V!H!S: Video Hazard Squad

[Pete]

What's Video Hazard Squad, you ask? It's my MST-inspired animated show that used to be titled The VHS Hole. The thread for that can be found here in Crow's Art.

I've made some significant changes to the show, significant enough to warrant a new thread, I believe. The whole premise was retooled and simplified and characters were removed and/or replaced.

What's the same? There's still the everyman host Pete with a talking cat companion, Roz, who riff on films. Everything else has changed.

Premise: Pete is hired to watch bad/weird films in order to determine if they are hazardous to the general public. He's allowed to bring a guest so he chooses Roz to join him. In the theater they meet Gradee, a sentient VCR who actually plays the films they watch. They riff.

It's that simple. There's still animation but it's all in silhouette, even the "host" segments (as in Cinematic Titanic). Here's the set:


(left to right: Gradee, Pete and Roz)

I have a short picked out and the script is done. I'm getting auditions now for voice actors to fill out the cast. Pete and Roz are cast but I must find the right voice for Gradee and the voice for the unseen Computer. If anyone is interested in voice acting, PM me and I'll give further information.

That's it for now. This post it just a "heads up" to the forum that I'm doing this thing again, so you can plan ahead to ignore it later on.

I admit I got overwhelmed with The VHS Hole, particularly with the animation, but this new project is much simpler and actually do-able with my meager resources.

Thanks for reading and more to come...

~Pete

Edit: Pay no mind, just adding a gif. with a few clips of riffworthy films.

[Pete]

Not much of an update, but here's a sort of teaser title video. It's pretty much the same as the .gif above, but with sound. I just threw together a couple of sirens I found for a temp track, I'm having a real theme composed by a very talented Irish composer, Emmett Cooke. He had composed another piece for the show when it was called "The VHS Hole" (it's the seventh track - called "Pee Wee's Adventure" for some reason - on the playlist that starts playing when you enter his website. I still like it a lot, but it doesn't fit with the changes I made to the show. Emmett was kind enough to agree to take another whack at it.

It's here:





I thought I could embed a YouTube video here but I'm having trouble, it's HERE on YouTube if you prefer.

Also, casting is complete. Dane (currently known as The Great Muta here on the board), who has helped me with writing also, will be the voice of Gradee. So big thanks to him. I found the two other voices from voice acting message boards.

That's all for now.

~Pete

[TobyMobias]

Well, it's a neat little premise, and I like the 'Cinematic Titanic-host segments-in-shadowrama', but, quite frankly, I kinda liked the original idea better from the VHS Hole.

Good luck with the project!