#Case animatronics owl movie#
#Case animatronics owl tv#

He also became fascinated with puppetry and animatronics after watching films like вЂњClash of the TitansвЂќ, вЂњGremlinsвЂќ and вЂњDark Crystal.вЂќ He shot stop-animation horror shorts as a teen. At age 11, his dad did allow him to rent вЂњThe Toxic Avenger,вЂќ вЂњ Surf Nazis Must DieвЂќ and вЂњClass of NukeвЂ™em HighвЂќ and he was suitably enthralled. He gravitated toward the colorful graphics of the horror section, even when he was too young to actually rent them.

#Case animatronics owl movie#

ItвЂ™s a feeling you get that heвЂ™s captured.вЂќДЄs a young child, SantвЂ™Anselmo spent a lot of time at the mom-and-pop Movie Mart in Canoga Park, California, in the 1980s before chains like Blockbuster and Hollywood Video began taking over in the 1990s. We live in such a virtual world and this is something tactile and tangible. вЂњHis love of story is woven into the video store,вЂќ she said.

#Case animatronics owl tv#

Genevieve DeMars, a Smyrna childrenвЂ™s TV show producer and SantвЂ™AnselmoвЂ™s sister-in-law, said she never questioned his ambition. вЂњI went for functionality with a larger viewing screen,вЂќ he said, jokingly adding, вЂњDoc Brown brought them from the future,вЂќ referencing the 1985 film вЂњBack to the Future.вЂќ He likes to play 1980s MTV videos such as вЂњTake on MeвЂќ or films like вЂњMajor LeagueвЂќ on the screens when visitors come by to admire his work. While SantвЂ™AnselmoвЂ™s replica store is like a fever dream of his childhood, he did allow for one blatant anachronism in his dream: modern flat-screen TVs mounted in a couple of the rooms rather than the more cumbersome cathode-ray tube TVs of yore. He even built out shelves that are actually hidden doors into other rooms. Movie posters (вЂќRisky Business,вЂќ вЂњMac and MeвЂњ) and cardboard cutouts of вЂњE.T.,вЂќ Chevy Chase, Richard Pryor and Paul Hogan of вЂњCrocodile DundeeвЂќ fame accent the space. He installed a saloon double-door for a small вЂњadultвЂќ section.

He had a friend design a special Mondo Video logo of a girl on a Pee Wee Herman-style scooter with VHS tapes on the back. He painstakingly created вЂњdistressedвЂќ brick walls going down the stairs and into the main room to evoke a Manhattan nook-style video store circa 1986. He tore up the basement carpets and spent weeks installing black-and-white tile flooring: вЂњI love вЂ50s diners and I think checkered floors are just more interesting and energetic than a blank floor.вЂќ Plus, he didnвЂ™t want it to resemble the more homogenized chain stores that came later. That was when the idea hit him to create his own video store. A film historian friend Mike Malloy in early 2018 was shooting a вЂњtalking headвЂќ bit for a Blu-ray extra video of the film вЂњ Syndicate SadistsвЂќ from 1975 and needed someone to play a video store clerk behind him. вЂњAs much as I like that ambiance, it didnвЂ™t feel quite right,вЂќ he said. RODNEY RODNEY RODNEY when he purchased the home with the spacious basement, initially thought of creating a Disney-like haunted mansion. Anthony SantAnselmo's Woodstock basement features a room for sports-themed movies and other 1980s-era knick knacks.