20 Question on 11/20!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Brak]

man! we need to work out a better strategy next time guys

[hgravett]

Was the movie released this year?

No

1

Was the film being riffed released prior to 1960?

Yes

2

Is it Sci Fi?

No

3

Was it released before 1945?

Yes
4

Was it released in the 1940s?

No

6

Is the Wizard of Oz?

No

7

Does it feature either Bela Lugosi or Boris Karloff (or both)?

No

8

Does it star Lon Chaney Sr?

No
9

Was it released between 1935 and 1939?

No

10

Is it in the public domain?

Yes

11

(I'm sure that will help)

Is it silent?

No

12

Is it a horror movie?

I guess that's what you'd call it.

13

Was it released between 1931 and 1934?

Yes 14

Frankenstein?

Pls see question #8

15

Does the title begin with a letter beginning with M or earlier (not including a, an, or the)?

Yes

16

Was it released in 1933 or 1934?

Yes
17

Is it Maniac?

[Action Batch]

This is the kind of 20Qs I love. The one where no one has any clue at all.

You are a sick, sick, man.  Or a mod in disguise.

There's a difference? 

[Conor]

The next RiffTrax is Maniac!

http://www.rifftrax.com/ondemand/maniac

Coming Wednesday 11/25

Available as an MP3, VOD or Download to Burn!




Unless you regularly do mushrooms and go to Lady Gaga concerts with your good friend Crispin Glover, then watching Maniac is guaranteed to be the weirdest experience you have ever had. (Not since "The Room" has a film had such a deep impact on the staff of RiffTrax, so much so that the images in "Maniac" temporarily dislodged from our minds the mercurial Tommy Wiseau, the stark horror of Chris-R., even the enchanting beauty of Lisa!) "Maniac" starts conventionally enough, when a Vaudeville-impersonator-turned-lab-assistant-to-a-mad-scientist refuses his bosses reasonable request that he shoot himself in the heart and offer his corpse as an experimental subject. After that, it starts to get strange. A disturbed patient who thinks he is the orangutan from Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is mistakenly given super-adrenaline (which evidently exists) causing him to give one of the most eccentric performances in the history of film. Meanwhile, the mad scientist's next door neighbor is disturbed because one his cats is missing from his cat ranch, where he harvests their fur after feeding their flesh to the rats (which he feeds to the next generation of cats, and so on.) After that, the offbeat aspects of "Maniac" really kick in.

We caution you that "Maniac" is not for the faint of heart. There is brief, partial, creepy, music-free, 1930's nudity (mercifully, the emphasis is on "brief"), plenty of cat-on-cat violence, and a scene in which our hero pops out the eyeball of his own lab cat and snacks on it. That said, it's probably tamer than any given episode of "Top Chef" and you would really be depriving yourself of something special if you let that keep you from this very, very unique and hilarious journey, with Mike, Bill and Kevin as your guides, into the heart of RiffTrax madness known as "Maniac".

IMDB page:  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0025465/

If you want the DVD, you'll need to get this version:

Amazon:  http://www.amazon.com/Maniac-Narcotic-William-Woods/dp/B0000214GB/ref=sr_1_13?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1258671421&sr=8-13

Netflix:  http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Maniac_Narcotic/60001107?strackid=cf57998c68b1eec_8_srl&strkid=1239435744_8_0&trkid=222336

It's the Maniac/Narcotic double feature.  It's the best quality. 

It's available on archive.org but we haven't verified that it works and the quality is much worse:  http://www.archive.org/details/Maniac1934

http://www.rifftrax.com/ondemand/maniac

[Compound]

Okay, is it Maniac/Narcotic?

[chobits1]

aw man. I put the answer down like 3 different times, and it didnt get in. I guess I can't play the game right. *sigh*

[Scrivener]

Okay, we're out of time.  Someone take their best guess.  No more narrowing down.

What narrowing?

You know, like my narrowing the year down to 1933 or 1934.

How many questions did that take?

Six out of twenty.  Not really bad for narrowing down something from the 1930s, I thought.

[Thrifty]

Was the movie released this year?

No

1

Was the film being riffed released prior to 1960?

Yes

2

Is it Sci Fi?

No

3

Was it released before 1945?

Yes
4

Was it released in the 1940s?

No

6

Is the Wizard of Oz?

No

7

Does it feature either Bela Lugosi or Boris Karloff (or both)?

No

8

Does it star Lon Chaney Sr?

No
9

Was it released between 1935 and 1939?

No

10

Is it in the public domain?

Yes

11

(I'm sure that will help)

Is it silent?

No

12

Is it a horror movie?

I guess that's what you'd call it.

13

Was it released between 1931 and 1934?

Yes 14

Frankenstein?

Pls see question #8

15

Does the title begin with a letter beginning with M or earlier (not including a, an, or the)?

Yes

16

Was it released in 1933 or 1934?

Yes
17

Is it Maniac?

How in God's name did you figure that out?

[ozman69]

This guy might have something to say about that:

Automobile???

[Candle Jack]

So it's not House on Haunted Hill?

[skenderberg]

The next RiffTrax is Maniac!

http://www.rifftrax.com/ondemand/maniac

Coming Wednesday 11/25

Available as an MP3, VOD or Download to Burn!




Unless you regularly do mushrooms and go to Lady Gaga concerts with your good friend Crispin Glover, then watching Maniac is guaranteed to be the weirdest experience you have ever had. (Not since "The Room" has a film had such a deep impact on the staff of RiffTrax, so much so that the images in "Maniac" temporarily dislodged from our minds the mercurial Tommy Wiseau, the stark horror of Chris-R., even the enchanting beauty of Lisa!) "Maniac" starts conventionally enough, when a Vaudeville-impersonator-turned-lab-assistant-to-a-mad-scientist refuses his bosses reasonable request that he shoot himself in the heart and offer his corpse as an experimental subject. After that, it starts to get strange. A disturbed patient who thinks he is the orangutan from Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is mistakenly given super-adrenaline (which evidently exists) causing him to give one of the most eccentric performances in the history of film. Meanwhile, the mad scientist's next door neighbor is disturbed because one his cats is missing from his cat ranch, where he harvests their fur after feeding their flesh to the rats (which he feeds to the next generation of cats, and so on.) After that, the offbeat aspects of "Maniac" really kick in.

We caution you that "Maniac" is not for the faint of heart. There is brief, partial, creepy, music-free, 1930's nudity (mercifully, the emphasis is on "brief"), plenty of cat-on-cat violence, and a scene in which our hero pops out the eyeball of his own lab cat and snacks on it. That said, it's probably tamer than any given episode of "Top Chef" and you would really be depriving yourself of something special if you let that keep you from this very, very unique and hilarious journey, with Mike, Bill and Kevin as your guides, into the heart of RiffTrax madness known as "Maniac".

IMDB page:  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0025465/

If you want the DVD, you'll need to get this version:

Amazon:  http://www.amazon.com/Maniac-Narcotic-William-Woods/dp/B0000214GB/ref=sr_1_13?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1258671421&sr=8-13

Netflix:  http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Maniac_Narcotic/60001107?strackid=cf57998c68b1eec_8_srl&strkid=1239435744_8_0&trkid=222336

It's the Maniac/Narcotic double feature.  It's the best quality. 

It's available on archive.org but we haven't verified that it works and the quality is much worse:  http://www.archive.org/details/Maniac1934

http://www.rifftrax.com/ondemand/maniac

A.K.A. "Sex Maniac" according to imdb.

[torgosPizza]

Hey, a couple of you had it right! Just a couple minutes too late.

[Compound]

Okay, is it Maniac/Narcotic?

Blink. Holy crap. My random google search was *right*?

[loveandsqualor]

Mysterious Mr. Wong?

Just FYI, you have to quote the previous answer in your question

My bad, I apologise.

Please hold off on sending the lynch mob.

[hgravett]

I guessed like 14 seconds before he put it up, does that count as winning?