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January 20
Special Event: Trump Inauguration #2: Inside Freezing Crowd-o-Matic Boogaloo
January 16
Special Event: Rifftrax Live: THE RETURN OF SWAMP THING
MST Club presents! Features a blooming relationship been a lady and a plant monster. It's a sequel to the Wes Craven cult classic, but it isn't itself directed by Wes Craven, so beware! Movie released in 1989, riff released November 2022.
January 11
Special Event: Winter 2025 Anime Season / Fall 2024 Wrap-Up
Many winter 2025 shows have at least had their premiere episode, which makes it as good a time as any for the quarterly update post!
Initial impressions, reviews, and [more inside]
January 2
Special Event: Rifftrax: WONDER WOMEN
MSTClub presents! A villain is harvesting the organs of jai alai players, and only the original sidehacker himself, Ross Hagan, can stop them. Has absolutely nothing to do with DC Comics or Warner Bros. Riff released January 2015.
December 28, 2024
Special Event: Beyoncé Bowl
Beyoncé performed material from Cowboy Carter for the first time live at halftime on NFL Christmas Gameday from Houston, Texas (review, review). Now streaming on Netflix.
December 22, 2024
Special Event: MST Club Christmas Video Marathon #11
Well, we're doing it again. Starting early morning on Dec 23 and going through to the end of Dec 25, in our video share room, MST Club presents our 11th annual Christmas Marathon. Look inside for details! [more inside]
December 20, 2024
Special Event: Ring Of Honor: Final Battle 2024
After last year's well-received Final Battle in Texas, ROH returns to the Hammerstein Ballroom, a venue that saw some of their greatest matches of the 2000s. This year, the Men's and Women's Championships are defended by former-WWE-turned-AEW/ROH-veteran heels against independent darlings. Dustin Rhodes, himself a piece of wrestling history, tries to reclaim one of his own father's sacred relics in tag-team action, and the "Survival of the Fittest" stipulation is revived. Final Battle can be watched by members of Honor Club at the ROH website. [more inside]
December 19, 2024
Special Event: The Mads Are Back: NIGHT OF TOONS
MST Club presents! The Mads are slowing their output, at least for a while, but they've still brought us a collection of cartoon shorts to close out the year, with special guest Jerry Beck! You can get your own copy here. Riffed a few days ago, December 2024. [more inside]
December 8, 2024
Special Event: Special Event: Taylor Swift The Eras Tour Final Concert December 8th
Grainy live stream here. show starts 740 ish PST (keep checking in case she comes on early tonight) [more inside]
Special Event: Cheesy Holiday Made-For-TV-Movies Thread
I'm going to start a catchall thread if anyone wants to discuss Hallmark, Lifetime, Netflix, or other holiday movies they've seen this year, since I'm being slow to watch them all. [more inside]
December 5, 2024
Special Event: Rifftrax: THE FANTASTIC ARGOMAN
MST Club presents! Argoman is a superhero with an unfortunate weakness: whenever he has sex, he loses his powers for six hours. Surely that wouldn't be so bad, right? Apparently though he's hornier than a moose, and the self-titled Queen Of The World has figured out his Achilles Prick, and plans to take advantage of his post-coital fatigue to steal a valuable gem... and then use it somehow to cause terrible inflation? The money kind that is. Rifftrax released this riff quite recently, on November 22, 2024.
November 28, 2024
Special Event: Turkey Day 2024
Once again, we at MST Club, that tiny subset of the site that gathers to watch riffing and other things on Thursday nights (and still other things on Sunday and Tuesday) are piping in the official Mystery Science Theater 3000 Turkey Day stream off of Youtube to watch in our video share room throughout Thanksgiving Day. Or, if you want to watch it on their page instead, it should be available here , although I'll say their chat scroll rate will be much worse. More info inside-- [more inside]
November 14, 2024
Special Event: RiffTrax: SHE GODS OF SHARK REEF
MST Club presents! Bridget Nelson and Mary-Jo Pehl riff this one, directed by Roger Corman himself. The purchase page asks, is it a hula movie with sharks, or a shark movie with hula? Released August 2024.
November 7, 2024
Special Event: FilmRoasters: THE DUNGEONMASTER
MST Club presents! This is another of the riffs put together by the FilmRoasters guys, available on the Rifftrax site, but only if you know the URL ($2). Despite the title, it's not a D&D-themed movie mostly. It's about a computer programmer who runs afoul of that bane of all computer programmers: the demonic wizard Mestema, played by Richard "Bull Shannon" Moll! the riff year is unclear to me, but it's at least 13 years old, so maybe 2011?
October 30, 2024
Special Event: Rifftrax: HALLOWEEN (1978)
MST Club presents! Michael Myers tested positive in a routine soul smear for Pure Evil. He killed his sister as a kid, and as an adult has escaped from his institution and is stalking a babysitter. Fortunately psychiatrist Donald "Blofeld" Pleasence is on the case. I know the reputation is that riffing is for bad movies, but Halloween is effective, and it's always great to see Pleasence. The riff was released in 2006, so 90s-style content warnings apply.
October 25, 2024
Special Event: MLB: 2024 World Series
Tonight marks Game 1 of the 2024 World Series -- and for the first time in more than 40 years, it's the New York Yankees versus the Los Angeles Dodgers, setting up a dream matchup between superstar rivals Aaron Judge and Shoehei Ohtani. See how to stream, or check inside for a full game schedule. [more inside]
October 24, 2024
Special Event: The Mads Are Back: THE DEVIL BAT
MST Club presents! The Devil Bat was released in 1940, and stars Bela Lugosi, who--get this--invents an aftershave lotion that causes giant bats to attack the wearers. All, um, according to plan? Premiered November 2022.
October 6, 2024
Special Event: Fall 2024 Anime Season / Summer 2024 Wrap-Up
The last few shows for Summer 2024 are wrapping up, so time for the quarterly update post!
Initial impressions, reviews, and [more inside]
October 3, 2024
Special Event: iRiffs: ZARDOZ
MST Club presents! Some years ago Rifftrax piloted a means by which people could record riffs for movies themselves that they'd sell through the site, a program that they called iRiffs. It appears that iRiffs can no longer be found on Rifftrax site searches, but Google can still turn up the pages, and they can still be bought. That is how I purchased this riff of ill-advised Sean Connery vehicle Zardoz, produced by a group known as FilmRoasters. I don't know if FilmRoasters is still active, but they have a Youtube channel, which the address filmroasters.com redirects to. The most recent videos on the Youtube channel are six years old. I don't know how old the Zardoz riff is, but if it's six years old that would put its release at around 1998. FilmRoasters appears to be comprised of Eric Vinyard, Brandon Bates and Wes Allen.