Short Reviews of RiffTrax Shorts: At Your Fingertips Collection

It's Short Reviews of RiffTrax Shorts, our new series where the title is almost as long as the actual reviews!  We are going to take a look at every RiffTrax Short in the catalog, and write a very brief review on them all.  

ACI shorts are a staple in the RiffTrax Shorts catalog, and that is mostly because of the assemblage of the At Your Fingertips shorts.  The AYF series are themed crafting ideas, usually things that can be made with household items such as sugar, empty boxes, and yard clippings.

These are some of the most popular RiffTrax Shorts of all time, and there's a good reason for that.

Short Reviews of RiffTrax Shorts: Kitty Cleans Up

It's Short Reviews of RiffTrax Shorts, our new series where the title is almost as long as the actual reviews!  We are going to take a look at a RiffTrax Short almost every day this year, until we run out of shorts.  That will get us through the majority of the year, so strap in for madness!

Kitty Cleans Up

(Released July 28, 2008)

Kitty Cleans Up is a short—narrated by what sounds like the same middle-aged woman who was dubbed over Debbie in Manos—about a girl who is getting herself and her cat ready for a Pet Show at school.  If that isn't incentive to watch a Short, I don't know what else would be.

List of RiffTrax VoD Available Free on Amazon Prime

For those of you who might not be aware, there are a very decent number of RiffTrax titles that you can watch, for free, if you are an Amazon Prime member.  And since it's RiffTrax, some of their best releases are included!

This is the perfect way to help a friend get into RiffTrax.  Just tell them to check a few of these free ones out, and once they get hooked, they can dive right in to the full catalog over at RiffTrax.com!

Classic MST3K Episodes Return to Netflix

We are just about a month away from the arrival of the new episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000 (I still can't believe I get to say those words!), but today, Netflix has started streaming twenty classic episodes of the beloved show.

These include some of my personal favorite episodes, and is only missing a couple of what I would consider essential episodes.  Overall though, I can't complain about the selection.  I can't really complain about almost forty hours of MST3K.

You can check out the complete list below, and don't miss the new episodes coming to Netflix April 14!

My Updated Top Ten RiffTrax B-Movies List

Last May, I updated my ten list of my favorite RiffTrax B-Movie releases.  I had a pretty solid list built, but there have been so many excellent releases since then.  I felt it was time to once again update my list.

I started trying to work on this list over a month ago.  Between personal time constraints and trying to figured out what to add and remove from my list, I am finally ready to present it to you.  For someone who is as big of a fan of RiffTrax as I am, this is exhausting!  There hasn't been a single riff that I've watched that I haven't enjoyed, and trying to pick my favorites from ten years worth of content is difficult.

I did finally manage to get this finalized.  For now.

Bottom Shelf Mixology Rejects: Bad Movies, Worse Drinks Pt. 1

Welcome to Bottom Shelf Mixology™!  Our staff of Mixologists have racked their brains (and livers) to come up with special "bottom shelf" versions of popular drinks, and some original creations that range from "oh, that might be interesting" to "that sounds absolutely disgusting".  

Lately, I have been watching gobs of RiffTrax and Mystery Science Theater 3000 episodes.  I started thinking about the potential of making some BSM recipes themed around some of these movies and shorts that I have been watching.  Then I realized that these films didn't deserve drinkable recipes.  These films are rejects, and deserve drinks that are down on their level.

Welcome to part one of Bad Movies, Worse Drinks.

My New Top Ten RiffTrax B-Movie Releases

Last August, I compiled a top ten list of my favorite RiffTrax VoD releases.  I had a pretty solid list at that time, too.  Since making that list, however, they have released sixteen new movies and I knew I had to update my list.

This was not an easy venture.  You know those scenes in movies and TV shows where there is a group of people trying to come up with an idea or a verdict in a murder trial, and they are just arguing the whole time?  There is always one guy just sitting there, with his head resting on one or both of his hands, trying to make sense of it all.  I was that guy while working on this list.  I was also everyone else arguing with each other.  Honest to God, this list took me two and a half weeks to finalize.

I am glad I don't work under any sort of deadline.

In the end, only four of the releases from the first list have survived.  The rest are all from the last nine months.

Be sure to argue my list in the comments or on Twitter.

My Top Ten RiffTrax VoD Releases

As regular readers of this site know, I am an avid fan of RiffTrax.  In fact, I enjoy watching RiffTrax videos almost more than watching anything on TV.

This time of year is great for us RiffTrax fans, because we are right in the middle of the RiffTrax Live season.  The live riff of Sharknado was outstanding, and I am really anticipating upcoming Godzilla '98, Anaconda, and unannounced Christmas Riff (rumored to be Santa & The Ice Cream Bunny).  Couple that with the barrage of VoDs and Shorts that RiffTrax has been releasing, and you have before you a happy man (with a sad wallet).

Because of this near euphoric state I find myself in, and with some of the recent VoDs that have been absolutely bonkers, I decided it was time to make an updated list of my top favorite VoD releases.

Now, I have done some lists before of RiffTrax VoD essentials, but those have all been movies that I think every RiffTrax fan should see.  They were not necessarily in my top ten.

Five Must-Have RiffTrax VoDs 2: Die (Laughing) Harder

Last summer, I brought you a few lists of must-have RiffTrax releases.  Today, I have five more RiffTrax Video on Demand movies that you absolutely need.  Like, more than food and water.  This time around, we've got Torgo, Doctor Who, an Italian movie made to be a sequel to Evil Dead II, boobs, and a "superhero".

Manos: The Gifs of Fate

Never has the process of making gifs from a movie been so difficult.  Trying to watch through the non-riffed version of this movie was physically painful.  It gave me a headache that I am still feeling the effects of the following morning.  And no, it isn't a hangover, I made the mistake of doing this sober.  Never again.

Coming Soon: A Very Special Gif Set

I know things have been kind of dead around here the past few days, and I apologize.  Between HMM wiping me out this year, and stuff at work, I haven't had much free time.  Later this week, however, this will change.  I just got a wonderful little DVD set that is chock full of horrible movies.  The Mesa of Lost Women, EEGAH, Dementia 13, The Beast of Yucca Flats, and the worst movie of all time:

What better way to get back into the swing of things than making gifs from bad movies?