Mystery Science Theater 3000: DEATHSTALKER AND THE WARRIORS FROM HELL

May 3, 2017 5:14 PM - Season 7, Episode 3

"The Most Action-Packed Deathstalker Yet!" A smug sword guy roams a standard fantasy realm trying to overthrow an evil wizard or something. General consensus is this is a terrific episode. The movie is deeply cheesy and bad, and yet the others in its series are just as bad but also contain tons more nudity, so count yer blessings! Plus great riffing, classic movie lines like "Potatoes are what we eat!", and a bunch of Lord of the Rings references before they were cool. Host segments take on Renaissance festivals and romance novels. YouTube (1h31m) Premiered February 17, 1996.

Episode 703 DEATHSTALKER AND THE WARRIORS FROM HELL
Satellite News - Mighty Jack's Episode Review - War of the Colossal Fan Guide - Annotated MST3K

Amazing Colossal Episode Guide: Kevin Murphy's Recollections

(Because I forgot it last week, here's Paul Chaplin's memories of 702 THE BRUTE MAN.)

Movie
Daddy-O's Drive-In Dirt
Rotten Tomatoes (Critica N/A, Viewers 21%) - Wikipedia
IMDB (1988, 2.4 stars)
Directed by Alfonso Corona. Written by Howard R. Cohen. Starring John Allen Nelson, Carla Herd and Terri Treas.

posted by JHarris (12 comments total)

"Potatoes are what we eat!"
Except when the hashbrowns contain bits of golf balls. I just thought I'd get that over with early before I make up some poutine for the viewing party...
posted by oneswellfoop at 6:54 PM on May 3, 2017

Huzzah!
posted by Chrysostom at 7:18 PM on May 3, 2017

I put ... the beats...in my own script...and I'm sticking ...with ...them.
posted by wittgenstein at 7:27 PM on May 3, 2017

So, in retrospect, it looks like Thom Christopher (Troxartas) was pretty much just reprising his role from Wizards of the Lost Kingdom, which got covered in season 11.

He'll always be Hawk from Buck Rogers to me, though.
posted by Chrysostom at 8:44 PM on May 3, 2017 [1 favorite]

He'll always be Evil Colonel Whatshisname from that one soap opera to me. You can tell how deep of an impression he made, what with my highly detailed memory of the role.
posted by CheesesOfBrazil at 3:01 AM on May 4, 2017

Looks like he worked on a couple of soaps. Love of Life, Edge of Night, and Loving.
posted by Chrysostom at 12:27 PM on May 4, 2017

Sorry this is going up late, the whole House AHCA vote thing was soundly depressing. Anyway....

Tonight's showing is again on rabb.it, at https://www.rabb.it/rodneylives. The plan is to show:
7 PM ET/4 PM PT: 1104 AVALANCHE
9 PM ET/6 PM PT: 703 DEATHSTALKER AND THE WARRIORS FROM HELL
11 PM ET/8 PM PT: 1104 AVALANCHE again, or another episode determined by viewers

Last week our remaining viewers at the end of 702 were kind of tired out and no one wanted to keep watching, so we called it early. Such a thing may happen again, depending on how people feel. It is six hours of bad movie mirth.
posted by JHarris at 1:25 PM on May 4, 2017

It's inevitable that Jonah and the bots will soon be riffing C-SPAN. It's the only way to make Congress watchable...
posted by oneswellfoop at 2:49 PM on May 4, 2017

What does it say about this modern world that we'd all like to be stranded on a satellite with a couple of bots?
posted by valkane at 3:00 PM on May 4, 2017 [1 favorite]

I mean I am already watching bad movies and getting my supply of fresh air threatened by psychopaths on the regular.
posted by ckape at 9:23 PM on May 4, 2017 [1 favorite]

Sad I missed the screening last night, this is probably favorite sword and sorcery movie they did pre season 11.
posted by hobgadling at 10:49 AM on May 5, 2017 [1 favorite]

He'll always be Hawk from Buck Rogers to me, though.

...and my head just exploded. No wonder he was naggingly familiar in Wizards of the Lost World - I guess I only looked at his film credits on IMDB.
posted by Funeral march of an old jawbone at 6:05 AM on May 8, 2017