Here’s a totally free-to-watch short film we mocked about growing up a choosing a career.
Woke up this morning to see that our movie “Teenage Zombies” (original announcement) was featured on the home page of rifftrax.com!
I’m not sure who picks the featured iRiffs over there, but it’s quite a compliment. We’ve managed to impress people who work with three of my favorite people: Mike Nelson, Bill Corbett and Kevin Murphy.
So, to celebrate, here are the newly-minuted bloopers from our recording session:
Circus Peanut Gallery is proud to present our first release: “Teenage Zombies“!
Here are a couple of clips:
Like it so far? It’s for sale for only $5.00
Not convinced yet?
The movie used to be terrible, but now with the addition of nearly 500 well-timed and carefully crafted jokes, you can laugh along with your friends as we mercilessly mock the thing.
Here’s the full description:
Teenage Zombies (1959) (IMDb, Wikipedia) is a “horror” movie about not-exactly teenagers who are turned into not-exactly zombies for about three minutes.
The rest of the time, it’s a movie about walking and boating, walking while looking for a boat, walking toward or away from a boat, boating in order to go walking… hold on a sec–gotta catch my breath… walking on the bow of a boat, and dragging a boat on or off the shore.
There are also some very exciting off-screen water-skiing sequences, as well as some imaginary horses.
In between the privileged rich-kid transportation, there’s a plan to turn all Americans into mindless slaves, orchestrated by a group whose motives are apparently so diabolical they couldn’t be discussed on film.
The movie also prominently features:
- Gorilla costumes
- Soggy tennis shoes
- Scraggly dead trees
- Shutter-mounted telephones
- The world’s biggest door knocker
- Inappropriate evening wear
- a highly-concentrated serum with near-zero consistency from one test subject to the next
- and someone named Felix!
The cast:
- Alex Bischoff (web site) – First post-credits line in the movie: “Nothing for you, third wheel!”
- Erica Burnett (twitter) – First post-credits line in the movie: “Huh. My milkshake had the opposite effect out in the yard.”
- Bryan J Busch (twitter, web site) – First post-credits line in the movie: “Straws! Straws, already! What are we paying you for?”
- Melissa Walter (twitter, web site) – First post-credits line in the movie: “Well, is it a campus, or a house?”
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Our iRiff was written and performed over many cumulative days by a group of friends, with additional material by William Shakespeare. Your purchase helps ensure future hard-won comedy.
You can buy it DRM-free right now at rifftrax.com.
In case you want the original (unspoiled?) version, you can download the original “Teenage Zombies” for free at archive.org.
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