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When You Look Constipated On A Horror Movie Poster……..

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Oh yeah – the body is hot.  The constipated face she’s making?  Not so much.  However, it seems her constipation could be used as a weapon against that creature since she’s literally dangling her ass over it’s mouth.  Sorry – that flew a bit off the rails there.  But yes, that is the poster for the new obvious low-budget horror film called The Creature Below. And yes, the girl on the poster looks constipated.  We’ve established that already.  What hasn’t been established is that The Creature Below’s teaser trailer actually looks pretty good!  Check out the synopsis for the movie below, with the teaser following after that.  It will take your mind off of the constipation face up there.

During a traumatic accident on a deep-sea dive, Olive, a gifted, young marine-biologist discovers an unearthly creature. Losing her dream job, Olive smuggles the creature home, intent on studying it in secret, unbeknownst to her devoted boyfriend Matt and estranged sister Ellie.

Plagued by gruesome nightmares, her fractured memories of what happened during the accident in the depths of the ocean begin to unravel, revealing her symbiotic bond with an eldritch horror far older and malevolent than she could possibly imagine, one which drives her to carry out its sinister will, with deadly results for those around her.

Is The VHS Cover Better Than The Movie: The Video Dead (1987)

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One of the joys of my youth was running to the local video store in town to check out the ‘Horror’ section and see if anything caught my eye.  And an appealing VHS cover would sometimes be used for covering up a foul stench, with that smelly stench being the movie that you were about to watch. Speaking of which, easily one of the most enticing VHS horror covers of all time came to us in 1987 courtesy of The Video Dead:

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The first time I saw this, I think my eyes almost popped out of my head.  Then I realized that I was looking at the cover for Reform School Girls instead. Nevertheless, the VHS packaging for The Video Dead remains a highlight as far as VHS packaging goes.  The question is, was it better than the actual movie?  Well – yes and no.

The premise for The Video Dead is both simple and stupid at the same time.  I don’t think this movie was made to make anyone use a giant amount of brain cells though, so stupid works in this case.  Basically, a TV is delivered to a house in the woods that randomly spouts out a variety of zombies for no apparent reason.  And that’s the gist of it.  Probably more so classified as a horror/comedy, The Video Dead is the definition of a guilty pleasure.  Aside from being viewed on VHS, it had a strong following on the USA Network’s, Up All Night and Saturday Nightmares weekly shows.

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As far as whether or not the VHS cover is better than the actual movie, I would begrudgingly have to say yes.  The artwork is honestly stellar, especially for an independent film with a budget of $80,000.  And had it not been for that artwork, I wouldn’t have even thought of picking it up to rent.  Mission accomplished there.  Let it be known though, I do have a soft spot for The Video Dead as an actual movie. It’s just that if you mention the name to me, I automatically think of the cover, not of the scene where a zombie bride somehow hides her entire body in a washing machine before strangling a lady. What kind of zombie strangles someone btw?

If you have seen The Video Dead, you might find the zombie dinner table scene very reminiscent of Peter Jackson’s in 1992’s Dead Alive (a.k.a. Braindead).  Is Mr. Jackson a closet fan of the movie?  Perhaps.  If you haven’t seen the movie though, Scream Factory recently released a double-feature Blu-ray version with TerrorVision being the companion film.  And the good news is that they kept the original cover art for their release!  Which makes me happy and makes writing this post all the more worth it.