Rescue Me (also known as Street Hunter ) is a 1992 American coming-of-age adventure action film directed by Arthur Allan Seidelman and starring Stephen Dorff and Michael Dudikoff .
44-506: When Fraser Sweeney takes a picture of Ginny Grafton (Ami Dolenz), She is kidnapped, Daniel and Fraser go after the kidnappers. The kidnappers hold her hostage inside the house until she climbs out the bathroom window and escapes the kidnappers, After she escapes the kidnappers, She finds a new boyfriend leaving Fraser unhappy. "Rescue Me" was riffed by Rifftrax , the spiritual offshoot of Mystery Science Theater 3000 on September 21, 2018. This article about an action - adventure film
88-514: A contest was held by RiffTrax, in which a winning iRiffs user would be given $ 1,000 and a chance to develop a RiffTrax Presents title, receiving instruction and critique from Nelson, Murphy and Corbett. The winners of the contest were Doug Walker , Rob Walker and Brian Heinz of That Guy with the Glasses , who contributed an iRiff of The Lion King . The RiffTrax commentary they produced was for Batman Forever . In October 2015, RiffTrax negotiated
132-410: A result, their release order), are: The episodes were produced in association with Rhino Entertainment , who had been the intended film distributor . However, they parted ways before the episodes were released. It wasn't until 2007 that arrangements were made with Shout! Factory to release the material. The change required some " looping " of lines from the original scripts—specifically, "Bob Honcho"
176-507: A short-lived "webzine" involving several of the same entertainers. On October 19, 2006, it was announced that The Film Crew would be providing commentary tracks for a series of B-movies on DVD . To promote their announcement, the Crew offered a poll on their website asking viewers to sample clips of each contender and choose which they would prefer to see released first out of the four announced. The four titles, in order of votes received (and, as
220-478: A small team of writers; longer works are divided into 20- to 30-minute sections for each writer to rewatch and develop riffs for before assembling the entire work. RiffTrax continues to release audio track riffs that can be used to play over the owner's own copy of a film as well as making versions friendly for films offered on online streaming services like Netflix . They have also since expanded to produce full-length video-on-demand riffs for films that have entered
264-979: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Rifftrax RiffTrax is an American company that produces scripted humorous commentary tracks which are synced to feature films, education shorts (mostly public domain ), and television episodes. With the talents of former Mystery Science Theater 3000 ( MST3K ) cast members and writers, RiffTrax also produces several live shows each year which are broadcast to movie theaters. The style of commentating originated from MST3K, their earlier television series, in which they would similarly mock (or " riff ") films aloud while watching them. As of September 2024, RiffTrax has riffed 554 feature films, 488 short films, and 16 TV episodes. The first releases originally featured Michael J. Nelson , Kevin Murphy , and Bill Corbett , through audio-only tracks intended to be played in unison with unaltered VHS and DVD copies of these programs. After
308-452: Is also featured on Pluto TV , Twitch , Xumo , Tubi and a channel on Samsung TV. Following the cancellation of MST3K , Nelson, Murphy and Corbett attempted to bring the riffing concept to a podcast series known as The Film Crew . During this time, Rhino Entertainment collaborated to produce four riffed films on DVD: Hollywood After Dark , Killers from Space , The Wild Women of Wongo , and The Giant of Marathon . After
352-689: The COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the year's live shows were postponed to 2021, and therefore no new campaign was held in the latter year, but RiffTrax experimented with live virtual shows, using films available on Netflix and the Scener app was used by viewers to pay to watch the event. These shows included riffs on the first episode of Stranger Things in July 2020, and the film Starship Troopers in September 2020. The list of live Rifftrax shows is: In conjunction with
396-466: The MP3 file is synchronized with the film, fictional character and riffer "DisembAudio" (voiced by writer Conor Lastowka) speaks occasional lines in exact synchronization with the movie. "RiffTrax Presents" commentaries feature a female synchronization voice, Debbie. Though RiffTrax are suggested to be played on an MP3 player or with computer software, they are sold as unrestricted MP3s, allowing users to choose
440-541: The National Geographic Channel , Nelson, Corbett, and Murphy created a 3-part television series, "Total Riff Off" that aired on the channel on April 1, 2014, and became available to buy as video-on-demand later on the RiffTrax site. Each episode is one hour long featuring the three riffing on older National Geographic footage. According to Nelson, the idea for the series came from a National Geographic producer who
484-581: The Belcourt, occurred on October 28, 2010, with special guest Paul F. Tompkins . A fifth took place on August 17, 2011, featuring the film Jack the Giant Killer . A sixth took place on August 16, 2012, featuring the film, Manos, The Hands of Fate . A seventh live event took place on October 25, 2012, featuring Birdemic: Shock and Terror . The live event featuring Starship Troopers took place on August 15, 2013. The ninth live event featuring Night of
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#1732883706377528-458: The Ice Cream Bunny at different live events throughout the year. The Rifftrax riff of The Room was performed live during the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival 's series of midnight special events. For 2016, RiffTrax used a Kickstarter campaign to successfully fund their events for the year, meeting their initial goal of $ 225,000 within four days after the start of the campaign, with $ 620,999 as
572-683: The Living Dead was performed on October 24, 2013 . On February 25, 2013, RiffTrax announced a Kickstarter campaign to raise money to secure the rights to riff Twilight , the first film of The Twilight Saga , for their live show in August 2013. Although the Kickstarter was successful, RiffTrax could not work a deal to secure the rights to Twilight and they, instead, used the funding to secure Starship Troopers . On May 12, 2014, RiffTrax announced another Kickstarter campaign to raise money to secure
616-584: The RiffTrax Kickstarter campaign had officially ended. RiffTrax had been wanting to do a Doctor Who episode for some time as a way to bridge into its fandom , but had to get permission from the BBC . The BBC had been hesitant, fearing that the nature of RiffTrax may have been mean-spirited, but after seeing some of RiffTrax's work, agreed to the use, feeling it would help promote Doctor Who in America. Due to
660-470: The RiffTrax Player currently supports Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X Snow Leopard and up. RiffTrax On Demand features downloadable DRM -free video files of films with RiffTrax commentaries embedded. RiffTrax On Demand has released many short, public domain, and educational films similar to the ones that MST3K would sometimes mock before a full-length movie began. In March 2022, Rifftrax: The Game
704-461: The association with Rhino Entertainment and Shout Factory (who distributed The Film Crew DVDs) ended, Nelson and Legend Films started RiffTrax in 2007 based in San Diego . In 2012, RiffTrax was purchased from Legend by Nelson, Murphy, Corbett, and RiffTrax CEO David G. Martin. The movies chosen for Mystery Science Theater 3000 were predominantly low-budget B-movies because the show itself
748-579: The cast moved on to the similar project RiffTrax , complicating any possible future Film Crew episodes. Murphy indicated that "We haven’t gotten any new orders from Shout Factory – the new home of MST by the way – and since RiffTrax is becoming so much fun, I think you may have seen the last of The Film Crew." As of July 2008, The Film Crew's former website, filmcrewonline.com, is defunct. Shortly thereafter, Shout Factory put three Film Crew movies on Hulu . On April 5, 2009, all four riffs became available on YouTube . In February 2016, RiffTrax began selling
792-433: The competition, beating fellow musicians Jonathan Coulton , Paul and Storm and, in the final round, Jason Morris. After the competition, they decided to continue creating songs as The Rifftones, making songs based on the movies they've riffed and releasing two albums of music, which are available on the RiffTrax site. RiffTrax commentaries are synchronized at the start of the movie using a cue . To reassure consumers that
836-591: The country, except in the Pacific Time zone, where a replay of the broadcast is shown. The first show was performed live at the Belcourt Theatre in Nashville , Tennessee on August 20, 2009, where Mike, Kevin, and Bill riffed Plan 9 from Outer Space , along with the short film Flying Stewardess and guest appearances by Veronica Belmont , Jonathan Coulton , and Rich Kyanka of Something Awful . An encore showing
880-521: The documentary on the subject Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream and for the cult classics The Rocky Horror Picture Show , Reefer Madness , Night of the Living Dead , The Harder They Come , and Pink Flamingos . The Film Crew created a pilot for a comedic radio program called 3 Men & The Movies for NPR which was well-received but ultimately not picked up. Despite this,
924-538: The episode sales on the RiffTrax website goes to the cast members of MST3K . On July 20, 2021, RiffTrax celebrated its fifteenth anniversary. As part of SF Sketchfest in San Francisco , California , Nelson, Murphy, and Corbett have appeared several times performing live riffs alongside a screening of a film. Early on the team riffed Daredevil and Over the Top (1987) in 2007 and Plan 9 from Outer Space . "Plan 9"
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#1732883706377968-432: The films at the same time. The company originally produced audio-only tracks which were intended to be played in unison with unaltered VHS and DVD copies of these programs. The early RiffTrax were almost all solo efforts on Nelson's part, but it soon became apparent that there was a strong demand for them. Nelson was quickly able to recruit more riffers for the project. Most official RiffTrax (not counting fan-made iRiffs and
1012-631: The four Stooge shorts that have fallen into the public domain : Disorder in the Court (1936), Malice in the Palace (1949), Sing a Song of Six Pants , and Brideless Groom (both 1947). The Film Crew also maintained a website with humor columns and other content geared toward its fans, and contributed comedy segments to NPR . The Film Crew, stuck in the confines of their work basement, lay down commentary tracks to whatever obscure movie dished to them by their boss, Bob Honcho. As part of their job, each of
1056-411: The guests were fellow MST3K cast members Joel Hodgson , Bridget Jones Nelson , Mary Jo Pehl , Trace Beaulieu , Frank Conniff , and Jonah Ray . The third event for 2016 was Toho's 1961 Kaiju classic Mothra on August 18, 2016, and featured a brand-new widescreen print. The fourth RiffTrax event was the horror classic Carnival of Souls and took place on October 27, 2016. The print used
1100-585: The introduction of already-synced VHS and DVD material, added to the riffers were Mary Jo Pehl and Bridget Jones Nelson , who also wrote and performed for the MST3K series. Guest riffers have also added commentaries, including parodist "Weird Al" Yankovic , comedians Paul F. Tompkins , Cole Stratton and Janet Varney , and actors Joel McHale , Fred Willard , and Neil Patrick Harris , among others. RiffTrax products are sold in downloadable media online and delivered by app, streaming video, and DRM-free download. It
1144-432: The project led to the establishment of RiffTrax Presents, a series of tracks exclusively hosted by guest riffers. The success of the guest format is such that "Three Riffer Editions" of some films previously solo riffed by Nelson have been re-produced for VOD services. These feature new riffs by the present lineup, with Nelson having ceased producing solo riffs in 2007. Most recent works created by RiffTrax are crafted by
1188-630: The public domain or otherwise have been licensed cheaply, such as Night of the Living Dead and Santa Claus Conquers the Martians . Along with the feature-length tracks, Corbett, Murphy and Nelson have created riffs for a number of short films , typically educational and safety films, similar to the shorts presented before features on MST3K . These include films by the Jam Handy Organization, Alfred P. Higgins Productions, Coronet Films and ACI Films, amongst others. Because these shorts are in
1232-463: The public domain, they can be downloaded with the commentary already recorded onto them. Shorts are usually released at least once, and often twice, a week. In 2008, RiffTrax launched iRiffs, which allows fans to upload commentaries to be sold on the website. iRiffs users are paid 50% of the net revenue generated by their products. iRiffs differentiates from normal RiffTrax in that both serious and humorous commentaries can be uploaded. In February 2009,
1276-506: The rights to release available MST3K episodes through Vimeo via an all-access subscription plan, with a new re-release uploaded each Monday; individual episodes could also be rented through the site, and in November 2015, RiffTrax also started to sell MST3K episodes on their website. The RiffTrax.com releases contain a newly recorded introduction on each episode by Nelson, Corbett, Murphy, or Jones Nelson and Pehl. A substantial percentage from
1320-568: The rights to the 1998 version of Godzilla . The Kickstarter raised the goal of $ 100,000 within a day. On May 29, they announced a stretch goal of $ 250,000 to secure the rights to Anaconda for their Halloween show; the goal was reached on June 10, the day before the Kickstarter's end. For 2015, RiffTrax repeated the Kickstarter approach, successfully funding its four-movie event for the year, dubbed "The Crappening". The successful Kickstarter allowed them to riff on The Room , Sharknado 2: The Second One , Miami Connection , and Santa and
1364-639: The show was similar to the shorts shows from the SF Sketchfest "Night of the Shorts" and the MST3K Reunion Show. Alongside Nelson, Corbett, and Murphy, the guest riffers were Bridget Jones Nelson, Mary Jo Pehl, Trace Beaulieu, Frank Conniff, and Paul F. Tompkins. The third event was the Doctor Who special " The Five Doctors ", held on August 17, 2017; which, for legal reasons, RiffTrax could not reveal this until
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1408-592: The spin-off RiffTrax Presents series) have a stable cast of Nelson, Murphy and Corbett, identical to The Film Crew and the three Sci-Fi Channel seasons of MST3K . Guest riffers vary often; other MST3K alumni have been featured, such as Pehl and Jones Nelson, in addition to Internet personalities Richard Kyanka (of Something Awful fame), Josh Fruhlinger (writer of The Comics Curmudgeon ) and Chad Vader , as well as actors Harris, Willard, and McHale, and parodist Yankovic. Nelson has said that he would like to bring in other guests. The enthusiasm of guest riffers for
1452-581: The three wears a matching " working-class " uniform and an unwieldy headset while riffing. Each release contained a short "Lunch Break" sketch, in which they would act out a humorous sketch . The Film Crew occasionally hosted segments between movies on American Movie Classics , Sundance Channel , and the Starz/Encore cable channels in the United States . In August 2005, during Encore's " Midnight Movies " schedule, The Film Crew provided introductions for
1496-560: The total amount raised. The first event was a riffing of the film Time Chasers on May 5, 2016, and used a high definition remaster of the film provided by its director, David Giancola. The second event was a Mystery Science Theater 3000 cast member reunion on June 28, 2016, and took place in Minneapolis. The format of the reunion was similar to RiffTrax's SF Sketchfest "Night of the Shorts" shows, using various educational shorts as riffing material. Alongside Nelson, Corbett, and Murphy,
1540-467: The troupe went on to contribute a few comedic, movie-related segments for NPR's All Things Considered program in the fall of 2004, including a review of Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow as well as an examination of film score cliches. The Film Crew hosted a now defunct website that featured original content including comedic essays. The tone and format was somewhat evocative of Timmy Big Hands ,
1584-435: The viewing method that suits them the best. A RiffTrax Player is also offered as a free download for Windows computers. The movies chosen for RiffTrax are based on two criteria: whether the movie lends itself towards a funny riffing, and whether the film is widely available on DVD. These criteria have resulted in a wide variety of genre and era of movies chosen to be riffed. The first audio commentary made available through
1628-471: The web site in July 2006 was for the 1989 film Road House , long cited by Nelson as the cheesiest movie ever made. The RiffTrax Player (RiffPlayer) is a program which automatically synchronizes the commentary playback to the DVD playback. The RiffTrax Player makes use of a commentary MP3 as well as a text file (.sync) containing the synchronization information of the DVD and the commentary. As of February 2015 ,
1672-572: Was also a fan of RiffTrax. RiffTrax and National Geographic worked together to find the best footage to use. In 2015, three additional episodes of "Total Riff Off" were created (two as 2015 RiffTrax Live Kickstarter rewards), which were also later available for purchase as video-on-demand on the RiffTrax website. In August 2008, Nelson, Corbett and Murphy formed a musical trio named The Rifftones, initially to compete in Quick Stop Entertainment 's second Masters of Song Fu competition. They won
1716-594: Was announced. Developed with Wide Right Interactive, and was released on May 5, 2022 on Nintendo Switch , PlayStation 4 and 5 , Xbox One and Xbox Series X and Series S , as well as Steam . The Film Crew The Film Crew was a comedy team which succeeded Mystery Science Theater 3000 that launched in 2004. The Film Crew comprised former MST3K cast members Michael J. Nelson , Bill Corbett , and Kevin Murphy . The team produced segments for television, radio, and home video . They hosted Legend Films ' colorized Three Stooges DVD release, which packaged
1760-578: Was low budget and producers could only afford films in the public domain or otherwise cheap licenses. Nelson had researched bringing about directly releasing DVDs of films with the commentaries included, then realized this initial idea was not feasible since he would be "sued out of existence." The best way to distribute the commentaries would be to sell them independently of the films, avoiding rights issues. There would be no legal or monetary restrictions to prevent RiffTrax from producing them, though viewers would have to play their own physical copies of
1804-558: Was originally named "Bob Rhino" and this had to be changed as Rhino was no longer the distributor. The DVD releases were in NTSC format but have no region encoding . Each released episode contains at least one extra feature ("Ode to Lunch" in Hollywood After Dark and "Did You Know..." in Killers from Space ). During the delay when there was no DVD distributor, the sets were destroyed and
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1848-449: Was shown in the historic Castro Theater . The RiffTrax crew have done live internet broadcasts on Ustream.tv , riffing public domain films and taking viewer questions. RiffTrax has teamed with NCM Fathom Events to host special one-night live RiffTrax events. Nelson, Corbett, and Murphy, along with special guests, perform their riffing to a live audience in one theater, which is simultaneously broadcast live to select theaters around
1892-499: Was shown on October 8 of that year. The second RiffTrax Live! show in theaters took place on December 16, 2009, where they riffed several Christmas short films, one featuring special guest Weird Al Yankovic . An encore showing was shown in theaters the next day. The third RiffTrax Live! show took place on August 19, 2010, with the trio riffing the cult classic Reefer Madness (its encore showing took place on August 24). A fourth live show riffing House on Haunted Hill , also filmed at
1936-455: Was the 78-minute colorized version of the film previously released on DVD by Legend Films . For 2017, RiffTrax again used a Kickstarter campaign to successfully fund their events for the year, meeting their initial goal of $ 250,000 on March 8, 2017, sixteen days into the Kickstarter campaign. The first event was a new riff of Samurai Cop , on April 13, 2017. The second event was the "Summer Shorts Beach Party" on June 15, 2017. The format of
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