MST3K - Favorite Moments - The Creeping Terror

In episode 606 we are back in monster territory when an extremely slow moving alien monster -- or carpet commercial gone horribly wrong -- attacks a small town, turning the population into its own personal buffet.
As a matter of fact, the monster carpet moves at such a sloth-like pace the population -- being the kindly folk they are -- help the poor, carpet monster by not walking away from it at a leisurely pace - and actually force feeding it with themselves.
Maybe they were trying to kill it through indigestion...?
Oh, and just as a side note - it's never a good idea to show all of the monster at the very beginning of the film -- especially when it looks this ridiculous.
Anyway, look out for Operation Mild Surprise, the unbearable whiteness of being, a very un-involving video game, greasy earth girls, questionable use of a hand, the creeping newlywed, the dramatic potential of a rectal thermometer, a boy shedding his antlers, the young Peter Graves chronicles, portrayal of deep, clinical depression, a disapproving Jackson Pollack, obscene use of a small car, actual dialogue, gestures, a soldiers creeping terror, a monster from Radio Shack, Jack Nicholson's courteous driving school, perfection of the dial, and the special unit (HEEELLOOO!).
Enjoy!
P.S. Is it just me or does our "hero" look a lot like Bruce Campbell as "demon Ash" in Evil Dead 2 at certain angles?

[@bobanderson3009]

The story behind how and why "The Creeping Terror" was initially made is Hollywood legend. The so-called producer took a lot of money from housewife/seniors investors, then when he was caught he tried to escape justice by actually making this hilariously inept film.

[@robertmcginty4146]

Wait, so "The Producers" is based on a true story? Mind blown.

[@Anynom]

To quote from another MST3K ep: "You can walk on your hands and outrun the thing!" This makes Bert I. Gordon look like James Cameron.

[@Pimp-Master]

The monster is so slow moving, that victims would have time to run away, resume their original position and run away again.

[@danielwilson8604]

"Aaaaaah, run for your life!.... no wait i left my hat."

[@demonkingbadger6689]

Could take a nap

[@poetryjones7946]

😂😂😂

[@nataliewaters7415]

"You know, everyone was fourty back then. Good thing drugs came along." XD

[@DJPenguino51]

To this very day I can't fathom how and why people can be eaten by a monster that travels slower than a 3 toed sloth. Amazing! :)

[@hebneh]

"My god, what is it?!" It's a large mass of dirty carpeting, apparently.

[@BlueEyes7452]

"Bobby has often observed his parents at night."

[@ThePeterBluth]

The point of view of Helen Keller...I can't believe I missed that one.

[@alexcardosa8079]

being the kindly folk they are -- help the poor, carpet monster by not walking away from it at a leisurely pace - and actually force feeding it with themselves. That explains this movie completely.

[@BryonYoungblood]

I love the end with Mike and the bots saying "End!" rapidly before "The End" pops up. :D

[@fpg213263fu]

5:01 Tom: What's She doing? Crow looks, and then His reaction made Me laugh.

[@jimzeirke1127]

“Now cough, honey.” LOL!

[@monkeymouse]

"We're the Special Unit--Hel-LOOOOO!"

[@andrewmurrin6145]

Actual dialogue startled everyone!

[@DrThunder88]

"Creeping Nepotism" This movie is terrible. It's like 'Monster a Go-Go' with a plot.

[@janetremsing6988]

😂 At least they cared enough to have a plot! 😂

[@mugiwaraboshi37]

"This terror's not creeping--it's clipping along just fine!" has got to be one of my favorite jokes from any MST3K.

[@noirakita]

The point of view of Helen Keller. Did I have a baby when I was waving goodbye? Have the army send in bass and drums! Everyone was 40 back then.

[@dclefevre]

"I don't know what it is, so let's start shootin'!"

[@robertmcginty4146]

One of my favorite riffs is when the monster is shuffling along and looks like it's head part is bowing repeatedly, and servo says, "Thank you! Thank you!" My roommate at the time and I used to do that a lot. One of us would walk in the room doing that and it was the other's job to say, "Thank you!"

[@millerdp]

Robert McGinty Actually, he said “Good morning.”

[@SkuubaSteve]

"Ya know, that monster would make a great tent!"

[@BereniceMacChruim]

The girl screaming “My God! What is it?” like an annoyed mother always gets me laughing. This whole episode is a treasure trove of riffs and scenes. I can still quote parts of the Bobby and Grandpa segment

[@youreadarling]

They sound like they really had fun ripping it out of this film. I may have to watch the full version.

[@rubystevens4593]

9:44-- "My God, what is it??" Best. Line. Ever.

[@Replicaate]

Well, it IS creeping!

[@brianstraight9308]

Got to give it that.

[@chthoniapodcast]

My favorite comment wasn't shown, but it was in the scene when the monster was in lover's lane, and flips the "skidoo" car-- "I can't get this vending machine to work. I just wanted a Clark bar.". And also at the dance hall: "Sponsored by Thom McCann..."

[@robpalmer9051]

There's a "semi-documentary attempt" about the making of this flick titled "The Creep Behind the Camera". If you enjoyed 1994's "Ed Wood", I recommend giving that movie a watch.

[@ParodyStuff242]

Bradford told Martin what he had just confirmed: "I'm dying!" I laughed so hard I couldn't breathe.

[@ricardoeflores7033]

"he's making his own broth", can't stop laughing every time I hear that.

[@monkeylove10101]

One question remains.....how did it fit through the door of the dance hall???

[@DrGregoryHouseIT]

Um... if you could help me by climbing in...

[@brianstraight9308]

Mother to baby: "Let's take your temperature." Servo: "Uhhh.... I don't think I want to watch what's about to happen here." (mother takes out thermometer) Crow (as baby): Wait, you're going to stick that where?!

[@thumperka]

My stomach was hurting so much from the roller rink music near the end lol

[@robertmcginty4146]

I heard hints of the Napoleon Dynamite soundtrack.

[@nygiantsfan6]

Great episode. You can't really see from this video, but most of the movie's soundtrack was lost before it was released, which is the reason for the narrator. There are entire scenes - like at 8:00 - where he goes through what the characters say almost word for word from the script. It's laughable how bad it is.

[@iaincowell9747]

+nygiantsfan6 I heard differently, that the movie was shot without sound, and that dubbing was to have taken place after production. But they didn't even have enough money to complete it. And that was the reason for the narrator & parts with no sound.

[@MOG007]

Funny monster moments from an old horror movie. MST3K "The Creeping Terror" 1966

[@MOG007]

I like the way the victims just climb right into the monsters mouth XD!

[@eddysgaming9868]

"Jackson Pollack disapproves." :D

[@MadeleineAtterbury]

Alien was lucky it landed on a planet where people don't run from danger but prefer to just scream their heads off.

[@MrJohndoakes]

'Monster A Go-Go' had a plot, it's just that they didn't relate it well.

[@LibbyStein-Torres]

The monster looked a giant artichoke with warts and Gummy Worms sticking out of it's mouth

[@calonstanni]

The monster looks like Dani in Midsommar when she's watching her bear-boyfriend meet his fiery death.

[@Brittonbubba137]

"Actual dialogue startled everyone!"

[@JamaicanCastle]

2:37 They missed a perfect opportunity for an Airplane joke. "Well, I could make a grain silo, or an airplane hangar..."

[@racheledwards5926]

My god, what is it?!

[@Mzpenelopepitstop]

This is my all time favorite MST3k. Everything about it is insanely hilarious!

[@rabapab23]

Oh yeah, one of my all time favorite lines... I'd walk a million miles for one of your smiles.. kills me every time.

[@sapphirewingthefurrycritic985]

That terror looks like a sleeping bag that was brought to life by Frankenstein and the movie looks so washed out you can wipe yourself clean with the film.

[@HeadofSpectre]

"My God. What is it?!"

[@SeoulMan]

My God, what is it

[@ilikethecokev2]

"Ooh, cannabis!"

[@obsidian179]

“This county has missiles, Sir?!”

[@glennhendrickson7993]

My favorite movie filmed in Nebraska

[@philipmonihan8222]

What about the part where Martin invites the Allen home for supper, WITHOUT TELLING HIS WIFE! (D'oh!)

[@l.salisbury1253]

I am surprised neither the Misfits nor the Cramps ever wrote a song about this sad little film!

[@janetremsing6988]

I am GUMBY damnit! 🙂😂

[@NODNS_n_M.ORD11630]

More like the agonizingly slow ambling terror

[@TaritaAavik1]

I called it the "Walking Boredom"

[@monkeymouse]

How did they get such a large cast for such an incompetent schlock-film?

[@tomlahr9372]

There is a biographical film, made circa 2015, about the producer, A.J. Nelson, and how he was obsessed with making this horrible film (which he thought would be “huge”, and make him millions). The guy was a real asshole, cruel and manipulate to everyone unfortuanate to meet him, the primary victim being his poor wife. This bio. film is in the same small but fascinating genre; the great Hollywood losers club eg, Ed Wood,(eg, the Johnny Depp filn8, A.J. Nelson,(The putrid “Creeping Terror”) Tony Wassua (“The Disaster Artist” with James Franco)-its the same fascination that made MST3000 so popular and funny-these guys were so talentless-yet so determined- that in spite of themselves and their terrible films, they became, well, infamous.

[@debradisharoon]

He's making his own broth!!

[@chaosinc.382]

This was definitely someone's fetish film

[@Ridgway55]

that carpet could use a Brazilian.

[@scoobyrds]

3:10 Well, i'm sure he knows what he's doing.

[@garybusey9941]

Most of me is laughing at how ridiculously bad this movie is and how on point the crew is. Another part of me is amazed that the director thought the rectal thermometer scene should be kept in. And the oddly shaped part of me that makes strange noises and that I've kept locked in a small closet for most of my life wonders what color of zebra pattern dress the wife was wearing in the scene where she was washing dishes.

[@steveg8322]

It’s so fulfilling being married....

[@PixarShark]

It’s weird......as silly as it is, there IS still something really unsettling about the monster. 😳

[@teresas8173]

Well witnessing binge eating is worrisome, concerning.

[@markwilliamson9383]

k.d. Lang!

[@BryonYoungblood]

@DrThunder88 Sucky part is it is a LOT like Monster a Go-Go! X_X

[@JeonardShadby505]

MY GOD. WHAT IS IT.

[@johnwriter8234]

. "What will you HAVE , Barney ?" . ..."your WIFE !" .

[@perplacymp]

@auritone All hail the riffs!

[@ZINGGO]

My favorite part is when the soldiers attack lol

[@dennissmith5807]

My favorite episode.

[@greggrobinson5116]

Creeping Terror is truly one of the worst films ever made, and why it doesn't get more respect as a Bad Movie baffles me. It makes Manos seem like Citizen Kane in comparison. The only reason it's not high on more All-Time Worst lists is possibly that it's so bad, people can't sit through it.

[@tr4480]

I said Doctor Bradford arrived!

[@celsoprincipal351]

otimo p/ zeus.

[@kylestubbs8867]

1:16

[@jetfire851]

Is it me, or is the narrator the same one from all the shorts?

[@RIXRADvidz]

I won't thumbs down it, but I'm not a fan of Mike. even though he was a head writer for a while. I'm strictly Joel.

[@teresas8173]

He was head writer for most of the series. I like them both. They have a different style, but I find both really funny. And their relationships with Tom and Crowe is different yet both great - Joel, who created the bits was fatherly and Mike like a big brother. Joel picked Mike as his replacement from what I’ve read.

[@sapphirewingthefurrycritic985]

I don’t see a creeping terror. Just a boring dumbness.

[@dustinarmstrong1168]

Or boring numbness. Perfectly describes watching this film.

[@maniacaldude]

This could easily rank up high on the list of worst movies that was ever riffed on MST3K, and a lot of it, besides the horrid camera and audio quality, has to do with the titular Creeping Terror itself. It looks appallingly ridiculous and crawls slower than a limping two-legged tortoise, so it's hard to buy even for a second that this thing manages to eat as many victims as it does. And speaking of the victims, most of them must be brain dead idiots. Why do so few of them ever think to run away from this big, slow carpet abomination? Does it paralyze them from its sheer hideousness? To lift a quote from another MST3K ep, "you know, John Goodman on Hume Cronyn's back could outrun this guy!" Also, when I initially saw this movie (the riffed version, of course,) I was actually kinda hoping that once the Terror was killed, the heroes actually cut that thing open on the possible chance that the people inside were still alive, sort of like The Wolf And The Seven Young Goats, but that would be assuming that any of them had functioning brains. At the very least, Mike and the bots got a lot of great comedic mileage out of this cinematic turd. "Well, you see, when a monster and a small car love each other very much..."