Showing posts with label Spooky Midnight VHS Assault. Show all posts
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29 May 2011

Spooky Midnight VHS Assault #4: Upholstery Home Care


Upholstery Home Care
United States – 1993
Director – ?
Soil Shield Int’l, 1993, VHS
Run Time – 20 minutes

A moving introduction by Ma' Partridge
Dear Housewife, we know that your home is a cage, a psychological prison. The outside world, beyond the cul-de-sac, beyond even your door is unnerving. From within the comfort of your scrapbooks, protection and safety is what you crave. The outside world with which you only nominally interact during that great socially reaffirming American rite of provisioning the brood, is a strange, distant and terrifyingly unpredictable place when not filtered reassuringly through the warm rays of the happy-box that bathe the family room when your clan gathers together for some quality time.


Little did you know that there is a universe of terror soiling the comfy paisley fibers of your very own domestic sanctuary. It is a strange and unknown world teeming with swarms of invisible menace, a silent creeping invasion of entropy, an infestation of internal rot, hidden and beyond your control. Be wary, but cautiously relieved that this terror has been scientifically measured, quantified and categorized by our certifiable experts, heroes of modern consumer science. This battle will require vigilance and prayer, but thank Jesus that you just bought a love-seat and the video included with your new furnishing is about to gush the divine rays of upholstered revelation all over your life.

A comforting firmness exudes from our video host’s supple voice. There is something soothing, reassuring and slightly arousing about his masculine confidence. Armed with the arsenal and strategic soilage attack chart that you’ll need to defend your suburban compound of conformity, it feels almost sensual to consume this chemical bath, doused in the aerosol aroma of soilage repellence. Inhaling the heady vapors of sanitized sanctity you can almost feel your nameless salt-n-pepper sweater friend embracing you with his strong masculine odor of sterility. "Hello beautiful, yes you…. you are doing a great job, you are knowledgeable and prepared domestic companion, well equipped to deal effectively with any tragedy that might befall your home furnishings. Anytime you need to feel desirable and valued, just gently moisten the upholstery and lovingly rub until the bars of your cage fade into the fumes..."

The inside front flap of the box contains a chart for strategic soilage countermeasures.


25 September 2010

Spooky Midnight VHS Assault #3: How to Field Dress Big Game


How to Field Dress Big Game
United States - 1989
Director - ?
MNTEX Entertainment, 1989, VHS
Run Time - 30 gloriously grueling minutes


Here in Montana we know all too well that keeping your eyes on the prize is a euphemism for more than just the actual hunting and shooting part of the fun. One your prey is felled, the fun part starts, but if you're going to get your hands on the good stuff, you've got to stay focused and reach for it!


Now you are one with the creation of God, with his love, and you can feel the souls of his children pouring quietly to the ground in a cloud of steam, cooling, and congealing as flesh separates from bone.


What follows is a deminstration on how to butcher a bear in order that it's hide might be preserved for a rug. You might also be wondering what happens with all the meaty bits that are contained within that matted, stinking future carpet. As much as possible these are also to be consumed for a true woodsman does not waste.


Conqueror of nature, man-beast of infinite knowledge, exercise your power to mete out death though you fear it yourself. 

These hand of mine, arbiters of life, protector of the sanctity of the Lord's creation, instrument of his divine will....grant me the power and strength to kill and butcher this innocent creature that I might tread upon its flayed skin in a display of my prowess with a collapsible mini-camping hacksaw, available for $39.99 from Cabella's.

22 May 2010

Spooky Midnight VHS Assault #2: How to Spot Counterfeit Beanie Babies

The edition of this box is limited.

How To Spot Counterfeit Beanie Babies
United States - 1998
Director - History and Fate
SCI Inc., 1998, VHS
Run Time - Infinity

Conspicuous disposable wealth rectum.

The watermark of ruin on the vacuous post-scarcity consumption behavior of neo-millennial America. A civilization in decline, wrecked upon the polyps of an ossified cultural mandate.

 The cheerful babble of DOOM drowning out the loneliness of bored, self-important affluence.

 Eat your children.

19 April 2010

Spooky Midnight VHS Assault #1: Dirty Tennis


Dirty Tennis
United States - 1989
Director - George Bloom III
MCA Home Video, 189, VHS
Run Time - 33 minutes

Dirty Tennis was written by and stars Dick Van Patten of 8 Is Enough. If you've ever wanted to know what a hairy middle aged New Yorker doing a bad Benny Hill impression while dipped in Vaseline looks like, here it is. I have nothing more to say.
This movie will be shown during the Awful Hour, tomorrow night before the Kung Fu Grindhouse 5th Anniversary Opener. If you live in Seattle, I pity you.

 Bwaaaahhhhhh! Drink Tea, be greasy!