For the most part, it’s not the best fit with the RiffTrax style. It’s an okay movie on its own, even if it leads to a ridiculous climax involving a walking skeleton. A handful of people have to spend the night in order to earn a bunch of money, but something creepy is going on and we’re left wondering if someone isn’t who they say they are or if there’s something supernatural going on. Another rather short film, House on Haunted Hill is about Vincent Price as an eccentric rich guy holding a mysterious sleepover at what’s said to be a haunted mansion. This is part of a trilogy of RiffTrax Live shows that are based on classic horror, but feel too dry to really feel must-watch. Since we’re still early on in the RiffTrax Live series and they’re throwing stuff at the wall to see what sticks, there are a couple short cartoons that depict the insane storytelling narration of Lauren Kyanka (Richard Kyanka’s very young daughter). If anything, this RiffTrax Live is mostly remembered for the narrator randomly asking, “Is corn grass?” and Bill Corbett losing his mind over it. Read more: Cannabis Vape and Movie Pairings to Elevate Your Experience Not the cool kind of fun with grass, like playing the piano really fast. Then At Your Fingertips: Grasses – the first of many At Your Fingertips shorts we’ll see – shows the lame arts and crafts creations you can make with grass and plants and stuff. More Dangerous Than Dynamite is a warning to people who used gasoline to do their laundry, which was an actual thing people did way back when. Aesop’s Sound Fables: Frozen Frolics is one of your average early black-and-white animation shorts where everyone is a dancing dog-like animal. Reefer Madnessis a very short movie, just over an hour, so there are three whole shorts that go with it. Still, seeing it via RiffTrax is a welcome throwback to the troubled youth movies that used to show up a lot in the Comedy Central era of MST3K. It’s a delightfully try-hard film, but not one of the more memorable RiffTrax Liveepisodes. Youngsters are pulled into the seedy world of weed and it leads to murder, suicide, insanity, playing the HELL out of the piano, and other horrifying side-effects. Reefer Madness is a cult favorite due to being the 1930s’ attempt to scare parents into thinking that marijuana is the devil. It may not have anything to do with the Christmas season, but it will have its song about quality, freshness, and flavor stuck in your head for days. It’s a quirky pork advertisement starring a trio called the Jesters who play multiple roles to help a housewife prepare a dinner for her husband’s bosses (also the Jesters). Read more: A Guide to MST3K Christmas Episodesīetter is Three Magic Words, with guest riffer Weird Al Yankovic. They include an incredibly skinny woman, a mountain of a man, and an old man who is in some shots played by Bela Lugosi and in some shots played by a much taller man with a cape over his face. Their big plan? Reanimate the dead…but only three people. The movie revolves around some dumpy aliens who want to prevent Earth from blowing up the universe. Read more: In Defense of Plan 9 From Outer SpaceĮnough MST3Kand RiffTrax have taught us that Plan 9is not even close to being the worst movie of all time, but it is a fascinatingly dumb movie and a blast to watch outside of the slog section of military stock footage. Sure, they handled other Ed Wood movies, but this magnum opus was considered to be the worst movie of all time. One of those instances was the idea of Plan 9 From Outer Space being on Mystery Science Theater 3000. Like how Clint Eastwood was never in a movie with John Wayne or Rocky Balboa never fought Mike Tyson. Sometimes there are those combinations that are so perfect, yet don’t happen. So in honor of Fathom Events bringing us the RiffTrax crew taking on MST3K classic Giant Spider Invasion on August 15 and 20, here’s a handy guide to the history of RiffTrax Liveand their many shows.
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