Directors: Trace Beaulieu, Joel Hodgson
Format: Box set, Color, NTSC
Language: English
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only)
Number of discs: 4
Run Time: 400 minutes
Movie:
Disc:
This particular DVD
collection is quite representative of the type of movies usually lampooned
by
Mystery Science
Theater 3000. First
there is Godzilla vs. Megalon, a Japanese stuntman in a rubber suit
affair which is actually pretty funny in its own so-bad-it's-good way. Then
there's the 1950s Roger Corman B-flick, Swamp Diamonds, which merely
serves as an excuse to get the rather unattractive female cast to waltz
around in their denim shorts, something considered quite risqué? for its
time.
Teen-age Strangler
and The Giant Spider Invasion round off the collection. Teen-age
Strangler is a typical early ?Sixties teenage/slasher movie while the
largely unpleasant Giant Spider Invasion is a cheap ?Seventies horror
flick with an god-awful synth soundtrack. You wouldn't have thought it, but
all the movies are in color.
THE DISCS: As is usual for this series on DVD,
there isn't much in the line of extras. Just a selection of song sequences
from the series, some outtakes and a photo gallery.
WORTH IT? While the movies featured
in this collection box set are typical of the sort of movies usually
lambasted by MST3K, the episodes themselves aren't as funny as the
show sometimes got and therefore isn't really recommended for anyone new to
the show.
RECOMMENDATION: Newbies would be better off
checking out some of the single disc sets containing
Eegah and Manos ? the Hand of Fate.)
Long-time fans would probably have picked it up by now.
