one was Troma's blood and pus stained masterpiece, Troma's War, with special guest host Lloyd Kaufman!

After that, brace yourself for what may be one of my favorite movies ever shown by Joe Bob and definitely one of the biggest surprises on the show. Joe Bob's on his soapbox for the outstanding One Cut of the Dead!

Sorry I couldn't get the week prior up, as I still haven't watched Deep Red. But I'll be tuned in for tonight's run with Joe Bob, and hope you will too!

I ordered the rerelease sets I didn't own yet. I haven't received a shipping notice, but I used Amazon Pay and didn't anticipate one. So far the only person I've heard from who has received anything they ordered is someone on another board who received their blu-ray copy of season 12 and nothing else.

Though, I was actually talking to someone from Shout's customer service team before the sale started about the replacement disc for the Volume 11 set, and one thing they stressed to me is that during the COVID crisis they don't have proper access to their offices and there are certain items they can't get to, so I'm not surprised about shipping delays. Whether or not they should have had a sale like this in the middle of a pandemic if that was the case is up to interpretation.

Luckily all the stuff I ordered I already had on Rhino discs, I was just seeking out the bonus content and hoping to retire collector's packages.

That's about what I figured.  I've got a combination of Rhino and Shout! Factory as well, but I don't have any plans to replace the Rhino stuff just to get a bit of bonus content.  I am however, planning to retire all of the old packaging and replace it with all new cases that don't take up an entire row of shelves.

Yeah, I got my notice today too.  About bloody time.  

You know what, that last post got me thinking about MST VHS tapes, specifically on how I missed out on the Reptilicus tape on the Kickstarter because A) I didn't have the money and B) It would have probably been too much of a display piece for me to seriously consider it. Then I saw that they mimicked the Rhino VHS look and I was like "SHIT! I want one!"

Just now I discovered that they're selling off Kickstarter overstock rewards here and the Reptilicus tape is 15 bucks (plus 8 shipping). Forgive me, but I had to have it.

My MST VHS tapes were left at my dad's house after I moved out many, many years ago. Knowing him, he probably threw them out, but I wonder if they're still there.

Now I just need 300 bucks for an Amazing Colossal Man tape.

The rights holder of The Amazing Colossal Man is the widow of the guy who made the movie.  As long as she's alive, nobody gets their hands on that movie.  Once she's gone, it will be up to the heirs to decide whether they'd like to make money off the film, or follow her wishes.

Just discovered another MST episode is hitting blu-ray this month. Scream Factory's blu-ray edition of The Spider will include the Earth vs. the Spider episode of the series. This will be the second Joel episode on blu-ray, following last year's Eegah.

Of course, all classic MST was filmed in standard definition, so it doesn't matter if it's on blu-ray.

Though I do wonder if there's a pattern to episode blu-rays as bonus features that I'm not seeing, because from my position it seems very herky jerky. They've released a number of MSTed films on blu-ray, but only select ones have an episode of the show. I have to wonder if it's a contract thing, where they ask the rights-owner if they can include it and they'd say "No," but then I look at discs of Mole People and Deadly Mantis, which included episodes, then look at their release of Leech Woman, which has the same distributor, and it doesn't. Maybe it's just something to throw in to beef up a bonus package, because Leech Woman seems to have more bonus content than the others, and then there is The Bat People, in which the bonuses are the MST episode and a trailer. That would have been a pretty nothing blu-ray without the episode.

At any rate, I'm cautiously optimistic that the War of the Colossal Beast blu-ray may have the episode, but it's not detailed so far, so who knows?