The Dark (1979) RiffTrax triple audio 720p.10bit.BluRay.x265-budgetbits
RiffTrax commentary audio track will play with the movie by default. Change the track in your video software if you want to hear the normal movie track or the official commentary track.
RiffTrax cut is 12 minutes shorter than this Blu-ray encode of the full movie, so there are many scenes with no riffs.
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GENERAL INFO
RiffTrax release date
June 19, 2018
Genre
Parody, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Plot
Are you afraid of The Dark? You should be. Not because it’s scary, it most certainly isn’t, but because it will rattle your brains if you try too hard to understand what it’s about.
Is it a 70s cop drama about a serial killer? Or a monster movie about a demonic alien creature zapping people with its laser vision? The answer is somehow both, but also neither. William Devane, currently starring in commercials where he convinces older folks it’s a good idea to put all their money in gold, is a “sexy” former cop turned novelist (sure, why not) out to avenge his daughter’s death in a battle against… whatever is happening in The Dark. Really, we spent a lot of time with this movie and we’re still not sure, we’d love your help.
Rounding out the cast of stock 70s character actors who appeared in multiple episodes of Columbo, we’ve got “voice of Shaggy from Scooby-Doo” Casey Kasem as a grim police coroner, Cathy Lee Crosby, and Richard Jaeckel, who keen-eyed Rifftrax fans may recognize as the scientist who got yelled at by shirtless Leslie Nielsen in Day of the Animals.
So yeah, there’s a lot to love in The Dark. But not a lot to see, because it’s dark. Step into the murk of the late 70s with Mike, Kevin, and Bill, and savor the darky darkness of… The Dark!
Written By
Michael J. Nelson, Conor Lastowka, Sean Thomason
Contributing Writers
Molly Hodgdon, Jason Miller, Brian Boone, Zachary Shatzer
Encoding info
Encoded by budgetbits from BluRay remux (The.Dark.1979.1080p.BluRay.REMUX.AVC.DTS-HD.MA.2.0-EPSiLON.mkv) with HandBrake 1.3.3, tweaked slower preset, x265, 720p, 10 bit, crf 23, nlmeans light, aq-mode 1, sao/strong-intra-smoothing/rect disabled.
Riff originally synced by herod.
No subtitles available.
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COVER
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SCREENSHOTS
(Click to enlarge)
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MEDIAINFO
General
Filename = The Dark (1979) RiffTrax triple audio 720p.10bit.BluRay.x265-budgetbits.mkv
Duration = 1 h 30 min
Size = 519 MiB
Overall bit rate = 799 kb/s
Video #0
Format = HEVC x265 - 3.2.1+1-b5c86a64bbbe:[Linux][GCC 9.3.0][64 bit] 10bit
Resolution = 1280x546
Aspect ratio = 2.35:1 (2.354)
Bit rate = 604 kb/s
Frame rate = 23.976 FPS
Audio #0
Title = Stereo / Stereo
Format = Opus
Channels = 2 channels
Bit rate = 66.5 kb/s
Sampling rate = 48.0 kHz
Language = English
Audio #1
Title = Unriffed feature
Format = Opus
Channels = 2 channels
Bit rate = 61.6 kb/s
Sampling rate = 48.0 kHz
Language = English
Audio #2
Title = Commentary by producer Igo Kantor and director John "Bud" Carlos, moderated by Bill Olsen
Format = Opus
Channels = 2 channels
Bit rate = 58.0 kb/s
Sampling rate = 48.0 kHz
Language = English
