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1. Monster On The Campus (1958)

   Arthur Franz gives a masterclass in pipe-acting as an anthropologist turned apeman by ingesting Coelacanth juice (that old chestnut). A 28 year old Clint Eastwood has a cameo as lab assistant! A must see for lovers of bad.

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2. In the Year 2889

   Apparently, a near word-for-word remake of the Roger Corman movie, Day the World Ended (haven't seen original so can't confirm). The title comes from the original Jules Verne story.

   1. Actually set in a post-apocalyptic southern California . c.1967

   2. Paul Peterson stars.

   3.As I mentioned, it's a remake of a Corman movie.

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3. Filmation's Journey Back to OZ (c 1980)

   Originally this was Filmation's tribute to celebrate the Wizard of Oz's 40th Anniversary in 1979, but it came out a bit later for the Holidays. The original broadcast had live segments with Bill Cosby playing as the Wizard to help connect scenes in the film.

   As the name suggests, Dorothy and Toto get caught once more by a cyclone in Kansas (okay, tornado for you purists) and winds up in OZ once again.

   Attempting to make her way to the Emerald City, she takes a wrong turn and comes across a menacing looking cottage, where a crow (voiced by Mel Blanc) entices Dorothy to look into a cauldron (because THAT'S always an exceptional idea), and discovers (believe it or not) green elephants cooking.

   Before she can leave, she is confronted by Mombi, who apparently was kin to the former Wicked Witch of the West. Apparently Mombi wants her revenge by unleashing her green elephant horde upon the Emerald City and overthrow the Scarecrow.

   Fortunately Dorothy escapes with the help of Pumpkinhead (and NO, not the monster), who was brought to life by Mombi herself as a slave. Though they attempt to warn the Scarecrow in Emerald City, Mombi takes over and imprisons him and Toto, with Dorothy and Pumpkinhead nearly escaping with the help of the Wooden Horse from a carousel.

   Naturally, Dorothy seeks help from Tin Man and the Cowardly Lion, but their fears of what these elephants could do to them make them bow out, but they suggest to see Glinda, the Good Witch of the North.

   Naturally, Glinda has learned about the situation from her 'Lookie' Bird and does provide Dorothy some help in the form of a small white box. They store the box in the Wooden Horse's compartment and set out, but as typical fashion.. thanks to her crystal ball, Mombi attempts to stop them with a wicked forest. Unable to open the horse's compartment, Dorothy and Pumpkinhead are at the mercy of the trees.. until Glinda sends a golden axe to help them out.

   Now before you think Dorothy's going to go all Jason Voorhees on those trees, the golden axe doesn't kill them (remember this was still the age of HEAVILY CENSORED entertainment). Instead when it strikes a tree, it transforms them into giggly-golden trees. No seriously..

   Anyway, to sum up, Dorothy and the crew head back to the Emerald City, open the box, which releases White Mice .. because Elephants fear them.. and Mombi's plan folds faster than a house of cards.

   In a desperate attempt to escape, she transforms herself into a rose for some reason.. not exactly the sharpest knife in the drawer.. only to meet her demise by the rampaging elephants.. yes, Mombi gets destroyed by her own creation, like Victor Franken-what's-his-name...

   So as a result, the elephant's fade and Emerald City is restored, but the celebration is short-lived as Pumpkinhead gets reverted back into a lifeless pumpkin. Sad, Dorothy is visited by Glinda, who claims she cannot save Pumpkinhead because he was an enchantment of Mombi's (sort of a Bewitched rule, huh? She can make a mind-blowing golden axe, mice from a box, but not reanimate a pumpkin.. strange). So they revert to the tear thing, as Dorothy's tear magically revives Pumpkinhead.

   The story ends when Glinda creates a tornado to send Dorothy and Toto back to Kansas.. and afterwards, you'll be whispering like Bill, 'seriously, what the hell what that?'

   So why should RiffTrax dare animate this odd sequel of sorts?

   1) The odd cast of thousands: Because this was supposed to be sort of an anniversary special, Filmation had actually obtained many famous actors to play the characters. Most notable was Liza Minnelli, who was Judy Garland's daughter, to play Dorothy. As well as Paul Lynde as Pumpkinhead, and Ethel Merman as Mombi.. speaking of 'witch..'

   2) Ethel Merman's hilarious, 'Be a Witch' song. Though the movie is fraught with many songs at the drop of a hat. The most memorable tune is Merman belting out this odd tune on how she became a witch, and how her ancestor had poisoned a town by slipping them a mickey in their punch.

   3) The odd mashup of OZ character, and non-canon. If you thought the Dr. Who films were completely non-cannon, Journey Back to OZ has nothing on this, since Mombi and Jack Pumpkinhead were originally character from the second OZ book, but here it's like Filmation just threw away the book itself and went with there own thing. Though the original characters make an appearance, only the Scarecrow has more screen time than them since he's the leader of the Emerald City for some reason.

   BONUS REASON: If you can find an original masters, the Bill Cosby segments were hilarious for the fact they sort of tie and interact with the film, though a bit odd at times. Otherwise, you'll probably get the one where Milton Berle is viewing it from a monitor and does his own rendition of MST3K and RiffTrax before their time.

   Overall, this one is a classic for the fact it was a strange attempt by Filmation to produce a direct-to-tv film honoring the Wizard of OZ, but it really ends up making about as much sense as Fun in Balloonland. Though I couldn't find the whole film on YouTube, I've submitted the playlist for it.

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwQCfCSjOns&list=PLrYnZQqREIHH_RhkhVx-uYuWrZE2ycpaO

   Hope you enjoy it.

   Originally this was Filmation's tribute to celebrate the Wizard of Oz's 40th Anniversary in 1979, but it came out a bit later for the Holidays. The original broadcast had live segments with Bill Cosby playing as the Wizard to help connect scenes in the film.

   As the name suggests, Dorothy and Toto get caught once more by a cyclone in Kansas (okay, tornado for you purists) and winds up in OZ once again.

   Attempting to make her way to the Emerald City, she takes a wrong turn and comes across a menacing looking cottage, where a crow (voiced by Mel… more

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4. Electric Eel

   The Moody Institute, who did the Carnivorous Plants short, put out a similar short about the electric eel, featuring the same weird guy poking an eel and shocking people

   https://archive.org/details/electric_eel

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5. Who framed Roger rabbit

   Add Live-action, with a pinch of animation and you got a movie worth riffin.

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6. Masterminds (1997)

   Trapped in a school which a gang of criminals has siezed control, a young troublemaker fights a cat and mouse battle from inside.

   Starring Patrick Stewart and Vincent Kartheiser.

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7. Planet Earth with John Saxon

   A man awakens from suspended animation and finds himself in the 22nd century, where he finds that women rule the world and that men are slaves called Dinks. He is captured and sold as a slave, but escapes and hooks up with a male rebel movement.
   http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072000/

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8. 10 to Midnight

   • Charles Bronson's in it.
   • The movie has a villain who stabs women to death while clad in his birthday suit.
   • The soundtrack contains rock songs that might be considered cheesy.

   http://www.allmovie.com/movie/10-to-midnight-v49039
   https://youtu.be/NKQfqfr4A74

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9. Aztec Rex

   The 2007 made for TV masterpiece starring Ian Ziering as Cortez.

   The Aztecs summon a poorly rendered 3D T-Rex to keep the conquistadors' at bay. Then it starts eating them all. Hot-dogs for entrails, horrible accents, and terrible costumes/sets. PRIME riffing material!

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10. Jane and the Lost City

    One of our favorite Rifftrax is "The Prisoners of the Lost Universe". Written and directed by one Terry Marcel. The same person that brought us Hawk the Slayer (a bit of useless trivia the actors that play Malachi and The Greenman star in both). So on Friday I stumbled on another film written and directed by our old pal: Jane and the Lost City.

    This movie is available to be streamed on YouTube in its entirety. And oh my is this a stinker. The main character, Jane, loses her clothes (but not her undergarments) about every 5 minutes for no good reason. I guess this is supposed to be titillating? The main plot is Jane and "The Colonel" are trying to find the The Lost City because of its rumored diamond riches to help fund Britain's war effort during WWII. The Nazi's lead by Maude Adams get wind of this and the race is on. Not to far in Sam Jones, playing a Rootin' Tootin' stereotype...err American jungle explorer joins our British heroes mission to find the diamonds before the Nazi's do. That's right folks, IT'S FLASH GORDON VS. OCTOPUSSY!

    The movie is full of physical comedy that falls very flat. 1 dimensional stereotypical characters are the norm here. The same composer as PotLU and HtS is responsible for this outing. So expect something that sounds like frumpy keyboard samples. Though no Kung Fu pan flute like we had in HtS. Malachi's theme from PotLU is recycled for the blundering Nazi stooge. Because you know that was so amazing it needed another opportunity to be heard. In true Terry fashion the cave-bar owner with the cockney vulture from PotLU makes an appearance here as a drunken bar patron. Though no teeth pulling in this outing.

    So all in all another fine entry from our pal Terry. To say this is ripe for riffing is an understatement.

    One of our favorite Rifftrax is "The Prisoners of the Lost Universe". Written and directed by one Terry Marcel. The same person that brought us Hawk the Slayer (a bit of useless trivia the actors that play Malachi and The Greenman star in both). So on Friday I stumbled on another film written and directed by our old pal: Jane and the Lost City.

    This movie is available to be streamed on YouTube in its entirety. And oh my is this a stinker. The main character, Jane, loses her clothes (but not her undergarments) about every 5 minutes for no… more

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11. Ghost Story, circa 1981
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12. Space Thunder Kids (1991)

    Frankensteinian work of several cheap South Korean animated projects (direct ripoff of Disney's Tron) stitched into one animated movie (English language according to IMDb ... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1910621/combined).

    Haven't seen it but heard about it referenced in the following Dorkly video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yHPoeBWc9s

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13. Night of the Sharks

    Two words. Treat Williams. Treat yourself to this tantalizing Floridian adventure. It is ripe with horrible acting, ridiculous mustaches, and did I say Treat Williams? Also, sharks and voodoo. Tons of great happenings, but so poorly written....and is also an Italian film? Seriously, this film must be on your radar!!!

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14. Across the universe

    A fun and beautiful, if flawed, look at some of the best Beatles songs out there, filled with castaway style time jumps and odd cameos

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15. The Fury 1978

    This horror stars Kirk Douglas and Amy Irving and it is outrageously bad! Despite its quite "believable" premis-a government agent searching for his psychic son- it soon devolves into a Carrie-like psychic fest complete with teen girls cursing each other out, slow motion visions, tons of action, spraying blood and Large Marge! It might be too "scary" to riff but a must see for the classic "horror" experience- look for a young, thin Dennis Franz as the cop Kirk takes hostage!
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7Q1wI23U3W0
    http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0077588/
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fury_(1978_film)

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16. La Moustache 2005

    Ah the French! This movie is so captivating but confusing at the same time! A man has a mustache but he shaves it and after that you don't know what to believe- it might be hard to riff but just take a gander for the weirdness of it- it's a suspenseful but contemporary and is filmed in French with English sub-titles
    http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0428856/
    http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/moustache/

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17. Contamination .7

    I saw this movie over the weekend on MGMHD channel and it was hilariously bad - the acting is some of the worst I've ever seen. The actors were more wooden than the radioactive tree roots that were attacking everyone. I kept saying to myself "this would be a perfect MST3K movie!"

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18. "How to Be Well Groomed" (1948)

    Something that I just found on YouTube, it's quite funny without commentary, so if Rifftrax does this, it would be hilarious.

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19. Pattern for Smartness

    This 1948 short film shows us that there's nothing more satisfying in life than impressing your dull boyfriend and shaming strangers who wear clothing different than your own. And how? By making your own duds with fabric patterns!

    The period tone, disjointed narration and marginal acting in this short make it ideal for Bridget and Mary Jo's commentary. It embodies the tone of the industrial/educational shorts that worked so well on MST3K, and the many that have been featured on RiffTrax.

    You can view the short on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMlxkf8hYhE

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20. The Mystical Adventures of Billy Owens

    Canadian kid Billy Owens discovers on his 11th birthday he's a Viking wizard and is mentored by a crusty old wizard played by Roddy Piper. And it has a sequel!

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