Product Description

Studio: Wea-des Moines Video Release Date: 06/26/2007

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Book your return flight to the Satellite of Love and join Joel, Mike and the 'bots for another fearful foursome of flops in this collection of episodes from the Peabody Award-winning series Mystery Science Theater 3000. First up on Volume 11's menu of muck is Season Two's Ring of Terror, with Joel, Crow and Tom Servo riffing furiously on a half-baked story of fraternity pranks gone wrong; it's partnered with another interminable episode of the Bela Lugosi serial The Phantom Creeps. Next is Season Four's The Indestructible Man, in which Joel performs a frightening imitation of the movie's star, Lon Chaney Jr.; an episode of The Undersea Kingdom is also celebrated with a parade that goes predictably awry. Season Four's Tormented features headless ghosts, a guilt-ridden Richard Carlson, and Joel stuck in a ventilation shaft, plus a day-rescuing round of happy thoughts. And last but not least is Season Ten's Horrors of Spider Island, a German-made monster movie about dancers on a deserted island and a giant spider than transforms their manager into a hideous creature; Mike also undergoes a man-to-spider switcheroo after getting trapped in the 'bots' homemade spider web. For veteran MiSTies and pop culture fanatics, it doesn't get funnier than this.

Extras include theatrical trailers for all of the films save Ring of Terror; a brief interview with Tormented director Bert I. Gordon, his daughter Susan, and star Joseph Turkel, and wrap-arounds from the syndicated Mystery Science Hour, with Mike Nelson as an obsequious Jack Perkins, are also included. However, the best supplement is the second MST3K Jukebox, which compiles some of the show's funniest and most memorable musical numbers, including "Sidehackin',"Joel and the 'bots' garage-rock tribute to The Sidehackers and the incredible "Patrick Swayze Christmas" from Santa Claus Conquers the Martians. --Paul Gaita

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Love it        Rating:

I gave a bad revew to another MST3K set, so I am not a totally blinded reviewer of these sets. This one is up to the standard I expected. Fans are too quick to give these sets 5 star ratings, because being an MST3K fan requires a certain loyalty. You feel like you "get it" while other people don't.

But, you won't even have to "get it" on this one. Very entertaining. I used this set to introduce my fiancee to MST3K. She is now a devoted fan, always asking when we are getting the next set. "Soon", I answer....."Soon".

Funniest Video(s) Ever        Rating:

Mystery Science theater has been around for quite some time and what a pleasure to see it once again on DVDs. It is outrageously funny. A man and robots must watch and review B-rated sci-fi movies as punishment. Yes, it is a strange premise, but it works. Throughout the movie they sit and make comments about the dialogue or the scenes. You can't help but laugh at the constant lines that override the original movie. To really understand why this series is so funny, try one. Mystery Science Theater is well worth having in my library of movies.

MST3K is love!        Rating:

I've been a mystery science theater fan since I was a small child, and have loved both hosts Joel and Mike. I must say that these are all great episodes, three of them featuring the original host Joel Hodgson and one featuring the second host Mike Nelson. I strongly recommend this dvd set if you are a Joel fan. Mike fans also get a great episode, it is, however, just one episode. EVERY episode will having rolling on the floor with laughter, I guarantee it! The bonus feature "Video Jukebox" is also very entertaining. This feature allows you to watch various "music videos" from different seasons of MST3K, each one of them as funny as the next.

Volume 11: OK        Rating:

I don't have a lot of Mystery Science theater experience, but I've seen the official movie, and volumes 12 and 4, and i have to say that these 4 cannot touch those. This volume features joel instead of mike, I guess because its episodes are chronologically earlier, but i just didn't find them as funny as the ones ive seen with mike.

"There's Absolutely Nothing To Be Worried About!"        Rating:

Any "Mystery Science Theater 3000" offering is worth watching and re-watching, and although this is not my favorite set, it contains lots of great onscreen moments plus a few entertaining extras. This set exclusively contains creepy older black and white horror offerings, most from the early 1960's.

"Ring of Terror" is a short production about a group of geriatric medical school students and their girlfriends being haunted in what is perhaps the least scary manner ever filmed. Watch especially for the horrifying autopsy scene that is subsequently hilariously parodied. This episode is paired with another of the interminable episodes of "The Phantom Creeps" with Bela Lugosi.

"Indestructible Man" stars Lon Chaney as "The Butcher", a convicted killer whose execution is not entirely successful: it's a given that the plot revolves around him seeking vengeance on those who put him in jail. While not one of Chaney's better roles (by a long shot), this is probably the most genuinely creepy of these four films due in no small part to Chaney's crazed eyes. This episode is paired with an episode of "Undersea Kingdom", perhaps one of the most boring serials ever made.

"Tormented" describes the audience's reaction to this film of the same name. It's about a pianist who doesn't save his old flame from a fall off a lighthouse, and subsequently engages in face-saving cover up operations while planning his wedding, to no avail. This one is not only ludicrous, but exceptionally predictable as well. Truthfully, this is one of the more boring episodes, but does contain some hilarious banter.

"Horrors of Spider Island" is unquestionably my favorite episode in this set. Some dancers and their manager, Gary, are on a plane that crashes while en route to Singapore. They wash up on "Spider Island" and quickly deduce from finding a single hammer, that the island is being mined for uranium and that people couldn't be far off. In fact they find the previous occupant in a hilarious web made by some monstrous spider. This doesn't stop the girls from preening or fighting over men in the least, nor does it stop Gary from turning into a spider-human hybridoma, either. This film has long stretches of the girls searching for Gary (they don't know he's a spider) by walking through the jungle and yelling "Gary!" repeatedly.

This monstrosity was made in Germany and contains some extremely amusing dubbing. I also adored the utterly ludicrous dialogue throughout, my favorite example of which comes from Gary's business partner in New York. After we see the burning model plane on fire and tumbling vertically toward the water, the movie cuts to this guy in his office on the phone with (apparently) a concerned relative. He says "There's absolutely no reason yet to fear the worst. Until now we only know that the plane caught fire and that we've lost radio contact." In mocking response Mike comments "But there's absolutely nothing to be worried about!" Clearly not. This is a great episode from the very strong final season of MST3K, and I highly recommend it.

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