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1. Boo! (1980 variety special)

   This hour-long Canadian variety show is very nearly the Halloween equivalent of The Star Wars Holiday Special. At least it has its share of cheesy, dated charm, and unlike the SWHS, it doesn't pretend to be anything more than a variety show (no flimsy plot to link the songs and sketches together). It was filmed for Canadian TV in 1980 (when some remnants of the 1970s were still hanging on--hence, the disco-ish theme song and overall 70s-ness of it all). But it was shown on American TV a few times in the early 80s--the link I've provided was from a 1982 Chicago airing, and I'm pretty sure I saw it on Philadelphia-area TV, one Saturday or Sunday afternoon, in 1983.

   The premise: the classic Universal monsters, along with a slew of assorted aliens and BEMs, do a variety show full of comedy sketches and a song or two. (Dracula makes a wisecrack early on about variety being "dead", which made it the perfect vehicle for an undead host.) Most of the jokes are sub-dad jokes or so dated they barely make sense now, and there's even a somewhat homophobic joke--you know, for kids!--with two robots who didn't know the other one was male.

   Of course, you can't have a variety show without guest stars, and this one delivers--Dionne Warwick performs her then-recent hit "Deja Vu" (and pretty well, too) and Rip Taylor shows up for his usual brand of "comedy"--confetti and all.

   There's also one other semi-familiar face (or, at least, voice)...the Wolf Man is played by Peter Cullen, best known as a voice actor and the voice of Optimus Prime. (He is, after all, Canadian.)

   This show's overall cheesiness and datedness should provide LOADS of riffing fodder--certainly, the riffs would be funnier than most of the jokes! After all, you've shown you're good at lampooning 1970s Halloween specials with The Night Dracula Saved The World...

   Here's a link to check out (complete with 1980s commercials...)
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8uVnkA-j0I&t=496s&ab_channel=TheMuseumofClassicChicagoTelevision%28www.FuzzyMemories.TV%29

   This hour-long Canadian variety show is very nearly the Halloween equivalent of The Star Wars Holiday Special. At least it has its share of cheesy, dated charm, and unlike the SWHS, it doesn't pretend to be anything more than a variety show (no flimsy plot to link the songs and sketches together). It was filmed for Canadian TV in 1980 (when some remnants of the 1970s were still hanging on--hence, the disco-ish theme song and overall 70s-ness of it all). But it was shown on American TV a few times in the early 80s--the link I've provided was from a… more

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2. Caroline and the Magic Potion (2015)

   Animated ripoff of the beloved Neil Gaiman stop-action animated classic, Coraline.
   https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4789650/reference
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6kPeM-KydQ

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3. Raiders of the magic ivory

   This movie stars Robert michums other son and the whole time he mills around like he’s not even in a movie this is prime riffing as the plot is stupid the acting and dubbing are completely awkward this movie is perfect

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4. What’s So Bad About Feeling Good?

   It’s eerily similar to the 2020 pandemic. It stars Dom DeLuise, Mary Tyler Moore, and George Peppard. I desperately want to see it, but it’s hard to find, and even if I could find it I don’t know that I could handle it without the wonderful RiffTrax treatment.

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5. Demon 2 (1986) AKA The Nightmare Returns

   We all could use a little Dario Argento inspired riffing.
   https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090930/reference
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnWatgDIccM

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6. Little Creeps

   Robert Z'Dar, Dustin Diamond, Jake "The Snake" and Joe Estevez all in a film together! A direct-to-video movie made in 2012 about a disgruntled professor that is obsessed with finding a book that opens the gates to ****.

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7. Ringing Bell

   What seems like a charming, Japanese animal movie at first soon takes a sudden dark turn....

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8. Twilight - Bridget & Mary Jo Edition

   The Twilight riffs are perennial favorites, but I would throw an obscene amount of money at a reboot with Bridget & MJ instead of the guys.

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9. The Dancing Pumpkin and the Ogre's Plot (2017 Video)

   Absolutely low-budget CGI nightmare. Great for Halloween season.
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbTfdS-D98w
   https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7547510/reference

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10. RiffTrax, please riff 'The Best Mermaid"'

    Chinese movie... Saw a clip on Facebook. Thought it'd be perfect for you guys.

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11. Invasion of the Star Creatures

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_the_Star_Creatures

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12. Rocky Horror Picture Show
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13. An Affair to Remember

    It's another Cary Grant movie...Mike and Bridget should Riff!

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14. Raising Arizona

    Live...in Nashville!!!

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15. I Kissed A Vampire (2010)

    High School Musical without the budget or resources. And Disney's musical was atrocious. This one is atrocious but with worse filmmaking specs.

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1656179/reference

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16. 2 Souls

    My Daughter had to do a short film for her school project. Being fans of MST3k and Rifftrax she asked if I could request a riffing. I said what the heck so here is the request.
    2 Souls is about a girl named Heaven. Heaven is has a curse. She has another side to her. A demon side. The demon is named Nevaeh. Nobody except for Heaven can see Nevaeh. Heaven is trying to control with Nevaeh. Little does Heaven know that someone is always watching her. The one who gave her the curse.

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17. Wild Geese 2

    its a 1980's action film (not a half bad one). not as good as The Wild Geese, but still. also Sir Patrick Stewart says this film is the his most embarrassing role he had.

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18. OOP movies by Jim Wynorski

    The Lost Empire (1984)
    Not of This Earth (1988)
    Sorceress (1995)

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19. Deadly Species (2002)

    Deadly Species is the perfect movie for riffing!

    Think Arachnia mixed with Predator, but then lower your expectations a bit on the Predator part. Great (crappy) monster that you barely see for half the movie. It's a newer (2002) movie so imo that will help keep the audiences attention. It stars a bunch of nobodies. The bad guy is completly nerdy and unbelievable. There's tons of movie with no dialogue for the Riffers to fill and plenty of so-so acting. IT'S PERFECT

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20. Commander Cody Radar Men from the Moon serial

    Hear me out.
    RiffTrax riffs the Commander Cody Serial BUT Mike, Kevin, & Bill do chapter 1
    Bridget & Mary Jo do chapter 2
    Matthew & Ian do chapter 3
    And so on throughout the whole serial!!
    Do this as a kickstarter goal and people will pay trillions to see it happen!!
    IT'LL BE EPIC AND AWESOME!

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