OVS Video Productions (UK)

(1980s)

Nicknames: "SuperVideo's Lost Brother", "Trippy OVS", "Cheesy OVS", "Irritating OVS", "OVS of Doom"

Logo: On a black background, we see a scanimate shape that looks like a closeup of a planet, except not all of it is coloured. The shape is green at the edges, then purple a little further down and blue lower down, omitting very weird patterns at different speeds. Then, later on, on the right side, the text

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tilted a little upward slowly zooms in, flashing blue and green. Once the text disappears, the shape continues doing weird patterns for a second before we cut to another sphere shape, this time blue lines. The shape emits some more patterns, which includes more lines moving to the left and occasionally "pulsing", especially at the end when some blue light appears on 1 side of the shape and purple light on the other. The company name is at the front in the center.

FX/SFX: Scanimate effects.

Cheesy Factor: Off the charts. Did they really think this was acceptable? The scanimate looks really cheesy, trippy and dated, and might cause a seizure, and the sudden cut to the 2nd half doesn't help either! The music also sounds really annoying.

Music/Sounds: An irritating synthesiser at the first half, then another annoying, but also eerie synth hum at the second half.

Availability: TBA.

Scare factor: Medium to nightmare. The cheap, yet unsettling animation, zooming, annoying music and black background will scare several people. The flashing can also be scary, along with the bad colour scheme. The sudden cut to the second half doesn't help, either, and the hum is rather eerie.