Best of the Worst: Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park, Killer Workout, and Mystics in Bali 

The witch does a great Rich Evans impression.

Someone probably already said this but the thing with a woman's head coming off with their entrails hanging is called a penanggalan, it's a kind of vampire creature. There's a similar myth in the Phillipines called the manananggal. The traditional method to keep them away is to put thorny plants around your window so their entrails get caught by the thorns when they try to fly in your window at night.

Rich is the first man in history to say the phrase "pumping out fresh Cobains."

Rich saying “that’s good” to Mike’s terrible joke is like watching an elderly married couple doing the osteoporosis dance perfectly in sync

It's their fourth gym horror film if you count "The Osteoporosis Dance"

I like how ghost Rich Evans still had a microphone on.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1654">27:34</a> that beautiful moment when Rich laughs at Mike's cheesy joke, and Mike just gazes lovingly at him

This episode has one of my favourite openings of all of RLM. Tiny tiny man-skeleton.

Rich Evans gives 100% when he acts and it completely clashes with everyone else being intentionally bad. I guess that's why he's been on Ellen and starred in a major motion picture.

The scariest part of this episode is the intact copy of Jack & Jill behind Jay.

According to my mother, who was a gym-nerd in the 80s, that air-humping move was an actual thing people actually did in classes at the gym. It's just filmed super creepily in Killer Workout.

I just love how they put up multiple _Jack and Jill_ DVDs as Halloween props, because _that's_ terrifying!

copies of jack and jill have been known to multiply through mitosis

"So I guess it was an "un"safety pin?" Rich Evans: Comedy Genius.

Not cool guys...not cool....I remember exactly where I was when Kurt Kobain bot no. 237 was when it killed itself.

R.I.P. Rich Evans. Goodnight sweet prince. May flights of parakeets screech thee to thy rest.

It's 2023 and Kiss has just announced that they will continue to tour as digital avatars.

Guys, as a 46 year old man let me give you a little insite on KISS Meets Phantom of the Park. When I was 8 KISS was king. Not only where they the biggest band in the world they were like superheores. Everyone in my class was beyond excited to see this 'movie'. They promoted it for a month and we all talked about it for weeks. When I left on Friday to go to my grandfather's house we all said goodbye and couldn't wait to watch it that night then talk about it Monday..nay...forever. So...imagine our diassapointment when it took 30 minutes (not counting commercials) before KISS finally showed on screen. Then Peter Criss sounded like a frigging cartoon character (not a superhero). It was obvious even then that it wasn't his voice. Also, Gene Simmons...oh man. Remember, we are all 8 so the lines of 'are these regular guys' is blurred. And he breaks through a wall as Scooby-Doo music plays in the background?! I fell asleep. Kids were sooooo upset on Monday. Besides the Star Wars Holiday Special, this was the biggest disappointment for entertainment of my generation. And now I'm a huge MST3k and Riff-Trax fan. I own this movie and have watched it like 10 times. It's a masterpiece! By the way, Rip and Destroy was actually a distortion of a song Hotter Than Hell. So the lyrics were different. Plus it's supposed to influence the crowd.

Actually, Rich wasn't dead at the end. His effect on the solid objects around him means he was likely just out of phase with our physical reality. A similar phenomenon happened on the episode of _Star Trek: The Next Generation_ called "The Next Phase" where Geordi and Ro Laren (played by Michelle Forbes, who also played Dr. Judith Mossman in Half Life: 2)...

"Nudity is magic" words to live by

I can't believe they really murdered Rich Evans just for an episode of BOTW. What the fuck is wrong with you guys?

I used to not believe in skeletons. I'm still not convinced.

And here I was hoping Rich Evans was going to come back as a floating head with guts

I shit you not, I took a trip up to Aspen to spend a weekend, and while checking in noticed that there were quite a few little people in the lobby. Flash forward a few hours when my wife and I were walking around downtown and noticed that Mini KISS was playing in town. By the time we got back to our hotel room, we saw that Mini KISS, in full makeup, were just hanging out in their room adjacent to ours. The one thing I can confirm is that Mini KISS has typically sized groupies.

Are the multiple Jack and Jill DVDs part of the scary decorations?

I love the Star Trek sound effect in the Kiss movie.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1585">26:25</a> I've read that in Russia in the 90's, producers of popular bands would hire look-alikes to tour the country pretending to be the band (they would use lip-syncing, or as we call it "фанера"). There was no internet and basically there was no way for the people to know that the band had like 4-5 concerts simultaneously in cities all over.

Rich is fucking hilarious. He can be pretty goofy and his laugh is definitely an acquired taste but, his wit is super sharp and he’s constantly catching me off guard with his jokes.

"They coulda spent that time picking up garbage off the street, instead they were remastering the garbage and putting it on a dvd." That's how its done, Jack

" I, wanna rock and roll all night, and part of every day"

I can't believe it took me this long to realize the theme of Killer Workout has the lyric "I'm a woman on fire" and the key driver of the plot is a woman bursting into flames and being horribly burned on over 70% of her body.

now i know why Master Roshi likes watching those workout videos...

Man, Mike REALLY didn't like the mouse throw-up scene. Could it be he still has some form of humanity left ?

I'm always genuinely heart warmed when Rich Evans's's ghost says "I'm freeee" that's right sweet prince, rest in peace.

7 years late to the party but something that was missed about Killer Workout is that Jimmy, the guy who was in love with Rhonda, is heavily implied to have been helping her with the killing and covering for her. He even says that he knows about the trouble and can help. Of course the movie does a terrible job expressing this but I believe that every kill we see that does not involve the infamous safety pin is actually Jimmy(the dumbbell, the people who are killed with a knife outside of the gym at night with the girl in the convertible, and the two people that died in the gym after his fight with the Private Eye) because of his statement to Rhonda, the knife that Deadly Prey finds in Jimmy's home, and the fact that Rhonda was busy with the Detective at her home while the Aerobics instructor was hanged. Since he did actually kill some of the people involved it would make sense that the police would mistake him for the real killer because there would be real physical evidence linking him to those crimes. Either way I love Killer Workout and have seen it many times but completely agree with the criticisms levied against it here because I've just done a better job explaining the film's plot than the actual film did. Also Nudity is magic.

It's funny how all these abysmal horror movies no one has ever heard of get remastered to 4K bluray while Star Trek DS9 and Voyager are stuck in SD land

They didn't bring their A game, but they sure brought their T and A game. HEYO

Little known fact: Kurt Cobain killed himself while watching Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park.

"The audience started to boo, and we weren't sure why." Because Kiss was playing

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="2706">45:06</a> Actor clearly reading lines from a script held off screen for that entire over-the-shoulder shot. So good.

"The least haunted places are graveyards". That moment when a movie reviewer with a passion for the paranormal has more common sense than most people in the paranormal field.

Press F to pay respects #RIPRichEvans

I like how Jay made a Phantom of the Paradise reference and no one got it. I'd love to see a re:View on that one

"Too shocking and too bizarre to release". That's exactly what Garth Marenghi said :P

Does anybody want to mention that their are at least four DVD copies of Adam Sandler's Jack and Jill in the background. Either four people exiled these movies to them on purpose or someone had the same sense of the interior decorator in the movie The Room who thought that spoons made a cohesive theme.

Yay, my life isn't meaningless for an hour! Awesome!

Very kind of Jay to share the title of his My Little Pony doujinshi at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="597">9:57</a>

And Rich Evans ascended to Second Banana Heaven, where he frolicks with Torgo, Ortega and TV's Frank.

when u just click in on youtube and this got out a min ago YESSSS

Seven years late but can we acknowledge Jack's drip in this ep? The color coordination is so distracting in the best way Edit: he even matches the box he reads from :') God bless

I had "Mystics in Bali" on my watchlist, so I put this episode on hold until I finished it. What a fuckin' weird film, but yeah, the witch was amazing and I loved the Penanggalan stuff.

The best part of the KISS movie is that Ace was so strung out at times that he required a stand-in... and it was obvious that the stand-in was black... 🤣

I'm ashamed to say, but I recognize the aerobic exercise scenes from Killer Workout...

I now understand Jay’s “ Billy Barty in UHF” reference.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1654">27:34</a> And it was at that moment that Mike realized that he would be truly happy with the man he fell in love with so many years ago...

When I first saw their review of "Killer Workout" and saw that giant safety pin, I thought to myself, "Oh, no, one of the giant diaper babies from 'Nothing But Trouble' is loose!"

The actor in Mystic's in Bali isn't Filipino he's Balinese (an Indonesian island) hence Mystics in Bali. It was filmed in Java (another Indonesian island) rather than Bali though as Hindu locals were superstitious and didn't allow the black magic rituals scenes to be performed there. Such a classic genuinely gold film

the woman in Mystic of Bali whose head floats off is a penangalan, it's an actual folkloric monster from indonesia

I'm not saying Jay is as small as the show says, but I am saying that I had the same Jack-O-Lantern sweater as him when I was a baby and I can only put it on teddy bears now.

I was waiting for Rich to come in as a floating head with intestines.......so dissapointed.

Fun fact!: the floating head with organs hanging down is totally nuts... but actually is a traditional image in some Asian cultures of a type of spirit called a "Krasue". So to them I would imagine it was as recognizable as like a werewolf or something to us. A lot of the weirdness in it seems like it comes from cultural expectation. I wonder if there are any movies that seem super weird to other cultures that we just take for granted ........Yes I am fun at parties

nice use of comic sans at the end. what a slap in the face for rich evans, bless his soul.

"nudity is magic" I'm pretty sure i've seen that MLP fansite.

Film Discussion Timestamps <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="775">12:55</a> Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1672">27:52</a> Killer Workout <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="2805">46:45</a> Mystics in Bali

It is truly bizarre that they skipped over the funniest and weirdest scene in Mystics of Bali. The hilarious long tongue bush scene towards the beginning. Genius scene.

I love that Rich’s trigger phrase is “ShowBizz Pizza Bear”

The witch in the last movie sounds like Rich Evans

Rich is really looking good these days. I'm happy for him, he must have made some lifestyle changes because he's looking really healthy

why is jack talking to a miniature of himself at the beginning

WHERES THE SPACE COP HALLOWEEN SPECIAL YOU HACK FRAUDS

There's a vampire legend in that part of the world known as the penengallan which floats around by night with just the head and its entrails (the entrails drip a caustic substance that can kill as well). The vampire goes to the homes of pregnant women and suck the blood of the fetus in a pregnant woman using a really long tongue. It's one of a number of vampires that somehow detatches it's head or upper body and goes out to feed. Some fly by flapping its ears. I find it one of the weirdest vampires legends out there.

“...scheduled for a sellout concert...” what a missed opportunity

Something about the VHS turning all ghosty at the end when Rich touched it made me die laughing for some reason :P

I feel personally attacked every time they make fun of Jay's height because I'm the exact same size as him

This is my favorite Best of the Worst intro joke of all time, it never fails to make me laugh.

The scariest part of this whole episode is being reminded about Jack and Jill

The idea that Rich's soul was still bound to this Earth only by his strong desire to destroy a terrible Kiss movie is amazing. Love you guys, yo.

Anthony Zerbe is a legend. He was the head mutant in Omega Man, and dozens of other supporting roles in classic movies and TV.

I love how Jay holds his laughter after Mike says "Rich is dead"

"Nudity is magic." (<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="592">9:52</a>) Couldn't have said it better myself, Jay.

Jack's face was priceless during the eating baby scene XD

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1492">24:52</a>- <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1495">24:55</a> Young George Lucas can be seen about three rows of people from the front of the crowd.

Anthony Zerbe was our guest lecturer at Stella Adler acting conservatory. When they listed his credentials, they failed to mention the KISS film. Actually, the only thing they mentioned was Star Trek Insurrection.

I think Killer Workout might actually be ripping off a Lucio Fulci movie, Murderrock. There are some crucial similarities: -killings take place in a gym -killer is a woman whose career was cut short by a tragic accident -killer uses a giant pin (for some reason) -gratuitous aerobics dance sequences It's just odd that this is the Fulci movie they'd rip off because it was one of his less well received ones.

_Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park_ was not, in fact, a feature film. Gene, Ace, Peter and Paul were always getting into wacky adventures in those days and all you had to do was follow them around and film them, which is what they did. Their battle with the robots at the haunted amusement park was just one week out of their real lives. The week before this they stopped the earth from revolving to thwart an alien invasion, and the week after, they challenged the band Styx to a rock-off for absolute control of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (Kiss won, of course). But they never filmed any of that stuff so we never got to see it. The '70s was kind of a wild time.

I like how the RLM gang goes all out with the holiday decorations around Halloween and Christmas.

The cheesy keyboard cover of Rock N Roll All Night was pure gold!

I NEED Killer Workout's soundtrack after watching this episode. Pure 80's awesomeness!

The part where mike says "it's dicking the birthday boy" had me sick with laughter nonstop!

Continuing my 2021 journey through the playlist. 27-10-2021

Rich's ghost freeing all the spirits of those condemned VHS tapes. Even in his last act, a saint.

I have a buddy who looks so much like Mike it's ridiculous. Everytime I watch one of these I get a bit nostalgic.

Thanks Jay for reminding me to watch Phantom of the Paradise!!! RLM should do a Half In the Bag for it, that would be awesome.

I buy shirts at Target too, Mike.

Hearing Mike say "Kiss are huge sellouts why didn't they buy the robots and have them perform?" puts a maniacal smile on my face now after the recent fiasco where they used unconvincing holograms of their younger selves as a "virtual kiss experience" replacing a real concert they were supposed to be doing that night and wasting the entire stadium's tickets.

I'm still waiting for you guys to re:View Toxic Avenger

Love how the movie library is adorned with multiple copies of Jack and Jill for Halloween

Mike's emotionless post-lame-joke-waiting-for-reactions face is the, best !

I saw that Kiss flick as a kid on late night TV and no one believed me after when I told people it existed, and that it featured Kiss with special effect powers! In fact since then, that's always been my image of them - with et/superhero-like powers or technology. So thanks for confirming what I saw with this! It's like seeing a UFO no one believes you saw and then someone else presents a photo after!

Of course Mike’s brain mentions that the actor from Kiss most notable role is some admiral in Star Trek, even though he literally played one of the main villains in Licence To Kill