Vicodore Productions

Background
Vicodore Productions was a production company operated by Linda Dunn, Penelope Charest and Ruth Dodd in 1988. The name of the company was a mix between those of the VIC-20 and Commodore 64; Dunn was an avid collector of home computers. Vicodore was launched to co-produce films with Moviestore Entertainment, while taking advantage of Canadian and South African tax incentives. Bebe Kosove and Muriel MacPherson would join the company in 1994 and merge their own company, Pear Films, with them; Pear would become Vicodore's label for NC-17 classified films. In 1994, Vicodore struck a deal with Pathe to distribute their films in the United Kingdom. The company was hit with a lawsuit by Bonneville Worldwide Entertainment, who had helped contribute the company's nestegg and accused Vicodore of funding films promoting sacrilege against The Jesus Christ Church of Later Day Saints, owners of Bonneville. The suit was dismissed, as Vicodore only used Bonneville's funds for corporate purposes, and did not specify they would produce non-secular content. The legal fees from the suit and the financial failure of an expensive film led the company to file for bankruptcy in 2001.

1st Logo (1989-1995)
Logo: On a black background we see a chrome triangle. A blue spotlight moves toward the center as an ovular marble plaque with the word "PRODUCTIONS" and the big word "VICODORE" pan back while a line draws in separating both. Each get encased in an ovular outline as everything rests on the triangle.

FX/SFX: Everything.

Music/Sounds: A triumphant orchestrated fanfare.

Availability: Appeared on D.O.A.D, The Milkman and the 1995 remake of The Beast of Yucca Flats. This doesn't appear on Fisherman's Den, as it goes straight to the movie.

2nd Logo (1997-2002)
Logo: On a black background we see a curved line. The screen flashes and the line is cropped and put into a dark orange box with the text "VICODORE" and "Productions" toward the bottom left.

Variant(s): An in-credit version exists at the end of films.

FX/SFX: The flash.

Music/Sounds: A thunder crack.

Availability: Seen on two TV movies, Rabies: A Neighborhood's Nightmare and She-Hulk. Also appeared at the end of the film Fisherman's Den.

3rd Logo (2001)
Logo: We dissolve into a white line drawing in and expanding to cover the screen. Red smudges fly out from the right of the screen and form the letters for the word "VICODORE". Below it a man and a woman adorned in top-hats and canes are tap dancing. After a bit, the woman's face becomes monstrous and the man develops an exaggerated frightened face as the scene cuts out.

FX/SFX: Animation reminiscent of works by Gianluigi Toccafondo.

Music/Sounds: A tango-inspired theme.

Availability: Was only seen on The Hunchback.