but with humor, not a magic missile. But what is Zero Punctuation? Back in July 2007, Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw embarked on an (as he put it) “experiment” to see if he could make a video game review on Youtube using only audio and images (mostly still, some animated). The subject of the review was the …
Category: Video
Mar 04 2010
Linger Longer IV: A Fistful of Boomstick
Feb 24 2010
Remakes Are Hell
Horror remakes are always interesting and controversial: interesting, because it’s always good to see the old nightmares get new blood; controversial because the movies often trample over the established cannon for the sake of ‘modernizing’ and ‘revamping.’ Often when changes are made to the appearance of the central antagonist, they’re small and more subtle. Michael …
Feb 18 2010
ADV is not dead, it just smells funny
I discovered something quite interesting while trying to find contact information for Section23/SXION 23 Films, AEsir Holdings and Switchblade Pictures so I could ask if they’d be licensing certain Asian sci-fi movies. You see, it turns out that I made a mistake when I reported that ADV Films had gone out of business and that …
Feb 10 2010
Lil’ Cthulhu
Given the popularity of “franchise characters as children” shows in the entertainment industry, it was inevitable that someone would create a parody using characters from a source that was anything but “kid-friendly.” Enter Youtube user TheZebu’s The Adventures of Lil’ Cthulhu. The Adventures of Lil’ Cthulhu is also a dead-on perfect parody of television programming …
Jan 27 2010
H.P. Brickcraft
Thanks to many childhood experiences of making original characters (and monsters) with Legos, I have a great appreciation for people who figure out creative ways to make things with those nifty little plastic bricks. So you can imagine my reaction to EvilJester1214’s Lego/Lovecraft ad parody: I tried searching for any Cthulhu Lego how-tos, but …
Jan 06 2010
Down, Down, Down
You might know that Ween wrote a song for Spongebob Squarepants, and you might be cool to know that The Ghastly Ones did the music for the Halloween episode. Perhaps then, you might remember a live-action episode sandwiching Tom Kinney in a pirate costume in between cartoons, which ended with this song. Just discovered that …
Jan 04 2010
2010 (corpses to bury)
(and only two cups of coffee left.) Goodness Ghoulies, where has my head been? Weird Jon and the Atomic Mystery Monster come back and I disappear. Dig, dig, dig. 2009 ended with the finale of Season 2 of Transylvania TV and the X-mas special of Spook House Dave. Check them out. If you scrounge up …
Dec 09 2009
Pyggy Twylyte
Nov 30 2009
How It Should Have Ended
I first discovered “How It Should Have Ended” while searching Youtube for a funny video to post on the Facebook page of a friend who was a Superman fan. So, straight from their official Youtube page, here’s how the HISHE crew thinks The Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake and The Blair Witch Project should have ended:
Nov 11 2009
Time to end this.
Weird Jon’s gone for a bit, technical difficulties and what not. Drop him a line wishing him to ‘Come Back Soon’ ‘cause dirt knows I can’t do this job alone. Each hand holds the shovel in its own way and it takes more than one to dig a hole. Here’s a question: Do you root …
Nov 08 2009
Tales From The Crypt
Though its initial run on HBO ran from 89-96, I didn’t catch ‘Tales from the Crypt’ until syndication since I didn’t afford the premium cable. But when it finally was distributed among the networks, I lived far up north that I caught it on a Canadian station that played in hour-long chunks every weekday at …
Nov 06 2009
TV Casualty
featuring Ted Leo from Ted Leo & The Pharmacists on vocals, Atom Goren of Atom & His Package on guitar, Andy Nelson of Paint It Black on Bass, Brian Sokel of Franklin and AM/FM on the other guitar and Chris Wilson of Ted Leo & The Pharmacists on drums, the show was performed as a …
Nov 04 2009
Dead Leaves and Cold Ground
Seems all the dead leaves about are a good indicator that it’s time to thin out the spooky on the playlist. The next two months are the low periods for myself, spooky-music wise. Figure the mood has shifted, away from being charmed by songs of werewolves and Dracula’s daughters. It’s getting colder, getting darker soon. …
Oct 30 2009
DEAD (Milkmen)
Correct me if I’m wrong. Not a lot of songs out there for guys named ‘Jason.’ There was the blow-up in the eighties (there’s like, a MILLION of us just walking around) of the name, but it’s not a name to inspire. You have Jason and the Argonauts, Jason Priestley. But there’s the big one, …
Oct 28 2009
What’s a countdown without a count?
Count von Count, that is. I know these mildly NSFW videos are old news, but I immediately thought of the “censored Count” videos after chancing upon a Sesame Street segment parodying Mad Men (what’s next, a Breaking Bad parody?). According to uploader mrmagoo312, Lemon Demon (aka Neil Cicierega) was responsible for the audio while wattamack4 …