We started this Halloween season with Donald Pleasance, and now we come full-circle! “The Dr. Loomis Tapes” is the Museum’s revolutionary new take on the classic HALLOWEEN slasher franchise, told solely through the eyes of Pleasance’s unstable (and possibly wasted) psychiatric savior. Watch as Loomis gets increasingly unhinged and battered as the series wanes on.

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FRIDAY NIGHT HALLOWEEN PARTY feat. BRET ON BASS: For the first time since before Museum of Home Video was created, I’m playing bass at an IRL show in Los Angeles. Museum friend Chaki has organized a one-off covers band for a show at the Kibitz Room (next door to my beloved Canter’s Deli) on Fairfax Avenue. Come see us on Friday 10/24, it’s free admission!

Within the sparkling legacy of Donald Glover’s Afrosurrealist TV opus “Atlanta” lies the thoroughly creepy, horror-twinged episode where Donnie plays a demented, rich guy resembling Michael Jackson, dressed as Hugh Hefner. Tonight we luxuriate in the uncomfortable cinematic fantastic-ness of “Teddy Perkins”, a two-hander between Glover and LaKeith Stanfield.

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A frenzied found footage take on the Stephen King ‘90s TV miniseries THE LANGOLIERS, but with a twist!  THE TIMEKEEPERS OF ETERNITY was meticulously crafted by an intrepid solo Euro artist who edited a Fasterpiece Theater-style LANGOLIERS cutdown, printed each frame to paper, and animated it into a brand-new creature feature with Bronson Pinchot (who previously played a side character) as the de facto star. One of your new favorite King adaptations, which must be seen to be believed.

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To kick off the Halloween season, we’ve Fasterpiece’d an already amazing Eighties found footage feature that uses an avalanche of horror cinema’s greatest hits (up to that point). Nancy Allen and a somewhat soused-looking Donald Pleasence host TERROR IN THE AISLES: a moody, atmospheric early take on the “supercut” that might end up becoming one of your favorite horror films.

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One of the crown jewels of the PBS kids’ canon. “Zoom” was, simply put, a dynamite joyous treasure. Imagine a major network variety special with sketches, song and dance…but with a cast of endearing pre-teen Boston theater kids and a fun, literate script. Tonight we air the uncut pilot: 30 minutes of top-shelf showbiz edutainment.

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Kicking off the Halloween season a little early with a show all about dead people. You’ll see lots of New Yorkers, all dead, including legendary fashion designers, sitcom stars, glam rockers, foreign film directors, and more! 

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The wildest city in the world gets even wilder at NITE! Filmmaker and nightlife guru Adam Baran (TRADE CENTER, CIRCUS OF BOOKS) curates an after-hours examination of the brilliance and beauty of New York, New York.

A joyous and frenetic stumble through the archives of music television, coming at you monthly! Forgotten live performances, modern and classic music videos, outrageous interviews & more. Hosted by the International Voice of Reason.

About IVOR: IVOR, a 20-year veteran of weirdo free-form radio, is survived by his two tuxedo cats and a giant pile of rug yarn.

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Wanna-be stars in a no-star hotel! In the early Aughts, aspiring Canadian comic Steve Markle came to Los Angeles with little more than a MiniDV camera and a dream. Instead of making it big in stand-up comedy, Markle crafted this utterly fascinating, haunting, and sad feature doc about the chain-smoking creatives, ex-cons, outcasts, poets, addicts, and industry-adjacent aspirants he met during his two-month stay at the Highland Gardens Hotel.

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We have a ton of new Fasterpieces on deck, so let’s make a special out of it. Dave Cowen (@eschatfiche) has new edits for this ep…and in a fun twist, Dave + Bret have each cut “dueling Fasterpieces” of ZARDOZ. This infamous ‘74 sci-fi braintwister starring Sean Connery in his underwear is so dense that both edits contain almost no overlapping footage!

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Perhaps the funniest episode MST3K ever produced? Joel & Co. were firing on all cylinders against this incomprehensible Seventies cop jaunt starring slob extraordinaire Joe Don Baker and our beloved beady-eyed John Saxon. This is also the key episode in which Joel Hodgson taps out as host, with Mike Nelson swapping in for the remainder of the series’ original run. Keep circulating the tapes!

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guest-presented by Major Label Debut

The ultimate in cinematic hero worship, and the most expensive rock ‘n roll biopic ever filmed. Drunk on power and unlimited budget after multiple Oscar wins in the Eighties, Oliver Stone kicked off his Nineties with the utterly ridiculous THE DOORS, starring Val Kilmer in the role of a lifetime as everyone’s fave Boomer narcissist d-bag/poet extraordinaire Jim Morrison.  Tonight’s Fasterpiece treatment is presented by “Major Label Debut”: the podcast hosted by Tokyo Police Club’s Graham Wright, all about iconic rock major label debuts!

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The delightful DAVE HOLMES drops by to discuss DUTCH POP DIVAS! MARY J is here to play! We’re ecstatic about AUTOMATIC! JOYWAVE throws clothes! Early gems from R.E.M.!

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A joyous and frenetic stumble through the archives of music television, coming at you monthly! Forgotten live performances, modern and classic music videos, outrageous interviews & more. Hosted by the International Voice of Reason.

About IVOR: IVOR, a 20-year veteran of weirdo free-form radio, is survived by his two tuxedo cats and a giant pile of rug yarn.

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We like our TV comedy divas uncouth and unhinged! It’s hard to pick a favorite character where “The Righteous Gemstones” is concerned, but Judy Gemstone has off-the-charts evil charisma. Here’s a tightly-edited platter of our favorite Judy moments. In Edi Patterson’s own words, “I just kind of figured that no filter, plus entitlement, plus truly feeling like you're being chosen by God would lead to some wild shit.”

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A star-studded celebration of daytime talk banality, with a murderer’s row of iconic, wide-ranging personalities muttering word salad while the world watched. Here, Southern belle Dinah Shore (gently) lays down the law with her marshmallow demeanor. She’s the perfect breezy foil to the loose-cannon brusqueness of Orson Welles, the loose-cannon gruffness of Gary Busey, and the loose-cannon vocal fireworks of Grace Jones (who practically whips the audience into submission.)

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What happens to the human brain when you watch every Swedish Chef segment from “The Muppet Show” in a row? We’ll find out tonight, as we stroll through thirty nonstop minutes of mush-mouthed mumbly comedy classics like “Chocolate Moose”, “Chicken In The Basket”, and “Turtle Soup” while dodging flying utensils. Børk!  Børk! Maybe we’ll tackle Lew Zealand next…

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 E! Entertainment Television’s “Talk Soup” was one of the many early inspirations for Museum of Home Video’s format, and a wild time capsule of ‘90s daytime talk nonsense to boot. Tonight we celebrate both “Talk Soup” and daytime talk itself with the show’s extended 1993 best-of episode. Here, OG host Greg Kinnear operates at peak insouciance while ducking and covering from Richard Bey, Vicki, Jerry, Downey, Joan, Ricki, Sally Jesse, Maury, Larry King, and special guest star Phil Hartman.

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Perhaps the most controversial Museum episode yet? Before the existence of Museum of Home Video…and before Bret was even a film programmer…he impulsively created an 80-minute fan edit of David Lynch’s most mercurial work. Now, almost 20 years later, Bret’s returned to the scene of the crime and made a completely new fan edit of INLAND EMPIRE for today’s Museum audience.

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FRIDAY NIGHT! SABBATH! GINA X! FUNKADELIC! LUDACRIS IS SHAGADELIC! WE GO TO A BELGIAN RAVE! SPOTLITE on an amazing episode of THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL with BILLY PRESTON, LABELLE, RUFUS ft. CHAKA KHAN & MORE!

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A joyous and frenetic stumble through the archives of music television, coming at you monthly! Forgotten live performances, modern and classic music videos, outrageous interviews & more. Hosted by the International Voice of Reason.

About IVOR: IVOR, a 20-year veteran of weirdo free-form radio, is survived by his two tuxedo cats and a giant pile of rug yarn.

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Unapologetically himself from beginning to end, Richard Simmons was a singular force, a geyser of kindness, a genuine force for change (rather than just a proto-wellness influencer), and a collector of the shortest shorts. Richard’s tireless work ethic helped him blaze a path through 40+ years of American television and radio, and we’re stoked to summarize that tonight. See Richard ride the wave through daytime talk, nighttime talk, syndicated talk, his half-hour series, infomercials, and even “American Bandstand”.

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The wildest city in the world gets even wilder at NITE! Filmmaker and nightlife guru Adam Baran (TRADE CENTER, CIRCUS OF BOOKS) curates an after-hours examination of the brilliance and beauty of New York, New York.

Tonight we get very conceptual! A “Dark Side of the Rainbow” for the 21st century, THE SHINING FORWARDS AND BACKWARDS is a hallucinatory, palindromic brainbomb resulting from musician John Fell Ryan’s literal interpretation of a fellow obsessive’s statement that “THE SHINING is a film meant to be watched both forwards and backwards.” This structural found-footage epic riffs on Kubrick use of doubles, symmetrical compositions and enigmatic suggestions of non-linear time, creating unexpectedly profound moments at nearly every turn.

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WANNA-BE STARS IN A NO-STAR HOTEL

Required viewing for every Angeleno, whether you’ve been here just a few months or your entire lifetime!  In the early Aughts, aspiring Canadian comic Steve Markle comes to Hollywood with little more than a MiniDV camera and a dream.  He rents a room at the fabled Highland Gardens, a grubby residential hotel where optimists like himself land at what they hope to be a temporary crash pad on their way to the top (fun note: the hotel still exists!).  Previous residents like Errol Flynn, L. Ron Hubbard, Brad Pitt and Janis Joplin give the dusty place its enduring mystery and luster, while its current occupants – some of whom viewers will recognize after recovering from a double-take – seem enamored with its history, hoping that Golden Age magic will transfer onto them.

Here, just a few blocks away from the Walk of Fame, Markle starts recording this off-kilter collection of chain-smoking creatives, ex-cons, outcasts, poets, addicts and industry-adjacent aspirants during his two-month stay at the Gardens.  First broadcast on Canadian television two decades ago, CAMP HOLLYWOOD is a heartbreaking, continuously fascinating snapshot of a community and what one resident dubs “the myth of people who have the guts to live their dreams.”

‍Co-presented by Museum of Home Video (a weekly broadcast of found footage for stoners, seekers, archivists, and drinkers) & L.A. Daze, an occasional stream on MoHV’s network offering transmissions from the city of fallen angels.

‍dir. Steve Markle, 2004
Canada, digital projection,
72 min

7:30 DOORS
8:00 SCREENING

The best and most entertaining of VH1’s Aughties-era celebrity biopics! This cautionary Hammertale features money earned, money lost, joyous dancing and more mishegoss. Along the way, we find out MC Hammer (played pretty well by Romany Malco, THE 40-YEAR OLD VIRGIN) was a batboy for the Oakland A’s, sold thousands of self-financed ‘80s LPs from the trunk of his car and even spent some quality time with Tupac Shakur while in a Death Row Records poseur phase.

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One of the most consistently funny Muppet artifacts of Jim Henson’s post-LABYRINTH phase, featuring an absolutely on-fire Frank Oz in dual starring roles as Miss Piggy and Fozzie. Written and directed by some key lifers from the Muppet creative team, this is one to remember. Piggy roams around L.A. meeting Bob Hope, Dudley Moore, and George Wendt. Fozzie has a disastrous stint onstage at the Comedy Store.

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