It's Scary German Guy!

A couple of weeks ago, we had a few biochem lectures by a professor who bore a strong resemblance to Scary German Guy from The Monster Squad (which, as it would seem, has only been seen by about five people, including me.) Not so much that people would mistake him for Leonardo Cimino (aka Scary German Guy) but I could definitely see a resemblance. So - maybe I should call him Dr. Possible Sibling of Scary German Guy, perhaps ... or, Dr. Possible Sibling of Scary German Guy Who Happens to Know Quite a Lot About Carbohydrates and Metabolism and I Wish I Knew As Much Because I'd Know All the Answers to His Portion of the Test This Thursday. Something like that.

Being taught three days every week by Dr. Possible Sibling of Scary German Guy reminded me that I haven't seen Monster Squad in a loooong time, so I went looking for the DVD. And it doesn't exist. So, I found a fake DVD on eBay, which I bought for $10 because I was really in the mood for some Scary German Guy and some fine monstrous fun (and Groundhog Day Part XXXVII or whatever horror movie it is that they talk about.)

I'm fairly sure that the eBay DVD was ripped from a VHS recorded in 1988 when the movie was on HBO, so I ran it through TMPGEnc Plus, applied some noise reduction, and voila! Scary German Guy clips. So here you go [please ignore the random appearances by Frankenstein's monster and an exploded (and then unexploded) werewolf.] Download away. But right-click and "save as", lest I have to vaporize you from space, or fill your house with popcorn until the roof pops off, while Tears for Fears plays in the background. I adore 80s movies.

Scary German Guy part 1 - the scene in Scary German Guy's house, when they've enlisted his help to translate Van Helsing's diary (~45MB)

Scary German Guy part 2 - the scene near the end, when they're trying to open limbo to suck up all the monsters, but it turns out that the girl who is reading the German "limbo-opening scroll" may have questionable fitness for that particular job (~11MB)