About this season
The Baron Mondo Von Doren is a minor demon assigned to inflict misery upon mankind by way of bad movies. With his sidekicks—the masked wrestler El Sapo de Tempesto and pet werewolf Mittens—the Baron introduces old horror films in a humorous manner with little respect and a side of intriguing film history.
Episodes (13)
1. Manos: The Hands of Fate
Aired 31 October 2023 • 120 min
The NMT gang return with the fully restored version of what may be the worst film ever made, as Sapo starts a manservant school and the Baron becomes a hotelier - with Torgo's help.
2. Night of the Blood Beast
Aired 4 November 2023 • 120 min
It's a double dose of Corman as brothers Roger and Gene conspire to tell the story of an astronaut infected with alien embryos bent on conquering humanity in this 1958 cheapie. Meanwhile, it appears that Mittens may be "in the (alien) family way" himself.
3. Warriors of the Wasteland
Aired 11 November 2023 • 120 min
It's armageddon Italian style in this lurid tale of a post-apocalyptic dystopia ruled by homicidal bikers, released on an unsuspecting public in 1983. Back in the NMTV studios, the Baron and Sapo speculate on the snacks that might be available following a nuclear holocaust.
4. Nosferatu
Aired 18 November 2023 • 120 min
Sapo challenges the Baron to find the movie this time, and he comes back with the F.W. Murnau silent classic, with soundtrack provided by dream-prog legends Analog Missionary. Adding to his humiliation, Sapo's parents pay the NMTV studios a visit.
5. White Zombie
Aired 16 December 2023 • 120 min
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6. Don't Look in the Basement
Aired 30 December 2023 • 120 min
A young psychiatric nurse joins the staff at a remote mental hospital and gets more than she bargained for in this 1973 "video nasty". Back at the NMTV studios, Sapo imagines he is being haunted by a mysterious figure from his past.
7. Invaders from Space
Aired 6 January 2024 • 120 min
An impending invasion of Salamander men from the planet Kulimon summons the legendary superhero Starman to planet Earth's rescue in this 1965 film cobbled together from episodes of the Japanese children's TV series.
8. Attack of the Giant Leeches
Aired 13 January 2024 • 120 min
Something is terrorizing the residents of some unnamed swamp town in this slimy 1959 sleezefest from the Brothers Corman. Back in the NMTV studios, Sapo goes on strike in protest of his failure to win Employee of the Year for the 125th time.
9. Shriek of the Mutilated
Aired 20 January 2024 • 120 min
This 1974 shlocker, which ostensibly is about a group of college students on a Yeti-hunting expedition that evolves into something far worse, inspires the Baron to dress Sapo up in an old bigfoot costume to pull off a Patterson-Gimlin scam - with sadly predictable results.
10. Night Tide
Aired 27 January 2024 • 120 min
Hollywood bad boy Dennis Hopper stars as a young sailor who suspects his new girlfriend might be a siren (the Greek mythological kind, not the loud noisemaking kind) in this vaguely atmospheric 1961 film, as Sapo regales the Baron and Mittens with his reminiscences of his hippy days when he dated a mermaid. Allegedly.
11. The Disappearance of Flight 412
Aired 3 February 2024 • 120 min
Glenn Ford and a pre-"Hutch" David Soul star in this middling 1974 made-for-TV movie about an Air Force crew's encounter with a UFO, while Sapo and the Baron dissect conspiracy theories and start their own low-budget airline.
12. Monster from the Ocean Floor
Aired 10 February 2024 • 120 min
Up from the forbidden depths comes a tidal wave of inanity as a young American artist vacationing in Mexico is terrorized by the titular beast in this 1954 film, the first of producer Roger Corman's long and mostly cringeworthy career.
13. Tormented
Aired 17 February 2024 • 141 min
A jazz pianist is haunted by the ghost of his ex-girlfriend, whom he watched fall to her death on the eve of his wedding to another woman in this Bert I. Gordon sleezeball from 1960. Back at the NMTV studios, cable access investigative journalist Dr Lester W. Sinclair is convinced that Sapo is an escaped convict, and launches a campaign to bring him to justice.