Animazement 2007 Hell Playlist Here's the playlist for the Animazement 2007 Hell. While new episodes of a couple of last year's favorites made an appearance and a few classics were thrown into the mix, everything shown was new to Animazement. 01 - Love Missle F1-11 - Courtesy of Sigue Sigue Sputnik. "The 80's were like this _all the time_." 02 - Blood Splattered Bride/I Dismembered Mama trailer - Fun exploitation meta-trailer with filmgoers offering reaction to the double-feature. 03 - Johnny Cypher in Dimension Zero (Shadow People) - Introduced as my concession to putting anime in "Anime Hell" (which the event is still billed as in the program book). Thanks again to Jerry Beck. 04 - Kure Kue Takora Ep. 120 - Wherein Private Takora frags his superior officer. 05 - "Let Go with an L&M" commercial - AKA "Fuck it, I'm smoking!". 06 - The Last ABBA Video Ever - Where all four members of ABBA make cameo appearances, as puppet versions of them bump and grind disturbingly in an attempt to sell "Waterloo" to the Swedish Eurovision reps. 07 - Face-Off Pimples ad - From the film Putney Swope. 08 - The Wizard of Speed and Time - The original short, as lovingly restored by Neil Nadelman, used here to kick off a bit of retro Hell. 09 - Fish Heads - The original short, captured for the Hell from an old Rhino VHS tape of comedy videos. I figured that while a lot of the audiance probably recognized the song, like me they had probably never seen the video either. Complete with "follow the boucning fish head" sing-a-long action! 10 - A clip from the Gong Show movie - While the film itself is terrible, it does have several best-of segments that are pre-cut for your Hell pleasure, the second of which featured The Popcicle Twins and JP Morgan flashing her tits. Triva note: the film finale has Tom Lehrer performing "The Vatican Rag". 11 - Lee Press-On Limbs - A wonderfully tasteless cartoon courtesy of Liquid Television. 12 - Billy's Balloon - While this has been around for ages and has already been a staple of other Hells, I had never shown it, so I figured I'd put my copy of Bitter Films Vol. 1 to good use. Good lord, the audiance damn near rioted. Apparently a whole helluva lot of people hadn't seen this one and it brought the house down. 13 - Koko's Earth Control (Liquid TV Edit) - There's a lovely full-length version of this early Fleischer weirdness floating around online, but the Liquid Television edit adds bizzare music and cuts out some of the live-action sight gags. 14 - Frank "Whim Grinder" - Based on the Jim Woodring comic. Short but sweet weirdness. 15 - Broken Down Film - Very clever experimental animation by Osamu Tezuka ala Jumping. 16 - The Raiders of Atlantis trailer - Goofy 80s would-be blockbuster with everything, up to and including laser beam eyes. 17 - "Winnebago Spring Rally" commercial - Ah, the early 70s. 18 - Dawn of an Evil Millennium clip - Providing the evening's "this isn't funny, it's just incredibly weird...okay, maybe it is funny" moment, the first 11 minutes or so of this student film gone horribly wrong from some guys who spent all their free time in LA watching Blade Runner and Scanners over and over again. 19 - The Bullet Machine trailer - British exploitation flick. 20 - Edelweiss, "Bring Me Edelweiss" - Early 90s dance hit video which combines the twin charms of drinking heavily and sampling ABBA. "Austria is like this _all the time_. 21 - Baby's Gang, "Happy Song" - Italo disco cheesefest, introduced as the trailer for the new Harry Potter flick. 22 - Vivian Vee, "Higher" - Meanwhile, this was introduced as the finale of the "Europe must pay for it's musical sins with fire and salt" segment and provided the high point of the evening. During a live performance sometime in the mid-80 Vivian Vee (who isn't terribly offensive) is backed up by four men in spandex, leather collars, and bad perms who show off astonishingly bad dance moves. The room lost their shit and when the choreography started to repeat dancers immediately took the front of the room, leading half of the audiance along in a frenzied dance-off. God, I love disco. 23 - Bernard's Letter - A short film extra from the third Black Books DVD collection. 24 - Jason the Terrible and Zodiac - Several minutes of surreal ranting from an early-80s Canadian wrestling promotion, repleate with awesome blue-screen starfield effects. 25 - Girl Boss Gurellia trailer - From the Pinky Violence DVD collection. 26 - Plus Electrification - Finally, a nine minute 1972 animated propaganda film about the joys of bringing electricity to the entire Soviet Union. This required heavy patter but paid off nicely, particularly once a slow middle section lead into the glorious Communist future where electricity would be used to destroy mountains, turn Siberia into a tropical paradise, and build utopian cities out of rain. Hail communism! Hail electricity!