Top 25 MST3k Episodes!

by TsarStepan | created - 29 Mar 2017 | updated - 09 May 2017 | Public

Joel Hodgson's record breaking Kickstarter project will be bringing back the cult television series, Mystery Science Theater 3000 (1988), to Netflix.

Which of the following top 25* classic episodes is your favorite (or the most enticing to watch if you haven't had the glorious chance to see them in the first place)?

Riff your answer here!

*The following top 25 list as compiled by Paste Magazine: 14 March 2017. https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/03/ranking-every-mst3k-episode-from-worst-to-best.html

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1. The Final Sacrifice (1990 Video)

PG-13 | 78 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Horror

Fleeing from the cult that murdered his father, a teen is aided in his quest to find the lost city of the fabled Ziox by a secretive drifter.

Director: Tjardus Greidanus | Stars: Christian Malcolm, Bruce J. Mitchell, Shane Marceau, Ron Anderson

Votes: 4,665

2. Space Mutiny (1988)

Not Rated | 91 min | Action, Adventure, Romance

A pilot is the only hope to stop the mutiny of a spacecraft by its security crew, who plot to sell the crew of the ship into slavery.

Directors: David Winters, Neal Sundstrom | Stars: Reb Brown, John Phillip Law, James Ryan, Cameron Mitchell

Votes: 7,394

3. One Million Years B.C. (1966)

Approved | 92 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy

58 Metascore

Prehistoric man Tumak is banished from his savage tribe and meets pretty Loana, who belongs to a gentler coastal tribe, but he must fight caveman Payto to win her favors.

Director: Don Chaffey | Stars: Raquel Welch, John Richardson, Percy Herbert, Robert Brown

Votes: 9,633

4. Werewolf (1995 Video)

R | 99 min | Horror

Unscrupulous archaeologists try to take advantage of an outbreak of lycanthropy prompted by the discovery of a werewolf skeleton in the Arizona desert.

Director: Tony Zarindast | Stars: Jorge Rivero, Richard Lynch, Federico Cavalli, Adriana Stastny

Votes: 3,989

5. Night of the Blood Beast (1958)

Not Rated | 62 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

An astronaut is killed on reentry to Earth, but his body is seeded with rapidly gestating aliens.

Director: Bernard L. Kowalski | Stars: Michael Emmet, Angela Greene, John Baer, Ed Nelson

Votes: 2,270

6. Extra Terrestrial Visitors (1983)

84 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A young boy in the woods discovers a lovable alien...or is it?

Director: Juan Piquer Simón | Stars: Ian Serra, Nina Ferrer, Susana Bequer, Sara Palmer

Votes: 4,763

7. Time Chasers (1994)

PG-13 | 89 min | Sci-Fi

An inventor comes up with a time machine, but must prevent its abuse at the hands of an evil C.E.O.

Director: David Giancola | Stars: Matthew Bruch, Bonnie Pritchard, Peter Harrington, George Woodard

Votes: 3,535

8. Mitchell (1975)

R | 97 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A tough, slobby, honest cop tries to simultaneously take down heroin dealers and a corrupt businessman who murdered a burglar, even if it costs him his life.

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: Joe Don Baker, Martin Balsam, John Saxon, Linda Evans

Votes: 4,918

9. Future War (1997 Video)

Unrated | 90 min | Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

A run-away human slave from Earth's future escapes to the present.

Director: Anthony Doublin | Stars: Daniel Bernhardt, Robert Z'Dar, Travis Brooks Stewart, Kazja

Votes: 4,459

10. The Brute Man (1946)

Passed | 58 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

A facially-deformed and mentally-unhinged man wreaks his revenge, with a series of brutal murders, on those who deformed him.

Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Rondo Hatton, Tom Neal, Jan Wiley, Jane Adams

Votes: 1,560

11. Teenagers from Outer Space (1959)

Not Rated | 86 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A young alien and a teenage earthling fall in love, and plot to stop the alien's race from using Earth as a food-breeding ground for giant lobsters from their planet.

Director: Tom Graeff | Stars: David Love, Dawn Bender, Bryan Grant, Harvey B. Dunn

Votes: 3,857

12. Frosty (1965)

84 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

A fairy-tale about a conceited young man and a young woman with a tyrannical step-mother, who must overcome magical trials in order to be together.

Director: Aleksandr Rou | Stars: Aleksandr Khvylya, Natalya Sedykh, Eduard Izotov, Inna Churikova

Votes: 5,525

13. Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders (1996 Video)

Unrated | 92 min | Fantasy, Horror

Two creepy "horror" films joined together by Merlin's Shop which is, in turn, introduced by a Grandpa telling the story.

Director: Kenneth J. Berton | Stars: Ernest Borgnine, George Milan, Bunny Summers, John Terrence

Votes: 4,614

14. I Accuse My Parents (1944)

Approved | 68 min | Crime, Drama

James "Jimmy" Wilson, a young man neglected by his parents, goes to work for a bunch of gangsters to impress his nightclub-singer girlfriend.

Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Mary Beth Hughes, Robert Lowell, John Miljan, Vivienne Osborne

Votes: 3,066

15. Hobgoblins (1988)

Not Rated | 88 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi

A young security guard must track down diminutive aliens who kill people even as they make their fantasies come true.

Director: Rick Sloane | Stars: Tom Bartlett, Paige Sullivan, Steven Boggs, Kelley Palmer

Votes: 12,452

16. The Incredible Melting Man (1977)

R | 86 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

An astronaut is transformed into a murderous gelatinous mass after returning from an ill-fated space voyage.

Director: William Sachs | Stars: Alex Rebar, Burr DeBenning, Myron Healey, Michael Alldredge

Votes: 5,257

17. Eegah (1962)

Unrated | 92 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy

Teenagers stumble across a prehistoric caveman, who goes on a rampage.

Director: Arch Hall Sr. | Stars: Arch Hall Jr., Marilyn Manning, Richard Kiel, Arch Hall Sr.

Votes: 6,125

18. Girls Town (1996)

R | 90 min | Comedy, Drama

A look at a group of girl friends coming-of-age during their senior year of high school in urban America. Nikki and Emma have a heart to heart talk one evening about how much they'll miss ... See full summary »

Director: Jim McKay | Stars: Lili Taylor, Bruklin Harris, Anna Grace, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor

Votes: 815 | Gross: $0.40M

19. Deathstalker and the Warriors from Hell (1988)

R | 86 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

The third thrilling saga of Deathstalker pits him against the evil wizard and ruler of the Southland, Troxartes, and his band of undead warriors.

Director: Alfonso Corona | Stars: John Allen Nelson, Carla Herd, Terri Treas, Thom Christopher

Votes: 2,340

20. Boggy Creek II: And the Legend Continues (1983)

PG | 91 min | Adventure, Drama, Horror

A professor and three of his students camp out in the wilderness to find a Bigfoot-type creature.

Director: Charles B. Pierce | Stars: Charles B. Pierce, Cindy Butler, Chuck Pierce Jr., Jimmy Clem

Votes: 3,758

21. The Deadly Mantis (1957)

Approved | 79 min | Family, Horror, Sci-Fi

A giant prehistoric praying mantis, recently freed from the Arctic ice, voraciously preys on American military at the DEW Line and works its way south.

Director: Nathan Juran | Stars: Craig Stevens, William Hopper, Alix Talton, Donald Randolph

Votes: 4,102

22. Girl in Gold Boots (1968)

R | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Music

A young woman leaves her job as a waitress and travels to Los Angeles, where she strives to become the top star in the glamorous world of go-go dancing.

Director: Ted V. Mikels | Stars: Jody Daniels, Leslie McRay, Tom Pace, Mark Herron

Votes: 3,951

23. The Touch of Satan (1971)

PG | 90 min | Horror

A young man finds himself in a strange town with strange things going on. Two sisters, possessed, create a Jekyll-Hyde atmosphere where bizarre killings occur. Our hero fall in love an enters a new world of mind-shattering experiences.

Director: Don Henderson | Stars: Michael Berry, Emby Mellay, Lee Amber, Yvonne Winslow

Votes: 3,145

24. Manos: The Hands of Fate (1966)

Not Rated | 70 min | Horror

A family gets lost on the road and stumbles upon a hidden, underground, devil-worshiping cult led by the fearsome Master and his servant Torgo.

Director: Harold P. Warren | Stars: Tom Neyman, John Reynolds, Diane Adelson, Harold P. Warren

Votes: 37,542

25. The Girl in Lovers Lane (1960)

Approved | 78 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

Two drifters contend with love and murder in a small town.

Director: Charles R. Rondeau | Stars: Brett Halsey, Joyce Meadows, Lowell Brown, Jack Elam

Votes: 1,119



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