I want to see a reriff of Robot Monster. The season 1 episode is almost unwatchable it's so slow and devoid of riffs.
What would really be nice would be if they did a season ( or just a few random shows ) in 3D and riffed old 1950s 3D movies like
Robot Monster. Or perhaps some of the garbage that came out in the 80s, like
Treasure of the Four Crowns ( 1983 ) [ Shout! Factory has the home video rights rights to this one ],
Parasite ( 1982 ),
Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone ( 1983 ), and dare we hope..
Jaws 3-D ( 1983 ). Of course, if they could get Universal to license them
Jaws 3D, then they may as well also get
Jaws: The Revenge ( 1987 ).
One genre that has been ignored on MST3K is martial arts. The few martial arts based experiments were movies like
Master Ninja that just barely had any martial arts content. I started a thread on this subject a while back
http://forum.rifftrax.com/index.php?topic=27051The only problem with having any old school martial arts films on MST3K would be finding an HD widescreen print. Most of the riffable ones seem to only exist in old VHS pan-and-scan transfers from the early 80s. But there are a couple where HD Widescreen copies are available.
Roots of Evil ( 1979 ) was written, produced and directed by German pop star Christian Anders, who also cast himself as the martial art hero. And who did he cast as the villain? None other than Deep Roy. It was recently remastered and released on DVD in Germany.
A widescreen transfer of
Fist of Fear, Touch of Death ( 1980 ) exists, although from a worn theatrical print, but well worth riffing.
And I don't know how many times this movie has bee brought up before, but
Gymkata ( 1985 ).
And now I am going to throw my all time favorite movie under the bus by suggesting
Times Square ( 1980 ). As much as love the film, I do have to admit it has a lot worth riffing. But at least if it was shown on MST3K then it would have a chance of breaking out of obscurity the way
Manos: Hands of Fate did.
And if they ever go back to riffing Gamera films, then the one they should not miss is
Gamera: Super Monster ( 1980 ), one of the worst movies I have ever seen. Basically a clip movie using Gamera footage from all the previous films, grafted onto an awful sci-fi film about female alien superheroes who run a pet shop, and the worlds most annoying Japanese kid.