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, opening an office in the United Kingdom in 1999. The company was hit with a lawsuit by Bonneville International in 1998; Bonneville 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. Vicodore would move to East Sussex and continue to operate until 2004 due to financial issues. MacPherson and Dodd would part from the company sometime in 2001. The company didn't use a proper logo of any kind until 1989.

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 (1989-2002)
Logo: We fade in to a saturated pink and blue environment, containing a forked white road. A silhouetted man walks walks toward the fork, as we see the Hollywood sign far toward the left, and dune to the right resembling the Coral Pink Sand Dunes (the Dunns resided in Kane County, where the dunes are located). A female silhouette fades in next to the man and leads him toward the right path, as a beacon of light forms in front of them while storm-clouds with erupting lightning appears to the left. The flash engulfs everything before fading to the scene now boxed. The image crossfades to an illustration as "VICODORE" and "productions" fade in below in black.

Variant:


 * A still version exists, both in-credit and on-screen. This was the norm for the company's films until 1995.
 * An abridged version exists.
 * On the unsold pilot for U-Turn, this shares the screen with the logos for Camelot Pictures and Ixtlan Films.

FX/SFX: The silhouettes and background effects.

Music/Sounds: None or the closing theme.

Availability: Seen on D.O.A.D., Huge, 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 (2001-2003)
Logo: On a black background we see a spinning film-reel. The reel opens up and we see a twirling dancer. The image flashes and the dancer along with the platform beneath it becoming a purple illustration. "Vicodore Films" appears below in white.

FX/SFX: The film-reel and the turning dancer, along with the flash.

Music/Sounds: A synth theme, which leads to a music box theme, ending with a clash.

Availability: Appeared on The Hunchback, Snow and The Nun.