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The typical reaction to an encounter with The Room looks something like this: puzzlement, revulsion, laughter, amazement, hunger, affection, deep depression, inability to digest milk proteins, and ultimately, an unbreakable addiction. Yes, this is the film you’ve probably only heard rumors about, a truly jaw-droppingly weird melodrama written, starring, produced, financed, endlessly promoted by (most famously by a high profile billboard in Los Angeles for five years), and featuring the hideous naked backside of Tommy Wiseau, the world’s shaggiest and most mysterious auteur. The Room’s plot seems mundane: a banker looks forward to his marriage unaware that his fiancé is cheating on him with his best friend. But beneath this quotidian veneer lurk peculiar treasures that almost literally defy description. Quite simply, you must see this.
Though this film is hard to come by your efforts to secure it will be richly rewarded. Mike, Kevin and Bill are honored to be able to join you for your first viewing of The Room.
[Note: The Room is rated “R” for some badly done, gauzy sex scenes, (and a few strangely hilarious instances of profanity), which is something we try to steer clear of here at RiffTrax. Yet, given the film’s many other strengths we ultimately decided not to let that be a disqualifier and instead to give the viewers ample warning to look away. And when we strongly encourage you NOT to watch these scenes we are not just being coy. You were warned.]
In other news: Janet Varney and Cole Stratton, who did the terrific “Dirty Dancing” riff last year have just completed recording their next one, for the movie “Ghost.” It should be available later this month, and if it’s anywhere near as funny as their previous one, this should be a winner.
The Shout Factory folks think our readers will be interested–or terrified–to learn about these two new offerings from Micro Werks, a new sub-label of Shout.
HOBGOBLINS: 20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
The Hobgoblins are back, in an all-new digitally remastered widescreen 20th Anniversary edition. Old Man McCreedy warned Kevin to stay away from the vault, but he didn’t heed his warnings. Now the centuries old Hobgoblins are loose and setting their deadly sites on Kevin’s friends, who they systematically kill by recreating their wildest fantasies.
Feature film debut of Duane (Pulp Fiction) Whitaker as Road Rash.
Special Features
remastered 35mm trailer
interviews with the original cast
Hobgoblins: The Making of A Disasterpiece
Director’s Commentrary
still gallery
HOBGOBLINS 2
It’s twenty years later and poor old McCreedy has been locked away in a mental hospital for his ratings about the Hobgoblins. Kevin and his friends think they’re free from any further puppet attacks, but the trouble has just begun. The Hobgoblins are back to finish what they started, kill Kevin and his friends, this time by recreating their worst fears, then doing them in.
Shot on 35mm and made to look painstakingly identical to the original film, it’s another trip to the depths of bad filmmaking from director Rick Sloane. If you’ve only seen the first, you haven’t seen the worst!
Features Maxim sensation Chanel Ryan as Fantazia.
Special Features
35mm theatrical trailer
director’s commentary
making of featurette with cast interviews
deleted scenes
still gallery.
You’ve been warned. Both titles hit stores next Tuesday and are up on Amazon for pre-order now by clicking the links above.
And since apparently folks cannot be trusted to avoid heated political rhetoric when it comes to Mr. Miller, comments have been turned off for this post.
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