Since this will be my last post until Halloween, I'm going to carry on an old Alienhits tradition by posting Tim Curry's immortal performance of Anything Can Happen On Halloween (from the equally ridiculous 80's version of The Worst Witch ). There's no way you can watch this without laughing your ass off at the sheer campiness. Here it is, presented in video and audio formats for your viewing/listening pleasure. Happy Halloween!! Tim Curry - Anything Can Happen On Halloween by [...]
Is it just us, or does this goofy, VHS-grade clip from 1986's The Worst Witch look like something a noise band would try to sneak past the Whitney Biennial committee as "repurposed footage"? Tim Curry mugs in a dollar-store Halloween costume and a Buster Poindexter haircut as 4-bit CGI pumpkins and skulls swirl around him. (He also kinda sounds like David Sylvian trying out for Reading Rainbow .) And look, Mrs. Garrett has gone mad with the Manic Panic and is singing showtunes in the woods about being a witch! [...]
Editor's note: You know what's scary? That sweet little kid grew up to be this guy . Way back in the mid-'80s when Craiged in Blog was still just a chubby knee-high rugrat, few things were as scary as this music video. Well, this and "Large Marge" from Pee-Wee's Big Adventure . Both of these used to send me running from the living room in terror and into the kitchen for raw hot dogs. This is from a children's movie that came out in 1986. The Worst Witch was [...]