Horrors of Spider Island (1960) – MST3K Review

Summary:

Gary (Alexander D’Arcy) is taking a group of dancers to exotic Singapore (or maybe it’s exotic dancers to Singapore… anyway) for a tour. Along the way the plane goes down somewhere in the Pacific. Gary and the girls are able to find a deserted island and explore it. 

Before Gary can feel pretty good about living on an island with a bunch of sultry ladies, they find remnants of an expedition on the island. But it appears that the expedition was destroyed by a giant spider! The giant web gave it away. Seeing no sign of the spider Gary and girls enjoy their time – until Gary disappears. Now the girls have to fend for themselves and hope help arrives. Will the confident Georgia (Helga Frank) be able to keep buxom Babs (Barbara Valentin) and the other girls away from the Horrors of Spider Island?

Movie Review:

I'm surprised SyFy hasn't attempted a remake. It would
probably be an improvement.

Girls in bikinis trapped on an island and being chased around by a mutated guy. Sounds like it might have some good points, right? If only the people behind the camera knew what they were doing. Sorry to say that the Horrors of Spider Island or Body in the Web as it is known in German, has more to do with inept film making than a scary monster. But they did get the girls in bikinis part right.

Let’s start with the basics, you know, the plot. This movie’s goal to was to show girls in bikinis and have them get attacked by a monster. So I wasn’t expecting Shakespeare (we already had that episode). it is about as flimsy as you expect. Characters are either broadly drawn archetypes (Gary is certainly the alpha male, Babs is the rowdy tough gal, Georgia is the competent one, etc) or they are just bodies with little personality, but look good in bikinis (most of the rest of the girls).

It looks like some thought was given to actually get Gary and the girls into the plane. The whole audition scene seems to be an attempt to show Gary and Georgia's relationship. Even the goofy "crossing the legs" move seems to be an attempt to give them some background. But after the ridiculous plane crash sequence, the movie devolves into the girls wandering around, looking pouty and being almost attacked by the silly looking mutated Gary. Even the injection of the returning expedition members, Bobby (Rainer Brandt) and Joe (Harald Maresch) does little to make the movie any more interesting. Mostly this is because the characters are so thin that you don’t care what happens to any of them. Part of this is the writing, but it also falls on the acting.

Georgia is too stunned by the battle of Babs to
realize she is in danger!

Horrors of Spider Island was made by a German cast, and that means what we get is a dubbed mess. You’ve got some seriously bad voice acting in this movie. With Gary getting the super masculine deep voice, and all the girls being dubbed by what sounds like three women. All these women were directed to coo, and pout and sound like they are all on some kind of depressants. Some distinctions are made in the voice work – Babs sounds about as tough as she looks, but for the most part its a really poor job.

As for the physical part of the acting, well it’s about what you’d expect. The girls are good at showing off their assets. Gary is good at looking beefy and masculine. Even the two researchers are good at being annoying and jerky. So really I guess they all fit the parts, but there is silliness to the performances. Or maybe it’s the fact that they all know they are in a movie called Horrors of Spider Island, I don’t know, but the cheesiness goes from the script right into the acting.

"Captured by sexy women? Sure I'll surrender!"

If you’re looking for hot girls and studly guys, well you might find something to like. The guys are uniformly beefy and lumpy. Most of them end up with their shirts off at some point, but it doesn’t help matters. And for those of you who like watching guys punch each other – well there are a couple fight scenes between the dorky Joe and Bobby and then between Joe and mutated Gary (who still has his shirt off in mutated form – but retains his slacks).

As for the ladies they are all pretty or sexy in an early 60’s European kind of way. Some of them will have more appeal than others, only because they get a little more screen time. Georgia is the smart one who takes command. Then there’s the sweet Ann who falls for Bob. And of course there’s Babs, the Amazon of the group. Tall, blonde and built like a linebacker, Babs intimidates all the girls and even stands up to Gary. Of course the filmmakers spend lots of time showing us Babs, and one of the movies key scenes involves Babs wrestling one of the other girls. Yeah – it’s a key scene for this film, which doesn’t say much. Oddly Babs and Gary remind of a low budget beefy German version of Anita Ekberg and Marcello Mastroianni from La Dolce Vida which was made the same year! Coincidence? I think not!

The professor was caught practicing his jazz hands.

So what about the horrors and the monsters and such? Well our titular spider is really a goofy looking puppet that hides in a tree most of the movie. This thing would make Roger Corman blush – maybe. Its big scene is when it attacks Gary, but it takes so long to get to the scene, that you begin to wonder if Gary’s shirtless chest is the horror of Spider Island. Anyway, after Gary gets bitten, he gets a furry face, funny looking teeth and a clawed hand. He looks nothing like a spider, more like a were-wombat or something. The rest of the movie Gary will move his hand threateningly toward one of the girls and then hides. When he finally kills someone he does so by waving his arms until they fall off a cliff. The other “special” effect is the huge spider web that our castaways find at the beginning of the movie. It’s very fake looking. The poor dope playing the professor caught in the web like he’s doing jumping jacks, or was caught in the air during a fabulous dance montage moment. Mike and the bots have a field day with this in a host segment.

Flowery bikini or not, Babs will BREAK you!

When it comes down to it, Horrors of Spider Island was made for the guys. It’s got girls in bikinis, and lots of jumping and running and wrestling. It’s also got a really misogynistic feel to the dialogue as well as the whole tone. Certainly this is nothing new for a bad B film. I’m just warning you. Don’t expect any respect for any of the girls in this movie. 

That’s funny because I get the feeling that Babs could kick the ass of any of the guys in this movie. If anyone demands respect – it’s Babs… well maybe not in that flowery bikini.

It was just a joke Babs. No seriously put down that chair! NOOOoooooo!

Episode Review:

And now you see the horror of spider island. Not
too impressive is it?

In many ways this reminds me of a classic Mike episode from season six. The movie is black and white, it’s got that early 60’s feel to it. It’s even got enough women in bikini’s to rival Mike’s first episode The Brain that Wouldn’t Die. You’ve got the beefy guys and cooing girls. Sure lots of the movie spent with characters wandering around or writhing around but that should be easy. Mike and the bots had a lot less to work with in films like Starfighters or Racket Girls or one of the Coleman Francis trilogy. So Horrors of Spider Island  should be a great episode.

Yeah, you saw the “but” coming didn’t you.

But, this isn’t a great episode. It’s really lacking in a lot of areas and the big one is energy. There is a real lethargy in the riffing, and long stretches without much of a comment. When they do come they aren’t anything really memorable. In fact when I remember this episode, I remember the movie itself more than the actual riffing. Gary’s little leg crossing bit, or Babs, or Gary as a spider in slacks, or Babs, or the crash sequence, or Babs. But when it comes to specific riffing, I don’t remember much at all.

Upon rewatching Horrors of Spider Island, some of the funnier moments revolve on how sleazy the movie is. Crow asks, "Should we have on our filthy raincoats to watch this?" After the umpteenth scene involving half naked women writhing around Crow says, "This is too much, even for me. Can we see a couple elderly scientists talking for 2 hours, nonstop?"  

"Hi, I'm Bob Boxbody."

Speaking of Gary, he’s a good source of comedy. From his opening moments with his auditions, to his final moments as a crazed hairy not-spidery-at-all monster – Gary provides laughs. His booming voice is easily imitated by Tom and he makes the already misogynistic dialogue worse. Although Tom observes that "He has Torgo area!" which is a horrifying thought.

Of course there’s big ol’ Babs, who’s brute force and [cough cough] charms makes her a focal point for riffing. Her scenes on the island and during the wrestling sequence are pretty funny by themselves. But Mike and the bots add some more humor, with Tom fainting whenever she’s getting really provocative. Babs is just too much woman for him! I love Crow's comment about the scene below, "I usually have to go online to see this kind of thing. Like www.nakedgiantesseswrestling.com"

So what are the boys final thoughts on Horrors of Spider Island? Tom concludes that "By this point I think the name Spider Island is misleading". Crow adds, "I'm not just wondering if there is a point to this movie, I'm wondering if there is a point to life." Mike delcares, "Too bad we can't squish this movie with a tissue and flush it down the toilet". So yeah, they didn't like it too much.

The host segments are have some good moments. Things start off with Mike discovering that Crow has a syndicated opinion column in many newspapers in the US. Crow has a lot to say about not too much at all. Then Mike checks on the Pearl in Castle Forrester and finds out that the castle is gone! Pearl moved so she wouldn’t have to pay so much for Bobo’s monkey license. But the move has made everyone crabby and so Pearl inflicts Horrors of Spider Island on Mike and bots because she’s so cranky. At the first break, Mike is caught in a giant web. The bots tease him and enjoy the bounty of giant insects they’ve caught with it. At the next break, Mike and the bots hold auditions just like Gary in the movie. Pearl, Observer and Bobo all try out. This is probably the funniest of the bunch. Next up, the bots want to know that if you survive a plane crash do you become all helpless and whispery like the dancers in the movie. They test the theory and the results are predictable, but pretty amusing. After the movie ends, Mike has turned into a monster – kinda – not really. Meanwhile Pearl is moving the castle back, and they’ve stopped at a truck stop. It gets a little creepy from there on.

Mike just had to jump out of the theater, and now he's
caught in a web of deceit!

A couple of funny host segments just don’t help. Horrors of Spider Island is so goofy that it would be OK to watch without any riffing. But the reason for the show is so you get to see the pros do it. But I get the feeling that with only two more shows left after this one – the cast and crew just weren’t into it. The lack of energy and low rate of jokes make this barely worth seeking out. To me its even more disappointing because this could have been a classic episode, or at the worst, an average episode. But what we get here is a movie that is really asking for it, and a crew who doesn’t seem to be that interested. Its’ a sad mix, that that makes it below average.

I give this two Babs out of five.

This episode is available on the Mystery Science Theater 3000 Collection Volume 11.

Black Sunday (1960)

Introduction:

These days you don’t see too many attempts to dive into classic gothic horror. You know the types, with big spooky castles, secret passageways, ghostly images and moonlight slanting in the windows and across the spider webs. Could be these images just don’t creep out modern audiences. Could be we’ve just replaced witches with zombies. Or maybe we just need to drop the sparkly vampires and get back to the good old fashioned blood sucking hell-spawn of old.

Summary:

It was all going well for medieval witch Katia Vajda (Barbara Steele). She was cursing townsfolk, corrupting nobles and praising the prince of darkness. But eventually the villagers had enough. They captured her and her lover, place horrible spiked masks on their faces (with the spikes on the inside). They tried to burn them, but it started to rain. In the end Katia is placed in her family’s tomb, but under a series of religious protections that will keep her from undead mischief.

Enter Dr. Gorobec (John Richardson) and Dr. Kruvajan (Andrea Checchi) a couple hundred years later. They are on their way to a medical conference in Moldavia when they stop by the ancient crypt. Kruvajan is messing around down there with a huge HUGE bat, and then breaks the seal on the coffin containing the ancient witch. Now she rises from the grave and starts using vampire powers to summon minions, drain blood and attempt to possess the lovely young noble woman who looks just like her! Can Dr. Gorobec piece together this mystery before he ends up another casualty on this Black Sunday?

Good Points

• Wonderful visuals and gothic atmosphere
• Moves at a swift pace
• Surprisingly brutal and gory in places

Bad Points:

• It is dubbed and not too well
• All the talk of Satan and demons may not go down well with some viewers
• Doesn’t have a firm mythology it seems to be working with

Overall:

Also known as Mask of the Demon this movie is a like gothic roller coaster of wonderful visuals, diabolical characters and some surprising brutality. The opening scene where the witches are being killed is intense with its visuals. Later moments continue along that gruesome direction. But that is part of what makes it so much fun. Steele is fiendish and gleeful in the role. As she destroys all her old enemies and allies you can’t wait to see what happens next. The film moves at a brisk pace, but there are some confusing dub lines (and poor dub performances) that keep it from firing on all cylinders. But if you are looking for something that is both traditional in atmosphere and visuals but with a bit of a edge to it, I highly recommend Black Sunday.

Scores (out of 5)

Visuals: 5

Sound: 3

Acting: 3

Script: 4

Music: 4

Direction: 4

Entertainment: 4

Total:  4

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First Spaceship on Venus (1960) – MST3K Review

Summary:

In the middle of the Gobi desert a mysterious magnetic object is found. The world’s scientists rush in to determine the origins and meaning of the object. Dr. Yu (Tang Hua-Ta) and Professor Sikarna (Kurt Rackelmann) identify the object as a communication from the planet Venus. The message is damaged, so the scientists don’t know exactly what it says, but it is enough to get an expedition ready to head out to Venus and communicate back.

Luckily an East German rocket called the Cosmostrator has been created for a trip to Mars. The leaders of the world decide to go to Venus instead and assemble a crackerjack crew. This includes medical expert Sumiko Ogimura (Yoko Tani) and daredevil German pilot Raimund Brinkmann (Gunther Simon). Soon the journey begins, past an asteroid shower and then exploring the surface of the Venus. But along the way, Yu and Sikarna discover that the message was an invasion plan intended for the Venusian’s high command. Will the First Spaceship on Venus be seen as a visit of friendship or an act of war?

Movie Review:

With science fiction films being big crowd pleasers in the 1950s thanks to movies like Forbidden Planet and The Day the Earth Stood Still, it was only a matter of time before other countries jumped on the bandwagon to create their own visions of space travel and interstellar adventures. I was familiar with a couple of the Japanese efforts, usually featuring giant rubbery creatures, but it wasn’t until recently that I saw efforts from behind the iron curtain.

I reviewed the English adaptation of one re-titled Voyage to the Prehistoric Plant (and it’s badly re-edited sibling Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women). This Russian film had a very similar plot to First Spaceship on Venus and had a very similar scope and visual style. What sets this film apart is the attempt to make a unifying world effort out of the whole endeavor. Time and again, we are told how the “world’s scientists” or the “world’s leaders” have come together to accept this challenge. In many ways this looks forward to the world of Star Trek with it’s unified world looking to explore it’s surroundings. I also like how it leads to the truly international crew with members from China, India, Japan, Africa (never say what country in Africa), America, Russia, France and Germany. Each member has a specialty that comes into play during the voyage, and some even make the ultimate sacrifice to save their fellow crewmates and possibly the earth.

One of the elements about this movie that I really appreciate is the design. From the pointy yet super cool looking Cosmostrator, to the weird and funky surface of Venus the movie has plenty of interesting visuals to reveal. Sure not all of it works. The space suits used while the crew is in the main ship look really silly. But the ones used to explore Venus’ surface are colorful and more functional. The robot Omega (who none of the dub actors can pronounce with any consistency) looks pretty silly rolling around the ship, but he seems a bit more useful on the surface of the planet. There are smaller craft used to explore Venus, from mini-rockets, two person cars and a strange gyrocopter. All are very creative looking and would have made some great toys.

First Spaceship on Venus does seem to borrow from some earlier films, with the look of Forbidden Planet really seeming to influence the ship and spacesuits. Also, just about every movie that contained a rocket hurtling anywhere would wind up coming across a meteor shower. So that little plot point seems stale. The robot talks like any other robot in any other sci-fi from the 50s or 60s. You know the whole I… AM… A… ROBOT! voice.

However what the crew discovers on Venus seems quite different from any other movie from that time period. The technology and its purpose is creative and the rising seething black slime that comes to life late in the film is pretty nifty. I even appreciated the fact that not all the scientists make it out of the voyage. There’s no villain in this flick, instead our heroes face the dangers of space travel and the unknown. The ones that end up dying are usually in the wrong place at the wrong time, or victims of some random act. In a way it was refreshing not to have an evil alien or traitorous crewmember mess with the explorers.

Not to say the movie is perfect. First off this is an American dub of the original. It’s been edited down by twenty minutes, poorly dubbed and appears to have been pan and scan edited from a widescreen presentation. The pacing is a bit off, especially in the exposition heavy first third. A tepid romance is attempted between Sumiko and Brinkmann, and that slows down the proceedings. A few humorous moments with Omega also make the robot appear to be more like Twiiki from the 70s Buck Rogers in the 25^th Century than HAL (Joel and bots pick right up on this). The result is a movie with some high aspirations mired by some dull pacing and a poor adaptation. What did Joel and Bots make of it?

Episode Review:  

The crew of Satellite of Love tackled the First Spaceship on Venus during their second season. For many viewers its one of the weakest episodes of the season. This seems odd especially since the movie provides such a rich bounty of visual oddity and bad dubbing. But for one reason or another, Joel and the bots just don’t seem up for this one.

Things start off oddly with the opening host segment where Joel is messing around with Tom’s sarcasm sequencer. Tom becomes really, really, annoyingly sarcastic, which Joel immediately regrets and tries to ratchet it back down. But as the movie plays, Tom starts getting more and more sarcastic again, eventually ending with his head exploding in the final host segment. This sounds like a funny idea in theory, but most of the “sarcastic riffs” are variants of “Ohhh a robot that talks like and idiot, where can I get one?” or “A planet with a toxic atmosphere? Sign me up for vacation right now.” All this is said in an extremely snooty sounding voice. A little of this goes a long, long way, and sadly it just increases during the film.

In addition there are a lot of what Mike ended up calling “state park jokes”. These aren’t really jokes, but observations, such as “Looks like they filmed this at a state park” when in fact they did. Here you get stuff like, “Looks like a model.” Or “I can see the strings”. Um yeah guys, we were thinking the same thing here. In the Amazing Colossal Episode Guide that was released shortly after the end of the Comedy Central run, Kevin Murphy comments that the writing crew needed a vacation after this show and that it was pretty obvious. I agree, especially when you compare the lackluster riffing here to the amazingly hilarious riffing for the next episode Godzilla vs. Megalon, one of the best episodes of the entire run (and done after the crew at Best Brains had taken that vacation).

That’s not to say that this episode is a complete loser. Most of the best material occurs once they land on Venus and get a lot of the really great visuals to work with. They have some fun with the space suits the astronauts wear during the voyage with Tom singing “This is the day the teddy bears fly to Venus”, because of the odd ear coverings. I also got a laugh every time one of the scientists records his log entry into what appears to be an electric toothbrush. The boys start a running commentary how he tells his toothbrush all his secrets and has fallen in love with it.

When they get to the surface of the planet with it’s dark crystalline surface, Joel quips, “We’ve secretly replaced their planet with Folger’s Crystals. Let’s see what happens.” During a panning shot of some frosted geometric structures Crow asks, “Doesn’t Superman live here?” Joel replies, “If he does, then he’s got a bad case of freezer burn.” Tom sums up his thoughts with “Guys, someone with a very different vision made this movie.” Crow replies, “It was based on a novel by Lewis Carroll”.

The host segments aren’t very good or memorable. Joel creates a junk drawer seeder, in which you put a few items in a junk drawer let it sit for a couple minutes and poof instant junk drawer. The mads root through their junk drawer and find Abe Vagota. The first break has the robots create their own super cool robot that only speaks in foam. Yeah I don’t get it either. The next segment has a completely non-sequitur bit about a gorilla in space. That is Kevin’s description and it fits. Then you get a commercial about KLACK foods, that is one long attempt at a gross out joke. As I mentioned the episode ends with Tom’s head exploding.

While I won’t say that your head may explode while watching this episode, your mileage will vary. I’ve seen some folks who really like this episode, but each time I watch it, I feel like they really missed out on some top notch riffing here. There are some good moments, but a lot of it is mixed with filler material that never connects. The movie is pretty watchable by itself, so that helps my rating of it. But it also makes me want to see the unedited version of the film Silent Star instead.

I give it two Omega (Ohm-iga or O-meega or Ah-miga) out of five.

This episode is available on the Mystery Science Theater 3000:20^th Anniversary Edition. 

The Beatniks (1960) – MST3K Review

Summary:

This episode starts with a short “General Hospital”. Yep, that “General Hospital”. We get a bit at a birthday party where the soap opera antics make everyone very awkward.

In the movie, Eddy (Tony Travis) and his crew love to race around and rob mom and pop stores. While going over his loot he is discovered by a talent agent. You see Eddy can croon like the best of them, and so he begins his ascent to stardom. Unfortunately his gang lead by the unstable Mooney (Peter Breck) wants to keep hanging out with him, and everything they touch – they destroy. Will Eddy be able to keep his singing contract and get the girl, or will “The Beatniks” land him in the big house?

Movie Review

The short is actually very grey and very dull. These are moments taken from the 1963 episodes of the show and boy are they a snooze. Everyone talks slowly, like they are all on downers and the music… wow. Not much else to say about “General Hospital” other than it was a long way from the 80’s version my grandma used to watch.

I watched this fine film right after watching “Walk the Line”, the biography about Johnny Cash. They both have similar stories, a young man from a messed up background struggles to make it in the music industry. A history with a bad crowd threatens to destroy them. The light at the end of the tunnel is the good girl who wants to help them. Of course, I don’t think we’ll see “Walk the Line” on Rifftrax any time soon. But it’s odd how nearly 40 years later we are still seeing similar stories.

So what is so wrong with this film? Well it’s not horrible it’s just not terribly good. First off Eddy never strikes us as the kind of talent that would get noticed and exploited. He’s an OK singer, doing a kind of crooning similar to Sinatra in style, but without the smoothness. He’s a bit of a jerk, although Helen (Joyce Terry) is able to get him to lighten up. Still, we never buy into the fact that he’s supposed to be a singing heartthrob. He’s more like your pal who sings along with the radio and no one tells him to shut up.

None of the songs really catch you. Writing this I can’t remember the title or melody for a single one of them. Again, nothing really stinks here, but they are so bland that they enter one ear and leave the other.

No the real issue here is the gang. Let’s get something out of the way right off the bat. Eddy’s gang are not beatniks. They are a bunch of thugs and ruffians. You wanna see a real group of beatniks in a MST3K setting? Check out “The Rebel Set”, those guys are a lot closer to the beat lifestyle than these clowns.

My two favorite characters of the film are found in this little gang. Iris (Karen Kadler) is a catty woman who manages to be clingy as well. She starts the film hanging all over Eddy. When he grabs the interest of the talent scout, she pressures the reluctant Eddy to sign with him. We can see the stars in her eyes. When Eddy starts to fall for Helen, she gets very jealous and this causes her to be even more abrasive. I feel a little bad for Iris. She’s not a likable woman at all; maybe these jokers are the only ones that could tolerate her.

Of course it could be the simple fact that Mooney is a complete nut job. Maybe he hopes that Iris will turn into a more annoying character than him. Well that’s not going to happen. Breck chews all the scenery he can from the moment we see him. He’s aggressive, and yet whiney and stupid all at the same time. He reminds me of the leader of the gang in “Zombie Nightmare”. My favorite Mooney moment is when he breaks down in the hotel. It’s so over the top and shrill that you have to see it to believe it.

This movie was written and directed by Paul Frees. It’s the only movie he did either of these jobs. Don’t judge Mr. Frees by this film. He was an excellent voice actor providing his talents for nearly 40 years. Joel and the bots ask you to remember him as the voice of Ludwig Von Drake and not the director of “The Beatniks”.

Episode Review:

Crow, Tom and Joel have been on this type of road before, with the film “Daddy-O”. That turned out to be a fan favorite, so I think they felt pretty comfortable with this movie. The riffing is easy and good-natured for the bulk of the film, with most of the comedy coming with the songs and Mooney’s antics. It’s the other scenes that seem a bit blasé by comparison.

But the “General Hospital” shorts never really grabbed me. MST3K tackled three of them. While there are moments of comedy, I always forget about them as short subjects. The funniest part of this episode is when Joel and the bots improvise a commercial from “The Booze Council” explaining how booze would make the dull party more fun.

This is one of those episodes that I enjoy when I watch it, but after a while I don’t remember any really great riffs or fun moments. Ok, this movie is the source for the frequent riff “Shut up Iris! I said shut up!” used in later shows when a male character gets snappy with a female character. You also get Mooney’s meltdown which give us the “I killed the fat barkeep!” line that Frank will blurt out once in a while. So maybe it does have some memorable moments, but those are mostly because of the callbacks and host segments that riffed on them later.

Speaking of host segments, things start off with Joel being very mean while playing Rock, Paper, Scissors with Crow and Tom. This is really bizarre, because Joel is usually very nice to his bots. Luckily Gypsy comes in and squishes him. For the invention exchange the Mads dress like good luck trolls and Joel shows off his literal version of pocket pool. At the first break Joel and the bots discuss whether what we are watching are real beatniks. The next segment has Gypsy, Tom and Crow throwing a slumber party in full P.J.s and dishing about Tony Travis. Next up is Tom Servo in a behind the music documentary about the 50’s rocker. It’s very silly. After the movie finishes Crow and Tom are inspired by Mooney and go insane! The Mads are super popular because of their Troll costumes… yeah I didn’t believe it either.

I think the cast and crew of the series enjoyed this film a lot more than I do. Compared to the similar “Daddy-O” it’s a better episode. But it pales to the season 6 classic “Girl’s Town”. This is making it sound bad, and it’s not. I enjoyed watching it again, but it falls into the average grade for me. If you love 60’s delinquent films, you might enjoy it a bit more than I did.

I give it 3 fat barkeeps out of five.

Available on the Mystery Science Theater 3000 Collection Volume XVIII.