Enjoy the top five shorts chosen by fans of the long-running livestream series The Mads Are Back, featuring Mystery Science Theater 3000's Trace Beaulieu & Frank Conniff, for their SECOND volume of greatest hits.
Relive the top 5 shorts as chosen by fans of The Mads Are Back, Trace Beaulieu & Frank Conniff's ongoing livestream series that finds them riffing on movies in the same vein as their previous show, Mystery Science Theater 3000!
Mystery Science Theater 3000's Trace Beaulieu ("Dr. Clayton Forrester" & "Crow T. Robot") and Frank Conniff ("TV's Frank") present an all-new episode of their long-running livestream series The Mads Are Back, featuring the iconic duo riffing on a batch of bizarre vintage shorts, just in time for Spring!
The Mads Are BACK! Mystery Science Theater 3000's Trace Beaulieu ("Dr. Clayton Forrester" and "Crow T. Robot") and Frank Conniff ("TV's Frank") present an all-new live-riff the 1951 B-movie BRIDE OF THE GORILLA, starring Raymond Burr, Barbara Payton and Lon Chaney Jr. just in time for Valentine's Day!
Mystery Science Theater 3000's Trace Beaulieu & Frank Conniff are back for an all-new holiday special that finds them live-riffing a batch of truly bizarre shorts. But this time: THEY'RE ALL ANIMATED!
Mystery Science Theater 3000's Trace Beaulieu & Frank Conniff return after a brief hiatus for a big Halloween special that finds them live-riffing the 1959 sci-fi schlock classic, THE GIANT GILA MONSTER! A movie that feature far too little monster, and way too much chatting about skid marks.
Mystery Science Theater 3000's Trace Beaulieu & Frank Conniff wrap up four years of monthly livestreams with their sixteenth compilation of vintage shorts: A Night of Shorts 16.
When American foreign news correspondent Larry Stanford meets the elusive Dr. Suzuki in Tokyo, he finds himself succumbing to both infidelity and gallons of alcohol, all before growing a hideous second head in the 1959 horror film... THE MANSTER!
A crew of astronauts land on Mars in an attempt to do... something... while they wander around the Red Planet hoping to find... someone... culminating in a 15-minute monologue by the disembodied head of John Carradine! They're not in Kansas anymore... it's The Wizard of Mars!
Mystery Science Theater 3000 stars Trace Beaulieu and Frank Conniff (“Dr. Clayton Forrester” and “TV’s Frank”) take on an all-new batch of bizarre vintage shorts, mostly on the topic of child rearing, for A NIGHT OF SHORTS 15!
When Biologist Ted Baxter and Federal Agent William Grant discover a dead body washed up ashore, they begrudgingly uncover a larger conspiracy involving radiation, spearguns, and nosy secretaries in the 1955 sci-fi flick THE PHANTOM FROM 10,000 LEAGUES!
In space, no one can hear you mutiny. Mystery Science Theater 3000 stars Trace Beaulieu and Frank Conniff (“Dr. Clayton Forrester” and “TV’s Frank”) riff their way through yet another Hugo Grimaldi picture, this time the 1965 sci-fi stinker, Mutiny in Outer Space!
Mystery Science Theater 3000 stars Trace Beaulieu and Frank Conniff (“Dr. Clayton Forrester” and “TV’s Frank”) take on an all-new batch of bizarre vintage shorts, including a re-riff on the MST3K classic short, A CASE OF SPRING FEVER ("NO SPRINGS!!!")!
Mystery Science Theater 3000 stars Trace Beaulieu and Frank Conniff (“Dr. Clayton Forrester” and “TV’s Frank”) revisit an MST3K classic, and quite possibly the worst movie ever (yes... somehow worse than MANOS), THE CREEPING TERROR (1964)!
Mystery Science Theater 3000 stars Trace Beaulieu and Frank Conniff (“Dr. Clayton Forrester” and “TV’s Frank”) live-riff their second Jerry Warren picture, against their own will, starring John Carradine in what may be the worst movie they've faced yet: The Incredible Petrified World (1959)!
Mystery Science Theater 3000 stars Trace Beaulieu and Frank Conniff (“Dr. Clayton Forrester” and “TV’s Frank”) take on their unluckiest batch of shorts yet with A Night of Shorts 13! Featuring a back-to-basics collection of Coronet shorts that the duo have somehow never riffed, A Night of Shorts 13 features several instant classics from The Mads!
Mystery Science Theater 3000 stars Trace Beaulieu and Frank Conniff (“Dr. Clayton Forrester” and “TV’s Frank”) take on the bizarre and hilarious 1949 anti-weed propaganda film SHE SHOULDA SAID NO! (AKA Wild Weed; The Devil's Weed; Marijuana, the Devil's Weed; and The Story of Lila Leeds and Her Exposé of the Marijuana Racket) for a grass-blowing good time on an all-new episode of The Mads Are Back!
Mystery Science Theater 3000 stars Trace Beaulieu and Frank Conniff (“Dr. Clayton Forrester” and “TV’s Frank”) revisit one of the most notorious films every shown on MST3K: I ACCUSE MY PARENTS!
Mystery Science Theater 3000 stars Trace Beaulieu and Frank Conniff (“Dr. Clayton Forrester” and “TV’s Frank”) present this special livestream event as they live-riff on an all new batch of bizarre shorts for their TWELTH shorts compilation and Season 3 finale: A NIGHT OF SHORTS XII!
In the not-too-distant future, year 1980, there lived a guy named Captain Frank Chapman, and he kinda… sucked? Revisit the 1961 sci-fi flick THE PHANTOM PLANET, with Mystery Science Theater 3000’s Trace Beaulieu & Frank Conniff providing necessary (and hilarious) quips on everything from the egregious use of Francis X. Bushman to the seemingly endless array of broken wine glasses.
A group of teens find themselves entangled in a global conspiracy to transform them (and others) into obedient servants, forced to walk aimlessly around an island full of... nothing? Luckily, Trace & Frank are here there to provide something in the way of entertainment as they live-riff on what just may be the worst movie they've ever riffed: TEENAGE ZOMBIES!
Mystery Science Theater 3000 stars Trace Beaulieu and Frank Conniff (“Dr. Clayton Forrester” and “TV’s Frank”) present this special livestream event as they live-riff on an all new batch of bizarre shorts for their eleventh shorts compilation: A NIGHT OF SHORTS XI!
The dead of night is alive with the dead! Or something... it's hard to tell what's actually going on in an Ed Wood movie, but Trace & Frank do their best with one of the lesser-known "Kelton" movies, and one of Wood's most baffling works overall: NIGHT OF THE GHOULS!
A suave secret agent with a penchant for both time-travel & racism races against time to stop Los Angeles from being destroyed by a sinister organization of fireworks dealers known only as "The Dragons". Will Justin Power and Espionage Inc. save LA from mass destruction? Unfortunately, there's only one way to find out: by watching Dimension 5!
Mystery Science Theater 3000 stars Trace Beaulieu and Frank Conniff (“Dr. Clayton Forrester” and “TV’s Frank”) present this special livestream event as they live-riff on an all new batch of bizarre shorts for: A NIGHT OF SHORTS X!
When space alien "Derek" lands in an unknown/non-regulated filming location, he breaks with his race's tradition of harvesting giant lobsters for food, setting off a chain of events that can best be described as "tedious" in the 1959 sci-fi classic: Teenagers From Outer Space!
When Dr. Paul Carruthers (Bela Lugosi) feels slighted by his employers, he unleashes Hell with wings in the form of a rather floppy-looking bat that attacks its perfume-wearing victims from the night skies in this 1940 horror movie: The Devil Bat!
It's a Halloween miracle as Trace Beaulieu, Frank Conniff, and Chris Gersbeck throw on some familiar costumes and host an evening of TERRIFYING shorts for their very first Halloween special: A Night of Shorts 9!
Bela Lugosi and Tor Johnson star in this Ed Wood film about a mad scientist and his monstrous sidekick who lure victims to their secret lab, and feed them to a limp octopus once they get bored with them. It’s the 1956 sci-fi classic, Bride of the Monster!
Claude Rains stars as the most annoying man on the planet who is as obsessed with his plants as he is with telling everyone that Earth is about to be attacked by an alien species in this 1961 Italian sci-fi flick, Battle of the Worlds!
Trace Beaulieu & Frank Conniff live-riff on an all-new batch of demented shorts during their A Night of Shorts 8 livestream, including a redo of the MST3K classic, Mr. B Natural!
What happens when you film a movie using leftover sets & costumes and a lackluster script that goes literally nowhere? Cosmos: War of the Planets! An Italian sci-fi flick that makes about as much sense as its title.
A mad scientist and his girlfriend put their relationship to the test after she gets decapitated and he jumps through hoops trying to find her a replacement body, in the schlock classic: The Brain That Wouldn't Die!
Trace Beaulieu & Frank Conniff live-riff on an all-new batch of demented shorts during their A Night of Shorts 7 livestream! Featuring shorts such as, The Wonder of Our Bodies," "Sharing Work at Home," and "Helping Johnny Remember."
When a man keeps dreaming of a beautiful woman he's never met, he takes it upon himself to visit a doll shop in the middle of the night, as one does. What he discovers is an evil cult forcing attendees to sit through the world's most boring open mic in The Devil's Hand!
A former Nazi scientist with a lot of time on his hands and very little in the way of home decor plans to travel back in time and stop Hitler's suicide in what may possibly be the lowest budget time travel picture of all time: The Yesterday Machine!
The Mads are back! Join Mystery Science Theater 3000 stars Trace Beaulieu and Frank Conniff (“Dr. Clayton Forrester” and “TV’s Frank”) for this special livestream event as they present an all new live-riff on an all-new compilation of bizarre films and cartoons!
It’s a Christmas miracle as Trace Beaulieu & Frank Conniff riff on a movie they hoped they’d never, ever watch again: Manos: The Hands of Fate. This time with a pristine 1080p print thanks to Ben Solvey’s 4K restoration. Now you can see the pile of dirt Torgo is forced to sleep on!
Astronauts and their rather unhelpful robot companion land on Venus only to stumble upon a group of scantily clad women who worship a pterosaur as God, and aren’t too fond of the Astronauts for killing their God. It’s the 1968 Mamie Van Doren-starring sci-fi flick directed by Peter Bogdanovich, Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women, gloriously riffed on by Mystery Science Theater 3000's Trace Beaulieu & Frank Conniff.
The Mads are back! Join Mystery Science Theater 3000 stars Trace Beaulieu and Frank Conniff (“Dr. Clayton Forrester” and “TV’s Frank”) for this special livestream event as they live-riff on an exciting new batch of bizarre short films & cartoons!
When the inhabitants of a small Illinois town begin vanishing, it’s up to Ed Nelson and a rag tag team of UFO investigators to solve the case over an excruciatingly-long 60 minutes in the 1958 sci-fi borefest THE BRAIN EATERS!
When a series of killings plague a small Santa Monica beachfront, a conspiracy unravels that is both uninteresting and boring in the schlocky sixties beach party flick, THE BEACH GIRLS AND THE MONSTER (1965)!
Trace & Frank close out the first year of their online series with A Night of Shorts 4, featuring several segments of "Space Angel," "Cindy Goes To A Party," "Coffee Break," and "How To Say No."
Robert Loggia is in a race against time and our patience in the 1958 sci-fi flick THE LOST MISSILE, a movie we would have preferred went missing instead, wonderfully riffed on by MST3K's Trace Beaulieu & Frank Conniff.
A high school student infiltrates a gang to exact revenge after his father is murdered by a jazz band that won't stop soundchecking in T-BIRD GANG, a pulpy, noir flick that gets gloriously riffed by Trace & Frank.
Trace & Frank perform their THIRD compilation of shorts for A Night of Shorts 3, featuring classics such as "Managing Time," "Don't Get Angry," and "Marijuana.”
After a UFO crashes in the San Fernando valley, authorities hunt for a remarkably cheap looking special effect in the form of an invisible alien, while trying to figure out the mystery of what the hell the alien is trying to tell them. It's PHANTOM FROM SPACE, and thank heavens MST3K's Trace Beaulieu & Frank Conniff are here to save us from the slog.
Arch Hall Jr. leads THE CHOPPERS, a "youth gone wild" flick, and manages to sneak in a few non-sensical songs thanks to his dad (who produced the film).
The Mads’ seventh livestream from January 12, 2021, including classics such as Blasting Caps: Danger!, How To Keep A Job, Overcoming Fear, and The Trouble with Women.
Santa Claus's plan to deliver gifts to the children of the world is thwarted by a devil named "Pitch", who will stop at nothing to make Santa's evening really lousy in SANTA CLAUS VS. THE DEVIL. Luckily, a girl named Lupita has enough faith in Santa to this Christmas a special one indeed, not to mention Trace Beaulieu & Frank Conniff are here to make the movie fun!
Gor, a powerful criminal from the planet Arous who takes the shape of a disembodied human brain, assumes the body of scientist Steve March, played with gusto by John Agar. What follows is the schlocky sci-fi classic The Brain From Planet Arous!
The Mads’ fourth livestream from October 20, 2020, including their first live-riff compilation A NIGHT OF SHORTS 1 featuring classics such as Mighty Mr. Titan, How to Be Friendly, and The Cautious Twins.
The Mads Are Back! Join Mystery Science Theater 3000 stars Trace Beaulieu and Frank Conniff (“Dr. Clayton Forrester” and “TV’s Frank”) for this special livestream event recorded live September 15, 2020 as they live-riff through 1956 film noir Walk The Dark Street.
The Mads Are Back! Join Mystery Science Theater 3000 stars Trace Beaulieu and Frank Conniff (“Dr. Clayton Forrester” and “TV’s Frank”) for this special livestream event recorded live August 18, 2020, as they live-riff through William Castle's 1959 classic, The Tingler.
Trace Beaulieu & Frank Conniff, "The Mads" from Mystery Science Theater 3000, took their touring act online on July 21, 2020 with a live-riff of Ed Wood’s GLEN OR GLENDA (1958), and have held the monthly tradition ever since.
