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Over the past few years, the rewind-inclined crew at Saturn’s Core Audio and Video have established themselves as the premiere entity dedicated to unearthing ultra-obscure and unfailingly brain-bending examples of no-budget, shot-on-video cinema. Saturn’s Core main brain Ross Snyder has also come to be known as a veritable scholar on one particular portion of extremely underground shot-on-video filmmaking, namely Gary Whitson’s New Jersey-based custom movie-making company W.A.V.E. Productions.   Snyder has recently been working alongside cult underground filmmaker and all-around groovy dude William Hellfire (Upsidedown Cross, I Was a Teenage Strangler) to create a documentary called Mail-Order Murder: The Story...

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Ross Snyder, who is probably better known by his thrashing alter ego Donner Dave of The Donner Party, could rightly be considered a shot-on-video cinema scholar. His immense knowledge of the schlocky sub-genre has been cultivated by years of collecting via underground movie magazine mail-orders and his propensity to dig deep into SOV sights unseen. He’s certainly an integral part of the current Carl J. Sukenick re-issue craze, but it’s his growing list of other releases, including an upcoming re-issue of the brain-smashing Burglar from Hell, that proves he’s doing some of the most important, impressive and inspired rewind-inclined re-animations...

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