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I can name a few.

The Giant Claw (1957)
Creature from the Haunted Sea (1961)
The Mighty Gorga (1969)
Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny (1972)
Troll 2 (1990)

I would have included Plan 9 as well but that movie is such a popular icon of bad movies that it doesn't need to be riffed.

I could name ALOT more than this, but I'll leave the rest up to you guys.

It was mentioned at a con that the MST3K guys wanted to do Charro with Elvis Presley and Moment By Moment with Lily Tomlin and John Travolta, as well as Billy Jack.

From a South African point of view, I would have like to have seen them riff on Nukie and The Demon.  :buggedout: :wink:

Rifftrax did SANTA AND THE ICE CREAM BUNNY; it's one of their better efforts IMO.

I always thought THEY SAVED HITLER'S BRAIN would have been perfect. I also would have liked to see them do a real chopsocky movie, though I understand it may have been tough to riff long fight scenes.

Charro would have been interesting, isn't that like a western that Elvis starred in? And I'm familiar with They Saved Hitler's Brain, it was originally some early 60s B-movie called Madmen of Mandoras that was repacked years later and extended with footage that has almost nothing to do with the original footage, and is also completely different in tone (in terms of music and fashion style). Would have made a great MST3K episode.

While it wouldn't have been appropriate for television, I would've loved to see their take on Galaxy Of Terror.

WILD WOMEN OF WONGO
THE CHILDREN

Oh, there was SO much I had on the "I wish they'd done..." list.
Now with Rifftrax and Cinematic Titanic, they have gotten around to some of my faves.
Thanks guys.

Yes, back in 1969, when he was trying to do something a little different. A Spaghetti Western of sorts, it also stars Ina Balin as the love interest, Victor French, as the villain, and Paul Brinegar, who had a career in films and TV that lasted almost 50 years, but is probably best known for playing Wishbone or George Washington Wishbone, to give him his full name, the trail cook on TV's "Rawhide."

I have seen "Charro," in its non-riff version on TV.  It's not that good, but it is not that bad neither. Nor is it Elvis' worst film. That probably be "Stay Away, Joe," which he made the previous year.

I have the Film Crew (Pre-Rifftrax) of WONGO. It's a perfect example of a film than can only be improved by a good riffing.

WONGO is my favorite by the Film Crew (I wish that project had continued, I liked it better than Rifftrax or Cinematic Titanic).

During that panel discussion by Ken Plume, Trace Bealieu and Bill Corbett, Frank Conniff mentioned that one of Crow's lines in Charro was going to be "Do I smell Elvis?"  :buggedout: :teddyr:

The Mighty Gorga (1969) would have been perfect, some really obscure King Kong rip-off with the most unconvincing gorilla costume ever (only seen from the waist up throughout) who has a ridiculous fight with a plastic dinosaur hand puppet. It was a Something Weird Video release, who were probably just as good if not better at discovering obscure terrible films than MST3K was.

WITHOUT WARNING
What a laughably bad film, with almost no blood so editing for content wouldn't be a problem.

Was this the one with the flying frisbee pancakes with teeth being flung by the alien? Because I do seem to recall a lot of blood in this one. However, the last I saw it was in 1980 when it came out in theaters; I was 6 years old. My little imagination might have provided the blood for me.

Are you talking about the 1980 Troma movie, Russell? I thought that one was awesome and dosen't need to be riffed upon.

A lot of The Cinema Snob's videos missed out on the MST3K treatment. There was one movie so bad it was considered for being hosted on the show but was denied for the dark subject matter (child marriage).

You and Zelmo are correct.  It did not have much blood in it, so sometimes when you are a kid things seem different the way you remember them.
Sorry, but I thought it was bad.  I riffed a bit on it when I saw it.

Most Troma movies are pretty much bad and campy on purpose.

It's like the Scarface phenomenon and the chainsaw bathtub scene. Most people thought that was one of the goriest scenes in movie cinema when it actually left a lot to the imagination and you didn't see much, just a little blood spatter.

I wish they used Munchies. That movie is already pretty fun and the crew's commentary would have made it perhaps even more enjoyable.

IT'S ALIVE (the Larry Buchanan flick, not the killer-baby one.)
I EAT YOUR SKIN
THE BLOODY BROOD - which isn't a terrible movie, but I think the riffing potential is still pretty high, plenty of Peter Falk references to work with for starters.
VAMPIRE NIGHT ORGY which is nowhere near as fun as it sounds.  It makes MANOS look brisk and coherent.

As far as "Gremlins" rip-offs go, it can't be worse than Hobgoblins.

I'm surprised they didn't do more Larry Buchanan flicks, they were particularity known for abysmal looking monsters. "It's Alive" has a particularly ridiculous monster costume that looks like a Gill-Man reject, and is also supposed to represent a dinosaur of some sort.

I recall "I Eat Your Skin" being some repackaged Del Tenney (responsible for "Horror of Party Beach") flick that in the early 70s had been paired with a completely unrelated splatter flick called "I Drink Your Blood" as part of a double feature. Guess that was the exploitation market for you.

Yeah, I'm kind of surprised by it too.  The guy provided some serious cheese. 
I don't recall that they ever tackled Al Adamson either, and that's a shame - although I suppose that would've required some heavy editing.

They probably could have gotten a couple in there with a few cuts, or maybe they ignored riffing them out of respect since he was apparently murdered in 1995. Or they probably never found anything. I'm quite sad MST3K isn't around these days, considering all the obscure Z-grade flicks that have been discovered since the show ended. You could probably fill up plenty of MST3K seasons with Something Weird Video's library.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki4dCMSPFLs

9:03 That was his idea, praying over the phone?

10:24 wrong

10:55 isn't it make a wish and blow out the candles?

11:00  what's wrong with you!!!

12:00 and some of the Catholic ones

14:20 the devil

17:55 hahaha

20:00 dude... she's going to the GAME

22:43 every parents nightmare

Pamela's Prayer: that her Dad dies

25:00 Wait, is that true?

28:38  I really can't imagine, sir

30:00 this raucous music is distracting

30:44 She's out with Fredrick

30:52 your movies suck Dad

35:35 " some kid named Jerry Clark got run over"

38:00 I told them to or I'd kick their asses "hey that's great Frederick"

39:40 yeah that's a lot more important than college

40:00 ohhh man

41:38 we got a rush order go go go GO

42:28 Pamela prayed to be kind of hot and her prayer was answered

43:40 with my Christian film salary I was able to buy this plastic wedding ring

43:56 Shes sexually frustrated

45:25 Yeah I know you always do

45:50 go down on one knee s**t head

47:00 We've decided to go work for a rival Christian film editing company

47:50 it's your mother's collar bone

49:55 it's pretteee

50:25 cruelest cut away in film history

52:50 might as well blow my head off now

53:50 frankly Pamela, you're freaking me out a little bit here. Maybe I didn't explain ab out the whole wedding night thing

56:00 and Demi Moore as ...Pamela

That film would certainly be great MST3K filler. At least it's not as bad as Ben & Arthur.

Heaven's Gate, certainly.  :teddyr:

GST- now there's a double bill

For some reason I was thinking about this thread today when I had a bit of a realization.  To the best of my knowledge, MST3K never riffed an animated film.  They did plenty of children's movies, and films/shorts that might have had an animated element (like the opening credits of Moon Zero Two or the stop motion aliens of Laser Blast)  but never a fully animated movie.  There's got to be at least one that could use a good riffing.

Over The Top and Staying Alive comes to mind

Ozzymandias speaks: Monster Walks with the most politically incorrect line at the end. Guru the Mad Monk or any Andy Milligan movie. Dracula Vs Frankenstein would have been a great target for them.

Ozzymandias has spoken!!!