Virgin Video

== 1st logo (1980's - 1987) == Nickname: "Virgin from Hell"

Logo: Against a black background, the words "Virgin" (in blood red, and in its corporate script font) zooms out from the top left of the screen with a residue-trailing effect and stop in the center of the screen, "flashing". "VIDEO" in a small plain red font, zooms out from the bottom right corner with a residue-trailing effect and stops. It later fades out as a glowing "Presents" fades in.

FX/SFX/Cheesy Factor: The trailing effects. Cheap CGI.

Music/Sounds: A very deep, distorted electric guitar tune with heavy bass composed by Mick Karn.

Availability: Extremely rare. It can be seen on some old concert videos and cult films from the period. UK pre-certs released by Virgin may have this logo.

Scare Factor: Depending on what you think about it, it can range from medium to nightmare. The darkness, blood red color scheme, and distorted music, and even some of the effects will get to people. The scare factor varies for people who are used to it.

2nd logo (1987-1989[for North american variant] 1987-1991[for international variant])
Logos:
 * North American Variant: Against a black background, a set of revolving tri-colored light beams (red, blue, and green) shoot out toward the screen and bounce back and forth three times in a backwards "Z" formation. Then, it hits the center of the screen, and the Virgin logo, with a pattern of concentric black circles on it, above a spotlight, and with a drop shadow, turns upward. The word "VISION" is shown in the bottom right, sandwiched in between two horizontal lines. The word 'Virgin" fills with red, while "Vision" is "Scribbled" red, and the background turns white, then blue.

FX/SFX: The light beams, the logo turning upward, and the coloring.
 * International Variant: Same as before, except "Vision" is not seen, lacks drop shadows, is filmed with a freeze frame at the end, and has a couple of white around the background. This is seen in most other countries, such as England, Germany and Australia.

Cheesy Factor: On the North American variant, before it hits the center, it cuts to the Virgin logo. The beams seem to be from the International variant, but otherwise, the effects are much improved over the previous logo.

Music/Sounds: Chimes as the beams bounce around and a synth horn fanfare when the logo rises up, accompanied by a descending synth sound when the logo ("Virgin"and "Vision" get colored red in US/Canada) fills red.

Music/Sounds Variant: On some tapes, the jingle ends rather quickly.

Availability: More common than the previous logo. Seen on VHS releases of films such as Retribution, Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night 2, Edge of Sanity, Checking Out, How to Get Ahead in Advertising, Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills, The Banker, Fear (1988), and Destroyer, among others. Also seen on British tapes of Paris by Night, Robocop, The Terminator, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie, among others. In Canada, some tapes from this company have the Cineplex Odeon Home Video logo appear before the Virgin Vision logo. Likewise, on some tapes in Argentina, the Transmundo Home Video logo would appear before this logo (and MCEG's) on PAL tapes. In the UK, on some tapes, the MCEG logo will appear before the logo.

Scare Factor: Low; this is much tamer than before, but the sudden appearance of the beams might get to some.