Something Weird Video/Summary

Background: Something Weird Video is an American film distributor founded by Mike Vranary in Seattle, Washington in 1990. The company is known for distributing exploitation films on DVD, VHS, and Blu-Ray disc until Mike Vranary's death in 2014.

1st logo

(1990-2013)

Logo: We see a black and dark yellow color wheel background that seems to constantly spin throughout the entire length of the logo. Then we see the text in a purple wavy-like font SOMETHING WEIRD. Then the letters in a dark green funky-like font VIDEO (with the trademark symbol) appear one at a time.

Variant: The logo can sometimes be brighter.

Trivia: The company is named after the 1967 film Something Weird as well as the logo.

Trailer Variant: In some of their trailers, some fanfare is played over the logo while you can still hear the original music of the logo.

FX/SFX: The spinning background and the text zooming out.

Cheesy Factor: Off the charts. Everything in this logo looks beyond terrible, especially for its time. The animation is rather very cheap and the eerie background is an eye sore to look at. The music is really bad and it sounds like they hired monkeys to compose this entire thing. Especially they used the logo until around 2013. But this logo (especially the music) actually does suit some of the films they distributed over the years.

Music/Sounds: An eerie horror-themed fanfare that seems to loop twice throughout the logo.

Availability: Seen on exploit horror and pornography films on VHS, DVD, and Blu-Ray.

Scare Factor: Nightmare. The pretty eerie animation and loud music will unnerve many people who see it, though this might be intentional due to some of their films are horror. Low for those who are used to it.