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Celluloid Apocalypse Offers Mike Malloy Documentary EUROCRIME! on Limited Edition PAL VHS with a Load of Radical Extras!
Mike Malloy may already be a name that’s flashed before your eyes for a number of reasons, including his writings on VHS collector label favorite Raedon Home Video, his continued work on the documentary PLASTIC MOVIES REWOUND which is endeavoring to define the complete history of the home video industry, or perhaps most recently, the release of his outstanding full-length documentary on the crime / gangster films that streaked across Europe during the 70s entitled EUROCRIME! THE ITALIAN COP AND GANGSTER FILMS THAT RULED THE 70’s. Tapeheads should be tickled to learn that EUROCRIME! has just dropped on fresh VHS...
Celebrate VHS Obscenity with a New Line of Screen-Printed Video Nasty Shirts from Xeper Tees from the UK!
The UK Video Nasties are some of the most colorful, coveted and historically significant slabs of analog the rewind-inclined world has ever known. For those who are a little shaky on the history, here’s a brief primer: the early 80s were a time of both abundant gore and reactionary conservatism. In the UK, this toxic combo manifested in the form of public moral outrage over the release of a handful of violent and bloody movies that managed to slide past the censors and onto home video. As public complaints continued to mount, Mary Whitehouse and the National Viewers’ and Listeners’...
June 7th is NATIONAL VCR DAY, Tapeheads! Read Our Earliest VCR Memory in Celebration!
Here in Lunchmeat Land, it is our express intention to encourage everyone to exercise the power of Videocassette Recorders on a daily basis. So imagine our delight when June 7th comes around, the day that someone out there has officially deemed in total celebration as National VCR Day! Certainly, we can dig it, but where does National VCR Day come from? A good question, and one that doesn’t seem to have an exact answer. According to NationalDayCalendar.com, the creator and origin of National VCR day is unclear, very similar to May 22nd’s National Vanilla Pudding Day. Go figure. Though the...
SEVERED 2016 Limited Edition LUNCHMEAT Exclusives Revealed! Limited VHS Releases for URBAN DECAY / WAV from Dylan Hughes, MAGNIFICENT KAABOOM from Zachary Whitmore and MORE!
It’s almost here, Tapeheads! On Saturday, May 28th (that’s just two days away!) in Stroudsburg, PA at the Sherman Theater, SEVERED will commence and offer their 7th Annual Short Film Night along with the 5th Annual Horror VHS Collectors Unite! Convention! Don’t know about it? Man, you VHShould! Click here for all of the info on the event, and groove to the Official SEVERED Facebook page for even more insight and information on what is sure to be the most radical rewind-inclined, VHS-lovin’ event in the nation, man! No kidding! And here in Lunchmeat Land, extreme excitement is VHStirring and...
XYRENA Offers XHS: A Line of Unisex Fragrances to Come Housed in Custom VHS Cases with Original Full-Color Cover Art! Images, Details and Order Info!
Some absolutely fantastic appreciation for our favorite format is headed straight for your nose, Tapeheads. The California-based company XYRENA has recently launched a line of unisex fragrances called XHS to come housed in custom VHS clamshell cases, created by retrofitting original tooling used decades ago. The XHS fragrance line comes complete with original full-color cover artwork inspired by the fragrance inside. The first five aromas include titles such as Cinemaniac, Pool Boy, Hellanut, Dark Ride, and Basic Bitch, the last of which pays homage to one of Xyrena founder Killian Wells’ favorite posters of all-time: MANIAC! You know we can...