Amateurs are doing amazing things these days with consumer-grade high-def camcorders, especially Canon’s HV30 MiniDV unit and its predecessor, the HV20.
Haunted Indiana was a classic low-budget horror compilation that ran on Bloomington public access starting in the early ’80s.
In this reworked ending to the classic holiday special, Charlie Brown is sentenced to death by Linus.
Over the last several decades, a scream recorded for a 1951 Gary Cooper film has been used winkingly in dozens of movies and TV shows, from Reservoir Dogs and The X-Files to Aladdin and Return of the King.
Here’s a YouTube gem: the rarely seen 2002 short film Ernest and Bertram, which tells the sad and ultimately violent tale of the doomed relationship between those two closeted Muppets.
This grainy amateur footage of half a dozen young drunkards is one of my favorite underground video clips ever. It’s bloody, it’s patriotic, it’s a disturbing window into the existentialist mindset of America’s intellectual underclass.
This one-and-a-half-minute clip was apparently filmed at a small club in Oklahoma. A redneck with an acoustic guitar has lost control of his audience, which is heckling him mercilessly. The agitated guitarist heckles back. Then things get worse.
I’m Andrew Hearst. I’m the director of content strategy at Blue State Digital and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. More info is on the About page.
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