See also Tobe Hooper’s Mortuary.

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Fungal zombification.

Video compilation of slides from Mortuary (2005) Directed by Tobe Hooper, starring Dan Byrd, Alexandra Adi, and Denise Crosby.

Sound is an excerpt from my own noise composition, “Graveyard Babies.”

Video clip of all the slides.

Shock Treatment (1981), a follow-up to the film The Rocky Horror Picture Show — “Not a sequel, not a prequel, but an equal.” Written by Richard O’Brien, directed by Jim Sharman,  and starring Jessica Harper, Cliff De Young as Brad Majors, Richard O’Brien, Patricia Quinn, and Barry Humphries as Bert Schnick.

Leonard Cohen’s “Everybody Knows” from Pump up the Volume (1990) starring Christian Slater.

I loved this movie. I think it inspired some of my rebellious streak. Not to mention a bit of a crush on Slater. When I bought the soundtrack album, I was heartbroken to find this song missing — replaced by a nice-enough cover by Concrete Blonde. For a long time it was really difficult to find this song.

Man, I love that man’s voice.

“Everybody Knows”

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows that the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
That’s how it goes
Everybody knows
Everybody knows that the boat is leaking
Everybody knows that the captain lied
Everybody got this broken feeling
Like their father or their dog just died

Everybody talking to their pockets
Everybody wants a box of chocolates
And a long stem rose
Everybody knows

Everybody knows that you love me baby
Everybody knows that you really do
Everybody knows that you’ve been faithful
Ah give or take a night or two
Everybody knows you’ve been discreet
But there were so many people you just had to meet
Without your clothes
And everybody knows

Everybody knows, everybody knows
That’s how it goes
Everybody knows

Everybody knows, everybody knows
That’s how it goes
Everybody knows

And everybody knows that it’s now or never
Everybody knows that it’s me or you
And everybody knows that you live forever
Ah when you’ve done a line or two
Everybody knows the deal is rotten
Old Black Joe’s still pickin’ cotton
For your ribbons and bows
And everybody knows

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Stephen King’s It (1990) based on the novel of the same name by Stephen King. Directed by Tommy Lee Wallace.
Starring:
Harry Anderson · Dennis Christopher · Richard Masur · Annette O’Toole · Tim Reid · John Ritter · Richard Thomas · Michael Cole · Jonathan Brandis · Brandon Crane · Adam Faraizl · Seth Green · Ben Heller · Emily Perkins · Marlon Taylor · Jarred Blancard · and a special appearance by Tim Curry as Pennywise the Dancing Clown

“When you Pop a Boner in the Shower” from the 1993 musical Zero Patience — a very silly film, obviously. The guy in the towel is an immortal Sir Richard Francis Burton (looks pretty good for 170 years old!), who is studying a Canadian bath house ostensibly to learn more about the lascivious homosexual lifestyle that led to the AIDS epidemic. He’s a bit … conflicted. And learns a lot through the film.

Image via Wikipedia

If you can find it, I recommend Zero Patience, both for the quirky musical numbers and the sheer, bewildering mish-mosh of styles and ideas. And watch out for the duet between two singing asshole puppets.

(NOTE: of my many small YouTube videos, this is, by a large margin, the most-watched.)

Video clip of slides from
Otto; or Up with Dead People (2008) directed by Bruce LaBruce and stars Jey Crisfar, Marcel Schlutt, Nicholas Fox Ricciardi and Gio Black Peter.

Music from the Otto soundtrack.

Supernatural, season 4, episode 8, “Yellow Fever”.

Remind you of anything?

Slides from the movie.

Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008) directed by Darren Lynn Bousman, based on a play written and composed by Darren Smith and Terrance Zdunich. Starring Alexa Vega · Paul Sorvino · Anthony Stewart Head · Sarah Brightman · Paris Hilton · Bill Moseley · Nivek Ogre · Terrance Zdunich · and Sarah Power

Wikipedia says:

Murder by Death is a 1976 comedy film with a cast featuring Eileen Brennan, Truman Capote, James Coco, Peter Falk, Alec Guinness, Elsa Lanchester, David Niven, Peter Sellers, Maggie Smith, Nancy Walker, and Estelle Winwood, written by Neil Simon and directed by Robert Moore.

Wikipedia says:

Casablanca is a 1942 American romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman and Paul Henreid, and featuring Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre and Dooley Wilson.

Wikipedia says:

Gozu (極道恐怖大劇場　牛頭　ＧＯＺＵ, Gokudō kyōfu dai-gekijō: Gozu^?, literally: Grand Theatre of Perversion and Fear: Cow’s Head) is a Japanese cult film directed by Takashi Miike. Shot on a low budget, the movie was originally planned for release on DVD but its positive reception at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2003 secured its theatrical release overseas.

Battle Royale (バトル・ロワイアル, Batoru Rowaiaru) (2000), Japanese film directed by Kinji Fukasaku, based on the novel of the same name. It was written by Kenta Fukasaku, and stars Takeshi Kitano and Tatsuya Fujiwara.

“What are you listening to?”

“Nothing.”

“Then why do you have your headphones on?”

“Nothing is the name of the band. They don’t like to be labeled.”

“That’s pretty underground. What’s their sound?”

“Neo-industrial-post-emo-punk-funk-electro-crash-thrash-a-billy scream-o house ghetto tech.”

“Sounds hardcore.”

“Not really. This is their acoustic album.”

…and it just escalates from there.

This post from Tumblr Noise reminded me of this video. It’s the logical extreme.

Compilation of Clue slides.
Music: Stjepan Hauser and Luka Sulic - Smooth Criminal

Clue (Cluedo outside North America) (1985) based on the board game of the same name. Directed by Jonathan Lynn, who collaborated on the script with John Landis, and starring Tim Curry, Eileen Brennan, Martin Mull, Lesley Ann Warren, Christopher Lloyd, Michael McKean, Madeline Kahn, and Lee Ving. The film was produced by Debra Hill.