Starring Michael J. Nelson, Bill Corbet, Kevin Murphy U.S. Box Office: N/A Rated NR Release Date 2007

The Film Crew is a new incarnation of the cult tv hit Mystery Science Theater 3000, starring Mike Nelson, Bill Corbet and Kevin Murphy (who played Mike, Crow and Tom Servo-respectively on the latter years of MST 3K.) Only this time around the guys play TV repair men who’s boss, Bob Honcho, phones in from some odd location giving orders to the crew to create an audio track for some old obscure terrible B movie.

It’s pretty much just like MST 3K except there isn’t a silhouette at the bottom of the screen during the movie. But the concept of tearing apart these old movies still holds strong. The fact that these guys can still pull this same kind of comedy off 10 years after MST 3K went off the air is a testament to their comedy genius. There was only four installments to The Film Crew, and there doesn’t appear to be any plans to make more. The official website is no longer there and according to a statement by Kevin Murphy posted on Wikipedia, "We haven’t gotten any new orders from Shout Factory! (which handles the distribution of the DVDs)...I think you may have seen the last of the Film Crew."

I am a HUGE MST 3K fan so when I stumbled across these one day by pure chance (not to mention, my pure delight) I bought all four without having even seen one. These are a must see if you are a fan of the old MST 3K or if you’re new to the “riffing” concept, this is a great place to get your feet wet.

Grades:

Wild Women of Wongo: A
Killers from Space: A-
The Giant of Marathon: B+
Hollywood After Dark B+