Station identification: fear

January 28, 2010

What if a movie studio's logo terrified generations of children? "The S from Hell" is a fun mockumentary short, using found footage (mostly) to create a backstory for the Screen Gems logo over time.

The whole thing is here, all 8 minutes or so:

This Metafilter post offers still more brooding on logophobia.

Bonus: that MetaFilter post has a comment pointing to this amazing industrial/fearsome Russian tv station i.d., for ВИD:

And this classic American one, for Chiller TV:

January 28, 2010 at 09:20 in Film, Gothic | Permalink

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Re "Russian tv station i.d., for ВИD": So that's what's inside Rover when it comes to retrieve you from another escape attempt from the Village. I'm never listening to another breakout plan from Patrick McGoohan again!

Posted by: Steve B | January 28, 2010 at 10:16

Hahahahaha!

Wasn't it Woody Allen's Sleeper which had a mysterious orb?

Posted by: Bryan Alexander | January 31, 2010 at 21:54

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January 28, 2010