#mst3k jack frost

[bekilybi]

Baldur's Gaaaayyyy

[mst3kgifs]

Tonight, on a very special Grizzly Adams...

[algusunderdunk]

Whenever I see Jack Frost on MST3k I'm always taken by how Marfusha cracks nuts in her mouth by punching herself in the jaw. It's such a great moment and I love her for it.

[polaraaace]

Update: @ all the people voting SATICB, I desperately need to hear your reasoning

[gaykarstaagforever]

It's the time of year for the annual viewing of Morozko (1964)!

The only movie bold enough to feature Santa Claus stopping an attempted suicide, Baba Yaga attacking a man with Ents, and a tiny mushroom wizard turning a man into a bear-man for not thanking him for giving him a bow and arrows. There is also singing. And people laughing at a woman trying to wrestle geese in a bog. Sometimes a movie just SCREAMS late November.

You probably know it from the MST3K episode, "Jack Frost"

Here is a fan subbed version of the full movie (either remastered or just taken from a print that was stored properly. And even this upload is 10+ years old. There is an even nicer DVD transfer on YouTube, without subs. Check it out if you want to be weirded out by a movie from 1964 looking like it was shot yesterday. Even crap film stock captures raw images at like 4K+. You just have to light it with miniature suns)

[liliana-von-k]

I am sad to report the passing of Inna Churikova (1943-2023), who MSTies will of course recall for her unforgettable portrayal of Marfúshka in JACK FROST. She had a long and varied career in both stage and film.

[cornballer]

MST3K did this one, it’s called “Jack Frost.”

It’s actually not terrible, at least not in the ways that so many of the films they riff on are (looking at you, 1950s crime stories and scifi schlock). The colors are rich, the plot is pretty coherent and brisk, and the foreign (Russo-Finnish) fairytale nature of the production gives it a dreamlike quality that sets it apart.

aleksandr rou, {1964} морозко

[certifiedwerewolf]

I FINALLY found a streamable copy of Mystery Science Theatre 3ooo the Movie!!

As a teenager my entire exposure to MST3k was my vhs copy of the movie, which I watched a frankly unhealthy amount of times. This vhs is also why Cold Comfort Farm is one of my favorite movies; it had the trailer on it and it was over a decade before I could watch it but I pretty much had the trailer memorized.

Anyway, I haven't been able to find a streamable copy so for years I've just been wanting to watch it again and couldn't :(

[takato1993]

Wait the Jack Frost episode of mst3k .... Is not the horror movie

[bencan-t]

What's your favorite MST3K episode?

It's really hard for me to pick an absolute favorite, but some of my favorites are:

Pod People

Werewolf

Touch of Satan

Jack Frost

Final Sacrifice

Cry Wilderness

Mac & Me

Beyond Atlantis

[kariconqueso]

"She makes Olivia Hussey look like Thelma Ritter."

Natalya Sedykh in Morozko (1964)

[amygdalae]

I need to watch the mst3k jack frost episode again

[mst3kgifs]

So the premise of this movie is that everyone is just nuttier than all get out.

[gaykarstaagforever]

So you click it, have to click unmute, which immediately defaults play to the entire video the clip is from, so you have to look at the bottom and click back to the actual clip.

Youtube, if you want to compete with TikTok (ha ha ha), you can't do it like this.

[romanlightman001]

Father Frost/Jack Frost/Morozko (1964) 720p English dub (MST3K)

[the-hype-dragon]

the continued adventures of reading the bear and the nightingale:

page 44: "flighty as a butterfly"

page 52: a bolt of brocade fabric is described as "tedious" and a horse "flicked her ears like a coquette"

speaking of tedious: the trend of three descriptors for every noun and action continues. this kind of thing has the potential to be very beautiful and rhythmic but when it is happening every other page it is simply. Not

page 55: "her painted eyelids trembling like wounded birds" my god

the word "unmolested" is used twice within a handful of paragraphs, look. there are certain passages you can tell were written on the same day. an idea gets in your head and you just can't let it go. so the same word shows up multiple times in a short span, disappears for a hundred pages, etc. been there done that lmao

what's killing me about this book so far is there is some legitimately good writing but then Arden pulls out fucking "flicked her ears like a coquette" and "her painted eyelids trembling like wounded birds" like honestly lmao this is the biggest nitpick I have about most YA lit, even back when I fell into the target demographic. not everything needs a simile and most similes are pretty terrible

also: not a huge fan of an idea getting explained to the audience only to be explained again a few pages later; the grand prince's reasoning for wishing his nephew to marry Pyotr's daughter is explained at great length and then again in the next chapter

I have heard Things about the stepmother and already I am dreading that subplot lmao I'm soooooo glad the descriptions of marital rape and her subsequent misery are from her husband's standpoint. wtf

also I am kind of just tired of the way people write immortal characters lmao it's all the same template and it is booooooring

last but not least this is based on the same fairy tale as the dubbed monstrosity Jack Frost, which is honestly pretty charming; I first saw this movie in season eight of MST3K, and it's one of my favorite episodes. honestly being a mistie sometimes is a curse because I cannot take this book seriously; it is trying its damnedest to be moody and ~atmospheric~ (blech) but all I can think of are the bear and Father Mushroom jokes from the MST episode. I know he's Morozko in Russia and in this book but already I'm just calling him Hunky Jack Frost in my mind