Circus Peanut Gallery

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 $2.50 through September 30, 2009!

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?”

Additional writing by

• Lyn Never
• Dan Douglass (twitter)
• William Shakespeare (twitter)

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.

Already “acquired” the movie?

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