Extreme Ghostbusters!
As mentioned in this older Dino Drac post, there was a fairly infamous episode of Extreme Ghostbusters that pit our (then blossoming) heroes against a horde of ghouls that looked and acted like the Cenobites from Hellraiser.
Deadliners is the name of the episode, and of the monsters it features. Enjoy!
Tonight’s survey:
Name some scary moments from cartoons. (Not adult-targeted cartoons, obviously — that’s too easy!)
We’ll open this one up to toons from television and movies.
Let’s freak ourselves out. It’s Friday!
Creepshow 2!
Just a quickie for tonight, as time is limited!
I’ve featured one of the segments from Creepshow 2 on DDAD before, but here’s the whole shebang:
Love this gory cheesefest.
We’ll resume the nightly surveys tomorrow. For tonight, just enjoy the people-eating sludge monsters and extremely durable hitchhikers.
Scream Until You Like It!
I found this old music video hiding on a random tape, and oh God, it’s the besssssst:
From W.A.S.P., it’s Scream Until You Like It, aka the theme from Ghoulies II!
I was aware of the song and was probably at least subconsciously aware that it was a W.A.S.P. song, but I’d never seen the music video, and that’s the most important part. Aside from including random scenes from Ghoulies II, the movie’s creatures also appear with the band!
Totally amazing. I would’ve pegged Ghoulies II as being too “underground” to snag an official music video, but here’s this one, which actually got airplay on MTV!
Tonight’s survey:
Tell us about a music video you’re into, whether because it’s obscure-but-awesome or popular-yet-weird. (Include a link to it, if you can!)
Bonus points if your choice incorporates a character from a movie. Double bonus points if that character is also a monster.
Go on, give your fellow night owls something to new/old to watch/hear.
“Evil” Garbage Pail Kids!
Wow, this is a neat find, and it backs up all of the Garbage Pail Kids anecdotes I’ve been spewing online for the past 15 years.
In this 1986 CBS News segment, no less than Dan Rather himself introduced the world to Garbage Pail Kids.
CBS was careful not to be dramatically critical, but all of the important bullet points are here, including my favorite piece of GPK lore: The fact that many schools banned them outright, ostensibly to keep kids focused, but really because they were naughty cards.
(Well, naughty stickers. They were kind of both.)
Tonight’s survey:
Were you ever a trading card collector?
Which sets did you collect?
Share memories, in the comments!
(I could spend all day answering this one. I collected everything. For now I’ll just say that I never collected any set “harder” than the first series of Marvel Universe cards, which I still 100% credit for the early ’90s comic book boom.)
