Great find on late night

[ErikJ]

Last night the wife and I were flipping through the stations and we found Spacehunter-Adventures in the Frobiden Zone. OMG, how bad can a movie get? I remember going to the theater to actually see this and walking out saying I will never see that again. But after so many years of not seeing it I actually enjoyed every second of it. My wife couldn't even believe that I was watching it.
Has anybody else ever been up late night and found a long lost gem on?

[Foywonder]

I remember making my mom take me to see it because it was a sci-fi movie in 3-D. I remember being really upset because we were going to have to wait and come back the next day because the showing we tried to go to was sold out. Hard to imagine, but that film was actually something of hit back then. Or maybe that old movie theater was just really tiny?

[Andrew]

All the time.  It was very drunk night a long time ago when I first saw "Greaser's Palace" and then I had to wait years to find it.  I was, to say the least, a little excited when the movie played at B-Fest.

Todd recently told me that he was watching cable one night and "Message from Space" came on.  He watched it.  (Before he only knew of it by my description.)

[Drezzy]

I caught about 2 minutes of Spacehunter last night. Although I have a feeling I've seen it before...

Is there a scene where Molly Ringwald is against this spider web looking thingamajig that's supposedly draining her of her life force?

[BoyScoutKevin]

Oh, yes. An old b&w b-movie from 1937 called "Slave Ship." Directed by a man called Tay Garnett, who would go on to direct episodes of "Bonanza," "Gunsmoke," "The Untouchables," "Wagon Train," and "The New Loretta Young Show," but, whose best known film is probably "The Postman Always Rings Twice."
And written by William Faulkner. Yes, that William Faulkner.
And what a cast. Probably most of the major b-film actors from the '30's with a few a-film actors thrown in. In the cast are Warner Baxter, Wallace Beery, Mickey Rooney, George Sanders, playing one his first villains, Jane Darwell, Joseph Schildkraut, Miles Mander, Arthur Hohl, Billy Bevan, Frances Ford, brother of director John, J. Farrell MacDonald, Paul Hurst, Charles Middleton, Dewey Robinson, Holmes Herbert, and appearing in the film, but, uncredited: Matthew "Stymie" Beard and Lon Chaney, Jr.
And what do I remember most about the film, besides the cast. The critics in 1937 complained the film was too violent. Enjoy!

[systemcr4sh]

I caught ROBOT MONSTER on the show 'off beat cinema' one night. its a weekly show and I try to watch it as much as I can. Robot monster was a classic. Awful awful monster costume that consists of a ape suit with a old old underwater diving helmet (those real old metal ones). Very very funny stuff.

[Neville]

Now and then I caugh some good stuff late at night, such as "Bleeders" or "Tank Girl", but TVs don't use to show this kind of stuff on a regular basis. It sort of comes and goes.

[Fearless Freep]

"Limbs?  Do they have missing limbs?  I hate it when they are missing limbs..."

[Vermin Boy]

I still remember seeing Death Race 2000 for the first time at 3am on a local UHF station. I didn't get much sleep that night.

[Scottie]

Sometimes I don't mind having small bouts of insomnia every once in a while. It gives me a chance to catch up on some movies I've been meaning to see, or to catch something interesting on TV. A couple of times something comes on that knocks me socks off. What got me interested in collecting unMSTied movies was AMC showing The Deadly Mantis. I recorded it, but realized it was a crappy copy, so I got an original. Even USA is starting to show some bad movies. They showed the AWFUL Atomic Twister recently. Another called Rattler. And a movie the other night called The President's Man, a Chuck Norris movie, a movie that nearly broke me. I need to keep remembering that Chuck Norris' movies are HORRIBLE. Every once in a while, something really awful comes on, and I thank the day TV was invented.

-Scottie*