Although I’m sure there are many… pieces… missing from MST3K – pieces of brain matter, sensicality, other bits of film and metal, this is the piece we’ve got. What’s going on right here is the collected POSTERS from the movies watched and spoken on by the MST3K robots and dude. The films this crew watched ranged many years, through the 50′s, 60′s, 70′s, etcetera, through graphic design terror and genius. Turns out the posters for the movies they featured on this show have QUITE a range and, now that the internet is around, are totally sitting around all over the place. And now they’re all here.

A big fat gallery of posters from the MST3K movies. Here. Now. Instantly.

MST3K is also called, by those long-winded folks in the audience, Mystery Science Theater 3000. It’s a show made by some people living in our home-town state Minnesota, the first episodes recorded at the now defunct Paragon Cable studios and customer service center in Hopkins, Minnesota. It went on to collect an intense cult fan base and rock for almost 200 episodes, plus live shows, plus mini specials. The entire experience consists of a dude and several robots sitting in a movie theater watching old, weird, and often terrible movies, commenting out loud about them as they’re shown. You may recognize the shadows of these fellows and the movie theater seats at the bottom of the screen, it’s the most iconic bit of the entire show. For example, here during Radar Men from the Moon:

Each episode of MST3K a movie is introduced, watched, skewered, and giggled about and that’s it. But those movies had lives of their own before this show. They had time in the theater, time in schools (if they’re informational “growing up movies”), sometimes even time in people’s homes, and for that they needed posters for promotion! We’ve got the big list of those movies, and using our long, tendrilly fingers and amazing archiving sites such as the most fabulous Wrong Side of the Art and MST3K Temple, we’ve collected the major bulk of the MST3K series – in poster form.

Curation of this collection often produced one single poster, more than likely the most fabulous one, but in some cases the whole lot was necessary. For example, Godzilla vs. Megalon – that movie was loath to create a poster that wasn’t basically perfect. But then there’s also films whose posters were just terrible, just as bad – or sometimes worse! than the films themselves were, but are now amazing because of it. A giant hand!

Below you’re going to find this gallery of posters in alphabetical order. The big list of MST3K’d films can be found here: mst3k.wikia. If you see or know of a movie on this list that doesn’t have a poster in the gallery below, AND you know where to find one, speak up! We’ve got 150+ out of the nearly 200. Note that the alphabetical order of this list is based on the “official” film title as it comes from that wikia list, not as much from the posters, as lots of them are in the situation where they’ve got several releases and several titles.

This post is part of the World Famous Design Junkies bad taste category.