Night of the Living Dead (1968)

Night of the Living Dead isn't a movie I grew up watching. In fact, I didn't see it until I was an adult, and it's not a particular favorite of mine. Still, I appreciate the fact that, despite its shoestring budget, the film had a tremendous influence on the horror genre. And I do remember one Halloween night around 1989 when the movie was shown on Night Flight, and as my mom prepared to take me trick-or-treating, my older brother asked her if he could watch the movie. She said no. This Night Flight intro to the film may have been recorded from the same late-80s broadcast:


Here is the full movie:

Michael Jackson's Thriller (1983)

This music video was released December 2, 1983, and I probably saw it for the first time in 1984 or 1985, when we rented it from a local store, Video Biz. The VHS release also featured a making-of documentary, where I recall Michael Jackson saying it felt like Tobasco sauce being poured in his eyes while he was wearing the cat-eye contact lenses. Somewhere there is a picture from the mid-80s that shows me mimicking Jackson as the werewolf character, with half of a yellow plastic Easter egg over each eye.

The Zombie Movie (1994)

Here is a video I made with my friends back in the 90s. Back then we didn't have a lot of money (some of us still don't), so we would amuse ourselves by making short, no-budget videos. One particular friend tended to be cast as the monster in our videos, mainly because he was the largest member of our group. Here he plays a bathrobe-clad zombie.