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Michael Gingold

Michael Gingold

American journalist and screenwriter

Oct 23, 2026

71:38
How do you weave in kind of the predominance of VHS culture at the time? Because that, you know, kind of feels like it would be ubiquitous across everything and how, you know, there was a saturation of horror because the VHS market emerged.
71:53
Well, we talk a little bit about that in the shot on video grassroots segment.
71:59
There have been so many really cool documentaries about VHS culture.
72:02
I decided that there are a couple of things I thought have been covered so much in other docs that it doesn't really figure in here.
72:09
That's one.
72:10
Because it's really more about the films themselves and the fun of them and going through as many individual titles.
72:18
And so to kind of talk about the video store phenomenon and everything, there's no real way to kind of weave that into it because it's really kind of a category by category study.

7 MINS LATER

79:05
Was there any revelations like that? I'm always curious.
18:44
He returns, you know, we were all waiting for the return of Durant.
18:48
Yeah.
18:48
I, uh, I, I cannot say I'm a fan of Dr. Giggles and, uh, it actually was, was not a success at all.
18:54
When it came out, it kind of, it came out right after candy man and candy man kind of wiped the floor with it at the box office.
19:00
Um, But that script was originally, and first of all, to correct something, as usual, Wikipedia is wrong about.
19:07
It says that Dr. Giggles is based on a comic book.
19:10
It was produced by Dark Horse Films, which was an offshoot of Dark Horse Comics.

24 MINS LATER

42:53
Like, and I know you've, you wrote about it and stuff, but do you remember distinctly like the, the general vibe around this one in its festival run? I mean, it went into festivals and was it someone people talked about?

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