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1. The Babysitter (1980)

   • Stephanie Zimbalist plays a teenage murderess.
   • Shatner and Zimbalist share a kiss!
   • Patty Duke plays a recovering alcoholic who relapses.

   http://www.allmovie.com/movie/the-babysitter-v3622
   http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080407/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_3

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2. Android (1982)

   Just like 'Star Wars' spawned countless intergalactic battle knockoffs (even worse than the Star Wars Holiday Special), the movie 'Alien' apparently spawned a lot of fugitives trapped in space with psychotic aliens, androids, entities, pirates, used car salesmen... you get the drift.

   Basically here's the plot which would do both Dr. Forrester and his mother, Pearl proud:

   Apparently somewhere out in space, Dr. Daniel, and his shy, cumbersome assistant, Max, conduct 'illegal' experiments with androids, and I don't mean forcing them to watch bad movies with some guy shot into space neither (after all, this sort of thing wouldn't occur for another decade or so..).

   Anyway, before you can say, 'Let's go to the Honeycomb Hideout,' three fugitives from the law show up and crash the party. One happens to be female, whom Max is smitten. While one has serious anger management issues, and the other is paranoid, and you know THAT always GOES WELL in these type situations.

   Anyhoo, as you'd expect, a lot of bizarre killing and fun stuff occurs with the Space Police arriving and with the most inexplicable ending that makes 'Santa Claus and the Ice Bunny' appear quite normal.

   So why should RiffTrax take a sonic riffdriver with this film? Three reasons:

   (1) The bizarrely-unintentional hilarious scenes: Case in point, when Max is learning about the birds and the bees from the space station's computer: the computer shows an image of a male and female, and as it's describing love between them, the images bump nipples as if that helps the process. Another comes from the fact one of the fugitives becomes psychotic at the drop of a hat. Seriously, as the group lands on the space station, though he pretends him and his crew are lost travelers (like ANYONE'S going to BUY that!), he's already plotting to off Dr. Daniel and Max and take over the station. While the other just gets paranoid over every little thing, and the females the only single person of the group who is sane.

   1. How this film can take a relatively simple plot, then turn it into an incomprehensible space opera. Seriously, the movie does lull you into a false sense of security that this will be an exciting space adventure, but instead goes into this inexplicable thing about these fugitives bickering, until they get picked off one-by-one. And you actually root for their deaths just to get the plot moving along.

   2. The strange ending which only leaves you wondering what in heck did you just watch. Not to tip off the ending itself, but about several minutes into the film itself, you'll realize something's not quite right with Max. And do you kind of predict what happens with the female android Max and Dr. Daniel. But then comes all these twists with makes you wonder if this was directed by a young M. Night Shamalyan.

   Overall, this was one of the funner sci-fi knockoffs, because it really does go off the deep-end in plot and acting, not to mention the fact that you don't really see a lot of futuristic sci-fi killing in this.

   To demonstrate what I'm talking about here's a link of the full film from YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNG-jLnlQDA

   Just like 'Star Wars' spawned countless intergalactic battle knockoffs (even worse than the Star Wars Holiday Special), the movie 'Alien' apparently spawned a lot of fugitives trapped in space with psychotic aliens, androids, entities, pirates, used car salesmen... you get the drift.

   Basically here's the plot which would do both Dr. Forrester and his mother, Pearl proud:

   Apparently somewhere out in space, Dr. Daniel, and his shy, cumbersome assistant, Max, conduct 'illegal' experiments with androids, and I don't mean forcing them to watch bad movies with some guy shot into space neither (after all, this sort of thing wouldn't occur… more

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3. Glen or Glenda

   The Ed Wood film that started it all. This has it all! Ed Wood in drag, running bison (because nothing screams sex change like running bison), Lugosi as God, a hair-horned devil, pseudo-hermaphrodites, and then the movie really goes bat-shit crazy in the middle for no real apparent reason. This deserves to be riffed.
   full movie - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vUoSPJm5w0
   trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taoDcurT738
   highlights & crazy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaDIMqclxJ4

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4. Jimmy, The Boy Wonder

   This film is one of two children's features (the other being The Magic Land of Mother Goose) directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis, who is best known for his gory splatter films from the 60's such as Blood Feast and Two Thousand Maniacs. The film was shot in Florida in 1966, so it has that Ice Cream Bunny feel to it. This movie is all kinds of awful, but in a way that's perfect for Rifftrax.
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBvPx3UidE8

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5. Breakin'

   I think this scene does it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVrWDPi12zE

   But It's got
   1) the magic of the 80s
   2) an odd take on what equals "drama", and
   3) I think Rifftrax hasn't properly explored the Dance Film genre.

   41 votes

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6. Terror Squad (1987)

   This is one of those perfect situations where the people making the film were genuinely trying to make something similar to other well liked films at the time such as Red Dawn... and a turd was produced instead... 75% of the film is a car chase scene that is filled with the most random and absurd situations. The chief of police, played by Chuck Conners (The Rifleman), even runs over a citizen and only exclaims his frustration as he drives on. A few of the biggest blunders in the film include: Blue mats are seen on camera when actors dive from explosions, Chuck Conners disappears for no reason with about a quarter of the film to go, one of the most deadly scenes is where the terrorists drive circles around a city hall building killing everyone and the citizens just stay in the circle, and at the climax of the film there is a bus chase scene that features a bus that continuously changes from a full size to short bus.

   This film needs the RiffTrax treatment. After one viewing it should write itself!

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terror_Squad_(film)

   This is one of those perfect situations where the people making the film were genuinely trying to make something similar to other well liked films at the time such as Red Dawn... and a turd was produced instead... 75% of the film is a car chase scene that is filled with the most random and absurd situations. The chief of police, played by Chuck Conners (The Rifleman), even runs over a citizen and only exclaims his frustration as he drives on. A few of the biggest blunders in the film include: Blue mats are seen on camera when actors dive… more

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7. Mr. Hercules Against Karate (1973)

   The martial arts forces were ready for nuclear weapons, for rocks, meteorites, bullets and poison darts - but the forces of evil in the world were not ready for: Mr. Hercules! ARE YOU?

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8. Fist of Fear, Touch of Death

   • Fred Williamson's in it.
   • Bruce Lee's grandfather is said to be a samurai!
   • A Bruce Lee wannabe saves two cute female joggers from thugs.
   • The movie's in the public domain.

   http://web.archive.org/web/20091027122107/http://www.geocities.com/pistolsblazing85/MovieReviewsFistOfFearTouchOfDeath.html
   https://web.archive.org/web/20081205021923/http://www.cityonfire.com/hkrelated/fistfeartouchdeath.html
   http://www.hkfilm.net/dragcob.htm
   http://retrofilmvault.com/index2.html
   https://youtu.be/ikPVNhLz8js

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9. It Follows

   If your horror films don't have enough fear of sex, STDs or out running things by walking briskly, the this is for you. It's also great if you like being treated to multiple shots of the lead laying around and doing nothing (with or without her friends )

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10. Snow Shark

    Snow Shark is so painfully bad that it's impossible to look away!

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11. The Home Economics Story

    A 25 minute "story" (read: ad) for the Iowa State home economics program. Dates from 1951, can be found in the Prelinger Archive. Prime fodder for Bridget & Mary Jo. The story talks about Kay's college experience, going through year by year, and showing clips of the classes from the perspective of 4 girls total. Everything a 1950's girl needs to know is covered from majors (everything from home economics to home economics), to life goals (using your degree to ultimately get married and raise children). Don't forget the assorted fun along the way (Home coming! Formals! Yay!)!

    I watch it periodically as it is. I can't imagine how good it would be riffed.

    https://archive.org/details/0159_Home_Economics_Story_The_E00036_01_16_28_00

    A 25 minute "story" (read: ad) for the Iowa State home economics program. Dates from 1951, can be found in the Prelinger Archive. Prime fodder for Bridget & Mary Jo. The story talks about Kay's college experience, going through year by year, and showing clips of the classes from the perspective of 4 girls total. Everything a 1950's girl needs to know is covered from majors (everything from home economics to home economics), to life goals (using your degree to ultimately get married and raise children). Don't forget the assorted fun along the way (Home coming! Formals! Yay!)!

    I watch… more

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12. Death Machine

    This movie just begs to be made fun of. It stars Brad Dourif (the voice of Chucky from "Child's Play", Wormtongue from the "Lord of the Rings" series...Billy from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"...) as a sort of evil genius inventor at some giant corporation that everyone hates (though it's never really made clear exactly what they do except for make some sort of military technology).
    
    It pays tribute to several good directors (who would have been justified in suing over use of their names) by naming characters Scott Ridley, and even more blatantly, John Carpenter, amongst others.
    
    The whole movie is just an amazing confusing mess. You'll never be fully aware of what's supposed to be going on for more than a few minutes.
    I think the line "I showed him my thing.....and it killed him" speaks for itself.
    Oh, and Rachel Weisz is in it for like 30 seconds.

    This movie just begs to be made fun of. It stars Brad Dourif (the voice of Chucky from "Child's Play", Wormtongue from the "Lord of the Rings" series...Billy from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"...) as a sort of evil genius inventor at some giant corporation that everyone hates (though it's never really made clear exactly what they do except for make some sort of military technology).
    
    It pays tribute to several good directors (who would have been justified in suing over use of their names) by naming characters Scott Ridley, and even more blatantly, John Carpenter, amongst others.
    
    The… more

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13. Alien Opponent

    An alien crash lands in a junk yard and an entire town of lunatic hillbillies try to kill it but mostly kill each other in hilarious ways. Features WWF legend Rowdy Roddy Piper as a gun toting priest, Jeremy London as basically a hung over version of himself, and a chiuauah named Taco.

    This would make an ahazing live show.

    23 votes

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14. Dragons of Camelot (2014)

    It's kind of like if a High School Drama class took promising British Actors, made them fake American Accents and perform - on a high school drama class budget - through Wales.

    Actually, that's exactly what it is...

    18 votes

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15. Star Knight

    One of those ridiculous 1980s fantasy films that tried to add a science fiction element and failed miserably. The worst of both worlds in one package!

    26 votes

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16. Karate Girl (1974)

    A Turkish film from 1974, KARETECI KIZ (Karate Girl or Golden Girl) is an amazing exploitation stink bomb with a ridiculous plot and amazingly bad fight scenes....it should be, nay, it deserves to be riffed!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Af8Nwhb5Ao

    159 votes

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17. The Specialist (1975)

    ...Not to be confused with that atrocious 1994 Sylvester Stallone film by the director of ANACONDA of the same name...

    This movie finds itself being an R-rated episode of TV's "Matlock" or even "Night Court" due to randomly having brief nudity. Adam West gives it his all though and makes the proceedings quite energetic even when nothing much is happening.

    19 votes

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18. Second Chances (1998)

    It features a cowboy who looks like NICOLAS CAGE with a mullet, and that alone should be good for a lot of jokes.

    This film is currently available on Netflix.

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0175145/

    22 votes

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19. Funky Forest: The First Contact

    An outrageous collection of surreal, short attention span non-sequiturs largely revolving around Guitar Brother, his randy older sibling, and the pair's portly Caucasian brother. Check out a scene of the movie below.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCjkd7zDB28

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20. Backcountry

    Between the bad accents, bad makeup and bad boyfriends, you don't have to get lost in the woods to find Backcountry, a genuine "root-for-the-creature" feature. When a film's celebrity power is Haven's Eric Balfour, you know you can trust when they say, "based on a true story" (which means the writers guessed this could probably have happened to someone... somewhere). The pretentious cinematography in this "suspense" film had my friends and I falling asleep until we remembered our riff training. From the annoying characters to their self-inflicted plight, Backcountry is nowhere near deserving of such accolades as featured in their trailer from IFC Midnight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46uwmzTf5nA. "Gripping," "harrowing," and "terrifying?" Maybe, but not in the way they think...

    Between the bad accents, bad makeup and bad boyfriends, you don't have to get lost in the woods to find Backcountry, a genuine "root-for-the-creature" feature. When a film's celebrity power is Haven's Eric Balfour, you know you can trust when they say, "based on a true story" (which means the writers guessed this could probably have happened to someone... somewhere). The pretentious cinematography in this "suspense" film had my friends and I falling asleep until we remembered our riff training. From the annoying characters to their self-inflicted plight, Backcountry is nowhere near deserving of such accolades as featured in their… more

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