Political fever is in the air as Nightmare Theatre returns with the 1973 satire "Werewolf Of Washington" starring Dean Stockwell. Meanwhile, The Baron pursues his own political ambitions as he runs for Neighborhood Watch Captain - but who will be his opposition?

A mysterious stranger arrives in Furnace Flats, New Mexico just as demonic happenings begin in this 1961 stinker. Meanwhile, the Baron discovers that El Sapo may have made his own deal with the devil.

The title tells it all in this mish-mash of classic horror and western tropes from 1966, as El Sapo's cure for Mitten's unfortunate skin condition results in the return of a familiar, unwelcome face to the NMT studios.

Vincent Price is the titular character in this post-apocalyptic classic from 1964. Back at NMTV23, El Sapo becomes convinced that the world has ended and he and the Baron are the only non-zombie survivors.

This Americanized version of the 1966 kaiju classic that introduced the world to the legendary giant flaming turtle, and the little boy who loved him. But what's Gammera up to now? The NMT crew find out in an exclusive interview.

You better watch out - Kris Kringle gets embroiled in a Martian power struggle in this low-budget lump of coal from 1964. Meanwhile, the real Santa is traumatized by El Sapo's insults and is unable to fulfill his duties, leaving the NMT crew holding the bag.

Beloved Bond villain Richard "Jaws" Kiel stars as the title character, a prehistoric caveman living in 1962 California, whose life is subsequently ruined by an adventure writer looking for easily exploited subject matter, his drippy daughter and her talent-less, oddly misshapen boyfriend.

Four-time Oscar nominee Claude Rains stars as an impossibly grumpy scientist who discovers an earth-shattering secret in this semi-futuristic 1961 production, as the NMT crew wonder how such a talented and distinguished actor ended up in a bad Italian sci-fi film.

It's annual employee evaluation time at the NMTV studios, as the gang screens this 1958 shocker about a cemetery director who believes he causes clients' deaths by sticking pins in a map of their plots, inspiring the Baron to improve Sapo's dismal performance with a job board.

There's a ghoul in school in this 1961 English-dubbed Italian thriller, set in a boarding house for female troublemakers. Meanwhile, Mittens decides to give higher education the old college try, as Sapo seeks financial aid from the Baron.

A wealthy publisher sends an expedition to prepare for an island theme park, only to find a mysterious baby creature - and his giant-sized parents - in this 1967 Japanese kaiju film, as the Baron concocts his own exploitative tropical island development scheme.

A small Texas town is terrorized by the titular lizard, and it's up to a teenage garage mechanic/rock-n-roll singer/munitions expert to save it in this dopey drive-in drama from 1959. Inspired by the highschool hijinks, El Sapo starts a hotrod club, and Mittens invents a new dance. Meanwhile, the monster's troubled post-debut career is profiled.

The gang returns to the NMTV studios with the help of special guest Deep Roy. and dig up this creaky 1963 thriller, directed by the legendary Francis Ford Coppola - proving conclusively that even cinematic geniuses can make crummy movies. Meanwhile, Sapo gives Mittens an axe and...

Mittens is stalked by an "investigative journalist" who threatens to expose him to his local access cable audience, as the NMT crew suffers through this 1977 made-for-TV stinker about a mysterious creature wreaking havoc on a ski resort.

A concert pianist loses his hands in a car crash, and a mad surgeon replaces them with those of a criminal in the 1962 version of this oft-filmed French novel. Meanwhile, an unfortunate accident on the NMTV set gives Sapo an opportunity to perform some experimental surgery of his own.

Zombie-mania hits the NMTV studios as the gang screens this incredibly low-budget effort from 1959, wherein yet another mad scientist is turning fun-loving teens into unquestioning slaves. Sapo becomes concerned with both the growing zombie menace and the tendency to use middle-aged actors to play teenagers, and turns the corporate might of Von Doren Industries to produce products for both potential markets.

El Sapo conjures up a demon to the NMTV set, while screening this 1961 shlocker wherein a man's dreamlike visions of a mysterious woman lead him into a Satanic cult.

The NMT crew suffer through this 1971 micro-budget retread of "Creature From The Black Lagoon" wherein a team of scientists discover the titular beast, a half man-half octopus, deep in the Mexican swamps.

Bad movie mainstay John Agar stars as the sheriff of a rural Texas town embattled by a mutant creature, the result of a government experiment gone horribly wrong, in this 1967 stinker.

A microwave malfunction brings a sadly familiar face back to the NMTV studios, as the gang screens this lurid 1951 tale of a jungle wedding, voodoo curse, and some big league monkey business, featuring a young Raymond Burr and an old Lon Chaney Jr.

The NMT crew slogs through yet another small-town-menaced-by-monsters movie from 1978, notable only for a cameo by legendary horror host Richard "Count Gore De Vol" Dyszel.

A prodigal son returns to his father's estate, only to discover he suffers from a family curse perpetrated by an evil reverend in this late-70s low-budget monster mash, directed by and starring hillbilly impresario Earl Owensby.

A meteor turns people into zombies in this laughably inept 1980 flick from legendary low-budget producer Fred Olen Ray. Meanwhile, the Baron is forced into damage-control mode as the enraged citizens from the rural Florida town where the movie was made threaten NMTV with legal action.

A secret government project sends four unwitting volunteers into a technological nightmare in this drab drama from 1972, as Sapo attempts to recreate the experiment on an equally unwitting volunteer - himself.

Goodness gracious, it's great balls of (alien) fire in this ludicrous low-budget laugher from 1973. Back in the NMTV studios, the Baron schools Sapo in the difference between good and bad scifi, and Sapo comes up with a "Cremators" brand coffee creamer.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.