DISNEYLAND 1977 Commercial (Space Mountain) K.J. Norman 2026-09-20 | DISNEYLAND 1977 Commercial (Space Mountain)
NBC Thursday Night Promos (April 8, 1982) K.J. Norman 2022-12-19 | This is a promo that aired on NBC for it's upcoming prime time schedule for the night of Thursday, April 8, 1982.1. "A Family Circus Easter": an animated Easter special adapted from th epopular newspaper comic strip 2. "Diff'rent Strokes" (S4 E21 - "Have I Got A Girl For You"): Mr. Drummond (Conrad Bain) has a good time going out with a hairdresser (Candy Azzara), but when he doesn't invite her to a posh party, she feels like he is secretly embarrassed by her.3. "Gimme A Break!" (S1 E1 - "Katie The Crook"): With the recent death of his wife Margaret, Carl Kanisky (Dolph Sweet), the Chief of Police of the fictional Los Angeles suburb of Glen Lawn, California, needs help raising his three daughters: eldest daughter Katie (Kari Michaelsen), middle daughter Julie (Lauri Hendler), and youngest daughter Samantha (Lara Jill Miller). On top of that, he needs someone to keep an eye on the girls. To that end, The Chief hires Margaret's best friend Nellie Ruth "Nell" Harper (Nell Carter), a hip, sarcastic, wisecracking, heavyset black woman, as his housekeeper and as a surrogate mother for the girls.In the series premiere, a series of events unfolds: Samantha comes home with a black eye, and Nell teaches her a few skills on how to fight; Julie and her friend are studying "where babies come from," and as the Chief comes home, he walks into the kitchen and finds them kissing; and finally, Officer Simpson (Howard Morton) arrives at the house with Katie, who was picked up for shoplifting. This led to a huge argument between Katie and the Chief, resulting in Katie being ordered to move out. Fortunately Nell helps the two reconcile by helping them coming to terms with losing Margaret.Note: This episode marks the first appearance of Howard Morton (Ofc. Ralph Simpson) in the series. Originally aired October 29, 1981.
KNOTS LANDING: Season 14 (1992-93) Promo (The Final Episode) K.J. Norman 2022-12-19 | This is a promo that aired for "Just Like Old Times - Pts 1 &2", the 18th and 19th episode (343-344th overall) from the fourteenth and final season that served as the series finale of the hit 1979-93 drama "Knots Landing", which was a spinoff of the hit 1978-91 CBS soap saga "Dallas".Originally airing as a two hour episode, the episode originally aired on CBS on Thursday, May 14, 1993.
PARAMOUNT PICTURES 1986-02 Logo (75th Anniversary Prototype Variant) K.J. Norman 2022-11-30 | This was the logo used between 1986 and 2002 for major Hollywood studio Paramount Pictures, which celebrated its' 75th anniversary in 1987.This was the first prototype logo used before a slightly tweaked version would be used between 1987 and 2002. The logo was upgraded in 1986 for the company's 75th birthday, finally retiring the 1975-86 "Blue Mountain" abstract logo that was used for Paramount releases during the company's glory years of the Seventies and Eighties.The logo debuted on December 12, 1986 for the 1986 Eddie Murphy detective comedy adventure release "The Golden Child". The movie ended with the Blue Mountain variant, but would be the last time it was used.
WALT DISNEY PICTURES 2022 Logo (100 Years of Wonder) K.J. Norman 2022-11-30 | This is the newest logo being used for Walt Disney Pictures which, in 2023, will celebrate it's 100th anniversary. The studio was founded in 1923 by brothers Walt and Roy Disney.There are some hidden Easter eggs in this logo. As the back of the castle is being seen, the fireworks bursts that you see form three "hidden Mickeys", which is a representation of the company's mascot and frst major successful star, Mickey Mouse. As we come to the front view of the castle, you will notice two distinctly famous mountains.The mountain on the left side is the famous Matterhorn in the Swiss Alps. It is a representation of the 1959 Disney feature "Third Man on the Mountain". It is also a nod to that Matterhorn Bobsleds, the very first thrill ride of the company's original theme park Disneyland, located in Southern California. The ride was built as Walt Disney decided to renovate and makover Disneyland's Tomorrowland district in 1959.The mountain on the right is Pride Rock, the central location of Disney's 1994 masterpiece "The Lion King".
CBS SATURDAY MORNING BUMPERS (1979-1997) (2022 Expanded Updated Version) K.J. Norman 2022-11-30 | Nine years later, I finally updated this video. I was just missing a few from both 1979 and 1981 that I didn't see when I originally planned to do a CBS update during the pandemic.Better late than never.
MOTEL HELL (1980 Teaser Trailer) K.J. Norman 2022-11-29 | This is the teaser trailer for the 1980 comedy horror feature "Motel Hell". Directed by Kevin Connor, the movie was released through United Artists Pictures on October 18, 1980.Farmer Vincent Smith (Rory Calhoun) and his younger sister Ida (Nancy Parsons) live on a farm with an attached motel, named "Motel Hello". Vincent's renowned smoked meats are actually human flesh. He sets traps on nearby roads to catch victims. He buries the victims up to their necks in his "secret garden", then cuts their vocal cords to prevent them from screaming. They are kept in the ground and fed until they are ready for "harvest". Ida helps Vincent, as they both see the victims as animals.Vincent shoots out the front tire of a couple's motorcycle. The male, Bo (Everett Creach), is placed in the garden, but Vincent brings the female, Terry (Nina Axelrod), to the motel. Sheriff Bruce (Paul Linke, "CHiPs"), Vincent's naive younger brother, arrives the next morning. Vincent tells Terry her boyfriend died in the accident and was buried. A trip to the graveyard shows his crude grave marker. With nowhere to go, Terry decides to stay at the motel. She gradually becomes attracted to Vincent's honest manner and folksy charm, much to Bruce's dismay, who tries to woo her without success.Vincent captures more victims by placing wooden cardboards of cows in the middle of the highway to cause his victims to stop, allowing him to capture them. He also places a fake ad and lures in a pair of swingers, believing the hotel to be a swing joint. The next day, Vincent suggests he teach Terry to smoke meat. Ida becomes jealous and attempts to drown Terry, but Vincent arrives to save her. This causes Terry to fall in love with him completely, and she tries to seduce Vincent. Vincent denies her advances, saying they must marry first. She agrees to marry the following day.Bruce visits the motel to protest Terry's choice. He tells Terry that Vincent has "syphilis of the brain". Vincent arrives and drives off his brother with a shotgun. Vincent, Terry, and Ida drink champagne, but Ida drugs Terry's glass and she faints. Ida and Vincent then prepare some victims for the wedding. Meanwhile, Bruce investigates the disappearances and becomes suspicious of his brother.Vincent and Ida kill three victims and take them to the slaughterhouse. As they remove the victims' bodies, the dirt around Bo loosens and he begins to escape. Bruce sneaks back to the motel to rescue Terry, but Ida returns. She ambushes Bruce and knocks him out, then holds Terry at gunpoint to the meat processing plant where Vincent reveals his secret. Terry is horrified by the prospect of smoking human flesh. Meanwhile, Bo escapes and frees the other victims from the garden. Ida goes back to the motel to get something to eat, but the victims attack her and knock her out. Terry tries to escape, but Vincent gases her and ties her to a conveyor belt. He is interrupted by Bo, who crashes through a window, but Vincent strangles the weakened Bo.Bruce awakens and finds one of his brother's shotguns. He goes to the plant but finds that his brother has armed himself with a giant chainsaw and placed a pig's head over his own as a gruesome mask. Vincent disarms his brother, but Bruce grabs his own chainsaw and duels Vincent. During the fight, the belt restraining Terry is activated, sending her slowly to a cutting blade. Despite his wounds, Bruce drives the chainsaw deep into Vincent's side. Bruce frees Terry and returns to Vincent. He gasps his final words, leaving the farm and "secret garden" to Bruce and lamenting his own hypocrisy for using preservatives.Bruce and Terry go to the "secret garden" and find only Ida, who is buried head first. As they leave the motel, Bruce comments he is glad he left home when he was eleven. Terry suggests burning the motel, claiming it is evil. The neon sign saying "Motel Hello" fully short-circuits, permanently darkening the "O".
ABC Saturday Night Promos (February 5, 1983) K.J. Norman 2022-11-23 | This is a promo that aired on ABC for it's upcoming Saturday night prime time schedule for the night of February 5, 1983. This promo originally aired Friday, February 4, 1983.1. "T.J. Hooker" (S2 E16: "Vengeance is Mine"): In this episode, lead series actor William Shatner (T.J. Hooker) is reunited with his longtime best friend and former "Star Trek" co-star Leonard Nimoy (Mr. Spock). Six months after this, they would reunite to begin filming the third entry in the "Star Trek" movie series, "Star Trek III: The Search for Spock", released in the summer of 1984.Nimoy plays a detective, whse daughter is viciously raped. His vigilante pursuit of said rapist is causing problems for Hooker's investigation.2. "The Love Boat (S6 E18-19: "Isaac's Aegean Affair / The Captain and the Kid / Poor Rich Man / The Dean and the Flunkee: Parts 1 & 2"): In this special 2 hour episode, the crew of the Pacific Princess are in Greece working a cruise a college is having its graduation ceremony aboard:The dean Burton (Eddie Albert, "Green Acres") is attracted to a teacher Priscilla (Shirley Jones, "The Patridge Family") who rebuffs him because he won't give a student a make-up test so he can graduate. Making matters worse, the student and a couple of his friends are hounding the principal about the make-up test.A prodigy Charles (Jimmy McNichol) is attracted to Vicki (Jill Whelan), which doesn't make the Captain happy.The valedictorian (Parker Stevenson, "The Hardy Boys Mysteries"), whose education was provided by his Greek aunt (Eva Marie Saint) whom he assumed is wealthy, learns she's just a woman of humble means. When she arrives on board, he does not tell anyone who she is, not even his girlfriend (Lisa Whelchel, "The Facts of Life").Isaac (Ted Lange) meets a woman who is estranged from her husband (Debbie Allen, "Fame"). Vicki falls in love, while a beloved crew member decides to leave the ship.
DISORDERLIES (1987 Theatrical Trailer) K.J. Norman 2022-11-23 | This is the 1987 theatrical trailer for the 1987 screwball comedy hip hop feature "Disorderlies".Directed by Michael Schultz ("Krush Groove"), the movie was released through Warner Bros. Pictures on August 14, 1987 (Sidenote: that was my 8th birthday)Winslow Lowry (Anthony Geary, "General Hospital") is a no-good, indebted gambler and the nephew of elderly, infirm Miami millionaire Albert Dennison (Ralph Bellamy). Winslow seeks to speed up his uncle's demise by hiring three of the most inept orderlies he can possibly find. To that end, he travels to Brooklyn, New York, where he recruits three dim witted young orderlies in best friends Markie, Buffy and Kool (played respectively by Mark Morales pka Prince Markiee Dee, Darren Robinson pka The Human Beat Box and Damon Wimbley pka Kool Rock Ski of the iconic 80s rap group The Fat Boys). The trio only mean well, however, and their good-natured antics actually help re-energize the ailing Albert. In the end the trio and Albert learn about Winslow's scheme and try to stop him.
DISTURBING BEHAVIOR (1998 Rare 35mm Theatrical Trailer) K.J. Norman 2022-11-23 | This is a rare 35mm theatrical trailer used for the 1998 teen science fiction psychological horror feature "Disturbing Behavior".Directed by David Nutter ("The X-Files"), th emovie was released through Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) Pictures on July 24, 1998.High school senior Steve Clark (James Marsden, "Enchanted") is new to Cradle Bay, a picturesque island community in Washington State's Puget Sound. His family has moved from Chicago after the suicide of eldest son Allen (Ethan Embry), a loss that continues to haunt Steve. On his first day at the local high school, Steve befriends three outcast students: Gavin Strick (Nick Stahl), U.V. (Chad Donella), and Rachel Wagner (Katie Holmes, "Dawson's Creek"). Steve is also introduced to school psychologist Dr. Edgar Caldicott (Bruce Greenwood), who is aware of Steve’s loss and suggests he make new friends by joining a program called the Blue Ribbons, which is described as a “motivational workshop.”The Blue Ribbons are a clique of preppy, clean-cut overachievers who organize bake sales and car washes. Members attempt to recruit Steve into their fold, but Gavin, who is viewed with contempt by the clique, steers him away. Gavin claims they are a murderous cult that has been “hypnotized, lobotomized and brainwashed” by Caldicott and that the whole town is in on it, but Steve thinks Gavin is exaggerating.Outside a store where Gavin tries to score alcohol, Rachel is approached by Chug, a jock Blue Ribbon member with a thing for her. After catching sight of Rachel in her midriff-baring outfit, Chug suddenly snaps into a rage and starts savagely beating up a guy inside the store. Chug nearly kills him while the town’s police chief, Officer Cox, simply looks on. When Steve asks his new friends what just happened, Rachel says it must be 'roid rage. Gavin insists again on his mind control theory, producing photos of his former burnout friends who were “reprogrammed” into Blue Ribbons.Gavin takes Steve to a school hideout where they eavesdrop on a PTA meeting presided over by Caldicott. During the meeting, Gavin learns his parents volunteered him for Caldicott’s program. A fearful Gavin brandishes a gun that he plans to use on potential abductors, but Steve calls him paranoid and wrestles the gun away from him. The following day, Gavin shows up to school as a clean-cut Blue Ribbon, with his long hair now cut short, his grungy clothing replaced by a preppy style, and his friendship with Rachel and U.V. coldly tossed aside.Steve's attempts to reach Gavin are met with hostility from other Blue Ribbons. He is beaten up by the clique, with Gavin landing the final blow. When Steve returns home, he finds Blue Ribbon member Lorna in his living room, having just tutored his younger sister Lindsay (Katharine Isabelle, "Ginger Snaps). Lorna attempts to seduce him, but in her arousal she flies into a violent rage as her right eye glows red. Repeating the words “wrong, bad”, she smashes a wall mirror with her head and attacks Steve with a shard, but he subdues her and she snaps out of her episode, acting as if nothing happened.Meanwhile, Steve befriends Mr. Newberry (William Sadler), the school janitor who also harbors suspicions about the Blue Ribbons. He demonstrates a device to Steve that emits a soft, high-pitched whine intended to repel rats. Later, Rachel is cornered in the boiler room by Chug in an attempted rape, but Newberry’s rat-catching device goes off and sends Chug into a frenzy. Rachel escapes and Chug finds the device, destroying it. Newberry, having witnessed the incident, realizes the device acts as an irritant on Blue Ribbons.In search of answers, Steve and Rachel venture to Bishop Flats, a nearby mental hospital. Their investigation confirms Gavin’s theory about the Blue Ribbons and mind control: Caldicott is implanting brain microchips on Cradle Bay teenagers with the approval of their parents, who want to reprogram their kids from juvenile delinquents into well-behaved model citizens. However, Caldicott could not turn off the teenagers’ hormones, resulting in momentary violent fits whenever the subjects’ sexual urges act up. Steve and Rachel attempt to get Lindsay so they can flee town, but they are ambushed by Caldicott and Steve’s parents, who reveal the reason the family moved to Cradle Bay was to sign Steve up for the program. Multiple Blue Ribbons capture Steve and Rachel, and Steve wakes up at the programming place. Steve is strapped into a chair and a technician prepares to reprogram him, but Steve gets hold of a scalpel and frees himself and Rachel........
A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 7: WES CRAVENS NEW NIGHTMARE (1994 Rare Theatrical Trailer) K.J. Norman 2022-11-23 | This is a rare theatrical trailer used for the 1994 meta slasher horror feature "Wes Craven's New Nightmare", a standalone feature that serves as the seventh installment in the "Nightmare on Elm Street" movie franchise and the sixth sequel to Wes Craven's 1984 genre-bending classic "A Nightmare On Elm Street".Unlike previous installments, this does not take place within the series continuity, but within real life.Written and directed by Craven, the movie was released through New Line Cinema on October 14, 1994.Actress Heather Langenkamp (playing a fictionalized version of herself) lives in Los Angeles, California, with her husband Chase Porter (David Newsom) and their young son Dylan (Miko Hughes, "Pet Sematary"). She is recognized for her role as original final girl Nancy Thompson from the "A Nightmare on Elm Street" film series before focusing her career on television. One night, she has a nightmare that her family is attacked by a set of animated Freddy Krueger claws from an upcoming "Nightmare" film, where two workers are brutally killed on set. Waking up to an earthquake, she spies a cut on Chase's finger exactly like the one he had received in her dream, but she quickly dismisses the notion that it was caused by the claws.Heather receives a call from an obsessed fan who quotes Freddy Krueger's nursery rhyme in an eerie, Freddy-like voice. This coincides with a meeting she has with New Line Cinema head Bob Shaye (also playing himself) where she is pitched the idea to reprise her role as Nancy in a new "Nightmare" film, which, unbeknownst to her, Chase has been working on. She returns home, and sees Dylan watching her original film, and Dylan has a severely traumatizing episode where he screams at her. The frequent calls and Dylan's strange behavior cause her to call Chase, and he agrees to rush home from his workplace at Palm Springs as the two men from the opening dream did not report in for work. Chase falls asleep while driving and is slashed by Freddy's claw and dies. His death seems to affect Dylan even further, which concerns Heather's long-time friend and former co-star John Saxon. He suggests she seek medical attention for Dylan and herself after she has a nightmare at Chase's funeral in which Freddy tries to take Dylan away.Dylan's health continues to deteriorate, becoming increasingly paranoid about going to sleep, and fearing Freddy Krueger, even though Heather has never shown Dylan her films. She visits Nightmare creator Wes Craven, who admits to having precognitive nightmares that the films captured an ancient supernatural entity, which has now been freed after the film series ended with the release of Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare. In the guise of Freddy, the entity now focuses its primary foe on Heather, as killing her will allow it into the real world. Robert Englund, who portrayed Freddy in the films, also has a strange knowledge of it, describing the new Freddy to Heather, then disappearing from all contact shortly thereafter.Following another earthquake, Heather takes a traumatized Dylan to the hospital, where Dr. Heffner (Fran Bennett), suspecting abuse, suggests he remain under observation. Heather returns home for Dylan's stuffed dinosaur while his babysitter Julie (Tracy Middendorf) tries unsuccessfully to keep the nurses from sedating the sleep-deprived boy. After Dylan falls asleep from the sedative, Freddy brutally kills Julie in Dylan's dream. Capable of sleepwalking, Dylan leaves the hospital of his own accord while Heather chases him home across the interstate as Freddy taunts and dangles him before traffic. Upon returning home, Heather realizes that reality is starting to overlap with Freddy's make-believe realm, with Saxon as Nancy's father Don Thompson, and her street, the exterior of her house, and her clothes have all transformed into Nancy's. When Heather embraces Nancy's role, Freddy emerges completely into reality and abducts Dylan to his world. Heather finds a trail of Dylan's sleeping pills and follows him to a hellish construct of Freddy's boiler room. Freddy fights off Heather and chases Dylan into a furnace. Dylan escapes the furnace, doubles back to Heather, and together they push Freddy into the furnace and light it, destroying both the monster and its reality.Dylan and Heather emerge from under his blankets, and Heather finds a copy of the recent events in a screenplay at the foot of the bed. Inside is written thanks from Wes for defeating Freddy and playing Nancy one last time. Her victory helps imprison the entity of the film franchise's fictitious world once more. Dylan asks if it is a story, and Heather agrees before opening the script and reading from its pages.
A CHRISTMAS STORY (1983 Theatrical Trailer) K.J. Norman 2022-11-22 | This is the theatrical trailer for the 1983 Christmas comedy classic feature "A Christmas Story", based on Jean Shepherd's semi-fictional anecdotes in his 1966 book "In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash", with some elements from his 1971 book "Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories And Other Disasters".Directed by Bob Clark ("Black Christmas", "Porky's"), the movie was released through Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures on November 18, 1983.Set in December 1940, the film is presented in a series of vignettes, with narration provided by the adult Ralphie Parker (voice of Jean Shepherd) reminiscing on one particular Christmas when he was nine years old in Hohman, Indiana, a fictionalized version of Shepherd's hometown of Hammond, Indiana, just outside of Chicago. Ralphie wanted only one thing that Christmas: a Red Ryder Carbine Action 200-shot Range Model air rifle. Ralphie's desire is rejected by his mother (Melinda Dillon, "Close Encounters of the Third Kind"), his teacher Miss Shields (Tedde Moore), and even a Santa Claus (Jeff Gillen) at Higbee's department store, all giving him the same warning: "You'll shoot your eye out".On Christmas morning, Ralphie (Peter Billingsley) receives some presents that he enjoys but is disappointed not to find the rifle among them. When it appears that all of the presents have been opened, Ralphie's father, "The Old Man" (Darren McGavin) directs him to one last box hidden in the corner, which proves to contain the rifle. He eagerly hurries outside to try it out, attaching a target to a metal sign in the backyard; when he fires, the BB ricochets back and hits him in the face. Believing at first that he has indeed shot his eye out, he realizes that the BB only knocked his glasses off and begins searching for them in the snow, only to step on them by accident and break them. He lies to his mother that a falling icicle struck him in the face and broke his glasses, and she believes him and takes him to the bathroom to get cleaned up.That night, Ralphie goes to sleep with the gun by his side as his adult self reflects that it was the best Christmas present he had ever received or would ever receive.Interspersed with the main story are several loosely related vignettes involving the Parkers:- The Old Man wins a "major award" in a contest – a table lamp in the shape of a woman's leg wearing a fishnet stocking. The Old Man is overjoyed but Mrs. Parker is not. "The Battle of the Lamp" develops, ending with Mrs. Parker "accidentally" destroying it, much to the Old Man's fury. Unable to fix the lamp, he defeatedly buries the remains in the backyard.- The Old Man also fights a never-ending battle with the malfunctioning furnace in the Parker home. His frustrations cause him to swear quite often, including one profanity-laden rant (heard as gibberish) that the adult Ralphie says "is still hanging in space over Lake Michigan" His influence later reflects back upon Ralphie when The Old Man's car suddenly blows a tire, and Mrs. Parker suggests that Ralphie help his father change the tire. While holding the bolts in the tire's hubcap, The Old Man accidentally knocks them out of Ralphie's hands, causing Ralphie to utter profanity and have his mouth washed out with soap.- Still another source of frustration for The Old Man is the dogs that belong to the Bumpus family, the Parkers' hillbilly next-door neighbors. The Bumpuses own "at least 785 smelly hound dogs" that harass The Old Man whenever he comes home from work. On Christmas Day, the dogs ruin the family's dinner by romping through their kitchen and eating their turkey, forcing the family to go to a Chinese restaurant for Christmas dinner.- Ralphie and his friends Flick (Scott Schwartz, "The Toy") and Schwartz (R.D. Robb) along with his younger brother Randy (Ian Petrella) are tormented by the neighborhood bullies Scut Farkus (Zack Ward) and Grover Dill (Yano Anaya). Ralphie eventually snaps and beats up Farkus. Mrs. Parker catches him mid-fight and Ralphie expects her to tell The Old Man, but instead she redirects the conversation to a football game, leading The Old Man to brush it off.
FRIGHT NIGHT (1985 Theatrical Trailer) K.J. Norman 2022-11-22 | This is the theatrical trailer for the 1985 supernatural horror feature "Fright Night".Written and directed by novice director Tom Holland ("Child's Play"), the movie was released through Columbia Pictures on August 2, 1985.Seventeen-year-old Charley Brewster (William Ragsdale) is a fan of a horror television program called Fright Night, hosted by former movie vampire hunter Peter Vincent (Roddy McDowall). One evening, Charley discovers that his new next-door neighbor Jerry Dandrige (Chris Sarandon) is a vampire responsible for the disappearances of several victims. After telling his mother, Charley asks his girlfriend, Amy Peterson (Amanda Bearse, "Married...With Children"), and his friend, "Evil Ed" Thompson (Stephen Geoffreys), for help before contacting the authorities. Detective Lennox (Art Evans) goes with Charley to Jerry's house to question him, but his "roommate" Billy Cole (Jonathan Stark) tells them that Jerry is "away on business". Charley reveals his suspicions about Jerry's vampirism, and Lennox leaves, furious. That night, Charley is shocked to see Jerry inside his house, having been invited in by Charley's mother. Later, Jerry visits Charley and offers him a choice: ignore his vampiric activities, or else. Charley refuses, brandishing a crucifix at Jerry. When Jerry tries to push him out the window to his death, Charley stabs Jerry's hand with a pencil. Jerry destroys Charley's car in retaliation and threatens Charley over the telephone.Charley turns to Peter Vincent for help, but Peter dismisses Charley as an obsessed fan. Amy, fearing for Charley's sanity and safety, hires the destitute Peter to "prove" that Jerry is not a vampire by having him drink what they claim is "holy water", but it is only tap water; Jerry has claimed to Peter that drinking actual holy water would be against his religious convictions. Peter discovers Charley is right about Jerry's true nature after glancing at his pocket mirror and noticing Jerry's lack of a reflection, causing him to accidentally drop the mirror; Peter then flees, but Jerry learns of his discovery after finding a shard of mirrored glass on the floor.Jerry hunts down Ed and turns him into a vampire, then Ed proceeds to visit Peter and tries to attack him, only to be warded off when burned by a crucifix to the forehead. Meanwhile, Jerry chases Charley and Amy into a nightclub. While Charley tries to call the police, Jerry hypnotizes and abducts Amy, who resembles Jerry's lost love, and bites her. With nowhere left to turn, Charley attempts to gain Peter's help once more. A frightened Peter initially refuses, but then reluctantly resumes his "vampire killer" role. Entering Jerry's house, the two are able to repel Jerry using a crucifix, though only Charley's works since he has faith in its spiritual power. Billy appears and knocks Charley over the banister, while Peter flees to Charley's house. There, he is surprised by Ed, who attacks him in the form of a wolf, only to be pierced through the heart with a broken table leg held by Peter. Removing the stake from Ed's body, Peter goes to rescue Charley and battle Jerry.Charley is locked in with Amy, who is slowly transforming into a vampire. Peter frees him before she awakens, and says the process can be reversed if they destroy Jerry before dawn. Billy confronts Charley and Peter, and is revealed to be undead. They destroy Billy, who melts into goo and sand. Peter is able to lure the overconfident Jerry in front of a window using a crucifix, which now works due to his renewed faith in its abilities. As the sun rises, Jerry transforms into a bat and attacks Peter and Charley before fleeing to his coffin in the basement. Charley and Peter pursue Jerry; the latter breaks open Jerry's coffin and tries to stake him through the heart while Charley fights off Amy, who has almost completed her transformation. By breaking the blacked-out windows in the basement, Peter and Charley expose Jerry to the sunlight, destroying him and returning Amy to her human form.A few nights later, Peter returns to his Fright Night TV series and announces a hiatus from vampires, presenting a film about alien invaders instead. Charley and Amy watch the program as they embrace in bed. Charley gets up to turn off the TV and glimpses red eyes in Jerry's now-vacant house, but dismisses them. Unbeknownst to both Charley and Amy, a new neighbor has just moved in.
DARKMAN (1990 35mm Theatrical Trailer) K.J. Norman 2022-11-22 | This is the theatrical trailer for the 1990 science fiction superhero feature "Darkman"Directed and co-written by Sam Raimi (the "Evil Dead" franchise, the 2002-07 "Spider Man" movies), the movie was released through Universal Pictures and Raimi's production company Renaissance Pictures on August 24, 1990.Dr. Peyton Westlake (Liam Neeson) is developing a new type of synthetic skin to help burn victims but cannot get past a flaw that causes the skin to rapidly disintegrate after 99 minutes. His girlfriend, attorney Julie Hastings (Frances McDormand), discovers the Belisarius Memorandum, an incriminating document that proves developer Louis Strack Jr. (Colin Friels) has been bribing members of the zoning commission. When she confronts Strack, he confesses, showing Julie that he plans to design a brand-new city, creating a substantial number of new jobs. He warns Julie that the city's reigning crime boss, Robert G. Durant (Larry Drake), also wants the document.At Westlake's lab, Westlake and his assistant Yakitito (Nelson Mashita) are testing the skin when the lights go out. The synthetic skin remains stable after 100 minutes, so Westlake deduces that the skin is photosensitive. Their joy is short lived as Durant and his mobsters show up and demand the Memorandum, which Westlake knows nothing about. They search for the document, and Durant has his men kill Yakitito and beat Westlake, burning his hands and dipping his face in acid. After finding the document, they rig the lab to explode. Julie witnesses the blast as a hideously burned Westlake is thrown through the roof and into the river. As a John Doe, he is brought to a hospital and subjected to a radical treatment which cuts the nerves of the spinothalamic tract; physical pain is no longer felt at the cost of tactile sensation. This loss of sensory input gives him enhanced strength due to adrenal overload and keeps his injuries from incapacitating him, but also mentally destabilizes him. After waking up from a coma, Westlake escapes from the hospital.Believed dead by Julie, Westlake re-establishes his lab in a condemned building and begins a long process of digitization to create a mask of his original face, using the time to plot revenge against Durant and his men. He kills Durant's henchman Rick by putting his head in front of an incoming car after forcing him to reveal the identities of the other men. He then studies them to subdue and impersonate them (having a talent for impressionism). When his face mask is complete, Westlake manages to convince Julie that he was in a coma rather than dead. He mentions that he is aware of Julie seeing Strack after his supposed death; she responds that Strack only comforted her. Keeping his disfigurement from her, Westlake instead probes whether she would accept him despite his appearance.Westlake sows dissension and confusion among Durant's henchmen by assuming their identities. On a date at a carnival with Julie, Westlake loses his temper after an altercation over a stuffed elephant and assaults a worker, revealing to Julie that something is wrong with him. He flees as his face begins to melt, and she follows him, discovering the discarded mask; she calls to Peyton that she still loves him regardless. Julie tells Strack she can no longer see him before discovering the stolen Memorandum on his desk, confirming that he was collaborating with Durant the entire time. She reveals Westlake is still alive, but Strack tells her as long as he has the Memorandum, no charges can be filed. When Julie leaves, Durant enters and is told to capture Julie and kill Westlake.Durant intercepts Julie, kidnapping her before attacking Westlake's lair. Two of his men enter the lab to locate and kill Westlake but are outmaneuvered and eliminated. Durant flees in a helicopter with Westlake dangling from an attached cable, which he uses to crash the helicopter. Impersonating Durant, Westlake meets up with Strack and a captive Julie at the top of an unfinished building. Strack breaks Westlake's ruse, and they fight; Westlake eventually gains the upper hand and dangles Strack by his ankle in the air. Strack says that killing him would not be something he could live with. Westlake drops Strack, remarking: "I'm learning to live with a lot of things". Julie tries to convince Westlake that he can still return to his old life, but he tells her he has changed internally as well, and cannot subject anyone to his new, vicious nature. He rushes from Julie as they exit an elevator, pulling on a mask and running into a crowd of pedestrians. As Julie unsuccessfully searches for him, a disguised Westlake watches her for a few moments before turning and walking away, narrating, "I am everyone and no one. Everywhere. Nowhere. Call me... Darkman".
BACK TO THE FUTURE (1985 35mm Teaser Trailer) K.J. Norman 2022-11-22 | This is the teaser trailer for the 1985 science fiction comedy feature "Back To The Future", the first entry in a multimedia franchise that would include two additional sequels, video games, merchandise, and an animated series.Directed by Robert Zemeckis ("Romancing The Stone", "Forrest Gump") and executive produced by Steven Spielberg ("E.T."), the movie was released through Universal Pictures and Spielberg's production company Amblin Entertainment on July 3, 1985.In 1985, teenager Marty McFly ("Family Ties" star Michael J. Fox in his leading role movie debut) lives in Hill Valley, California, with his depressed alcoholic mother, Lorraine (Lea Thompson); his older siblings, who are professional and social failures; and his meek father, George (Crispin Glover), who is bullied by his supervisor, Biff Tannen (Thomas F. Wilson). After Marty's band is rejected from a music audition, he confides in his girlfriend, Jennifer Parker (Claudia Wells), that he fears becoming like his parents despite his ambitions.That night, Marty meets his eccentric scientist friend, Dr. Emmett "Doc" Brown (Christopher Lloyd, "Taxi"), in the Twin Pines mall parking lot. Doc unveils a time machine built from a modified DeLorean, powered by plutonium he swindled from Libyan terrorists. After Doc inputs a destination time of November 5, 1955—the day he first conceived his time travel invention—the terrorists arrive unexpectedly and gun Doc down. Marty flees in the DeLorean, inadvertently activating time travel when he reaches 88 miles per hour (142 km/h).Arriving in 1955, Marty discovers he has no plutonium to return. While exploring a burgeoning Hill Valley, Marty encounters his teenage father and discovers Biff was bullying George even then. George falls into the path of an oncoming car while spying on the teenage Lorraine changing clothes, and Marty is knocked unconscious while saving him. He wakes to find himself tended to by Lorraine, who becomes infatuated with him. Marty tracks down and convinces a younger Doc that he is from the future, but Doc explains the only source available in 1955 capable of generating the power required for time travel is a lightning bolt. Marty shows Doc a flyer from the future that documents an upcoming lightning strike at the town's courthouse. As Marty's siblings begin to fade from a photo he is carrying with him, Doc realizes Marty's actions are altering the future and jeopardizing his existence; Lorraine was supposed to tend to George instead of Marty after the car accident. Early attempts to get his parents acquainted fail, and Lorraine's infatuation with Marty deepens.Lorraine asks Marty to the school dance, and he plots to feign inappropriate advances on her, allowing George to intervene and "rescue" her, but the plan goes awry when Biff's gang locks Marty in the trunk of the performing band's car, while Biff forces himself onto Lorraine. George arrives expecting to find Marty but is assaulted by Biff. After Biff hurts Lorraine, an enraged George knocks him unconscious and escorts the grateful Lorraine to the dance. The band frees Marty from their car, but the lead guitarist injures his hand in the process, and Marty takes his place, performing while George and Lorraine share their first kiss. With his future no longer in jeopardy, Marty heads to the courthouse to meet Doc.Doc discovers a letter from Marty warning him about his future and destroys it, worried about the consequences. To save Doc, Marty re-calibrates the DeLorean to return ten minutes before he left the future. The lightning strikes, sending Marty back to 1985, but the DeLorean breaks down, forcing Marty to run back to the mall. He arrives as Doc is being shot. While Marty grieves at his side, Doc sits up, revealing he pieced Marty's note back together and wore a bulletproof vest. He takes Marty home and departs to 2015 in the DeLorean. Marty wakes the next morning to discover his father is now a confident and successful science fiction author, his mother is fit and happy, his siblings are successful, and Biff is a servile valet in George's employ. As Marty reunites with Jennifer, Doc suddenly reappears in the DeLorean, insisting they return with him to the future to save their children from terrible fates.
DEATH VALLEY (1982 Theatrical Trailer) K.J. Norman 2022-11-19 | This is the theatrical trailer for the 1982 slasher horror feature "Death Valley".Directed by Dick Richards, the movie was released through Universal Pictures on May 7, 1982.Paul Stanton (Edward Herrmann) has talked his son Billy (Peter Billingsley, "A Christmas Story") into being sent to California to join his mother, Sally (Catherine Hicks, "Child's Play"), and her old high school sweetheart (and current new boyfriend) Mike (Paul LeMat), who are going into Arizona. Passing through Death Valley, they discover it is the new territory of a cowboy serial killer (who wearing a hat and a neckerchief to hide his identity) and his equally demented twin. Both have just done away with a teenage couple at an abandoned gold mine. Billy, stretching his legs, stumbles across their camper. Somehow overlooking the carnage, he comes across a frog pendant, which he steals. Its owner returns to find his trinket gone and pursues.
HERSHEYS CHOCOLATE SYRUP 1979 Commercial (The Debut of Messy Marvin) K.J. Norman 2022-11-19 | This is a commercial produced in 1979 for Hershey's Chocolate Syrup, now in a plastic no-mess bottle.This commercial features the debut of the spokesperson, Messy Marvin. He is a kid that no matter how hard he tries not to, he always manages to make a mess, except when he makes his chocolate milk with Hershey's syrup.Messy Marvin is played in this 1979-85 series of commercials by former child actor-turned-movie producer Peter Billingsley, best known for his role as Ralphie Parker in the 1983 Christmas classic "A Christmas Story" and it's 2022 sequel "A Christmas Story Christmas:"
A CHRISTMAS STORY CHRISTMAS (2022 Trailer) K.J. Norman 2022-11-18 | This is the trailer for the 2022 Christmas comedy feature "A Christmas Story Christmas", a direct sequel to the 1983 holiday classic "A Christmas Story", adapted from Jean Shepherd's 1966 movel "In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash".Directed by Clay Kaytis, the movie was released through Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures on the HBO Max streaming service on Thursday, November 17, 2022.Set in December, 1973, thirty-three years after the events of "A Christmas Story", a now grown Ralph "Ralphie" Parker (Peter Billingsley, who also co-produced and has a story credit), now living in Chicago, Illinois, returns to his hometown of Hohman, Indiana with his wife Sandy and children Mark and Julie following the sudden death of his father, The Old Man. (Darren McGavin passed away in 2006). Soon after, he reunites with his childhood friends Flick (Scott Schwartz), who now owns a bar and Schwartz (R.D. Robb), as well as his childhood bully Scut Farkus (Zack Ward). His mother, (Julie Hagerty replacing Melinda Dillon, who retired from acting in 2007) now widowed after the recent passing of the Old Man, convinces Ralphie to give his family the kind of magical Christmas the Old Man always did; Ralphie soon realizes that the task is much more difficult than it seemed when Ralphie was a child.
WAITING TO EXHALE (1995 Theatrical Trailer) K.J. Norman 2022-11-15 | This is the theatrical trailer for the 1995 romantic drama feature "Waiting to Exhale" adapted from Terry McMillan's 1992 best selling novel of the same name.Directed by actor Forest Whitaker, the movie was released through 20th Century-Fox on December 22, 1995.Four friends (Savannah, Robin, Bernadine, and Gloria) get together frequently to support one another and listen to each other vent about life and love. They each want to be in a romantic relationship, but they each have difficulties finding a good man.Successful television producer Savannah "Vannah" Jackson (Whitney Houston) believes that one day her married lover will leave his wife for her. She later realizes that he won't, and that she must find her own man who will love her for who she really is.Bernadine "Bernie" Harris (Angela Bassett), who abandoned her career and dreams of having a catering business, instead raised a family and supported her husband John in building his business. He announces he is leaving her for a white woman with whom he works, sending her into an emotional tailspin that culminates in the two fighting over their assets after she burns his car, clothes and some of his other belongings, and then sells the rest of his things for a dollar each, and he retaliates by draining their bank accounts.Robin Stokes (Lela Rochon) is a high-powered executive and the long-time mistress of married Russell. After dumping him, she has problems finding someone suitable.Beauty salon owner Gloria "Glo" Matthews (Loretta Devine) is a single mother. Her ex-husband and the father of her son tells her that he was always bisexual and now realizes he is gay. Gloria eventually falls in love with a new neighbor, Marvin King (Gregory Hines).The situations all resolve themselves for the better. Savannah ends up permanently dumping her married lover. Bernadine gets a large divorce settlement from her ex-husband and finds love with a widowed civil rights attorney (Wesley Snipes) who encourages her to pursue her catering dream. Robin ends up pregnant by her married lover, but dumps him, and chooses to raise the baby on her own. Gloria apologizes to her neighbor for snapping at him when he suggested that she should let her son grow up and experience the world. She learns not to be so protective of her son and lets him go on an "Up with People" trip to Spain. She finds love while learning to take care of herself rather than being self-sacrificing in her devotion to her son and her business.
MARVEL STUDIOS SHANG-CHI AND THE LEGEND OF THE TEN RINGS (2021 Theatrical Trailer) K.J. Norman 2022-11-15 | This is the theatrical trailer for the 2021 superhero epic feature "Shang-Chi and The Legend of the Ten Rings", adapted from the Marvel Comics series of the same name. As the second feature of Phase Four, this is the 25th feature released in the Marvel Cinematic Universe,Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, the movie was released through Marvel Studios and Walt Disney Pictures on September 3, 2021.Around a thousand years ago, Xu Wenwu (Tony Leung) discovers the mystical ten rings which grant godly powers including immortality. He establishes the Ten Rings organization, conquering kingdoms and toppling governments throughout history. In 1996, Wenwu searches for Ta Lo, a village said to harbor mythical beasts. He travels through a magical forest to the village entrance but is stopped by a guardian, Ying Li (Fala Chen). The two fall in love, and when the Ta Lo villagers reject Wenwu, Li chooses to leave with him. They marry and have two children, Shang-Chi and Xialing. Wenwu abandons his organization and locks away the ten rings.When Shang-Chi is seven years old, Li is murdered by Wenwu's enemies, the Iron Gang. Wenwu dons the ten rings once again, massacres the Iron Gang, and resumes leadership of his organization. He makes Shang-Chi undergo brutal training in martial arts but does not allow Xialing to train with the others, prompting her to secretly teach herself. When Shang-Chi is 14, Wenwu sends him to assassinate the Iron Gang's leader. After completing his mission, a traumatized Shang-Chi runs away to San Francisco and adopts the name "Shaun".In the present day, Shang-Chi (Simu Liu) works as a parking valet with his best friend Katy (Awkwafina), who does not know about his past. They are attacked on a bus by the Ten Rings, who steal a pendant that Li gave to Shang-Chi. Shang-Chi flies out to meet his sister, fearing that the Ten Rings will go after her matching pendant. He reveals his past to Katy, who insists on helping him. They find Xialing (Meng'er Zhang) at a secret fight club in Macau, which she founded after escaping from Wenwu at sixteen. The Ten Rings attack the fight club, and Wenwu arrives to capture Shang-Chi, Katy, Xialing, and her pendant.They are taken to the Ten Rings' compound, where Wenwu uses the pendants to reveal a mystical map leading to Ta Lo. Wenwu explains that he has heard Li calling and believes she has been held captive in Ta Lo behind a sealed gate. He plans to destroy the village unless they release her. When his children and Katy object, he imprisons them. The three meet former actor Trevor Slattery (Ben Kingsley), whom the Ten Rings imprisoned for impersonating Wenwu, and his hundun companion Morris, who offers to guide them to Ta Lo.The group escapes and goes to Ta Lo, which exists in a separate dimension with various Chinese mythological creatures. They meet Ying Nan (Michelle Yeoh), Li's sister, who explains the history of Ta Lo: thousands of years ago, the universe containing the village was attacked by the soul-consuming Dweller-in-Darkness and its soul eaters, but was saved by a Chinese dragon called the Great Protector who helped seal the Dark Gate to the Dweller's world. According to Nan, the Dweller-in-Darkness has been impersonating Li so that Wenwu will use the ten rings to open the Gate. Shang-Chi, Xialing, and Katy join the villagers in training and preparing for Wenwu's arrival, using outfits and weapons crafted from dragon scales.Wenwu and the Ten Rings arrive and attack. Wenwu overpowers Shang-Chi, pushes him into the nearby lake, and attacks the Gate with the rings. This allows some of the Dweller's soul eaters to escape, and the Ten Rings join forces with the villagers to fight them. The Great Protector revives Shang-Chi and bears him from the lake to battle the soul eaters. Wenwu and Shang-Chi fight once more, and Shang-Chi gains the upper hand but chooses to spare Wenwu. The Dweller-in-Darkness escapes the weakened Gate and attacks Shang-Chi. Wenwu saves Shang-Chi, bequeathing him the rings before the Dweller-in-Darkness kills him. Shang-Chi, the Great Protector, Xialing, and Katy slay the Dweller-in-Darkness. Afterward, Shang-Chi and Katy return to San Francisco, where the sorcerer Wong (Benedict Wong) summons them to Kamar-Taj.In a mid-credits scene, Wong introduces Shang-Chi and Katy to Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo) and Carol Danvers (Brie Larson) while researching the rings' origin. They discover that the rings are acting as a beacon to something. In a post-credits scene, Xialing becomes the new leader of the Ten Rings, training women alongside men, despite having told Shang-Chi that she would disband the organization.
US (2019 Theatrical Trailer) K.J. Norman 2022-11-15 | This is the theatrical to the 2019 horror feature "Us."Written and directed by actor/comedian-turned-horror auteur Jordan Peele ("MAD TV", "Key & Peele") as the follow up to his debut hit 2017 feature "Get Out", the movie was released through Universal Pictures and Peele's production company Monkeypaw Productions on March 22, 2019.In 1986, a young girl named Adelaide (Madison Curry) watches a commercial for Hands Across America. At night, at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, she wanders away from her parents and enters a funhouse, where she encounters a doppelgänger of herself in the house of mirrors. Following the encounter she stops speaking and withdraws from her family.Years later, an adult Adelaide (Lupita Nyong'o, "Black Panther") goes on vacation with her husband, Gabriel "Gabe" Wilson (Nyong'o's "Black Panther" co-star Winston Duke), and their children Zora (Shahadi Wright Joseph) and Jason (Evan Alex). She is apprehensive about the trip, but despite her misgivings, the family meet with their friends Josh (Tim Heidecker) and Kitty Tyler (Elisabeth Moss, "The Handmaid's Tale") and their twin daughters at the beach. On the way there, they witness paramedics taking away the bloody body of an old man. Jason later sees someone strangely similar to the old man, standing still with his arms outstretched and hands bloody.That night, Adelaide tells Gabe about her childhood experience, but she is interrupted when the lights go out. Jason notices a 'family' of four in the driveway, who soon gain entry into the house. Cornering the Wilsons in their own living room, Jason recognizes the intruders as the Wilsons' doppelgängers. They include Pluto (Jason's pyromaniac, facially scarred double), Umbrae (Zora's sadistic double), and Abraham (Gabe's animalistic double). They are led by Red (Adelaide's double), the only one who can speak, albeit in a guttural, raspy voice. Red explains that they are called "the Tethered” as they share a soul with their lookalike counterparts, and they have come to "untether" themselves. The Wilsons are separated and terrorized by their doppelgängers. Jason discovers that Pluto mirrors his actions. After Gabriel kills Abraham, the family escapes.Meanwhile, the Tyler family is assaulted and murdered by their own doppelgängers at home. The Wilsons arrive and are assaulted as well, but they manage to overpower and kill the Tylers' doubles. They turn on the news and learn that the Tethered have been murdering their equivalents across the U.S., and after doing so, joining hands to form a massive human chain. The Wilsons decide to drive along the coast and escape to Mexico. While they are leaving, Umbrae attacks the car, and Zora kills her.Arriving at the boardwalk, the Wilsons find the townspeople already slaughtered. The road is blocked by a burning car. Jason, realizing it is a trap set by Pluto, orders everyone out of the car. Before Pluto can ignite the family's car, Jason moves so that when Pluto mirrors him he walks into the burning car. While the Wilsons are distracted by Pluto burning to death, Red appears and snatches Jason away. Adelaide chases after Red to the funhouse where they first met. She finds a secret entrance that leads to an underground facility overrun by white rabbits, and she finds Red in a classroom.Red tells Adelaide that "the Tethered" are actually genetic clones created by the government to control the originals on the surface. When the experiment failed, the Tethered were abandoned underground for generations, mindlessly mimicking the actions of their counterparts and surviving on rabbit meat. After they realized that Red was "different from the others,” she spent years organizing them to escape and take vengeance by murdering their counterparts. Red and Adelaide begin to fight, with Red evading and countering all of Adelaide's attacks. When Adelaide allows Red to attack, she impales Red with a fireplace poker, then strangles her to death and breaks her neck. She rescues Jason from a locker, and Jason also rescues one of the rabbits.While Adelaide drives the family away in the ambulance, she thinks back to the night she first met Red in the hall of mirrors. She remembers that the clone had choked Adelaide unconscious (damaging her larynx, making her voice raspy and guttural-sounding), dragged her underground, handcuffed her there, and returned above ground to usurp Adelaide's place in her life, eventually learning to speak and adjusting to living as a human being - she is the Tethered clone, and Red was the original Adelaide. Jason looks at his mother, who smiles at him.The Tethered have formed a human chain, replicating the Hands Across America demonstration, stretching across the United States as helicopters hover overhead.
GET OUT (2017 Theatrical Trailer) K.J. Norman 2022-11-15 | This is the theatrical trailer for the 2017 psychological horror feature "Get Out". Nominated for five Academy Awards, it won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay at the 90th Academy Awards.Written and directed by actor/comedian-turned-horror auteur Jordan Peele ("Mad TV", "Key & Peele") in his directorial debut, the movie was released as a co-production between Universal Pictures, Blumhouse Productions and Monkeypaw Productions (Peele's production company) on February 24, 2017.Chris Washington (Daniel Kaluuya) is a Black photographer from Brooklyn, New York, preparing for a weekend visit to Upstate New York, to meet the family of his white girlfriend, Rose Armitage (Allison Williams). Hesitant, he asks Rose if her family knows about their interracial relationship, but she assures him that they are not racist. While there, Rose's brother Jeremy (Caleb Landry Jones) and their parents, neurosurgeon Dean (Bradley Whitford) and hypnotherapist Missy (Catherine Keener), make disconcerting comments about Black people, and Chris witnesses strange behavior from the estate's Black housekeeper Georgina (Betty Gabriel) and groundskeeper Walter (Marcus Henderson).One night, Missy pressures Chris into a hypnotherapy session to cure his smoking addiction. While in a trance, he confesses that his mother was killed in a hit-and-run when he was a child and that he feels responsible for her death as he waited too long to call for help. He then enters a void Missy calls the "Sunken Place". The next morning, he assumes that the encounter was a dream until Walter acknowledges their brief session the night before. However, he is pleased to discover that the hypnosis was a success, as he no longer feels a desire to smoke.Dozens of wealthy white people arrive for the Armitages' annual get-together, and express admiration for Chris' physique and for Black figures such as Tiger Woods. Jim Hudson (Stephen Root), an art dealer who has gone blind in his old age, takes a particular interest in Chris' photography skills. Chris meets another Black man, Logan King (Lakeith Stanfield), who behaves strangely and is married to a much older white woman. Chris relays the information to his friend, TSA officer Rod Williams (Lil' Rel Howery). Chris tries to photograph Logan inconspicuously, but when his flash goes off, Logan becomes hysterical, shouting at Chris to "get out". The others restrain him, and Dean later claims that Logan had an epileptic seizure.Away from the party, Chris tells Rose that they should leave. Meanwhile, the party guests hold a silent auction with Chris as the "prize", with Jim making the winning bid. Rod recognizes "Logan" as Andre Hayworth, a missing man from Brooklyn. Suspecting a conspiracy, Rod tries to tell the police, but his claims are dismissed. While Chris packs to leave, he finds photos of Rose in prior relationships with several Black partners, including Walter and Georgina, contradicting her earlier claim that Chris is the first Black person she has dated. He tries to leave the house, but Rose and her family lock him in. Chris attacks Jeremy, but Missy uses a "trigger" that she implanted during his hypnosis, knocking him out.Chris awakens strapped to a chair in the basement. In a video presentation, Rose's grandfather Roman explains that the family transplants people's brains into others' bodies, granting them preferred physical characteristics and a twisted form of immortality. The host's consciousness remains in the Sunken Place, alive but powerless. The video then connects to a feed of Jim, speaking with Chris through an intercom. Jim says that although the Armitages target mainly black people, he doesn't care about Chris' race: he only wants his eyesight. Missy performs hypnosis, seemingly knocking Chris out.When Jeremy comes to fetch Chris for the surgery, it is revealed that Chris blocked the hypnosis trigger by plugging his ears with cotton stuffing pulled from the chair. Chris bludgeons Jeremy unconscious with a bocce ball and heads to the operating room where Dean is about to perform the surgery replacing Jim's body with Chris'. Chris impales Dean with the antlers of a deer mount, knocking over a candle which sets fire to the operating room with an anesthetized Jim inside. Missy attacks Chris in the kitchen but he stabs and kills her, and is then attacked again by Jeremy as he heads towards the door; he overpowers and kills Jeremy before leaving in the latter's car. On the way out, he hits Georgina – who is revealed to be possessed by Rose's grandmother, Marianne – and knocks her unconscious. Compelled by guilt from his mother's death, he decides to carry her into the car, but she awakens and attacks him. In the ensuing struggle, the car crashes and Georgina is killed.
MARVEL STUDIOS BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER (2022 Theatrical Trailer) K.J. Norman 2022-11-15 | This is the theatrical trailer for the 2022 superhero epic feature "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever", the sequel to the 2018 superhero feature "Black Panther", adapted from the Marvel Comics series of the same name. This is the final feature released in Phase Four of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, as well as the 30th film of Marvel Studios,The movie is dedicated to the memory of "Black Panther" star Chadwick Boseman (T'Challa), who passed from colon cancer in August of 2020.Directed by Ryan Coogler, the movie was released through Marvel Studios and Walt Disney Pictures on November 11, 2022.T'Challa, king of Wakanda, is suffering from an illness which his sister, Shuri (Letitia Wright), believes can be cured by the "heart-shaped herb". Shuri attempts to synthetically recreate the herb after it was destroyed by Killmonger, but fails to do so before he succumbs.One year later, Wakanda is under pressure from other nations to share their vibranium, with some parties attempting to steal it by force. Queen Ramonda (Angela Bassett) implores Shuri to continue her research on the heart-shaped herb, hoping to create a new Black Panther that will defend Wakanda, but she refuses due to her belief that the Black Panther is a figure of the past. In the Atlantic Ocean, the CIA and U.S. Navy SEALs utilize a vibranium-detecting machine to locate a potential vibranium deposit underwater. The expedition is attacked and killed by a group of blue-skinned water-breathing superhumans led by Namor (Tenoch Huerta), with the CIA believing Wakanda to be responsible. Namor confronts Ramonda and Shuri, easily bypassing Wakanda's advanced security. Blaming Wakanda for the vibranium race, he gives them an ultimatum: deliver him the scientist responsible for the vibranium-detecting machine, or he will attack Wakanda.Shuri and Okoye (Danai Gurira) learn from CIA agent Everett K. Ross (Martin Freeman) that the scientist in question is MIT student Riri Williams (Dominique Thorne) and arrive at the university to confront her. The group is pursued by the FBI and then by Namor's warriors, who defeat Okoye before taking Shuri and Williams underwater to meet Namor. Angered by Okoye's failure to protect Shuri, Ramonda strips her of her title as general of the Dora Milaje and seeks out Nakia (Lupita Nyong'o), who has been living in Haiti since the Blip. Namor shows Shuri his vibranium-rich underwater kingdom of Talokan, which he has protected for centuries from discovery by the world. Bitter at the surface world for enslaving the Maya, Namor proposes an alliance with Wakanda against the rest of the world but threatens to destroy Wakanda first if they refuse. Nakia helps Shuri and Williams escape, and Namor retaliates with an attack against Wakanda, during which Ramonda drowns saving Williams. Namor vows to return in a week with his full army, and the citizens of Wakanda relocate to the Jabari mountains for their safety.Meanwhile, Ross is arrested by his ex-wife and CIA director, Valentina Allegra de Fontaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), for secretly exchanging classified intelligence with the Wakandans. Using a remnant of the herb that gave Namor's people their superhuman abilities, Shuri reconstructs the heart-shaped herb and ingests it, gaining superhuman abilities and meeting Killmonger (Michael B. Jordan in a cameo role) in the Ancestral Plane, who urges her to seek revenge. Shuri dons a new Black Panther suit and is accepted by the other Wakandan tribes as the Black Panther. Despite M'Baku's (Winston Duke) urges for peace, Shuri is determined to exact vengeance on Namor for Ramonda's death and orders an immediate counterattack on Talokan. Preparing for battle, with Ayo (Florence Kasumba) assuming the position of general of the Dora Milaje, Shuri bestows the Midnight Angel armor upon Okoye, who in turn recruits Dora member Aneka to join her. Williams creates an Iron Man-esque powered exoskeleton to aid the Wakandans.The Wakandans lure Namor and his warriors to the surface as a battle ensues. Shuri traps Namor in a fighter aircraft, intending to dry him out and weaken him. The pair crashes on a desert beach and fight. Shuri gains the upper hand, but realizes the similarities between their paths and implores Namor to yield, offering him a peaceful alliance. Namor accepts, and the battle ends. Namor's cousin, Namora, is upset at Namor's surrender, but Namor reassures her that their new alliance will allow them to conquer the surface world one day. Williams returns to MIT, leaving her suit behind, while Okoye rescues Ross from captivity. In Shuri's absence, M'Baku steps forward to challenge for the throne. Shuri visits Nakia in Haiti where she burns her funeral ceremonial robe in accordance with Ramonda's wishes, allowing herself to finally grieve T'Challa.
THE ABYSS (1988 Teaser Theatrical Trailer) K.J. Norman 2022-11-15 | This is the teaser trailer released in 1988 for the upcoming 1989 science fiction adventure feature "The Abyss". The movie would be nominated four Academy Awards, winning one trophy for Best Visual Effects.Written and directed by James Cameron ("The Terminator", "Aliens", "Titanic", "Avatar"), as well as produced by his then wife Gale Anne Hurd, the movie was released through 20th Century-Fox on August 9, 1989.In January 1994, the U.S. Ohio-class submarine USS Montana has an encounter with an unidentified submerged object and sinks near the Cayman Trough. With Soviet ships moving in to try to salvage the sub and a hurricane moving over the area, the U.S. government sends a SEAL team to Deep Core, a privately owned experimental underwater drilling platform near the Cayman Trough to use as a base of operations. The platform's designer, Dr. Lindsey Brigman (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio), insists on going along with the SEAL team, even though her estranged husband Virgil "Bud" Brigman (Ed Harris) is the current foreman.During the initial investigation of the Montana, a power cut in the team's submersibles leads to Lindsey seeing a strange light circling the sub, which she later calls a "non-terrestrial intelligence" or "NTI". Lt. Hiram Coffey (Michael Biehn), the SEAL team leader, is ordered to accelerate their mission and takes one of the mini-subs without Deep Core's permission to recover a Trident missile warhead from the Montana just as the storm hits above, leaving the crew unable to disconnect from their surface support ship in time. The cable crane is torn from the ship and falls into the trench, dragging the Deep Core to the edge before it stops. The rig is partially flooded, killing several crew members and damaging its power systems.The crew waits out the storm so they can restore communications and be rescued. As they struggle against the cold, they find the NTIs have formed an animated column of water to explore the rig, which they equate to an alien version of a remotely operated vehicle. Though they treat it with curiosity, Coffey is agitated and cuts it in half by closing a pressure bulkhead on it, causing it to retreat. Realizing that Coffey is suffering paranoia from high-pressure nervous syndrome, the crew spies on him through an ROV, finding him and another SEAL arming the warhead to attack the NTIs. To try and stop him, Bud fights Coffey but Coffey escapes in a mini-sub with the primed warhead; Bud and Lindsey give chase in the other sub, damaging both. Coffey is able to launch the warhead into the trench, but his sub drifts over the edge and implodes from the pressure, killing him. Bud's mini-sub is inoperable and taking on water; with only one functional diving suit, Lindsey opts to enter deep hypothermia and trigger her mammalian diving reflex when the ocean's cold water engulfs her. Bud swims back to the platform with her body; there, he and the crew use a defibrillator and administer CPR, they are able to revive her.It is decided that the warhead needs to be disarmed, which is more than 2 miles below them. One SEAL, Ensign Monk (Adam Nelson), helps Bud use an experimental diving suit equipped with a liquid breathing apparatus to survive to that depth, though he will only be able to communicate through a keypad on the suit. Bud begins his dive, assisted by Lindsey's voice to keep him coherent against the effects of the mounting pressure, and reaches the warhead. Monk guides him in successfully disarming it. With little oxygen left in the system, Bud explains he knew it was a one-way trip, and tells Lindsey he loves her. As he waits for death, an NTI approaches Bud, takes his hand, and guides him to a massive alien city deep in the trench. Inside, the NTIs create an atmospheric pocket for Bud, allowing him to breathe normally. The NTIs then play back Bud's message to his wife and they look at each other with understanding.On Deep Core the crew is waiting for rescue when they see a message from Bud that he met some friends and warns them to hold on. The base shakes and lights from the trench herald the arrival of the alien ship. It rises to the ocean's surface, with Deep Core and several of the surface ships run aground on its hull. The crew of Deep Core exit the platform, surprised they are not dead from the sudden decompression. They see Bud walking out of the alien ship and Lindsey races to hug him.
BEHIND THE ATTRACTION (2021 Trailer) K.J. Norman 2022-11-07 | This is a trailer for the first season of "Behind The Attraction", a documentary series produced for the streaming platform Disney+ Executive produced by wrestler-turned-movie star Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Dany Garcia (Johnson's former wife and production partner) and Brian Volk-Weiss ("The Toys That Made Us"), this series takes an informative, yet tongue-in-cheek tackle on the popular Disney Parks. destinations and attractions history and how they have changed over time featuring a bunch of interviews with fans and Imagineers. The first five episodes of the first season were released on July 21, 2021. The remaining five were released one month later on August 25.1. "Jungle Cruise": A history of how the "world famous" Jungle Cruise was inspired by Disney's 1948-60 "True-Life Adventures" nature documentary movie series, how Imagineer Marc Davis added humor to the ride, and Dwayne Johnson appears to promote the 2021 big screen feature based on the attraction.2. "The Haunted Mansion": The Haunted Mansion was one of the last rides Walt Disney worked on before his death in 1966. This episode shows some behind-the-scenes conflicts on whether or not the ride should be scary or silly, as well as some of the technical challenges, and how the attraction is shown in different iterations in the parks around the world.3. "Star Tours": A young George Lucas was at Disneyland on its second day of operation. Almost thirty years later, the Disney company collaborated with Lucas for a new kind of simulator ride based on the "Star Wars" features. As the years go by, the attraction evolves into Star Tours: The Adventure Continues and makes way for Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge.4. "The Twilight Zone Tower Of Terror": After Disney-MGM Studios (now Disney's Hollywood Studios) opened in 1989, the park planned its first expansion to what would become Sunset Boulevard. This episode reveals how "The Twilight Zone" set the tone of the ride, as well as the challenges to program the elevator. As the popularity of the attraction grew, an entire new story and theme was created at Tokyo DisneySea and the attraction at Disney California Adventure gets a transformation to Guardians of the Galaxy – Mission: Breakout!.5. "Space Mountain": The creation of this thrill ride goes all the way back to the opening of the Matterhorn Bobsleds. The episode also explores Disneyland Paris incarnation, as well as how it served as the inspiration for Tron Lightcycle Power Run at Shanghai Disneyland, which is under construction at Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom. The original Space Mountain ride opened at Walt Disney World in early 1975. The Disneyland version opened two years later in 1977.6. "The Castles": The creation of the various icons of the Disney Parks is explored, beginning with Sleeping Beauty Castle in Disneyland, Cinderella Castle in the Magic Kingdom, Le Château de la Belle au Bois Dormant in Disneyland Paris, right down to the transformation of Hong Kong Disneyland's Sleeping Beauty Castle into the Castle of Magical Dreams.7. "Disneyland Hotel": The partnership between Walt Disney and Jack Wrather begins the opening of the original Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim. As time goes on, more amenities are added to the hotel, and with the opening of Walt Disney World comes even more options for resort hotels.8. "It's A Small World": While the "happiest cruise ever sailed" is a focal point, it is also a discussion on the evolution of Audio Animatronics in general, as well as Disney's contribution to the 1964 New York World's Fair.9. "Transportation": The various modes of transportation seen around the Disney Parks are discussed, including the railroad, the trams, as well as the monorail.10. "The Hall of Presidents": This is a story of how a solitary lifelike animated figure of Abraham Lincoln, as well as the abandoned concept of Liberty Street in Disneyland, led to one of the most technologically advanced attractions in the parks. The Hall of Presidents was one of the original opening attractions at Walt Disney Word in 1971, located at the park exclusive Liberty Square district.
THE IMAGINEERING STORY (2019 Trailer) K.J. Norman 2022-10-31 | This is the trailer for the 2019 documentary miniseries "The Imagineering Story", a six part miniseries created, executive produced and directed by Leslie Iwerks, who has a familial connection to The Walt Disney Company. (Her father, Don Iwerks, is a Disney Legend, having worked for the company for almost 4 decades. Don's father is Ub Iwerks, Walt Disney's original business partner and co-creator of the company's mascot Mickey Mouse)Narrated by Academy Award-nominated actress Angela Bassett, the series premiered on Disney's streaming service Disney+ on November 12, 2019, the day the app launched."The Imagineering Story" focuses on Walt Disney Imagineering, the subsidiary that Walt founded in the early 1950s that created all of the Disney Parks and attractions all around the world.Episode 1 ("The Happiest Place On Earth"): Covering 1928 to 1966, the episode takes a look at Walt's desire to create an amusement park that kids and adults could enjoy. To that end, he founded WED Enterprises (taken from his initials, Walter Elias Disney) and purchased an undisclosed amount of land in the Los Angeles suburb of Anaheim, California. Through sponsors and the television program "Disneyland" (better known as "The Wonderful World of Disney"), the company ended up building the iconic park Disneyland, which opened in 1955. An Immediate success, Walt would involve WED in the 1964 World's Fair in New York City, which gave birth to future Disney Parks attractions Carousel of Progress and It's A Small World. The episode ends with the announcement of Walt Disney's death from lung cancer in December 1966.Episode 2 ("What Would Walt Do?"): Covering 1967 to 1984, starting with the aftermath of Walt's death, his older brother Roy O. Disney honored his brother's wishes to created Walt Disney World, a sprawling resort complex near Orlando, Florida, which opened in October 1971. Roy would pass on in December of that year. Also covered its the subsequent conception and building of Disney World's second gate park EPCOT Center in 1982 and expansion overseas with Tokyo Disneyland in 1983. Around this time, the company becomes the focus of two hostile takeover attempts and the dismissal of current President/CEO Ron Miller, Walt's son-in-law.Episode 3 ("The Midas Touch"): Covering 1984 to 1994, former Paramount executive Michael Eisner and former Warner Bros. executive Frank Wells are tapped by board member Roy E. Disney (the elder Roy's son) to take over the company, and is led to a critical, creative and financial renaissance. Topics covered are the addition of Disney World's third gate park Disney-MGM Studios (now Disney's Hollywood Studios) in 1989, the building and initial failure of Euro Disneyland in 1992, and the death of Wells in a helicopter accident in 1994.Episode 4 ("Hit or Miss"): Covering 1994 to 2005, Topics covered include the success of Disney Cruise Line, Disney's Animal Kingdom, and Tokyo DisneySea (with inputs from Wing Chao); the unrealized projects of Disney's America and WestCOT; and the failures of Disney's California Adventure, Walt Disney Studios Park, and Hong Kong Disneyland.Episode 5 ("A Carousel of Progress): Topics covered include Bob Iger stepping in as CEO, the overhaul of California Adventure, the creation of Cars Land, the revamping of Disney attractions such as Haunted Mansion Holiday, adding Jack Sparrow to Pirates of the Caribbean, and the initial outcry of the addition of Disney characters to the Disneyland version of "It's a Small World", the creation of Mystic Manor, Ratatouille: L'Aventure Totalement Toquée de Rémy, and the announcement of Shanghai Disneyland.Episode 6 ("To Infinity and Beyond"): Topics range from the groundbreaking of Shanghai Disneyland, Pandora – The World of Avatar, Guardians of the Galaxy – Mission: Breakout!, Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge and future upcoming projects.
NOPE (2022 Theatrical Trailer) K.J. Norman 2022-10-31 | This is the theatrical trailer for the 2022 neo-Western science fiction horror feature "Nope".Directed, written and co-produced by actor/comedian-turned-horror auteur Jordan Peele ("Key & Peele", "Get Out", "Us"), the movie was released through Universal Pictures and Monkeypaw Productions (Peele's production company) on Friday, July 22, 2022.In 1998, in front of a studio audience for the sitcom "Gordy's Home", the titular chimpanzee animal actor attacks several of its human co-stars after being startled by the pop of a balloon. Child actor Ricky "Jupe" Park hides under a table and is unharmed, though traumatized by the experience. The chimp finds Jupe and extends his hand for a fist bump, before being shot dead by authorities.In present-day Agua Dulce, ranch owner Otis Haywood Sr. (Keith David) trains and handles horses for film and television productions. When he is killed by a nickel through the eye that falls inexplicably from the sky,[6] his children Otis "OJ" Haywood Jr. (Daniel Kaluuya, "Get Out") and Emerald "Em" Haywood (Keke Palmer) inherit the ranch. OJ tries to keep the business afloat and maintain his father's legacy, while Em seeks fame and fortune in Hollywood. The Haywoods claim that the jockey in "Plate 626" from Eadweard Muybridge's Animal Locomotion series of photographs was their ancestor.Six months later, while filming a commercial with prominent cinematographer Antlers Holst (Michael Wincott), one of the horses, Lucky, reacts aggressively when the crew startles it, and the Haywoods are fired from the project. The ranch's financial woes have forced OJ to sell horses to the now adult Jupe (Steven Yeun, "The Walking Dead"), who operates the nearby Jupiter's Claim, a small Western theme park where he exploits his story of the Gordy's Home massacre for profit. Jupe offers to buy the ranch from the Haywoods, an offer which Em encourages a reluctant OJ to accept.That night, the Haywoods notice their electricity fluctuating and their horses vanishing and violently reacting to an unknown presence. They discover an unidentified flying object (UFO) shaped like a flying saucer that has been taking their horses and then spitting out the inorganic matter, which caused their father's death. Motivated by a desire for wealth and fame, the siblings decide to document evidence of the UFO's existence and recruit Fry's Electronics employee Angel Torres (Brandon Perea) to set up surveillance cameras. Electrical interference from the UFO and a mantis on one of the cameras prevent them from getting clear footage, but Angel notices a nearby cloud that never moves. They deduce that it is the UFO's hiding place.Jupe introduces a live show in Jupiter's Claim and plans to use Lucky as bait to lure out the UFO, which he has been feeding the Haywoods' horses to for months, in front of an audience. The UFO arrives but devours Jupe and the entire audience. OJ deduces that the UFO is not a spaceship, but a predatory, territorial creature, and that it eats anything that looks directly at it. Utilizing similar methods to those used to break and train horses, OJ believes they can influence the creature's behavior to capture footage of it without being killed. Dubbing the creature "Jean Jacket" after a horse from their childhoods, the Haywoods decide to hire Holst for assistance. Holst initially refuses, but eventually agrees after hearing about the Jupiter's Claim incident.To circumvent Jean Jacket's effects on electronics, Holst brings a hand-cranked IMAX film camera to capture footage. With Angel, the group devise a plan to bait out Jean Jacket, with a field of electrically-powered tube man props to help them deduce its location in the sky. However, a paparazzo trespasses onto the field and is thrown from his electric motorcycle when it shuts down near Jean Jacket. He is devoured by Jean Jacket while begging OJ to film the event. Though Holst captures footage of Jean Jacket, his obsession with "the impossible shot" results in him being devoured alongside his camera, forcing the remaining three to flee. Angel survives an attack from Jean Jacket by being wrapped in a tarp and barbed wire, causing the creature to unfurl from its saucer shape to a jellyfish-like form.[a]OJ intentionally looks directly at Jean Jacket, allowing Em to use the motorcycle to rush to Jupiter's Claim. There, she untethers the park's large helium balloon mascot of Jupe. Jean Jacket attempts to feed on the balloon while Em uses an attraction's analog camera to photograph Jean Jacket before the balloon explodes, killing the creature.[b] With the picture as proof of the creature's existence and reporters arriving nearby, Em sees an unharmed OJ and Lucky standing outside of Jupiter's Claim.
DISNEYLAND 1989 Commercial (Splash Mountain) K.J. Norman 2022-10-27 | This is a commercial produced in 1989 for the debut of Splash Mountain, a log flume thrill ride, at the iconic Southern California theme park Disneyland.It is the fourth Disneyland "mountain" attraction after the Matterhorn Bobsleds in 1959, Space Mountain in 1977, and Big Thunder Mountain Railroad in 1979.Adapted with characters such as Br'er Rabbit, Br'er Fox and Br'er Bear from the animated sequence of the controversial 1946 Disney feature "Song of the South", the ride opened at Disneyland on July 17, 1989, which coincidentally was Disneyland's 34th birthday. Splash Mountain would make its' Florida debut at Walt Disney World on October 2, 1992. A third version would open at Tokyo Disneyland on the day before Florida.Splash Mountain was originally conceived in the summer of 1983 by Imagineer Tony Baxter while stuck in rush-hour traffic on his way to work. He wanted to attract guests to the often-empty Bear Country land in Disneyland, with the only attraction as the Country Bear Jamboree (which later closed in 2001), plus a souvenir shop, and make use of the Audio-Animatronics figures from America Sings, which was also poorly attended and was created in 1976 for the United States Bicentennial. It was Dick Nunis (then-president of Walt Disney attractions) who insisted that the Imagineers create a log flume for Disneyland, but the Imagineers were initially unenthusiastic about it, feeling that log flumes were too ordinary a theme park attraction to include in a Disney park. While trying to solve the problems of including a log flume, bringing people into Bear Country and reusing the America Sings characters, Baxter thought of "Song of the South".Baxter and his team developed the concept of Zip-a-Dee River Run, which would incorporate scenes from Song of the South. The name was later changed to Splash Mountain after then-CEO Michael Eisner's suggestion that the attraction be used to help market Walt Disney Studios' 1984 film Splash. The character figures from America Sings were used in many scenes, though all of the Br'er Rabbit, Br'er Fox, and Br'er Bear figures were specifically designed for Splash Mountain. Dave Feiten was then brought in to animate and fix story and staging problems. Feiten moved nearly all of the animatronics to new locations, removing 10 animatronic figures from the ride completely, to improve the show.[citation needed]Plans to build the ride were unveiled in January 1987. At the time of its unveiling, Disney officials stated they would not be expecting criticism for its Song of the South theming due to the ride only including the film's animated animal characters. Construction began at Disneyland in April of that year. By that time, Splash Mountain, whose budget had risen greatly to $75 million, had become one of the most expensive projects created by Walt Disney Imagineering. The entire park cost around $17 million to build in 1955, which translates to around $80 million in 1987. According to Alice Davis (wife of the late Marc Davis), when America Sings closed in April 1988, production of Disneyland's Splash Mountain had gone far over budget. The only way to recover was to close down America Sings and use the characters from that attraction.Splash Mountain was originally planned to open in January 1989, but this was delayed to mid-February due to technical issues. The ride's opening was delayed again, to mid-July, due to boat problems. Test riders made up of company executives were getting soaked rather than lightly sprayed, so the boats were re-designed to be lighter, hold up to seven passengers instead of eight, and have an underwater scoop to keep too much water from leaking in.Splash Mountain opened in Disneyland on July 17, 1989. To celebrate the opening, a television special was made called "Ernest Goes to Splash Mountain". Actor and comedian Jim Varney returned to play the title role of Ernest in the special. Plans to install a camera that took photos of guests as they went down the final drop were unveiled in November 1990.On January 14, 1990, Disney announced that Splash Mountain would be brought to Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom.[13] In 1991, construction began for the attraction at the Magic Kingdom and Tokyo Disneyland. On July 17, 1992, soft openings began at the Magic Kingdom. The two versions of Splash Mountain officially opened within a day of each other in October 1992: the Tokyo Disneyland attraction opened on October 1, and the Magic Kingdom attraction opened on October 2.In 2020, it was announced that both Disneyland and Walt Disney World would retheme Splash Mountain into "Tiana's Bayou Adventure", adapted from the 2009 animated feature "The Princess and the Frog". Splash Mountain is expected to close at both parks in early 2023 to make the new rethemed ride's opening date in late 2024.
HALLOWEEN ENDS (2022 Theatrical Trailer) K.J. Norman 2022-10-14 | This is the theatrical trailer for the 2022 slasher horror feature "Halloween Ends", the thirteenth-and final-entry in the "Halloween" franchise as well as the third-and-final entry in the H40 Timeline, the trilogy of sequels that commenced with the 2018 feature, which directly follows the 1978 feature and disregards all other entriesDirected by David Gordon Green, the movie was released theatrically by Universal Pictures on Friday, October 14, 2022 and on the streaming service Peacock.On Halloween night 2019, Corey Cunningham (Rohan Campbell) is babysitting a young boy named Jeremy, who pulls a prank by locking him inside the attic. Just as Jeremy’s parents come home, Corey kicks the door open and accidentally knocks Jeremy off the balcony to his death, and Corey is accused of intentionally killing Jeremy.Three years later, the town of Haddonfield, Illinois is still reeling from the aftermath of Michael Myers's (James Jude Courtney and Nick Castle) latest killing spree on Halloween night 2018, forty years to the date of the original Babysitter Murders in 1978. While Michael has vanished, Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) is writing a memoir, having bought a new house and living with Allyson (Andi Matichak), her granddaughter, since Allyson's mother (and Laurie's daughter) Karen were slaughtered by Michael. The town has turned on Laurie, blaming her for Michael's rampage and accusing her of encouraging him.Meanwhile, Corey is now working at his uncle's salvage yard, still hated by the suspicious town. On his way home one day he is taunted by high school bullies and injures himself in the process. While observing, Laurie later brings him to the doctor's office where Allyson works. The two begin developing a relationship and attend a Halloween party, but Corey is confronted by Jeremy's mother, leaves the party, and is confronted by the high schoolers. He ends up getting thrown off a bridge, and Corey is dragged into the sewers by an unknown figure. Corey wakes up in the sewers and is confronted by Michael, who has been living in the sewers for the past four years. After holding him by the throat, Michael elects to let Corey go. On the way out of the sewers, Corey is confronted by a homeless man with a knife. In a struggle, Corey stabs the man. Once realizing what has happened, he continues stabbing him. He throws the knife and runs away.Corey and Allyson make up and go on a dinner date, but Allyson's ex, who is a police officer, shows up and harasses them both. This leads Corey to later lure the cop into the sewers, where Michael kills him. Allyson finds out she was passed over for a promotion in favor of a fellow nurse who is having an affair with the doctor. Corey and Michael team up and murder the doctor and nurse at the doctor's home.Allyson and Corey plan to leave Haddonfield because of the past trauma and have an unpleasant encounter with a radio DJ, who insults both of them. Corey goes home, where his mother is cruel to him and slaps him, so he leaves and sleeps in the house where Jeremy died. Meanwhile, Laurie has become increasingly suspicious of Corey after he begins mimicking Michael's behavior and hunts him down at Jeremy's house, where she forbids him to leave with Allyson. Corey retorts by blaming her for the events that have occurred in Haddonfield and says if he cannot have Allyson, no one will.On Halloween day, Corey returns to the sewers and successfully fights Michael for his mask. Meanwhile, Laurie and Allyson argue as she plans to leave and Allyson, too, blames Laurie for Michael's actions. That night, Corey embarks on a rampage, murdering the high schoolers at the salvage yard. In the confusion, Corey's uncle is also accidentally killed. He then goes on to kill his mother, as well as the DJ and receptionist at the radio station. Back at the Strode house, Laurie faux-attempts suicide to lure Corey to her, whom she shoots down the stairs. Corey then stabs himself in the neck to frame Laurie for his death in front of the arriving Allyson. Michael suddenly arrives to retrieve his mask and kills Corey by breaking his neck, and after a struggle, Laurie is able to pin Michael to the table with a knife in both hands. She then removes his mask and slits his throat. As Michael is dying, he rips a hand free and tries to strangle Laurie, but Allyson shows up and breaks his arm. Laurie then slices open Michael's arms and he dies.With Michael finally dead, Laurie takes his body to the salvage yard, attracting the residents of Haddonfield, who follow her in a procession. She dumps his body into an industrial shredder at Corey's uncle's scrapyard. In the ensuing days, Allyson and Laurie reconcile. Allyson leaves Haddonfield after discovering the truth about Corey while Laurie finishes her memoir and rediscovers her romance with Officer Hawkins.
DISNEYLAND 1979 Commercial (Big Thunder Mountain Railroad) K.J. Norman 2022-10-14 | This is a commercial produced in 1979 for the Southern California theme park Disneyland to advertise the opening of its' newest thrill ride: a mine train roller coaster ride entitled Big Thunder Mountain Railroad. The original version of the ride opened at Disneyland on September 2, 1979. Three additional versions of that ride opened at three Disney parks worldwide between 1980 and 1992. The second version of BTMRR opened at the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World in Florida on November 15, 1980. The third version opened at Tokyo Disneyland in Japan on July 4, 1987. The last one oto date, and probably the most expansive, opened at Disneyland Paris (fka Euro Disneyland) on the day of that park's opening: April 12, 1992.Along with Space Mountain and Splash Mountain, it is also acknowledged as a descendant of Disney Parks' first "mountain" attratction, the Matterhorn Bobsleds, which opened at Disneyland in 1959.Although the details of the backstory vary from park to park, all follow the same general story arc. Sometime in the late 1800s, gold was discovered on Big Thunder Mountain in the American Southwest. Overnight, a small mining town became a thriving one (Rainbow Ridge in Disneyland; Tumbleweed in Florida; Thunder Mesa in Disneyland Paris). Mining was prosperous, and an extensive line of mine trains was set up to transport the ore. Unknown to the settlers, the mountain was a sacred spot to local Native Americans and was cursed.[1]Before long, the settlers' desecration of the mountain caused a great tragedy, which, depending on the park, is usually depicted to be an earthquake (Disneyland and Disneyland Paris), a tsunami (Tokyo Disneyland), a flash flood (Walt Disney World), which befell the mines and town, and the town was abandoned. Some time later, the locomotives were found to be racing around the mountain on their own, without engineers or a crew. The Big Thunder Mountain Railroad was founded in the old mining camp to allow wanderers to take rides on the possessed trains.The detailed backstory, while present in park literature and training materials, is not communicated to park guests directly. The station buildings on all four versions of the ride are themed to appearance of a mining company office from the mid to late 19th century. In the Disneyland park, there is music and laughing in one of the saloons of Rainbow Ridge, and a typewriter is heard from a newspaper office. The mountains themselves are themed to the red rock formations of the American Southwest. The rock work designs in the Disneyland version are based on the hoodoos of Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah. In the Florida, Tokyo and Paris versions of the ride, the rockwork designs are based on the rising buttes that are located in Arizona and Utah's Monument Valley. Special care was taken by the Imagineers to make it appear that the rocks were there originally, and the track was built around the rocks, unlike a number of earlier mine rides, which were built the other way around (by sculpting the rocks around the tracks). There is also a dinosaur skeleton that the train passes by in all versions of the ride except the Paris version. A cracked eggshell is nearby, and there is a pleasant lake with water that is shot up while the train passes on the warmer days. Sound effects of a typical locomotive operation are piped into the surrounding scenery to add realism to guests viewing the ride from observation platforms, including the steam whistle sounding, even though there is no whistle displayed on the locomotives.
WDIV-TV 1982 Go 4 it Ident K.J. Norman 2022-10-12 | This is one of the many idents used by television station WDIV-TV Channel 4, Detroit's NBC affiliate.This logo was a part of the long running "Go 4 It" station image campaign of the 80s
PEARL (2022 Theatrical Trailer) K.J. Norman 2022-09-29 | This is a theatrical trailer for the 2022 slasher horror feature "Pearl", a movie that serves as the sequel and prequel to "X" released 5 months earlier. This movie was also shot back to back secretly with "X"Directed by Ti West and executive produced by rapper/actor Scott Mescudi aka Kid Cudi, the movie was released through independent studio A24 on September 16, 2022.In 1918, Pearl (Mia Goth, wo co-wrote the script wit Ti West) is a young woman living with her German immigrant parents on their Texas homestead while her husband, Howard (Alistair Sewell) , is serving in World War I. Pearl's father (Matthew Sunderland) is infirm and paralyzed, and her domineering mother, Ruth (Tandi Wright), insists that she help care for both him and the farm. Pearl, longing for a more exciting life, is captivated by the films she sees at the local cinema and aspires to become a chorus girl, much to Ruth's disapproval.At the cinema, Pearl meets a young projectionist (David Corenswet) who takes a liking to her. While riding her bicycle home, Pearl stops along a cornfield and begins dancing with a scarecrow, fantasizing about the projectionist, and masturbates with it. She later sneaks out of the house at night and visits the projectionist, who shows her A Free Ride, an illicit stag film he acquired in Europe. He encourages Pearl to pursue her dreams. Pearl comments that she cannot abandon her family, and that she wishes they were dead.Pearl's affluent sister-in-law, Mitsy (Emma Jenkins-Purro), tells her of an audition being held to acquire new dancers for a traveling troupe, which Pearl envisions as a way out of her circumstance. When Ruth finds a pamphlet Pearl took from the cinema, the two get into a fierce argument over dinner. A physical altercation erupts, during which Pearl shoves her mother against the kitchen hearth, igniting her dress and resulting in Ruth suffering life-threatening burns. Pearl drags Ruth into the basement and leaves her father seated in the kitchen. She flees to the cinema in torrential rain, where she has sex with the projectionist.In the morning, the projectionist drives Pearl back to the farm so she can prepare for the audition. He is perturbed by a now maggot-infested roasted pig Mitsy's mother left for Ruth the day prior, and by inconsistencies Pearl has told him, as well as by her extremely theatrical behavior. When he attempts to leave, Pearl flies into a fit of rage at his abandonment of her, and stabs him to death with a pitchfork before pushing his car—with his corpse in it—into a pond, where an alligator she has nicknamed Theda eats his remains. Pearl dresses herself in one of Ruth's lavish gowns, and dresses up her father before smothering him to death.Pearl arrives at the church where the audition is being held. She gives a dance performance she feels will win over the talent scouts, but is profoundly distraught when she is rejected for not being young, blonde, or "all American". Mitsy accompanies her home in an attempt to console her. In the kitchen, Pearl makes a lengthy confession to Mitsy about her resentment toward Howard, who came from a privileged background but insisted that the couple remain on her family's farm. She further confesses her feelings of alienation and insecurity, and to taking the lives of her parents and the projectionist. A stunned Mitsy attempts to leave, falsely assuring Pearl she will not divulge their conversation. However, when Pearl forces Mitsy to confess that she was chosen by the talent scouts, Pearl chases her down the driveway and kills her with an axe.Pearl dismembers Mitsy's body and feeds her corpse to Theda, before going into the basement and lying with a deceased Ruth. Having reached the conclusion that her mother was correct and that Pearl should "make the best of what she has", she decides to remediate her wrongdoings by creating a comfortable home for Howard when he returns from the war. The next morning, Howard arrives unexpectedly. In the kitchen, he is horrified to find the bodies of Pearl's parents seated at the dining table around the rotting pig. Pearl greets him with a protracted, pained expression of joy.
X (2022 Theatrical Trailer) K.J. Norman 2022-09-29 | This is the theatrical trailer for the 2022 slasher horror feature "X". This movie is the first in a trilogy, which includes the prequel "Pearl" shot back to back with "X", and the upcoming sequel "MaXXXine", still in development.Produced, written, directed and edited by Ti West, the movie was released through independent studio A24 on March 18, 2022.In 1979, aspiring pornographic actress Maxine Minx (Mia Goth) embarks on a road trip through Texas with her producer boyfriend Wayne (Martin Henderson, "Torque"), fellow actors Bobby-Lynne (Brittany Snow, "Pitch Perfect") and Jackson Hole (rapper/actor Kid Cudi, billed under his real name Scott Mescudi, who is an executive producer on this movie), director RJ (Owen Campbell), and RJ's girlfriend, Lorraine (Jenna Ortega, "Scream 2022"), to shoot an adult film for the booming theatrical pornography market. Bobby-Lynne and Jackson strike up a romance, while Lorraine is unimpressed with the film's content, and RJ attempts to make it seem like a serious cinematic piece.The group arrives at the farm of Howard (Stephen Ure) and Pearl (Goth in a dual role), an elderly couple in whose guest house the group intends to shoot the film "The Farmer's Daughters". Howard is temperamental towards the group, brandishing a shotgun while Pearl silently stalks Maxine. As filming commences without Howard's knowledge, Maxine is invited inside the couple's home by Pearl, where they have a conversation. Pearl laments her age, expresses jealousy for Maxine's youth, and makes a sexual advance towards her. She later watches Maxine have sex with Jackson and is aroused. Pearl pleads with Howard to have sex with her but he refuses, claiming his heart is too weak.Night falls and the film crew relax in the guesthouse. Lorraine, keen to shed her reputation as a prude and intrigued by the film, asks to participate in the shoot. RJ is immediately opposed to the idea, and accuses the group of putting her up to it; though they assure him that they did not, and that Lorraine’s choice to be in the movie falls on her alone, regardless of his feelings. RJ then films the scene of Lorraine and Jackson having sex. Frustrated and in shock, RJ sets out to leave the crew stranded at the farm while they are asleep, but he is stopped by Pearl, who attempts to seduce him. When he rebuffs her, she stabs him to death. Lorraine and Wayne notice RJ is missing and go searching. Wayne is killed with a pitchfork in the barn by Pearl. Lorraine is invited into the couple's house by Howard, who claims Pearl is missing, and asks Lorraine to retrieve a flashlight from the basement. When Lorraine attempts to leave the basement, she discovers she has been locked in. After turning on the light she discovers a man’s rotting corpse.Howard approaches the guest house and asks Jackson to help him locate Pearl. Jackson finds a submerged car in a pond before Howard shoots him dead, revealing himself to be complicit in Pearl's violent tendencies. Meanwhile, Pearl enters the guest house and climbs into Maxine's bed, naked. Maxine awakens and screams, causing Pearl to flee the house, which Bobby-Lynne witnesses. In the farmhouse, Lorraine uses a hatchet to break through a panel in the basement door, but Howard attacks her, breaking her finger, and forces her back inside. Bobby-Lynne follows Pearl outside to the nearby lake and tries to guide her away from the water. Pearl angrily accuses Bobby-Lynne of being a whore before pushing her into the lake where she is devoured by an alligator.Maxine sees Pearl and Howard return to the guest house and hides under the bed. The elderly couple discuss the murders before having sex. Maxine manages to flee to the van, where she finds RJ's corpse, and the keys missing. Armed with a pistol from the glovebox, Maxine enters the farmhouse and frees Lorraine, who angrily blames Maxine for what has happened. Lorraine panics and runs out the front door, only to be shot by Howard. As Howard and Pearl begin moving the bodies, intent on framing the crew as intruders, a dying Lorraine startles Howard, who has a heart attack and dies.Maxine retrieves the keys to Howard and Pearl's truck, and attempts to shoot Pearl, but the pistol is not loaded. Pearl tries to shoot Maxine, who dodges, while the recoil from the shotgun causes Pearl to fall and break her hip. As Pearl lies injured outside the house, she begs Maxine for help. Maxine refuses and as Pearl berates her, Maxine runs her over with the truck, crushing Pearl's head. Maxine drives away from the farm. The next morning, the police arrive at the house to retrieve the bodies.It is revealed that Maxine is the daughter of a fundamentalist Christian preacher, whose speeches were frequently playing on Pearl and Howard's television. The police discover RJ's camera and speculate about what it contains.
MONSTER CEREALS 1987 Commercial (The Debut of Fruity Yummy Mummy) K.J. Norman 2022-09-29 | This is a comerical produced in 1987 for the Monster Cereals line of General Mills breakfast cereals.This marks the debut of the fifth entry in the Monster Cereal line, Fruity Yummy Mummy, a new fruit flavored marshmallow cereal that is a descendant of the line's original fruit flavored cereal, Fruit Brute, which was discontinued in 1982.This is also the debut of the newest mascot, Fruity Yummy Mummy, a mummy that loved fruit, that mainly complemented Count Chocula, Franken Berry and Boo Berry, serving as a replacement for Fruit Brute.
MONSTER CEREALS 1974 Commercial (The Debut of Fruit Brute) K.J. Norman 2022-09-29 | This is a commercial produced in 1974 for the Monster Cereals line of General Mills breakfast cereals.This is the debut of the newest entry in the Monster Cereals line, Fruit Brute, a fruit flavored cereal with fruit flavored marshmallows.This also marked the debut of Fruit Brute, a fruit loving werewolf based off of Lon Chaney, Jr.'s portrayal of the Wolf Man, to complement Count Chocula, Franken Berry, and Boo Berry. The cereal was first discontinued in 1982. It was briefly relaunched in 2013, but discontinued one year later. It was releaunched again as a part of Monster Mash Cereal, a combination of all five monster cereals, as a part of the 50th anniversary of Monster Cereals.
MONSTER CEREALS 1973 COMMERCIAL (The Debut of Boo Berry) K.J. Norman 2022-09-29 | This is a commercial produced in December 1973 for the Monster Cereals line of General Mills breakfast cereals.This marks the debut of Boo Berry, the world's first blueberry flavored cereal with blueberry flavored marshmallows, to complement the chocolate flavored Count Chocula and the strawberry flavored Franken Berry.This also marks the debut of the line's newest mascot, also named Boo Berry, a blue tinted ghost based off of renowned horror genre actor Peter Lorre and voiced by cartoon legend Paul Frees.
MONSTER CEREALS 1971 Commercial (The Debut of Count Chocula and Franken Berry) K.J. Norman 2022-09-29 | This is an animated comercial that first aired in March 1971 for the debut of Monster Cereals, two new breakfast cereals produced by cereal giant General Mills.The Monster Cereals debuting in question are the chocolate flavored Count Chocula and the strawberry flavored Franken Berry.This also marks the on-screen debut of both cereals' respective mascots: Count Chocula, a chocolate loving vampire that is a parody of the Universal Studios iteration of the iconic monster Count Dracula. And then, Franken Berry, a strawberry loving monster parody of Frankenstein's monster.
SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES (1983 Teaser Trailer) K.J. Norman 2022-09-16 | This is a teaser trailer for the 1983 dark fantasy action feature "Something Wicked This Way Comes", with a screenplay adapted by novelist Ray Bradbury, based on his 1962 novel of the same name.Directed by Jack Clayton, the movie was released through a co-production of Walt Disney Productions and The Bryna Company on April 29, 1983.Coincidentally, this movie was that last movie released under the Walt Disney Productions banner, as the label would be renamed Walt Disney Pictures in October, 1983. This was the next to last Disney movie produced before the Michael Eisner-Frank Wells takeover in 1984.In Green Town, Illinois, two young boys, a reserved Will Halloway (Vidal Peterson), and somewhat rebellious Jim Nightshade (Shawn Carson), leave from an after-school detention for "whispering in class" and hurry off for home. The boys live next door to each other and were born a minute apart on Halloween. Will lives with his grey-haired father Charles (Jason Robards) and mother (Ellen Geer) while Jim lives with his single mother; it is heavily implied that his father walked out on them. A lightning rod salesman named Tom Fury (Royal Dano) arrives and sells one to Jim, claiming that it will protect him from an upcoming storm. The boys soon hear of a carnival coming to town led by the ominous Mr. Dark (Jonathan Pryce).The carnival arrives and is set up overnight. Will and Jim notice that many of the residents seem oddly entranced by some of the attractions such as the amputee bartender Ed (James Stacy) who sees his missing arm and leg return in a mirror and the boys' teacher Miss Foley (Mary Grace Canfield) who wishes to regain her youth. Will and Jim see a carousel that is closed off and are confronted by Mr. Dark who quickly becomes suspicious of them. Later, they witness Mr. Dark using the carousel on his assistant Mr. Cooger (Bruce M. Fischer) who reverts to a little boy. Will and Jim head off to see Foley, but she is with her "nephew" who is actually Cooger and are forced to leave.Foley suddenly becomes younger, but loses her vision and is taken by Cooger to Dark. Will gets into an argument with Jim when the latter reveals that he has always been envious of the former being older and wants to use the carousel. However, they witness Fury being tortured by Mr. Dark who wants the secret of the upcoming storm and uses his other assistant the Dust Witch to seduce him, but to no avail. The boys run when they are found out and try to go to bed. In the middle of the night, the two are attacked by spiders, but the lightning rod that Fury gave Jim earlier saves them.In the morning, Mr. Dark leads his carnival, now consisting of some of the townspeople, in a parade though Will and Jim deduce that it is a search party for them. Charles eventually figures out that the boys are in trouble and when confronted by Mr. Dark manages to deter him. Charles, Will and Jim head to the library where the former reveals that the carnival had come to town before and that his own father had fought them. Mr. Dark arrives searching for Will and Jim and offers Charles his youth back, but he resists. He knocks out Charles and makes off with the boys back to the carnival. Charles regains himself and heads to the carnival just as the storm arrives. He runs into Jim's mother and deters her before she too succumbs to Mr. Dark's powers.Charles heads into the hall of mirrors where Mr. Dark continues to taunt him about his age. However, Will declares his love for his father and repels the Dust Witch (Blaxploitation legend Pam Grier), allowing Fury to escape his imprisonment and impale her with a lightning rod. Will and Charles find Mr. Dark attempting to use the carousel with Jim in tow, but they rescue him just as lightning strikes the ride. As Mr. Dark begins to age and decay, Will and Charles express happiness to awaken Jim and the three flee just as the carnival begins to get sucked away into a giant twister. Will, Jim and Charles head back into town and begin to happily dance back home, with the danger now over.
FLIGHT OF THE NAVIGATOR (1986 Theatrical Trailer) K.J. Norman 2022-09-16 | This is the theatrical trailer for the 1986 science fiction adventure family feature "Flight of the Navigator"Directed by Randal Kleiser, the movie was released through a co-production between Walt Disney Pictures and Producers Sales Organization on August 1, 1986.On July 4, 1978, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 12-year-old David Freeman (Joey Cramer) walks through the woods to pick up his 8-year-old brother, Jeff (Albie Whitaker), from a friend's house when he falls into a ravine and is knocked unconscious. When he comes to, eight years have passed and it is now 1986. He has not aged, and his appearance exactly matches his missing child poster. He is reunited with his aged parents Bill (Cliff DeYoung) and Helen (Veronica Cartwright, "Alien") and the now 16-year-old Jeff (now played by Matt Adler).Meanwhile, an alien spaceship crashes through power lines and is captured by NASA. Hospital tests on David's brainwaves reveal images of it. Dr. Louis Faraday (Howard Hesseman, "Head of the Class", "WKRP in Cincinnati"), who has been studying it, persuades David to come to a NASA research facility for just 48 hours, promising him they can help learn what happened to him. Faraday discovers that his mind is full of alien technical manuals and star charts far exceeding NASA's research, and that he was taken to the planet Phaelon, 560 light years away, in just 2.2 hours (approx. 2,105,990.4 x c). Having travelled faster than light, he has experienced time dilation, explaining how eight years have passed on Earth, but not for him. Faraday decides to keep him there to finish his investigation, breaking his 48-hour promise.Following a telepathic communication from the spaceship, David secretly boards it and meets its robotic commander, "Trimaxion Drone Ship" ("Max" , voice of Paul Reubens aka Pee-Wee Herman, credited as "Paul Mall"), who calls him the "Navigator". They escape from the facility and Max tells David that his mission is to travel the galaxy collecting biological specimens for analysis on Phaelon before returning them to their homes. Phaelon's scientists discovered that humans only use 10% of their brain and, as an experiment, filled the remainder of David's with miscellaneous information. Max returned him to Earth, but not to his own time, having determined a trip back in time would be dangerous for a human. When Max crashed the spaceship, the computer's data was erased. So he needs the information in David's brain to return home.While Max prepares for a mind transfer, David meets other alien specimens on board and bonds with a "Puckmaren", a tiny bat-like creature that is the last of his kind after a comet destroyed his planet. During the mind transfer, Max contracts human emotions and behaves eccentrically. His and David's bickering trigger UFO reports in Tokyo and the US. Meanwhile, NASA intern Carolyn McAdams (Sarah Jessica Parker), who befriended David, tells his family about his escape in the spaceship, so Faraday has them confined to their house, and Carolyn is sent back to the facility.When the spaceship stops at a gas station, David calls Jeff, who sets off fireworks on the roof to locate their house. David and Max arrive there, but NASA agents have tracked the spaceship. Fearing institutionalization if he remains in 1986, David orders Max to return him to 1978, accepting the risk of vaporization. He awakes in the ravine, walks home, and finds everything as he left it. During the Fourth of July celebration, Jeff sees that the Puckmaren has stowed away in David's backpack. David tells him to keep it a secret, while Max flies home across the firework-lit sky, calling "See you later, navigator!".
THE HAUNTED MANSION (2003 Theatrical Trailer) K.J. Norman 2022-09-14 | This is the theatrical trailer for the 2003 supernatural action comedy horror family feature "The Haunted Mansion". This is a live action adaptation of the real live attraction at five of the seven Disney theme parks worldwide The original attraction, which was a labor or love due to the recent death of Walt Disney, opened in 1969 at Disneyland in California.This is also the fifth Disney movie based around an attraction, which includes "Tower of Terror", "The Country Bears", "Mission To Mars" and the "Pirates od the Caribbean" movie series.Directed by Rob Minkoff, the movie was released through Walt Disney Pictures on November 26, 2003.Jim (Eddie Murphy) and Sara Evers (Marsha Thomason) are successful realtors with two children, Michael (Marc John Jefferies) and Megan (Aree Davis). A workaholic with little time for his family, Jim misses his wedding anniversary and tries to make amends by suggesting a vacation to the nearby lake. Sara is contacted by the occupants of Gracey Manor, located in the nearby bayou; Jim, eager to make a deal after learning where the mansion is, takes his family there, meeting its owner, Edward Gracey (Nathaniel Parker), his butler Ramsley (Terence Stamp) and his other servants; maid Emma (Dina Spybey) and footman Ezra (Wallace Shawn).When a rainstorm floods the nearby river, Gracey lets the family stay for the night. Ramsley takes Jim to the library to discuss the deal with Gracey, but Jim becomes trapped in a secret passage. Gracey gives Sara a tour of the mansion, discussing his past and his “grandfather”'s death after the suicide of his lover, Elizabeth Henshaw. Megan and Michael follow a spectral orb to the attic, where they find a portrait of a woman that bears an almost identical resemblance to Sara. Emma and Ezra appear, and identify the woman as the late Elizabeth.Meanwhile, Jim meets Madame Leota (Jennifer Tilly), the ghost of a gypsy whose head is encased in a crystal ball. He runs into Emma, Ezra and his children, and returns to Leota for answers about Elizabeth's likeness to Sara. It is then revealed that the mansion’s inhabitants are ghosts, cursed a century ago by Elizabeth's and Gracey’s untimely deaths, and can only enter the afterlife when the lovers are reunited; Sara is believed to be Elizabeth's reincarnation. Leota sends the Evers to the mansion's cemetery to find a key that will reveal the truth about Elizabeth's death. In a crypt beneath a mausoleum, Jim and Megan find the key, but inadvertently disturb its undead residents. However, they escape with help from Michael, who overcomes his arachnophobia.Leota leads them to a trunk in the attic, which Jim unlocks to find a letter Elizabeth wrote to Gracey, revealing she truly loved him and wanted to marry him, indicating that she did not commit suicide as everyone believed. Ramsley then appears and reveals he murdered Elizabeth to prevent Gracey from abandoning his heritage, as he believed their relationship was unacceptable. To hide the truth, Ramsley traps the children in a trunk and literally throws Jim out of the mansion. As Gracey and Sara rendezvous in the ballroom, she is confused when he asks if she recognizes him, and he insists she is his beloved Elizabeth. The room fills with dancing ghosts as Gracey reveals his ghostly self, but Sara denies being Elizabeth. This gives Gracey second thoughts, but Ramsley insists that Sara is Elizabeth and, in time, she will remember. Ramsley then blackmails Sara into marrying Gracey in exchange for her children's safety.Encouraged by Leota, Jim manages to re-enter the mansion, rescue his children, and stop Sara and Gracey's wedding. He gives Gracey Elizabeth's letter and Ramsley's crime is exposed. As Gracey angrily confronts Ramsley, the latter hypocritically-rages at his master's apparent selfishness for loving Elizabeth and summons wraiths to attack the group. However, with the truth revealed, a fiery entity emerges from the ballroom's fireplace and drags Ramsley down to Hell to face eternal punishment. Ramsley attempts to take Jim with him, but he is saved by Gracey. Sara collapses, having been poisoned by Ramsley during the wedding ceremony, but the spectral orb appears and possesses Sara. The orb is revealed to be Elizabeth's ghost, who could only be released from her current form once the truth was revealed, and thanks Jim for saving her. Elizabeth and Gracey reunite as Sara is subsequently revived.With the curse finally lifted, Gracey gives the Evers the deed to the mansion and departs to Heaven with Elizabeth, Emma, Ezra, and the mansion's other inhabitants. The Evers drive across the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway for a proper vacation, accompanied by Leota and four singing busts that they encountered while searching for the mausoleum, strapped to the back of their car.
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (2017 Theatrical Trailer) K.J. Norman 2022-09-11 | This is the theatrical trailer for the 2017 romantic musical fantasy feature "Beauty and the Beast". It is a live action remake of the 1991 Disney animated feature adapted from Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont's 1756 version of the 1740 fairy tale written by French novelist Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villaneuve.Directed by Bill Condon ("Dreamgirls"), the movie was released through Walt Disney Pictures on March 17, 2017, three weeks after it's London premiere on February 23rd.An enchantress (Hattie Morahan) disguised as an old beggar woman arrives at a castle during a ball and offers the host, a cruel and selfish young prince (Dan Stevens), an enchanted rose in return for shelter from a storm. When he refuses the offer, she reveals her true form and transforms him into a beast and his servants into household objects before erasing the castle, himself, and the servants from the memories of their loved ones and everyone else in the town. She warns the prince that the curse will only be broken, if he can learn to love another and have that person love him in return by the time the last petal of the rose falls, or else he will remain a beast for the rest of his life while his servants become inanimate.Several years later, in the small town of Villeneuve, Belle (Emma Watson, the "Harry Potter" franchise), the book-loving daughter of a widowed artist named Maurice (Kevin Kline), dreams of adventure. She constantly brushes off advances from Gaston (Luke Evans), a handsome yet conceited war veteran as he is not the type of man Belle wishes to marry. On Maurice's way to the market, he becomes lost in the forest and after narrowly escaping a pack of wolves he seeks refuge in the Beast's castle. However, the Beast imprisons him when he "stole" a rose from his garden as a gift to Belle. When Maurice's horse returns without him, Belle ventures out in search of him, and finds him locked in the castle dungeon. Belle asks the Beast to let her take Maurice's place, the Beast agrees but Maurice refuses. On the pretence of saying goodbye, Belle asks the Beast to allow her to say goodbye to her father. The Beast opens the gate to the cell, Belle hugs Maurice and surprises him by swapping places and shutting the gate on herself. The Beast drags Maurice away.Belle befriends the castle's servants, including candelabra/footman Lumiere (Ewan McGregor), mantel clock/majordomo Cogsworth (Ian McKellen), feather-duster/maid Plumette (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), teapot/housekeeper Mrs. Potts (Emma Thompson), and her son, Chip (Nathan Mack), who is now a teacup. They invite her to a spectacular dinner. When she wanders into the forbidden west wing and finds the rose, the Beast scares her into the woods. Belle is ambushed off-guard by the wolves from earlier, but the Beast rescues her, injuring himself in the process. As Belle nurses his wounds, a spark develops between them. The Beast shows Belle a gift from the enchantress, a book that transports readers wherever they want. Belle uses the book to visit her childhood home in Paris, where she discovers a plague doctor's mask and realizes that she and her father were forced to leave when her mother died from the Bubonic plague, the one thing her father couldn't tell her all those years.In Villeneuve, Maurice fails to convince the other villagers of the Beast and Belle's imprisonment. Gaston, seeing rescuing Belle as an opportunity to win her hand in marriage, agrees to help Maurice. When Maurice learns of his ulterior motive and rejects him, Gaston abandons him to be eaten by the wolves. Maurice is rescued by the town hermit Agathe, but when he tells the townsfolk of Gaston's crime and is unable to provide solid evidence, Gaston convinces them to send Maurice to an insane asylum.After sharing a romantic dance with the Beast, Belle discovers her father's predicament using a magic mirror. The Beast releases her to save Maurice, giving her the mirror to remember him with. Arriving back to the town, Belle reveals the Beast in the mirror much to the shock of the townsfolk, proving her father's sanity. Realizing that Belle loves the Beast, a jealous Gaston claims she has been charmed by dark magic and has her thrown into the asylum carriage with her father. He rallies the villagers to follow him to the castle to slay the Beast before he "curses" the whole village. Inside the asylum carriage, Belle tells her father that she already knows what happened to her mother and showed him the rose rattle she took from her magical visit to their old, abandoned home. Maurice and Belle escape, and Belle rushes back to the castle.During the battle, Gaston abandons his companion LeFou (Josh Gad), who then sides with the servants to fend off the villagers. Meanwhile, Gaston attacks the Beast in his tower, who is too depressed to fight back, but regains his spirit upon seeing Belle return.
PINOCCHIO (2022 Trailer) K.J. Norman 2022-09-11 | This is the trailer for the 2022 musical fantasy comedy feature "Pinocchio", a live action adaptation of the 1940 Walt Disney animated classic of the same name, which was adapted from the 1883 Carlo Collodi novel of the same name.Directed by Robert Zemeckis ("Forrest Gump", The "Back to the Future" Trilogy, "Romancing The Stone"), the movie was released through Walt Disney Pictures on their streaming app Disney+ on September 8, 2022.Late one night in a small Italian village, Jiminy Cricket (voice of Joseph Gordon-Levitt) enters the home of widowed elderly woodcarver Geppetto (Tom Hanks), who lives with his pet kitten Figaro, and his goldfish Cleo. Geppetto has completed work on a marionette based on his deceased son, which he names Pinocchio (voice of Benjamin Evan Ainsworth). Before retiring to bed, Geppetto makes a wish on a star.Later that night, the star magically brings Pinocchio to life and he is soon visited by the Blue Fairy (Cynthia Arivo), who tells him that if he acts brave, truthful and selfless, he can be a real boy. The Blue Fairy also appoints Jiminy the responsibility of being Pinocchio's conscience to teach him right from wrong. When Geppetto awakens and finds Pinocchio alive, he is at first shocked, but becomes overjoyed.After a few days, Geppetto decides that the time has come to send Pinocchio to school. However, Pinocchio is soon approached by con-artist fox "Honest" John (voice of Keegan-Michael Key) and his cat partner Gideon. Honest John convinces Pinocchio that he should live a life of fame in order to truly be a real boy, when he really plans to sell him to the puppet master Stromboli (Guiseppe Battiston) in exchange for money.When Jiminy, with the help of a seagull named Sofia (voice of Lorraine Bracco), convinces him to continue going to school, Pinocchio is thrown out by the headmaster on account of being a puppet. Pinocchio decides to go to Stromboli's after all with Jiminy unable stop him when Honest John places a glass jar over him. At Stromboli's theater, Pinocchio befriends one of Stromboli's employees Fabiana (Kyanne Lamaya) and her puppet Sabina (voice of Jaquita Ta'le). Pinocchio puts on a good show for the crowd, but Stromboli locks him in a bird cage to prevent him from ever leaving. Soon, Stromboli's coach ends up freeing Jiminy from the jar, and when he enters the coach, he manages to help Pinocchio escape when Pinocchio has him reach the keys to the lock on the cage by telling lies to make his nose grow long. Geppetto, Figaro, and Cleo go out to look for Pinocchio when he fails to come home for dinner.Soon, Pinocchio is swiped up by a coach full of children driven by a charismatic Coachman (Luke Evans, "Beauty and the Beast"), who is taking the boys and girls to Pleasure Island, an isle where misbehavior is encouraged. When they reach the island, Pinocchio slowly gets disturbed by the amount of sadism the kids commit, much to the amusement of an irresponsible boy named Lampwick (Lewin Lloyd). When Jiminy, who got separated from Pinocchio again, makes it to the island, he soon finds out that the boys and girls there get turned into donkeys and the Coachman sells them to the salt-mines with help from his fog-like henchmen. Pinocchio witnesses Lampwick get transformed himself at a billiard hall and he and Jiminy escape the island before the Coachman and his goons can get them, but not before Pinocchio gains a donkey's ears and tail.Pinocchio and Jiminy make it back to Geppetto's, but find that he's not home because Sofia gave him a flyer of Pleasure Island to let him know where Pinocchio is and that he sold all of his clocks to buy a boat to go there. While trying to find Geppetto, Pinocchio reunites with Fabiana and Sabina, who tell him that Stromboli has been arrested by the Carabinieri for the abuse of his exploited employees and they have taken over his puppet show. They offer Pinocchio to join them, but Pinocchio declines, wanting to save his father, which makes his donkey parts disappear. Sofia pulls a rope for Pinocchio to hold out to the sea, where they soon find Geppetto in his boat. Just as they reunite, they are swallowed by a giant sea monster named Monstro. They take refuge in a giant boat in Monstro's stomach, and Pinocchio gets the idea to make him sneeze by starting a fire within him. The plan is successful, and Monstro sneezes them out, but he gives a chase that ends with him and the group crashing on dry land and seemingly killing Geppetto.Believing his father has died, Pinocchio cries over him and a magic tear falls from his eye on Geppetto reviving him. Geppetto then tells Pinocchio that despite being a puppet, he has proven himself to be a true boy at heart for all that he's done and they depart for home. Meanwhile, Jiminy Cricket says in his narration that stories have been told of Pinocchio's becoming a real boy, but Jiminy doesn't confirm if they're true or not, despite a subtle hint being shown otherwise
NBC Wednesday Night Promos (May 7, 1984) K.J. Norman 2022-09-07 | This is a promo that aired on NBC for its upcoming Wednesday night programming schedule airing the night of Wednesday, May 9, 1984.1. "Real People" - New Episode2. "The Facts of Life" (S5 E25-26: "The Way We Were"): Season Finale. As the girls prepare for their summer vacations, they look back on the past, as seen in clips from previous episodes. Blair (Lisa Whelchel) and Jo (Nancy McKeon) ultimately get into a major argument, so Natalie (Mindy Cohn) and Tootie (Kim Fields) try to patch things up between the two.3. "St. Elsewhere" (S2 E21: "Rough Cut"): While Fiscus (Howie Mandel) gains popularity from his modeling debut and Caldwell (Mark Harmon) tries to prepare for a weekend in Paris, the residents wait to hear who will be dropped from the program.
CBS Sunday Night Promos (October 28, 1979) K.J. Norman 2022-09-07 | This is a promo that aired on CBS for its Sunday night schedule of newsmagazines, sitcoms and dramas airing the night of Sunday, October 28, 1979.1. "60 Minutes" - New Episode2. "Archie Bunker's Place" (S1 E7: "Building The Restaurant"): Construction on the restaurant expansion of the bar is underway, but the contractor Archie (Carroll O'Connor) and Murray (Martin Balsam) hired is demanding more money. Archie, who is determined that the restaurant will be a success, goes to a loan shark.3. "One Day At A Time" (S5 E5: "Home Again, Home Again"): Newlyweds Julie (Mackenzie Phillips) and Max (Michael Lembeck) return from their honeymoon to an apartment they can't afford because Max has been laid off from his job. They are forced to room with Ann (Bonnie Franklin) and Barbara (Valerie Bertinelli) in the meantime. Michael Lembeck (Max Horvath) is elevated to regular cast member in this episode.4. "Alice" (S4 E5: "Flo's Chili Reception"): Mel's (Vic Tayback) rival courts Flo (Polly Holliday) to get his chili recipe. The tension between Mel and Flo become so much that it gets to the point where he fires her, and Alice (Linda Lavin) is forced to imitate Flo.5. "The Jeffersons" (S6 E5: "Now You See It, Now You Don't - Part 2"): In this second part of a two part episode set on Halloween, while George (Sherman Hemsley) and the others are gathered in the bar waiting for the costume contest to start, Louise (Isabel Sanford) has a face-to-face confrontation in her apartment with the killer rabbit, who's now planning to make her his second victim. *In the previous episode, while borrowing Bentley's (Paul Benedict) telescope, Louise accidentally witnessed a criminal dressed in a rabbit suit murder someone.5. "Trapper John, M.D." (S1 E5: "The Shattered Image"): A pre-"Cheers" Shelley Long guest stars as a nurse's aide who is trying to get a job at San Francisco Memorial Hospital, but despite being a brilliant nurse's aid, she finds difficulty due to her past as an ex-con.
PHANTASM III: LORD OF THE DEAD (1994 Theatrical Trailer) K.J. Norman 2022-09-07 | This is the theatrical trailer for the 1994 science fantasy horror feature "Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead", the third entry in the Phantasm movie franchise and the second sequel to the 1979 feature "Phantasm".Written and directed by Don Coscarelli, the movie was released direct to video on May 6, 1994.Immediately after his apparent demise at the end of the previous film, a new Tall Man (Angus Scrimm) emerges from his dimension fork. At the same time, after being attacked and ejected from the hearse carrying Mike (A. Michael Baldwin reprising his role) and Liz, a still alive Reggie (Reggie Bannister) watches as the car drives on and explodes. Reggie finds Liz dead but saves Mike from the Tall Man by threatening to kill them all with a grenade. The Tall Man retreats with Liz's head but promises to return when Mike is well again.In 1988, after spending two years comatose in a hospital, Mike has a near death experience where his deceased brother Jody (Bill Thornbury) appears but is interrupted by the Tall Man. Awaking abruptly, he is attacked by a demonic nurse but quickly subdues her. Reggie arrives as she dies, her scalp bursting open to reveal a cranial sphere that takes off through the window after witnessing Mike awake. At Reggie's house, the Tall Man arrives via dimensional fork, fights off Reggie, transforms Jody into a charred sphere, and draws Mike through the gate with him.The next morning, Reggie awakens and begins traveling towards an Idaho town the Jody-sphere muttered called Holtsville. Upon arriving in the deserted town, he is captured by three looters, who lock him in the trunk of his 1970 Barracuda. Reggie is rescued by a young boy named Tim (Kevin Connors), who kills the looters when they break into his house. After they have buried the bodies in the yard, Tim tells Reggie how the Tall Man took his parents and destroyed the town. In the morning, Reggie and Tim find the three graves empty and their pink hearse gone. Reggie tries to leave Tim at an orphanage, but the boy hides in a car trunk. Reggie enters a mausoleum and is confronted by a sphere, but he is subdued by two young women, Tanesha (Sarah Scott Davis) and Rocky (Gloria Lynne Henry), before he can destroy it. Reggie tries to warn them, but Tanesha is killed by the sphere. Tim appears and destroys it with his pistol. The three join forces, come upon a convoy of hearses driven by Gravers, and decide to follow them.At night, Jody appears to Reggie in a dream and takes him to the Tall Man's lair, where they rescue Mike. As Reggie wakes, Jody opens a portal and Mike emerges. The Tall Man tries to follow, but Reggie closes the portal, severing the Tall Man's hands. After fighting off the Tall Man's minions, including the undead looters, they enter a large mausoleum in the city of Boulton. They discover a cryonics facility and Mike remembers that the Tall Man dislikes cold. While Reggie, Rocky, and Tim are separated and attacked by the looters, Mike consults with the Jody-sphere in a psychic link. Jody explains that the Tall Man is amassing an army to conquer dimensions. As he explains, they witness him removing the brain of a newly shrunken dwarf and placing it into a sphere thus turning the body into a drone and the mind into a killer. The Tall Man soon senses their presence and recaptures Mike. Two of the looters wheel in Tim on a gurney and Mike tries to tell him of the thousands of spheres he witnessed but the Tall Man paralyzes him before he can finish.Meanwhile, Rocky defeats her attacker and helps Reggie. Cut free by the Jody-sphere, Tim runs into the remaining looters, who are killed by the Jody-sphere and Reggie's 4-barrel shotgun. The trio crash into the embalming room, where the Tall Man is operating on Mike's head. Rocky impales the Tall Man with a spear dipped in liquid nitrogen and they lock him in the freezer. However a golden sphere breaks out of his head and attacks them. Reggie catches it in a plunger and they manage to submerge it into the nitrogen tank. Mike inspects his head wound which is bleeding yellow blood and finds a golden sphere beneath the skin. With his eyes like silver spheres and complaining of the cold, he runs away but not before telling Reggie to stay away from him. Jody imparts some cryptic words on Reggie and assures him they'll be in touch before transforming and leaving too.Reggie suggests exploring the mortuary but Rocky declines and leaves in a hearse. Tim reports that Mike tried to warn him, but they find out too late that there are thousands of spheres waiting to attack, and Reggie is pinned to the wall by them. He tells Tim "It's all over" and to just run. Just as Tim is about to take aim with his pistol, a new Tall Man appears and says "It's never over." He watches as Tim is suddenly attacked by a zombie in the freezer and pulled through a glass window, mirroring the ending of the first film.
PHANTASM II (1988 Theatrical Trailer) K.J. Norman 2022-09-07 | This is the theatrical trailer for the 1988 science fantasy horror feature "Phantasm II", the second entry in the Phantasm movie franchise and the first sequel to the 1979 feature "Phantasm".Written and directed by Don Coscarelli, the movie was released through major Hollywood studio Universal Pictures on July 8, 1988.Liz Reynolds (Paula Irvine) is a young woman whose psychic bond to Mike Pearson (A. Michael Baldwin in archive footage) and the Tall Man (Angus Scrimm) manifests in the form of prophetic nightmares. Liz pleads for Mike to find her, as she fears that when her grandfather dies, the Tall Man will take him. The scene then transitions where the first film left off, the Tall Man and his minions attempt to kidnap Mike but Reggie manages to save him by blowing up the house.In 1986, after being institutionalized for seven years, Mike (now played by James LeGros), now 19, has faked his recovery to get released. That night he returns to Morningside Cemetery where he proceeds to dig up graves. Reggie (Reggie Bannister) interrupts him and explains that what happened in 1978 and the Tall Man were not real. In response, Mike reveals all the coffins he exhumed are empty and urges Reggie to help him hunt down the Tall Man. En route to Reggie's house, Mike has a premonition and frantically tries to warn Reggie seconds before an explosion kills Reggie's entire family. Convinced by Mike's precognition, Reggie agrees to accompany Mike. They break into a hardware store and stock up on supplies and weapons. Traveling north-western country roads, they encounter abandoned towns, pillaged graveyards, and a few of the Tall Man's traps; one is the apparition of a young woman's naked corpse. A gruesome encounter with a creature resembling Liz leads them to travel east towards the town of Perigord, Oregon.Meanwhile, Liz's grandfather dies, and her sister Jeri disappears during the funeral; while searching for Jeri, Liz finds the Tall Man and flees. The presiding priest, Father Meyers, maddened with fear and alcoholism, desecrates the grandfather's body with a knife in a desperate attempt to thwart its reanimation, but the corpse rises and kidnaps Liz's grandmother. In the morning, Liz finds a funeral pin in her grandmother's empty bed, and the Tall Man psychically tells Liz to return at night if she wants to rescue her grandmother. Prior to their arrival in Perigord, Mike awakens to find that Reggie has picked up a hitchhiker named Alchemy who eerily resembles the nude apparition. They find Perigord deserted and dilapidated. When Liz arrives at the mortuary, she is confronted by Father Meyers, who tries to convince her to escape with him, but he is killed by a flying sphere. She encounters the Tall Man and discovers that her grandmother is now one of his Lurkers; she flees and runs into Mike in the cemetery. Later that night, the Tall Man captures Liz and drives away in his hearse; Mike and Reggie chase after him. After the Tall Man runs them off the road, their car explodes.At the crematorium, Liz is taken to the furnace room by the Tall Man's mortician assistants, but she escapes and sends one into the furnace. Mike and Reggie break into the mortuary and find the embalming room. While Reggie pours acid into the embalming fluid, Mike discovers a dimensional portal that requires a sphere to open. They then split up to find Liz. Reggie searches the basement, where he fights off a Graver and several Lurkers with a chainsaw and quadruple shotgun. After a vicious fight Reggie castrates the Graver to death and guns down the Lurkers. Mike saves Liz from a silver sphere which drills itself through the other mortician's hand, embedding him to the wall. A larger, gold sphere emerges and begins to chase Mike and Liz. Meanwhile, the other mortician's assistant chops his own hand off to escape the wall. Dodging the gold sphere's upgraded arsenal such as a scanner and lasers, Mike and Liz manage to hold off the attack by barricading themselves in the parlor after the sentinel rammed through multiple doors. The mortician assistant surprisingly returns and almost kills Liz before the gold sphere blasts through the door and drills its way into his back and up his throat with a spinning blade. Liz, Mike, and Reggie reunite and use the still embedded silver sphere to access the portal. Before they can destroy the building, the Tall Man surprises them, but they fight him off and pump him full of the acid-contaminated embalming fluid, which causes him to melt. They set the building on fire, escape, and are greeted by Alchemy, who has procured an abandoned hearse.
PHANTASM (1979 Theatrical Trailer) K.J. Norman 2022-09-07 | This is the theatrical trailer for the 1979 science fantasy horror feature "Phantasm". It was the first in a movie franchise that has spawned, to date, four additional sequels between 1988 and 2016.Written, directed and edited by Dn Coscarelli, the movie was released through independent studio Avco Embassy Pictures on March 28, 1979.While having sex in Morningside Cemetery, Tommy (Bill Cone) is stabbed by a woman (referred to as "Lady in Lavender" in the credits, but actually the Tall Man (Angus Scrimm), the Morningside mortician, in another form). At the funeral, Tommy's friends, Jody Pearson (Bill Thornbury) and Reggie (Reggie Bannister), believe he committed suicide. Jody's 13-year-old brother Mike (A. Michael Baldwin) secretly observes the funeral and sees the Tall Man placing Tommy's heavy casket, seemingly with little or no effort, back into the hearse instead of completing the burial. Mike then goes to a fortune teller and tells her what he saw. She has him stick his hand in a box, and at first something seems to grab it, but then he removes it unharmed.Later, Jody is seduced by the Lady in Lavender (Kathy Lester) and taken to the cemetery to have sex. However, they are interrupted by Mike, who has been following Jody and has been driven out of his hiding place by a short, hooded figure. Mike tries to tell Jody about the hooded figure, but Jody dismisses the story. Mike investigates further. At the mausoleum, Mike narrowly avoids a bladed silver sphere flying through the air. He is accosted by a caretaker but escapes after the sphere impales itself on the caretaker's skull and drills into his brain. Mike then flees the Tall Man. As Mike slams a door to get away, the Tall Man's fingers get caught and then cut off, but continue to move, dripping yellow ichor. Taking one of the fingers with him, Mike escapes the mausoleum.The still-moving finger is enough to convince Jody about Mike's stories. Jody decides to bring the finger to the sheriff, but it transforms into a flying insect. Reggie, who witnesses the finger-turned-insect attack them, joins the brothers in their suspicions. Jody goes to the cemetery alone but is chased away by dwarves and a seemingly driverless hearse. He is rescued by Mike in Jody's Plymouth Barracuda. Running the hearse off the road, they discover that it was driven by one of the hooded figures, a re-animated and shrunken Tommy, whom they hide in Reggie's ice cream truck.Reggie and Jody resolve to defeat the Tall Man, while Mike is hidden at an antique store owned by Jody's friends Sally and Sue. There, Mike discovers an old photograph of the Tall Man and insists on being taken home. On the way, Mike, Sally and Sue come across the ice cream truck, overturned. They are attacked by a mob of hooded dwarves. Mike manages to escape, presuming the girls and Reggie dead.Jody goes to the mausoleum to kill the Tall Man. Mike, who is locked in his bedroom for safety but escapes, runs into the Tall Man, who was waiting for him outside his front door. He kidnaps Mike in a hearse, but Mike escapes and causes the hearse to strike a pole and explode. Looking for Jody in the mausoleum, Mike is targeted by the silver sphere until Jody destroys it with a shotgun. Together with Reggie, they enter a brightly lit room, which is filled with canisters containing more dwarves. Mike catches a brief glimpse through a portal, seeing a red, hot world where the dwarves are toiling as slaves.A sudden power outage separates the trio. Left alone in the room, Reggie activates the portal, creating a powerful vacuum from which he narrowly escapes. In the ensuing storm, Reggie is stabbed by the Lady in Lavender while Jody and Mike flee and the mausoleum vanishes. Jody devises a plan to trap the Tall Man in an abandoned mine shaft. The Tall Man attacks Mike at home and chases him outside, where he eventually falls into the mine shaft and is buried under an avalanche of rocks triggered by Jody.After this, Mike wakes up in his bed, still worried about the Tall Man. Reggie, still alive, tells Mike that he had a nightmare, that Jody died in a car wreck and proposes a road trip. When Mike enters his bedroom to pack, the Tall Man appears and hands crash through the bedroom mirror, pulling Mike inside.
THE RETURN OF COUNT YORGA (1971 Theatrical Trailer) K.J. Norman 2022-09-07 | This is the theatrical trailer for the 1971 vampire horror feature "The Return of Count Yorga", the only sequel to the 1970 feature "Count Yorga, Vampire."Directed by Bob Kelljan, who co-wrote the movie with actress Yvonne Wilder (Jennifer Nelson), the movie was released through American International Pictures on August 18, 1971.Cynthia Nelson (Mariette Hartley, "Goodnight, Beantown"), a teacher at the local orphanage, talks with a pastor while watching the sun set before getting ready for a fundraising costume party. Cynthia mentions the "Santa Ana winds" which the pastor states are an evil omen. One of the orphans, Tommy, wanders into the nearby cemetery where he faintly hears a voice ordering "Rise, rise; it is time." Tommy initially dismisses it, but as he stops to rest, vampire women rise from their graves. Seeing this, Tommy tries to escape the cemetery only to run into the clutches of Count Yorga (Robert Quarry), who is waiting for them.Sometime later, Yorga goes to the orphanage during their costume party and fund raiser. Biting one of the pretty guests, Mitzi (Jesse Welles), outside the event room before going inside and introducing himself to those present, among which is Cynthia whom he becomes infatuated with. When a weakened Mitzi stumbles into the room, he leaves as the others are attending to her. That night, he returns to his manor and a makeshift throne room overlooking several coffins, greeted by Brudda (Edward Walsh), Yorga's hulking facially disfigured valet, and the female vampires from earlier ready to do his bidding. Yorga sends the undead women to Cynthia's house, using mind-control to get Cynthia's family (along with Tommy, who was sleeping over) into the living room before his brides break in and attack them. The family is quickly overrun with Cynthia's mother (Helen Baron), father (Walter Brooke) and sister, Ellen (Karen Ericson), fed upon by the undead horde. Tommy is untouched, showcasing he is under Yorga's power while Cynthia herself is subdued, but unharmed and carried by the brides to Yorga's residence where she awakens. Due to Yorga's hypnotic suggestions, she has no memory of the attack. Yorga tells Cynthia that there was a car accident and she was left in his care by her family. He tries to charm the young woman into willingly becoming his bride, though he is warned by his live-in witch that Cynthia will bring his end if he does not kill her or turn her into a vampire soon.The next morning, Jennifer, the Nelsons' mute maid, finds the massacre scene and calls the police. However, as she does, Brudda drags the corpses of Cynthia's mother and father to a quicksand pit on Yorga's property, disposing of the physical evidence. By the time the police arrive though, all of the evidence has been mysteriously cleared away, and Tommy claims that nothing has happened. Despite the confusion, David Baldwin (Roger Perry, playing a different role than in the first), Cynthia's fiancé, is suspicious about the Nelsons' disappearance. Meanwhile, memories of the attack on her family slowly start to resurface in Cynthia's mind as she stays within Yorga's manor. Jennifer, suspicious about Tommy's involvement with the Nelson's disappearance and his visits to Yorga's mansion, loses her patience and slaps Tommy who stares at her in a vengeful manner. Meanwhile, Yorga goes to claim Mitzi, killing her boyfriend near their boat house before feeding on her once more, this time finishing draining her completely and adding her to his vampiric harem.Hours later, Ellen's fiancé Jason (David Lampson) is lured to Yorga's mansion by Tommy, on the claim that he found Ellen. Once at the mansion, Tommy disappears, while Jason is reunited with Ellen who has clearly been made into a vampire by Yorga. As she mocks him for "not loving her anymore" and soon starts laughing cruelly at him when he sense something wrong, her fellow brides attack Jason from behind. Jason breaks free, only to run into Count Yorga, who chases Jason down a hall and strangles him. Bruddah tosses Jason's body into the throne/coffin room for the brides, including Ellen and newly vampiric Mitzi, to feed upon.their bullets prove ineffective as the undead women continue to give chase. In the midst of their escape, they encounter Brudda and managed to shoot him to death. Eventually O'Connor (Craig T. Nelson) is separated in the brides' throne/coffin room by a shutter and immediately attacked from behind and bitten by the witch (also a vampire) as Madden helplessly listens to O'Connor's death-screams. Madden (Rudy DeLuca) tries to find a way to him, but he gets lured in by a voice from the shadows (thinking it is Baldwin) and then killed by Tommy who stabs him in the same way he murdered Jennifer.Baldwin and Cynthia are the only ones left alive, with Yorga supernaturally mocking Baldwin throughout the estate. Yorga seals their exit routes while his brides slowly close in on the two.
COUNT YORGA, VAMPIRE (1970 Theatrical Trailer) K.J. Norman 2022-09-07 | This is the theatrical trailer for the 1970 vampire horror feature "Count Yorga, Vampire." It would be followed one year later with a new sequwl "The Return of Count Yorga".Written and directed by Bob Kelljan ("Scream Blacula Scream"), the movie was released through independent B-movie studio American International Pictures on June 10, 1970.A coffin is loaded to a truck at the Port of Los Angeles. The truck then climbs to a gated mansion in the Southern California hills.A woman named Donna (Donna Anders) hosts a séance in hopes of contacting her recently deceased mother. At the party are several of her friends, including Donna's boyfriend, Michael Thompson (Michael Macready), Paul (Michael Murphy), Paul's girlfriend Erica Landers (Judy Lang), and close friend and doctor, Jim Hayes (Roger Perry, "The Facts of Life"). Overseeing the seance is Count Yorga (Robert Quarry), a mysterious Bulgarian mystic who has recently moved to the states from Europe. Donna becomes hysterical during the proceedings and Yorga uses hypnosis to calm her. After the party is over, Erica and Paul offer to drive the Count home. Not long after they leave, Donna reveals to the others that she knows Yorga because he was her mother's boyfriend. They dated a few weeks shortly before her death. Furthermore, Yorga had insisted that her mother be buried rather than cremated per the deceased's wishes. Donna cannot recall seeing Yorga at her mother's funeral.Meanwhile, Erica and Paul drop off Yorga at his home. Their van gets stuck in the mud outside of Yorga's mansion, although Paul insists the road was dry a minute ago. They resign themselves to spending the night in their van. After sex they settle in to sleep. Yorga attacks them, knocking out Paul and biting Erica. The following day when Paul and Erica return to the city, Paul tells Michael about the attack. Paul did not see their attacker, and Erica does not remember anything.Erica visits Dr. Hayes to have the mysterious bite wounds on her neck inspected. In contrast to her exuberant personality on the night before, Erica now seems despondent and listless. Hayes notices she has lost a lot of blood but is unable to diagnose the cause. He recommends rest and a high protein diet. Shortly after, Paul and Michael discuss the strange changes in Erica's behavior. They try to check in on her via phone, but she drops the phone to the floor without answering. The concerned men drive to her home where they find the place in disarray, and a hysterical Erica eating her kitten. She reacts erratically to their presence, first threatening them with violence and then attempting to seduce Paul before coming to her senses and breaking down.They restrain her and call Hayes, who finds that Erica has suddenly lost a lot of blood and begins an emergency blood transfusion. Erica babbles incoherently, apparently afraid of something. She begs Paul to forgive her and to kill her.Yorga awakens in his manor and heads to his basement which has been converted into a throne room where his two vampiric brides lie on slabs. One of them is Donna's mother, whom he made into an undead servant. He awakens them and commands them to have sex.Although Michael is skeptical, the three men consider the possibility of vampirism as an excuse for Erica's behavior and agree to look into it while letting Erica rest. That night, Yorga visits Erica while Paul sleeps downstairs. Promising her immortality, he seduces Erica, drains her of her remaining blood, and takes her body back to his manor. Upon finding Erica missing, Paul rashly goes to Yorga's mansion to rescue her. Yorga quickly kills him by choking him to death, then having his servant, Brudah, break his back.Michael alerts Hayes that Paul has gone to the mansion, and Hayes confides that Paul's lack of preparation will probably lead to his death. While mulling over his options, Hayes' girlfriend suggests involving the police, citing an eerily similar case of a baby being found in the woods, drained of its blood with bite wounds on the neck. He takes it to heart but is rejected as a deluded prankster following a recent rash of such calls. Hayes, Michael, and Donna go to the mansion themselves to inquire about Paul's whereabouts and keep Yorga active until sunrise. While Hayes distracts Yorga with enthusiastic questions about Yorga's occult experiments, Brudah rebuffs Michael's attempts to explore the mansion. Michael and Hayes switch places to keep Yorga off his guard, but Yorga becomes increasingly insistent that it is late and his guests must leave. Yorga distracts Hayes and strengthens his hypnotic control over Donna.After leaving the manor, Hayes convinces Michael that killing Yorga will not be easy: vampires have greater strength and the wisdom that comes from living much longer than a mere mortal. He also grimly adds they might have to kill Paul and Erica too if they have become vampires, since the vampire curse will make them evil and loyal to Yorga.
DISNEYLAND 1983 Commercial (The New Fantasyland) K.J. Norman 2022-09-03 | This is a commercial produced in 1983 for the iconic theme park Disneyland, located in the Southern California hamlet of Anaheim, some 30 miles northeast of downtown Los Angeles.This was made to promote "The New Fantasyland", a completely remodeled, renovated and refurbished Fantasyland district, after being closed for a year in 1982. The district actually saw the lowering of the drawbridge at the park's central icon, Sleeping Beauty Castle, for the first time since Disneyland opened 28 years earlier in 1955. Fantasyland reopened to the public on May 25, 1983.
NBC Thursday Night Promos (March 28, 1984) K.J. Norman 2022-09-02 | This is a promo that aired on NBC for it's Thursday night lineup of sitcoms for the night of March 28, 1984.1. "Gimme A Break!" (S3 E4: "Joey - Part 1"): In the first half of a two part episode, Katie (Kari Michaelsen) practices her jazz routine to "Maniac" for a show that will be taking place soon in Glen Lawn. As the family is getting ready, rehearsing for the show, a boy named Joey (Joey Lawrence) comes by collecting for Jerry's Kids. The family falls for his act, and as he leaves, Simpson (Howard Morton) says he is a con artist. Joey Donovan is his name, and his Uncle Jerry dropped him off and left him in Glen Lawn, because his dad Tim is at sea. The social worker tells the Chief (Dolph Sweet) that Joey will stay with the family over the weekend and will be placed in a foster home shortly. Nell (Nell Carter) then loses control of Joey, and he escapes, taking her money, and goes to the bus station. However, Nell finds him, drags him home, and doesn't know what she is going to do with him. Originally aired October 27, 1983.*In this episode, Joey Lawrence joins the cast as the newest member of the Kanisky household, Joey Donovan. He would stay for the rest of the series.2. "Family Ties" (S2 E6: "Speed Trap"): When Alex (Michael J. Fox) takes diet pills for a lift during midterms that he obtained from his sister Mallory (Justine Bateman), his dependency level increases daily. Originally aired November 9, 1983.
