Happy Friday, Traxians!
Erik here. It's the end of the work week for most of us, and we've got a new B-movie riff to kick off your weekend! Today's exclusive Traxian sneak peek is for The Alien Dead - a 1980s zombie flick which is also about aliens. What could go wrong?
When a meteor lands in the Florida swamp, hillbillies start turning up with missing limbs, an insatiable de... 2021-06-04 17:39:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi Patreon. Mike Nelson here.
In this Talkin' RiffTrax, we discuss the very straightforward plot of Gumby: The Movie which of course is the old cliché about a slab of clay animated by an unseen Moon creature who is sent to Earth to deal with robotic loan sharks.
Of course, the newly arrived god-like being and his horse companion are immediately recognized by everyone (and no, t...
2021-06-01 21:41:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy Gumby Day! We're thrilled to finally be riffing another entry in the Gumby Cinematic Universe, with Gumby: The Movie aka Gumby 1 (we think they were just a tad optimistic...).
The plot of Gumby: The Movie is fairly straightforward: an Alien creates Gumby and Pokey out of a slab of Moon-Clay, then sends them to Earth, which is populated by the country of Gum... 2021-05-28 16:47:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi Traxians! Erik here.
Our resident graphic artist and illustrator Jason Martian is a super-talented guy. And with our upcoming release of Gumby: The Movie, we thought it'd be really funny to task him with coming up with a handful of "alternate" posters. The idea here being that we'd insert Gumby and his pal Pokey into some iconic po...
2021-05-25 16:57:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Howdy Traxians!
Erik here, and ya know, if there's a genre of movie I love almost as much as cheesy sci-fi, it's cheesy action - and probably no director is more proficient in this realm than the guy who brought us Time Chasers and Radical Jack, David Giancola.
So for this week's Traxian-exclusive Scener watch party, I've selected Pressure Point, an action film about a government agent named Sebastian Dellacourt who must stop a shadowy group from b...
2021-05-18 21:45:16 +0000 UTC View Post
The video is now available! Watch with the embedded stream above, or download it here. EDIT: Updated the video to include Kevin's avatar, which was inadvertently hidden in the previous edit.
This month's Super and Ultra Traxian exclusive webinar focuses on our most claymation movie to date: 1995's Gumby: The Movie. The old Gumby shorts were always a favorite in the MST3K days, so yo...
2021-05-17 16:14:14 +0000 UTC View PostHi again, folks! Erik here, once again. I hope you're not sick of me yet!
Tomorrow afternoon (Thursday May 13th), please join me for a watch party featuring yet another riff I haven't seen - but this time, of a movie that I have seen, and already own on Blu-ray: The Visitor! It's a 1970s mashup sci-fi/fantasy/horror that will have you going "Huh?"
Hello, Traxians!
Erik here, and did you know RiffTrax was started all the way back in 2006?! One can hardly believe it. Way back in those days you had to drive to your local Blockbuster to rent a DVD copy of Road House if you wanted to enjoy Mike's solo commentary of it. We sure have come a long way!
July 20th is considered our "birthday" here, and as we've recently 2021-05-11 17:05:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi folks,
Bridget and Mary Jo are back with another installment in the "... of the Bride" series, Mother of the Bride.
In the third of the made-for-TV dramas, the family is planning the wedding of unlucky-in-love daughter Anne, while former nun daughter Mary is falling for a biker dude. All goes haywire when their long-gone deadbeat father shows up, and tries to woo Margaret back.
But all’s well that ends well - and i... 2021-05-07 18:38:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi folks,
Your old pal Erik here. I've decided to continue the trend of "catching up on riffs I haven't seen" with another pick from the oeuvre of everyone's favorite interrobang-misusing director, David DeCoteau: The Journey: Absolution!
Yes, the director of A Talking Cat!?!, A Talking Pony!?! (not yet riffed, but we should probably get to it), <...
2021-05-05 21:53:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings, Traxians! This past Friday we released our first RiffTrax Movie featuring Dolph Lundgren. Some of the things we learned from this movie:
- The New York City Sanitation Dept. has an archaeologist on call
- Servants of the Devil can only inhabit the bodies of terrible actors
- You can set your movie in the winter but film in the summer if you just blame it on global warming! James Nguyen nods his head in silent approval.
Mike, Kevin, and Bill talk about this a...
2021-04-28 19:18:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Just added to the site a short while ago, it's The Minion!
When a couple of city workers stumble upon an Ancient Indian Burial Ground, they complete their Bad Movie Cliche Bingo Card, thus unleashing The Minion. Mankind’s only hope is Dolph Lundgren, who fortunately has a Cool Spikey Glove. You might think that you need more than that when facing off with a thousand-year-old body-swappi... 2021-04-23 19:08:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi folks!
I'm not planning a regular RiffTrax Turkey Thursday watch party tonight, and I know this is short notice, BUT I still wanted to do one for Traxians. So hear me out:
Last week I screened one of my all-time favorite riffs, Star Games, and then recently Dark Future - also from Greydon Clark, the director who brought us Star Games as well as Angels' Revenge and Final Justice - was added to the 2021-04-22 19:18:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Howdy, Traxians! Erik here.
We haven't done a Disney+ movie for these Scener parties in a while, and so I thought it was time to bring our Turkey Thursdays there once more. We've had great success with syncing jokes, and Disney+ has a decent selection of movies including everything Star Wars and Marvel.
Since one of you Scenesters in chat last week suggested we watch Return of the Jedi this time around, I thought that'd be an excellent idea. And to keep the pre-show...
2021-04-14 20:30:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Mike, Kevin, and Bill sat down over Zoom to talk about the many, many questionable elements of our latest riff, Shrunken Heads, including: was this shot in the Seinfeld New York soundstage? Why are "condominiums" so important? In what decade does this movie take place? And why, of all things, are the zombies so full of gas? Learn about these topics and more in Talkin' RiffTrax: SHRUNKEN HEADS!
You c...
2021-04-13 18:16:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Well hello there, Traxians! Erik here. Does your Friday need a little more "What the--" in it? Well then have I got the riff for you.
Just added to the site moments ago, it's Shrunken Heads, from director Richard Elfman (brother to Danny), and writer/producer Charles Band (Oblivion, Subspecies), a filmmaking team-up which means you're in for some truly weird and ghoulish insanity:<...
2021-04-09 17:48:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings Traxians!
Casey June here, the lead video editor at RiffTrax.
To celebrate Bridget and Mary Jo releasing their second Just the Jokes riff - and their first dive into the world of Superhero movies - I asked them to join me on Zoom for a little Patreon Extra quiz. I asked true and false questions about the comic book origins of some of the things from the movie, and a good time was had by all!
To my fellow comic readers: despite doing my best with the lore, I know t...
2021-04-08 19:02:56 +0000 UTC View PostHowdy Traxians!
In this latest podcast episode of Talkin' RiffTrax, MJ and The Bridg' are back with me to talk about their second solo Just the Jokes outing, Wonder Woman 1984. We discuss Mary Jo's main issue with these mega-blockbusters, how someone could possibly (spoiler alert) become a living Dreamstone, and why the heck doesn't Diana use one of those retractab...
2021-04-07 19:37:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Howdy, Traxians!
Erik here. Let's do another Turkey Thursday, shall we? This one will complete the Terminator franchise movies currently available on HBO Max. I vaguely recall seeing Terminator Salvation in theaters, and I remember it being at least slightly more enjoyable than the one that came after it. Which isn't a high bar at this point, but I digress.
Before the main show, I'll host an exclusive watch party just for Traxians, featuring yet another robots-on-th...
2021-04-06 22:27:47 +0000 UTC View Post
The video recording of this live webinar is now available to all Traxians! It was half an hour of bonkers fun. You can watch it in the streaming video player above, or download it here.
Patrons at the Super and Ultra Traxian levels have the exclusive ability to join...
2021-04-05 21:32:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings, Traxians!
The DC Movie you've been begging us to riff is here - well, the one that's not four hours long. Bridget and Mary Jo took a deft hand to the most heavily dated film in DC Canon - Wonder Woman 1984!
Get the full riff here, and you can download this preview video 2021-04-03 18:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi Traxians! Erik here.
Way back in 2014, the brilliant people at National Geographic Channel thought it'd be a great idea to let Mike, Kevin, and Bill do some riffing on a few NatGeo shows. And we wholeheartedly agreed! Thus, Total Riff Off aired on April 1st of 2014.
So on the anniversary of that momentous occasion, I thought it might be fun for this Turkey Thursd...
2021-04-01 18:26:53 +0000 UTC View Post
We went back to our roots for this riff on a low-budget 1950s alien invasion sci-fi flick! Cold War Paranoia, untethered fatherly rage, backyard sandpits, and the production designer from It's a Wonderful Life come together in INVADERS FROM MARS, now available to stream and download.
Enjoy, won't you?
You can download this Talkin' RiffTrax episode 2021-03-30 18:00:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Mike, Kevin and Bill reach back into the well of bad cinema that is 1950s Alien Invasion Movies for a brand-new riff that we've just released on the site! This time, the subject is Invaders from Mars, which according to IMDb is about
"A young boy [who] learns that space aliens are taking over the minds of earthlings."
But according to RiffTrax.com,
David ... 2021-03-26 17:08:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi Traxians!
Erik here again. Be sure to join me tonight for a Traxian pre-show at 3:30pm Pacific / 6:30 pm Eastern on The Traxian Room! (EDIT: Use the code SHYAMALAN to Join!)
I'll be streaming the Extended Preview of our next feature-length riff release (a 1950s monster movie that should be right up everyone's alley!), followed ...
2021-03-18 18:51:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Howdy, Traxians!
In the "bold claims" department, there are none much bolder than that of RiffTrax stating that a movie we're screening is deemed to be, at that given moment, "the worst movie we've ever seen."
And yet, time and time again, we find ourselves capable of reaching new heights (lows?) of filmmaking quality. So it's only fitting that, after recording their riff on the newest claimant to the "Worst Movie in RiffTrax History" throne, 2021-03-15 19:00:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Traxians,
Did you know the director of Suburban Sasquatch has a movie about mushrooms going on a murderous rampage? It's true! And it's the target of our latest release, Fungicide:
Putting the fun back in -gicide, it’s Fungicide! From the director of Suburban Sasquatch... 2021-03-05 19:34:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Update March 11th:
Howdy, Traxians! As chosen by our voters, tonight I'll be hosting Turkey Thursday: TRANSFORMERS 3: Dark of the Moon on the RiffTrax Scener theater. The, uh, "fun" starts at 5:30 pm Pacific / 8:30 pm Eastern. (At least the movie is only 2.5 hours long!) An Amazon Prime subscription is required. Next week, March 18th, we'll screen the runner-up The Last Airbender via N...
2021-03-04 19:48:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Everyone knows that video games also make the best movies. Was this one made for nine-year-olds? It is likely!
The guys do an even deeper dive into the hows, the whys, and general "huh?" that is Double Dragon. Enjoy!
You ca...
2021-03-02 21:43:29 +0000 UTC View Post
It's finally here! Another in the pantheon of 90s video game adaptations, our riff of Double Dragon is now available.
The beloved arcade beat ‘em up is now a movie! Kind of!
The video game Double Dragon had a complex plot: “Bad guys punch girl so good guy punches bad guys.” Not exactly the kind of thing that fills 90 minutes of screen time, unless you p... 2021-02-26 20:29:11 +0000 UTC View Post