Centered around a television station which features a 1950s-style sci-fi movie interspersed with a series of wild commercials, wacky shorts and weird specials, this lampoon of contemporary life and pop culture skewers some of the silliest spectacles ever created in the name of entertainment.
Directed by
John Landis, Peter Horton, Joe Dante, Carl Gottlieb, Robert K. Weiss
Written by
Jim Mulholland, Michael Barrie
Monique Gabrielle
Taryn Steele (segment "Pethouse Video")
Rosanna Arquette
Karen (segment "Two I.D.'s")
Michelle Pfeiffer
Brenda (segment "Hospital")
Bryan Cranston
Paramedic #1 (segment "Roast Your Loved One") (uncredited)
Joe Pantoliano
Sy Swerdlow (segment "Hairlooming")
Tino Insana
Mr. Sylvio (segment "Video Pirates")
Carrie Fisher
Mary Brown (segment "Reckless Youth")
Donald Gibb
Graceless Pirate (segment "Video Pirates")
Mike Mazurki
Dutch (segment "Reckless Youth")
Kelly Preston
Violet (segment "Titan Man")
Sybil Danning
Queen Lara (segment "Amazon Women on the Moon")
Peter Horton
Harry (segment "Hospital")
Phil Hartman
Baseball Announcer (segment "Murray in Videoland")
Robert Picardo
Rick Raddnitz (segment "Roast Your Loved One")
Ralph Bellamy
Mr. Gower (segment "Titan Man")
Ed Begley Jr.
Griffin (segment "Son of the Invisible Man")
Henry Silva
Henry Silva (segment "Bullshit or Not")
Willard E. Pugh
Speaking Cop (segment "Video Date")
Larry Hankin
Man in Pub (segment "Son of the Invisible Man")
Huey Lewis
Huey Lewis (segment "Murray in Videoland") (uncredited)
Marc McClure
Ray (segment "Video Date")
Joey Travolta
Butch (segment "Amazon Women on the Moon")
Dick Miller
Danny Clayton (segment "The French Ventriloquist's Dummy") (uncredited)
Steve Guttenberg
Jerry (segment "Two I.D.'s")
Frank Collison
Grizzled Pirate (segment "Video Pirates")
Wallace Langham
Private Anson W. Pucket (segment "The Unknown Soldier") (uncredited)