Howdy, Traxian podcast people!
Your old pal Erik here. I'm finally making good on my promise for a Talkin' RiffTrax from Bridget and Mary Jo, where we discuss their latest riff, Frankenstein's Daughter! We talked in podcast form about that, plus digressions into important topics like Ellen DeGeneres' replacement on "Ellen," Abe Vigoda jokes, and Mary Jo's impressive spelling abilities.
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2020-08-06 19:14:30 +0000 UTC
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Scientist Carter Morton and his assistant, Oliver Frank, are working to create a medicine that will eliminate all disease among mankind.
Little does Carter know that Frank is a descendent of Victor Frankenstein and has a secret project all his own. Then Carter’s niece Trudy and her boyfriend, played by cinematic vacuum John Ashley, start having suspicions about the Female Monsters in the neighborhood. Could it be curtains for Frank? Find out with Bridget and Mary Jo and Frankenste...
2020-07-31 18:21:36 +0000 UTC
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Hello, Patreon people!
In this Patreon Extra, I chat with Conor Lastowka, RiffTrax Senior Writer-Producer. We discuss Conor's path to being there at the start of RiffTrax years ago, and a movie that is close to home for him.
- bc
P.S. This interview was created as an audio post so that it works better for people who enjoy the "podcast" feature of our Patreon. Let us know in the comments if you pref...
2020-07-27 15:43:53 +0000 UTC
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Hi folks,
We did things a bit differently this time, and recorded ourselves recording the MP3 intro for the release — mainly because after three hours of these lunkheads we were sick and tired of talking. Enjoy!
-kwm
And as always, if you prefer watching things elsewhere, you can download this video h...
2020-07-24 23:51:51 +0000 UTC
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Hello Traxians, Bill here.
Here's the first in an occasional series of Patreon-only chats with me, interviewing my coworkers and colleagues about their favorite RiffTrax movies.
Today's interview is with Erik Peterson, beloved web guru and keeper of the site, talking about his fascination with FUN IN BALLOONLAND! You can download this video here.
- bc
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2020-07-23 20:18:03 +0000 UTC
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Friends, we hope you enjoy these little tête-à-têtes we bring you, because it’s always cathartic for us to pause after a recording session, look each other in the eye, and ask “What the hot-buttered hell just happened?” Today's offering, Light Blast, is no exception.
A title better suited to describe a short but loud fart, Light Blast actually prove...
2020-07-21 17:01:02 +0000 UTC
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CONTENT WARNING: This clip contains brief nudity and low-budget "body melt" effects.
DIRECTOR WARNING: This guy also gave us Warriors of the Wasteland and 1990: Bronx Warriors.
Scoreboards: usually all they do is let you know who is currently humiliating the Mets. But terro...
2020-07-17 17:33:58 +0000 UTC
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Hello Traxians!
UPDATE July 22nd: The Stranger Things Live event is happening tonight!
In just a handful of hours, at 5:30 pm Pacific Time (8:30 pm Eastern / 7:30 pm Central) visit our Scener Theater at https://scener.com/rifftrax. Click the button that appears there, and you'll be in! (You may need to log into your Netflix account if you haven'...
2020-07-14 19:00:30 +0000 UTC
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In the midst of writing our riff for Avengers: Endgame, here's ten minutes of Mike, Bill, Kevin, and senior writers Sean and Conor chatting over Zoom about our most recent release, Vengeance of the Dead.
You can download this video here.
Enjoy, Slimheads!
2020-07-13 22:57:33 +0000 UTC
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Howdy, Traxians!
Do you like grandpas? Do you like straight-to-video cheese? What about... driving scenes?
Well then you're in luck, because Vengeance of the Dead is this week's Digital Video release. Here for your viewing pleasure are the first few minutes of the riff itself. Check it out and then get the whole thing at the link above.
With a title like Vengeance of ...
2020-07-10 18:12:01 +0000 UTC
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In this here Patreon-exclusive Talkin’ RiffTrax, we discuss this week's release, STITCHES. It’s the usual old stuff, you know - an agent of Satan poses as an old spinster and moves into a rooming house in order to suck the souls out of the other boarders and turn them into paper dolls who then do her bidding. Some of them get turned into evil wads of paper, but now we’re nit-picking.
Join Mike, Bill and I ...
2020-06-29 17:08:04 +0000 UTC
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Satan walks among us and he’s a… sassy grandma??
When a mysterious old lady shows up at a quiet boarding house, many of us consider putting on something more exciting, like one of those YouTube videos where a creepy unseen adult unwraps a Kinder Surprise egg. But stick around! Because every guest has their own dark secret and Beelzebub’s going to punish them the only way she knows how: by turning them into paper dolls. Evidently this is what went on in the tenth circle of he...
2020-06-26 20:04:46 +0000 UTC
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Hello Traxians, Erik here.
Hot on the hooves of our Talkin' Moose Baby post, as promised is the original, unriffed HD short that we transferred from a film print some years ago. While Kevin gave me a shout-out in the aforementioned video, I didn't actually find this new cut of the film, but I did try to remind everyone now and then that we had this important piece of RiffTrax history already "i...
2020-06-24 18:31:36 +0000 UTC
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Greetings, Traxians!
Today is Father's Day, and so what better way to celebrate it than with a new short called Appreciating Our Parents?
Speaking of mammalian offspring, we recently discovered a 35mm film reel containing a different cut of a short we'd riffed back in 2009: The Tale of Moose Baby...
2020-06-21 20:01:28 +0000 UTC
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Howdy Traxians! We've got a brand-spanking-new riff today from the man who thought it would be a great idea to have a cat vomit out another cat, Mr. Greydon Clark. It's THE RETURN. Since this movie is from one of RiffTrax's "favorite" auteurs and features a surprisingly star-studded cast (Cybill Shepherd, Martin Landau, Raymond Burr), the guys just had t...
2020-06-12 20:12:15 +0000 UTC
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When a boy and a girl spot strange lights in the sky, nobody could predict that thirty years later they’d reunite and fall in love, because that is very stupid.
But then again we’re talking about Greydon Clark, who gave us the movie where a cat barfs out a slightly more evil cat, so maybe we should have been expectin...
2020-06-12 15:19:41 +0000 UTC
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Hey there, Patreon people. Mike Nelson.
Kevin interviewed me this week for the first in a new series of audio podcasts called HARROWING TALES. This one involves an incident between me, and a recumbent bicycle of mine. Take a listen to find out why this tale is so harrowing.
- mn
Do you have your own Harrowing Tale to share? Submit it through this Google Form (anonymous submissions are allowed!) and w...
2020-06-05 19:45:12 +0000 UTC
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Mary Jo and I loved riffing Bride of the Gorilla so much, we decided to talk about it for fun, for you! Our dear Traxians.
Have a listen as we try to decide if Raymond Burr is attractive or scary, how to pronounce the director's name, and other vital facts. I guess you could say we are Talkin' RiffTrax!
- Bridget
2020-05-29 23:00:02 +0000 UTC
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She’s a bride. He’s a gorilla. What happens when they meet and fall in love in the jungles of South America? Murder and mayhem, that’s what!
Raymond Burr is a plantation foreman who kills his employer, then has at his boss’s hot wife. But the neighborhood witch just happens to witness the murder and puts a curse on him, which has him roaming the jungle doing a lot of things not on the honey-do list.
Bridget and Mary Jo riff on this fine piece of 1950s cheese,
2020-05-29 18:23:34 +0000 UTC
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Greetings, Citizens of the Land of Traxia! (That sounds right...)
Erik here once again, and it is amazing to finally be able to say this: our new Roku app is almost here! And I need your help to test it out.
My colleague Nik and I been working with a major app-development company over the last 6 months, along with our new video hosting provider, to bring a revamped RiffTrax Roku Channel to life, and I'm extremely excited about the progress we've made. Not only wi...
2020-05-19 22:07:45 +0000 UTC
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Hi everyone! Erik here with a new episode of Talkin' RiffTrax for you! This time, Mike, Bill and Kevin talk about our latest VOD riff, Aladdin, and they're joined by a very special guest.
Enjoy!
You can download this episode here.
2020-05-18 17:03:11 +0000 UTC
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Long before there was a terrible Disney live-action version of Aladdin, there was a terrible Disney live-action version of Aladdin! This one came out two years before the classic animated version, and has been rightfully scrubbed from history. In fact, Disney was so eager to suppress it that the guy who played Aladdin never acted again! Or before! This was his only role, and after ten seconds of his performance, you will realize it was one too many.
The role of the Gen...
2020-05-16 22:23:33 +0000 UTC
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Hello Traxians! Conor Lastowka here. We did our first collective run thru of our Hobgoblins Live show yesterday. It was very funny and will be a great time! With these live shows that were also done on MST3K, once we have our script in order, I go through the original MST episode and note if there are any lines that are similar. On this rewatch, I also noted some of the references I didn't get. ( I had just finished my junior year of high school when this episode aired.) So I called up ...
2020-05-13 20:41:03 +0000 UTC
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Hi there, Traxians!
Erik here once again! (I hope you're not sick of me yet.) I'm in the process of editing a podcast episode that I hosted with Mary Jo Pehl and Matthew J. Elliott where they talk about Sherlock Holmes, surprise surprise. In the meantime, I wanted to share with you something that I dug up from the ol' Archives. No one outside of the company has seen these - until now!
One of the difficulties we've faced over the years at RiffTrax is explaining to peopl...
2020-05-08 18:43:53 +0000 UTC
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Hey RiffTrax fans! Our own Bill Corbett is producing an online fundraiser this Saturday, May 9th for COVID-19 relief, and he'd love for you, our dearest Traxians, to join in!
Rhea Seehorn, aka Kim Wexler of Better Call Saul, and Paul F. Tompkins of Bojack Horseman, Mr. Show (and a certain Summer Shorts Beach Party
2020-05-04 20:20:15 +0000 UTC
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Dearest Traxians -
We’re utterly tickled to be able to bring brand-new funny to you good folk, thanks to technology and the ability to record a reasonably good vocal at home (the subject of another story for Patreon, coming soon!). We’re even able to bring you brand new Talkin' RiffTrax segments, for movies like this one - Suburban Sasquatch, one of the worst-made movies we’ve done since - well...
2020-05-02 19:57:45 +0000 UTC
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Right off the bat, there’s one thing you should know about the Suburban Sasquatch: his nipples are huge.
Huge, detailed, and poorly sculpted. He barely comes near a suburb in the entire course of the movie, so it should probably have been called Big Detailed Nipples Sasquatch instead. But hey, hindsight is 20/20. ("20" is also roughly the diameter of the Sasquatch’...
2020-05-01 18:12:55 +0000 UTC
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This one, for the recent VOD release of The Most Dangerous Game may be the strangest Talkin' RiffTrax episode yet! But, strange times call for even stranger videos, don'tcha know.
Enjoy!
This video can be downloaded here.
2020-04-27 16:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Hi there, Traxians!
A brand-new riff was just uploaded to the site. And, since Bill was unavailable for this one, Bridget has joined Mike and Kevin for the first time ever(?)! (I'm pretty sure this is the case, but feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, fact-checkers!)
After a heavy storm and some even heavier foreshadowing, a shipwreck victim finds ...
2020-04-24 21:38:58 +0000 UTC
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Good day, Traxians!
We have really enjoyed our time on Patreon so far, and your support has been absolutely overwhelming. We're always looking for more ways to bring you even more of us, and so, after much consideration and discussion, we've decided to create two new tiers!
SUPER TRAXIAN ($5/Month)
Super Traxians will get all the benefits of being a Traxian, plus access to 2020-04-21 21:50:41 +0000 UTC
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