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RiffTrax

Specials 2005 - 2024
TV-14

  • 2011-06-21T21:00:00Z on - None
  • 1h 30m
  • 5d 3h 54m (97 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Comedy, Talk Show
Includes the entire 15 episode serial of the 1949 classic, Batman and Robin.

121 episodes

2011-06-21T21:00:00Z

Special 1 Comic-Con 2010 Panel

Special 1 Comic-Con 2010 Panel

  • 2011-06-21T21:00:00Z24m

This footage from the RiffTrax panel at the 2010 San Diego Comic-Con was included as a bonus on the Maniac DVD. Includes a live riffing of the short 'Buying Food'. The panel was hosted by Veronica Belmont.

The comedy event of 2009 comes to Blu-ray! The stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 meet the worst movie of all time to bring you RiffTrax Live. Join Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett live and onstage at the historic Belcourt Theater in Nashville as they riff along hilariously to Ed Wood’s classic B-movie blunder Plan 9 from Outer Space. Hosted by internet superstar Veronica Belmont, and featuring geek troubadour Jonathan Coulton, RiffTrax Live offers non-stop music and laughs. Also included is Flying Stewardess, a 40’s travel short that gets subjected to the guys’ signature brand of rapid-fire riffing.

Join Mike, Kevin, Bill and the gang for a truly magical night of comedy and cult classics with RiffTrax Live: Plan 9 From Outer Space, available now for the first time in high definition!

Bonus features include a behind the scenes slideshow and uncut versions of the "commercials" that aired during the show.

What do ice-skating reindeer, pipe-smoking santas and a parade of aquatic champions have in common? You’ll see them all in the RiffTrax Live: Christmas Shorts-Stravaganza! The stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000® have a sackfull of delightful and demented shorts to riff live onstage. Some of the forgotten gems of Christmases past prove to be the perfect targets for the rapid-fire riffs of Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett. And if that wasn’t enough, they’re even joined by comedy legend “Weird Al" Yankovic for a musical short about the wonders of pork! It’s funnier than Ernest Saves Christmas and far less creepy than The Polar Express!

Join Mike, Kevin, Bill and Al for a festive night of hilarious holiday comedy that is destined to become traditional Christmas viewing.

On August 19th, thousands witnessed what can only be described as one of the top two RiffTrax Live events of 2010. RiffTrax Live: Reefer Madness was that show, and now you finally have the chance to relive all the laughs, chortles, and fancy headresses on DVD!

In RiffTrax Live: Reefer Madness, Mike, Kevin and Bill deliver their trademark form of rapid fire comedy in front of a live audience! Lines could be flubbed! Tomatoes could be thrown! Mountain lion attacks are entirely possible!

The performance not only includes the classic anti-marijuana propaganda film Reefer Madness, but also three shorts which quickly became instant classics: More Dangerous Than Dynamite, Frozen Frolics, and At Your Fingertips: Grasses. Among the most insane things the guys have ever riffed, they’ll clear up any questions you might have about washing your clothes in gasoline and whether corn is grass.

RiffTrax Live: Reefer Madness: it’s the perfect chance to hear all the jokes that you missed because you were laughing too hard the first time!

Is there any possible downside to accepting an invitation from Vincent Price to spend an evening in a creepy mansion that was built on something called “Haunted Hill?” If so, Mike, Kevin and Bill couldn’t find it! In fact they were so eager to join Mr. Price and his terrifying moustache that they riffed the film live, on-stage, and now you can reap the rewards from the safety of home with this live show DVD!

Yes, horror classic House on Haunted Hill provides a mesmerizing walk down “people actually used to find this SCARY?!?” lane. Join the RiffTrax guys as they bring their special brand of rapid-fire comedic commentary to every skeleton-hanging-from-visible-wires, clumsy sexual overtone, and a stunningly inept test pilot whose “heroics” typically lead him to bloody his own nose after locking himself in a broom closet!

The guys are joined by guest riffer Paul F. Tompkins, comedy person extraordinaire and quite a snappy dresser to boot! They also riff two vintage, never-before-seen shorts live on-stage: Paper and I, in which a small boy is haunted by a talking paper bag, and Magical Disappearing Money, about a supermarket witch whose main concern is that you don’t spend too much on rice. No, seriously, that’s what they’re really about!

Join Mike, Kevin, Bill, and Paul for an unforgetttable All Hallow’s Eve of mind-melting comedy!

If you’re into cheesy stop-motion dragons, leprechauns in bottles, drunk Vikings, and Giants-Who-Need-Killing, then Jack the Giant Killer is for you! Actually that’s an odd set of things to be into, hypothetical person reading this, and frankly it’s about time you let us get to the point. Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy, and Bill Corbett riffed this vintage 1962 epic live in Nashville, and now you can enjoy the show in the comfort of your own home, castle, or bottle you share with a leprechaun!

Also! The guys riff the supremely weird short What Is Nothing? (spoiler: we still don’t know what nothing is). Plus two hilarious cartoons from Rich “Lowtax” Kyanka of somethingawful.com, a Behind-the-Scenes slideshow, and movie trivia slides done RiffTrax style!

Make sure all these giants didn’t die in vain - join Mike, Kevin, and Bill for a full evening of great live comedy.

Although it was made in 1936, Reefer Madness didn't become a cult hit until 1972 when the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) rescued it from the Library of Congress film archive. Thereafter, it was a mainstay on the midnight movie circuit. And it's easy to see why. The ostensible story involves a group of upstanding young high school students who succumb to the allure of the "killer weed." What follows, as if by natural progression, is a catalog of crimes that includes hit-and-run driving, loose morals, rape, murder, suicide, and my personal favorite, permanent insanity! The action is at times so hysterical, in both senses, that you may forget to inhale. Honors go to the wild-eyed, cackling hophead David O'Brien; his performance reaches a raw intensity that is hard to imagine. One measure of this film's pervasive influence is the extent to which its title continues to be invoked in news stories about decriminalization and medical marijuana. Such posterity for unintentional humor must be rare. A great film to see stoned, man. - Amazon.com

About the DVD: Every care has been taken to ensure that this DVD is of the highest quality. It comes with a rich, machine-tooled plastic case, top-grade polycarbonate coating, and reflective layer, rafted from only the choicest Sri Lankan aluminum. In order to provide you with the finest viewing experience, each of the more than 27 million pits in the reflective layer of your DVD has been hand-carved by craftsmen, one pit at a time, using old world methods.

Before packing, the disks were sent to Roger in Product Management who viewed each and every DVD in its entirety to assure quality. (Nearly 8,700 viewings into the process, Roger went mad and attempted to claw his own eyes out with the plastic fork that came with his Baja Beef Gordito. Luckily, Roger was wearing glasses, the tines of his cheap fork broke, as they so often do, and his eyesight was saved. He has been reassigned to the Custodial Department.)

One of the strangest, most baffling Christmas movies ever made, Santa and The Ice Cream Bunny defies logic, reason, and we believe several laws of physics.

Santa’s sleigh is stuck on the beach, and only one creature can help him: The Ice Cream Bunny! Unfortunately, the fire truck that the Ice Cream Bunny drives needs repairs, so he’ll be a little late coming from Pirates World, the run down theme park that he lives in. We’d like to take this moment to remind, that yes, this is a real movie that people actually made.

Never fear though, because Santa has a great story to pass the time: the tale of Jack and the Beanstalk! He'll recount to the nearby children how a Used Cow Salesman sells Jack a bag of magic beans. providing him with beanstalk-based travel to the clouds where he breaks into a Giant's castle and proceeds to steal back his stuff. The Giant is unable to react much beyond alternately eating, sleeping, and hunting for the source of a strange smell. (Hint: it's Jack.)

Filmed in front of a live audience at the historic Belcourt Theatre in Nashville, Mike, Kevin, and Bill are delighted to inflict, er, present it LIVE for the very first time!
What you may not know is - there’s more. That’s right, over 13 more minutes of Bunny that have, until now, gone totally unriffed! This time, we leave nothing out. This time, it’s Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny: Extended Edition.

Mike, Bill, and Kevin will host and perform an in-studio riff of the complete film, including those 13 never-before-riffed minutes. They’ll also present a free preview of our next slice of holiday weirdness, upcoming VOD release The Magic Christmas Tree!

Special 10 Rifftrax Live: Birdemic

  • 2013-01-31T22:00:00Z17m

RiffTrax Live: Birdemic is now available as a VOD! Relive what critics are calling “Definitely one of the top two RiffTrax Live events of 2012!”

If you loved the live show the first time you saw it or missed it because you were too busy hanging out, hanging out with your family, now here is your chance to own it! There will be solrpnls, bark beetles and animals such as seals! Plus, the show kicks off with everyone’s favorite lovable loser, Norman, in the short Norman Checks In.

Birdemic is one of our favorite bad movies of all time, and there’s no better way to watch it than RiffTrax Live. So grab a coat hanger, fire up your solar powered TV and for the love of god fully vest your stock options! Birdemic!

For the first time ever, Night of the Shorts, our live SF Sketchfest show, is available as a VOD! Watch Mike, Bill, Kevin, and an all-star crew of hilarious guest riffers take on seven classic less-than-educational shorts, filmed LIVE onstage at San Francisco’s Castro Theatre in January of this year, in all its gritty, low-light, shakey-cam glory!

Show includes:

Welcome Back Norman
Perc! Pop! Sprinkle! - with Cole Stratton (Pop My Culture Podcast) and Janet Varney (The Legend of Korra)
Choking: To Save a Life - with Kevin McDonald (The Kids in the Hall)
Cooking Terms
More Dangerous Than Dynamite - with Adam Savage (Mythbusters)
If Mirrors Could Speak - with Kristen Schaal (30 Rock, Bob’s Burgers, Flight of the Conchords)
At Your Fingertips: Cylinders - with Paul F. Tompkins (Best Week Ever, Mr. Show, Tangled)

We had a blast doing this show with such brilliantly funny folks, and we know you will too. RiffTrax: bringing Sketchfest to your Couchfest. Don’t miss it!

2011-12-24T22:00:00Z

Special 12 Gears of War 3

Special 12 Gears of War 3

  • 2011-12-24T22:00:00Z17m

Mike Nelson, the star of MST3K, and his RiffTrax crew riff on Epic's Gears of Wars 3.

Ever since RiffTrax Live: “Manos” the Hands of Fate aired in theaters nationwide, people have been asking us when it will be available for home viewing. Seriously, non-stop. Leaving notes under our windshield wipers. Lurking outside our windows at night, softly whistling the Torgo theme. Polite, perfectly friendly facebook comments. All KINDS of crazy ways!

For those who missed it in theaters, this is a completely new riff of “Manos” the Hands of Fate, the Texas-fertilizer-salesman-directed classic made famous by Mystery Science Theater 3000. All new jokes, same old Torgo. See Mike, Kevin and Bill riff it all on stage in front of a live audience at the Belcourt Theatre in Nashville!

PLUS! Before the main event, a live riffing of two extra-demented shorts. At Your Fingertips: Cylinders, from the same insane child arts & crafts series that brought you Grasses and Boxes. And Welcome Back, Norman which introduced us all to revolting folk hero Norman, along with his now famous (and also revolting) catchphrase.

The time is now! Run, don’t stumble-walk-with-accursed-goat-legs to watch RiffTrax Live: “Manos” the Hands of Fate!

Hey kids! What’s the best way for a middle schooler to impress chicks, make friends, and just dominate the social scene in general? OK, I’m hearing ‘Be really funny,’ not the answer I was looking for. ‘Kick butt at sports,’ not that either. I’ll give you a hint: “Ban…?”. No, it’s not ‘Banter in the halls wittily!’ It’s band! Marching band! Join the marching band to win the acceptance of your peers who are also wallowing away in the grim social purgatory of marching band!

Anyways, this is the plan that our hero Buzz comes up with. To his credit, he mainly came up with it after “Mr.” B Natural appeared in his bedroom and started jumping around on the bed and mimicking playing various instruments. Buzz did the right thing: just do what the crazy lady MAN! What the crazy MAN says in that situation and try to phone the authorities when she HE! When HE stops for gas on the inevitable cross country killing spree he’s trying to rope you into.

This classic music educational film, first seen on MST3K and riffed in its entirety for the first time ever as part of our Kickstarter rewards, is a chance to see an all new take on the beloved Mr. B!

At last, the ORIGINAL faked moon landing is available as a RiffTrax! A Trip to the Moon is the most famous film by French cinema pioneer Georges Méliès (aka, the dude from Hugo) but somehow he forgot to include any dialogue or audio! Silly guy! Luckily for him, we’re here to provide some, over a century later. Yes, it was made in 1902, making it the oldest thing we’ve ever riffed (with the possible exception of Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny, which scholars believe was left on Earth millennia ago by sweaty, horrible, ancient aliens).

For those who haven’t seen the film, or Smashing Pumpkins’ Tonight, Tonight video, it’s about a bunch of wizards, or maybe scientivsts, who fly a rocket into the moon’s eyeball, where they’re greeted by a bunch of freaky little monkey demon guys. In other words, the science is just as accurate as anything you’d see in a modern blockbuster.

So grab a pointy hat, strap protective goggles on any lunar bodies you know, and join Mike, Kevin, and Bill for A Trip to the Moon!

Folks, there is no dancing around this issue: the plot of the first ever Norman short is that Norman uses a public restroom. Is this a pleasant experience for Norman? How dare you ask that question. This is Norman we are talking about. Having bad experiences with toilets is the closest thing he has to a personality.

Fortunately, the director made the choice to film the entire short in stark black and white, to really amp up the despair factor, and also the sense that this might have all been found footage from a restroom surveillance camera. This lends the short a noir-ish, Bergman-esque touch to scenes such as Norman begging for change in a public restroom, and Norman overflowing the toilet.

Fans of Norman should grunt, groan, and probably steer clear of the can for at least half an hour after Norman’s been in there in what is truly one of the top three shorts where Norman roots around in a toilet. See where it all began in: Norman Krasner.

The guys behind Mystery Science Theater 3000 make fun of one of the worst video game movies of all time. Watch as they add color commentary to choice cuts of the terrible Super Mario Bros. movie. Which, if you haven't seen it, is really terrible. Seriously. It's like watching cats die. Seriously.

RiffTrax gives their special treatment to Starship Troopers.

Time to grab a stack of floppy disks, or maybe 2 of those shiny “CD-ROMs” we’ve been hearing about, and boot up our very first RiffTrax Special! The topic? 90s Cyber Thrillers. What’s a RiffTrax Special, you may ask? That is a totally fair (and totally 90s!) question. For these Specials, we’ll select a theme and a few movies we’ve never riffed, cherry pick our favorite scenes and riff ‘em up, hot and fresh. And it’s all introduced and hosted by Mike, Kevin, and Bill, right there on your futuristic video screens! Just how the 90s would have wanted it.

Cyber thrillers, and in fact the very word “cyber”, ruled the 90s. And, since it was new to most people, ridiculous depictions of the internet ruled 90s movies. In this special, we take some of the biggest offenders to task. First up, Hackers, which unforgivably tried really hard to make the word “crispy,” and also Matthew Lillard, happen. Then we have The Lawnmower Man, which predicted that the future would mostly be about polygonal virtual reality sex between giant dragonflies. Spot on! And finally there’s The Net, in which Sandra Bullock uses chat rooms (whoa!), orders pizza from a site called “pizza.net” (who hasn’t?) and faces off against her cyber-tormentors on the floor of a computer trade show (nothing says “action” like paunchy men in Dockers!)

Get your sister to stop using the landline so you can dial up and join Mike, Kevin, and Bill for 90s Cyber Thrillers! And if you’ve got an idea for a theme we could use in a future Special, let us know!

Special 20 Best of Rifftrax: Villains

  • 2013-09-27T21:00:00Z1h 30m

Over the years here at RiffTrax we’ve had the pleasure of riffing some of cinema’s finest villains: Darth Vader. Saruman. The cubbies from Setting Up A Room. But for our first ever Best of RiffTrax, we wanted to focus on some of the more overlooked villains in our catalogue. Though they may not be as iconic as some of the bigger name villains, these nefarious scoundrels’ deeds are no less evil, their laughter is no less insane, and their ponytails are no less greasy.

First up is Terry Silver, billionaire toxic waste dumper and local karate champ humiliator from The Karate Kid Part III. After that, there can be only one...second villain in our villain special, and it is the delightful The Kurgan from Highlander. And to close things out, the biggest, baddest, most non-specific villain of them all: the trees/the wind/plants from The Happening!

For Best of RiffTrax: Villains, we've pulled some of our favorite moments from riffs of the past, along with host segments by Mike, Kevin, and Bill. If you like what you see and have a suggestion for a future theme, be sure to let us know!

Note: riffed content is the same as the MP3s

Fresh out of the grave and ready to download or stream! This is the complete show, including the final short in the beloved Norman Krasner series, Norman Makes a Speech, because Norman is EVERYONE’S favorite zombie!

This classic 1968 horror film is where it all began. No, not the cronut trend, we’re talking about the omnipresent zombie craze! 28 Weeks Later, Resident Evil: Retribution, that Zack Snyder remake of Dawn of the Dead...We wouldn’t have any of them without Night of the Living Dead! (Pause to think about whether this is a good thing.)

When she’s attacked in a cemetery by zombies, a young woman named Barbara flees to an abandoned farm house. There she’s joined by a ragtag group of survivors who band together to wait out the apocalypse, with the occasional light descent into madness. The rest of the movie plays out like The Big Chill, but instead of Glenn Close sobbing naked in the shower, they board up windows and occasionally get devoured alive. So in this respect, Night of the Living Dead is the slightly less depressing movie.

Shotguns! Molotov cocktails! Exploding cars! Headshots galore! Like one of those awesome zombie video games (except you don’t get to play it), RiffTrax Live: Night of the Living Dead is guaranteed to be scarier than Brad Pitt’s beard in World War Z and funnier than the acting on The Walking Dead! You won’t want to miss it!

Many have forgotten (or choose to forget) the Santa/Martian wars of 1964: Santa Claus Conquers the Martians bravely attempts to set the record straight. Martian parents Kimar and Momar become concerned that their children Bomar and Girmar (are you picking up the “mar” theme? BECAUSE IT’S VERY SUBTLE!) have become too attached to television programs from earth. Their solution is brilliant, if a bit of a non sequitur -- they launch a plan to kidnap Santa Claus!

The nasty Martian villain Voldar (his face is coated in green oil and he has a huge mustache, therefore he’s evil) captures two Earth children, Billy and Betty, who don’t hold out for even a minute but rat out our fattest, jolliest elf without a struggle. Voldar takes Santa and the children prisoner and heads off for Mars. Only the bravery of Billy and Betty and the bumbling of a stowaway and “the laziest man on Mars”, Droppo, can foil Voldar’s evil plans!

Throw into the mix Santa and the Fairy Snow Queen, an insane short featuring a pixie named Snoopy, a horrific life size Jack in the Box, and a lion who is oh so proud of his candy eating ability, and you’ve got one of our funniest live shows to date. Please join Mike, Kevin, and Bill for RiffTrax Live: Santa Claus Conquers the Martians!

2012-12-21T22:00:00Z

Special 23 What's Happening?

Special 23 What's Happening?

  • 2012-12-21T22:00:00Z1h 30m

Only available on the Christmas with RiffTrax: Santa’s Village of Madness DVD.

This is an alternate version of our short What's Happening? (our original release version is only available on our latest DVD, Santa's Village of Madness!) wherein Bill finally gets it all out of his system. RIFFTRAX LIVE GOODIE EXCLUSIVE!

Killer Shrimp ‘N Friends - no, it’s not a new appetizer platter at your favorite casual dining restaurant, but it IS a smorgasbord of strange creatures, people, and underwear! From a ball-breaking mantis shrimp, to the seemingly-named-by-Wes-Anderson Geographer’s Cone Snail, to a dog with a penchant for unmentionables, to the UTTERLY HORRIBLE thing baby koalas put into their mouths, there’s plenty of weird stuff in the natural world for us to sink our, er, teeth into.

All that, plus an old man and his seal (strange reboot of the classic Hemingway novel), terrifying dino-birds, and tasmanian devils - not quite as tornado-y as cartoons have led us to believe, much more into “killing things and living inside them.”

There’s a lot to love in this episode, almost too much really, so get to it and join Mike, Kevin, and Bill (and, seriously, some utterly disgusting koalas) for National Geographic's TOTAL RIFF OFF: Killer Shrimp ‘N Friends!

Special 28 Rifftrax Live: Sharknado

  • 2015-02-18T22:00:00Z1h 30m

Finally, the acclaimed smash hit RiffTrax Live event of 2014 is now available to own! Considered by many critics to be one of the greatest movies ever made in the “Tornado full of sharks” genre, Sharknado debuted in 2013 to unprecedented buzz. Not since Snakes On A Plane had the internet been so excited about a movie, and not since the late 90s had anyone been so excited about anything starring Tara Reid.

From the moment it debuted, Sharknado was one of the most requested titles in RiffTrax history. It makes Jaws IV look like Jaws III, and Jaws III look like Jaws. Riffed LIVE from the State Theater in Minneapolis and broadcast to over 700 theaters across North America, this hilarious live event also features an all-new take on the Mystery Science Theater 3000 fan-favorite short A Case of Spring Fever starring Coily the Spring Sprite!

Look, why are you still reading this? It has chainsaws, helicopters dropping bombs, and the aforementioned TORNADO FULL OF SHARKS!

Decades before somebody had the revolutionary idea to do a Godzilla remake that was “good” or “cool”, Hollywood hired the director of 2012 to make one that would be neither of those things but would instead have an ad campaign co-starring the Taco Bell chihuahua. Matthew Broderick stars as Dr. Niko Tatopoulos, because obviously when you have a character named Niko Tatopoulos, you get Matthew Broderick to play him. Co-starring is the hit Puff Daddy single “Almost Certainly the Low Point of Jimmy Page’s Career” (Sample lyrics: Uh-huh, Yeah, uuh / Uh-huh, Yeah, uuh.) And in all the commercials they showed that part where the guy gets stomped on. Somehow this is a two and a half hour long movie.

About as scary as the Tamagotchi you had back in 1998 and about as loud and obnoxious as the Prodigy CD you were listening to that summer, Godzilla was one of the biggest RiffTrax Live titles we’ve ever done. Join Mike, Kevin, Bill, and roughly 82% of the cast of The Simpsons for this studio MP3 version of Godzilla!

Special 30 Rifftrax Live: Anaconda

  • 2014-10-30T21:00:00Z1h 30m

There’s riffs out there this big?? One of our favorites, now available as a studio riff, the movie that’s been called “Probably one of the top four films in the Anaconda series,” Anaconda! Anaconda stars a pre-fame Jennifer Lopez, a post-fame Eric Stoltz, and an Owen Wilson who even then was somehow ashamed of his role in The Internship despite it not happening for another sixteen years. With the help of Ice Cube (Straight Outta Compton, F@%& Da Police, Are We Done Yet?) they set off into the Amazon in search of those drones they claimed were going to revolutionize package delivery.

Then Eric Stoltz gets stung and paralyzed by a venomous wasp, so things are really looking up for our crew when they encounter Jon Voight. Voight has been obsessed with hunting down a deadly anaconda ever since the snake tricked him into selling his beloved Chrysler LeBaron to George Costanza. From then on, things spiral into a deadly game of cat and mouse, one where the cat is played by a snake, and the mouse is played by Danny Trejo.

And, as if that wasn't enough, at one point the anaconda spits a monkey right at a man’s face! How many movies can say that? Don’t miss out!

Special 31 Rifftrax Animated Intro

  • 2014-08-14T21:00:00Z1h 30m

Please enjoy our new RiffTrax Animated Intro - the theme song is written and performed by Jonathan Coulton, and the animation is by Harry Partridge.

During the Swing Parade craze of the 1940s, it was hard to turn your head without encountering a Swing Parade. With the popularity of Swing Parades soaring, a full length motion picture was inevitable. Unfortunately, the film we got was clearly rushed out to capitalize on the Swing Parade fad. How can we tell? There doesn't appear to be a single damn Swing Parade in the whole movie!

Instead, we get the Three Stooges, who wouldn't know a Swing Parade if it bit them on the...Perhaps we're overreacting here. After all, a movie with mannish landlords, songs about blind mules, and Larry must be pretty ripe for mockery. And if it's called Swing Parade but does not feature any actual Swing Parades, then all the better!

The 1966 Peanuts Halloween classic probably gives you the warm fuzzies every year, but it's not exactly LOL.

2007-12-16T22:00:00Z

Special 34 Signal 30 (Excerpt)

Special 34 Signal 30 (Excerpt)

  • 2007-12-16T22:00:00Z1h 30m

This was a proof-of-concept created to test Rifftax's video-on-demand system. The complete short was never recorded.

Carnival of Souls has all the elements of a crowd pleaser: slow motion car crashes, middle-aged men wearing pancake make-up and heavy eyeliner, greasy guys bearing unsanitary coffee, and loads and loads of creepy, tuneless organ music. Director Herk Harvey certainly knew his audience and knew how to deliver the goods.

The fact that Carnival of Souls is now sold in color will increase your enjoyment tenfold! (To be precise, the data from the National Enjoyment Council shows a 10.85-fold increase, but I rounded down.)

Grab the unsanitary drink of your choice and begin the enjoyment!

Special 36 Rifftrax Live: Santa Claus

  • 2015-04-03T21:00:00Z1h 30m

From the strange and ridiculously colorful world of K. Gordon Murray comes the 1959 Holiday classic Santa Claus. Made in Mexico and dubbed into glorious English, Santa Claus tells the story of, well, Santa Claus, who lives in a big white castle above us in Geosynchronous Orbit and watches over us all in a way that would make the NSA jealous. It’s Christmas Eve, and on Earth poor little Lupita wishes for a doll. Santa hears her wish and prepares for his yearly visit, helped by the heavily medicated Merlin the Wizard and Santa’s unintentionally creepy mechanical reindeer.

But wait, who’s that trying to foil Santa’s plans and ruin Christmas? It’s the Devil of course, who sends his leotard-bedecked demon Pitch to turn the children against Santa and ruin Christmas. Pitch endlessly plots, and fails, to thwart Santa’s magical ride. The tension mounts - will Santa be able to foil Pitch and his minions, will he save Christmas and get poor Lupita her doll? The answer is Yes, of course, this is a Christmas movie, people! Come on!

Performed live at SF Sketchfest to rave reviews, now available for download, it’s Night of the Shorts: A Good Day to Riff Hard!

Mike, Kevin, and Bill take on some of the funniest, most unbelievable vintage shorts we've ever found, live in the beautiful Castro Theatre with a crew of hilarious guest riffers!

Hilarious guest riffers, you ask? Like who, you go on to ask? Hey, thanks for asking both of those questions! Joining the guys on stage we've got John Hodgman, Paul F. Tompkins, Todd Barry, Janet Varney, and Cole Stratton! Laughs are laughed! Friendships are formed! Affectionate attachments between certain guest riffers and certain educational short characters are also formed! (ahem Hodgman ahem)

And for the finale, in an insane gambit we've never attempted before, the entire crew of guests on stage at once for an all hands on deck riffing of perhaps our favorite and most inexplicable short of all time, Setting Up a Room. What results is the best kind of madness, and a one-of-a-kind show you don’t want to miss!

Special 41 Rifftrax on @midnight

  • 2015-06-10T21:00:00Z1h 30m

Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett of Mystery Science Theater 3000 write clickbait headlines, name #BoringRealityShows and riff on awful movies on Vine.

Special 42 Rifftrax Riffs Themselves

  • 2015-07-12T21:00:00Z1h 30m

Rifftrax riffs themselves from @midnight

A classic tale of boy-meets-girl, plant-eats-people featuring Jack Nicholson in one of his first film roles. Seymour's exotic plant has an insatiable appetite for blood and flesh. As the ruthless plant grows larger and larger with each feeding, so do Seymour's affections for shop girl, Audrey. The madness culminates with Seymour and his bloodthirsty plant in a feeding frenzy of epic proportions. This timeless cult favorite is pristinely restored in high definition from rare 35mm elements.

William: From Georgia to Harlem. At last, the prequel to RiffTrax classic Guy From Harlem the world’s been screaming for! Sure, we all knew he was from Harlem, but where was he from before THAT? Answers at last!

Country boy and overalls-with-no-shirt-underneath enthusiast William finds his world turned upside-down when his family picks up and moves from drab rural poverty in Georgia to bleak urban poverty in Harlem. Ohhhh, so THAT’S where they got the title from! Because, you see, William moves from Georgia to Harlem. I get it now. It’s a very subtle title.

Harlem is a strange new world for William, as he struggles to get along with Calvin, a kid with an inexplicable and extreme hatred of tractors. When a terrifying hardcore gang (aka, a few kids who smoke cigarettes) attacks William and Calvin in the park, his small town values are put to the test. Will he survive? Will he remain “from Georgia”, and if not at what point does he technically become “from Harlem”? Will Calvin ever get over his weird tractor thing? Find out with Mike, Kevin and Bill as they take a trip with William From Georgia to Harlem!

2015-09-18T21:00:00Z

Special 45 The Litter Monster

Special 45 The Litter Monster

  • 2015-09-18T21:00:00Z1h 30m

One of the best things about litter used to be its versatility. You could just throw it anywhere! Plus, it encouraged improvisation: If you put your mind to it, anything could be litter! Food scraps, old batteries, syringes, grandpa. Just toss it at the feet of an emotional roadside Indian and be on your way!

But then the hippies had to come along, and everyone got all “groovy” this and “let’s not let the rest of the country end up like New Jersey” that. They started by indoctrinating our children with shorts like The Litter Monster, and the next thing we know our children are spouting propaganda like “Let’s paint garbage cans and put them in the park!” and “Dad, can you help us remove the rusty car parts someone dumped on the baseball diamond?” and “What happened to all those rusty car parts you had in the garage that mom’s been hassling you about getting rid of?”

The short culminates with the construction of the titular Litter Monster, a hulking abomination that begs passersby to shove their litter into its gaping mouth. It’s like a robotic homeless Cookie Monster with severely lowered dietary standards, and to be honest, we really wish there was one on every street corner in our home town.

Join Mike, Kevin, Bill, and thousands of pounds of delicious litter for The Litter Monster!

Special 46 Rifftrax Live: Sharknado 2

  • 2015-07-09T21:00:00Z1h 30m

Sharknado 2! Our smash hit summer live show is now available for download and streaming! Including the delightfully bizarre puppet-and-invisible-boy short, Parents: Who Needs Them?, which raises all kinds of important questions regarding parents and the needing of them.

When you heard about the first Sharknado in 2013 you thought, “A movie about a tornado filled with sharks? It’s too good to be true!” But it was true; and then the next year when you heard they were making another you thought, “A second movie about a tornado filled with sharks? It, too, is too good to be true!”

Guess what, it’s true! Internal shark chainsawer Ian Ziering is back, along with Tara Reid as his ex-wife who kind of likes him now, ever since her douche-y boyfriend got eaten by a shark in their living room.

This time the titular weather event hits the city of New York, right as all the gruff and busy inhabitants are trying to walk, over here! And no famous landmark is safe from their wrath, including perennially grumpy New Yorker Judd Hirsch. And there’s a fun cameo from a certain sandwich spokesman who you probably won’t be seeing in too many more movies, if we had to guess!

Live audiences loved it and now you can too, forever and ever in digital form. Join Mike, Kevin, and Bill as they button up their raincoats and dive headlong into Sharknado 2: The Second One!

Special 47 Joystiq Presents Rifftrax

  • 2012-06-20T21:00:00Z1h 30m

RiffTrax takes on Mega Man, Metal Gear Solid, Final Fantasy X, and Sonic.

If you put everything about the 80s in a blender, then somehow ran the resulting smoothie through a translator that only speaks languages from another dimension, what you’d wind up with still wouldn't be half as hilarious, weird, and oddly charming as Miami Connection.

It's 1987, and the Biker Ninjas behind the Miami drug trade are finding themselves facing the newest heroes in town: the Taekwondo-loving rock band Dragon Sound! They'll focus all of their black belt skills, alongside performing their hit songs "Friends" and "Against the Ninja" at a popular Orlando night club - to end the threat of Ninja Biker violence once and for all!

Richard Terry is back, and the soup is thicker and browner than ever! Shrugging off the embarrassments of the Demon Bat turning out to be a Regular Bat and the fearsome Naga river monster turning out to be just some ripples on the water caused by his cameraman taking a leak, Richard unbuttons half his shirt buttons, flips his camera to night vision mode, and heads to Brazil!

This time he’s in search of the Mapinguari, aka the Brazilian Bigfoot, aka, Probably A Slightly Larger Than Average Coyote or Something. It’s been terrorizing villagers. They will not leave their huts for fear it might thrust a camera in their face and demand they sign a release form—Oh wait, that’s just Richard. The Mapinguari on the other hand is constantly pretending he’s in danger and making perfectly normal situations seem fraught with peril—Sorry, sorry, that’s Richard again too.

Along the road to eventual disappointment and inevitable humiliation, Richard will scoot along a log, drug an anteater, and get drenched by a waterfall. It may be his most successful monster hunt yet. Join Mike, Kevin, and Bill for another baffling snipe hunt with our favorite intrepid explorer in Total Riff Off Episode 6: Brazilian Bigfoot!

On January 7th, 2016, the comedy world was forever changed. Some said it was the sheer wattage of star power assembled in one place. Others said it was the relentless volume of hilarious jokes delivered from the stage of the Castro theater. But one comedy historian, speaking for the first time in months from a comedy hospital bed, simply uttered the the four words “David and Hazel....LIVE!” before slumping over. Clown doctors with oversized stethoscopes rushed in, but were unable to revive the patient with a rubber chicken IV. He was pronounced dead from acute laughter intoxication.

We are not saying that you will die if you don’t watch this show! In fact, we’re saying that you may die if you do… Hm, that could be worth revising. Eh, I’m sure one of our interns will get around to that! Anyway, what you have here is quite possibly our funniest Sketchfest Live show of all time! Chortle at the deterioration of a Canadian marriage! Slap your knee as horrible hell monkeys die one at a time! Howl with laughter at the sight of Ned Blandford!

Mike, Kevin, and Bill were joined onstage at SF SKetchfest Live 2016 by very special guest riffers Bridget Nelson, Mary Jo Pehl, Cole Stratton, Janet Varney, Adam Savage, Paul F. Tompkins, and John Hodgman including a gigantic, possible world record TEN PERSON riffing grand finale!

Riffed shorts include:
The Trouble with Women
Dining Together
David and Hazel
One Got Fat
Improve Your Pronunciation
Batman: Robin’s Wild Ride

Special 51 RiffTrax Live: Time Chasers

  • 2016-05-05T21:00:00Z1h 30m

Time Chasers, the story of a man named Nick who turns his airplane into a time machine with the aid of his beloved Commodore 64. With it he woos the woman of his dreams, despite the fact that he doesn’t own a car and his wardrobe consists only of a pair of jeans and a threadbare t-shirt from Castleton State College.

The two run afoul of GenCorp, an evil mega-corporation run out of the mezzanine lobby of a small local library in Rutland, Vermont. Its ruthless CEO, J.K. (you can tell he’s evil because his hair is gelled back) will stop at nothing to steal Nick’s priceless secret.

Note - In certain parts of the movie, the audio is a tad out of sync with the video. This is actually part of the restored HD master video element from David Giancola. Welcome to Time Chasers!

By day, he’s a mild-mannered milkman with thick-rimmed glasses. But, when duty calls, he becomes something even less thrilling - Measuring Man! Does he remove the thick-rimmed glasses when he becomes Measuring Man? No he does not! Apparently when your only powers involve measurement education, you don’t have to worry about super-villains figuring out your alter ego. Besides, look at him, he definitely needs those glasses.

[Stand-Alone Live Version, taken from the Miami Connection Live Riff]

Mike, Kevin and Bill were joined on stage by their MST3K colleagues at the State Theatre in Minneapolis to bring it back to their roots in an MST3K cast reunion the likes of which have never been seen before!

Joining the guys are their old cohorts Frank Conniff (TV's Frank), Trace Beaulieu (Crow, Dr. Forrestor), Mary Jo Pehl (Pearl Forrester), Bridget Nelson (Nuveena, Mr. B), as well as Mystery Science Theater 3000 creator Joel Hodgson, AND the host of the revived MST, Jonah Ray, for a hilarious night of riffing for RiffTrax's 20th Live event.

Taking turns in various permutations to riff on a slew of old-timey shorts, the show culminates in a Super Riff-A-Palooza finale with all nine riffers on stage at once!

Special 55 RiffTrax Live: Mothra

  • 2016-08-18T21:00:00Z1h 30m

The guys who make movies funny, Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett, bring their comedy chops back to the big screen when they take on one of most beloved (and bizarre!) of the Japanese monster classics, 1961’s Mothra. Mothra tells the story of a group of explorers who travel to a remote island, kidnap two tiny women, thereby inciting the wrath of a giant larvae which then swims the ocean, cocoons itself in downtown Tokyo, emerges as the titular Mothra and destroys everything in its path. Yes, it's a tale as old as time, but Mothra does it best!

Just as Gamera became one of MST3K's most beloved series, Mothra promises to be an instant RiffTrax classic!

See how many things the 1967 short film “The Home of The Future: Year 1999 A.D.” gets right by playing along on this special bingo card!

Kickstarter 2016 reward.

The metric system. You got an angry feeling in your stomach just thinking about it, didn’t you? The world has been trying to shove this probably-better-but-who-cares system down our stubborn American throats for DECADES, but we won’t have even a centimeter of it.

Kickstarter 2016 reward.

When you think of truckers you think of a lot of things: CB Radios, speed, pee bottles, ridiculous arm wrestling training contraptions. Rarely would “The Uplifting Power of Song” be high on your list. Truck Song aims to change that!

Part of the Cyber Bonus Pack 2016.

Young Mary survives a horrible car crash, tries to start her life over with a new church organist job in a small Utah town, as one does. but along the way she’s haunted by a gaunt pale figure in a nice suit who leads her to an abandoned old pavilion on the shores of the Great Salt Lake. Mike, Bill, and Kevin riffed this spooky midnight-movie cult classic live in Nashville

The show includes live riffs of two shorts. The Dirt Witch, probably one of the top films ever made about witch cleanliness. And the unforgettable Masks of Grass, a disturbing trash-crafting follow-up to the Rifftrax classic, At Your Fingertips: Grasses!

Special 60 RiffTrax Live: Samurai Cop

  • 2017-04-13T21:00:00Z1h 30m

The cop they call Samurai takes himself and his fabulous hair (really, it is an amazing thing to behold) to Los Angeles from a faraway land they call San Diego to bust up a gang whose stated goal is putting someone’s head on their piano. Samurai and his partner, whose main task is to shamelessly mug to the camera, run up against MST3K fan-favorite Robert Z’dar for some insanely awful and hilarious fight scenes.

Decapitations, explosions, poorly subbed in stunt doubles, mangled dialogue, prominent lion heads, and unfortunate banana hammocks abound in this extremely eighties-y nineties movie.

Join Mike, Kevin, Bill, and Alfonso Rafael Federico Sebastian for RiffTrax Live: Samurai Cop!

“Summer. Summer, summer, summer, summer,” as The Cars famously sang. What they were really saying is, “Summer. It’s the time for a RiffTrax Live: Summer Shorts Beach Party!”

Yes, put on your shorts and come out and see Mike, Kevin and Bill taking on some of their favorite short films - a selection of hilarious, skewed and sometimes downright bizarre educational shorts.

And because it’s never a party without guests, the guys will be joined by RiffTrax’s own duo of Bridget Jones (MST’s beloved Mister B Natural) and Mary Jo Pehl (Pearl Forrester). And to ensure the party gets a little mad, we’ve got The Mads themselves: Trace Beaulieu and “TV’s” Frank Conniff!

We've also got Mr. Paul F Tompkins!

Slap on some SPF 30 and join Mike, Bill and Kevin for the RiffTrax Live: Summer Shorts Beach Party!

People Soup is the first short we’ve done that has been nominated for an Oscar.

(Yes, Henry Slinkman’s moving performance in Buying Food was rudely snubbed.) Evidently, when Alan Arkin points the camera at his kids while they waste a bunch of food, it’s "art," but when one of us does it it’s "the last time you ever babysit."

Seemingly shot without a script or purpose, People Soup gives hope to the maker of every pointless educational short that your efforts will one day be rewarded with critical acclaim. Best Cinematography for What is Nothing? Best Special Effects for Drawing for Beginners: The Rectangle? Best Supporting Actor for Norman Spear Jr. in Parade of Aquatic Champions?

OK, maybe not every pointless short… Join Mike, Kevin, Bill, and the Arkin boys, Matthew and Adam, for People Soup!

Kickstarter 2017 reward.

Be warned: if you haven’t watched this serious and important 1950s safety short yet, YOU MAY ALREADY BE DEAD!

...So, please take a second to check. No? Still alive? Good! But if you want to stay that way, you’d better take a close look at your life and make sure you don’t hold any of the SIX MURDEROUS BELIEFS!

These beliefs are bad, and not just “the Tim Burton Planet of the Apes is the best version” bad. They’re seriously bad. Like one of the beliefs is “Safety is for Sissies” and then there’s a cartoon of the Grim Reaper sitting on a football player. See? You get it now??? This is serious, hardcore stuff, and you need to stop messing around or the dang Grim Reaper will SIT ON YOU.

But football isn’t the only thing that can murder you. You know what else can get you all Grim Reapered? Basic carpentry! Doing science! Going outside! You’re doomed!!!

Kickstarter 2017 reward.

Special 65 Farm Family In Winter

  • 2017-11-27T22:00:00Z1h 30m

Special 68 The Griper (Studio Version)

  • 2017-11-19T22:00:00Z1h 30m

Studio version of Bridget and Mary Jo's 'The Griper', first riffed during RiffTrax Live: SUMMER SHORTS BEACH PARTY.

Special 78 RiffTrax Live: Space Mutiny

  • 2018-08-10T21:00:00Z1h 30m

Space Mutiny! The very title conjures up many memories: tiny cars, writhing spandex-witches, deadly railings. Oh, and we guess there's a mutiny in there somewhere...

Riffed in its entirety for its first time ever, more Space Mutiny means there's even more Reb Brown to love. We'll also pay a visit to "The Magic Shop", a short that is not only written by H.G. Wells, but which also likely landed him on several neighborhood watch lists! AND you'll get an exclusive look at the legendary hippo-gorilla hybrid that Dr. Moreau called "Way too unholy an abomination, even for me!"

James is on his way to school when he gets a small cut on his finger. And if you don’t for one second believe that that thin, thin gruel got turned into a seventies educational short, then what the hell have you been watching us riff for the past thirteen years??

Bleeding makes James feel Just Awful, which frankly, is good news. If it had been the opposite, say, if James felt increasingly stronger and confident as he watched his lifeblood seep out of his fingertip, the lawsuits would probably still be working their way through the court system. Instead, James gets to pay a visit to the school nurse, who is just relieved to for once have a student who is not going to barf up his Snack Pack on her.

Student Mel just loves to stir the pot at his high school, casting aspersions on one classmate’s virtue, and the football ability of others. He even goes so far to rat out the quarterback for being out past curfew!

At the dance following a game the team loses, Mel’s classmates have had it up to here and confront him. He is told in no uncertain terms to beat it! Fortunately, the narrator steps in before things get really ugly and asks the typical "Discussion Problems in Group Living" questions. So there actually will be a test!

Special 81 The RiffTrax Yule Log

  • 2018-11-20T22:00:00Z1h 30m

Holiday fireplace videos. We all love them, they bring comfort and cheer to our living rooms and family gatherings. But have they ever made you laugh?

We’re proud to present a new kind of fireplace video, one filled with festive comedy and music to be enjoyed by all! And yes, don’t worry, there is still a fireplace -- Kevin Murphy's actual Minnesota fireplace!

The RiffTrax Yule Log burns brightly for over two hours. Enjoy the fire while along the way lots of fun RiffTraxy moments pop in -- such as bits of new Christmas riffs, original songs written and performed by the guys, classic carols, nose flutes, skits and excerpts from beloved RiffTrax hits of holidays past!

There’s truly nothing like it, and no better way to keep your loved ones happy and smiling as the egg nog kicks in.

Even the Ice Cream Bunny gives it his “HURR HURR HURR” seal of approval! Spend your holidays nice and cozy with Mike, Kevin, Bill, Bridget, and Mary Jo, it’s the RiffTrax Yule Log!

Special 82 Making the RiffTrax Yule Log

  • 2018-11-23T22:00:00Z1h 30m

The RiffTrax Yule Log Behind the Scenes - Part of the Cyber Monday 2018 Cyber Pack

The Doctor is in the house! The RiffTrax house, that is! The stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000®, Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett, are back on the big screen for a legendary riffing of the 1983 Doctor Who film \"The Five Doctors.\" Someone is taking the Doctor's past selves out of time and space, placing them in a vast wilderness - a battle arena with a sinister tower at its center. As the various incarnations of the Doctor join forces, they learn they are in the Death Zone on their home world of Gallifrey, fighting Daleks, Cybermen, Yeti and a devious Time Lord Traitor who is using the Doctor and his companions to discover the ancient secrets of Rassilon, the first and most powerful ruler of Gallifrey.

Join Mike, Kevin and Bill as they join the Five Doctors for one of the most thrilling Doctor Who adventures ever!

Bill and Kevin are joined onstage by the great Paul F. Tompkins, and together they host and riff an amazing set of bizarre short films. The shorts cover every subject under the sun (y’know, because “Day”), from workplace safety to childhood safety to sentient talking pillow safety.

And that’s not all - we’ve got more guests, riffing teams and legends galore! John Hodgman, Frank Conniff & Trace Beaulieu, Cole Stratton & Janet Varney, and Bridget Nelson with Sean Thomason, RiffTrax Senior Writer, making his live riffing debut. No semi-educational short subject is safe from this crew, as they take on party-going, farm-familying, and an old cartoon about the dangers of being a kid that must be seen to be believed.

The show culminates in an “all-skate” with all 10 riffers taking the stage for the vintage conspiracy theory hysteria of Flying Saucer Mystery!

It’s a big, crazy show you don’t want to miss, and you don’t have to, because here it is, right now, where you can get it! What luck!

Riffed shorts include:
The Hothead and The Forgetter
Cindy Goes to a Party
Beginning Responsibility: Taking Care of Your Own Things
Farm Family in Spring
Mighty Mr. Titan
Are You Listening
Cautious Twins
Play Safe
Flying Saucer Mystery

Bernard has a dilemma. What will he do?

A hilarious short featuring Ronald McDonald and his pals(?) Stinky the Skunk and Merlin the Magician, who you may remember from our Christmas with RiffTrax holiday short.

Two children are thwarted in their attempts to throw their cat into a kiddie pool for a bath.

Senior citizens fight back against petty theft and gun-toting 70s teens with phones and whistles.

Alias St. Nick is a vintage Christmas cartoon. It’s from the golden age of animation, when all toys were required to come alive and just kind of bounce up and down, and all character voices sounded like a helium balloon that’s very sick. This one belongs to the “Happy Harmonies” series, the forgotten loser in the war with Merry Melodies and Silly Symphonies.

Alias St. Nick is basically Itchy and Scratchy meets Home Alone. A hungry cat finds a tree full of little mouse children and decides to eat them. So he stuffs a balloon down his pants and pretends he’s Santa to make his way inside for mousey murder. But the adorable mice see through his upsetting costume and put him through the ringer with a series of whimsical, deadly traps.

It’s not the holidays without a little mouse and cat cartoon violence, throw on your creepiest Santa suit and join Mike, Kevin and Bill for Alias St. Nick!

A clip of Mike Nelson singing the hits from RiffTrax Live: Stranger Things, released as part of the Cyber Monday 2020 bonus items.

Released as part of the Cyber Monday 2020 bonus items, a short preview of the 2020 Kickstarter reward featuring the riffers out fishing.

Special 93 Fishin' with Rifftrax

  • 2021-03-17T21:00:00Z1h 30m

We're just swinging by hard to starboard to let you know that our most anticipated fish-based product since Matthew Broderick uttered the phrase "That's a lotta fish!" in Godzilla (1998) is finally here! No, it's not the launch of our very own line of RiffTrax Brand Sardines, it's Fishin' With RiffTrax!

Hop aboard the boat as we test the old adage, "If it was about getting fish, it would be called catching." This was a ton of fun to shoot, and we know you'll have a great time watching us struggle on the shores of Minnesota.

If you backed this campaign at the $85 level or the $100 level and above, this sea-worthy excursion is a part of your rewards!

Bonus version of "A Boy of Mexico: Juan and his Donkey" riffed by Cole Stratton and Janet Varney.

Bonus version of "Borrowed Power" riffed by Cole Stratton and Janet Varney.

Bonus version of "At Your Fingertips: Boxes" riffed by Cole Stratton and Janet Varney.

Behind the scenes footage from Nashville during Hobgoblins Live pre-production

Mike Nelson from RiffTrax and Rich "Lowtax" Kyanka of SomethingAwful.com present this alternate dialogue take from the Academy Award-nominated film, "The Departed."
Part 1 and 2 combined

Special 101 Rifftrax Live: Sharknado

  • 2014-07-10T21:00:00Z1h 30m

Finally, the acclaimed smash hit RiffTrax Live event of 2014 is now available to own! Considered by many critics to be one of the greatest movies ever made in the “Tornado full of sharks” genre, Sharknado debuted in 2013 to unprecedented buzz. Not since Snakes On A Plane had the internet been so excited about a movie, and not since the late 90s had anyone been so excited about anything starring Tara Reid.

From the moment it debuted, Sharknado was one of the most requested titles in RiffTrax history. It makes Jaws IV look like Jaws III, and Jaws III look like Jaws. Riffed LIVE from the State Theater in Minneapolis and broadcast to over 700 theaters across North America, this hilarious live event also features an all-new take on the Mystery Science Theater 3000 fan-favorite short A Case of Spring Fever starring Coily the Spring Sprite!

Look, why are you still reading this? It has chainsaws, helicopters dropping bombs, and the aforementioned TORNADO FULL OF SHARKS!

Talkin' Rifftrax with Mike, Kevin, and Bill

Animated Riffer edition of "Shake Hands with Danger" featured only on the RiffTrax Shorts Vol. 1 DVD.

The RiffTones with Brian Murphy sing, "Your Ever-Lovin' Swamp Thing"

2010-07-02T21:00:00Z

Special 112 Rifftrax Bacon-Cam

Special 112 Rifftrax Bacon-Cam

  • 2010-07-02T21:00:00Z1h 30m

Rifftrax tested some new web streaming equipment by holding Bacon Cam! Live!, a celebration of America and bacon!

Special 113 Comic-Con 2009 Panel

  • 2009-07-25T21:00:00Z1h 30m

Special 114 Rifftrax: The Game Premiere

  • 2022-05-05T21:00:00Z1h 30m

To premiere "Rifftrax: The Game" to the public, the Rifftrax guys played teh game over Zoom.

2023-08-09T21:00:00Z

Special 115 Good to be Rad

Special 115 Good to be Rad

  • 2023-08-09T21:00:00Z1h 30m

Music video for "Good to be Rad" by The Rifftones to accompany the Rifftrax LIVE: Rad! show. Made available to Kickstarter backers.

RiffTrax Live! RAD Theatrical Preshow Slideshow

[2023 Kickstarter Reward]

Special 119 Festive Yule Log of Pain

  • 2023-11-26T22:00:00Z1h 30m

Yule Log featuring over 45 minutes of walking and driving scenes from James Nguyen films.

2024-01-19T22:00:00Z

Special 121 GrimTrax

Special 121 GrimTrax

  • 2024-01-19T22:00:00Z1h 30m

It’s time for GrimTrax! For the first time ever, we’ve assembled five shorts about death, loneliness, and dismemberment into one big, old-fashioned yukfest.

On their own, they would have been too depressing to put out into the world. But together, they form into a Voltron of hilarity, if Voltron was eventually going to die facedown in the snow, sad and alone.

GrimTrax has it all: Old women. VERY old women. Factory workers getting maimed so badly it would make Chuck Hamlin blush (if he wasn’t already dead. From maiming.) Alcoholic NBA fans. Kids who get ignored to death. And a short that we actually recorded way back in 2012 and decided not to release until now because WE DIDN’T KNOW IF YOU COULD TAKE IT! So please ignore any jokes in that one about Linsanity or Gangnam Style, trust us, they were hilarious at the time!

Featuring host segments from Mike, Kevin, and Bill to guide you through the gloom, GrimTrax is the perfect entertainment for a dark winter evening.

Special 122 RiffTrax Goes To Golden Corral!

  • 2024-02-12T22:00:00Z1h 30m

FIELD TRIP! The good news: you’re all excused from school. The bad news? We’re going to Golden Corral.

Yes, that’s right. After years of crafting extremely respectful new slogans, we’ve finally sent Mike, Kevin and Bill to the source itself, in search of the true Gold that can only be found in buffet form. Somewhere at the corner of a strip mall in the wilds of Minnesota, on the grayest day known to man, the guys enjoyed the meal of their lives. Was it also the last meal of their lives? You’ll have to tune in to find out!

Thrill as they try it all: the brown food group and the yellow food group. From the Smokehouse to the Grillhouse to the Outhouse, join the guys for a dining experience like no other (hopefully) as RiffTrax Goes to Golden Corral!

Special 123 RiffTrax Goes to Golden Corral

  • 2024-02-12T22:00:00Z1h 30m

FIELD TRIP! The good news: you’re all excused from school. The bad news? We’re going to Golden Corral. Yes, that’s right. After years of crafting extremely respectful new slogans, we’ve finally sent Mike, Kevin and Bill to the source itself, in search of the true Gold that can only be found in buffet form. Somewhere at the corner of a strip mall in the wilds of Minnesota, on the grayest day known to man, the guys enjoyed the meal of their lives. Was it also the last meal of their lives? You’ll have to tune in to find out! Thrill as they try it all: the brown food group and the yellow food group. From the Smokehouse to the Grillhouse to the Outhouse, join the guys for a dining experience like no other (hopefully) as RiffTrax Goes to Golden Corral!

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