Scream Until You Like It!
Just a shorty for tonight, as it’s all any of us have time for!
It’s hard to believe, but there was a legit Ghoulies II music video that got actual play on MTV. From 1987, here’s W.A.S.P. with Scream Until You Like It, an EXTREMELY LOUD SONG. The video is phenomenal. Aside from working in footage from Ghoulies II, there are also shots of the band members fiddling around with the creatures. If you wanna know more about this nonsense, I wrote an article about the video last year.
Oh, PS: If you’ve still never seen any of the Ghoulies movies, start with Ghoulies II. It’s the best one, and also the one that will most accurately match up with whatever you’ve imagined those movies to be about.
Plan 9 from Outer Space!
Many of you have experienced Plan 9 from Outer Space before, but have you ever seen the COLORIZED version?
Full disclosure: I’m not sure if it this was an official release or just a fan edit, but either way, it works. The fact that the colorization is a little “off” suits the film, too. This is, of course, one of the most famously bad movies of all time — but that doesn’t mean it’s without its charms!
I first saw this film in my very early 20s. I was on a “date,” which I’m putting in quotes because it was more like me and a female friend having a phony date, as we both knew we could only remain compatible for a few hours once every six months, and spent our remaining time kibitzing about our real personal lives via instant message. (Yeah, instant message. This was the early 2000s.)
Anyway, that’s how I’ve come to associate Plan 9 with cheap boxed wine and awkward make-out sessions.
…which leads me to tonight’s SURVEY.
In the comments, connect some odd personal memory to any horror movie, Halloween TV episode or spooky cartoon. Can be from recent years, from childhood, whatever! Basically, if you can’t look at a VHS copy of Child’s Play 3 without remembering the time you watched it while eating pineapple pizza for the first and last time, I wanna hear about it. Dig back, and then toss up a comment!
Retro Halloween Commercials Mega Mix!
Happy Friday, everyone! Hope it’s fun and freaky. Here’s something big to set the mood:
I went through my YouTube channel to make a playlist of almost 70 spooky TV commercials from the ’80s and ’90s. These are all ads that I personally saved from old VHS tapes. You’ve seen many of them on the site before, but there are some surprises in the mix, too. This will push all of your favorite buttons. Covers everything from old toys to old cartoons, TV specials, horror movies, junk food and more. Just let it play!
Let’s add a SURVEY tonight, too:
In the comments, name some of things you that simply MUST do before Halloween. Could be plans that are already set in stone, and could be stuff that’s still only in your head. Could be as big as a vacation, could be as small as carving a pumpkin.
Make a little list and post it in the comments. Be as descriptive as you feel like being — you might inspire fellow After Darkers to explore new horizons in the process!
The Sandman!
Tonight’s video was suggested by our pal TM. It’s new to me, but I have a feeling it won’t be new to all of you:
Get set for The Sandman, an animated short from 1991!
TM adds: “Here’s a super creepy (and Oscar-nominated) stop-motion animation film that I remember watching on MTV’s Cartoon Sushi in the late ’90s… which I rediscovered thanks to browsing Count Duckula’s production studio on Wikipedia after an After Dark discussion, of all things!”
Sounds good to me!
In site-related news, as much as I wanted to get four pieces up this week, I’m gonna have to settle on three. I have another article coming, which technically belongs to Friday, but I may hold off on posting until Saturday morning to give the video I published today more time to breathe.
Also, Disqus is having an issue that’s making every post say it has 0 comments even if it has a hundred. Looks like it’s affecting tons of Disqus users. So yeah, ignore the comment count until they fix it. 🙂
