Things (1989) RiffTrax 480p.10bit.WEBRip.x265-budgetbits

The only audio track has RiffTrax commentary. If you want to watch the movie with normal audio, you will need to find another source.

This is an encode of the official RiffTrax HighTV file, which is low bitrate and probably an encode of a DVD. This budgetbits release is not high video quality.

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GENERAL INFO

RiffTrax release date
March 4, 2022

Genre
Parody, Comedy, Horror

Plot
The phrase “worst movie we’ve ever done” comes up at RiffTrax, usually followed by some disagreement. Like, “Oh sure Fungicide was bad, but did you forget about Baby Ghost?” Friendly arguments follow, only occasionally coming to blows. But this time… Things time… there is no disagreement. It’s definitive, universal… the worst movie we’ve ever done.

It almost feels wrong to call Things a movie. Things is more of an experience. It opens with a basement nightmare — at least, we hope it’s a nightmare — then eases into the main action of two bored Canadian guys trying to kill time in a dingy house while their buddy Doug sits in the next room. They find a tape in the freezer full of demonic recordings. They put tap water in their beer to make it better. They make a cockroach sandwich. And, eventually, some Things show up from another dimension. They’re bug monsters that don’t move because they’re not even puppets. The hosers go to battle with the bugs, using tiny chainsaws and drills. Meanwhile the movie goes to battle with your senses, as you try to make sense of what you’re seeing and hearing. Fortunately, we’re here to help guide you, or at least share in the “HUH?”

On top of all this, the movie keeps cutting to a fake newscast with a fake news anchor played by a real adult film star. You might think the news she’s reporting on relates to the story in some way. You would be wrong.

And that’s just scratching the surface of everything that’s going on, and not going on, in Things. There’s nothing else like it, thank goodness. Join Mike, Kevin and Bill and try to answer the question, what is Things?

Written by: Mike Nelson, Bill Corbett, and Sean Thomason

Contributing Writers: Jason Miller and Zach Shatzer


Encoding info
Encoded by budgetbits from RiffTrax High TV WEB-DL (thanks Revfds) with HandBrake 1.3.1, tweaked slower preset, x265, 480p, 10 bit, crf 23, aq-mode 1, sao/rect/strong-intra-smoothing disabled. Intro and outro animations cut.

RiffTrax SDH subtitles included (thanks Iwata)

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COVER


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SCREENSHOTS
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MEDIAINFO
General
Filename = Things (1989) RiffTrax 480p.10bit.WEBRip.x265-budgetbits.mkv
Title = Things (1989) RiffTrax
Duration = 1 h 7 min
Size = 186 MiB
Overall bit rate = 387 kb/s

Video #0
Format = HEVC x265 - 3.4:[Linux][GCC 9.3.0][64 bit] 10bit
Resolution = 640x480
Aspect ratio = 4:3 (1.333)
Bit rate = 308 kb/s
Frame rate = 23.976 (24000/1001) FPS

Audio #0
Title = RiffTrax
Format = Opus
Channels = 2 channels
Bit rate = 74.7 kb/s
Sampling rate = 48.0 kHz
Language = English

Subtitles = UTF-8 English RiffTrax SDH