Brandon's Cult Movie Reviews: THE VIDEO DEAD
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- čas přidán 1. 04. 2022
- Not only does TV rot your brain, it also has zombies that wanna eat it. It's the 1987 direct-to video horror movie "The Video Dead"!
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From the people who brought you "The Toronto Laserdisc Massacre" & "Betamax Maniacs": It's "The Video Dead"!
Funny enough, I was just reading an article on the weirdest 80s zombie flicks, and this was number 1! Glad you reviewed it!
Aberrations 1997 next
This scared the crap out of me as a kid especially the bride zombie
The Netflix Chiller
HBO Maxxacre
Deadney+
Doesn't have the same ring...
Ok, but how do i get into the Production for "The Toronto Laserdisc Massacre"? i want to donate to this cause.
Fun story: We rented this movie on VHS. At the time, our VCR was somewhat tempermental. My brother and I sat watching 10 minutes of static wondering if it was part of the movie.
Haha
That... would be a super-meta tactic to take with a movie on this topic.
I think I love it. It's like something Hideo Kojima and Team Silent would come up with.
Looks like someone didn't clean the head drum.
@@M-CH_ Nah, it wasn't the head, we tried that mutliple times.
Musta been some GOOOOOD SHIT you were smoking! I used to watch the weather channel back when all it was was a black and white camera pointed at some gauges 24 hours a day.
The concept of the garbage man is hilarious to me. Some guy runs in, kills a lady, proclaims himself the garbage man and is never heard from again
@atd8vii
Dammit! You beat me to it!! Dammit dammit!!😑
He is the "GateCleaner". To steal an old Spoony joke.
@atd8vii oh God, he has to review that movie!
"Im the cook"
“I’m the trash man! I throw trash all over the ring! And then I start eating garbage!” 😂
His biggest mistake was telling his sister that he would come back.
Marge: Well, I'm sure glad we didn't turn into mindless zombies.
Bart: SHHH! TV.
Homer: Man fall down. Funny.
The Simpsons: MMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.
TV: You are watching FOX.
Simpsons: We are watching FOX.
_OW! My BALLS!_
That line about the poodle and skunks is one of the best bits of dialogue in cinematic history.
At that point, I literally had to think the script was ridden by a grade schooler lol. The writing is certainly questionable
"The other way is much simpler, kill them with weapons like you would the living" I don't know, I'd assume hitting someone with a clothes iron hard enough to bury it in their head would kill them
Dude, logic?
I mean, it ended up not working on the others either, so i guess you could call that foreshadowing?
It was also a patent lie as they all got right back up after being "killed." I guess she was lucky he wasn't bs-ing about the "trap them all together" strategy, as well... for all the good it did in the long run.
Does the full movie ever show or mention anyone trying to just destroy the TV? That's a pretty important plot point to establish with these kinds of evil MacGuffins. Sure, it seems silly of Gimli to try to just hack at the One Ring with his axe, but it was necessary from a story-telling standpoint. Otherwise, the audience is left to ask the question all through the rest of the story.
Did they establish the, "You fool! It can't be destroyed by any mortal means!" point in this movie at any point? It would be pretty funny if just dropping it in a trash compactor would have saved everybody all that hassle... and, you know, *dying*
something that didn't make it into the review, the zombies all think they're alive. you have to kill them in a way that convinces them they're, well, dead.
it's also why their reflections upset them
Nothing said great idea like using and arrow instead of a gun. Lol
The mirror thing is kinda sorta accurate to the original Haitian curse to turn someone into a zombie. An ornate design is drawn on an object owned by the cursee and hidden on their property. Its supposed to represent a spiritual mirror. It reflects the person's evil nature back on them and when they see it, they become zombified.
Not as snazzy as a biting zombie virus, but thats ancient arty cultures for you.
It also echos the original I am Legend, where it's established that the vampires can't stand their own reflections, because it reminds them of the monsters they've become
That washing machine jumpscare actually got me. BECAUSE WHY WOULD THERE BE A ZOMBIE IN THE WASHING MACHINE!
Thanks Brandon, I miss the days when you watch horror movies on the weekend late at night on TV when I was supposed to be in bed.
Another horror gem I saw on Billy Bobb's Action Theater on WGGT-48. He double billed it with "Terrorvision" for a "Monters from the Airwaves" night.
Shout! Factory released them as a double feature on Blu-Ray in 2013.
It's been out of print for a while, but you can still find copies online for about $40.
That is a perfect double feature
Two underrated great movies.
*Fun Fact:* Michael St. Michaels (the guy at the beginning who has the TV delivered to him by mistake) *IS* the Greasy Strangler.
Hey, I call bullshit on that!
@@ASpooneyBard Nope, that's actually correct.
*BULLSHIT ARTISTS!*
Michael St. Michaels sounds like Michael Myers twin brother from an alternate dimension. In our dimension, we got aging Lorie Strode.🥴
Spoiler alert
Honestly, that dog has enough problems that it's probably for the best that it died. No one wants a horde of skunk/poodle hybrids roaming the streets
I would totally watch that over _Night of the Lepus_
"The Video Dead"(1987) is a good enough cult Zombie horror movie! This atmospheric and underrated movie has an excellent and very creepy soundtrack!
13:04 That's something that never happens in zombie media I've seen: the zombies straight-up killing each other. What stops them?
17:40 "Kindness" is the delightfully-ironic nickname for MY chainsaw, and "compassion" for the machete, and "mercy" for the ax.
This movie was not all that memorable but that box art though. That needs to be framed in a museum.
Why did I say your comment in my best Indiana Jones voice?
+n0m4nic
Right along with the orignal box-cover art for "Street Trash!" 😄👌
She uses beans to beat the zombie. That alone makes it memorable lol
The zombie with the iron stuck in its head was cinema gold. Also, no-one ever thought to drop the TV in a deep lake?
encase it in concrete first let that this sleep with the fishs
Duck tape a mirror to it, dip it in cement and toss it in the deepest part of the ocean.
Even just put it in another crate and bury it deep.
I assume the occult institute it was supposed to go to wanted to study it so they could find a way to totally de-cursify it
Isn't that how "Zombie Tidal Wave" started? ;-)
One of the most underrated horror films of 87
that scene where the zombie jumps out of the tv is timeless and still 100% original
Not quite - Ripped off this still effective scene from 1986's Demons 2: czcams.com/video/ltTNB7E_WHo/video.html Although it does owe an obvious debt to Videodrome too.
@@TECHNOIR oh wow thanks for correcting me, i completely forgot about demons 2, i dont remember people jumping out of screens in videodrome though
@@djrakman3909 Hi, I meant Demons 2 ripped off Videodrome, at least influenced by the idea of a screen being malleable, like an amniotic sack but yeah, I still love the zombie dead image, it was a classic of the VHS age
The mirror thing is I believe a reference to a Vincent Prise movie " the last man on earth " except the monsters were vampires. The mirrors would drive them away because the didn't like to look at what they had become.
Thinking they put any thought into this movie is giving way too much credit lol.
Ah yes. Saw this movie on Up All Night on USA Channel when I was 8 and it gave me nightmares for months.
oh, Rhonda Shears, we miss you
I knew this day would come. It was told Brandon Tenold would cover this.
on the zombies hating mirrors in movies: yes, it happens in 'last man on earth' with vincent price, although in the original book they are more like vampires, they appear more like zombies in the movie.
Thin wooden doors are much more powerful than you would think in movies.
Oddly enough, I remember coming across the movie numerous times, yet I never bothered to watch it, thanks to this review, I'll be sure to give this movie a try on Tubi.
Saaaaame! I always mean to but never actually do
Its also on CZcams to watch for free.
@@shannonmccann3814 link?
@@lennoxshepherd3905 czcams.com/video/RLana8SdL-8/video.html
I saw it in the video store, but never bothered with it. So this is literally the first time I've seen any part of it. Not sure I'm interested in the Captain Marvel of zombie flicks.
I always assumed the garbage man character got trapped in the tv and went channel to channel cleaning house and there was no way out of the tv unless he brought someone else in but the story became about zombies instead of evil tv characters hence the the seductress in the beginning
I saw this *once* on tv as a kid. And I only just last year found out this thing *wasn't* something I had imagined!
I actually caught this on CometTV not that long ago as part of their Zombie movie marathon. It's not bad enough to be good, but not good enough to be bad and does have a couple of legitimate creepy moments.
I DO remember this story a little, bits and pieces....kind of like how some of the Zombies ended up!
Yeah that's definitely a TV that you need to push outside your house and leave it, much like in Poltergeist at the end of the movie. They put the TV outside the hotel room.
Heck, if the TV can’t be destroyed, why not store it in an air-tight bunker? That way, anything that comes out will end up killing each other.
@@animeotaku307 Good idea
@@animeotaku307 Nobody knew what the TV could do, except the "Institute" and the guy who wanted to help the family (brother/sister). Remember, everyone thought she went crazy, and her parents thought giving the TV to her might help her, although as a story development it makes no sense, because the TV is the source of her mental state. Unless it was a "face your fears" moment, but the movie doesn't state that so that can't be the reason. :/
If anything, the Institute should have taken possession of the TV again. :/
I remember watching this on the USA channel- "Saturday nightmares".
Recently it came on one of my dish network channels uncensored and I recorded it. Still a fun/ good zombie 80s flick in my opinion. Thanks for the review!!
That brings back memories
Ya buddy good times!
Growing up the USA channel(wich is long gone) had what I remember a horror type marathon called Saturday nightmares.
This was before monster vision with Joe bob. Other ones they showed all the time were demon warp and the hand. Those ones stood out as well.
@@harmonizerus usa is still going strong buddy,,i watch wwe raw every monday
"Night of the Living People Getting Ready for Work." I lost it. 🤣
Brandon did the couch and background change, it looks a little bit different, but it could be my imagination.
I haven't been watching your videos on release lately. I save them for workout videos, I catch one now and again and they really keep me going. I started watching your channel because of your Godzilla videos but i know I've watched most of your videos 2 or 3 times and I really love your sense of humour. Your videos aren't life-saving or anything advice but there will be people who just connect with your humour. Even though I'd found your channel before, it kept me upbeat during my chemotherapy and recuperation. In those moments, these videos are a lot more than just 21 minutes of snarky humour, they really help people get through rough times in their lives. Thanks for the work and the passion you put into making people laugh. Look forward to watching this one when I get there.
I saw a clip of this when I was like 5 (I'm 35 now) and it was the scene of the kid on the rope towards the end. Long story short a horror group on fbook helped me figure out what it was about 2 years ago and it has sense became a favorite. Hilarious stuff!
Love this channel, all the b-movies I watched back then are on here👍
If this was the first horror movie you ever saw, you'd probably really dig it. By '87 though, it was kind of "meh". If I were to watch it now, I'd probably find that it's not even as mediocre as I remember, so I'll just enjoy this review of it and bask in the warm glow of nostalgia.
I found it much better recently than I did back then. Stupid kid me didn't give a shit or even notice that it had any originality, he thought it basically sucked cuz there was barely any gore.
I really like this movie. I say go for it.
I liked it better than I expected to, although the first time I saw it, I just thought, "Man, this is weird" the whole time. I'd probably watch it again after a few beers.
As someone who is very aware of Leonard Lake and Charles Ng, horrifying is a bit of a understatement
I honestly never heard of them
@@firesparks4761 believe me, in terms of the most evil serial killers they are high up there.
They themselves were somewhat aware of how bad they were, Lake admitting he’s “a sexist slob” and Ng telling one of his victims that he and Lake were “pretty cold hearted”
It was just okay enough not to be bad, but it was mainly just bland. I do agree the zombie makeup was pretty good though.
Bland? You wanted more exploding helicopters and sword fights?
@@howiegruwitz3173 it was the best description I could give it XD "It's okay but it could be better."
+DakoGuyver
I totall agree. I watched it a couple years ago after having not seen it since I was a kid, and immediatly afterwards went to IMDb and gave it a 5/10 rating. Still, maybe I'll watch it again this fall.
In world is a movie where a woman uses beans to beat the zombies bland? Lol
My man, you're a star.
I watched this movie on USA up all night. funny as hell.
I remember watching this movie years back when the more awesome the box art to a horror film, the more I would end up renting it.
I will admit it is a very slow and weird movie, but they certainly pull some twists on you. Like when the one zombie kidnaps the love interest of the boy, you're thinking he was taking her as a hostage maybe for some reason, only for the heroes to stumble on her munched corpse later on, and then the whole killing the main character 20 minutes before the movie end and having his sister INVITING the zombies inside for dinner... Just so much "What the heck!?" moments.
I would have to say, given it's a lower budget movie, they must have had to cut some scenes for timing or other reasons like the mentioned "Garbage Man" stuff. The movie feels very disjointed in spots.
It definitely subverts expectations in a few spots but I was upset when the main couple died with 20 minutes left. It took the momentum away from the climax, imho.
Cheers from a fellow Mstie.
Zombie Nightmare starring Adam West?!? How was I not informed this existed.
Review it next.
It's a classic episode of MST3K. You should check it out.
YES!🤞
Also with Jon Mikl Thor and Tia Carrere!
Surprisingly Enough, The Filmakers bothered giving the Zombies 🧟♀️ some personality instead of delivering us th' cliché of some moaning stickasses, who just look gross 😝
Now We Sit And Wait For "The Netflix Dead"
Dog gives best performance of the movie, and still gets called out for breathing lol.
Looks like the couch and background got an upgrade!
Yes finally! Been waiting for this movie to show up forever!
I remember watching this one way back when, and thinking someone had an extended nightmare and wrote it as a script. It has a stream of consciousness, dream-logic kind of vibe to it.
Anyway, thanks for saving me from a rewatch! :D
Actually it was the director, or someone else closely associated with the movie, that had a dream about waking up on a couch and having a zombie come out of the television in front of him, and than not being able to move as it slowly came towards him before he woke up just in time before it reached him.😳
@@lolajaramillo4620 Cool. Seems my intuition was correct.
Mr Daniels wasn't just passing the TV on, he was sending it to the Institute for Studies of the Occult, the Hi-Lite delivery guy mentioned a mix up at 3:05
if the zombies got to attack an overzealous film censor then you've got a great comedic horror satire for the 80's given the panic around video nasties
“The best way to kill them is by killing them!”
😂
I need that Jet Jaguar shirt.
Dang a chainsaw to the chest Jeff's one weakness.
Shady Lane sounds like a neighbouring street to Hill's Rainey Street
This is one of the few bad B-horror movies I'd recommend, in fact I'm pretty sure I have mentioned it a few times on this channel.
Glad your covering this flick! I remember I was graduating from 5th grade and as a present my mom got me the starter deck kaiba deck, resident evil 2 for the ps1 and this movie from our local video store, it was a night to remember for sure! This movie freaked me out but I still watched it a ton of times and still have the vhs till this day
Kinda funny how Rob Zombie made a song called Iron Head.
I actually do remember seeing this one before. I actually thought it was pretty good for what it was.
I rented this unironically back in the day. I guess it allows me to say that now, and that's about it. It was pretty much a letdown.
I saw this back in the early 90s and thought it was rather forgettable. I rewatched it recently and was much more impressed. It struck the right tone (most dtv zombie flicks devolve into goofy comedies) and had a couple twists. I think the best part was the fairly tense scene where the heroine is forced to play hostess to the zombies and treat them like normal people lest she incite their murderous rage. 13-year-old me just wanted gore and didn't appreciate how different this was.
The only significant negative is that the zombie makeup is weak as hell and bordering on awful. (Seriously, are we looking at the same movie?)
It's right up there with "Neon Maniacs" in terms of having a completely nonsensical plot.
I saw this movie several years ago, and liked it, but I'm partial to 80's movies for some reason!
“They call me the garbage man” is fricken hilarious 😂
Well i've seen this movie more than i care to admit and i was when it came out lol. My parents were horror fanatics back in the day
A smile always creeps up on my face when I see you pop up in my recommended 😊❤️
Lol 🤣 the part when you said goldfish shxt itself to death 😂😂😂
the skunks dont like to mate with poodles line fucking killed me
Saw this movie several times on the MGM HD movie channel.
I just now realized that the bride zombie apparently climbed into the washing machine and shut the lid. Then waited for someone to open it? Lmao
Jennifer Miro was in it from the punk band "the Nuns"
at the beginning the zombies aren't even dirty!they walk across that carpet without even a sprinkle o'dirt!
Haven’t seen it in years, remember it as a kid. USA network is where I think I saw it. Great review, cheers!
Jennifer Miro (the woman in the TV) was also one of the lead-singers of the San Francisco punk rock band The Nuns! Check out her excellent songs, "Do You Want Me On My Knees?" "Savage" and "Wild."
And "Suicide Child."
@@treadtrick Yes, Jennifer was also their keyboard player, and she can be heard playing keys on any of the songs where the male vocalist, Jeff Olener sang lead vocal, such as the great "Suicide Child," "Media Control," and "World War III." They were just a really great, underappreciated band, who are sadly sometimes only mentioned as a footnote as one of the two bands (the other being The Avengers) who opened for the Sex Pistols at their final 1978 concert at Winterland in San Francisco. I feel very lucky to have seen The Nuns once in the 1990s at the "Coney Island High" club in NYC. Jennifer passed away in 2011, and Jeff passed in 2014. They were only in their 50s. Both gone from this world too soon.
I saw them a couple of times at the Mabuhay Gardens in San Francisco. She was pretty fearless.
@@treadtrick Awesome! I'm truly impressed!🙂👍
This channel makes me happy. Top notch stuff! I got this one in a set, I think.
Lake and Ng is one of the most unsettling documentaries I have ever watched.
This is probably one of the weirder takeaways one could have from this video, but that couch looks comfortable af.
Saw this one on Comet. The death of Jeff was a twist I did not see coming though.
I bet Terror Toons has the most inapproproiate aging. A 35 year woman plays a 5 years girl.
6:00 - is that a Witchcraft-omage?
6:50 - what was that mmovie with the mutant poodle zombie?
8:00 - is that legal?
Terror Toons has my vote for worst movie. It's god awful and has no redeeming qualities at all.
@@Necrowolf81 It's empty, but not unwatchable. there are way worse films out there if you are interrested, starting with Antihuman. That's nonsense AND boring!
😂If someone put all of your cartoon thumbnails together..one would think you had a trippy life!
I like the process lightning coming from the TV.
MASSIVE FAN...so nice to see some movies on here you never see anywhere else. On a very serious note...where did you get that Jet Jaguar shirt? Yatta Jet Jaguar!
Re: Flock of Seagulls: "And I ran.... er, stumbled awkwardly, I stumbled awkwardly so far away..."
That bride zombie really reminds me of Clint Howard.
I remember seeing the VHS box art with the zombie half reaching out of the tv in a video rental place as a child and think - wow cool and creepy. But never saw the film lol I think it's more remembered for its iconic cover artwork lol
That’s funny. The first house my fiancé and I moved into was two blocks away from Shady Ln lol
Remember, the bows and arrows worked for "The Dukes of Hazard";D
10:54 I thought for sure he was going to fix the cable.
I vaguely recall renting this. I really couldn't remember any details. It came out about the same time as Ozone and Shatter Dead. There were a lot of small indi zombie movies at the time. There was also I was a Zombie for the FBI. Unbelievable.
Damn, I never knew that Michael St. Michaels (the Greasy Strangler himself) is in this flick. Now I finally have to watch it for that reason alone... ^^
Zombie Nightmare: "Hey!" "HEY!" "HEY!!!" "hey"
Also, is anyone else a little concerned that Jeff's parents apparently keep a hatchet in their toolbox? That's really not a tool you should be defaulting to that often.
I think I asked about this one in another of the zombie videos? Glad to see your doing it lol.
Thank you for making this video. You do great work.
Ah yes, Evilspeak. So early in the VHS craze the box sizes were not yet standardized, so it never fit properly with the rest.
I loved it, nice job Brandon!
3:24 at least he got his cigarette he wanted lmao! 4:14 they made their own Beenee Weenees! LOL
Robert Scott was (and no doubt is) an adamant non-smoker. He and his wife were also vegan I think.
@@treadtrick The irony of that cig scene knowing this!
Ahh yes the movie with zombie David Bowie ...
Hahaha that was me. My hair was supposed to be a James Dean/50s-influenced "waterfall" style, but because it was bleached and my skin was blue, it looked more like Bowie's "Tonight" album cover, I thought. (That album came out about a year before we started filming).
I remember it. Brilliant review man
In addition to the Garbage Man, I'd also really like to know more about this "Institute for the Studies of the Occult" they mentioned
Videodrome reference, a must in this case.