Video From Hell (1987)
February 28, 1987Release Date
Plot.
Where to Watch.
Cast & Crew.
Phyllis Smith Altenhaus
Self
Adrian Belew
Self
Jimmy Carl Black
Self
Terry Bozzio
Self
George Duke
Self
Jimi Hendrix
Self (archive footage)
Ray Collins
Self
Frank Zappa
Self / Director / Writer / Producer / Music / Camera Operator
Ringo Starr
Self
Dick Barber
Self
Aynsley Dunbar
Self
Pamela Des Barres
Self (as Pamela Miller)
Roy Estrada
Self
Bunk Gardner
Self
Buzz Gardner
Self
Lowell George
Self
Elgar Howarth
Self
Booey Kober
Editor
Elliot Ingber
Self
Howard Kaylan
Self
Manfred Lerch
Self
Martin Lickert
Self
Sal Lombardo
Self
Al Malkin
Self
Ed Mann
Self
Tommy Mars
Self
Bobby Martin
Self
Keith Moon
Self (archive footage)
Billy Mundi
Self
Janet Neville-Ferguson
Self (as Janet Ferguson)
Thomas Nordegg
Self
Patrick O'Hearn
Self
Lucy Offerall
Self
Don Preston
Self
Kyle Richards
Self
Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra
Themselves
Cal Schenkel
Self
Euclid James 'Motorhead' Sherwood
Self
Ernie Sigley
Self
Bob Stone
Self / Audio Post Coordinator
Details.
Wiki.
Video from Hell is a video released in 1987 by Frank Zappa. It is a compilation of pieces of music and video from a series of projects that Zappa presumably planned to finish and release for home video, including a companion video for the You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore series of albums, but those projects were ultimately never completed. Many pieces from this video had appeared on a one-hour Night Flight special entitled "You Are What You Watch". The music video for the song "G-Spot Tornado" features color 8mm footage that Zappa shot at a county fair in the early 1960s, while the music video for "Night School" features footage from the making of his feature film 200 Motels. It also features the music video for "You Are What You Is" which was banned by MTV. A guitar solo duet between Zappa and Steve Vai taken from the song "Stevie's Spanking" was later released on You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore, Vol. 4. As of December 2011, the video has not yet been released on DVD.
Titled similarly to 1986's Jazz from Hell instrumental album, the title is explained as a political reference by Zappa: "Things in America can be from hell. Right now we have a president from hell [Reagan], and a National Security Council from hell, so we should add Jazz from Hell also."