You know, I'd love to see some Ed Wood movies on the show. Or how about something different, namely two hours of old Fleischer Studios cartoons, back when they were really weird and before the Hayes Code forced them to censor it all up. How weird are those cartoons? Well, one example I can think up off the top of my head was that one with a talking ghost walrus voiced by Cab Calloway (Whom they also rotoscoped to provide the animation for) singing a song about a girl falling in with the wrong crowd and dying miserable and alone. And yes that cartoon actually exists. It's called
Minnie The Moocher. And if you want even more evidence of Flescher's early work being supremely fucked up, check out
this little bit of insanity.
Or maybe you could do some Roger Corman movies, which are a goldmine for absolute cinematic crap as far as I'm concerned. I'd love to see you do King Kong, Phantom of the Opera(The Lon Cheney version), Nosferatu or Night of The Living Dead; seeing as they're public domain, but I don't think you'd actually do them because they're waaaaay too damn good to do the MST3K treatment to.
Or maybe, and this is highly implausible but worth a try, you could contact Troma and ask for their permission to let you put one of their films on your show. I mean, they're all for helping out independent filmakers, so why not help a guy trying to put on a little show that combines the dual charms of MST3K and Vampira's old show. I'm sure that Lloyd Kauffman would be happy to give you his blessing. I saw the guy once at this little indie theatre in my town called The Loft where he was premering his latest film Poultrygeist (Which was awesome), and he seemed like a really likable guy.
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