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Here in Lunchmeat Land, we’re continually keen on shining the VHSpotlight on fellow Tapeheads who share the unbridled joys of insano magnetic magic with radical indie screenings straight from a VHS source. Because, I mean, what’s better than snackin’ some snacks and crackin’ some laughs with a group of bodacious buds as you ingest some brain-smashing cinema via VHS? Not a whole lot, mang! Cue Seattle Videovores Alicia Betty and Gvn also known as VHS UBER ALLES. Originating as party time excellent potlucks paired with mind-melting slabs of analog glory viewed home-style, this labor of video love has since been...

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Lee Thompson is one bodacious illustrator based out of Philadelphia who has a passionate predilection for 80s aesthetics. He’s just about ready to graduate from the University of the Arts, and for his senior project he’s decided to go all out in celebrating the artistic attributes of the analog era by creating the trailer, packaging and managing the overall production for his shot-on-video short film / trailer project entitled GUNS DRAWN. The attention to detail and artistic finesse from Thompson is abundantly evident throughout the presentation from the die-cut big box / clamshell combination to the gobs of groovy goodies...

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VHS-obsessed events do much more than bring together analog-inclined minds in search of brain-bending magnetic magic. They foster the tangibility and expansion of a culture. Tape-talking online forums such as Horror VHS Collectors Unite! and those java-jivin’ VHS revivin’ VHS Misfits help collect the central interests, opinions and overall conscience of the VHS collector via the internet, but it’s events such as Severed, Tape Eaters, VHSwap and now Jimmy Buttons’ upcoming Tape Ape VHS Swap Meet that make the VHS collector culture explode into an arena of reality. These events bring fellow Tapeheads face to face in an atmosphere of...

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The vast majority of movies on VHS are best enjoyed with a lap full of snacks and a groovy group of fringe film-loving friends. Here in Lunchmeat Land, we hold this to be indisputable fact. Analog aficionados Justin Decloux and Peter Kuplowsky's Laser Blast Film Society crew subscribe to that same VHSchool of thought, and to help celebrate their analog-inclined affection, they’ve concocted a monthly event aptly entitled Laser Blast Video Nights held in order to vindicate and appreciate analog obscurities in a gregarious group setting. The kicker? They’re slapping these slabs of home video ecstasy up on the big...

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Saskatoon-based video rental shop Videonomicon is still going VHStrong. Over the past year totally radical Tapeheads Tyler Baptist and Jon Vaughn have been supplying a groovy selection of take-home slabs for their fellow rewind-inclined locals, and now they’re starting to serve up some fresh VHS for the magnetic masses with their video vindicating Videonomicon brand. Unleashing two titles last summer via analog means with the never-before-seen road comedy RYAN’S BABE and the cult horror comedy RUNAWAY NIGHTMARE (both available now!), Videonomicon is rewind ready to invade your VCR once again with their upcoming analog edition of the surrealistic indie horror...

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