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I had originally written this piece on July 24th, 2016 on a bus ride up to Horror Boobs Headquarters in New York, subsequently submitting it to the first issue of an indie VHS-centric zine which unfortunately never made it to publication. This piece has stayed in the back of my mind since last year, and after re-reading it the other day and finding it to still carry relevance in the culture, I thought to publish here in Lunchmeat Land as a throwback. Here’s that piece in its entirety, with only a couple minor tweaks… Let's get back to July 2016,...

One of the most anticipated rewind-inclined events of the year is rapidly approaching, Tapeheads! This coming Memorial Day weekend, on Saturday May 27th starting at 12noon in Stroudsburg, PA at the Sherman Theater, it’s the 8th annual SEVERED Short Film Festival and 6th annual Horror VHS Collectors Unite! Convention! For 6 years running, SEVERED has proven to be one of the premiere gatherings for Tapeheads, Videovores and fervent fans of underground cinema! Along with the all the fantastic film festivities, there will be a ton of VHS-vindicating vendors on-hand slingin’ slabs of magnetic magic spanning the scope of cinema, with...

Contrary to common belief, the video store isn't quite dead. And if you're regularly tuned in to Lunchmeat Land, you'll know this to be VHSolid fact. But if not, we welcome you to our VHS-obsessed domain with a few choice examples to support our notion: The classic chain of Family Video is still alive and finding ways to thrive out in the mid-west, Scarecrow Video has become a marvelous mecca of movies, indie start-up Old Skool Video is defying the odds in Nebraska and a hardy army of video stores like Viva Video in Ardmore, PA, Visart Video in Charlotte,...

LA-based Lo-Fi Video established themselves in the fresh VHS world with their VHS re-animations of cult horror classics like Don’t Go in the Woods, Rocktober Blood and the absolutely radical big box edition of what is arguably the most ridiculous and lewdly entertaining “exercise” video of all time: Linnea Quigley’s Horror Workout. But in the latter half of their existence, Lo-Fi has displayed a knack for capturing the rights to commit some of the most exciting contemporary cult / horror flicks to VHS, including a big box edition of the neo-cult classic post-apocalyptic sci-fi romp Turbo Kid and a limited...

If you’re a fan of exploitation and cult cinema, chances are you’ve always had an affinity for monsters. Whether they were romping around the dark corners of your adolescent brain, terrorizing you from your TV screen, or manifested in an alchemic mix of both, your formative years were invariably lined with some sort of slimy, sharp-toothed bogey that was most likely hiding under your bed. And admittedly, at times, we all want to go back to our cereal-stuffed 10-year-old selves and relive some of those early scares that are so often drenched with radical nostalgia. Cue writers John Campopiano and...