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The famed comedians from the cult classic “Mystery Science Theater 3000” (MST3K)—Michael J. Nelson, Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett—will reunite on the big screen to fire off their wisecracking commentary on “BIRDEMIC,” a modern classic in the pantheon of so-bad-it's-good cinema.

The hilarious new riffing on this spine-tingling "thriller", presented by NCM Fathom Events, RiffTrax and IGN,  will be broadcast LIVE from Nashville to participating movie theaters across the country—just in time for Halloween. This one night only event will occur on Thursday, October 25 at 8:00 p.m. (tape delayed). 

Directed by James Nguyen in 2006, “BIRDEMIC” is the story of Rod, a young software salesman on the brink of launching a solar panel business in Silicon Valley. Things really seem to be going Rod’s way, especially when he reconnects with beautiful high school classmate Nathalie, a model who Victoria’s Secret chooses out of the blue to be their new cover girl. Their unbelievably perfect world is shattered by a sudden, unexplained bird attack. The vultures team up with the eagles, and begin dropping caustic liquids and exploding like bombs (really!). Rod and Nathalie find themselves on a terror-filled ride up and down the coast, fighting off the vicious birds with their wits and...coat hangers. Yes, coat hangers.  Think Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds" but on a lower budget, less skillfully crafted and with lame CGI-like birds that look video game rejects terrorizing the cast (who are clearly fighting off nothing at all! O' the horror of it all)!

View the laughably awesome trailer HERE.

Tickets for “RiffTrax Live: BIRDEMIC” are available at the Edwards Theatre box office and online at www.FathomEvents.com.  The event will be broadcast to more than 550 select movie theaters across the country through NCM’s exclusive Digital Broadcast Network.

“I don’t know what it is about ‘BIRDEMIC’—terrible acting, terrible sound, terrible directing, terrible editing—and yet there’s some sort of secret bad movie ingredient I can’t put my finger on that makes this simply one of the most fun bad movies of all time,” says Michael J. Nelson, RiffTrax creator and former host of the Emmy-nominated, Peabody Award-winning “Mystery Science Theater 3000.”

Previous successful Fathom and RiffTrax events have included “RiffTrax Live: ‘Manos’ The Hands of Fate” in August 2012, mocking what many think is one of the most terrible films ever; “RiffTrax Live: Jack the Giant Killer” in August 2011, a hilarious riff of the cheesy 1962 fantasy epic featuring giant rubber monsters and a leprechaun in a jar; “RiffTrax Live: House on Haunted Hill” in October 2010, which took on the Vincent Price horror classic just in time for Halloween; “RiffTrax Live: Reefer Madness” in August 2010, parodying the legendary cult classic; “RiffTrax Live: Plan 9 From Outer Space” in August 2009, skewering what is widely considered to be the “worst film ever made”; and “RiffTrax Live: Christmas Shorts-Stravaganza” in December 2009, featuring “Weird Al” Yankovic.

“For fans of RiffTrax and MST3K, there’s nothing like experiencing Mike, Kevin and Bill live on the big screen,” says Shelly Maxwell, executive vice president of NCM Fathom Events. “Having the guys back again for this specially produced ‘BIRDEMIC’ event should take ‘riffing’ fans to a new level  of laughter in theaters across the U.S."