Welcome to our selection of horrifying videos.
Our first, Nox Arcana (Night of the Wolf) has some great visuals.
Here is the classic Michael Jackson music video for Halloween.
And what Halloween is complete without a little something from Tim Burton’s Nightmare Before Christmas.
A disturbingly violent, bloody, and sexy advertising parody from Big Data…
Of course, we have to have something from the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
The next five videos (just let them play through), beginning with I’m Sorry the Bridge is Out, You’ll Have To Spend the Night all come from the 1995 musical Monster Mash: The Movie. It is more a cult picture than great musical, far overshadowed by the much sexier and far better 1975 Rocky Horror Picture Show. The stage musical I’m Sorry the Bridge is Out, You’ll Have To Spend the Night that this is based on premiered in 1967, so it actually came before the 1973 Rocky Horror stage version.
The stage musical was inspired by the 1962 hit novelty song The Monster Mash co-written and performed by Bob Pickett. Pickett co-wrote the stage musical, and plays Dr. Frankenstein in the movie. Pickett is no longer performing, largely due to his death in 2007.
Despite being campily bad, it was no career killer for the other performers. In fact, almost all of the cast continue with successful show business careers. That also includes the co-directors, Joel Cohen and Alec Sokolow, despite this being their only directing credit. They also wrote the book for this show, but are far better known for their collaboration as the writers of Toy Story, Cheaper by the Dozen, and Evan Almighty among many other writing credits.
Mary and Scott are the young couple who arrive at the castle, played by Ian Bohen and Candace Cameron Bure. Ian has done movies including The Dark Knight Rises and Pearl Harbor, and lots of television, including more recent regular appearances on Chicago P.D. and Teen Wolf. Candace has had a huge television career, including playing D. J. Tanner on the long running Full House and the 2016 reboot Fuller House. Her brother is Kirk Cameron, the child star of the long running Growing Pains who grew up to be a religiously fanatical anti-gay crusader. He is mockingly famous for the amazingly ignorant and hilariously gay Banana video made with fellow crusader Ray Comfort, in which Ray rhapsodizes about how perfectly God created the banana designed with a shape that fits so well in your mouth (and ignoring the fact that the modern banana is actually the result of thousands of years of hybridization by man and that the entire video sounds like they are talking about cock sucking).
Igor (John Kassir) is perhaps best known for voicing the Crypt Keeper on Tales of the Crypt. Countess Dracula (Sarah Douglas) is well known fer her portrayal of Ursa in the 1970’s Superman movies. Dracula (Anthony Crivello) has appeared in many movies, including Independence Day, Material Girls, and Behind the Candelabra.
One of the few to set aside their acting career was Adam Shankman, who played Wolfie. He is now far better known as a movie producer, with credits that include producing the 82nd Annual Academy Awards. Of note is his role as producer of the influential and start-studded short film Prop 8: The Musical, which mocked California’s anti-gay and eventually overturned Proposition 8. It featured Jack Black as Jesus, along with Neil Patrick Harris, Margaret Cho, John C. Reilly, Kathy Najimy, Rahisda Jones, Andy Richter and many others.
Even the smaller roles are notable. Jimmy Walker of the popular 1970s series Good Times played Hathaway. Dancing With The Stars judge Carrie Ann Inaba appears as one of the background dancers. Another background dancer, Linda Cevallos, went on to an acting career and she wrote, directed and produced the 2014 documentary Pushing Motherhood.