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

[TheUnabeefer]

This will be a fun one to try to make a cover for......... That's my biggest problem with the obscure ones.

[Edward J Grug III]

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

Sweeeeet!

[Steve-O]

And whatever you do, do not, repeat, do not pick up the 1980 splatter flick "Maniac" by mistake.

Because it will totally not synch up properly.

[Bob]

Rifftrax guys, how did you find  - stumble onto this one?

[gojikranz]

wow.  its no house on haunted hill but im excited for this!

[Hebs]

Haha, wow, excited for this

But it seems this isn't enough to quell the forum cries of "BRING US PHYLLIS DILLER - the other, famouser one"

[Edward J Grug III]

Ooo, and only $5.95 for the VOD!

Great price, given that it's only 51 minutes.

[Darth Geek]

I know they'll have at least one Dr. Forrester joke, but I am hoping for a Dr. Insano joke, as well.

[LucasM]

Oh, oh...   is the film 'Maniac'??

[Maybe I was a little late for the game?   I keep forgetting to check on Thursdays to see if one's happening.]

Ooo, and only $5.95 for the VOD!

Great price, given that it's only 51 minutes.

Definitely!  Normally I want the original DVDs and then listen to the RiffTrax with my iPod*, but no freaking way am I spending $27 for the film (even the cheapest used copy at Amazon would be $19.70!) and then getting the mp3 RiffTrax on top of that.  $30 for a 51 minute film is WAY beyond what I can push myself to do.  Particularly after ultimately giving the other 'really weird' film they riffed - The Room - to my brother since I couldn't tolerate being in the same house it was (and I wasn't going to leave).

*  If the head injuries had left me functional enough, I'd reauthor, but that's not possible for me.

[jas722]

Question if we buy the VOD or Dl to burn option do we also get the standalone Mp3?

[Bob]

This will be a fun one to try to make a cover for......... That's my biggest problem with the obscure ones.

I am out of town for Thanksgiving now, but I THINK my poster book of "B" horror movies has a poster for this movie in it.    That would be great if it does; I am hoping it is just not my poor memory and wishful thinking.

[RVR II]

I am hoping it is just not my poor memory and wishful thinking.

Got White Russians and Thanksgiving clouding your judgment these days, eh Bob??

[qlopp]

This movie seems like a serious version of Dr. Horrible's Sing-a-long Blog.  I haven't seen Maniac yet... for all I know it is a spitting image of Flashdance.  Sorry, Maniac reference.

[Thrifty]

Man, look at the news crawl at the top of the board.  This is the longest game of 20 questions ever.

[goflyblind]

maybe ON is missing a D at the beginning and an E at the end.