MST3k 606 - The Creeping Terror

A huge walking carpet-- er, alien from an advanced civilization - comes to Earth where people commit suicide by climbing into its mouth-- er, it eats people. Yeah. This film also inspired a generation to listen to bass-free jazz and dance "The Nerd."
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[@Ryusuta]

I tell you... Nothing says "Horror movie" like having a narrator explain each scene.

[@kimdkus]

I wish the monster had eaten the narrator. Oh my gosh!! this is really bad!!

[@MarkVaderr]

Just like "Monster A Go-Go". I'm surprised there was no reference to that movie.

[@HylianFox3]

Don't forget "The Beast of Yucca Flats" by one Coleman Francis...

[@oldfan1963]

The only thing worse than a Coleman Francis movie is a Robert L Lippert movie.

[@tedbishop567]

@@oldfan1963 No, I'd have to give the edge to Coleman for sheer depressive awfulness. "Red Zone Cuba" has been known to sap the will to live.

[@francisknepper5695]

Being old and crippled makes this flick even funnier, realizing hey- even *I* can outpace the cosmic conga carpet!!

[@GhostScratch]

Well, ANYONE can. Except newborns.

[@davidw6188]

Alien was lucky it landed on a planet where people don't run from danger but prefer to just stare at it.

[@AdamWestish]

The 1 mph terror, somehow impossible to escape!

[@nyarg33]

Fight or flight response wasn't invented until the late 60s, sadly

[@AdamWestish]

@@nyarg33 computers weren't invented until the 1890s and weren't capable of warp drive until the 2080s, so I don't know how they can justify the alien spaceships, either.

[@galvanaut7119]

@@nyarg33 That is: Fight or flight or help the predator by climbing in their mouths.

[@alexiaNBC]

Honestly if the narrator said the creature emitted a gas around it to paralyze the people around it, it would've worked 😅

[@DreFromMaine8472]

I first learned of this movie from the Wikipedia article "List Of Films Considered The Worst Ever". Along with "The Beast Of Yucca Flats", "Eegah", "Monster-A Go-Go", and "Manos: The Hands Of Fate", "The Creeping Terror" is just one of those films from the 60's that was perfect to be riffed on by the good people of MST3K. And I am so glad they did!

[@Jerepasaurus]

Honestly, Eegah has a half decent premise. It had some briefly charming or amusing moments, though of course it's still terrible. I think it could be remade, maybe even as a partial comedy... but also with a less tragic ending. lol

[@TaritaAavik1]

The Wild World of Batwoman definitely is one of the worst out there too. The host segments in that episode are hilarious, but the movie is sheer torture even with the riffing.

[@LibbyStein-Torres]

@@Jerepasaurus My mother HATED Eegah. She thought it was too annoying and corny to even love.

[@Daakusutepsu1]

Less of a creeping terror and more of a meandering nuisance.

[@HungryForTastyFoodAndComicArt]

or a moseying irritant.

[@SataniaMcDowel]

Or a...eh...I got nothing ._.

[@HungryForTastyFoodAndComicArt]

@@SataniaMcDowel 😂, hey, you got honesty. 👍

[@jackmiller2404]

True, but I honestly don’t think that “Meandering Nuisance” would’ve had much Marquee value though....

[@HungryForTastyFoodAndComicArt]

@@jackmiller2404 Untrue; as a Neil Simon comedy, it would have spun gold out of straw!

[@ghostdisco7455]

Man, this movie just would not work without the five minute long scene of a woman taking a baby's temperature and hanging laundry.

[@hypnojon32]

Agreed

[@ilikethecokev2]

Truly an Oscar worthy performance.

[@mmsL125]

It’s about building suspense only they forgot the suspense

[@onlythewise1]

see your not dumb ass after all

[@joshDammmit]

It really propels the plot

[@micksmom2293]

I whole dance scene had me dying! "This music explains why the British Invasion was so easy." "Everybody back then was 40!"

[@sillygoose420]

there is just plain no need for sex.

[@i_cant_draw5095]

@@sillygoose420 thank god drugs were invented

[@mikezylstra7514]

I remember doing the twist like that would give you a side ache.

[@winonafrog]

Its midnight & I guffawed at the Brit pop joke

[@ZaydinTTV]

MST3K, probably one of the best shows ever made, in my opinion. Shame it doesn't have the name recognition it deserves.

[@TaritaAavik1]

Well, it did originate the term "Nightmare Fuel" from the episode "Santa Claus" (a trope that's used to describe traumatizing scenes in fiction)

[@GregDad100]

To alexisdawn89: They did record dialogue, but through the incompetence of the director, Vic Savage (who later took investments from the film and disappeared), it was accidentally erased (I think he or someone from the crew dropped it into a lake). Others claim that Savage either recorded the sound, but it was so bad it did not transfer, or they did not record it and planned to overdub in post-production. Evidently, an announcer at a local radio station who had nothing to do with the movie dubbed in the final dialogue. Still, according to the Best Brains, it was one of the worst movies they ever watched (along with "Skydivers," "Future Alien" and especially "Eegah! - which they put off for four years before actually using it on their show). Interestingly enough, many of the scenes were filmed on the old Spahn Ranch, where, within a few years, Charles Manson and his minions would camp out.

[@fluffywaffles]

Manson was innocent!

[@sigurdgram]

@@fluffywaffles mmmno, no he wasn't.

[@Chunkboi]

So this movie caused the Manson cult?

[@faithcastillo9597]

Thanks for the historical background. Very interesting.

[@MrRyan-wu4jx]

@Lil Jimmy people get jail time for telling people to kill themselves. Telling people to kill multiple others is even worse.

[@jonboy2790]

I used to watch MST3K late at night back when it was on the air many years ago. I have been watching all of your uploads and this show is still gold. Truly timeless. Thank you for the uploads.

[@faithfulgrl]

💙Ya Jon Boy, This show will never get old, unlike the movies. Old movies were made just to be used for MST3K📽

[@alienmcqueen]

what channel was this on back in the day?

[@tommyinajar]

You know it was rebooted 6 years ago on Netflix and just kickstarted a whole season with some Joel.

[@roxannemichelle6483]

Same here I used to watch MST3K back the day and now until this day I still love this show whenever it’s on sci fi/comedy central

[@Drakith90]

@@alienmcqueen The original season (Usually considered 'Season 0') was on KTMA a local channel in Minnesota. That season never really saw much syndication and because of that there is actually a few missing episodes. Seasons 1 through 7 were on Comedy Central. Seasons 8 through 10 were on SciFi (Or 'SyFy' if you wanna use that stupid rebranding they did). There was also a movie.. yes.. you could go to a theatre to watch Mike and the Bots sit in a theatre and watch a movie. It was made during Season 7 and is why that season is so short and while it's a pretty good episode it didn't do too well at the box office.

[@Leolady4]

Nothing more terrifying than a monster you can easily run away from.

[@kathryntutcher7771]

But nobody ever ran from it. Lol

[@yoyo762]

@@kathryntutcher7771 Curiosity killed the yokels.

[@DavidHummell]

At the dance, the chicks trying to outdo each other is the best part of the film, followed by the rug monster.

[@Panzer_the_Merganser]

1:10:36 I remember when this episode first aired on Comedy Central: The promo was just an extended clip of this scene with Mike just standing there listening to the song. I knew then this was the show for me.

[@doublecheese65]

I love the tune in the dance hall scene, it's very catchy, I'm going to use it at my funeral

[@necromancer4660]

This (Guy/Gal/Gender not directly specified or transition from one gender to another/Evil Shag Carpentry) knows how to die!

[@susanmorgan4151]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂❤

[@mikesnyder1788]

My wife just said that the CT was the most lovable, softest, non-threatening monster she has ever seen! We loved this movie!!! Hilarious comments, Mike and Bots!!!

[@lakeviewviking]

KEN BURNS' THE CREEPING TERROR: (Mornful fiddle music) " Mah dearest Lula-belle, the yankee menace has desended upon our fair town...It moves slowly, but we have somehow lost the will to retreat..."

[@Jesse__H]

And they got Shelby Foote to narrate that part 😅

[@greenranger8884]

LOL

[@pgramsey1]

It's nine episodes, each three hours long.

[@AndythePervert]

I kept flashing back to Princess Leia: "Get this walking carpet out of my way!!"

[@lisettedevars9423]

This was the first MST3K episode I watched over 3 years ago. While researching movies filmed at Spahn Ranch, the Creeping Terror was on the list. It was also the only movie I found available to watch online. Needless to say, 3 years later, I'm now addicted to MST3K and watch it weekly sometimes daily...love it.

[@teresas8173]

I watch MST3k A LOT- this past year especially. Seriously helped me get through quarantine and other stuff. And now I pretty much watch it nightly..... I fall asleep to it.

[@gsxerwhite]

@@teresas8173 Just admit it, you’re a MSTIE. We all are.

[@nylarnameless1759]

Wow this was filmed at Spahn Ranch....i knew it was used for a bunch of movies back in the day but I had no idea.....I was just listening to a last podcast on the left episode about the Manson family.

[@thelastmotel]

@@teresas8173 I've been falling asleep to it to. Since 2005/2006, when a friend sent me a hard drive with every episode on

[@rabidrabbitshuggers]

I submit the entire "Bobby and Grandpa fishing scene" as one of the top 5 funniest MST3k moments. "Wow, Bobby REALLY does not want to go fishing!"

[@BRIANPOWER1977]

Dont make me stand up!

[@rabidrabbitshuggers]

PG Wooster You know I can't!

[@GDF2]

He's making his own broth!

[@Evertide05]

"Bobby has often observed his parents at night." "Bobby doesn't have a lot of friends."

[@buckeyeschmave]

Steve! Steve!!!

[@mobius273]

my favorite part is when they don't have any jokes and they're just laughing at the movie

[@boomboom6577]

I love that too!

[@crescentfreshbret]

Those are some of my favorite parts of Invasion of the Neptune Men- when the dubbing is so ridiculous (and basically 99% of the dubbing is ridiculous and makes the people sound like wacky cartoon characters) that Mike and the Bots can’t help but just giggle or crack up when the characters talk (especially at the 10-year-old boys with very incongruously deep voices who were obviously dubbed by grown men not even trying to sound like kids).

[@AndreaDavenport1]

@@crescentfreshbret It was still unwatchable. thankfully, Krankor was there to snap them out of it. I didn't like that episode.

[@darkprose]

"Creeping nepotism," and I can't stop laughing.

[@ComputerFaceOne]

I've seen this one dozens and dozens of times but I just noticed that the 'My God what is it!' lady is one of the people a few scenes later making out in a car LOL I guess she needed some loving after that 'horrifying' scene with the monster at the dance!

[@TaritaAavik1]

the way she said "My god, what is it!?" sounds like an annoyed mother, but the most appropriate line here would be "SHIIIIIT!!!! RUN!!"

[@Martyhero]

"Think this is a weird little turn-on for the director" Oh, the wonderful innocent days before the Internet...

[@DiggitySlice]

It wasn't innocent, people just had more decorum to not flaunt their "quirks"

[@tysontaggart7246]

​​​​​@@DiggitySlice Not even that, they just didn't have a place to flaunt lol

[@nostalgicmalcontent]

Whenever I think about how long it takes the monster to attack someone, it reminds me of Austin Powers and the steamroller bit, lol.

[@LadyVoldemort]

LOL LOL LOL. I'm pretty sure this movie inspire Mike Myers or whoever wrote Austin Powers to write that scene... I laughed every time! 😂😂😂😂😂

[@nostalgicmalcontent]

That guy from MAD TV just standing there like an idiot, NOOOOOOOO!!! That was classic.

[@Jesse__H]

@@nostalgicmalcontent Yeah the guy who played Stewart on MadTV!! 😂

[@daviddrouant2852]

@@Jesse__H look what I can do

[@Blueskybuffalo]

Running is undignified. People knew how to die gracefully back in the day.

[@TheImperiusv]

26:00 God bless you, Servo, for having no preconceptions about how old a scientist should be!

[@johnstucko2740]

When Mike makes them listen to his new stereo system, with that movie song, I friggin lose it!!! 🤣 Tooo funny!! 🤩!! 🤪! Hahahahahaha!!

[@DOpe1ne2]

"If my deepest darkest despair had choreography this would be it."

[@only257]

lol

[@susanmorgan4151]

😂😂😂❤

[@TheMaskedNerd]

It was really nice for all the victims to stand still for the monster.

[@jean-paulaudette9246]

Yah, reminds me of Killdozer-- "It's headed right for us! Walk a little faster!"

[@mikezylstra7514]

Reminds me of when my dad got a movie camera (1958), took it my grandmother's and she stood perfectly still when he shot pictures of her.

[@GenY42]

Analogkid will kill me for saying this, but I prefer Mike to Joel (though I still like Joel a lot). I think the show's run with Mike and Trace featured some of the best episodes of the show, with either fantastically inept movies (like this one and Wild World of Batwoman, Starfighters, Racket Girls and all three Coleman Francis movies) or somewhat competently made but very goofy movies (Alien from L.A., Angel's Revenge, Outlaw, Deathstalker, Escape 2000 and Laserblast). But back to this movie, the monster clumsily eating people just kills me every time, as well as the Jerry Lewis-like dancing fool. 'Wa wa wa wa oh lady!"

[@PCGamer77]

+Yusuf Naqvi I adore seasons 5-7. Seems like the whole cast was having a ton of fun doing the show.

[@rabidrabbitshuggers]

Yusuf Naqvi I totally agree. I know Nelson was the head writer throughout, but once he actually is in the theater with the bots, the lines seem to flow a lot easier. I love Joel, but Mike has insane comedic rhythm.

[@DrThunder88]

It's weird to think that the rectal thermometer baby would now be 50 years old. I mean it's weird to think about anyway, but you know...

[@NOMAD-qp3dd]

😂🤣😂 and at bars he chats up the ladies, "I was in a movie once."

[@theartistformallyknownas2677]

@@NOMAD-qp3dd "You ever watch Mystery Science Theater-- wait where are you going?"

[@soosquatch4236]

Rectal thermometers made any and all symptoms disappear immediately!

[@mikezylstra7514]

She just sticks that filthy thermometer back in its case.

[@mikezylstra7514]

@@soosquatch4236 that filthy thing is probably still in a drawer somewhere. I wonder if Manson ever used it to take his (oral) temperature.

[@daffyphack]

I just noticed that the dance hall music is playing in their kitchen, too. God, this movie.

[@HylianFox3]

Reminds me of the invention exchange from 'Giant Gila Monster' "It's the Generic Teen Dance Music station" "This song as been playing on this radio station for over 50 years!"

[@MkeKen67]

@@HylianFox3 - You better get yer knee up!

[@JamaicanCastle]

Teenage Strangler had the same problem, where they'd clearly bought the rights to maybe two pop songs and by Jove, they were gonna use 'em.

[@Chunkboi]

It’s like the radio station in the Half-Life mod “They Hunger.” The same record plays everywhere there’s a radio.

[@godbluffvdgg]

Brilliant actors!...The monster to end all monsters! Astounding direction and scene shooting! Will never be attributed to this movie...:)...

[@susanmorgan4151]

😂😂😂❤

[@GregDad100]

For some reason, the "Love, American Style" sketch is still one of my favorites. Just plain silly, stupid fun (and, yes, I remember the original TV show).

[@GhostScratch]

I heard that show was very corny and cringy. I've also heard that numerous tv shows like that were made to help provide a life of escapism in the 70's from the Vietnam War, civil rights, etc. It's kinda no wonder the SOL crew made fun of it.

[@mikezylstra7514]

@@GhostScratch They were plum running out of ideas for TV shows. I pretty much stopped watching TV shows around 1970.. An occasional Benny Hill was about it.

[@giantlobsterboy644]

This episode is such a guilty pleasure for me. I love the dance hall scene. It was a fairly complicated one take shot.

[@teresas8173]

I noticed Crow squeaks a little at the start of the flag skit. He does that on another skit in The Beast of Yucca Flats which I just watched. Ive not noticed it on any other skits. It’s so cute. That’s what I love about MST3k, there’s always something new and funny (that at first you may not notice) no matter how often you watch any given episode.

[@Zoster7]

This was the episode that first got me obsessed with MST3K. I had to watch that "Bobby" scene over and over because I was laughing so hard.

[@SigEpBlue]

53:32 "Uh, Vic? Looks like there was a hair in the gate. Gonna need to re-shoot that scene." "Ha ha, re-shoot? You're funny."

[@LibbyStein-Torres]

When I spied on my parents watching this episode back then, I was a kid at the time and the monster honestly creeped me out. The gym dance music has been stuck in my head as a core memory since my first viewing.

[@auntiec6294]

I'm 45 minutes into it and I don't think I can make it to the end! 😂 This makes "The Dead Talk Back" look like a masterpiece. At least the narrator didn't talk for the *entire* film like in this one!

[@mikezylstra7514]

1:02 and I had enuff.

[@GlitchanBlack]

I lost it at 4:10.

[@E3Racer1]

Long overdue by me but, Thanks Analogkid01 for all your MST3K uploads. :>)

[@theOstenHugo]

E3RacerX likewise...although i literally just thanked him like two weeks ago for finding a particular episode link for me. so clutch!

[@theOstenHugo]

and NO ADS!!! that’s what i appreciate the most!!!!!

[@silverfishimperitrix]

This movie brings a whole new level of meaning to the term "rug munching."

[@DMBall]

Vic Savage, Hal Warren, Tjardus Greidanus -- we owe MST3K a vote of thanks for bringing their talents to the world.

[@9Skiddlerip9]

"When a monster and a small car love each other very much..."

[@MadeleineAtterbury]

It's because... when the "monster" "ate" the couple inside an send the car tumbling, it looked like it was having _sex!?_

[@joelbohnenkamp4987]

Ray Manzarek on organ. In a movie with so many crazy goings-on, that’s still my favorite riff.

[@GregDad100]

The actress in this film who plays the deputy's wife is much more alluring than a movie like this deserves. The woman who plays the baby's mother is a lot more alluring than this film deserves, as well.

[@mikezylstra7514]

I thought that was the same woman. I wondered why the baby came so fast.

[@tillitsdone]

Interesting story, she was married to the director, who took her to Mexico to marry her at 15 y.o. The marriage was later anulled on those grounds, he was charged, and she never made another film.

[@GreenDay1981]

Eeeek! There's a big monster moving 0.2 MPH at us and we have lots of space to run away from it! How will we survive?

[@Evertide05]

15:25 When the guy's in the spaceship, despite having a flashlight he could see with, he even managed to get eaten by another monster that can't even move yet.

[@GreenDay1981]

Evertide05 I guess some writers just don't put any thought into their movies. This movie is suppose to be scary but it turned out stupid. Even someone who can't bear to watch horror movies wouldn't be the least bit scared of this.

[@rileywilliams9799]

Walk for your lives, everybody!

[@andrewfrankovic6821]

The aliens got lucky in finding a town where people didn't really really understand doors.

[@ccjuju]

I can never get over that maybe-David Carradine in the thumbnail.

[@asorls1]

One of the best of the series.

[@GlitchanBlack]

4:10 & 6:37 are such hilarious quotes from Crow. XD

[@mnsnerd]

Years ago, Michael and Harry Medved wrote a couple of books about terrible movies, and in one of them (I think it was 'The Golden Turkey Awards'), in the introduction, they wrote that one of the films described in the book was a fabrication. They then 'challenged' us to discover which one was completely made up. For years I thought it HAD TO BE 'The Creeping Terror'. A film that basically had a carpet as the horrifying monster? One that had to be almost entirely narrated because the soundtrack was lost? I couldn't believe that such a film existed, and years later when I found it that it really did . . . wow. Just wow. Thank God the geniuses at MST3K got a hold of it - now the film has a reason to exist!

[@rebeltinaschannel6240]

,What was the made-up movie?

[@MkeKen67]

Yes, what was the made-up movie, Stephen Smith. Don't leave us hanging.

[@mrpieceofwork]

Yes, please don't make me Google something today...

[@Eisenwulf666]

@@rebeltinaschannel6240 from wikipedia : One of the films nominated in the book was in fact an invention of the authors, and readers were challenged to figure out which film was actually fake. The fake film was Dog of Norway featuring "Muki the Wonder Hound". This film was illustrated using a photo of a co-author's dog. The giveaway was that the same dog was in the photo of the authors in the back of the book. Another film in the book, the now-lost 1974 porn film Him, has also been cited as the hoax, though it is known to have existed.

[@Maladjester]

Lost count of the number of MST episodes featuring movies so incomprehensibly bad they're, well, incomprehensible. Still, this is near the top of the list. So much fun ♥

[@AJF786]

"Col. Caldwell wasted no time ordering his men into action" MEN, ACTION!

[@mikezylstra7514]

SIR!

[@davidmorse3190]

Kudos to the people who made this movie... mostly because I like the word kudos

[@mrpieceofwork]

"OK, it's not going to LOOK like meatloaf, but it IS... she boils it." LOL

[@i-a-g-r-e-e-----f-----jo--b]

Thats one of the best episodes ever, thanks a lot for posting it in one piece! Funny thing is, there is another crawling carpet monster movie out there, I swear there is. I also used to sell DCM Time Window speakers so that skit with Mike totally made my jaw drop, I wish I had known of this movie so I could play the music from it to demonstrate the DCM speakers better! LOL, oh man, one of my favorite episodes, I laughed so much.

[@poetcomic1]

Truly the most disabled 'monster' in any film. It actually HURTS watching this arthritic obsese mess try to move.

[@TaritaAavik1]

monster a go-go had a man with a bad acne makeup as the "monster". Ugly in a bad way.

[@mikezylstra7514]

I got anorexic for a month after watching grampa

[@susanmorgan4151]

😂😂😂❤

[@CWPage]

58:01 “My God, what is it!” 😂 Worst but good timing for bad line and transition.

[@guysmith8363]

Loved the way some of the victims had to pull themselves up and in the rug monster's mouth!

[@Cajek2]

This might be the most boring movie they did 😂

[@jonathanhoush2384]

"Sometimes a man needs the touch of a llama." -- Most Easily Misconstrued Line

[@nextstationtoheaven]

Didn't catch that until you pointed it out!!

[@JamaicanCastle]

"You folks wanna touch the llama?"

[@MarkSiefert]

@@JamaicanCastle Did you people bring matches for Mikey?

[@rimshot2952]

That whole dance scene kills me everytime. I laugh myself stupid. Is that healthy?

[@scotthurr5925]

Yes, yes it is.

[@giantlobsterboy644]

Yeah. I would score with so many chicks if I existed back then. The dances are so easy! The same goes for Catalina Caper.

[@mikezylstra7514]

No. Doing the twist can give you a severe side ache.

[@ramseydoon8277]

​@@mikezylstra7514your comment caused me to bust a gut!

[@mikezylstra7514]

Maybe you weren't 12 yrs old in the early 1960's but that was a real discussion topic then.@@ramseydoon8277

[@jonathanc4166]

The creature shows no signs of violence. Crow... Except for eating people. 😂😂

[@docthemetalfreak]

the poor baby in this movie. he would have to look back on hiz film career going "I had a bit part in The Creeping Terror. what a start for my movie career".

[@TaritaAavik1]

I bet as it grew up, it would've been scarred for life to being featured in such a disaster-piece.

[@TheRogueWolf]

A movie monster whose success was based entirely on humanity having the collective IQ of half a chickpea.

[@kira-dk2mx]

+TheRogueWolf Sounds like the humans from the transformers movies.

[@kenetickups6146]

so, one that could actually take us out

[@matthalbmaier6113]

The Rogue Wolf a giant walking oversized rug with a cloaca

[@danielbacca7980]

+TheRogueWolf, the suspense was unbearable.

[@theangryholmesian4556]

Half a chickpea? That's too generous.

[@JetMags]

my favorite comment: "Did I just hear a monster licking its lips?"

[@theSovereignMissL]

Wonderful soundtrack. Got to find it to listen to while I'm tackling shag carpets.

[@rabidrabbitshuggers]

Elizabeth Foxx This made me laugh so hard lmao

[@PCGamer77]

This seems like the most Coleman Francis film MST3K ever did that wasn't actually made by Coleman Francis.

[@AshleyPomeroy]

The Giant Spider Invasion also has a Coleman Francis smell - but in colour, with Packers fans. He would probably have included a scene where the hero tries to shoot spiders from a light aircraft.

[@rabidrabbitshuggers]

PCGamer77 This makes Red Zone Cuba look like The Grapes of Wrath.

[@HylianFox3]

"Ah yes, and what would a Coleman Francis film be without Coleman Francis Mountain?"

[@buckweevil]

It's not quite bleak enough for Coleman Francis.

[@PCGamer77]

@@buckweevil Yes, you're right!

[@TaritaAavik1]

"Well, I guess WE'LL have to get married!" I loved that "Love American Style" segment so much.

[@andrewmurrin6145]

"Hey if you could help me out by climbing in"

[@cameronmccoy425]

59:11 MIKE: Are you sure you're not looking for the Feinberg wedding, sir? CROW T. ROBOT: Just makin' my way to the buffet, folks.

[@jamesstranack2233]

I saw this when I was like 10 or so and the monster gave me nightmares. At 26 its hilarious, imagine being scared by a car humping carpet.

[@TaritaAavik1]

You saw the movie or the MST3K episode of this? True, if you're a little, poor-looking monsters might still be scary, but as an adult, they look lame as heck.

[@gisellem927]

I had nightmares from “The Blob” for years. I saw it when I was four or five, so I didn’t realize how stupid it was.

[@BurniceWhiteZenless]

@@gisellem927 You did? It was unnverving to me, and my mother likes 50's low-budget horror movies, espically the ones with the giant monsters. You guys also admit that "Volcano" and Armageddon" are also stupid, but with the special effects looking so realistic, I found them to be extremely nightmarish instead of "bad and stupid".

[@Blueskybuffalo]

Wiki says the the SFX creator didn’t get paid so he bailed during principal photography and took the monster costume. The director and crew then had to assemble a crappy replica and this shag rug abomination was birthed into cinematic history.

[@coyoteboy5601]

Yup. The complete backstory leaves Ed Wood in the shade.

[@redpillfreedom6692]

I thought the costume was stolen. At least that's what I read off IMDb years ago.

[@stevenos100]

I can't believe I watched The whole thing

[@ilikethecokev2]

You watched it, steven

[@ericsilva4472]

Lol confirmed

[@mikezylstra7514]

I did, too. Set at 1.5X speed. The monster and the people actually move at a decent pace. It's the only way to get through this turd.

[@DGF2099]

"These people saved with MCI" A reference that aged like milk in the desert!

[@GlitchanBlack]

6:37 - "Tonight at the Metrodome: monster design by Jon Lackey." "Then, Gogo the Gorilla."

[@RaspberryPastry]

"Well, I'm finally going to propose to Debby" "That's great, let's see the ring. Oh no, the ring is stuck!" "I guess we'll have to get married!" Daaa da da da dada da

[@GhostScratch]

I always loved that skit, they mocked a very corny and cringy 70's show their own way! Even more so since It's Gypsy who suggested they do it. (In contrast to her innocence and inexperience in Hercules and the Captive Women)

[@nomatchesformikey7768]

I don't know what it is about Tom and his pop gun going off. But it makes me crack up every time. Dare I say, I find it adorable

[@darkprose]

I love the whole whispered dialogue about the narrator which leads up to Crow saying, "But he gets results!"

[@phylliselizahb1041]

Laundry Day in Deep 13! "Trappings of a coffee house" makes the bots on the SOL "pretentious." Dr F gloats, flossing his toes w/a green sock! GREAT shot of Trace's gorgeous knees. What's not to love?

[@oldfan1963]

Previously, I had thought the Horror of Party Beach was the most ridiculous monster. But this form -follows-functionless thing takes the prize

[@gogglespisano24]

I paused at "this town desperately needs a leather bar" and laughed for a good minute,🤣

[@BleachFan9891]

The meandering terror.

[@analogkid01]

Pirate King 89 The I'll Get There When I Get There Terror

[@Evertide05]

The But If You Can Meet Me Halfway And Crawl In That'd Be Great Terror.

[@AshleyPomeroy]

The Sauntering Unease

[@trdowden5326]

The Creeping Carpet

[@plinkitee]

The Shuffling Scourge

[@mrsmforlife]

I want that carpet for my living room. :) I love that the narrator who describes stuff does it when people are talking but says nothing when nobody's talking...

[@DrGregoryHouseIT]

We're the Special Unit, HELLO! XD

[@ladyk8459]

The whole scene where the alien emerges from the spaceship had me in stitches. 😂😂😂

[@timcirulis5273]

That's what the coffee house in my town was when these first aired, spot on. Lol

[@Soundofwindonsand]

Everything is quiet in the house, my cat's are freaking out every few minutes from their Dad's spontaneous outbursts of Laughter 😾😁😾

[@analogkid01]

The channel owner stepped in to remind ubernoobslayer not to count his chickens before they hatch, but while doing so was eaten by a giant space alien carpet-thing. Those around were amazed by analogkid01's complete lack of situational awareness and slow reaction time.

[@sirtalkalotdoolittle]

The same sound guy must have worked on Monster-a-Go-Go. Most of that ended up being VO because they used a potato for a microphone.

[@venuspluto67]

"How many shots of guages do you need in any one movie?" Especially alien gauges with Earth numerals on them.

[@Contemplativeman101]

This coffee shop thing was and remains right on the nose

[@ramseydoon8277]

"Finally, here comes someone with rhythm!"

[@Rhodes1966]

"Plan 9 from Outer Space" has been dethroned as the worst Sci-fi movie in history by "The Creeping Terror". The king is dead someone kill the king. This one actually made "deep hurting" a reality. Not even MST could save it.

[@roetheboat1]

I don't know. I think that Monster A-Go-Go or Castle of Fu Manchu are equally as bad, if not worse.

[@Rhodes1966]

roetheboat1 Any worse and ones head would implode lol. The carpet remnant monster and sheer overwhelming stupidity of the victims in TCT just cant get any worse, but yeah those are in the same basement.

[@TaylorRussell_TheAnimator]

Rhodes1966 not to mention the egregious audio problems, and I'm not even talking about the narrator. The sheer abuse of the "wind" sounds, the near constant "monster" screeching, and the same sound clip of the same lady making the same scream, over and over and over. Man, I'm beginning to think the entire goal of the production was to disgruntle viewers so deeply through repetition it would incite a nation-wide riot to end the entire motion picture industry as a whole. Our boys on the SOL did their best but I wish I coulda been there in the writers room hearing them rip this one apart without the filter of character or correctness, now THAT would be a hoot!

[@Rhodes1966]

Well the producer was a con-man after all :D

[@Rhodes1966]

Yeah it depends on if the stink barrier is broken and a movie so exceeds badness as to become funny now that is special. Ed Wood lives heh

[@barbdwyre]

Thank you so much for posting this. Pure comedy gold; some of it intentionally funny, some of it not. I'm going to have to watch it a few more times to make sure I catch everything. This first time around I'm mostly just astonished by...well...everything.

[@nikzanzev2402]

I cannot comprehend the fact that time and effort was spent to make this... this... what is this? Thank you MST3k for salvaging this... this... ahh... I give up...

[@whitehuayra]

Aagh! Its creeping towards me. I shall stay where im at and make no attempt to flee

[@GhostScratch]

Me: Stay, my ass! I'm outta here!

[@theOstenHugo]

“which one of us is talking?!?” my laugh was literally identical to Mikes after that riff!!! 🤣🤣😂😂😃

[@frankcolumbo4481]

the guy at 52:38 looks like a cross between Jerry Lewis, Pewee Herman and Ed Grimley!

[@jimweiss2939]

"earth girls are greasy " love it mst3k you guys rock spent thousands on your dvds and now my kids watch them passing the torch

[@maouprier]

35:12 What's that over there? Is that a less dreary existence I see?

[@MrZarupta]

1:25:49 This cracked me up so hard. After a 5 minute long gratuitous ransacking scene, the narrator basically says it was all for nothing.

[@Laceykat66]

How do you not like this? Did 27 people come by because they actually WANTED to watch the original and were disappointing? "Boy, ever sense my College Poli-sci prof talked about this inde classic I have wanted to see it. All I could find was THIS version? There otta be a law." Really?

[@analogkid01]

"Excuse me, I'm writing my dissertation on the Vic Savage oeuvre, and to see his films *besoiled* by these MST3k scum is beyond the pale of decency!..."

[@Laceykat66]

A PhD in Vic Savage? I'll bet you are voting for Bernie this fall.

[@carlfisher9268]

I guess you're voting for Trump. Who the fuck cares?

[@SmokingSpoon]

I remember finding the the intro and skits so very cheesy the first time I saw mst3k (they grew on me though-- I'm addicted now). I could imagine some person not getting past those.

[@TemmiePlays]

ill add my like, these guys were years ahead, and most of youtube reviewers doing "bad movies" owe MST3K a debt of gratitude.

[@OfficialSoundtracker]

@analogkid01 dude, you are awesome! I saw a clip of this episode a while back and ive been looking for it ever since! thanks for posting he vid! :D