Vampires are weird, let’s face it. Here are our picks for the best in pop culture history! Vampira You gotta start at the source of awesome pop culture vampires: Maila Nurmi’s “Vampira” character. Everyone knows Elvira of Movie Macabre fame, but not everyone realizes Elvira is essentially the Part II of Vampira – the original vampiress TV show host. Vampira’s...
Look, you read this article title and were like, “Really? Cereals with a backstory?” Well, Hollywood has been doing it with everything else for years. I mean, there is a Battleship movie. Really? Did that need a deep origin story? Well, somewhere between the Battleship movie and Mrs. Butterworth 2: Meet Mr. Butterface lies a whole chain of untapped mascots...
I’m sorry. Truly, I am. I’m sorry that for eight years, there was a running Gremlins ride hosted by ALF and I never told you about it. A Gremlins ride showed up at Warner Bros. theme parks in both Australia and Germany. The German version, however, received an upgrade in the form of one Gordon Shumway. Photo by: Screammachine.net ALF...
It was one of those videos I kept spotting in the discount bin at K-Mart. Every time I stopped by the electronics section, there would be four or five copies marked down, ready for someone to give a loving home to these tapes. At some point, the price dropped a dollar and I decided to take a risk on a...
I had only seen about five minutes of a Terminator movie as a kid. That didn’t stop me from ending up with a few T2 toys somewhere along the way. I had half-Arnold/half-skeleton, Arnold with exploding arms, and the robo skeleton. My favorite by far, however, was the John Connor figure because he looked like an ordinary person and his...
Way, way, way, way back in the day, Linz and I had another website that was comic-based and featured other random silliness. This was so long ago that I didn’t have Photoshop, instead I was using Adobe Photo Deluxe, which the main selling point was that it could put your face on funny money. Seriously. Somehow, though, between Photo Deluxe...
It’s not often you get the chance to re-paint the Mona Lisa, yet here we are. Check out what happened when we lined up the “Ghostbusters Meet the Laser Ghost” story book record from the 80s with the newest Ghostbusters offering. It works way better than you’d expect.
If you think everything coming back in the form of a nostalgia explosion now is new, you obviously weren’t around in the 80s. If you were, you’d know that they tried to bring back The Munsters several times. It just never worked out. First, there was an ill-contrived sequel series – Yes, sequel series, not just simply a reboot. Despite...
We’ve written previously about Perfect Strangers in such articles as 6 Things You Didn’t Know About Perfect Strangers, 8 Characters That Shouldn’t Rap, 6 Sitcoms That Would’ve Been Lousy Video Games, and 8 Alternate Casting Choices, but today is a celebration. That’s right– today, March 25, 2016, marks the 30th anniversary of Perfect Strangers, and what better way to celebrate...
To satiate your burning desire for more Pop Rewind Podcasts, and to kill some time because the next episode going up is a beast to edit, we have a minipodcast for your earholes. In this bite-sized audio treat, Lee and Linz react to the Ghostbusters (2016) Movie Trailer. Is it a reboot? Is it a remake? Is it a direct...
