RiffTrax Live: "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians"
When: Thu., Dec. 5, 8 p.m. 2013
Some old movies are just so terrible and cheesy the only bearable way to sit through them is to be drunk, stoned (hey, it’s legal now) or while listening to sidesplitting live commentary. The latter is what audiences get at a RiffTrax show — live screenings of classic, super-dorky films with goofy, sometimes inappropriate remarks by some of the funny guys who starred on the legendary cult-comedy show “Mystery Science Theater 3000.” The next RiffTrax hitting the Inland Northwest features the 1964 sci-fi holiday fiasco Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, which regularly makes lists of the worst films ever made. It can be really fun, though, when paired with the insight of former MST3K crewmembers Michael J. Nelson, Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett.