Rifftrax Events

2001 Mar 15 Michael J. Nelson drives thru temporal rift, arrives in 1836 in Peru and hits last pair of horned monkey-birds, return to present moments later...
After putting non-dairy creamer in the microwave, Michael J. Nelson accidentally created a temporal rift at the end of his driveway. Not one to look in his rearview when backing up, he ba...
2006 Jan 1 "Plan 9 from Outer Space" Rifftrax is Released
Held up by many as the Worst Movie Ever Made (though the twelve people who saw Mariah Carey's 'Glitter' may strenuously disagree) Ed Wood's classic has endured so long because of the fine...
2006 Jan 18 "Night of the Living Dead" Rifftrax is Released
Imagine you are wandering through a lonely graveyard when a wild-eyed man in a cheap suit tackles you and when you escape, tries to eat your brother. Just a typical encounter with Nick...
2006 Jul 21 "Road House" Rifftrax is Released
This is it – the best movie ever made about a world-famous bouncer and his epic struggle with the evil owner of the local J.C. Penney. Patrick Swayze is at his most shirtless as Dalton, a...
2006 Aug 1 "The Fifth Element" Rifftrax is Released
Long before the exceedingly boxy, strange-looking car, there was another Element: The Fifth Element, a clown-headed young woman in orange rubber lederhosen who held the key to saving e...
2006 Aug 18 "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier" Rifftrax is Released
The bittersweet sequel to Star Treks I, II, III and IV was indeed the "Final Frontier", one last voyage for our heroic Captain Kirk and the brave crew of the Enterprise – except for anoth...
2006 Aug 29 "Cocktail" Rifftrax is Released
A drunken Australian councils a young Tom Cruise on life, love, and female undergarments. Tom and Nicole's wedding night? No, this is the thrilling plot of Cocktail, starring Cruise, Brya...
2006 Sep 6 "xXx" Rifftrax is Released
Vin Diesel, the Jean-Claude Van Damme of our time, stars as Xander Cage, an underground extreme sports star who apparently lost all his hair in a tragic skydiving accident. The NSA sha...
2006 Sep 15 "Crossroads" Rifftrax is Released
Among the finest Britney Spears movies ever made, Crossroads* tells the story of a high school graduate who drives to L.A. Not very exciting on paper, but up on the big screen, it's a dri...
2006 Sep 22 "X-Men" Rifftrax is Released
On the shadowy periphery of society lives a secret organization of mutants – despised, deformed and loathed, they live in fear of a nation that holds them in contempt. They are comic book...
2006 Sep 29 "Top Gun" Rifftrax is Released
Iceman, Maverick and Slider: while they make great names for members of a tracksuit wearing boy band, they make even better names for shirtless, pretty boy pilots! And Tom Cruise is the p...
2006 Oct 10 "Point Break" Rifftrax is Released
Not since Chicken Fried Steak met Country Gravy has there been such a dynamic pairing as Patrick "Forever Lulu" Swayze and Keanu "Permanent Record" Reeves. The "whoa"s fly fast and furiou...
2006 Oct 19 "Halloween" Rifftrax is Released
The most shocking Halloween-related thing ever -- with the possible exception of the joke about Mrs. Ghost not being able to get pregnant because Mr. Ghost had a hollow weenie. But in a r...
2006 Oct 25 "The Matrix" Rifftrax is Released
In Earth's dirty, dystopian future, one in which every person alive is kept in a dark, moist pod and fed misinformation (kind of like Manhattan, only the odors are less pungent), only on...
2006 Nov 1 "Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace" Rifftrax is Released
Of all the many Binks in the world, who is the most skull-crushingly annoying? Is it the Binks Company, the Canadian insurance brokers? Is it the U.S. manufacturers of spray guns, paint b...
2006 Nov 10 "The Grudge" Rifftrax is Released
The scariest thing to come out of Japan since Pink Lady, The Grudge tells the story of a young woman who travels to Japan with her underwear-sniffing boyfriend and soon finds herself in t...
2006 Nov 21 "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" Rifftrax is Released
The greatest fantasy epic of all times is at last a RiffTrax! No, not Crossroads – we already did that. And not A Very Unlucky Leprechaun – which we haven't done yet but are seriously mul...
2006 Dec 1 "The Island of Dr. Moreau" Rifftrax is Released
And the people cried out with one voice, "Maketh us a movie in which Marlon Brando can don a muumuu, false teeth, clown white make-up and a really gay bonnet. See that it also stareth ...
2006 Dec 8 "Firewall" Rifftrax is Released
The thrilling world of banking explodes across the silver screen! Harrison Ford is a bank security manager who gets more than he bargained for when a cold-blooded thief (Paul Bettany) bre...
2006 Dec 19 "Nestor, The Long-Eared Christmas Donkey" Rifftrax is Released
You know Dasher, of course. And Dancer, no need to refresh your memory there. Prancer, you go way back. Vixen is as familiar to you as Comet, not to mention dear old Cupid. Donner and Bli...
2006 Dec 22 "Reign of Fire" Rifftrax is Released
A post-apocalyptic thriller that substitutes dirt and grime for any inkling of logic and probability, Reign of Fire features shirtless one-upmanship at its finest. The cigar stub chomping...
2007 Jan 18 "Daredevil" Rifftrax is Released
Several years ago, it is quite likely that you were one of the millions who bought a ticket to see X-Men or Spiderman in the theater. The massive success of these two movies convinced stu...
2007 Jan 28 "Battlefield Earth" Rifftrax is Released
In the year 3000 man is an endangered species, enslaved, severely unshowered, beholden to a cruel alien race fond of dreadlocks and really impractical boots.Only one man can break the yok...
2007 Feb 2 "Troll 2" Rifftrax is Released
"Be afraid...be twice as afraid!" So goes the tagline for Troll 2, the follow up, unsurprisingly, to Troll. A more fitting tagline might have been, "What the hell was that? Seriously, wha...
2007 Feb 9 "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country" Rifftrax is Released
"To boldly go where no man has gone before," and if you don't count the 79 television shows and 5 movies that came before it then Star Trek VI does exactly that. Yes, it's bold enough to ...
2007 Feb 16 "Over the Top" Rifftrax is Released
Never make the mistake of thinking that Over the Top is just an arm-wrestling picture. Oh, there's arm wrestling, all right – more arm wrestling than an 8th grade study hall. But there's ...
2007 Feb 23 "Æon Flux" Rifftrax is Released
"Seeing it...made me feel helpless, humiliated and sad." A celebrity apologizing for their latest paparazzi shots? No, those are the words of Aeon Flux creator Peter Chung regarding the ...
2007 Mar 2 "The Wicker Man" Rifftrax is Released
Horror has a new name – and that name is "wicker". Once used almost exclusively in the construction of baskets and attractive outdoor furniture, wicker will now and forever after be synon...
2007 Mar 16 "Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines" Rifftrax is Released
Robots sent from the future into the past to kill people who will one day become important to the war against machines are like cockroaches – no matter how many of ‘em you kill, there’s a...
2007 Mar 30 "Lost (Pilot)" Rifftrax is Released
The television phenomenon of our time (no, not “According to Jim”) is now the RiffTrax phenomenon of this week! Yes, “Lost”, the thrilling saga of a group of castaways – of varying degree...
2007 Apr 6 "Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones" Rifftrax is Released
It’s Binks-ian fun for the whole family as George Lucas empties the contents of his brain onto film one more time! This go around, the part of the annoying kid is explored more deeply by ...
2007 Apr 13 "Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory" Rifftrax is Released
Your favorite chicken-slaughtering candy-maker is now a RiffTrax! Yes, Willy Wonka (the older, shouting Willy Wonka, not the newer, thin, fey version), the chocolatier and inventor of a g...
2007 Apr 30 "Casino Royale" Rifftrax is Released
A spine-tingling thrill ride that moves from the exotic poker tables of Montenegro, to the exotic hotel rooms of Montenegro, then back to the poker tables, then the rooms again, then a re...
2007 May 11 "Eragon" Rifftrax is Released
Are you a fan of Star Wars but feel that there just weren't enough brain-stunningly idiotic names for your taste? Do you like the Lord of the Rings films but find they move too quickly an...
2007 May 21 "Glitter" Rifftrax is Released
If you're a fan of movies that feature screaming, megalomaniacal divas and their relationships to shirtless guys, you have so far been limited to Barbra Steisand's "A Star is Born". Bu...
2007 Jun 1 "Predator" Rifftrax is Released
Something lurks in the dense jungle. Something horrible and cruel, a creature from beyond our world. His name is Arnold Schwarzenegger. He lurks next to another unspeakable creature named...
2007 Jun 11 "Grey's Anatomy (Pilot)" Rifftrax is Released
This is the hugely successful, boldly innovative show that dares to tell its story in the unlikeliest setting imaginable – a hospital! But where Grey's Anatomy really ploughs new groun...
2007 Jun 22 "Fantastic Four" Rifftrax is Released
Most film adaptations of comic books skimp on the amount of fantastic-ness, offering at best one or perhaps two units of fantastic-osity. Not Fantastic Four! It goes the extra mile by ...
2007 Jul 2 "Star Trek Generations" Rifftrax is Released
Star Trek: Generations – truly a loving gift from one generation to the next. Much like that 15-pound, 10 percent water-added Danish ham that your uncle Clark who lives in Rockford mailed...
2007 Jul 31 "300" Rifftrax is Released
A small band of brave men struggle against enormous odds, battling a superior force, and though ultimately they are defeated their sacrifice becomes a source of inspiration and hope that...
2007 Aug 7 "The Bourne Identity" Rifftrax is Released
Imagine waking up in an unfamiliar place, unable to recall where you live, what you're doing there, or even your own name. Now imagine for the first time in your life it wasn't a direct r...
2007 Aug 14 "Independence Day" Rifftrax is Released
In every single one of the 900 million aliens-come-to-earth movies that had come before it the aliens were malevolent, bent on man's destruction, but Independence Day changed all that. Ye...
2007 Sep 4 "Heroes" Rifftrax is Released
Imagine, just imagine, if ordinary citizens suddenly began to discover that they have acquired extraordinary powers. Why, you would have X-Men. But imagine if instead of acquiring X-Me...
2007 Sep 25 "Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith" Rifftrax is Released
The Sith is back, and this time he has come to make ponderous speeches to the gathered Senate and kick tail – and he's all out of ponderous speeches to the gathered Senate! Ian McDiarmid ...
2007 Oct 2 "Raiders of the Lost Ark" Rifftrax is Released
The ark is lost! Who will raid it?! Clearly, there is only one man for the job: but since Ben Gazzara is unavailable, Indiana Jones will go in his stead and accomplish the needed raiding....
2007 Oct 9 "Spider-Man" Rifftrax is Released
When Peter Parker is bitten by one of Columbia University's many genetically engineered "super spiders" (now we know what they do with their 6 billion dollar endowment) instead of doing ...
2007 Oct 16 "Next" Rifftrax is Released
Next, the thrilling story of a down-on-his luck magician (Nicholas Cage) who hitches a ride to Flagstaff! Not only that, he walks down into the Grand Canyon and shows a kid a rock! And c...
2007 Oct 30 "Missile to the Moon" Rifftrax is Released
The title says it all: a missile goes to the moon! Only there are people in the missile so it's not really a missile but should more precisely be referred to as a "rocket"! Still, it g...
2007 Nov 20 "Transformers" Rifftrax is Released
The toys you got free in your happy meal explode across the screen as the loosening of FCC regulations on marketing directly to children is now a major motion picture! And the now grown-u...
2007 Nov 27 "Harry Potter & The Sorcerer's Stone" Rifftrax is Released
The most profitable bespectacled Potter since Henry F. and Sherman T. combined, tales of Harry's indoctrination into Satan's dark and unholy arts have delighted dozens of children the wor...