This Found Footage Comedy Horror Will Absolutely Wreck Every 90s Kid It Encounters

By Robert Scucci
| Published 13 seconds ago

One of my favorite pieces of internet lore is the fact that we all know about the Benadryl Hatman, which is somebody/something I reference all the time despite the fact that I belong to a Claritin D family, gosh darnit! Whenever people describe the Hatman, the sleep paralysis demon who stands in your bedroom doorway taunting you after you take too much allergy medicine, I imagine the kind of audiovisual hallucination that can be found in films like 2022’s Everything Is Terrible! Kidz Klub!

While it’s technically a found-footage kind of experience, Everything Is Terrible! Kidz Klub! plays out more like analog horror, with 2025’s Buffet Infinity falling into a similar wheelhouse. The entire thing is a little over an hour, and it’s simply a hodgepodge mishmash of actual footage geared toward children growing up in the 80s and 90s who vividly remember this kind of programming.

A Relic Of The Past, Forced Into Present Day

Everything Is Terrible! Kidz Klub! is what happens when you take decades of forgotten children’s VHS tapes, educational programming, bargain-bin DVDs, and other audiovisual garbage and compress them into a 63-minute assault on your rapidly deteriorating sanity. There’s no real plot to speak of, because who needs one when you have rapping math equations, skateboarding web surfers, giant baby ducks, wizards, and countless adults who were apparently allowed to appear on camera without anybody asking whether that was a good idea?

The result feels less like watching a movie and more like discovering a box of unlabeled VHS tapes in a condemned daycare center and deciding to watch every single one in the same sitting. Kidz Klub! takes all the cheap sets, terrible songs, awkward performances, dated technology, and completely baffling creative decisions of obsolete children’s media and turns them into a psychedelic nightmare that somehow becomes funnier the longer you stare directly into it. It’s obnoxious, hypnotic, deeply stupid, and probably capable of permanently altering your brain chemistry, which is precisely why it rules.

Everything’s Going To Be Okay (Just Kidding)

While watching Everything Is Terrible! Kidz Klub!, you may have feelings and thoughts like, “When was the last time I hugged my children?” and “How can I use this footage to prove that people my parents’ age, who were responsible for the original content that’s being repurposed here, are suffering from acute lead poisoning?”

That’s all there really is to it. It’s easy to describe unhinged content as boasting a “fever dream” aesthetic, but Everything Is Terrible! Kidz Klub! takes the cake here. It’s total madness and absolutely fits the mold when it comes to found footage and analog horror. There’s nothing inherently frightening here, but the way everything is juxtaposed will make your spine shiver if you’re not in the healthiest mental state.

Everything Is Terrible! Kidz Klub! is a one-of-a-kind experience, like growing up in the 90s and waking up to the paid programming that dominated the late-night time slots. If you fell asleep while watching SNICK, you probably woke up to the kind of material that’s found here, wondering if you dreamt it up or if it was for real.

As of this writing, you can stream Everything Is Terrible! Kidz Klub! for free on Tubi.

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