Good Fiend Films
From the Audiovisual Identity Database, the motion graphics museum
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Background
Good Fiend Films is a genre production company launched by David Dastmalchian.
Logo (March 22, 2024)
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Visuals: The screen zooms out of a sunny neighborhood with the main focal point being a plum house with a tree and a tire swing next to it and a flat, rounded bush to its left. A black homeowner is mowing the house's lawn, a blonde woman is pushing a stroller, and a postman is walking from the left. Zooming further away, a blonde boy in green is staring at the view from the window of a dark room while holding sunglasses. The sequence briefly cuts to the boy's curious expression before showing a shot of the woman holding a pink-dodger blue rattle for the baby. When the boy puts on the sunglasses, the screen gets covered in the glasses' shades and the neighborhood changes to a horror-theme. The setting is nighttime and the woman and the stroller are changed to a blue bride of Frankenstein holding a mouse by its tail in front of a large yarn-like stroller containing a monster with long green and orange polka dotted tentacles. The camera quickly pans over to the postman, who is shown to be a sketelton-zombie hybrid with purple skin, torn clothes, and is seen putting a letter into the homeowner's wall mounted mailbox, which closes and breaks his arm off. Another camera shot change shows the homeowner to be a werewolf, who stops and stares at the screen, startled and with his tail lifted upwards. The boy, still wearing the sunglasses, which now contain red spirals on each shade, becomes frightened and runs away, leaving the glasses in the air spinning and falling down. The glasses fall next to a dark book containing "GOOD FiEND" in a stacked format, in a vintage horror-themed font, with a white border, with the "O"'s replaced with the glasses, the "i"'s dot being a skull head, and the "D" in "FiEND"'s bowl replaced with a silhouetted spider on a singular web. The back side of the book contains the glasses tilted vertically and against a white burst. The screen rotates to directly face the logo, which crossfades to the logo, alongside "FILMS" underneath, on a black background.
Technique: Stop-motion.
Audio: Nature and neighborhood ambience are heard first. Then, a horror-themed string soundtrack plays as the sunglasses are worn by the boy. Sound effects of the tentacles moving, the mailbox shutting, a whoosh, and the werewolf's surprise are heard during this half.
Availability: The logo is seen on Late Night with the Devil.
