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“This animated character’s claim to fame is the violent death he suffered at the end of every episode.”

If we were playing Comedy Jeopardy!, the obvious answer would be, “Who is Kenny from South Park?” But there’s another response the judges would have to accept — Mr. Bill, the Play-Doh putz who was regularly dismembered during the early days of Saturday Night Live.

Just as the initial South Park cartoons were a DIY comedy adventure, Mr. Bill grew out of a fertile mind with zero budget. It all started when Dan Aykroyd announced a home movie contest during SNL’s first season, inviting viewers to create their own comedy shorts for possible inclusion on a future episode. Showing the home movie on national television was considered the prize — no other reward was offered.

Enter Walter Williams, an accounting school dropout from New Orleans. He thought it would be funny...

Those who worship at the altar of Cage, I come speaking words of comfort. Our Lord and savior St. Nicolas not only nails his role as a psychotic, mind-controlled parent in Brian Taylor’s Mom And Dad, but it’s Cageified madness for the ages. Mental, looney-bin perfection. Every scene. The film itself is a loose midnight riff on child-killin’ genre licks – amusing and frantic – but Cage hasn’t freaked-out this memorably in years, maybe a decade. We’re talking good enough for viral YouTube compilation videos featuring *just* Nic Cage’s unraveling in Mom And Dad, with viral potential rivaling similar vids for Neil Labute’s The Wicker Man remake. Praise be to Cage, hallowed be thy craziness.

In Taylor’s story, an inexplicable force is driving mothers and fathers to kill their children. No explanation, no motivation. It’s like a switch is thrown that turns parents like...

Anyone who stayed up past their bedtime in the 80s surely remembers Night Flight, the cult show that served as an anti-mtv. It helped define a generation of weirdos and gave surly punk rockers something to cheer for after stumbling home drunk from the latest rock show. It fueled many Saturday night sleepovers, and represents the best in the golden age of basic cable Television. Now, you can relive every exciting moment of USA Network's original cavalcade of the bizarre, scary and just plain odd.

Described as a visual-arts magazine and variety show, Night Flight launched in 1981 and ran through 1988, airing on Friday and Saturday nights. The series featured a wide varied of videos and served as the 80s generation's answer to Youtube. On any given episode, you were bound to see the latest and strangest short films, music videos, documentaries and animation. It was a visual carnival that...