Something Weird Video
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Background: Something Weird Video is an American film distributor founded by Mike Vranary in Seattle, Washington in 1990. The company is known for distributing exploitation films on DVD, VHS, and Blu-Ray disc. Mike Vranary died in 2014 from lung cancer while Something Weird Video still continues to distribute films to this day.The company is named after the 1967 film Something Weird.
1st Logo
(Early 1990's?)
<iframe frameborder="0" height="203" src="http://wikifoundrytools.com/wiki/closinglogos/widget/youtubevideo/8d9df6c22ec9d923165e8fa42b71bb6aa54cbc52" width="361"></iframe>Logo: On a background of inverted footage of an nuclear explosion while shifting colors, we see a the text in a wavy-like font "SOMETHING" and below it the text in the same font "WEIRD" along with the text "ViDEO" in a funky-like font below the logo while the entire logo is surrounded by a rectangular outline border while also being tilted a little to the left. The entire logo (including the border) changes colors in black, grey, white, yellow, blue, green, magenta, red, and purple.
FX/SFX: The colors constantly changing.
Music/Sounds: None
Availability: Seen on the company's earliest VHS releases such as <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w66ds7ErBjQ" target="_self">Hallucination Generation</a>.
Editor's Note: None.
2nd Logo
(1990's- )
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Variant: The logo can sometimes be brighter.
Trailer Variant: In some of their trailers, some fanfare is played over the logo while you can still hear the original music of the logo.
FX/SFX: The spinning background and the text zooming out.
Music/Sounds: An eerie horror-themed fanfare that seems to loop twice throughout the logo.
Availability: Seen on exploit horror and pornography films on VHS, DVD, and Blu-Ray.
Editor's Note: None.