From Wikipedia:
The film shows a fictional week in the life of Chuck Barris as the host and creator of The Gong Show, through a series of outrageous competitors, stressful situations, a nervous breakdown (which compels him to run away and hide in the desert) and other comic hijinks in his life and work on the TV show. Among the highlights included a group of men dressed as a Roman Catholic priest and three nuns lip-synching Tom Lehrer's song "The Vatican Rag", a man blowing out a candle with ****, and the uncensored version of Jaye P. Morgan's infamous -baring incident.

Why it should be riffed:
1. A very brief scene with Phil Hartman
2. Milton DeLugg is in it, who did the music to Santa Claus versus the Martians.
3. This film even disgusted George Burns, who wanted to get out of show business. Say goodnight, Gracie.

You know you're in trouble when they don't even get the title right. (It's A Christmas Carol, not THE Christmas Carol. ...Actually, according to Dickens it's A Christmas Carol In Prose, Being A Ghost Story Of Christmas, but who calls it that?)

And you're in even MORE trouble when they misspell the main character's NAME in the opening credits. (Who is this "Ebeneezer"?)

This was an early television production--and I mean EARLY, as it wasn't even the fifties yet. It's a half-hour short that was meant for syndication on 22 stations across the country on Christmas Day of 1949. Vincent Price introduces and narrates, and does his usual good job, but if you thought his old horror movies were the cheapest and cheesiest things he'd ever been in, you've got another think coming.

As is common in these early TV productions of A Christmas Carol (see my submission on two made-for-TV musical versions from the fifties), most of the American actors don't even bother with English accents. In fact, Scrooge sounds more like a prospector from the Old West, or like Abe Simpson. (And looks more like Ben Franklin.)

The entire Christmas Past sequence consists of the Ghost (an unremarkable guy swathed in a white sheet) showing Scrooge his boyhood at school--no visit from sister Fan, no visit to Fezziwig's party, and his breakup with his fiancee isn't shown either; the Ghost just mentions to Scrooge how he drove away the woman he loved. That's the entirety of the whole segment. I guess they couldn't afford to pay an actress to play Belle.

The other sections are similarly shortened--Christmas Present is only a visit to the Cratchits, and Christmas Yet to Come (the Ghost here looks like a guy in a cheap homemade Jawa costume) actually allows us THREE scenes--the Cratchits again, a glimpse of Scrooge's former colleagues, and his gravesite.

The acting is about as wooden as a Groot family reunion--the best actor in the whole thing is Vincent Price, and he isn't even technically part of the story! One wonders what a version with him playing Scrooge might have been like. There are other notable things about this cast--for one thing, there's a nine-year-old Jill St. John, under her real name of Jill Oppenheim, as one of the Cratchit daughters. And Scrooge is played by Taylor Holmes, who had some good character roles in high-profile movies like Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, and voiced King Stefan in Disney's Sleeping Beauty--all with far better performances than he turns in here.

This is about the same quality as many of the Christmas shorts you guys have done in the past--and, as such, a perfect candidate. See for yourself here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G531q5KKVVU

This ... this movie. Gene Kelly and Olivia Newton John somehow maintain their dignity during this glorious dumpster fire. The plotline is roughly "What if we signed ELO and shoveled a ton of money into a movie that was put in front of the cameras with no script? Let's have four or five different styles of dancers that have no idea what the others are doing, and film them all together with no thought to blocking. And tie it all together with a ham-faced cipher that we're going to make the romantic lead!"

See the film that asks the question, "Can we make Roller Disco cool?" (And that answers it with a resounding "No, we can't. Nobody can. We honestly don't know what got into us)

God knows Whoopi Goldberg did worse movies than this one but it is the only one worth making fun of the others are just to awful that not even your guys best riffing can pull anyone through watching it.Jumpin Jack Flash made in the 80s about a woman who ends up having a conversation online with some guy named jack that eventually puts whoopi in danger by some british terrorist. whoopi tries to escape and figure out what they want with jack and why they want to kill him, now its not at its time a bad film but now that time has past it not good either lol.i leave it up to you guys if its worth ripping. And one last reason why you should riff this movie the people who own the rights to the film no longer make any real money on it do to the fact that no one wants to own it or stream any whoopi goldberg films besides color of purple.

This puppet-animated movie isn't based so much on the Grimm fairy tale as on the opera version by Englebert Humperdinck. (No, not THAT Englebert Humperdinck.) It features the music from the opera, alternating between spoken dialogue and arias in English, adapted from the German libretto. (At least one legitimate opera star, Anna Russell, provided a voice--she plays the witch.)

The story's altered a little bit, as it was in the original opera. Hansel and Gretel aren't abandoned in the woods through the machinations of a stepmother out to kill them--their otherwise loving mother loses her temper at a kitchen accident and sends them to pick berries in the woods and get out of her hair for a while, where they get lost and fall into the witch's hands. There are some lovely bits with the Sandman, a Dew Fairy, and a chorus of angels.

Michael Myerberg, the director, animated this with "kinemins"--puppets operated by electricity. The miniature sets are detailed and enchanting...but the puppets themselves look rather weird, without the winsomeness you'd usually find in, say, the Rankin-Bass figures. There are also some head-scratching moments, such as when the household furniture comes alive to dance with Hansel and Gretel.

It does have some elements to recommend it--the beautiful score from the opera, for one, and Lord knows I'm all about introducing kids to classical music. But it's also got enough whacked-out elements to balance it.

In short...this has more than enough weirdness and slight creepiness to be eminently riffable. See for yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1eaCHlCeBU&t=141s

Very creepy made-for-tv horror flick about a woman being terrorized by evil little gnome-like creatures which dwell in a house she and her husband just inherited, starring Kim Darby and Jim Hutton. Again it's a classic as far as I'm concerned and has a great cast, but there's PLENTY for the Rifftrax boys to poke fun at!

The three reasons for Rifftrax to tackle it:
1 - The creatures, there's LOTS of opportunities to poke fun at their appearance and make up dialog for them.
2 - The elderly handyman who knows far more than he admits to, riff-worthy for the same reasons as above.
3 - The overall scenario, it's hamstrung by the usual overhanging question: Why the **** doesn't she just get out? Visually it's a very creepy movie and well directed.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz3dB0z08vs

Arnold is an uptight business major who spends his summer vacation building a multi-million-dollar pot-dealing enterprise, complete with group insurance and a little league team. Unfortunately for Arnold, the idea of "big pot" didn't go over very well back in 1973.

Writing, directing and co-starring trifecta for Steve De Souza, his first professional attempt at all three roles (IMDb). Hard to believe this is the same guy with writing/screenplay credits for several big hits: 48 Hrs (1982), Die Hard (1988), Die Hard 2 (1990) and Beverly Hills Cop III (1994). Less hard to believe: Commando (1985), The Running Man (1987), The Flintstones (1994), Street Fighter (1994) and Judge Dredd (1995).

Arnold's Wrecking Co. (1973)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0177522/

Steven E. de Souza
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0211823/?ref=ttfcfc_dr1

The Moon-Spinners is a 1964 American mystery film starring Hayley Mills, Eli Wallach and Peter McEnery in a story about a jewel thief hiding on the island of Crete. Produced by Walt Disney Productions, the film was based upon a 1962 suspense novel by Mary Stewart and was directed by James Neilson. The Moon-Spinners was Mills' fifth of six films for Disney, and featured the legendary silent film actress Pola Negri in her final screen performance.

Why it should be riffed:
1. The scenery in Crete is quite lovely.
2. A teenage Hayley Mills.
3. Pola Negri’s last performance.
4. The terrible sexist script.

Brought to you by the director of Tourist Trap and the first PuppetMaster film is a film that took the lessons the director learned from those outings... and doubled down on the bad things while tossing the good stuff out of the window.

The film opens with a madam taking a tween looking boy to a Marilyn Monroe-esque ****** then takes a turn for the demonic as a jerk is assaulted by a disembodied hand for trying to one of the women in the brothel's black magic equivalent of Area 51. Or he's turned into something. Then jumpcut to a boring white guy who is coming back to inherit his dad's property, giving us a lovely "finding myself" voice over.

From Wikipedia:
Tom Sawyer is a 1973 American musical film adaptation of the Mark Twain boyhood adventure story, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, directed by Don Taylor and starring Johnny Whitaker as the titular character, Jodie Foster as Becky Thatcher, and Jeff East as Huckleberry Finn. Ho-Chunk tribesman Kunu Hank portrayed Injun Joe.

The film was produced by Reader's Digest. The film's screenplay and songs were written by Robert B. Sherman and Richard M. Sherman who would go on to provide more award-winning music for the sequel Huckleberry Finn. It received three nominations at the 46th Academy Awards; Best Original Score, Best Production Design and Best Costume Design.

Reasons why we should riff:
1. Reader's Digest produced this movie.
2. It's one of Jodie Foster's first movies.
3. Johnny Whittaker is darned cute.