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Blazing Ninja
Quite possibly the greatest bad Kung Fu movie of all time: hilarious without riffing, but could be one of the all-time greats with the LEGENDARY THREE attached!
Aside from the usual comically bad dubbing this film also contains the following compelling features:
Flashback sequence which is clearly from a completely different film and has nothing to do with the rest of the movie.
Period setting during the Japanese occupation, complete with period cars (sometimes) yet everyone is dressed in 70s fashions (wide collars, poly-blend blazers, etc.) and hairstyles.
The transfer is widescreen-4:3, but centre frame locked rather than pan-and-scan so multiple conversations take place with only a table and hands on knees visible.
This movie was required viewing in my university dormitory. Now appears to be on at least a second DVD pressing at Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Blazing-Ninja-Sonny-Tanaka/dp/B07C5K53P5/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=blazing+ninja&qid=1583072548&sr=8-1
Quite possibly the greatest bad Kung Fu movie of all time: hilarious without riffing, but could be one of the all-time greats with the LEGENDARY THREE attached!
Aside from the usual comically bad dubbing this film also contains the following compelling features:
Flashback sequence which is clearly from a completely different film and has nothing to do with the rest of the movie.
Period setting during the Japanese occupation, complete with period cars (sometimes) yet everyone is dressed in 70s fashions (wide collars, poly-blend blazers, etc.) and hairstyles.
The transfer is widescreen-4:3, but centre frame locked rather than pan-and-scan so…
20 votes -
Vampires on Bikini Beach (1988)
Two teenagers find a book called "The Book of the Dead," and soon they discover that a vampire cult, which needs the book to raise the dead so they can take over the world, is after them.
This movie has it all! 80's cheese, vampires, surfing, IT nerds and yes, girls playing backgammon! All of the fun of an 80's era teen vampire drama. Utterly ignoring those pesky details like plot continuity, acting, cinematography, screenwriting, etc. I stumbled on to this movie by accident and thought it immediately riff-worthy.
21 votes -
Devil's Revenge
A movie starring two Star Trek Actors that have no interaction whatsoever even though they are father and daughter. William Shatner and Jeri Ryan. I myself didn't didn't see this movie but this movie begs to be riffed by Rifftrax.
11 votes -
Rabid 1977
Marilyn Chambers first foray into mainstream cinema. Its a David Cronenberg classic.
10 votes -
1 vote
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Russo-Finnish/German/Mexican Fairy Tale Movies
Some of my favorite MST3K episodes were the Russo-Finnish fairy tale movies--which even the guys at Best Brains admitted were beautifully filmed. Jack Frost/Father Frost was probably my favorite of the Sci-Fi channel era.
There are loads of other Russo-Finnish fairy tale movies. Many of them have been released on DVD through the company Ruscico; they can also be found on YouTube in their original language (most of them subtitled in English). It would be great for Rifftrax to cover them (or re-cover the ones already done on MST3K), but for the ones you haven't covered yet, it would depend on whether they'd had official English dubs. (I know of some of them which have, such as Through Fire, Water, and Brass Pipes, The Snow Maiden and The Princess And The Pea. I believe the award-winning The Stone Flower may have as well.)
Also, Germany, in the 1950s, made several live-action fairy tale movies that were dubbed into English and released on the kiddie-matinee circuit. Snow White, Sleeping Beauty and Rumplestiltskin were among them. A few of them were shown on the BBC--most notably, The Singing Ringing Tree, which frightened a generation of British kids. (The latter was unusual in that it wasn't so much dubbed as voiced-over: we can hear the original German dialogue while a narrator translates it and tells us what's going on.)
Finally, there have been some fairy-tale movies made in Mexico and released with English dubs--mainly, the Little Red Riding Hood trilogy, released on the kiddie-matinee circuit by our old pal K. Gordon Murray. These three movies (starting off with an adaptation of the original fairy tale and following up with two original stories) feature a couple of familiar faces: the wolf and skunk characters that showed up in the Santa's Village of Madness shorts, also cobbled together by K. Gordon Murray. The third one features Jose Elias Moreno as the Ogre--he played Santa Claus in the infamous Mexican movie. They are all musicals, and the first one features, I kid you not, the skunk serenading a parrot. A fan-made continuation of MST3K covered the first Red Riding Hood movie: check it out at the link featured on http://www.mft3k.com/episodes/F01/index.html. Perhaps you guys could outdo it...
All of these would be great riffing candidates for the same reason the first four Russo-Finnish MST3Ks were: they are often beautifully filmed, with some great visuals and lovely musical scores, but have a fair amount of utter insanity going on as well.
Some of my favorite MST3K episodes were the Russo-Finnish fairy tale movies--which even the guys at Best Brains admitted were beautifully filmed. Jack Frost/Father Frost was probably my favorite of the Sci-Fi channel era.
There are loads of other Russo-Finnish fairy tale movies. Many of them have been released on DVD through the company Ruscico; they can also be found on YouTube in their original language (most of them subtitled in English). It would be great for Rifftrax to cover them (or re-cover the ones already done on MST3K), but for the ones you haven't covered yet, it would depend…
29 votes -
Blue Velvet
The David Lynch classic starring a young, pre-Twin Peaks Kyle MacLaughlin, Laura Dern before Jurassic Park, Isabella Rossellini before her short haircut and Dennis Hopper, the madman with a love of Roy Orbison and PBR. It's worth it alone to hear Hopper, between huffing gas, say, "Oh, I'm ******." 'Nuff Said.
24 votes -
My Bloody Valentine (1981)
MBV is my wife's favorite Valentine's Day tradition. It's chocked full of the vapidly boneheaded of all ages. There's the old sheriff who seems to have almost no sensory apparatus of any kind; minor miners who treat a coal mine like an only slightly dirtier than usual frat house; and a bunch of people who insist upon doing pretty much exactly what you'd expect them to do. They're all Upper Peninsular types who only think with their lower peninsulas. And the guys are even worse.
It should only cost about $4.78 Canadian to rent the rights to this subterranean no-scare-fest. I'll be glad to send that to you if I can get to one of those places where money is exchanged for coconuts.MBV is my wife's favorite Valentine's Day tradition. It's chocked full of the vapidly boneheaded of all ages. There's the old sheriff who seems to have almost no sensory apparatus of any kind; minor miners who treat a coal mine like an only slightly dirtier than usual frat house; and a bunch of people who insist upon doing pretty much exactly what you'd expect them to do. They're all Upper Peninsular types who only think with their lower peninsulas. And the guys are even worse.
It should only cost about $4.78 Canadian to rent the rights to this subterranean no-scare-fest.…21 votes -
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
The theatrically released pilot for the two season NBC series, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. It's classically cheesy, from the time when everyone wanted to copy Star Wars' success.
47 votes -
C.C. and Company
C.C. and Company (1970)
Joe Namath, Ann-Margret, and beloved Sid Haig as a guy named Crow in biker movie.
What more does one need?!13 votes -
23 votes
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Wanted dead or alive
Ex CIA agent turned bounty hunter tries to stop a terrorist out for revenge.
Pure mid/late 80s corny action
Gene Simmons and his ego as the terrorist
Rutger Hauer as the bounty hunter and Robert Guillaume as the old friend who enlists him
So bad it's good!19 votes -
The man who killed Hitler then bigfoot
Honestly the name says it all. All of the confusion of Tarantino with none of the plot or character development.
9 votes -
mardi gras spring break
Three depressed college pals hope to party hearty in New Orleans and boost their spirits.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1083462/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOGV6GBaYVk9 votes -
bubba ho tep
After falling into a lengthy coma following a freak accident involving hip gyration, a now aged Elvis Presley (Bruce Campbell) wakes up in an East Texas nursing home, where he befriends Jack (Ossie Davis), an African-American senior who claims to be President John F. Kennedy. After residents of their quiet retirement community start dying of dubiously unnatural causes, Elvis and Jack discover that the perpetrator is Bubba Ho-Tep (Bob Ivy), an Egyptian mummy with murderous intentions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXGP07vrab8
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0281686/9 votes -
Clownado
Cursed demonic circus clowns set out on a vengeful massacre using tornadoes. A stripper, Elvis impersonator, truck driver, teen runaway, and a dude get caught in the supernatural battle between femme fatal and the boss clown from ****.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8485548/18 votes -
The monolith monsters
My memories may have fooled me into recommending a riff for this Sy-FY "B" movie with one of the most unusual monsters ever. Watching the movie last night (first time in a long time..) my professional side (retired TV Producer/writer guy) tells me, it may be too good or at least interesting, (which of course can sometimes work for riffing). Some effects could be worse and maybe the true killer, too much dialogue. But it might work with a creative, yet different attitude on the part of the riffer's "too much talk", Is this a monster or a big fizzy (Pop Rock maybe))? " Pet rock's gone bad" It will take a little different attitude from the beginning "This isn't a movie, it's the birth of a science project." It'S going too take your expert creative as always. Sorry I wrote too much..Jeff Bilyeu
My memories may have fooled me into recommending a riff for this Sy-FY "B" movie with one of the most unusual monsters ever. Watching the movie last night (first time in a long time..) my professional side (retired TV Producer/writer guy) tells me, it may be too good or at least interesting, (which of course can sometimes work for riffing). Some effects could be worse and maybe the true killer, too much dialogue. But it might work with a creative, yet different attitude on the part of the riffer's "too much talk", Is this a monster or a big fizzy…
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Rifftrax, please riff "Terror Beneath the Sea"
It's as if a grade Z Japanese studio thought that the combination of "Mighty Jack", "The Horror of Party Beach", "The Green **", and "Creature from the Black Lagoon" all mixed together would make a great idea for a sci-fi flick. Add wooden actors, poor writing, absentee direction, slapdash makeup and "special" effects, along with off the rack creature costumes, and you have the riffalicious gem which is "Terror Beneath the Sea". Mad scientist (mostly angry, but who is still a little whacked) creates a utopia on the sea floor, while engineering his sea creature "cyborgs" from human participants into creatures by apparently microwaving them and replacing their lungs. These overgrown pollywogs, which serve as ** labor controlled sonicly by a three position rotary switch, kidnap our protagonists while out for a scuba dive, who also happen to be friends with Naval officers in a futuristic sub with headlights and smart torpedoes that make bank turns like "Mighty Jack". All this happening around undersea atomic waste dumps that probably gave Gerry Andersen his idea for creating "Space 1999", though spoiler alert; the explosions didn't knock the ocean out of Earth's orbit.
It's as if a grade Z Japanese studio thought that the combination of "Mighty Jack", "The Horror of Party Beach", "The Green **", and "Creature from the Black Lagoon" all mixed together would make a great idea for a sci-fi flick. Add wooden actors, poor writing, absentee direction, slapdash makeup and "special" effects, along with off the rack creature costumes, and you have the riffalicious gem which is "Terror Beneath the Sea". Mad scientist (mostly angry, but who is still a little whacked) creates a utopia on the sea floor, while engineering his sea creature "cyborgs" from human participants…
26 votes -
The Cave (2005)
I saw that someone previously mentioned this movie in their suggestion for "The Cavern." But this person insinuated that "The Cave" was successful in some capacity. I don't know where they got their information, but it was only successful in the sense that someone actually managed to con some Hollywood execs into giving them money to make this ****** version of The Descent. One reviewer actually said, "The insipid dialog lacks even a hint of comic relief, so the audience is grateful when the action quickly kicks into gear."
Here is a link to a visual synopsis of the film by someone who actually enjoyed it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAdsvRniXF0Before I tell you why you should choose this movie, some context. I was first introduced to the movie when a friend and I rented it from Blockbuster. I was already an MST3K fan, and once I realized how awful the movie was, I soon found myself compelled to riff it myself! But my friend soon became very annoyed with me, so for the sake of our friendship, I had to internalize my riffing for the rest of the movie (well, I TRIED to anyway).
So, first off, there are a couple of celebrities that will make easy fodder. Lena Headley for all your Game of Thrones references and Daniel Dae Kim for LOST! Second, the dialogue is ridiculous and the plot predictable, and yet nonsensical at the same time. Even so, the plot is just interesting enough that you want to see how it ends. There's mythology, mystery, and SCIENCE!! Everything the kids today love. And thirdly, it has crazy looking creatures that are the product of parasites, so of course one of the main characters start going through "the change." gasp!
Here is a link to an official trailer and its confusing tagline:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP4DsyaB1eEThank you for your consideration and hope you have a pleasant, monster-free day!
I saw that someone previously mentioned this movie in their suggestion for "The Cavern." But this person insinuated that "The Cave" was successful in some capacity. I don't know where they got their information, but it was only successful in the sense that someone actually managed to con some Hollywood execs into giving them money to make this ****** version of The Descent. One reviewer actually said, "The insipid dialog lacks even a hint of comic relief, so the audience is grateful when the action quickly kicks into gear."
Here is a link to a visual synopsis of the film…
24 votes -
Stay Away From Disney, aka The Blob
My idea is that you guys should NOT even get CLOSE to Disney. They are like the Blob. They will absorb you, take your creation over, and turn it into some unholy godawful way-too-happy teenage show. Look what happened to Star Wars and the Muppets.
2 votes