Scary Reebok Commercial!
This is a short video, but whatever, it’s cool, and it’s not like you have a surplus of time on a Monday night:
Suggested by Sebastian N., I’ll just use the title presented by the YouTube uploader: “Reebok Murder Commercial!”
Sebastian adds: “I don’t specifically remember this Reebok chainsaw murder TV commercial from my childhood, but I did have a pair of these exact shoes. I’m sure commercials similar to this inspired me to beg my parents for them. Of course, the expected social currency I hoped to earn at school failed to materialize. As a chubby kid, the common question from my peers/bullies was why I needed such shoes in the first place since I was so un-athletic.”
I’m shocked that I’ve never seen this one floating around. I’m guessing most of you haven’t, either, since it has like 13 views. I actually watched it a few times to make sure it wasn’t a fake commercial, but it looks pretty legit. I’m a big sucker for companies “borrowing” slashers for ad campaigns, and here we have Almost Leatherface chasing a bunch of kids around the woods. The video has iffy quality, but this was so worth sharing.
The Devil’s Gift!
I found this one hiding on YouTube, and though I’d never heard of the film, the video’s description was an immediate grabber: “Toy monkey terrorizes family.”
Get set for The Devil’s Gift, from 1984. According to Wikipedia, the plot is thought to have been aped (Ha!) from Stephen King’s short story, The Monkey.
I have no idea if it’s any good, but it seemed like a nice spooky movie for a lazy Sunday night. Enjoy the whole thing, or skip around to the good parts!
Dokken’s Dream Warriors!
Saturdays are for partying, even if “partying” just means you’re sitting at your computer with a scented candle nearby. So, here’s a party song:
It’s the official music video for Dokken’s Dream Warriors — a totally kickass song from my favorite Elm Street movie. (Great video, too!)
Oh, and while I’m here:
This survey was floating around Twitter today, so I thought I’d borrow it for After Dark. Which of those candies would YOU say goodbye to forever? Tell us, in the comments! (And feel free to plead your case, too!)
I went with Milky Way, but it was a very close race between that and the M&M’s. I’m still not sure I made the right call. TBH, I’m not wild about plain M&M’s, and can’t remember a single time in my life that I picked them over other candies. (Add peanuts and it’s a whole different ballgame, of course.)
Milky Way isn’t a big favorite either. Like to the point where I’m not sure I could even tell you exactly what a Milky Way bar tastes like. All told, I felt like the M&M’s were worth keeping for having such a different vibe and mouthfeel. So long, Milky Way. Your thoughts?
UFOs on Unsolved Mysteries!
Happy Friday!
Someone told me that they felt the season was moving too fast. While that’s been a problem for me many times in the past, I gotta say, I’ve been feeling the pacing, this year. We still have over a month left, and for once, I don’t feel like I blew my wad too early. Hell, I still haven’t tried (let alone covered) some of this year’s key candies!
Anyway, tl;dr: If you’re feeling like the season is moving too fast, my best advice is to just get out there and have some Halloween fun. Try someplace that’s outside of your comfort zone, too. I say it every year, but relying on the same bunch of department stores won’t cut it!
Taking my own advice, I’m headed out to get a pumpkin this weekend. It won’t be our official Halloween pumpkin — it’s just something I need for a project — but it’ll get me outside and hopefully to a place that I wouldn’t normally ever be.
Tonight’s pick comes to us from James, aka RetroBoyToys. James clearly understood that the quickest way to my heart was with a big dose of Robert Stack. Here’s an episode of Unsolved Mysteries from the show’s seventh season!
James didn’t just pick an episode at random, like I usually do. He has much to say about this one:
“I’ve always loved monsters and sci-fi fantasy horror awesomeness. I would sneak upstairs to watch the good stuff I wasn’t allowed to watch after my parents had gone to bed. However, this episode of Unsolved Mysteries scarred me as a kid. I was a huge fan of Ridley Scott’s Aliens and had a shelf of Kenner toys to prove it. But when I saw this episode, my take on aliens and visitors from another planet shifted.
“I hadn’t really heard of the abductee phenomenon before this. It’s one thing to see a UFO from a distance, but it’s a totally different story if you’re camping out in your backyard and there’s a possibility of becoming an alien science experiment. That possibility freaked me out big time!
“I don’t know what it is about them, but I’d rather come face to face with Predator than a Grey. Those malicious black eyes, and expressionless faces — I couldn’t shake them from my mind.
“One night I had a dream that they were trying to get into my house to abduct me. (Much like the movie Signs.) I woke up sweating and ran into my parents’ room. They tried to calm me down by offering me a coffee mug of water. I don’t know if any of you have experienced this before, but if you finish the last swig of coffee and look at your reflection in the bottom of the cup, it looks like a freakin’ Grey Alien is staring at you! At least, that was my imagination’s spin on it. Needless to say, the cup of water didn’t calm me down much.
“My fear of being abducted has diminished over the years. I even faced my fear head-on by watching Fire in the Sky outside in a tent with my friends. I know the validity of The Allagash Abductions has since been disputed by skeptics and believers alike, but even if it never happened, the thought of their encounter still creeps me out.”
Okay, I totally know this episode and that segment, and it’s one of the show’s all-timers. Great, creepy watch for a Friday night!
