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09/26/2004: Evil Snake Anti-Drug PSA, Nickelodeon, and Dumb Survey #12010.

It’s been over two years since his last appearance on X-E, but now, Evil Snakeman Drug Dealer is BACK! The scariest anti-drug public service announcement I’ve ever seen felt like it deserved a spot on the Halloween Countdown. Yeah, it’s a bit of a rehash for longtime readers, but this time, you can download the ad and watch the evil madness for yourself. Ssseriousssly, this was creepy stuff to see during the cartoon block after school.

And for those who asked, my first commercial for Nickelodeon is a spot for the upcoming Nick Hotel in Orlando — it’s a real short one, probably no more than fifteen seconds. I don’t have any specific air times, but it should be playing often enough for the next few weeks starting tomorrow. Not that they’re reading, but I’d like to thank the great people I work with for making this massive transition and learning experience so much easier for me. Great folks. Anyway, watch SpongeBob or something tomorrow/today. Lemme know if you catch it.

New Survey: Okay, pick any or all of these horror franchises, and name your favorite film from each series: A Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, Halloween, Hellraiser and Child’s Play. Feel free to give reasons for your picks so the comments won’t look like a giant order form. I’ll post my own tomorrow.


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Discussion Thread: 95 comments

Oh, for the love of Corey Feldman, the first Halloween is the best and only one worth watching in that series. Okay, so I still haven’t seen them all to this day but I saw enough of 4 and 5 to make me puke, 2 was so so, and the last one they made was just awful. And you know what I like best about Halloween one?? Not even the horror stuff..the funny stuff like the girls yelling at Michael Myers in the car thinking he’s a kid from school, and the refrain of Jaimie Lee Curtis’ unknown song "I wish I had you all alone…just the two of us…" Okay so I’m weird..

Ghosted by Melissa Y. @ 09/27/2004 1:42 PM EDT

Congrats on the commercial!

Child’s Play the firste would have to be my favorite- the last scene where we see Andy is clearly scarred for life as he looks at the torched remains of his doll/ex best friend is classic.

Ghosted by MJ @ 09/27/2004 2:31 PM EDT

snakeman is some scary stuff. i probably wiped it from my memory as a child.

A Nightmare on Elm Street yeah i picked 3 – 1-THE original, 4 and6 man, come on, those are so chessy, its great!

Friday the 13th – gotta love jason takes manhattan

Halloween- id say 5 cuz it scared the shit outta me when i saw it for the first time as a kid

Hellraiser – not too huge of a fan, but i happened to enjoy inferno alot

Child’s Play – child’s play 2 for the ruler scene

Ghosted by ralph @ 09/27/2004 2:43 PM EDT

The first film in the Hellraiser, Child’s Play, and Halloween series are the best.
I’m going to substitute "Dawn of the Dead" (the original) for anything in the Friday the 13th series.
Thanks for the video of live-action King Hiss

Ghosted by John @ 09/27/2004 2:50 PM EDT

I knew it all along! Aunt Mae is a dirty old pervert! That’s what we find out about Peter Parker in that mollester comic, right Nate?

On the topic of glimpses into super heroes childhoods that are never mentioned again, I have two comics I got when was a kid: Captain America vs. the Asthma Monster and Return of the Asthma Monster. I got them for being a little nerd boy who couldn’t breathe good. In them you find out that as a kid, Captain America was also a little nerd boy who couldn’t breathe good. So the Super Soldier Serum doesn’t just keep you from agings while frozen in ice, it also cures asthma!

Ghosted by BigRon @ 09/27/2004 3:05 PM EDT

TB Tabby- My god, I remember that too. Snake man’s got nothing on it.

And BigRon- No, it was some high school tutor or something that molested Peter.

Ghosted by Behonkiss @ 09/27/2004 3:51 PM EDT

Friday the 13th: Part 8, Jason Takes Manhattan – in a blend of pure comedic genius and teensploitation, whoever wrote Part 8 found a way to put everything that was wrong with 80’s horror cinema into one over-the-top package.

Nightmare On Elm Street: Part 1 – It’s just a great horror flick and the series couldn’t really flow well with the tongue-in-cheek "damn this movie sucks" changes that the Friday the 13th series could.

Halloween: 1, it’s the best in the series and it caught that creepy "autumn in the suburbs with a maniac" feeling that was so prevalent in the late 1970’s. And it had Donald Pleasence in it.

Ghosted by fango @ 09/27/2004 4:06 PM EDT

Oh, I forgot to do the survey:

A Nightmare on Elm Street: Dream Warriors. Seriously, Matt, you need to not only review the movie, but the Dokken video FOR the movie. One of the all-time greatest music videos ever. Freddy attacks the protagonist from the movie in her dreams, but she’s saved by Dokken, who defeat Freddy by ROCKING HIM TO DEATH!

Then Freddy wakes up with a teddy bear and says, "What a nightmare! …Who were those guys?"

Friday the 13th: I got a kick out of the seventh one for it’s blatant Carrie ripoff. Though the sixth one had Horshack.

Halloween: First one, since it’s the only one I’ve seen. From what I hear, I should keep it that way.

Going back to the Snake Man (not to be confused with the robot master with the Search Snakes), it makes me sad to see yet another child star fall into drugs. I mean, it’s obvious that Snake is the baby from V. I saw it on the E! True Hollywood story.

…Though you have to ignore the part about him being black.

Ghosted by Gavok @ 09/27/2004 4:07 PM EDT

SURVEY:

Nightmare on Elm St.: 3, Dream Warriors. Freddy is very developed, Nancy is Back and I think it best represents what Everyone thinks they remember from the series.

Friday the 13th.: 4, The Final Friday. Corey Feldman as a young Tom Savini (hence the "Tommy" of Tommy Jarvis" a returning and crowning Acheivement of said Tom Savini, and the Best looking Jason. And of course Crispin Glover.
I have to say that 2 is probably my favourite. Even though 4 is the "best" I just love the way 2 plays out. Jason is a different guy than we get to know. The tension is high. The whole campfire story part is just legendary. But, what can I say.

Halloween.: The First. More simple minded horror fans with no pananche might hate it, but everyone knows it’s the best. Sure, you get more The Shape in other movies, and the gore is low, and the Jamie character in 4, 5, and ultimately 6 gets so horrifically treated it’s almost painful to watch, but the first is the masterpiece. Father of Slasher flick.

Hellraiser.: 2 Hellbound. More of everything we loved from the first, plus Hell itself, Dr. Chanard (awesome), and an insane asylum. Sure, Frank was probably creepier, but this movie is probably the best.

Child’s Play.: I wanted to say that my favourite parts of these movies is the Chucky "ressurection" scenes at the begining titles on 2 and 3. Those made the movies for me for some reason. I’ll just watch whichever of those is begining, stop watching once it starts, and return nearer the end.
That said, the second,(2) is probably the best.

That’s it.

Ghosted by spooky @ 09/27/2004 5:03 PM EDT

A Nightmare On Elm Street – The first one. The only scary one.

Halloween – The first and third ones. The first one is the all time best, though.

Hellraiser – The first one hands down.

Friday The 13th – Part VI: Jason Lives. It plays like an old skool Universal monster movie, only with titties and gore.

That all!

Ghosted by Chris @ 09/27/2004 5:37 PM EDT

I’ll bet that when the cop told Spider-Man to stop the burglar, the REAL reason he didn’t do it is because he had a resentment for authority figures ever since being fondled as a child. Therefore, Uncle Ben would still be alive if he and Mae hadn’t hired a perverted tutor for their nephew. By that same token, Spider-Man wouldn’t exist if he hadn’t been diddled as a lad. What kind of message does this send to children?

Ghosted by BigRon @ 09/27/2004 5:57 PM EDT

Hate to ruin the joke, but I was a big Power Pack fan in the mid-80s, when I was a pre-adolescent, and I remember the Spider-Man/Power Pack comic, and the Spider-Man part was kind of like one or two of those "very special episodes" of Diff’rent Strokes: a younger version of Peter Parker goes to the house of some trusted adult male (or older teenager) friend (who they never mentioned before, anywhere, and who they never mention again) who shows him some porn and then asks him if he would like to try some of what he’s seeing, but Peter gets creeped out and leaves.

Nuthin’ bout Aunt May, don’t worry.

Ghosted by Steve Brandon @ 09/27/2004 6:27 PM EDT

EFFECTIVE!??! Are you out of your mind??? I remember seeing this as a kid… my freaking god did it scare the living shit out of me!

But what’s so stupid about the commercial is as a kid, I didn’t know what the hell drugs were. And when I got to Highschool and I hanged out with potheads… that commercial did **NOT** help whatsoever. I smoked, I drank, heck even in College I sold a bit of weed for extra cash.

But until I was 13 years old, I remember having trouble watching horror movies cause Snake was going to kill me in my dreams.

Bah what can we do, in the 90’s the people responsible for marketting were dumb… maybe that’s why I’m as fucked up as I am today.

Ghosted by Johnark @ 09/27/2004 8:20 PM EDT

Damn, that PSA was fucking freaky. its too bad that younger kids probably were too scared to even realize the reason behind the PSA.
I’m not too keen on those movie franchises although i’ve seen some of ‘em. Chucky always made me laugh as well as freddy. You just gotta love the one-liners.
Speaking of movies, I know this is old news but i purchased the Star Wars DVD set back on the 21st. I guess you could say i’m happy with it mostly for the higher quality audio and visuals. I’m really happy they took out the scream the bellows out of luke as he falls after his duel with vader (which was added in the ‘97 special edition). I don’t know how to describe how horrible it sounded, it sounded more like a mixture of yoda and the emperor. Speaking of the emperor I was happy with Ian replacing "monkey lady" ,as they call it on the fansites, in Empire. Of course the biggest letdown was Hayden Christenson at the end of ROTJ. I don’t care how much bullshit george lucas throws at us as an explanation it just doesn’t make any sense. The special features disc was kool. The original teaser for Star Wars is a cheesey laugh riot. Alright enough outta me…

Ghosted by phunqsauce @ 09/27/2004 8:41 PM EDT

Oh, yes, I remember this ad quite well. In fact, I’m going to go so far as to say this is one of the more unforgettable ads Matt’s reviewed. The drug dealer morphing into the genuinely frightning snake man is one of the scarier of the anti-drug commercials of the late 80s and early 90s. This one didn’t give me nightmares, but it sure as hell disturbed the hell out of me.

I’m a wuss when it comes to horror movies, so I can’t help you with the survey. I’ll look for Matt’s spot the next time I’m over my parents house, though. My brother would watch Nickelodeon 24-7 if my folks would let him, so it shouldn’t be TOO hard.

Ghosted by starwenn @ 09/27/2004 8:42 PM EDT

Friday the 13th: Jason Takes Manhattan. It’s bold as shit to see the boxer going at jason and actually kicking his ass. You think for a couple seconds, "could this guy actually do it?" NOPE! Jason gives the boxer and the audience false hope by accepting the pain and tiring out his opponent. I guess he’s like Rocky in that regard. Anyhoo, he answers with a menacing punch of his own, he only needs one.

I’m pretty sure the Phantasm series kicks Child Play’s ass in everything. Let’s list some awesomeness. A guy with a quad barreled shotgun, a badass Barracuda, a tall crazy albino old undertaker, a chick that fights with nunchucks(how often do we see nunchucks successfully employed?), interdimensional travel, metal balls that fly around and kill people with spikes attached to them, and people with silver eyes at seemingly random times. Phantasm-1, Child’s Play-0.

Ghosted by Tenacious Tate @ 09/27/2004 9:11 PM EDT

The Child’s Play movies haven’t stood the test as time as well as the other franchises, but I still love Child’s Play 2 to death. I hated #3 for a while, but it’s grown on me. Chucky declaring war on a bunch of military school students after they smear lipstick on him makes me float.

Ghosted by Matt @ 09/27/2004 9:19 PM EDT

hey anyone for commercials from the 80’s I found a boatload of them while downloading the Ewoks show by the way got all the episodes. one of them is even a PSA about not smoking about what happens when a mom smokes great stuff look it up on suprnova.org

Ghosted by reso @ 09/27/2004 11:33 PM EDT

Yes. Oh, yes. Snake, I remember thee well. Scary, yes, but less so because of the bad dubbing.

Child’s Play: Bride of Chucky

Yeah, it’s terrible. But look at what you get from that movie:
Possessed dolls screwing.
Gay guy getting hit buy a semi. (Not that there’s anything wrong with that.)
Some great/sick comedy.
Two Words: Jennifer Tilly

Ghosted by TheCurse @ 09/27/2004 11:40 PM EDT

YIKES! I remember this shit from when I was a kid in NY… almost made me not wanna do drugs. Almost.

Ghosted by B1RDSH1T @ 09/27/2004 11:40 PM EDT

NoES: Either 3 or 4. 3 was the scary one, but 4 is just so damn entertaining. NoES is easily my favorite of those, or any horror movie series.
Friday the 13th: 1, 3, or 7.
Halloween: 2, great story
Hellraiser: Probably 5.
Child’s Play: Honestly, I HATE this movie series with a firey passion. They’re an insult to the genre. A doll? Dolls can be scary, but C’MON!!!

Ghosted by KingMattress @ 09/27/2004 11:50 PM EDT

I don’t recall ever seeing this ad, but, yikes! :O

Nightmare on Elm Street was my first venture into being scared out of my mind because of a movie. I’ll have to say it’ll always be my favorite, and I’ll cherish it forever because of this.

No one has mentioned Pumpkinhead. I only saw one of them and I remember being scared to death from it, also, but it was so long ago I can’t remember the movie. :\

Did anyone see Matt’s commercial?? I watched Nick Jr today. Dora and Blue… (glad it was a "Steve" episode) didn’t see it though, and then I had to go to work.

Ghosted by Ryane @ 09/28/2004 3:37 AM EDT

Scary, yes, but only if i saw it late late late at night after watching an x-files marathon in the dark. But yea it could be scary. i guess.

Ghosted by ficksie04 @ 09/28/2004 4:17 AM EDT

Interesting question, Matt. It’s difficult for me to name one of the Nightmare on Elm Street films as a favorite — I’ve got favorite death scenes from the series, yes, but a favorite film… III, maybe. Whichever one had him turn into the snake creature. I like snakes.

And with Hellraiser? Probably II. More Kirsty, more Cenobites, Leviathan Itself, skinless sex, and a cute little kid to boot. Not to mention Pinhead’s first face turn. Fun stuff. :)

Ghosted by Wes @ 09/28/2004 8:52 AM EDT

Oh, and I almost forgot, congrats on the commercial! That’s fantastic, guy. :D

Ghosted by Wes @ 09/28/2004 8:53 AM EDT

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Ghosted by jared @ 09/28/2004 11:11 AM EDT

Matt, you’re right on the $$ in regards to Child’s Play 2. I love that f’n movie. It’s meant to be scary, but it’s so f’n hilarious. Chucky sabotaging the paint gun war was classic. Remember, Chucky "is your friend to the end…Hidey-Ho…Ha,Ha,Ha!!!"

Ghosted by J-Dog @ 09/28/2004 11:59 AM EDT

it would HAVE to be from "greater new york"…

Ghosted by skye @ 09/28/2004 4:29 PM EDT

Yeah, chucky actually seems funny. The sad thing is that their was this big ass poster of chucky outside of my tae kwon do place for a while, and it scared the shit out of me. Not to mention the fact that the local spencer’s still has the life-size chucky doll from a while back. IF you can, watch the trailer for the new chucky movie. Hilarious. I think he kills britney spears.

Ghosted by Eric K @ 09/28/2004 4:47 PM EDT

Interesting commercial there. Personally, I think the ones that emphasize that drugs are dangerous are the best ones. I have never used street drugs myself because it was drilled into my head from an early age that they could make you sick or even kill you. Those are the kinds of commercials we should show, like the famous "This is your brain on drugs" spot with the fried egg. Anyone remember the one that ran on ABC Saturday mornings in the 80s that went: "Getting into drugs and being high is stupid thing to do. Being in control and saying no is just the easiest thing to do. Be an original. Take a stand and agree to say no. You got a right to say no!" That was a cool 80s commercial with guys in sunglasses and 80s clothes telling me to stay away from drugs.

To be honest, I don’t like most anti-drug commercials these days. Like that one with the mother strictly enforcing punishment on her son by forcibly preventing him from leaving the house, watching TV, using the phone, playing video games, etc. Personally, I found that very hokey. We ought to bring back the 80s drug commercials or maybe even have the Crying Indian do a a spot.

Ghosted by Bert Raccoon @ 09/28/2004 5:26 PM EDT

Oh my god….I remeber Snake from the PSA and my resulting long-tearm nightmares! I still think that is the scaryiest damn thing I have EVER seen (and I’am a die-hard horror fan too) Not a good PSA for a little catholic school-girl to see but still probibly the coolest PSA ever.

(even if it doses still make me cry)

Ghosted by Amy @ 09/28/2004 5:55 PM EDT

Friday the 13th: Definately the 4th one
Nightmare:Gotta stick with the 1st. Before freddy movies turned comedy
Halloween:Not a big fan but I’d have to say the 4th
Hellraiser:Definately Hellbound! You can’t beat the part when the doctor hands the insane man on the mattress a straight razor!
Child’s Play: The first for quality. The rest were ok but very cheesy.

Ghosted by Derek @ 09/28/2004 10:52 PM EDT

YES! Finally, one of the fabled PSAs from the PSA article. Now all you need to do is post Crack Babies Killin Babies Oh Lordy Lord and I can die a happy man.

Speaking of scary PSAs, I’ve always been uite interested in them. I’d like to find more, someday. Although that commercial for Viper locks that came on late at night with the CG viper coming out of nowhere always kinda freaked me out as a kid.

Ghosted by Teirusu @ 09/28/2004 11:14 PM EDT

its sad,but i think seeing that commercial as a child made me more afraid of urban blacks than of drugdealers.

i didnt know what the heck that dude was talking about..weed?crack? i was 5 years old.

Ghosted by LyricalPharaoh @ 09/29/2004 12:10 PM EDT

Wow, I thought no one else remembered this. I used to have nightmares of the Snake guy. I was so distraught that I actually forced myself to "fight back" in the dreams and basically insult the Snake guy until he went away. Sounds a bit weird, but it’s absolutely true. I had to have been 8 or so at the time.

I’m still scared to download it and watch it again, but I’ll give it a try sometime.

Ghosted by Amy @ 09/29/2004 1:56 AM EDT

I can’t believe you didn’t mention anything about COBRA COMMANDER’S albeit less gradual transformation to a snake!

Ghosted by James @ 09/29/2004 8:43 PM EDT

Hey, I forgot to ask this question – does anyone think there are any scary PSAs out today?

Ghosted by Sara @ 09/30/2004 1:05 AM EDT

Whoa, that commercial is freaky!

Ghosted by Anna @ 10/01/2004 3:49 PM EDT

So, what exactly IS the commercial? I probably won’t recognize it unless I know what I’m looking for.

Ghosted by Gooper Blooper @ 10/02/2004 12:24 PM EDT

PSA’s are freaky. I’m 12 years old (Does it matter? I’m very smart around the 80’s for my age.)
and I was freaked out by a commercial I saw about 2 years ago. I didn’t know much about drugs back then, and there was this commercial with a cute little girl talking about how breathing in cigarette smoke causes cancer. Throughout the commecial there was sillouettes
breathing in smoke. In the style of 80’s PSAs, she says something like "You don’t smoke, do you?"
Scared the bajeezus out of me because My dad and my brother (now 26) both smoke.

Ghosted by Charlie @ 10/02/2004 3:15 PM EDT

Write-in!: Evil Dead. Though I used to like Halloween a lot.

Ghosted by Zoghade @ 10/03/2004 1:08 AM EDT

I never seen that commercial… creepy.

NOES-1

FT13- I liked 3 because if it weren’t for it, Jason would still be a mutated sack wearing hillbilly instead of a freak in a hockey mask. Oh yeah, and I’m good friends with the lady who played the main girl in that movie,Dana Anderson (Kimmel). I live right by her.

hr- didn’t care for the series except for part 1.

cp- 1 was good and bride of chucky ruled.

Texas Chainsaw Massacre- 1, 2, and the remake.

BTW, Does anyone remember the PSA of the teenage guy on the couch with a girl, the girl smokes a cigarete says "kiss me!" then her face turns into a brown gremlin thing with hair then she goes "GRAAAAW"? That ad scared the shit out of me for years!

Ghosted by Jimmeh Lykes Cookehs @ 10/03/2004 7:50 AM EDT

Friday the 13th.: 4, The Final Friday

Ghosted by Shugga @ 10/09/2004 1:19 PM EDT

I knew what was coming while watching snake, But that was really quick.

Although the morph from man to snake weren’t as scary as I though, But still the concept is very good and they should play that ad over here in the UK, Or something similar

Ghosted by Lee @ 10/19/2004 8:29 AM EDT

Oh god, I remember this PSA a little too clearly. I’m glad you’ve given me the opportunity to go back and face it, because now I see how terribly cheesy it is.

Ghosted by Sasha @ 10/27/2004 12:18 PM EDT

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