And the next pre-synched, video-on-demand title, due out Friday, Aug. 5, is Don “Alien Factor” Dohler’s…
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RiffTrax: Live Shows Available on Blu-Ray/Next Pre-Synched Title AnnouncedThe Blu-Ray versions of the live “Reefer Madness” and “House on Haunted Hill” live shows are now available at the RiffTrax site. They seem to be “temporarily out of stock” on Amazon.
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Wait… is this also known as “The Film FVI Chose To Play Clips Of Under The ‘Pod People’ Credits?”
Yup!
Yep, it’s the same movie used in the FVI credits of “Pod People”. It has lots of rednecks and a goofy alien in a rubber suit….perfect MST3K/Rifftrax fodder!
Many likes!
All right!!! This is where the Swamp Thing meets the Sweet Thang! Only he’s not from a swamp….
This just made my day!
Made by Don Dohler who also did ALIEN FACTOR,which CT did..Real goofy movie and hope they release it on dvd sometime.
Make a DVD of it and I’ll buy it!
LOL I wonder if The Cinema Snob knows about this, an MST3K fan AND he sat through this movie. So did I once, as a matter of fact.
Annoyed about the HoHH Blu-Ray not being at Amazon as I have preordered. Also sucks for Amazon as they could have shipped it with my Gamera set today, if Rifftrax got it to them on time. Hopefully Amazon will get HoHH soon.
@9 Yes,The Cinema Snob did this one already.Go to his site and in the newer posts,it’s in between The Stewardesses 3-D and Tales from the Quadead Zone.Real funny review,by the way.
I preordered both blurays back in May and still sit here without even an email from Amazon to let me know if hey ever intend to ship them to me.
Suh-weet! I know these aren’t RiffTrax’s bread & butter – that would be stuff like Twilight, Harry Potter, Transformers – so I’m always grateful when they take the time for these forgotten old goofy flicks. I imagine they’re probably a welcome breath of fresh air for Mike and company between blockbuster stinkburgers and mental hygiene films.
Wow! Pre-ordered the Live Blu’s from Amazon back in April @ $11.99 apiece- a price I’m willing to hold out for. Also love that Mike, Bill. and Kevin are riffing on Z grade films again but I am holding out for hard copies and do not plan to purchase the VOD’s.
Ooooo boy, this is going to be sweet!
I love this piece by Kevin Murphy about the BluRay HD/DVD wars from 5 years ago. Regular DVD still works for me too even 5 years later.
http://www.npr.org/templates/s?tory/story.php?storyId=5302229
Wow, first Cinematic Titanic does THE ALIEN FACTOR and now Rifftrax takes on THE GALAXY INVADER. I wonder which group will tackle Don Dohler’s NIGHTBEAST (my money’s on CT, as they seem more likely to pay for the rights).
I’ve never seen “The Alien Factor” (and won’t until there is a live show in ATLANTIC CITY), but I am excited for this one. I saw this last night on Rifftrax’s Facebook page and squealed like a girl. I am so getting this!!
As a side note: Why am I only able to get this site via (holds down vomit) Firefox and not IE? I always get the site with IE.
I’ve seen Galaxy Invader done by Green Bay local horror host Ned the Dead. This should be good.
I’ll add my vote to make this a DVD at some point and I’ll pick that up.
I’m so there. Sure, I would prefer a physical DVD, but I can burn my own.
Not to get into any kind of format war (and if we do, I’ll say I prefer Mike over Joel! ) but I don’t get all the hate for VOD here, folks. DVD is dead — it’s been killed on the high end by blu-ray, and on the low (television quality) end by VOD and direct streaming (via MKV/MP4 etc.)
I have all the MST3K episodes (not to mention all the RT and CT stuff) on my NAS in quality at least as good as any DVD, and can watch any of them instantly any time I want on any set in the house — doesn’t get any better than that.
Okay — so a little OT, but the bottom line is I’m anxious to get this latest sub B film by RT as soon as they make it available (and could care less if they ever bring out a DVD for it). If this old grandpa can do it, you kids can certainly handle the new technology.
This is bullcrap! I’m not buying anything until it comes out on VCD.
Mock if you like, but I’ve lost way too many hard drives over the years to trust them with my purchased data, and I’ve known RAIDs to fail here at work. Much rather have a physical copy.
Having said that, I have nothing against VOD. Rifftrax always offers an easy format for burning.
I won’t argue media failure rates (except to note that DVDs have among the highest rates even compared to hard drives — a single scratch can render them worthless) but when you buy from Rifftrax you can ALWAYS download again (and multiple times) if your drives fail. So what’s the big deal?
Get used to the future, folks — clouds will make physical data meaningless even in MY (limited) lifetime.
re: #16, broken link, remove the first question mark.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5302229
Agreed, it’s a good piece!
*sigh* What’s wrong with Super8?
I watched the preview clip but, I wish I felt differently, I didn’t think it was funny. I pretty much stopped buying the Rifftrax stuff because the humor got less and less funny for me. I was hoping there would be something funny enough in the preview clip to make me buy it. I didn’t see anything funny there, to me, to want to spend $9.99…. and I wish it wasn’t that way. Mike, Kevin and Bill are funny, talented guys. Perhaps the jokes are too generic for me or something, perhaps.
I enjoyed the movie “Super 8”. I thought it was entertaining and they did a good job of making it feel like 1979 without forcing it.
#23: Can’t you just re-download? Afaik, most places that you buy stuff from allow to you to download pretty much as many times as you want. Yeah, it’s a pain, but… [shrug]
#28: Argh… I don’t like watching Rifftrax preview clips anymore. There’s like, 2 seconds or so of a clip, with one joke, then they go to another clip.
I’ve always wondered what the deal was up under the credits to Pod People. Holy Toledo!
To Mike ‘ex-genius” Kelley: I certainly am not trying to start a fight here, either. You seem very comfortable with downloading, and if that works for you, then all power to you. But for someone like me, going that route just isn’t my thing. It would be different if MST3K were only available through downloads, because I love MST3K, so I would adapt to that system. But do I LOVE Rifftrax? I can’t say that I do. I’ve enjoyed RT’s treatment of shorts and older PD movies, but honestly I don’t need to hear every riff of every movie Mike, Kevin and Bill cover. So buying any DVD they release is enough for me. Yes, I do agree that the DVD format will eventually be phased out, as all technology does at some point. But as long as it’s available for RT, I will simply take advantage. Besides, I do have a blu-ray player, so any DVDs aren’t necessarily obsolete.
In the end, I guess what I’m trying to say is that I can live without all the so-called advancements….movies like “Voodoo Man” and “Maniac” aren’t any more watchable just because they’re in HD. Like favorite episodes or favorite era of the show, how you collect any and all MST-related material boils down to personal preference.
With any luck we’ll have a download-to-burn DVD edition. Sure, there is a little bit of work involved, but burning a disc is super easy, and it will satisfy your “Gotta have the physical disc” needs. I’m the same way with Blurays, I’d rather have them in my hand… but that’s only true 90% of the time for me. I still have a drive with plenty of my movies on it!
Anyway, we’re always trying to satisfy everyone we possibly can, and with Galaxy Invader (and another VOD release we have in the pipeline) we can’t offer them on Real Deal DVD (with artwork and everything) since that’s not part of our workflow… but perhaps I can have our graphic designer, Jason, come up with something? There are also people on our forum who tend to make really great covers and DVD labels, so if the downloadable DVD image works for you (it should! it’s easy!) you can have a Do-It-Yourself DVD ready to watch in half an hour. (Once it’s done downloading, of course.)
Hope this helps.
Oh boy! After all these years, Pod People has always been a fan favorite, especially for me as a little kid at the time of its premiere, and those opening credits were always so confusing yet intriguing that this can count as a kind of closure. Though it’s already a good bet those lines from episode 303 are going to come to mind when I see the already famous footage come up.
“I believe I’ll use my putter. Fore.” For? “For hitting guys.” I don’t, didn’t nor will I ever find the jokes used during the part particularly funny, but that little bit there may stick in my mind for the rest of my natural life, so you can see how seeing the whole movie might help me or any fan here really with similar MST3K childhood-related experiences to finally move on, so to speak, from their current realm.
Now I trust after the “…some movies have it coming” line at the end there won’t be any of the Rifftrax chainsaw? Am I right? Casey?
Thanks Rifftrax for doing these kinds of movies!
Keep em coming in any form!
@25 People actually use that term outside those annoying tv commercials? ;)
In the real world, there are things like bandwith caps and spotty connections. Physical media can’t be wiped out by hackers either.
Erik,
Thanks for all you guys do. I buy all the RT shorts and VOD stuff (really hate the mainstream riffs but we’ve been over that ground before). I appreciate greatly the ability to download more than once (I think I’ve only had to use this option once, though — for some odd reason one of the shorts I downloaded came in corrupted and we lost the last five minutes. I had bought it over a year ago and didn’t get around to watching it until recently but was very pleased to note it was still available to get again without any hassle).
And it’s great to hear there is still another cheesy movie coming. I think Ralph is missing a great bet if he hasn’t seen all that RT has done (but I do understand how he feels, as I feel exactly the same way about the CT crew — for some reason their stuff just doesn’t seem funny to me and they just seem to be going through the motions). Something like Birdemic, for example, has to be seen to be appreciated (a few short seconds of preview just couldn’t possibly do that horror the justice of the riffs it so richly deserves).
Mike “ex-genius” Kelly, #37: I respect your opinion about Cinematic Titanic, who’s work I enjoy very much. I began buying Rifftrax from the very beginning and I enjoyed the older work more. I was disappointed in the “Boy In The Plastic Bubble” riffing, which I looked forward to watching very much when I first got it. I bought a couple of their DVDs in a Big Lots (“Night of the Living Dead” & “Missile to the Moon”) and really didn’t enjoy the riffing on those, either. Like I said, I enjoyed the earlier stuff they were coming out with in the first couple of years, and I was happy when Mike had Kevin & Bill join him. “X-Men” is fun, as well as “Cocktail” (solo Mike), “Top Gun”, to name a few. I like to think I’ve given them more than a fair chance but, well, the riffing I’ve seen in my last bunch of shorts and those DVDs just didn’t do it for me.
This was not written due to taking any offense at your comments. Today was a day I felt like explaining my position. Thank you for being a receptive audience… won’t you?
OMG, I was just talking on here recently about getting my hands on the original Galaxy Invader. Actually enjoy these moview unriffed. They are horrible of course. But you can tell they are made with love.
And its pre-synched….awesome…
I was hoping to crack my teeth on riffing this thing but good to see that it will be released. Upon watching that film, with the Redneck family chasing the alien, all I could think of was “Mooooooooooom! They won’t stop bringing their evil here! Make them stop!!!!”
When is Rifftrax going to get Amazon the blu-rays? Getting kind of annoying at this point.
Ralph,
No offense taken — I understand completely. And as I said, everything you wrote almost perfectly explains the way my wife and I feel about the Cinema Titanic crew (which is to say we bought all their stuff and felt early on they were fine but their later efforts just didn’t do it for us. I also feel we’ve given them their fair chance and won’t be spending any more money with them).
If everyone’s sense of humor (or, indeed, our sense of enjoyment about nearly anything) was the same this would be a dull world indeed. Mike and company make me laugh, have done so consistently for decades now (given that Mike was the head writer on MST3K almost since the very beginning) but if they were universally popular I suspect MST3K would still be on the air.
About the only thing I don’t get, though, is why you even bother commenting on this thread here. You don’t like RT, I get that. I don’t like CT — but why would I even waste the time to chime in on any thread about them? Different strokes, and all that. Perhaps you just need to remind people that not everyone likes their work? For me the only point about commenting negatively is if you feel the effort will help things improve. I don’t see any of your comments in that light, though.
But I do think it’s great that you enjoy CT — what a wonderful world we live in where there are alternative choices for us all. These are really the best of times.