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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.
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]
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. [10] [11]
A 3 movie marathon performed in Glenside, PA at the Keswick Theatre. Performed on New Year's Eve, the first two movies were performed before midnight, and the third after midnight. Dave (Gruber) Allen opened. January 30, 2010: Danger on Tiki Island: San Francisco CA One public show at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco, CA. Warm-up material ...
The cult TV series Mystery Science Theater 3000 highlighted the movie in a seventh-season episode. Most of the jokes regarded the obvious Italian setting and bad outfits but of particular note is that the character of Doblòn (whose name the characters mispronounce as Toblerone ) quickly won Mike, Tom Servo, and Crow over with his over the top ...
Fred Beldin from AllMovie gave the film a negative review, writing, "Though the silly rubber suit affords the viewer a fair amount of yuks, Octaman is a cheap, sluggish vehicle that gets tiresome long before the monster finally gives up and dies, and bad day-for-night shooting renders many sequences murky and hard to decipher."
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."