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The Terrifying Rumors Are True: Hobgoblins 2

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.

Update: Still More RiffTrax Press

A couple more: DVD Talk’s Ian Jane reviews the “House on Haunted Hill” release.

And Cinefantastiqueonline’s Steve Biodrowski chimes in about the “Night of the Living Dead” release

Update: “77 Square” in Madison, Wis. wraps up the latest RiffTrax stuff…

And our old buddy Bruce Westbrook, formerly of the Houston Chronicle and now independently blogging, also wraps up the new RiffTrax releases.

Digital Entertainment News reviews the new releases…

The Oklahoman’s features editor Matt Price interviews Bill…

Switchplanet reviews the “Swing Parade” release…

Nick Hartel reviews the Shorts Vol. 1 release…

And Ian Jane reviews the Night of the Living Dead release…

Oh, and all the new RiffTrax DVD releases are now on NetFlix.

Mike, Kevin and Bill on the Radio

Mike, Kevin and Bill were on the Dennis Miller radio show Monday.

You can hear it via i-Tunes (thanks for the link, Kenji).

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.

Monster Bash and Hobgoblins Reunion on YouTube

Monster Bash 2009 will be taking place June 26-28 in Pittsburgh and will feature appearances by several MSTed movie actors (Jonathan Haze, Ricou Browning, Conrad Brooks) as well as “the Robot” from episode 102- THE ROBOT VS. THE AZTEC MUMMY.

If you’ve been wondering what the original cast of “Hobgoblins” looks like now, or if MST3K might in some way be responsible for the making of “Hobgoblins 2,” then watch this featurette posted on YouTube. If you dare.

Episode Guide: What’s Next

Now that I’ve finished season six, I’m going to take a week off before starting the next season, as I have done in the past.

But I want to ask you all how you’d like to proceed, in terms of season seven and “MST3K: the movie.” What order would you like me to do them in? Seems to me we have three choices: Do the movie and then season seven (seeing as how the action of the movie seems to take place before the arrival of Pearl), do season seven and then the movie (as we have it listed in the current episode guide, or do them in chronological order: episodes 701 through 705, then the movie, then 706?

Please vote in the poll below. The poll will close on Saturday, June 20.

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