Any pseudo-ode to Halloween would not be complete without a salute to perhaps the campiest band of the lot: The Cramps. Gone but never forgotten, the psycho/gothabilly legends led by the husband-and-wife duo of Lex Interior and Poison Ivy personified the over-the-top excess of the season perhaps better than any other band. There are numerous examples of this, but perhaps the most hilarious one of the lot is this absurdly freaky-deaky video for the “Creature from the Black Leather Lagoon”. While the band’s music always had elements of kitschy humor, cheesy sci-fi horror, and a healthy dose of sexual double-entendres, this video really takes the cake, which of course makes it the perfect finale for our macabre-themed Weirdo Wednesdays this month. Long live The Cramps, and R.I.P. Erick Lee Purkhiser:
