To celebrate Easter here is a quick highlight reel from our short film Oranges: The Eggpire Strikes Back, filmed many years ago in my friends astroturf backyard. In this film, a hostile Easter themed invasion force led by Emperor Brabbit attacks the Orange home world bent on destruction and assimilation. The Oranges response: EXTREME VIOLENCE. You can watch the whole film over on the Oranges Movies page.
A punny quick clip from "Produce Isle"
Rich talks about Vanquish and Jay makes a guest appearance!
F#ck-Bot 5000 denounces comedian Daniel Tosh after Tosh makes light of rape at a recent comedy performance. F#ck-Bot is offended and holds a press conference to let the media know where he stands on this important topic. The media, however, have some questions of their own.
This shocking VHS footage was discovered inside the case of a clamshell copy of The Little Mermaid purchased from a Goodwill in Gary, Indiana. It seems to depict a person who may or may not be George Lucas traveling around the world and destroying as many VHS copies of the original Star Wars trilogy as he can. It is unlikely that this footage was ever meant to be seen by the public.
We sat down Robocop super-fan Rich Evans to watch the newly released trailer for the remake for the first time. His reaction may shock you!
Jay talks about the black and white absurdist film Escape from Tomorrow, shot secretly at Disney World.
Jay talks about a Halloween movie you'll want to add to your yearly seasonal movie rotation.
Mr. Plinkett sings his favorite Christmas songs.
Jay finally gets around to seeing David O. Russell's sprawling crime film American Hustle.
The title says it all folks! Mike reads bad kids jokes to Rich Evans and nomedy ensues.
This time, it's personal.
Check it out! This summer is going to be off the hook with all the new movies coming out! Jay and Mike recap what Hollywood has to offer this summer! OMFG!
The Sacrament is the latest film from Ti West. It's about a group of journalists that venture into the jungle to investigate a commune run by a cult-like leader. It is also a found footage movie. Unfortunately.
Jay and Mike sit down and talk with Matt Hannon, star of Samurai Cop and the upcoming Samurai Cop 2!
Part 2 of our discussion with Matt Hannon focuses on what happened after Samurai Cop finished filming.
Rich Evans tells jokes to scared kids in a further attempt to analyze the humor of the book "101 wacky kid jokes". Mike pretends to be a scientist while observing this awkward and painful process.
Rich Evans reacts to the new Star Wars trailer
It's that magical time of year when Jay and Mike talk about the dumping ground that is January... and possibly more.
Episode 2 of our failed series Game Station 2.0! Rich discusses Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword and also gets abused.
Shortly before the release of the first Marc Web Spider-man film, Rich and his android companion sat down to discuss their expectations for the film.
Cobra Kai started out as a YouTube Premium original series. But now that it's been added to a streaming service that people actually watch, Rich and Jay sit down to talk about the first two seasons! There's mild spoilers and lots of kicking.
Mike and Jay stumble upon a wonderful movie called "The Kid Detective".
Rob Zombie's Munsters trailer took the world by storm! It's sure to be the biggest hit since Morbius and as such, Mike and Jay took some time during their most recent Half in the Bag shoot to discuss it with a level of depth and thoughtfulness that only a trailer for a 2022 Munsters re-boot deserves.
Seemingly out of nowhere comes a strange video game that takes place in the RLM studio. Normally we don't give attention to weirdos that take this much effort making something so utterly creepy, but this game is just so impressive, Rich and Mike had to play it and see what all the fuss was about.
Dick the Birthday Boy shirts on sale now!
There's been a growing trend in VHS collecting, which has created an entirely new market for professional VHS grading, very similar to what's been happening with video game cartridge grading. As the owner's of 1000s of crappy VHS tapes, we were curious to dig deeper into this trend, as well as examine what makes something valuable and collectible. This all culminated in us taking a deeper look into our collection of Nukie tapes. Everything always leads to Nukie.
In the lead up to the series finale of Star Trek: Picard, here's a little clip from an older video.
This edit makes the experience of sitting through Nukie look a little bit more tolerable than it actually is.
Three elderly friends get together in a filthy warehouse in the slums of Milwaukee in the cold, cold, month of March. They dust off a 20 year old trivia game featuring questions about Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th (opting to only use the Nightmare questions). They videotape the process of asking each other questions to make a video for their YouTube channel - something to do to pass the time until they die. Likely from a heart attack, cancer, or other. Can life get any better?!? Some spend their time fighting fires, savings lives as doctors, or helping out those who are less fortunate. We ask each other questions about Nightmare on Elm street movies as professional YouTube Clowns™ You’ll see Rich Evans in all his grandpa glory hole action! He wears his peepers to read the tiny print on the trivia card in the low, smokey light. Jay knows more about Freddy than Mike. Will Jay win?!? Yes. Jay wins the game because he sucks and is a stupid head. Or does Mike win the game?
From hanging pictures to repairing precious movie props, Red Letter Media is generally bad at most things. In this video, we chronicle several of the random projects that we work on in between filming and editing our normal videos. Chaos ensues.
Mike, Jay, and Rich Evans have returned again to the black void. Their reason today? To talk about a new huge summer blockbuster movie? No. Quite the opposite. They was gonna talk about Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning 2: Dead Reckoning 1, BUT they thought… how many times can one see Tom Cruise do stints? No, this day Mike, Jay, and Rich have returned to the black void to talk about “Watchbait” the movie version of “Clickbait”. Trash that has overrun a once great institution like Tubi. And before you ask, no we wasn’t compensated by Tubi to promote these films. We were just browsing about and saw a trend. A trend of using certain words or phrases in a title to get one to click on their junk film to watch it, only to realize after a few minutes they made the worst mistake of their lives. This particular video wasn’t a Half in the Bag. Nor was it a re:View. Nor was it a Best of the Worst. I guess it could have been a “Talks About” video, but nah. We made a new show called “Beyond the B
An excerpt from our recent Half in the Bag review of Oppenheimer.
A Mattel Cinematic Universe????? VERY COOL!!!
It's Spitballs! This is essentially a pilot for an official Red Letter Media animated series. In this series, Mike, Jay and Rich all play versions of themselves as L.A. losers who pitch movie and TV show ideas wherever and whenever they can, always unprepared and off the top of their heads. In this episode, they score a meeting with Jan de Bont and pitch him their idea for another Speed sequel. We teamed up with our favorite animator, Wee Zachary P, to create this short, an idea based on the many animations people have done of us ranting weird things and spitballing. Enjoy!
It's the return of RLM's most popular series, Jeb and Mark Blark Abort! This time, we bring attention to this Halloween-centric movie that was inexplicably released the same weekend as Barbie and Oppenheimer: Cobweb! The movie was doomed to have abysmal box office and nobody knows why it was release when it was, not even Lionsgate!
Mike hosts a trivia video. Rich and Jay are contestants pitted against each other in an ultimate battle of filthy vulgar 90s musical artist lyrics.
It's another trivia video!!1! This time, Jay and Mike reach into their rotted brains to try and remember specific details about the endless forgettable characters from the Friday the 13th movies that they just watched.
Our movie and TV memorabilia museum is expanding! We are now the proud owners of pieces of a 4 foot model of the Enterprise D. This model was blowed up in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Cause and Effect". It was shipped to us in a ton of pieces (it was exploded) and we had to figure out a way to display it. If we didn't do it soon it would be doomed to sit on a shelf somewhere forever as we are all pretty lazy (except Rich and Jay). So Mike and Dick the Birthday Boy spent many a nights discussing how to do this. A plan was made. Since this was a pretty long process, we decided to make a little documentary about it. What else are we gonna do with our time?
Its finally here! Mike and Rich face off in Star Trek: The Next Generation trivia showdown! It should be noted that this board game had a copyright of 1993 on it. This, I think, would mean that it was released during the series run and doesn't have any questions from season 7. That alone is fine, but also the game had some kind of weird layout to it. It was meant to roll dice and travel around the board. Each question had a symbol next to it which mean it belonged to some sort of category? It was related to something on the board, etc etc... Point being, many questions were lacking context such as episode name and situation. I.e. Ambassador Blorgon did this.... well, neither of us have a photographic memory so specific names, planets, sectors, etc are fuzzy without context. There have been many Ambassador so-and-so's The questions with context, such as episode name, really honed in the skills of Mike or Rich Evans.
Trivia revenge is a dish best served with a side of jerk chicken. Hi, I’m Krebs Gorlon the owner/operator of this YouTube channel (not affiliated with MrBeast) and I’m here today to share with you a video. A lovely video indeed about three stunted men in their 40’s that dress up in Star Trek costumes and play a 30-year-old trivia game. Real men are out there in the cold fixing downed electrical lines, savings lives at hospitals, or providing air traffic control for our nations busiest airports. These men are doing this…. In olden days they would have been called “village idiots” perhaps even court jesters. Morons who shame thyselves for the delight of the King. In the 1800’s they would be circus freaks or even clowns – a shameful profession that does nothing for the betterment of the world other than entertain the regular townsfolk while they slurp down turkey legs coated in meat slime. With every stale laugh, stinky belch-filled chuckle, and gape-mouthed pointed finger, a piece of the
Mike and Jay are back for another Mike and Jay Talk About video where Mike and Jay talk about the movie Dinner in America, a punk rock coming of age suburbia dystopian love story. This is an addendum to our Half in the Bag Kyle Gallner triple feature extravaganza!
It's time once again for a celebration in sleaze! Why it’s Marilyn Manson or Bloodhound Gang! Two influential 90’s bands with wildly different music styles. Mike, sadly, has encyclopedic knowledge of the inventive, funny and often dark lyrics of Brian Warner and James Franks (aka Marilyn Manson and Jimmy Pop) What should he do with this knowledge? Of course he's going to torture his friends Rich and Jay for sad clicks on YouTube. Well, actually if we wanted sad clicks on YouTube there’s plenty of other things we could do. This is just an afternoon of laughs had by three middle-aged gentlemen in a cold Milwaukee warehouse (how many times have you heard THAT?) While Manson skews darker, and Bloodhound gang is more goofy - if you had a Venn diagram displaying lyrical topics there would be a narrow intersection. Same goes for style. Manson will occasionally dip into the absurd or silly and Franks can occasionally go darker. This makes these two musical icons perfect for trivia! Rich Evans
Also known as Spitballs, in this episode the guys go off on a weird tangent after seeing a zoomer wearing a Pac-Man t-shirt. Instead of Super Mario Bros. or Sonic the Hedgehog, what if Hollywood cashed in on the video game movie revival trend with a feature film about the very first video game... PONG! HOW EXCITING WOULD THAT BE?!? WHAT AN AMAZING IP TO EXPLOIT WITH ENDLESS POTENTIAL! Special thanks to the brilliant WeeZacharyP for his inventive animation! Enjoy, friends!
Mike and Jay sit down to talk about what everyone is talking about this week after the flop of Furiosa and Garfield and others. Chase that algorithm, fatty!
Hello friends! This was the original proof of concept thing we made when we were testing out the idea of doing our animated series, Spitballs. As explained in our intro, this is a really old idea Rich Evans and Mike would bounce back and forth going back 20+ years or more. We decided it would make for a good pilot episode. Obviously Mike is fond of the elderly, but what if the fate of the Earth was in the hands of the last dozen or so nonagenarians around. Enjoy this silly, unreleased video with artwork by Freddie Williams and the legend himself, Rich Evans! Mike did the editing and sound effects. Jay did essentially nothing cause he's scum.
Hi, today we are talking about Salt Vampire. In these dark times of The Acolyte thirst posts and 4th of July fireworks hurting my ears, we bring to you a kind a simple video. A pointless video really. A video that won't get the views of someone yelling into a microphone about a Star War, but to us it's important. We recently became the new owners of a dusty old reel of film from the original Star Trek series as well as the mold that was used to make the infamous Salt Vampire mask from the TOS episode "The Man Trap". Two items from the private collection of model maker Greg Jein. You see, when we get props we like to do fun things with them. Most times that ends up in us damaging them. But this time we decided to do something productive: Use the Salt Vampire head mold to recreate the original mask (and costume) as best we could with our limited skills. I think someone may have also done this with the mold. But I assure you, this was done with more love and much less skill.
Mike, Jay and Rich Evans talk about ghosts, hauntings, paranormal investigations, crazy people, ghost evidence, lies and other pointless topics in this two-part special Halloween season event video(s) that will conclude in a full on paranormal investigation of the famous Villisca Ax Murder House!!! What will they find with all the paranormal tools at their hands? Will Mike meet a ghost?
Mike and Jay give a run-down of the new films and TV shows coming out over the next year and a half that you and your dumpster-diving grandmothers just might recognize. We're entering a time when the nightmares are now contagious viruses that spread from media to media and infect all our collective body cavities (anus). For example, for some reason that new emotional Ghostbusters trash was successful. People cried butterfly tears when they saw Venkman kiss Egon on the lips and rub his ghost trap and he ghost hugged his dumb daughter and told her he loved her even though she was clearly a lesbian and that secretly disappointed him even though he was a mute ghost. Well, that warranted a sequel of course. Then if that cash is flowing, green-light an animated series!!! Then green-light a live action series on Netflix or Prime or whatever. Might do a season or two. Who cares. People that work in the animation industry are starving and forced to deliver Amazon packages.
Halloween has come early this year! Today, in fact! That's right we were going to wait until October to release part two of our Villisca Ax Murder House investigation, but hey, it's Saturday! Krebs Gorlon is away on vacation so it's me Rich Evans typing this description because this video is serious business. In 1912, eight people (six of whom were children) were killed in this tiny house in Iowa by some kind of lunatic with an ax. The killer was never brought to justice so either their souls aren't at rest OR there is an evil entity in the house OR it is just an empty house. Here it is folks, our investigation video. Presented to you in all it's non-glory. As promised, nothing was faked and all "evidence" is presented in a rational and scientific fashion and we discuss as we go. Is there a little dramatic flair in editing? Sure. It can't be too boring, but we promise this is the most honest paranormal investigation video you'll ever see. In fact, we made this for non-clicks. Please DO
It's time again for another exciting game of trivia! This time, it's Mike vs. Rich in a sad attempt to remember anything from their own past. It's Best of the Worst Trivia! Who will win? Who will remember stuff? How much will they remember? How much do you remember?!!!? Take a trip down memory lane with this exciting and depressing video on YouTube dot com.
there's no better way to start your day than with a warm pabst blue ribbon... also! New episode of Half in the Bag!!! 3 episodes total... check it out kids if you haven't seen it yet eh?
Enjoy this horrible mash up ad in the meantime or whatever
The Great Red Letter Media auction has begun! We're raising money to shoot our next film Space Cop so we're auctioning off a whole bunch of stuff and/or accepting donations (if you so choose to do so). You can also purchase Feeding Frenzy or the Red Letter Media archive collection as well! Please don't comment about Kickstarter. We know about it.
Lots of new stuff now available for digital download! Also, some new stuff coming soon... something other than Half in the Bag... staaaay tuned friends.... boooooourns....
We're coming back to Toronto!
October 6th, 2012 - Red Letter Media's Jay and Mike and Jack Packard will be hosting a live Q&A Panel about making web videos as part of the Milwaukee Film Festival. This event is free to the public
The Red Letter Media Archive DVD is back in stock! Also, Plinkett gives an update on his next review.
news, products, and the second worst death scene ever.
Hey kids! We recently did a collaboration with Honest Trailers and their Dark Knight Rises trailer parody. This is the leftover stuff that didn't make it into the video. Enjoy! Also, this is not the new Plinkett review. Do you know where it's at?
Check out the annual Red Letter Media auction where we sell props, costumes, scripts, and one of a kind treasures! We do this in lieu of any Kickstarters to help pay for expenses to keep us making content. If you also want to donate feel free to on our webzone. Thanks friends!
Here is a recent 3 day long time lapse video! We had to dismantle and store two sets in order to build a new one from scratch for another project. The wide angle lens makes our studio look a lot bigger than it really is so this was quite a puzzle to make room for everything. These sets were all built for WELL under $128,000 too!
Some people have been wondering about the slowing down of content for the site lately. Well, here's a big part of why! We've been hard at work the last few weeks shooting Mr. Plinkett segments for the film Doc of the Dead, a documentary about zombies in pop culture. It's been very time consuming and very bloody, but hopefully everyone will enjoy the final result! We're also working to get all of our exterior scenes for Space Cop shot before it starts to get cold outside, but have no fear: Half in the Bag will be returning soon, and we'll of course continue episodes of Best of the Worst as well. Thanks for being patient!
Hey everyone we have some new commentary tracks available on our bandcamp page for Alien VS Predator and Samurai Cop! New BOTW coming soon too!
The house set constructed for Doc of the Dead has gotten a lot of use with other RLM projects, including the ongoing Space Cop shoot. Here's some examples of practical effects work done to accomplish some of the scenes visuals. MINOR SPOILERS if you're concerned with that kind of thing for a film called Space Cop.
Production on Space Cop slowly but surely chugs along. RLM tends to be involved in pretty much every aspect of production, but outside assistance was required in bringing our alien characters to life.
Become a patron of the arts and help RLM make more of their terrible videos and review shows. Jay needs sensible shoes too.
After a year of setting up and breaking down various sets for various projects, we were finally able to make room for and re-assemble a long absent set. Good times!
A lot of people have been letting us know that the actor that played Samurai Cop has recently resurfaced after years of speculation that he had died. Here is our response to those comments.
HITB, BOTW, and Plinkett shirt designs now available too!!!
ho ho ho-rrible sell outs! It's that time of the year to give you
Mike, Jay, and Rich Evans watch Ripley Scott's 1979 film, Alien and talk about it. Since that film is soooo borrrring they also detour into talking about the entire Alien franchise as well as other things like Rich Evans' Grandmother's Christmas nightmare house. Learn stuff about Alien, hear Rich Evans laugh, and have a great time!
As the summer movie season approaches and you see many trailers in the theater. Remember, secretly they are all the same.
Rich, Mike, and Jay sit down to watch James Cameron's classic film "The Terminator" hear Rich Evans irritating laugh! Here Mike's dry sarcastic hate-filled comments, Hear Jay provide insight into his love of Maniac Cop 2. Enjoy!
