Vicodore Productions

Background
Vicodore Productions was a production company operated by Linda Dunn, Penelope Charest and Ruth Dodd, launched in 1987. It was initially created to help finance projects by Dunn's husband, actor and writer Robert Dunn. Muriel MacPherson would join the company in 1989. Vicodore would break away from vanity projects and focus on genre films and acting as a middleman for international co-productions. The company was hit with a lawsuit by Bonneville International in 2004; Bonneeville 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 failures of their titles led to Vicodore shutting down by the end of the year.

Background/Trivia: The name of the company is a merger of the names of the VIC-20 and Commodore 64. This is in reference to Robert Dunn's hobby of collecting old home computers.

1st Logo (1987-1999)
Logo: On a black background, we see an image of an apple on a kitchen counter, with a window revealing a starry night sky. "VICODORE" is below in white.

FX/SFX: None.

Music/Sounds: None or the closing theme.

Availability: Seen on Dine, D.O.A.D., Brick, Nest, the 1995 remake of The Beast of Yucca Flats and Nonsense. The abridged variant appeared on the TV movies Rabies: A Neighborhood's Nightmare and She-Hulk.

3rd Logo (2001)
Logo: We fade in to two eye charts which contain the names of the company founders; the left chart containing the letters in their first names, the right containing the letters in the surnames. "VICO" and "DORE" are on top of the left and right charts respectively. The charts move toward the center as they become less blurry (they get magnified akin to an image being cleared during an eye test. When both come together, the screen flashes revealing a grey picture with an illustration of a spotlight illuminating a triangle, with "VICODORE" below in a plain white font. The image jitters a bit.

FX/SFX: The eye charts moving.

Music/Sounds: An ominous piano theme.

Availability: Appeared on The Hunchback.