Synchtube Tropers (Riff on Videos and Movies)

Had something come up, so I'll miss this one. Have fun, gents!

Tonight's feature presentation was brought to my attention in somewhat odd circumstances—I heard about it from my mother after someone on Facebook shared a link to the movie from the same YouTube channel that brought us utter garbage like Pop-Punk Zombies, The Bunnyman Massacre, and (most recently) Panman.

It's from 1934, written as a "loose adaptation" of Edgar Allan Poe's The Black Cat, 51 minutes long, received a full-length RiffTrax recording in 2009, and was named one of the "100 Most Amusingly Bad Movies Ever Made" in The Official Razzie Movie Guide.

It's the story of a former vaudeville impersonator... assisting a mad scientist in reanimating corpses... who kills the scientist, steas his identity, and continues in his experiments... and soon goes mad himself. This is... Maniac (also released as Sex Maniac, for some reason).

Renaming it Sex Maniac presumably just to sell more of it. Sad how movies are so often seen as simple objects rather than as art by many executives.

Distributors, principally (especially for a small, low-budget exploitative film like this one made around this time)—not "executives". And, of course, film distributors are more focused on seeing movies as objects; their principal interest is getting other people to look at it so they can make money.

He's a maaaaniac, maaaaaaniac, that's for suuuree

He will kill your cat and nail him to the dooooor

I just watched Moana. I'd say it was good but not great. By our standards, I'd give it ★★. Or to put it another way, out of the Disney movies since Tangled, it was the one I liked the least.

I think "Shiny" can be added to the list of great Disney villain songs.

edited 5th Mar '17 1:05:35 PM by BonsaiForest

My dad just e-mailed me, to pass along a favorite movie of his, Priscilla: Queen of the Desert. About road tripping drag queens in Australia. He thinks we might like it.

edited 5th Mar '17 4:06:13 PM by BonsaiForest

Alright, we got Gamesmaster and Street Sharks, followed at the top of the coming hour by the old, the corny Maniac (1934).

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~Bisected8 ~Morgikit ~lewattoo ~Noaqiyeum ~Finger Puppet ~Colonel Cathcart ~Completely Normal Guy ~TAPETRVE ~Rockonman ~spacealien ~Mystic Eclectic ~Shippudentimes ~Space Wolf ~colonelcathcart ~Germi91 ~Maple Samurai ~Gehayadren ~iflewaway ~Tomodachi

I've seen Priscilla. It's an interesting film. Campy and a bit surreal, but doesn't shy away from the harsh reality transgender and non-heterosexual people faced in the 90s (and today to an extent), especially in less enlightened communities. I caution, one or two scenes might be hard to watch for some.

ABBA turd.

Anyway, as it turns out, just last night I came across a mid-90's action/thriller starring Kelly Lynch, who we may most easily recognize from the Lifetime Original movie Cyber Seduction: His Secret Life ()—the made for TV drama that paints internet pornography with the same brush as teenage drug addiction. And then, out of nowhere, I just got to thinking, "Hell, why don't we just re-watch Cyber Seduction?"

I remember that movie. That was a great riffing time. I hope some of the members who haven't had a chance to watch it yet feel the same way.

I won't be able to make it tonight or tomorrow, because of life things, so I'll see everyone for Wednesday night.

Great playlist assembled with Dunkey... Retsupurae... Food Gore... and a trailer that I never knew existed for the game Jazzpunk overloaded with references to Johnny Mnemonic. Incredible stuff.

Then... at the top of the coming hour... Kelly Lynch stars in the Lifetime Original movie Cyber Seduction: His Secret Life.

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I have a future title suggestion.

A bit of interesting history with this one, considering it's adapted from an innocent children's novel.

From the other Wiki:

Even from this very wiki's page on the work:

Even it stars most, if not all of the Python cast, even being directed by star Terry Jones,

Behold the anomaly that is the 1996 film adaptation of The Wind in the Willows, or as it's known in the U.S., Mr. Toad's Wild Ride.

edited 7th Mar '17 8:40:44 PM by Shippudentimes

This is going to be an unusual followup to last night's movie.

An ex-cop-turned-"securities expert" bumps into our mom from Cyber Seduction... who, as you may expect, seduces the ex-cop and has a one night stand... which actually leads to the compromising of his expert securities. Action and thrills ensue.

Here is Persons Unknown, with Joe Mantegna, Kelly Lynch, Naomi Watts, and J.T. Walsh.

I'd like to submit three possibilities for a bold letter movie day. I realize that only one might make it, and possibly none at all. But there are a few movies I like (or know of) that I think might qualify, and are genuinely intelligent and/or meaningful in some way. Two are based on true stories, one kinda is a true story (you'll see when you read the description).

Here's my choices:

• Wild. Based on the true story of a woman with a tragic past who, despite being pretty much a noob at hiking, decided to hike the entire 1100 mile Pacific Crest Trail by herself, in a sort of journey of self-discovery. She ends up becoming the first woman to do so, regardless of reasons. (The men on the trail are pretty much there as hiking enthusiasts) Her journey is intercut with flashbacks to the tragedies in her past that led her to make this odd decision. Contains lots of Scenery Porn.

• Freedom Writers. Based on the true story of a white English teacher at an inner city school who manages to reach through to her students, whose lives are full of turmoil and violence and other horrors, and inspire them to improve their lives. There's even a moment that seems implausible but actually did happen for real - when the kids invite the lady who hid Anne Frank from the Nazis, to speak at their school, and she actually does. It would seem like utter bullshit had it not actually happened.

• Snow On Tha Bluff. A "found footage" film, that actually is found footage, kinda. It starts with two women filming their trip through the inner city to get drugs, on video, then they get robbed by a drug dealer. The robber takes the camera, and proceeds to film the things that happen in his life. Eventually, he takes the video to a documentary producing company - and they took his footage and edited it down to a cohesive narrative. Since everything in the video is real, that means actual crimes were caught on film, and actual criminals caught as a result of appearing in this "movie". So obscure it doesn't have a TVT page.

I hope at least one of these qualifies.

edited 7th Mar '17 1:42:44 PM by BonsaiForest

I'll get back on more about this later.

Right now... There's Retsupurae... There's... The Adventures of Electra Elf & Fluffer...

And at the top of the coming hour, we dive into Persons Unknown.

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Still so busy.

Alright, tonight's another repeat viewing that we first came across a long while ago. Made by a group of nobodies somewhere out west in the early 2000's, practically all the money they could gather went towards somehow acquiring the likes of Corey Feldman and Adam West to appear in this... Then the movie went unreleased for over a decade, until somebody convinced the movie creator(s) to just throw it up on YouTube, because moments like these don't deserve to stay buried.

Here's Seance (aka Killer in the Dark)....

I can't view the videos at work, but if this is what I think it is, it'll be great to revisit!

Alright, this pre-show is just going to come as a total surprise: 50 minutes of brutal sport dating back to the Italian Middle Ages. An ancient influence on soccer, rugby, American handegg, and MMA... Can your hearts stand the chaotic spectacle and excitement of... Calcio Fiorentino?

Then... at the top of the coming hour..... Corey Feldman and Adam West appear in Seance.

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~Bisected8 ~Morgikit ~lewattoo ~Noaqiyeum ~Finger Puppet ~Colonel Cathcart ~Completely Normal Guy ~TAPETRVE ~Rockonman ~spacealien ~Mystic Eclectic ~Shippudentimes ~Space Wolf ~colonelcathcart ~Germi91 ~Maple Samurai ~Gehayadren ~iflewaway ~Tomodachi

I'll be returning here Saturday evening.

In the meantime, tonight the rest of us can look forward to The Wind in the Willows with Steve Coogan, Stephen Fry... and Eric Idol, Terry James, John Cheese, and Sarah Palin.

On second thought, that might be an issue, as the video playlist on YouTube is non-embeddable.

~Bonsai Forest (or anybody), it's gonna be up to you to either come up with a work-around or find something else that everyone can actually look forward to, instead (another past feature, perhaps).

I did find it on google docs, but it's gonna take some negotiating. Bonsai Forest, if you can do the search, I bet you can find it.

...WHAT DID I JUST WATCH?! And how did the Monty Python crew of all people end up is the cast?

edited 9th Mar '17 10:13:09 AM by MapleSamurai

I'm at work now. Ship, what do you mean by "negotiating"? I don't like sudden surprises, so is there a way we can still watch this?

If it's impossible, what past features that we really liked would you like to see again? I'll pick from the choices and go for one of them.