Corporate training video or cursed artifact? You decide.
A VHS tape instructing employees how to convert ShowBiz Pizza Place locations into Chuck-E-Cheese locations.
Production
Authentic 1980s VHS degradation as unintentional found-footage aesthetic
Sound
Cheerful corporate muzak that becomes deeply unsettling
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This documents the real 1990 conversion where ShowBiz's animatronic band was literally destroyed and replaced, erasing a weird chapter of American family entertainment.
The 'analog horror' genre that blew up on YouTube in the 2020s basically reverse-engineered the accidental aesthetic this tape created genuinely—liminal spaces, corporate unreality, and the uncanny.
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