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Five Reasons to Watch RiffTrax's Live House on Haunted Hill Performance

Five Reasons to Watch RiffTrax's Live <em>House on Haunted Hill</em> Performance

What are you doing tomorrow night? Cancel your plans, because… Wait, what do you mean you can’t cancel a funeral? I’ve heard just about enough of your excuses, and anyway, this will be much more fun. Tomorrow night, the gentlemen of RiffTrax will live-mock House on Haunted Hill in a theater near you. Well, they won’t actually be in your theater—unless you’re theater is in Nashville. But they will be live! And alive. Like a livewire of…comedy? Focus, people! There are many reasons why you should go see this performance, the main one of which is laughter. But here are...  read more

Found in: Blogs, List of the Day

RiffTrax and "Weird Al" Yankovic Mock Rudolph on the Big Screen

RiffTrax and "Weird Al" Yankovic Mock Rudolph on the Big Screen

Unless you’re one of the six people who thought Jingle All the Way was a good movie, chances are, when you see hokey Christmas flicks, you crack jokes to yourself or the similarly-sarcastic folks around you. Well, this Christmas, you’ll be in good company. On Dec. 16, the wise-cracking RiffTrax crew will take on “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” and an assortment of other already-hilarious Christmas shorts and commercials. Best of all, they’ll broadcast the whole thing live to 480 theaters across the country....  read more

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Rifftrax Crew Preps for Live Nationwide Showing of Plan 9 Parody

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Remember Mystery Science Theatre 3000? Along with head writer Michael J. Nelson, Kevin Murphy (Servo) and Bill Corbett (Crow) parlayed their unique brand of commentary into Rifftrax after their show concluded. Rifftrax continues that grand tradition by offering downloadable "DVD commentaries" to be synced up with their respective films, a la Dark Side of Oz:...  read more

Found in: Movies, News

Catching Up With... Mike Nelson

Catching Up With... Mike Nelson

Mike Nelson may not be a household name, but for a while one of his projects was. Head writer of Mystery Science Theater 3000 for all of its...  read more

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