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Worshipper of our Lord and savior Boo Berry, Patti is a seasoned pro having written for the top horror websites and magazines over the past few years until she decided to go balls to the wall and make her own focusing on pure feel-good nostalgia. Mom to two humans and three furballs.
Huh, huh, we totally scored! Our call to have the music videos restored to our beloved Beavis and Butthead episodes have been heard and will be streaming on Paramount+ along with the new film, Beavis and Butthead Do The Universe starting June 23rd, 2022.
With the news first broken by Consequence.com, over 200 episodes will be restored to their original glory with those awesome, and some that kind of suck, music videos that served as an interlude in-between their episodic adventures.
Upon DVD release of the MTV show and reruns on syndicated TV, the music videos have since been cut out, not only causing an outcry from 90s babies, but also dimming the light on a ridiculous, yet important program that was huge for the 90s generation. I mean, I can never NOT think of Butt-head’s infinite wisdom when they narrated Blondie’s “Rapture” video and point out that Deborah Harry’s name in the phonebook would be seen as Harry Deborah.
It’s the little things. Grab your nachos and tune into Paramount+ on June 23rd, 2022 for a Beavis and Butthead orgy with BEAVIS AND BUTTHEAD DO THE UNIVERSE and all the original episodes restored as they were meant to be seen: With interludes of Alice Cooper and a bunch of “butts” in a music video.
We’re just a little over halfway to Halloween, and every reader is entitled to one good reminder that this exists on the interwebs.
About ten years ago, the horror internet exploded with this never-before-seen footage from John Carpenter’s “immortal classic”, Halloween and I think it’s overdue to dig out those pumpkin seeds and resurrect this glorious footage once more. Uploaded on VIMEO by user Billy Kirkus, what you’re about to see is the FIRST ever Panaglide test by Dean Cundy and Ray Stella inside and outside of the Panovision studio right before principal photography began on the Halloween set.
Panaglide at the time was revolutionary and had only been used in three other films prior to Halloween, with Days of Heaven being the first on record to use the cutting-edge technology. As we’re all aware, the use of this continuous camera shot is all over the film, most importantly in the opening shots from little Michael Myers’ perspective.
In just under five minutes, Dean Cundy with Stella in tow operating the Panaglide gives us a demonstration via a test run before shooting the actual film with it.
Pretty cool stuff that should not be forgotten. And after being brought to the surface back in 2013, I’m still here talking about it almost 10 years later to remind you that it’s still cool as shit.
I’ve been horror blogging for close to ten years now and other than a Blu-Ray review, several lists, and news-worthy jammers on the flick, I have yet to dedicate a full article to the beloved, and ultimate “kult” horror movie, Killer Klowns From Outer Space. Welp, here’s to fixing what’s been ailing me for ten years now.
I could give 101 reasons as to why Killer Klowns is the ultimate cult horror, but I’ll narrow it down to just a few for little patience. The Chiodos’ driven 1988 horror-comedy came swinging through the mom-and-pop rental shop doors, (another door!) as a straight-to-VHS Friday night flick. Giving another wholesome reason as to why those video shacks were a memorable staple of our youth as this was the way we got to see these movies. But it became so much more than that. The original title was to be simply “Killer Klowns”, but the Chiodos Brothers’ didn’t want their film to be mistaken for a slasher flick. So in turn they added “From Outer Space” to the title to give it that goofball- klowny jazz.
The Chiodos themselves were so heavily involved in everything about making this film happen that it’s almost as if the film itself mirrors their own minds of the perfect cult horror would be, on a very limited budget! I guess one wouldn’t think that two million bones is nowhere near small potatoes, but for a film that relays heavily on special effects to get the story across, it is peanuts. But, the Chiodos, who at the time was only known for their effects portfolio, made that shit work but working alongside other hired artists on the set and pulling triple-duty working on a full-scale miniature set for the Klownzilla sequence; while Charles Chiodo donned a rubber mask and suit to play JoJo himself.
Now because of the Chiodos’ genius to work under pressure on a tight budget, MGM wanted to do the sequel for the same amount of money. I first got wind of a sequel in the talks back in 2017 during a trip to Monsterpalooza where I had a lengthy chat with Stephen Chiodo himself and I had asked him, “What was up with Killer Klowns 2?!” While at the time, my 7-year-old son was playing with a replica cotton candy gun from his table, which he so generously offered to him while we talked about how legendary this movie is. He answered, off the record, and didn’t want it out there at the time, that “the movie was to be released in conjunction with SYFY if all goes well and in 3D.” Which was marvelous to hear!
Until the all mighty dollar fucked us all out of a sequel because they (the studios) didn’t think it was worth any more than that.
YEAH, I SAID IT.
Via Slasher Radio, SYFY and MGM just didn’t want to invest any more than the initial two million to make the sequel; and the Chiodos weren’t wanting to make “Killer Klowns in 3D” on such a low budget.
That being said, if we the fans want a Killer Klowns sequel, we just have to be loud about it to MGM directly. Now, I’m not saying to get nasty or anything, but they do need to know our thoughts and I think if enough of us bitch about it, something may spark. It’s got to happen sooner or later, right?
In the meantime, I’ll just cherish the movie we have now and that Monsterpalooza moment that was pretty much the coolest thing ever.
