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Because it's important to start off the new year on the right foot, here now is a Gremlins-related Fan Made video that's sure to bring back a few monster memories. Essentially, what if Gremlins somehow found a way to break into your DVR player, scroll through it and wreak havoc on the recorded films? Using puppets created from a hard cast of one of the production sculptures, Sacha Feiner created this video (for a total of $3,000) which pays homage to the alternate scene from the VHS version of Gremlins 2.

Confused? Here's Sacha's description: "In the middle of the movie Gremlins 2, there is a sequence where the film seems to break, and where the gremlins invade the projection booth. For the VHS edition in the early 90's, they reshot a special sequence where the VHS tape seemed to be torn apart and in which the gremlins invaded a John Wayne movie. The DVD just kept the original theatrical version. This is the alternate sequence I made, supposed to replace the theatrical one on the DVD." Some of the films featured include Tim Burton's Batman, Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Exorcist. Very funny stuff -- check it out below. What do you think: Is it time for a Gremlins 3?

They had faces back then, certainly. More importantly they had titles. You could tell a Hammer film came from the land of Churchill just from their strong titles, fit for a debating society, really: "Resolved: Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed." As it happens, the Shock It To Me! fest in San Francisco at the Castro Theater October 5-7 is showing both Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969) and Dracula Has Risen From the Grave (1968) with Hammer star Veronica Carlson flying in for a visit. They've also got three by the great Joe Dante (Matinee, The Howling, and the very witty Gremlins 2).

Bay Area horror movie luminary John Stanley will be visiting, and they'll be reviving the best movie made in Santa Cruz ever--and don't tell me about no Lost Boys!--Killer Klowns from Outer Space. Let us focus, though, on Hammer's third Dracula movie (not counting its 1960 The Brides of Dracula, which Dracula doesn't even bother to show up for). For the the third time, the tall and remote Christopher Lee fills the opera cape, in a horror adventure that deals with the rage of the Count; you could argue that Lee was one of the last people to take Dracula seriously.