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The following is a list of RiffTrax, downloadable audio commentaries featuring comedian Michael J. Nelson and others ridiculing (or riffing on) films in the style of Mystery Science Theater 3000, a TV show of which Nelson was the head writer and later the host. [1]
A RiffTrax Player is also offered as a free download for Windows computers. [49] The movies chosen for RiffTrax are based on two criteria: whether the movie lends itself towards a funny riffing, and whether the film is widely available on DVD. [45] [47] These criteria have resulted in a wide variety of genre and era of movies chosen to be riffed.
Mill Creek Entertainment included R.O.T.O.R. in their "Sci-Fi Invasion 50 Movie" DVD boxed set in 2011. [3] In October 2014, RiffTrax released R.O.T.O.R. as a video-on-demand title with humorous commentary. [4] In February 2016, the film was released on Blu-ray by Shout! Factory in a double feature with Millennium. [5]
On December 17, 2010, RiffTrax released Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny, with their synchronous commentary, as a "Video on Demand" download. It has since been made available on DVD as well by Legend Films as well as an extended in-studio edition, and has been hosted as a Rifftrax title on streaming services.
After experiencing a mild revival of popularity on the Internet, the film was presented as a RiffTrax feature in April 2008, with commentary by Michael J. Nelson, Bill Corbett, and Kevin Murphy; they described the film as a "concentrated dose of lab-purified nightmare fuel" and said that it makes monkeys more terrifying than they already are. [5]
Writing in The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia, Peter Dendle called it a "fairly humorless and uncomplicated zombie invasion exercise" that is "derivative and unnecessary". [3] The movie was riffed on May 7, 2012 by Michael J. Nelson, Kevin Murphy & Bill Corbett of Rifftrax. [4] The film holds a 20% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 5 reviews [5]
The Guy from Harlem was the subject of a 2012 episode of RiffTrax.They described the film thus: "It trades most of the sleaze, grime, and, well, exploitation that you expect from the genre for dopiness, sexual situations that fail to lead to actual sex, a clumsy confused sweetness, and more botched lines per minute than anything we've ever seen."
They would groan over his absence in the middle of the movie ("If ever a scene cried out for Toblerone!") and cheered when he made his return later in the film ("Just drink him in!"). MST3K riffers Michael J. Nelson , Bill Corbett and Kevin Murphy produced a new riffing of the film for Rifftrax on June 3, 2022.