This week sees the DVD release of Mystery Science Theater 3000: XXVI, featuring The Magic Sword, Alien From L.A., Danger!! Death Ray and The Mole People:
"The poet Tennyson wrote that in spring our fancies lightly turn to thoughts of love. This spring, turn your fancies to the intrepid crew of The Satellite of Love with the latest installment in the Mystery Science Theater 3000 line: Mystery Science Theater 3000: XXVI. Available March 26th, 2013 from Shout! Factory, this 4-DVD set is a must-have for fans of cult television shows and B-movies alike. Featuring four episodes previously unreleased on DVD: The Magic Sword, Alien From L.A., Danger!! Death Ray and The Mole People; MST3K: XXVI also includes all new bonus features including a new interview with Alien From L.A. director Albert Pyun, an interview with The Magic Sword director Bert I. Gordon, Life After MST3K: Mike Nelson, four exclusive Mini-Posters by artist Steve Vance and more! MSTies can pre-order their copies now by visiting https://www.shoutfactory.com/?q=node/216588
For this 26th volume of MST3K, an introduction could well be pared down to “one cult TV series with two guys, two robots, four movies and 10,000 jokes.” This new collection of previously unreleased episodes picks up where the last 25 left off — seating you next to the funniest peanut gallery in television history. It’s a deep dive into the human instinct for survival, where our warped warriors aboard the Satellite of Love find the funny in the tragic…or at least the cheesy. In fact, it’s not too hyperbolic to insist that what Joel, Mike, Tom Servo and Crow T. Robot do, as they defend us against the slings and arrows of outrageously unfortunate movies, is nothing less than keep us sane. If you don’t agree, you’re obviously crazy.
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Mystery Science Theater 3000: XXVI brings us The Magic Sword, a surprisingly coherent adaptation of the medieval legend of “St. George and The Dragon.” wherein, a young knight defies his magical foster mother and sets out to rescue a princess from a vengeful wizard; Alien From L.A., a 1980s twist on Journey To The Center Of The Earth that stars Kathy Ireland as an awkward teen who goes in search of her missing archaeologist father, only to stumble into a deeply underground civilization unaware of life on the surface; Danger!! Death Ray, Aka Nest of Spies, aka Il Raggio Infernale, Danger!! Death Ray tells an archetypal story of hubris, evil and babes. When a death ray, invented for peaceful purposes of course, is stolen by a generic terrorist organization, a generic superspy is called into action; and The Mole People, the tale of two archaeologists who discover a subterranean world of albinos and their mutant “mole people” slaves descended from Sumerian refugees of a Mesopotamian flood. Weakened by light, they thin out their aging population by sacrificing them to the “Eye of Ishtar,” which is actually just a tiny hole in their world where the sunlight peeks through."
Bonus Features Include:
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