I am surprised nobody noticed the resemblance between this logo and the intro to an old early 1990s series of Sesame Street segments entitled "Mysterious Theater!" They were a parody of PBS's "Mystery!" featuring Sherlock Hemlock, and hosted by Vincent Twice (a parody of Vincent Price). Even though the SS segments came out a couple years before Renaissance Pictures' logo did, they both seem very similar IMO.

Here's what happens in the Mysterious Theater intro: It starts on a stylized painting of a woman in a black mourning dress and hat holding a rose and a handkerchief next to a black gravestone, it begins on a closeup of the woman and zooms out to full frame as tense-sounding music begins playing (nothing unholy or Tibetan-like, basically just typical 1990s-era ominous Sesame Street score music) as we hear a wolf howling during the zoom out, then lightning flashes as the title "MYSTERIOUS THEATER" in red fades up on the gravestone as thunder crashes, and we hear a dungeon door slam sound as the "MYSTERIOUS THEATER" text slides downward and then it zooms into the grave as we hear another wolf howl followed by a cat meowing, the gravestone eventually filling the entire screen with black.

Anyone else notice how similar this intro is to the Renaissance Pictures logo?

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