Extended Preview: SAMSON AND DELILAH
Added 2023-09-22 17:08:06 +0000 UTCBehold, Traxians! We've got a brand new riff today for your enjoyment, and it just so happens to be our first Biblical epic! Funny story, though: trying to find this exactly telling of Samson and Delilah on iMDB was not easy. Turns out this story has been told quite a lot! But this is the only one with a young Daniel Stern in it.
We’ve riffed pretty much every type of movie under the sun, but Samson and Delilah is our very first Biblical epic!
Except for the Thumbelina segment of Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny, of course; that’s gotta be in the Old Testament somewhere.
Naturally, we wanted to pick something special and grand for our first foray into the genre, so we went with a TV movie from the 1980s. The production values may have you thinking it’s from the 60s, until you see a young Daniel Stern facing off against Philistines. Yes, before he was a Wet Bandit in Home Alone or a reflective baby boomer narrating The Wonder Years, he was a Biblical soldier guy! The movie also features the legendary Max von Sydow as a Philistine general, certainly the role he’s remembered most for today.
Watch the first five minutes here, then enter the coupon code SENESCHAL during checkout at rifftrax.com for an extra 5% off the full VOD riff (for a limited time).
You can also download the video over on Vimeo.
Back with a Talkin' RiffTrax episode for this modern-ish old-fashioned tale soon!
Comments
Just finished it and I liked it! As I mentioned in an earlier post it was nice seeing MK&B do something different. I especially loved the “Roar” and Helltrack riffs.
Oliver Langland
2023-10-07 03:12:50 +0000 UTCI , too, was thinking of the moisture farm
Barbara Stuber
2023-09-28 00:28:14 +0000 UTCWow, that is awesome.
Karl Hamann
2023-09-23 14:02:12 +0000 UTCOh hey! That's awesome, and I remembered someone else pointing this out. I'll run this past the team (once I verify that we're not double-counting anything...)
RiffTrax
2023-09-22 17:35:40 +0000 UTCIt also happens to be RiffTrax production #1,000 (522 feature films, 462 shorts and 16 TV episodes according to the RiffTrax homepage.
Charlie Guenette
2023-09-22 17:23:36 +0000 UTCNow I've got those Bushwhacked running gags from Cinema Snob in my head.
andimalloutofbubblegum
2023-09-22 17:11:46 +0000 UTC
