Genesis Home Video

(1980s)

Nicknames: "LSD Genesis", "Genesis Script"

Logo: On a sunrise background, we see mountains with palm trees on top. At the bottom, we can see "THE NEXT WAVE IN ENTERTAINMENT", in a pink all-caps font. The text is hardly visible, due to half of it being off-screen, and the word "WAVE" being barely noticeable. The camera then moves upwards, as we fade to a pink sunrise background, with a pink metallic sphere in the middle. We fade to a dark purple background, with "Genesis", in a dark pink slanted, cursive font. Below it to the right is "HOME - VIDEO, LTD.", sandwiched between two lines, all of the same color as "Genesis". The sphere, now silvery, is seen on top of "Genesis", just above the "ne". After some time, the text from the beginning "THE NEXT WAVE IN ENTERTAINMENT", arranged in a purple font with white "shadowing" appears in the center of the screen, as the other text and sphere fade out to a time-lapse cloudy skyor moving lava lamp-like background colored with orange, yellow, pink and green, all neon. The text disappears, and the background fades out a couple of seconds after.

FX/SFX/Cheesy Factor: Ugh... too many to describe, from the cheap image of the trees and mountains, to the logo forming into multi-colored lava, as if it looked like what you'd see if you were on LSD. Plus, there is this:

First, the beginning should've went like this: we see the full text "THE NEXT WAVE...", then the camera moves upwards FROM the palm trees TO the sphere. Instead, the text was half-unreadable, and as the camera moves upwards, we FADE to the still image of the sphere. Second, the sphere is supposed to stay in its place as the background fades to purple. Instead, the sphere MOVED when it faded to purple. And last, the pink "Genesis" word is supposed to be WHAT'S LEFT of the pink background from before, but the word's color is too dark.

Not to mention the awful jingle...

Music/Sounds: ...which consists of a quiet "BOOM!" sound, what sounds like a bomb dropping, and a long, synthesized "hum" sound similar to the 80s PolyGram Video logo.

Availability: Very hard to find, so you might as well check eBay or Amazon to find a tape with this logo. Examples include Christmas Evil and Night of Horror.

Scare Factor: Medium to nightmare. The animation is awful and the music is creepy. It really depends on the person; some people find it cool, some people find it creepy.