I watched the Vincent Must Die & Hallow Road double feature tonight. Between the movies, they showed a concession stand cartoon bumper that mimicked the old ones from the 60's, well probably even before that. It was cutsy and looked pretty sharp, but also had a lot of grain artifacts added to make it feel old. And about half way thru it got super dark, there was blood and the popcorn bucket character was stabbing his eye out. I've seen other horror movies at AMC but never seen this. So I'm guessing it's either new, or it was just for 1 of these 2 movies.

Now I'm wondering if maybe it was something from an animation festival, it felt like I would have seen this at one of those 35 years ago. (I went every summer to watch them) I need to have this in my bumper catalog. I serious doubt it's something I could download. But I might be wrong, so I'm checking to see if anyone here has seen this? I have a bunch of cartoony concession stand bumpers from 40 years ago. But this is definitely new, and I don't have any that go from happy happy to dark and evil.

I asked on Reddit and someone knew what I was talking about.

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It's only 360p, but it's still an amazing bumper. Now that I know the name I'm gonna poke around Google and see if I can find an HD version. It looked amazing on the big screen at AMC. This is definitely one of the coolest concession stand bumpers I've seen. I have a ton of bumpers but nothing that caters to horror movies. This would be a great one to use for scary movie nights.

Edited November 1, 2025Nov 1 by Quebert

Some awesome fellow on Reddit had a link to the HD version of this, so I uploaded it "a busload of thrills and cool casual comfort"

Edited December 2, 2025Dec 2 by Quebert

Thanks for uploading that. I have a copy of it somewhere that I showed during one of my horror movie nights a few years ago, and it did a good job of setting the mood.