We have a new contender for best / worst screamingly funny BAD cover version of a classic rock song!
OK, so maybe it’s not quite as bad as this butchering of “Sweet Child of Mine” or this total annihilation of “Comfortably Numb,” but this…
Author: Christopher Bickel
California’s bizarro ‘Flintstone House’ sells for $2.8 million
Some lucky schmoe just bought one of the coolest houses in the United States. The Hillsborough, California home affectionately known as “The Flintstone House” which…
VHS fan builds a functional video rental store in his basement: ‘It’s like the 80s threw up’
Though the advent of streaming video has made nearly any programming under the sun just a few quick clicks away, some of us still miss…
The Apprehension Engine: The most terrifying musical instrument of all time
I recently fell down a rabbit-hole of “unusual musical instrument” videos while doing some research on aquaphones for some indie-horror soundtrack work I’m doing. While…
‘Brain Damage’: The greatest movie of the 1980s about a penis-shaped, drug-pushing brain-eater?
Director Frank Henelotter is best known for his classic cult films Basket Case and Frankenhooker, but a lesser-known film he made between those two is…
When Quentin Tarantino played an Elvis Impersonator on ‘The Golden Girls’
In 1988, before Quentin Tarantino had sold his scripts for True Romance or Natural Born Killers, leading the way to secure a deal to direct…
3-Dimensional movie posters that play movies: Hand-painted VCRs that look like giant VHS boxes
These hand-painted working VCRs feature painstaking recreations of classic movie art. I first discovered the artist, who goes by the online noms-de-plume Sorce CodeVhs and…
Disco Preservation Society: A treasure trove of DJ mixes from 80s San Francisco dance clubs
Jim Hopkins of the SF Disco Preservation Society curates a digital archive of mixes, sourced from old cassettes and reel-to-reels, from luminary ’80s and ’90s…
‘It’s fun to smoke dust!’ Satanic panic preacher gets mashed-up with Queen
From renown mashup artist, DJ Lobsterdust, comes this brilliant ode to 1980s Satanic Panic hysteria over “backward masking,” a process which many preachers insisted was…
Rabies-infected acid-head hippie-gore Satanist masterpiece ‘I Drink Your Blood’ splats again!
“Let it be known, sons and daughters, that Satan was an acid head. Drink from his cup. Pledge yourselves, and together we’ll all freak out.”…