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Rifftrax Event

posted 8 years ago by DarlesChickens
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While now considered a classic, Carnival of Souls hasn’t aged, like, great, you know? It’s a great time capsule of the early 1960s, when women weren’t people and men could sexually harass women freely. So glad we got over that. Parts of the film are, in this modern day and age, going to be either uncomfortable for some viewers, or unintentionally funny to others. Old time periods are weird, man. The audio syncing in the film was never perfect to begin with, so we get lots of mouths moving with no words, or no mouths moving with words. “Are we gonna get more mouths moving with no words?” asks Corbett after the umpteenth time that had occurred. But not to worry; the jokes were a mile a minute, with very little dead air. Any dead air was for the guys to breathe, or to let some of the wacky, bad acting happen before us in stunned glory. It was a great balance of the trio’s jokes along side 1960s-filmmaking-and-budgetary-limitations-based comedy. http://www.cutprintfilm.com/reviews/rifftrax-live-carnival-souls/

[–] Druff (1845) 2 years ago

The whole time I was watching the movie last weekend I was thinking, "Man, MST should have done this one, it would have been one of the best eps ever."

[–] [deleted] 2 years ago

I'm not a fan of these guys. They don't seem to understand what's required to make a movie. They pick, generally, on low-hanging fruit, meaning super-cheap independent productions. It's difficult to even complete a movie when you barely have any money. Completing a movie that makes sense and doesn't look 'silly' because of its low budget? Nearly impossible. I'd rather they made fun of big budget studio films that have the resources to make quality movies and yet somehow turn out crappy movies on a regular basis.