Holiday Weekend!
Happy holiday weekend, everyone! I’m going on some adventures over the next few days, so I’m not sure how often I’ll have a chance to pop by. That’s why I’m giving ya THREE videos tonight!
The Making of Independence Day (1996)
Garfield on the Town (1983)
The Blair Witch Project (1999)
Pick your poison! Hope everyone has a nice weekend. My goal is to watch Stranger Things 3, win some Pokemon dolls from rigged cranes, and maybe drink something blue.
PS: The first “Summer Saturdays” episode of The Purple Stuff Podcast will be dropping on… well, Saturday. Look for that over the weekend, too!
Yet More Unsolved Mysteries!
Just remembered that there’s a sea of Unsolved Mysteries episodes currently free to watch on YouTube, and it’s a halfway stormy Saturday night, so let’s do this.
I’m just gonna embed two at random. Haven’t dug into them to see if I picked especially good eps, but my stance is, this show has no outright bad eps.
Enjoy! (…with the lights off, preferably.)
The Crater Lake Monster!
This sounds like the perfect movie for a wet, hot Friday night. From 1977, it’s The Crater Lake Monster!
I’ve never seen the film, but apparently it’s about a Nessie-like monster that eats people. I assume that The Crater Lake Monster has fans somewhere, but they’re certainly not cited in the “reception” section of the movie’s Wikipedia entry. Get set for a cheesefest.
Hope everyone had a great week. Mine was extremely long, and it ain’t over yet!
Freddy’s Nightmares!
Gonna run an episode of Freddy’s Nightmares tonight. It’s just so perfect for Dino Drac After Dark’s vibe — especially on a weekend!
The syndicated series typically aired late on Saturday nights, on whatever you considered the next-to-worst channel on your hand-me-down bedroom television. It was neither conventionally good nor objectively popular, but that’s become part of its charm.
It almost seemed to exist as a lark, as if it were some living scratchpad for writers, directors and actors to do weird shit without worrying much about the consequences.
The episode in question: Freddy’s Tricks and Treats, which doubled as the show’s Halloween special.
I sooo love the image of you landing here as a last resort after you’ve bled your other online haunts dry, and actually watching Freddy’s Nightmares as it was intended: Late on a Saturday night, alone, and probably while eating cereal straight from the box.
Enjoy!
