31 Days of Halloween III: Season of the Kitsch

[packerbacker180]

That's terrible. There's so much mental illness in the world today and not enough respect for other people and their property.

[BrandonDaCollector]

Yes, there sure are and it's really escalated since 2020. Those were good clips. Them costumes & Unicef was nice

Some Halloween Safty Tips



Here's this horror villains from the New York Comic Con from a while back. This is pretty good. The big boobed babe in the thumbnail is there only for a brief second but at least she wasn't click-bait That's actually not a costume, that's body paint there so what you see is what you kinda get with her body Darn shame they focus on here, what a darn shame

[packerbacker180]

[BrandonDaCollector]

All of this was good especially that WGN Costume video

So over the last couple days over in the wrestling section I posted some super fun stuff of the very talented & underrated late great Matt Borne when he was Big Josh in WCW, Doink the Clown in the WWF & Borne Again in ECW. I'm posting this here so I can have more in those Topics. Here's this great fan-made video of Doink the Clown. Listen to the background music during this video. The music is by John Williams and it's his wonderful Cue from Star Wars Episode 5: Revenge of the Sith which this Cue is titled "Anakin's Betrayal". I've known this when I first got the CD before the movie came out in 2005. Its a very memorable Track and fits that scene perfectly. The person that put this video together was pretty clever putting that music there. In fact in the comments, I was surprised that somebody actually noticed that and even named the track and talked about it



Okay, so here's this great moment of the maniac Borne Again in ECW when he's against Too Cold Scorpio in one of M fave time sin wrestling

[packerbacker180]

That ECW promo was pretty good.

[BrandonDaCollector]

Yes it sure was, one of My all-time moments in ECW. More good various clips there

Okay now listen up, I found a special video from WWE themselves that Mortis was in WWE I knew he was long ago but more on that tomorrow which will be a 20 minute special video First I'm going to post several clips of the Blood Runs Cold and really as much as there was, there wasn't much to this especially when you like this. This had the potential being as wonderful as the Dungeon of Doom. So first it happen in 1996. Vignettes like this was seen on WCW Programming in the early Summer of 96. I knew Kevin Nash was coming to WCW because of My Figure Four Newsletters (that was the web before the web, check out My showcases in My Vintage Wrestling Collection) and Sycho Sid was contemplating of going back to WWF or WCW. Well, Nash joined Scott Hall to form the nWo & Sid went back to the WWF and replaced The Ultimate Warrior and the vignettes kept on being on TV so neither one was part of this hype. Now, this video comes direct from WWE, they changed the music in the promo. It was way more epic, spooky & darker toned and I couldn't find the original on on TY. I believe they did that because of copyright issues because they removed much for the Network, I mean Jericho comes out with his WWE theme on Nitro for cryin' out loud




So a while later in one of My F4W Newsletters, Brian Alvarez says about that Blood Runs Cold will feature a new wrestler named Glacier...just days after I got that Newsletter, I see vignettes on TV revealing Glacier...and I was like wow, real life Mortal Kombat this was one of'em



I love Glacier's story about his Father and that his helmet is hundreds of years old handed to him from Generation to Generation. So he wasn't a complete copy or inspiration of Mortal Kombat and looking like Sub-Zero and part of the Lin Kui, there was additional new material here. So he made his debut a while later on WCW TV...he's against The Gambler on WCW Pro.



So instead of being a one ninja clan to stop the nWo, he was never placed there and really stuck in limbo for many months beating everybody on the low & mid card until his arch-rival called Mortis debuted with James Vandenberg. If you don't know, Mortis is a shoot fighter from Malaysia from the Underground that practices the dark arts. Here's his great entrance as he's against fellow martial artist Jetty Flynn. Mortis was really great



So during the much-anticipated bout match between Glacier & Mortis, Vandenberg has new monstrosity called Wrath...I was like holy crap...that's ADAM BOMB



So, here's Wrath's entrance. He was totally awesome. He was something from the medieval fantasy times and really a an updated spin from his Night Stalker days in WCW



So, who's going to help Glacier now Well it would Ernest "The Cat Miller



Here's this match with all of'em



So really that's all of the important stuff to know. This all faded away really worse than the Dungeon of Doom did Glacier was repackaged with other gimmicks, Mortis became Kris Kanyon again but this time he wasn't a "Man At Work" though, Wrath became a variant of Adam Bomb, built up his body tremendously and arguably the biggest babyface of the company but was ruined by Kevin Nash's booking, Ernest Miller became a major comedy act and Vandenberg went to ECW and became the second Sinister Minster. Unfortunately, like today how great stuff doesn't last long and ruined because of density & lack of interest, it was happening back then too I'm afraid

Now, as I said, tomorrow I'm going to post MORTIS IN THE WWE...it's 19 minutes long and pretty satisfying so be prepared, be very prepared

[packerbacker180]

I never knew Ernest Miller debuted as part of this. I never really knew much about him other than he was more of a comedy act by the time I got back to wrestling. I can see what they were trying for but I can also see why it didn't work. I know Glacier had a legit martial arts background but he didn't just look the part to me watching that. And Mortis should've been portrayed much more like an Undertaker character, almost supernaturally impossible to defeat. But even watching his match he was too animated and wasn't dominant enough. I think it could've worked, but from the start I can see why it failed to can traction. Especially with nWo looming. It may've also been a bit too on the nose with the Mortal Kombat stuff.

[BrandonDaCollector]

Yeah, when I first saw Ernest Miller do that I was like what, he's just a normal fighter, there's nothing spooky or unique about him, it was like they didn't know who to get or what to do at that point You could be right on there Packer

All of them clips were good. That Pete & Pete was cool. That last one was an AI film, there is a ton of short films like that on YT. Everything is AI now, so many commercials, AI this & AI that

Okay, I hope you prepared yourself because here's a very special video of Mortis during the early 2000s in the WWE. These were dark matches...see just because their dark matches don't mean they're not filmed. Gosh there was many dark matches I'd like to see like Doink the Clown vs. Jim Powers at the WWF Royal Rumble 93, Giant Gonzales vs. Kamala the Ugandan Giant on an early episode of Monday Night Raw in 93, or better yet the entire House Show I went to in 91 So, here it is, I recommend that you see this full screen as this is quite special to see this



Gosh, could you imagine if they were smart and kept the gimmick that he could have faced The Brothers of Destruction or even joined them What a missed opportunity that was So any thoughts about Mortis was in WWE Packer

[packerbacker180]

Wow, a young Austin Aires there as a bonus is pretty cool. Yeah, I could've seen that working in the WWE if they didn't book him too comedic. Matchups or team ups with Taker and Kane would've cool. Not sure a team up with Funaki would've worked but then it got me thinking what if they made Funaki be like a Renfield. Not saying Mortis would be a vampire, just that Funaki would be sort of a pathetic underling. We'll never know, and that's a shame.

Getting close to the end so going to sprinkle in some classics...

[BrandonDaCollector]

Yes, I thought you'd like that That may have worked had they done that Yes, those were excellent, that BMW & B&B are classic. I miss the horror stuff like that in the 90s I mean even though BMW is PG, it still had the classic horror feel that so severely lacks in Movies & TV Shows for a long time now but hey, that's one of the great points of looking back to the past



Okay, here's one more wrestling one and then it's off to a special spooky one tomorrow so be prepared for that First, here's this match on Raw from 97, 27 years ag this year. This is around Halloween. They show these really cool Pumpkin graphics during Taka & Taylor's entrance as well as the winner's too



Here's 2 promo's/commercials of WCW/nWo Halloween Havoc 98 which was a great one...




The main event was Hollywood Hogan vs. The Ultimate Warrior...I'm going to see about posting more of that in the Promos Topic tomorrow