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By Josh Schafer   People miss video stores so much, they’re making them in their basements. That’s not to say classic video stores are dead and gone. They’re certainly not. As endlessly evidenced here at LUNCHMEAT, and in an insightful (and important) article from Kate Hagen, there are still plenty of brick and mortar video rental destinations fighting the good fight. But there is a phenomenon happening here. From the earliest incarnation we can recall with Bradley Creanzo’s Bradco Video (as seen in Adjust Your Tracking), to Champion Video, to Nostalgia Video, to The Video Bunker, which was featured on...

If you’re a local here Lunchmeat Land, the video vindicating duo of Bleeding Skull! Video and Mondo should already be on your rewind-inclined radar for their outstanding fresh VHS editions of titles like CARDS OF DEATH, THE SOULTANGLER, NIGHT FEEDER and most recently, the regional shot-on-video mind-melter SCARY TALES. Bleeding Skull has also been keeping up the analog-induced excitement with their steadfast work on unearthing, reviving and preparing for the total re-animation of an (almost) totally lost piece of outstanding SOV trash cinema from director James Bryan called JUNGLE TRAP that’ll be making its world premiere at Fantastic Fest in...

The rewind-inclined tag team of Bleeding Skull! Video and Mondo have certainly had their fair share of fantasic contributions to the fresh VHS movement over the past couple of years. Re-animations of obscure outsider cinema titles like CARDS OF DEATH, THE SOULTANGLER, RUN COYOTE RUN and most recently, the raging weirdfest that is NIGHT FEEDER (which sold out in an astounding 20 minutes) have given trash cinema aficionados reason to exchange some righteous high-fives. Fast forward to the here and now, and the BS!V / Mondo combo are back readied with another underground shot-on-video skullcrusher, this time offering the first-ever...