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Here's the most amazing moment from Italian superhero film The Puma Man. It's already been featured on MST3K, but we had to pay tribute to it ourselves. More »
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On May 6, Kenneth Branagh's $150 million Thor flick debuts, bringing 3D Mjolnir to the masses. The only problem? Branagh and company are three decades too late. Since the 1970s, Canadian heavy metal musician/bodybuilder/Norse god incarnate/hammer-wielding renaissance man Jon Mikl Thor has been entertaining audiences with his musicality, feats of strength, and all-around amazingness. Why this man is not the king of internet is totally beyond me. More »
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Science fiction, pop music, and reality are chock full o' artificial intelligences that can carry a tune. Here's an entire roster of fantastic singing she-bots who can croon circles around The Rock-A-Fire Explosion. More »
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Just how much does the Russian TV show Project Popcorn ape Mystery Science Theater 3000? Check out the theme song. Something tells me nobody from the original MST3K was consulted on this. More »
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Poor Natalie. First she's seriously injured and left brain-dead in a car-crash. Then when her soul gets loose from her body, a gothy "Soultaker" (Joe Estevez!) impersonates her mom, and watches her take a bath. Death would be way better. More »
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When it comes to cheesy science-fiction films, The Green Slime may be the greatest of all. It's so iconic, it featured in the never-aired Mystery Science Theatre 3000 pilot, and now it's coming to DVD. Here's an exclusive monster-rampage clip. More »
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The real Mystery Science Theater 3000 could never afford to tackle big-budget disasters like Star Trek V, but that didn't stop an intrepid group of fans. The fan MST3K of The Final Frontier is a thing of beauty. More »
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Even if you're a massive science fiction fan, there are probably still some great shows you've yet to discover. But for massively long-running shows, where to begin? Here's our guide to how to start watching twenty classic science fiction shows. More »
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Even though the films Tom Servo and Crow T. Robot razzed were famously unwatchable, the advertising for these Z-grade flicks wasn't half bad. In fact, a few of these posters are downright sublime — we mean you, Deathstalker III. More »
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If you're still boycotting shiny vamp movie Twilight, considering lifting the ban for this RiffTrax Twilight remix. Now these are the angsty emo vamps I've been looking for. Please make New Moon just like this. More »
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What's the best part about living in the distant future? There's so much more past for you to explore! We take a look at some of science fiction's most illustrious antiquarians. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5169932&view=rss&microfeed=true MST3K is coming to MIT — well, at least Trace Beaulieu (Crow T. Robot (KTMA season through season 7) and Joel Hodgson (Joel, natch) are going to be appearing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology this Saturday from 7 PM to 10 PM and will spend the night "Talking Mystery Science Theater 3000." Don't live in the Massachusetts area? Well, tune in tonight to Rifftrax's live-cast of Mike Nelson (Mike) , Kevin Murphy (Tom Servo) and Bill Corbett (Crow seasons 8 through 10) at 6:00 PM PST. They'll be screening and teasing 1951 short “Self-Conscious Guy” and following up with a live question and answer session. You can submit questions early via Rifftrax, facebookery. [Wired, and Rifftrax] More »
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The best part about the holidays, besides all the drinking and the crying, is the holiday specials, where everyone's favorite show gets jazzed up with cheer. Here are clips from some of our favorites.
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We want our horror cheap, dirty and with lots of blood. So we rounded up all the best places to get your horror fix for free for the Halloweenie season while you may be jonesing for a little carnage. You want some free MST3K, you got it; John Carpenter's The Thing, wait no more; Phantasm, go for it. Plus much more! More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5071530&view=rss&microfeed=true The MST3K kids are back with a four episode DVD set and oodles of extras out right now. The included episodes are the First Spaceship on Venus, Laserblast, Werewolf and Future War (eek). The DVD set will also include the panel from this years Comic Con and a complete history of the crew. Only 50 bucks online, kind of a huge deal. [Amazon] More »
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Now's your chance to become part of the movie-watching people (or robots) over at Mystery Science Theater 3000. The MST3K bunch have launched an iRiffs channel on their site, allowing you to submit your own commentary over terrible movies for the gang to judge. If they think your commentary track is funny enough, you could make the big bucks. Already, the RiffTrax site has been working with the MST3K folks for some time now creating some hilarious commentaries. Below, our favorite comentaries for Alien and Star Wars Episode II, with special guest Chad Vader. More »
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Have you watched your copy of MST3K's "Mitchel" or "Cave Dwellers" so many times that the DVD has become worn through, like me? Never fear Utter Nerd is here to quench your sci-fi comedy needs. Hang out with Crow and Servo every minute of the day with a ginormous collection of MST3K episodes at your disposal. Check out the glorious selection from "Leech Woman" to (my personal favorite) "Hobgoblin". But if you're feeling extra frisky, check out "The Magic Voyage of Sinbad". It's worth every minute of the download. Hurry before it's inevitably taken down by the mad scientists. [Utter Nerd] More »
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What's going on with Meet Dave, Eddie Murphy's new scifi comedy? It's coming out July 11, and there's barely been a peep about it, aside from a trailer a while ago. No buzz, no press. And it doesn't sound as though it'll be screened for critics. Update: Actually, it is being screened after all. With a script co-written by MST3K alum Bill Corbett, the story of a human-shaped spaceship, with a bunch of tiny people inside, could be a blast. So what happened? More »
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You already knew that watching movies like Jumper or the Planet of the Apes remake makes your brain hurt, but now neuroscientists have proof. When you watch a great movie, your brain marches in lockstep with the brains of the other viewers. Terrible movies invoke synaptic chaos. Could filmmakers use this knowledge to create movies that intentionally tap into your neural responses? More »
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People are always so optimistic in B-movies. Like in this sequence from 1954's Killers From Space, when they inject Peter Graves with truth serum and then the colonel says, "Oh, he'll make sense now!" — right before Graves launches into his crazy yarn about googly-eyed Groucho-browed monsters from outer space who brought him back from the dead. And showed him uncanny atomic calculations on the back of TV dinner foil. And made him watch a long montage about clouds and flames and cities in space, and daisies and ... wha, huh? Sorry, the drugs started wearing off. More »
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If you have ever willingly or unwillingly sought out science fiction in the movie theater, you know what dangers await. Sure, you may find yourself blown away by a 28 Days Later, but you might just as easily find yourself rolling your eyes through a Jumper or Transformers. But even if you do find yourself having to watch Hayden Christensen in front of a green screen, there is hope. Here to deliver the good news about surviving bad scifi movies is Sherilyn Connelly, who has for years been a ringleader of the weekly Bad Movie Night at San Francisco's Dark Room. She worked with her Bad Movie Night colleagues* to come up with a few ways you can turn a horrible movie experience into one the whole theater will enjoy. More »
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Audiences have been laughing at science fiction since it was conceived, but usually for all the wrong reasons. It wasn't until television became popular that producers decided to get in on the joke and start making comedies about science fiction — and those early shows gave birth to everything from films like The Three Stooges in Orbit to countless episodes of 3rd Rock From The Sun. There have been a lot of comedy scifi misses, but check our list of hits after the jump. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=336593&view=rss&microfeed=true Although it's been more than a decade since TV's Frank (Frank Conniff) appeared on Mystery Science Theater 3000, it's hard to mistake his white hair and baritone voice in this parody video showing us the other side of the Writer's Guild Strike: the poor, suffering studio executives. Besides playing what looks like a chubbier version of Producer Robert Evans, where has one of the best second bananas to a mad scientist been? More »
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