The Best of Rifftrax - Retro Puppet Master

[@ffnendhgrgd]

"So Greg you were in a movie before?" "Yeah, but don't watch it, Tommy. The accent might get stuck on you for a couple days."

[@PDC1987]

To put how low budget this movie was in to perspective; when the two guys that the three mummies were meeting with in the sewer end up dead on the floor you can see clear as day that the actor laying on the ground to the left was wearing a pair of white tube socks with his period piece dress shoes and slacks lol. I love the Puppet Master franchise, and I am a man who owns no socks other than white over the calf tube socks and proudly wears them with any outfit, but I’ve always thought that was hilarious.

[@jakesanders269]

"Punching the h*** out of an old man is like making a patchwork quilt you just keep going till ya feel done!"

[@angelabryant9766]

'As long as you promise to carve us a few chicks' And so, Leach Woman was born.

[@jonathanbethards3689]

“Anne Rice Ken Doll” was fucking spot-on

[@srbrant5391]

"Puppet" and "lube" should _NEVER_ share a sentence!

[@ramseydoon8277]

9:28 wow 'dark city' really holds up after all these years

[@Jessica-dw8bl]

The Naperville, Illinois riff laid me out

[@charleshackney416]

Now I know where the actress from the 1996 "Werewolf" came from! "Don't go-intoo any opIUm dens... Pawl, you is a war-wilf!"

[@justincicconi8863]

“I suppose you’ll have to do.” “Ah, he must be the casting director.”

[@siriush100]

I used to know a girl. She had a dozen guys. One of them beat her up so bad she ended up in the hospital on Guerrero Street.

[@specialpatrolgroup92]

Apostles, if you will XD

[@StewardoftheWord]

Ahaha, what a story Mark.

[@overcastandhaze]

Hahaha, that's not funny you sick fuck.

[@UltimateOmegaRed]

Good to see Mark is keeping himself very busy here, as well!

[@planescaped]

Took me a bit to realize that they weren't making a look-alike joke and that it was actually him.

[@monkeymouse]

"Hell is other people and stuff." At last, reading Sartre's "No Exit" all those years ago comes in handy! Thanks Rifftrax!

[@elafimilo8199]

They are chock-full of references, including from literature. I just found out that one of my most bewildering moments from MST3K was a reference to "The Frogs," by Aristophanes.

[@JPMadden]

@@elafimilo8199 What's the joke?

[@pinkushatejar]

@@JPMadden I NEED TO KNOW THE JOKE

[@6inTruder]

I was kinda sad when it cuts to Egypt & it doesn't list how far from the Swiss border they are.

[@angelabryant9766]

I keep watching this one, cause it never stops being amusing seeing them react to all of the stuff in this movie, being a fan of the Puppet Master movies. Them being like 'what's this green stuff?' 'what's with all the Egyptian stuff?' 'why do the puppets look like that?' It's just so damn funny! Like when you make your friend watch a movie you love but he's never seen just to watch his utter confusion.

[@lulucalliope713]

If you guys want to know more about Mark's audition for this movie, check out his book, "The Disaster Artist".

[@karnerblue7658]

Reading it now. Book's AMAZING.

[@ExtraRamDraws]

It's honestly impressive how they found the most actors in the movie who both cannot emote AND pull off convincing accents, like that's an accomplishment these guys went out of their way to pull off

[@WorldWar2freak94]

“Wanted: Actors who cannot/ will refuse to sound like Frenchmen and women….@

[@OpiateVictory]

Street Horse !!! Yeeeaahhh !!!

[@thestokes91]

WALKING DOWN THE STAIRS

[@drumr72]

STREET HORSE!!! Aw thanks fellas, I needed this laugh

[@JamaicanCastle]

*_SLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP_* "Wow, that's an oldie but a loudie."

[@dominantkitty5]

they cut out my favorite part where the old man says they didn't need to pierce the guys neck with the ring and bill says, "WELL THEN WHAT WAS THE POINT OF ANY OF THIS??!" :P

[@alexanderkim8608]

What a story, Mark...

[@billbobaggins5734]

Master of puppets riff=best. All I hear or see is laughter

[@meedily]

"Me every time I try to open a Capri Sun." XD

[@OldMovieRob]

Love the MST3K riff and reference at 13:00

[@Scorpwanna]

I was eating ice cream when Kevin said "Phil I said Leave the patio light on high, I SAID LEAVE IT ON HIGH!" I ended up spit laughing it on my monitor! :D

[@mattcieszlak3379]

OMG! I've seen this movie many times but never noticed that young Andre Tulan goes on to play Mark in The Room. Lol.

[@rinoz47]

Oh, hai realization.

[@rachelalicea500]

Oh, hai puppets!

[@ToylandChairman666]

I'm not sure if it's true, because I haven't read THE DISASTER ARTIST, but apparently James Franco may have auditioned for Young Toulon. I didn't mind Greg in the role. Guy Rolfe's Toulon is still the best, though.

Matt Smiley I read about it in The Disaster Artist.

[@karnerblue7658]

Excellent book. Definitely gotta read it. I finished it and then immediately read it again.

[@ak1200]

13:09... Walking down the stairs...... the..... stairs. Walking down the stairs.... the ..... stairs.

[@undoneonion90]

7:55 Pay no attention to the hand holding the puppet!

[@wcharliewilson7004]

"Oh, hi Mark!"

[@JoshuaWeirdo]

Absolutely hilarious! Undercover Ninja Turtle Special Victims Unit!

[@alexxs7evin]

I prefer Law and Order: Sanitation Police Squad. In the case of the Killer Couch! 😅

[@tritiumH3]

Oh, the guy from The Room! I loved the guy from The Room in... what was that thing he was in?

[@gannonschlader]

Patch Adams?

[@GabyGeorge1996]

Gannon Schlader Gattaca?

[@specialpatrolgroup92]

"Where the hell is my special puppet lube? I can't stick my hand in DRY!"

[@hankw69]

3,000 year old wizard from Egypt? Didn't he give Billy Batson super powers in 1940?

[@RavnerRavner]

Street Horse!

[@sapphirewingthefurrycritic985]

God damn it, I could see a hand move that damn puppet.

[@jozseflevai3282]

'Tis to be expected in a Full Moon Puppet Master creature feature.

[@alexxs7evin]

This is before the puppets get the mystical ani-mojo juice!

[@redheadboyyy123]

I want Street Horse vs Cowman (Icebreaker) now! The crime fighting horse with a heart of gold vs the milk of death maniac with his bovine strength

[@DavidLLambertmobile]

Street Hawk 🏍 is the 1980s crime fighter LAPD motor unit prototype.

[@Ladderthief1]

Oh hai Mark!

[@stanmcserr8576]

I love the Room callbacks Oh hi, one eye.

[@jozseflevai3282]

Glad to see the boys at Rifftrax tearing a Full Moon Studios movie to shreds. Hope they'll bear their riffing fangs and claws on the other Puppet Master movies and even Killjoy next.

[@jozseflevai3282]

Oh yeah. And just in case you folkses wanted the _"Who's Who"_ of *André Toulon's* Puppets, Circa The Paris Days: *Blade* (The Swordsmaster) *Six-Shooter* (The Gunner) *Pinhead* (The Muscle) *Tunneler AKA Drill Sergeant* (The Drillhead) *Doctor Death* (The Medic) *Cyclops* (The One-Eyed Freak)

[@Craig496]

Why doesn't Greg Sestero just keep his murderous rampage in his pocket?!

[@anarchohouston9979]

Marks doing a bad French accent. His girlfriend is doing a bad British accent. Everyone else sounds vaguely European.

[@TryinaD]

That’s Mark’s actual accent though, his mom genuinely talks like that according to The Disaster Artist

[@renaesmith3827]

He overdosing on pure grape alicious lol 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅

[@JFmK-sh5nh]

The vague blue stuff guy and the vague yellow stuff guys were wearing very fine garments. So, they got that going for them. Now, I'm off to the opium den. Oeuvre.

[@mathias5171]

Walking down the... stairs!

[@felicitywalker7771]

Didn’t two of the riffers also operate puppets at one point in their career?

[@10191927]

Felicity Walker - Yeah, but those puppets were funny and much more meaningful.

[@samuelrusso4304]

@@10191927 Yeah, they were way funnier, and it was on purpose!

[@jozseflevai3282]

Aye. *The Robot-Puppets of Mystery Science Theater 3000* VS *André "Puppet Master" Toulon's Tiny Terrors* would make one _killer_ movie.

[@dirtydave2691]

Oh sweet irony.

[@RavnerRavner]

@@jozseflevai3282 you should pitch that to Joel hodgson. He's on tour now doing MST3K live. There are meet and greets too

[@Hollowshape]

SLEEP!

[@FrenchPaul1988]

STREET HORSE !!!!

[@UltimateOmegaRed]

French Paul 1988 "Next Time on: SUPER Street Horse II TURBO!"

[@OpiateVictory]

Street Horse. Saturdays at 9 p.m., 7 Central. After Magnum P.I.

[@kellyweingart3692]

Street Horse vs KITT vs Street Hawk

[@kellyweingart3692]

4:23-4:49

[@kellyweingart3692]

Steampunk preacher 😂

[@Panzer_the_Merganser]

4:01 Ooooh, when Dark City crossed over to Peaky Blinders

[@rubystevens4593]

"Jeff Dunham dies first." lol

[@LibraGamesUnlimited]

That's my personal mantra. Worse puppeteer in the history.

[@rachelalicea500]

Paris is looking unusually blue in this movie.

[@ToylandChairman666]

Not sure why they tinted the stock footage blue. Unless it came that way. Supposedly the footage of the train was originally second unit footage filmed for PUPPET WARS: CURSE OF THE PUPPET MASTER. The first of a trilogy that was never produced.

[@csgrambauer5852]

Not to mention Egypt.

[@Q.Q.Kachoo]

ToylandChairman666 I think sometimes filmmakers tint stock footage to disguise the fact that it wasn’t made on the same kind of film, or in the same era. (For example, in the MST3K episode “Castle of Fu Manchu”, the ship sinking footage at the beginning was tinted blue to cover up the fact that it was originally in black and white!)

[@marccolten9801]

That was very funny That was very funny That was very funny

[@stanmcserr8576]

That's Greg Sestero from The Room, you know, Oh hi Mark.

[@ahoneyman]

Charles Band Making moviewatchers say "What the f#$@ am I watching?" Since 1975.

[@jozseflevai3282]

Truth be told, ahoneyman, one of Charles' works in the Empire Pictures days, Laserblast, happened to be featured on MST3K.

[@renaesmith3827]

Setting it and forgetting it

[@RavnerRavner]

any film with Greg Sestero is asking for a riffing.

[@Jagerbomber]

Waited almost 10 minutes for the Mr. Anderson.

[@jacknapier8201]

Wait... someone in The Room was in something else unironically?

[@shawnfields2757]

Jack Napier Yeah, I can't believe it either dude. But Mark was in something else besides the room and possibly porn...

[@andrewollmann304]

Shawn Fields This was actually before The Room...but not before he met Tommy Wiseau.

[@DavidLLambertmobile]

Thats a oldie but a loudy 🔊

[@DB87_Official]

0:59 puppet wars: episode 4: new begining

[@targaghjj]

Puppet lube (shudder)

[@douglasjohnson4382]

Babyface!

[@FrenchPaul1988]

A tidbit I noticed: what country are they in at the beginning anyway ? Germany ? Austria ? France ? Italy ? Liechtenstein ? He says they'll be getting to Switzerland, but there's nothing letting us know what country they're entering it from (though Toulon being French could imply they're in France, but still...).

[@oh-not-the-bees7872]

I love that the skull has lips like the one on the cover of diablo 2's expansion

[@Raymond13557]

7:58 “I am heavy weapons guy!”

[@vonzigle]

Of course, the pyramids are only 4 miles from the Swiss border! 👎🏻😾 Some great riffs BTW...😺

[@AROBASPARK]

Holy shit, the Puppet Master is been hunted down by the members of the Judge Doom Gang O.o

[@ToylandChairman666]

As much as I love the PUPPET MASTER films, at least the earlier ones, I'd love to see more of them riffed.

[@newflesh666]

ToylandChairman666 I agree. Love these guys and the series. They should at least do puppet master vs demonic toys or curse of the puppet master as they're both pretty terrible

[@ToylandChairman666]

+New Flesh I suggested the new reboot LITTLEST REICH on their sites. I think that might actually be the worst one.

[@Metalchick36]

Puppet master vs Demonic toys, which was a movie from the Sci-Fi channel, so it wasn’t even a Full Moon production. It was so bad! Even Corey Feldman has apologized for being in it

[@laurallewien2165]

The puppets reminds me of the Zoni doll that terrorizes Karen Black in Trilogy of Terror movie, definitively worth a try!

I get a sense this movie didn't know what it wanted to be.

[@elhollins5988]

I'm Naperville Illinois.

[@weeds526]

Keep your stupid puppets in your pocket

[@ladistar]

Robert Wieder Lmaoooo

[@calypsokiosko9067]

5:18 My reaction to [NAME OF MOVIE HERE].

[@marcosgarcia25]

What it is my brother!!!!

[@lkrnpk]

A BROTHER??

[@kellyweingart3692]

“It’s Judge Doom and his brother Bailiff Doom”

[@RysClassicCommercialHut]

Much as I love RiffTrax, I, frankly, would have rather see them riff on Curse of the Puppet Master or Puppet Master: The Legacy. Even riffs of Puppet Master vs. Demonic Toys and Puppet Master the Littlest Reich would have sufficed. And I actually like PM vs DT.

[@abbyiswatching2046]

"...and don't go into any opium dens...wait, which Schyler Sister am I again?" And one of those puppets looks like the guy who made The Room.

[@shawnfields2757]

Susan Kimzey Yeah, that's the guy from the room. He did this before the room. Also, I'm sure that's just Meatloaf in a top hat.

[@abbyiswatching2046]

Gina Molina I'm now trying to wrap my brain around the fact that someone else hired the poor guy. And Meatloaf turns up in the strangest places. If that's him, it's not his only RT appearance. Thing is, he's a pretty good actor, but there was a period where if someone turned a camera on and lured him in, he'd do the movie. I'm pretty sure drugs and\or pie was involved.

[@shawnfields2757]

Susan Kimzey That's not Meatloaf. But, that is the guy from the room.

[@caitlinelliott7005]

They went with "blueverse" over "bluniverse"? Tut tut tut

[@mixmastermurphy]

"I'm near by... maybe."

[@Tchernobog]

interesting that they used the rare extended Europe release for this

[@ToylandChairman666]

Kushner/Locke apparently owns the extended European version. Not sure how that happened. Maybe Charles Band was unwilling to license the film, and the people at RiffTrax found a loophole.

[@crazyfvck]

@Metaluna Zombie What part is extended, the "old man beating scene?" ;) :D

[@Tchernobog]

@@crazyfvck yep and there is a mistake on the extended version where they show the same people walking out of the theater twice

[@sorceress1986]

OMG, I said to myself "omg, this guy looks like Greg Sestero. And then the credit came up. OK, that's it, he just makes terrible choices.

[@JPH1138]

I'm reading his book "The Disaster Artist" right now and getting this film was actually a really big deal for him. He'd just been an extra in a couple of things, most prominently a 'featured extra' in the funeral scene in Patch Adams. He used that to bullshit his way to a good agency (by saying that he was friends with the casting director) and once he had a headshot with the agency watermark basically spammed it out to every casting director who's contact details he could get ahold of. At that point he didn't even have any footage of himself to give out, so being the lead in a straight to video B horror filmed in Romania was a genuine step up.

[@RavnerRavner]

whats a guy gotta do for some googlie eyes?

[@srbrant5391]

4:15 - So this is what the Auditor did before the _Hellraiser_ franchise?

[@nataliewaters7415]

9:36 XD 13:08 XD I couldn't pick just one. This was awful, but great!

[@Nightweaver1]

OK now this film was legitimately good and frightening. Shows you can still riff on good movies, too.

[@thetravelingsteampunkkitty534]

Oh hi one eye.....

[@Ishtarru]

This one doesn't even know how to Puppet Master right. Why would you make sure to give one of the puppets a drill head but never have him use it?

[@tommyprado9142]

Sleeeppp!!!

[@ryanstroud4510]

Sleeeeeeeeep!!!

[@leejones8582]

Oh hi Mark

[@HangmanVa]

Why is everyone's accent so inconsistent?

[@PDC1987]

It’s a low budget film, competent actors really weren’t an option. To put how low budget this movie was in to perspective; when the two guys that the three mummies were meeting with in the sewer end up dead on the floor you can see clear as day that the actor laying on the ground to the left was wearing a pair of white tube socks with his period piece dress shoes and slacks lol.

[@mattyboyanderson]

And I've hated trains ever since

[@KingAceHernandez1291]

Oh hi mark

[@CureOptimismForHumanity]

Walking down the stairs, the stairs! Walking down the stairs, the stairs! Walking down the st-walking down the-walking down the -the stairs. It amuses me that both the Puppet Master and Hellraiser series have a shitty sequel that takes place in the early 20th/late 19th century and have silly French accents. I wonder how many more direct to video horror films feature this gimmick.

[@rogerradue2352]

im confused with the puppets is this what they looked like before they became the puppets we know and love today

[@iaincowell9747]

How the fuck can this series have 10 sequels? They look like absolute trash

[@Marigen1971]

I tried watching this movie years ago but the acting was so atrocious I couldnt finish it. If this guys watch it with me I might be able :-)

[@DaWhiteWolffie]

I can't follow what's happening....why puppets? But? But? Shouldn't they be concerned or afraid of the guy making those puppets? Why is there a blue universe? How can I get there to visit?

[@ramseydoon8277]

12:58

[@racheledwards2352]

Darkman PI