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[ September 14, 2010; ] Also on Home Video this week: THE BLACK CAULDRON, STARCRASH, RIFFTRAX, RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD, LORD OF THE RINGS, CARRIE, JACOB’S LADDER

After a passionate discussion of SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD, Dan Persons and Steve Biodrowski leave the recorder running as they delve deeply into the minutia of horror, fantasy, and science fiction. This week focuses on films that recycle plots and/or footage to create alternate versions and/or whole new movies:

THE EXORCIST: THE BEGINNING and DOMINION: [...]

CARNIVAL OF SOULS is a film that, like NOSFERATU (1922), seems to benefit from an eternally self-perpetuating reputation somewhat divorced from its actual quality. CARNIVAL OF SOULS is the sort of film that finds its truest expression not on the screen but in the memory, where its best scenes linger, dream-like and evocative, mentally edited [...]

Rifftrax performs a genuine public service for stop-motion and/or dinosaur fans curious but trepidatious about viewing this uber-lame 1978 sci-fi flick. Their alternate soundtrack is the only way to truly enjoy PLANET OF THE DINOSAURS.

[ October 8, 2009; 7:30 pm; ]
In case you missed Fathom Events’ nationwide presentation of RIFFTRAX: PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE last month (mentioned here), there will be an encore presentation in 285 theatres around the country on Thursday, October 8 at 7:30pm local time. The original live broadcast originated on August 20 from the Belcourt Theatre in Nashville, Tennesse, with [...]

Get a glimpse of what the Rifftrax crew can do with PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE, Edward D. Wood’s legendarily bad sci-fi flick from the ’50s.

Through the magic of Fathom, the entertainment divisoin of National CineMedia, Micheal J. Nelson, Kevin Murphy, and Bill Corbett will be “appearing” in theatres around the country on August 20, as they provide a live Rifftrax accompaniment to Edward D. Wood’s PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE – the film widely (if erroneously) regarded as the [...]

RiffTrax – the Internet successor to the MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATRER 3000 television show – has just released its first batch of DVDs, featuring the familiarly irreverent commentary from Mike Nelson, Bill Corbett, and Kevin Murphy. Here is an excerpt from one of the ten discs available, featuring MISSILE TO THE MOON, a low budget 1958 [...]

Feast or famine? This week it’ a feast! After two weeks of almost no worthwhile horror, fantasy, and science fiction home video releases, we suddenly find ourselves deluged with more titles than we can count. This week’s big seller is a new GHOSTBUSTERS Blu-ray disc, which replicates most of the bonus features found on the [...]

MST3K alumni Kevin Murphy, Mike Nelson, and Bill Corbett, making fun of PLAN NINE FROM OUTER SPACE as part of their new enterprise, Rifftrax.
Former fans of MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 can rejoice in the fact that RiffTrax is making its DVD debut today. Although the DVD format may sound as if it violates the point of [...]

You have to give the RiffTrax crew credit for nerve if nothing else. Back when they were aboard the Satellite of Love, as part of the cult television cable hit MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000, Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy, and Bill Corbett targeted the worst of the worst cinematic slime, the oozing putrescence from the lowest depths of [...]