No! Just pull up good ol' YouTube (or Y'allTube as its known where I live) and you're in horror heaven. Below are some examples of horror content on YouTube that you might want to check out. I'll provide links to more bone-curdling, blood-chilling videos as October creeps along.
Halloween 6: The Producer's Cut
Halloween 6: The Curse Of Michael Myers is a jumbled mess of a movie. It tried to tie Michael Myers to an ancient Celtic cult using a mystic rune and a Man In Black and Paul Rudd and... daaaaah. It sucked. What hit the theater screens with a thud in 1995 was not the original vision of the writer and director. In fact, about 40 minutes of the theatrical cut consisted of material that was reshot after bad performances with test audiences. So, whatever became of the originally shot material? Well, you can watch it on YouTube in what is known as the Producer's Cut. Does this version make more sense? Is it better than the theatrical version? Lots of fans think so. They are dumb. It's not better, but it is interestingly different and worth checking out if you are a fan of the series or of slasher movies with confusing mystical nonsense in them. Here is the first of eight 15-minute or so segments.
Horror VHS Covers
Look at just about any movie poster or dvd case today and you'll see nothing but a bunch of Photoshopped faces floating on a background of yellows and blues selected by Marketing department scientists as the hues most pleasing to the eye. But back in the day, movie posters and video boxes were crafted with at least as much care and creativity as the movie they represented. With horror movies, the artwork was often a hell of a lot more intriguing and evocative than the movie itself. In the VHS era, a million cheapo horror flicks were in direct competition with the big budget Hollywood movies right next to them on the shelves at the rental store. They couldn't touch the effects and star power of their big-time peers, but they could sure put up a front with a killer video box. These videos collect tons of great box art that you may not have seen in years, and the likes of which we'll probably never see again.
Morgan Freeman as Dracula
Morgan Freeman has done it all in Hollywood. He's played every part from prisoners to Presidents and he has never disappointed. But has he ever played that most malevolent of monsters, the embodiment of evil, the one and only Count Dracula? Yes. Yes he has. Here he is on the children's show The Electric Company, putting on his best Transylvanian accent while bathing in a coffin. There would be better times to come for Mr. Freeman.
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