This was an English movie I saw on HBO or Showtime or something in possibly the mid-90s. It may have been sci-fi, or horror but it was definitely a B-movie.
It started with this film (maybe VHS or reel) that someone found and started watching. The movie within the movie was a 1940’s-style futurist sci-fi where a man in the woman are showing what life would be like in the 1990s, complete with a giant electric toothbrush apparatus. There was something about this movie that caused people to die when they watched it for some reason, but I’m actually not even 100% on that part.
I’m having a heck of time finding anything close to this through google.
Remote Control (1988)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093843/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2
Wow. In all the searching I did on lists of 1980s sci-fi movies this was never even mentioned and posting here was a hail mary. I didn’t actually expect any answers, let alone so quickly. Thank you so much, GG. You’re amazing.
GG is good. There’s a reason he now has a record 161 solves.