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MANOS, The Hands of Felt Now on DVD

This is right on the outside edge of on-topic for us, but MANOS – THE HANDS OF FELT, a puppet musical re-imagining of our favorite movie, “MANOS – The Hands of Fate”, is now available on DVD and digital download.

Visit puppetmanos.com for more information.

Bill Performs in Portland, Ore. Tonight

Sorry for the late notice on this but:
“Nerd Night Productions plans, produces and promotes events for the nerd and nerd-friendly in Portland, Los Angeles, Seattle and beyond. With the help of local businesses, friendly venues and talented performers, we create events for people who like things (aka “geeks”). #NerdNightOut is our semi-regular music & comedy geek-themed variety show, which has been featured in the Portland Mercury.”

Such an event will be held tonight, June 26, at 7:30 p.m. in Portland, Oregon, at The Secret Society, 116 NE Russell St., and one of the performers will be Bill. The evening will also be a CD release party for the sister duo The Doubleclicks. Other performers will include Molly Lewis, Shane Torres and Anthony Lopez.

More info here.

A New Batman Short from RiffTrax…

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See a sample or download it here.

Weekend Discussion Thread: Your Local Horror Host

Alert regular “Sitting Duck” observes:

During the recent discussion of The Green Slime, much was made of the MST3K connection to local TV programming from days past as well as its modification of the horror host concept.

He brings up his local host, one Dr. Gruesome, a Richmond-based horror host from the ’80s, and recalled…

…his frequent abuse of his lackey Skeeter, which is rather similar to the relationship between Dr. Forrester and Frank.

Well, not every host was reminiscent of MST3K, but they’re all fun to talk about.

When I grew up in the Philadelphia, Dr. Shock was the man, very reminiscent of SCTV’s Count Floyd. As an immature teenager, I dearly loved that the name of his show was “FRIGHT FLICKS” and that the logo of the show, a tombstone with the name of the show on it, was shot at such an oblique angle that the second and third letters of the second word merged together. Think about it.

Tell us about your local host.

New VOD Offering from RiffTrax…

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Not quite the same as the RiffTrax Live: Jack the Giant Killer release, this is an updated and rerecorded riffing of the film. See a sample or download it here.