Videoman Internacional (Argentina)

1st Logo (Late 80's)

Nicknames: "Road to the Future", "Running Grid"

Logo: On a black background with a yellow haze, a grid emerges from the haze and the Videoman Internacional logo ("Videoman Internacional") with the words stacked on top of each other in a Times New Roman font in white inside a white rectangle appears and flips around before finally settling in the middle.

FX/SFX: The grid, the flipping...

Cheesy Factor: ...which are very cheap and only get worse by the next logo.

Music/Sounds: A 70s-esque disco theme.

Availability: Presumably seen on older releases from the label.

Scare Factor: Low to medium. However, it would get worse with the next logo.

2nd Logo

(1987-90's?)

Nicknames: "Thunderbolts of Doom", "Suspense", "The Twin Brother of Legal Video", "Trip to the Sun and Hell", "Video of Horror", "Videoman of Death", "Schick Sun Ripoff", "The Illuminati Logo", "Gativideo Prototype", "Sun from Hell", "Another Personification of All That Is Truly Evil", "Cheesy Triangle", "Offset Triangle", "My Own Worst Nightmare", "Creepy Space Thunder Logo"

Logo: On a black background, a black sun with an orange outline appears with a yellow glow (it looks similar to the Schick Sun, as mentioned in one of the nicknames). As the sun appears, a white, glowing "ray" of sunlight fades in after it that later changes to a green-black striped color. Two copies of the "Videoman Internacional" logo, from a tilted angle, zoom in from the top of the ray of sunlight to the bottom of the screen at a very slow pace; with the second logo tilting forward to a comfortable viewing position and the first logo staying tilted, to give the appearance of a "shadow effect" to the first logo. As the second copy of "Videoman Internacional" stops at a comfortable distance from the screen, (the first copy of the logo continues scrolling off-screen), a prototype version of the Gativideo print logo appears at the bottom. During the second half of the logo's duration, several strikes of lightning appear through.

FX/SFX: The glowing sun and animated ray of sunlight, as well as the scrolling/fading print logos and lightning strikes.

Cheesy Factor: Off the charts; in fact even worse than a typical Argentine home video logo. The logo seems to entirely animated with primitive, cheap computer graphics and chroma-key technology (they look similar to graphics from the Commodore 64). Also, the logo's overall theme is strange and lacks meaning. There's no point in making a flashy logo without a comprehensible form.

Music/Sounds: A futuristic new-age theme ("Message From The Cosmos" by Kitaro) with the sounds of three thunderclaps in sync with animation.

Availability: Ultra rare. It's found on the 1987 film Munchies.

Scare Factor: Medium.to nightmare, depending on how you feel about the lightning, music, and darkness. Some people would find this logo to be more cheesy than scary, but it can still deal a good blow towards a fair portion of those who see it.