Idolator's Videodrone Halloween Parade: Tim Curry Goes Bananas With The Cable Access Special Effects

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Idolator's Videodrone Halloween Parade: Tim Curry Goes Bananas With The Cable Access Special Effects

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!

Thanks to Idolator reader Ryan Creed for getting that damn Tim Curry song stuck in my head for the rest of the day.

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12:00 PM on Wed Oct 31 2007
By jharv
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by Kate Richardson at 12:40 PM on 10/31/07
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The Tim Curry vid is awesome, but it also kind of makes me sad.
by Cam/ron at 01:37 PM on 10/31/07
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Let's see: random stock footage displayed on a blue screen, a sexually ambiguous vampire in a "Pop Art" discount-store costume, and disorienting or "deterritorialized" (using that chestnut Deluzeian term)visual effects. It's a triumpth of postmodern art!
by Ned Raggett at 01:45 PM on 10/31/07
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So good to see this again.
by Diglett at 02:54 PM on 10/31/07
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Only my favorite Halloween special presentation ever, Great Pumpkin included. And I don't care what decade you're in, Diana Rigg is my forever lady-crush.
by hypnotyza at 03:14 PM on 10/31/07
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i shiver with antici........
by hypnotyza at 03:15 PM on 10/31/07
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....pation.