Browsing: Saturday

Saturday morning cartoons were a marketing machine long before anyone used the phrase. In the 1950s, toy makers discovered that a thirty-second commercial could reach a million children at once, and in the 1980s deregulation turned entire shows into toy advertisements.

Tonight is a salute to directing legend Yoshiaki Kawajiri (Wicked City, Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust) as he makes his 2ndappearance during this month’s horrorthon, and it’s two personal favorites from the long-lost 20th century. The respective worlds that they inhabit couldn’t be more opposite from each other, but they’re both post-apocalyptic crapholes full of monsters,…