![]() ![]() At what point did you realize that this particular follow-up was really taking off and becoming something huge? On the other hand, RiffTrax has been a gigantic success and grown more and more over the years. Speaking of growing… After Mystery Science Theater 3000 finished up, you guys first did the short-lived Film Crew, which didn’t quite work out in the end. ![]() We got a great working website here like we’ve never had before and I attribute that to Erik and his work. Navigation’s a lot easier, checking out’s easier, makes the whole process-I think we’ve grown up. And it’s just easier to find what you’re looking for on the site, I think that’s mainly a thing. If that’s the kind of thing people want – and a lot of people say they would – for regular users on the site it ends up being a lot more affordable, which is pretty cool. Types of movies that you might want to look at, all grouped under different collections that we suggest for people and, yeah, we’re looking for the ability to perhaps subscribe in the near future. If you’ve never been there at all and you’re wondering what we do, there’s a nice introductory video that’s right there. If you’ve been on there a lot, you can go automatically to wherever you want to go. It’s a lot more user-friendly for people who are there for the first time. But we’ve been looking to do this kind of stuff for a long time. I know so little about how the website works, it’s amazing I can even turn on my computer. Kevin Murphy: Well, see, I’m just the guy who makes the jokes. Anything you can tell us about this new direction? The site just got redone and there are a ton of big bells and whistles on the horizon, like mobile apps and the ability to subscribe. They’ve even hit the movie theater a dozen times by doing RiffTrax Live, where their live performance would be broadcast across the country (and Canada) and showcased to countless theater-goers.ĭen of Geek: Originally this interview was meant to hype up the upcoming RiffTrax Live of Anaconda – in theaters on October 30, thanks to Fathom Events – but as it turns out, big things are happening with RiffTrax. They’ve started releasing more obscure B-movies for download with the commentary already attached to it. They’ve released well over a hundred movie shorts. A web-based follow-up to MST3K, the trio (and the occasional guest like Weird Al or Neil Patrick Harris) would rail on more widely-known movies, legally protected by only releasing mp3s of their commentary and leaving finding the movie itself up to you. The trio found success in 2006, with RiffTrax. In an attempt to bring back MST3K’s glory, he, Mike Nelson, and Bill Corbett starred in a series of DVDs as The Film Crew, where they again made fun of bad movies. As a writer and performer on the show, Murphy stayed prominent until it’s cancellation, where he wrote a book A Year at the Movies: One Man’s Filmgoing Odyssey in which he watched a movie a day and chronicled his findings. ![]() First showing up as the second Tom Servo in the second season of Mystery Science Theater 3000, Murphy had a long-lasting position as a puppeteer who would spend hours making fun of bad movies. Kevin Murphy has been killing it for 24 years as a master riffer (riff guy?). It’s not every day that you get to interview one of your idols, but I actually had one of those days. ![]()
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