When I was little, TV shows and movies apparently liked to make their production logos creepy. That logo that appeared either in the beginning of a VHS tape or DVD or in the end was enough to get some of us to not sneak out of our rooms at night and watch our favorite shows/movies. And as I grew older, I’d be confirmed of the fact I wasn’t the only person caught off-guard, as there is a whole genre of discussion around it. Which one would strike the scariest vibes in you?
Not TV/movie, but Valve’s video logo and accompanying sound was pretty startling at the time.
When they made the head move in portal 2 for the first time, the girl from the ring might as well have just climbed out of my screen
The neversoft eyeball in the beginning of the tony hawk games used to creep me out.
For anyone not familiar the intro would show the neversoft text and then the eyeball would be skewkered.
The original THX Deep Note was the bad kind of dissonant for my little brain growing up. Even the THUD parody version from the Tiny Toons “movie” gave me the creeps.
For me, the logos would become closely associated with specific movies where I first saw them. So while these aren’t exactly scary movies, the iconic Columbia torch lady meant Ghostbusters, while the blue New Line Cinema box would get me pumped for some Ninja Turtles. And I vaguely remember being confused about why a Michael Keaton Batman movie would open with a Warner Bros. logo, since that meant Looney Tunes, and I didn’t understand how two things with such different vibes could come from the same company.
