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The video vindicators over at Weird Life LTR are likely to already be on your rewind-inclined radar. They’re an entity that has been steadily pumping out an array of radical fresh VHS, including the mind-bending neon noir flick Virus, Courtney Fathom Sell’s heartfelt and powerful backyard filmmaking documentary Tracking Issues, and a very limited VHS release of Aquarius, which is described as “introspective and experimental dance film” from Russian filmmaker Timo Zahlnin, created in conjunction with The Drunken Film Fest. Weird Life LTR’s catalog continues to swell, intrigue and impress, and with their latest release, they’ve rejoined forces with filmmaker...

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The more in-the-know VHS aficionados are likely to be familiar with the name Mike Malloy. Apart from his outstanding work on the documentary Eurocrime: The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the 70s, and his participation in flicks like Samurai Cop 2 and Django Lives, he’s also been making appearances here in Lunchmeat Land since 2013 when he first started the journey to create Plastic Movies Rewound: an episodic documentary that details the sometimes seedy, sometimes incredible, but always entertaining hidden world of the home video industry. Now over the years we’ve seen a flood of VHS-driven documentaries that...

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Physical manifestations of VHS and video era appreciation and celebration are emerging in impressive and excitingly innumerable instances, Tapeheads. Jason Champion's fully functional video store stationed in his own home and the curated installations of The Museum of VHS are just a couple of the contemporary entities which offer an entertaining, interactive and insightful trip back to the time when VHS was king. And now, Ryan Turek, who has had a prolific history in the horror industry and currently summons scares for heavy-hitting Blumhouse Productions, is ready to unleash a tape-driven time machine of his own. His upcoming Slashback Video...

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Australian VHS, Category_Collecting, Category_Groovy Stuff, Category_Horror, Category_VHS, Cult of Monster, Monster Pictures, Rob Taylor, VHS Collecting, VHS culture, VHS show, VHS web series, Video Hoarders, Video Hoarders web series -

It goes without VHSaying that the rewind way is a worldwide practice, and the ardent affection for the format has recently taken shape in the land down under with a brand new VHS-centric web-series called VIDEO HOARDERS. Created and hosted by Rob Taylor, the first episode is now available via MonsterPictures.com (clickity-click that hot link to watch, man!), and follows Rob as he travels to Lara, Victoria and peruses the collection of fellow Tapehead Jamie Tate. Throughout the episode, they talk the joys of tape and ogle sexy slabs of Aussie analog like Evil Dead, Scalps, Nightmare and The Video...

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80s, ARTE, ARTE TV, Category_Collecting, Category_Groovy Stuff, Category_VHS, Category_Weirdness, Dimitri Kourtchine, made for TV, Mike Raso, Ray Glasser, Retro, VHS culture, VHS Documentary, VHS Revolution -

It’s a bit of a brain bender to think that the initial VHS-centric documentaries Adjust Your Tracking: The Untold Story of the VHS Collector and Josh Johnson’s Rewind This! were released nearly five years ago in 2013. The time has been flying for Tapehead culture, and the expansion and recognition of our rewind ways is ever-growing. That amplification of VHS reverence has been bolstered by a flurry of other VHS-driven docs such as the UK-produced docs VHS Forever? Psychotronic People and VHS Lives: A Schlockumentary as well as the US-produced VHS Massacre, which saw release via the indie film stalwarts...

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