VOTD: 'Megaplex' Is A Frenetic, Funky Mash-Up Of Over 80 Sci-Fi Movies
You may remember last fall we featured the incredibly creative and cleverly edited mash-up called Hell's Club. The video had the cinematic worlds of Terminator, Scarface, John Wick, Saturday Night Fever, Star Wars, The Matrix and more collide in a single, dangerous nightclub setting. Now a new mash-up from Smash TV brings together over 80 sci-fi films, from Moonwalker to Akira and more but rather than just being a mash-up of these movies, it's also an exercise in music remixing that results in a mesmerizing, trippy feature-length music video.
But beware, because the video comes with a warning that the visuals have been "identified to potentially trigger seizures for people with photosensitive epilepsy." So watch this Megaplex mash-up at your own risk.
In the simplest way, Megaplex is described like this:
Megaplex is the most insane double feature the world has ever seen. With a running time of 80 minutes and thousands of cuts from more than 80 movies, Smash TV has spent the past year and a half cramming the most entertainment possible into every second. It's dense enough to pressurize these diamonds in the rough into gleaming treasures.
Borrowing from the Grindhouse tradition and from Tarantino's more recent tribute, Megaplex is a double feature that both members of Smash TV worked on independently.
As a palette cleanser in between, Smash TV is proud to present Coming Attractions, a 15 minute collection of vignettes editing together previously unexplored genres and styles.
However, that doesn't really describe exactly what the 80 minute video delivers, so below the video, you can find the creators' official breakdown of what they've put together for you to feast your eyes and ears on (via The AV Club).
Side A - Turbo
Turbo, Side A of Smash TV's Megaplex, is the coolest thing you've ever seen if you were a late-night-movie-brainwashed 8 year old in 1990. It is the ultimate in-your-face, balls to the wall, no holds barred, over the top, end of the world electric boogaloo dance party, fueled by neon, spandex, ooze, and steroids. So many steroids.
It's the movie you and your best friends stumble across at the end of the night after frying your brain with nine straight hours of Sonic 2, Streets of Rage 2, and ToeJam & Earl on your Sega Genesis. Or is the whole thing just a Pepsi-induced sugar coma fever dream? It's impossible to say. But you probably shouldn't have drunk that fifth two-liter bottle.
Turbo is utterly shameless in its love for the most ridiculous and awesome movies that the 1980s and early 90s had to offer. It's what would happen if Cannon Films and New Line Cinema got a little crazy at the club and ended up boning in the bathroom. It's the nights from your childhood that you'll never forget.
Coming Attractions
Coming Attractions is a collection of vignettes exploring different genres and themes. Comprised of fake trailers, genre retrospectives, and tributes to luminary actors and directors, it acts as a palette cleanser in between the two halves and provides an opportunity to experiment on a smaller scale.
Side B - Beyond
Beyond, Side B of Megaplex, is a psychedelic vision quest for B-movie lovers. Comprised of some of the strangest imagery from the 80s and early 90s, Beyond is a hallucinatory experience designed to amaze, bewilder, and terrify.
Highlighting choice cuts from a strange time in the horror, sci-fi, and fantasy genres, Beyond harkens back to late nights of channel surfing, catching out of context glimpses of the bizarre and fascinating. Something unlike anything you'd ever seen before...something you weren't supposed to see...
I haven't sat through the entire video yet, but the first 20 minutes surprisingly kept my attention with the quick cuts and funky music. It's quite a trip through cinema from the '80s and '90s.