Mystery Science Theater 3000: TEEN-AGE STRANGLER

July 14, 2016 1:17 AM - Season 5, Episode 14

aka "Terror in the Night." "A caress... an embrace... then DEFILEMENT AND DEATH!" "Budding young teenie-boppers were this Bluebeard's prey!" A serial killer is terrorizing the town, attacking teenage girls. Lt. Anderson thinks it's because parents are too lenient with their kids. Darn kids! With short Is This Love?: A young couple runs away to get married. This would be the first "normal" Mike episode, and fan buzz is that it's a pretty good one. Mike and company have a lot of fun at Mikey's expense. The character was played by John Humphries, who appeared at the first Conventio-Con, and filled us in on some info: few people who made this movie went to do any other movie, and the movie's featuring on MST3K caused a renewed interest in it in the town in Huntington, West Virginia, where it was made, where it got a 1994 theater showing. YouTube (1h32m) Premiered November 7, 1993.

Episode 514 TEEN-AGE STRANGLER with short IS THIS LOVE?
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Movie
Daddy-O's Drive-In Dirt - Rotten Tomatoes (N/A Fresh, 18% Community) - Wikipedia
IMDB (as "Terror in the Night", 1964, 2.0 stars)
"A troubled teen with an undeserved criminal past is the suspect when young women start turning up around town dead and marked up with lipstick."
Directed by Ben Parker. Written by Clark Davis. Starring Bill Bloom, John Ensign, Rick Harris and John Humphries as "Mikey."

Short
Daddy-O's Drive-In Dirt
IMDB (1957, 1.8 stars)
Written by Lillian Bilkey and Paul H. Landis. Starring Lynne Gorman and Craig Slocum.

posted by JHarris (3 comments total)

These really dark 50s ones are hit or miss for me. I enjoy it at short length but this or I Accuse My Parents are...kind of downers.
posted by Chrysostom at 10:55 AM on July 14, 2016 [1 favorite]

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This week the viewing is in the usual place, the MeFi MST3K room at cytu.be, and at the usual time, which is 9 PM US Eastern/6 PM US Pacific time on Thursday. More information can be found in the updated Club FAQ.
posted by JHarris at 1:21 PM on July 14, 2016

I'll miss this one; I have a conflict, but I'll be around next week for BatWoman.
posted by wittgenstein at 3:54 PM on July 14, 2016