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WTF?!?

Carnifex — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 04:59:59 GMT

What's up my comedy loving homies? Let's have a role call to see who's lurking in the ghost town!

Hey, everybody!

BoB3K — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:46:12 GMT

Hi!

(I don't really have anything to say since ICWXP is still idling, but I was tired of seeing this forum empty, so)

Hi!

Forum: ICWXP General Discussion

The Eliminators

Teshy — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 08:07:35 GMT

this is a 80's b movie extravaganza of ninja's. cavemen, cyborgs, beautiful scientists and a some really bad flunkies. its got it all!

Forum: Movies you'd like to see ICWXP riff

new release Bride Gorilla 12/26

Carnifex — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:29:48 GMT

OK, not really, but I don't do facebook and I want some activity on the site. Besides I didn't say what year!

So if Santa answers your Chrismas/ Kwanzza/ Chuanaka/ Voodoo Day wish, what would it be in regards to ICW?
For me it would be for Rikk to make just enough on each episode to be profitable, but not Bill Waterson, I don't need to work no more money. That way I get new episodes every other month. I also include in my wish no more personality conflicts. Frak your personal feelings, you comedy monkeys are too damn funny together. Anyways, happy holidays to all who read this forum! Hopefully someone will troll out and start a huge flame war.
(Who's better Mike, Joel, or Rikk?)

Forum: ICWXP General Discussion

Superhero Literary Magazine

FuzzyNecromancer — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 08:23:56 GMT

Look, up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's A Thousand Faces: The Quarterly Journal of Superhuman Fiction! This very awesome magazine has literary fiction about superheroes, supervillains, and other matters seen more often in movies and comic books.

Discuss.

Forum: Miscellenous

?'s re: Horror movie cliche -- Busted tire, couples take shelter

mysacredidentity — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:05:10 GMT

The old cliche of the flat tire and the young couple who try to take shelter at the old house that just happens to be haunted, or has some other sinister events happening that same night.

That's what happens at the beginning of "Rocky Horror Picture Show" to Brad and Janet in this movie, although I wonder if the bikers who pass them earlier aren't responsible for the road being closed off. Anyway, I was hoping somebody out there is a better scarey story buff than I am, and knows where this old trope* comes from, and how it evolved.

* Incidentally, I have taken time to look... and look, and if it's listed on TVTropes.com anywhere, I can't find it.

Forum: ICWXP General Discussion

?'s re: Horror movie cliche -- Busted tire, couples take shelter

mysacredidentity — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:03:43 GMT

Forum: Riff Raff Theater

?'s re: Horror movie cliche -- Busted tire, couples take shelter

mysacredidentity — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:02:45 GMT

Forum: Cinematic Titanic

?'s re: Horror movie cliche -- Busted tire, couples take shelter

mysacredidentity — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:01:26 GMT

The old cliche of the flat tire and the young couple who try to take shelter at the old house that just happens to be haunted, or has some other sinister events happening that same night.

That's what happens at the beginning of "Rocky Horror Picture Show" to Brad and Janet in this movie, although I wonder if the bikers who pass them earlier aren't responsible for the road being closed off. Anyway, I was hoping somebody out there is a better scarey story buff than I am, and knows where this old trope* comes from, and how it evolved.

* Incidentally, I have taken time to look... and look, and if it's listed on TVTropes.com anywhere, I can't find it.

Forum: Mystery Science Theater 3000

Happy Halloween

beth — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:03:51 GMT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0li0zIGN2Q

Forum: Miscellenous

Update for October 11th

icwxpjeremy — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 23:55:47 GMT

Hey guys. You'll now find regular status updates at the top of the forum from the ICWXP Facebook.

I do have some bad news, however. It's been a real slow year here, as you can tell. We've had lots of staff loses and the truth of the matter is there's only one man on duty at the moment to put Episode 4 through post production, and that's Rikk.

With getting the At the Left Hand of God's album produced and released (and the subsequent music video and documentary), touring and college, it's been extremely difficult for Rikk to schedule studio time.

But we assure you he's in there plugging away every moment he can be for the show.

Forum: Episode 4 | Werewolf in a Girls' Dormitory

Re-riff an MST3K film

Core — Thur, 08 Oct 2009 22:28:54 GMT

I'd like to see what the ICW:XP boys can do with a movie that MST3K has riffed. I'm sure there's plenty of Public Domain films they did in their 11 year run so choices should be plenty. Or maybe a short they did, if they don't want to do an entire film. I'd just like to see what they can do with something MST already did lol. See what the new riffs would be from the fresh minds of ICW:XP.

Forum: Movies you'd like to see ICWXP riff

Not a sound but the wind through the hills

BoB3K — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:39:21 GMT

A tumbleweed rolls slowly by

Then off in the distance a dog barking

Then again nothing but the sound of the wind

Forum: ICWXP General Discussion

On Crazy Killers and Striped-shirt Minions

FuzzyNecromancer — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 17:42:32 GMT

I started watching MST3K's Bloodlust when a thought came to me.

Both the movie "Bloodlust" and the (for lack of a better word) film "The Bloody Pit of Horror" are about a crazed killer with sadistic tendency.

Both antagonists live all alone...except for their captive victims...and a bunch of burly, nearly identical minions wearing tight striped shirts.

Both stories are heavily dependent upon the highly loyal, nearly mute, amoral henchmen.

In both cases, there is no explanation offered as to why these guys work for the crazed killer, or why they don't fall prey to the homocidal impulses that make cohabitation with non-striped-shirt people possible. Perhaps it's possible that the crazed killers pay them well (at least the killer in Bloodlust was established as a wealthy man), but it's never stated, or even strongly implied. Perhaps the desire not to ruin a form-fitting striped red shirt is the only thing that can emotionally upset a sociopath?

Can anyone else think of explanations for this phenomena, or other examples in film where it crops up? Does the "totally loyal, largely amoral body of henchmen, usually serving a total hermit-like misanthrope and/or homocidal maniac" archetype/plot device turn up in other non-striped shirt examples that you can think of? (Crew of Nemo's Nautilus and Dark Knight Joker's lackeys spring to mind). What about cases where the presense of such minions is totally irrational because there are no concievable means of maintaining their loyalty and employment?

Forum: Episode 3 | Bloody Pit of Horror

Rifftrax Live -- Theaters 10/8

beth — Thur, 24 Sep 2009 10:34:50 GMT

Wasn't able to go the first time, but yay! found a theater near me, so going in October.
SOOO, two question.
Anybody going to the Morgantown WV theater to see this?
How cool was the first one?

Forum: Rifftrax