Halloween is always exciting. It kicks off the holiday season and always makes me nostalgic. Sometimes that nostalgia is like Bradbury's depiction of childhood in Something Wicked This Way Comes. But this year is a nostalgia for VCRs, MonsterVision, Saturday Nightmares, Full Moon home videos and Commander USA.
Looking around I'm seeing a sudden wave of movies as if they were played on video cassettes.
This month's movie marathon is a tribute to VCRs and USA Network:
Looking around I'm seeing a sudden wave of movies as if they were played on video cassettes.
This month's movie marathon is a tribute to VCRs and USA Network:
- Garth Marenghi's Darkplace (2004) - Oh my lands, I love everything about this under-known show. If they ever bring it back, I really want to be in an episode.
- VHS (2012-14) - This is the series that made the VHS style popular again and for that I'm grateful. I watched the trilogy. As with all anthology movies, some shorts are better than others... The best is the cult in the 2nd movie.
- The Signal (2007) - While not a VHS movie, the opening is absolutely something you'd've seen on the USA network in the 80s so I'm counting it. Though in truth, VHS & Signal went hand in hand via David Bruckner. When are we going to give that guy a full movie? I actually bought the DVD.
- Turbo Kid (2015) - Holy Smokes I loved this one. Turbo Kid is a love letter to the movies I grew up on. It's in the style of an 80s movie that takes place in the 90s but was made in 2015. Great props & great to spend time with Michael Ironside again. I highly enjoyed this one.
- Kung Fury (2015) - It's on Netflix. I was impressed with the overall execution, but the story was hard to enjoy at the end of the day... it felt like someone saw the first season of Danger 5 and tried to change to from the 70s to the 80s. Who can blame them? In the end it did feel less like a love letter and more like a dig, but the David Hasselhoff video that went with it was pretty flawless. Definitely worth watching.
- It Follows (2014) - Alright it's not a VHS film at all, but still another love letter to the movies of the 80s. I should own this. It's on the list of things to get. I saw it in a DVD rental store the other day and it was on sale for $4. I didn't buy it. Mercy.
Other movies that I saw include: Twilight Zone the Movie and Amityville: It's About Time. I wish I had watched the Waxworks movies again.
A few years ago there was a cut of Return of the Living Dead with segments from MonsterVision on YouTube. It's not there anymore, but if anyone knows where to find it ... please make yourself known.
A few years ago there was a cut of Return of the Living Dead with segments from MonsterVision on YouTube. It's not there anymore, but if anyone knows where to find it ... please make yourself known.
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