The Mads Are Back: The Masochism Collection
Poster art by Carmen Cerra
Original Language: English
Produced by Chris Gersbeck
Written & Performed by Trace Beaulieu & Frank Conniff
Release Date: January 12, 2024
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Eight films and two shorts so painful... they were watched a second time! It's The Mads Are Back: The Masochism Collection!
This exclusive digital box set features eight classic B-movies and two shorts originally featured on the cult television program Mystery Science Theater 3000, with all-new riffs written & performed by MST3K's Trace Beaulieu ("Dr. Clayton Forrester") and Frank Conniff ("TV's Frank") over the years during their ongoing livestream series, The Mads Are Back!
Featured films:
The Mads Are Back: Santa Claus vs. The Devil
The Mads Are Back: Manos: The Hands of Fate
The Mads Are Back: The Brain That Wouldn't Die
The Mads Are Back: Bride of the Monster
The Mads Are Back: Teenagers From Outer Space
The Mads Are Back: The Phantom Planet
The Mads Are Back: I Accuse My Parents
The Mads Are Back: The Creeping Terror
Featured shorts:
The Mads Are Back: Mr. B Natural
The Mads Are Back: A Case of Spring Fever
As streamable bonus features, this collection also includes Q&A's with J. Elvis Weinstein & Andy Kindler, Bridget Nelson, Jackey Neyman Jones, Mary Jo Pehl, Rachel Lichtman, Bob Fingerman, Myka Fox, Kliph Nesteroff, and Steve Soliar, which were originally recorded during each of the events' livestreams.
Frank Conniff is a comedy writer and performer who began his TV career writing for the Peabody award-winning series Mystery Science Theater 3000, where he also played “TV’s Frank,” the bumbling yet lovable mad scientist sidekick. He then went on to be a writer, producer and actor on the ABC TV series Sabrina the Teenage Witch, and he was a writer and producer on The Drew Carey Show on ABC, The New Tom Green Show on MTV, and the satirical series O2BE on the Oxygen Network, where he was also a cast member. He was head writer of the animated Nickelodeon series, Invader Zim, and also was a writer and producer for the Air America Radio network, where he provided material for on-air personalities Rachel Maddow, Marc Maron, Lizz Winstead, Al Franken, Janeane Garofalo, and Randi Rhodes. He was a writer and performer on Viewpoint with John Fugelsang on Current TV, and on Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell on the FXX network, and he also writes and performs on The Jimmy Dore Show on Pacifica Radio.
Trace Beaulieu is a comic actor, writer, performer. He was a founding member of the Emmy- nominated, Peabody Award-winning, cult hit show Mystery Science Theater 3000. In addition to writing, occasionally directing, designing and building sets and props, Trace performed the puppet character Crow T. Robot, and mad scientist Dr. Clayton Forrester. He repeated these roles in the 1996 film version of the show, MST3K: The Movie. Trace wrote for ABC’s America’s Funniest Videos for nine seasons. He played a recurring character on Freaks and Geeks, and has had cameo appearances on The West Wing and Arrested Development. For six years, he toured with the original cast of MST3K in a live movie riffing show called CINEMATIC TITANIC. Trace is currently the voice of A.R.T. the robot on Paul Feig’s Other Space on Yahoo TV.
