My Favorite Dexter Remakes and Riffs

As iconic as the shower scene from Psycho: the opening sequence from Dexter

I’m a big follower of the Showtime TV series Dexter, currently airing its final season. For the past year I’ve been rescreening the entire run, posting a running series of notes to twitter under hashtag #dexternotes (see the archive in The Nest), and my next personal reading project is to catch up with Lindsay’s Dexter book series (the program is a fascinating study in adaptation, as it departs wildly from the books) in preparation for the upcoming release of a new title, ironically called Dexter’s Final Cut (releasing end of August 2013 on Kindle and in mid-Sept in hardcover). As a fan, I’ve become somewhat impatient this season with waiting each week for the next episode, so when I’m not otherwise rewatching older seasons (the one with Lithgow is my favorite) I research Dexter fan postings on the internet.

Here, without further ado, are my favorite remakes and riffs on Dexter’s now CLASSIC opening sequence. There are a lot of remakes of this out there, as students of film study and reproduce it, and fans come up with clever parodies. These are my faves:

This Really is Dexter in 60 Seconds:
http://youtu.be/WM5_pac-4Is

Dogster
http://youtu.be/NArGzruaiEQ

Clever Approach to a School Assignment
http://youtu.be/pCF-AWJ7NJo

From The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror:
http://youtu.be/CAqH8HOBjno

Dexter Intro in Heavy Metal:
http://youtu.be/kt7cmmd6CKU

Clever Parody by Jack’s Films
http://youtu.be/Fox57HqOhEM

Dexterized Pee-Wee’s Playhouse
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC8SczknsHQ

And here’s just the cool re-imagining of the opening credits by poster-creator, Ty Mattson:
http://youtu.be/n9adZ0HRuo4