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Blood, Sweat & Gears: a VHS that CRUSHES while Sgt. Slaughter SHREDS!!

The name's Jacob Gustafson, and as much as I try to deny it, I’m a redneck at heart. No, I don’t chew tobacco or drive a firebird T-top. I do love me some 80’s action flicks and racing, though. But I first must say that I find no interest in NASCAR. It’s not trashy enough for me. Too much gloss. I love the real redneck races. My Dad used to take me to monster trucks, mud bogs, tractor pulls, speed boat races… I even went to a demolition derby once, and I love all of it. As a kid my...

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VHS Action flicks get some love in CRIMSON SCREENS

One of our favorite things about making Lunchmeat has been watching the community of VHS fans grow and come together around the magazine and events and social media that we’ve been involved with. We love to see others standing up and expressing their love for the VHS format in whatever way they feel most comfortable. I was particularly excited when Crimson Screens, a DIY film zine published by Edward Black, showed up at LM Headquarters. The issue that we were sent (#7) is titled the action issue. Lunchmeat tries to present a well rounded survey of obscure VHS history; however,...

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To Pay the Rent, or Buy a Tape. . . That is the Question.

Okay, Videovores. Just when you think you’ve hit the apogee of rabidity for VHS collector culture, an eBay auction warps your reality and brings the subculture to an entirely new level. Those of you who regularly tune into our blog will remember an interview with VHS collector and preservationist Earl Kessler. Inside the interview we talked about his purchase of Chester N. Turner’s trashterpiece Tales from the Quadead Zone for a whopping $660. Well, if you think that’s full-blown adoration and dedication, we present to you a case where a nameless and evidently affluent Videovore just handed over $749.99 for...

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Pulp Mill Presents: Golden Age Ads Week #3 You can solve the mystery!

There are a few sweeping categories that make up about 90% of pulp magazine ads: brand name products, smaller independent products, and then “start a new career” ads. The latter category is generally not all that interesting. Its basically the same type of thing you’ll see in a modern day ad for an online college: become an accountant, become a mechanic, an engineer, a lawyer, etc, etc, blah blah blah. Its all very dull and suburban, with the exception of the spots advertising a career as a detective! If only my childhood had been filled with such encouraging ads then...

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Your Key to Classic Mysteries: Key Video’s Early Approach to Sherlock Holmes & Charlie Chan

So this past Christmas my younger brother, feeling the strain that the economic crisis has placed on most recently graduated art majors, decided to go for the budget approach. The budget approach in this case meant giving me something he had literally found in the garbage. Luckily for me, my brother is very attuned to my passions and interests, and luckily for him, I do not have very expensive taste. The gift was a heaping box of VHS tapes that he had recovered from the dump. There were somewhere in the neighborhood of 40 tapes, nothing too spectacularly rare or...

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