Over the past decade, Everything Is Terrible has amassed a cult following for mish-mashing together found-footage clips from old VHS tapes to create garbled, writhing audiovisual beasts. The result is chaotic, campy, surreal, disorienting, and a little hopeless—it’s a grim reflection of humanity that will likely convince you that everything really is terrible. Thankfully, there’s plenty of pitch-black humor to be dredged from those psychedelic creations.
Members of the Los Angeles-based collective are currently touring the country with a new live show and film, The Great Satan. “From the humans who collected over 15,000 Jerry Maguire VHS tapes and remade The Holy Mountain out of dog footage comes a sensory experience like no other,” its trailer boasts, “comprised of over 2,000 horror, Satanic panic, and singing Christian duck VHS tapes, remixed, re-edited, and re-contextualized.”