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Hey-yo, Tapeheads! It’s FINALLY here! LUNCHMEAT #9 is now ready to boogie woogie on your rewind-inclined brain, dudes! This brand spankin’ new issue is jam-packed with 52 pages of VHS-obsessed content including reviews of VHS-only titles like Terror on Tour, My Brother Has Bad Dreams, Invasion Force, Battle of the Bullies and many more!   We’ve also got radical interviews with Pleasant Gehman all about her experience filming the punk rock ripper The Runnin’ Kind, words with low-budget action movie Renaissance Man David Heavener, and director Robet McGinley talks about creating the post-apocalyptic skate punk world of Shredder Orpheus! But...

With the ever-growing and expanding appreciation for VHS culture, there also comes a constant flow of VHS-driven goods and apparel generated by the collective creative force of Tapeheads. The crew at Media Crypt has been steady celebrating both essential and obscure video releasing companies of yore with their assortment of radical threads. Studiohouse Designs continues to make rewind waves with their line of VHS or Die stack shirts, and countless other analog-inclined entities steadily champion the rewind way via enamel pins, patches, and more.   And now, a new crew called Deep Cuts has entered the VHSphere with their own...

Rewind-inclined minds residing in Yonkers, NY and VHSurounding areas are in for a special set of home video-driven screenings throughout the last week of January courtesy of Alamo Drafthouse Yonkers and the combined programming inclinations of two avid video aficionados Justin LaLiberty and Caetlin Benson-Allott. Running from January 24th until January 31st, KILLER TAPES AND SHATTERED SCREENS is a screening series based on Benson-Allott’s book of the same name, aiming to celebrate and inspire conversation about viewer’s (and horror in general’s) relationship to video, in all of its many manifestations. Tickets for all of the events are currently available HERE...

Video mixtapes have been an integral piece of the fresh VHS movement since its inception, and continue to pervade the culture at an impressive rate (Take a look the list just from Halloween 2017, and you’ll see). And if you’re in the market for some brand-spankin’ new and totally rewind-weird VHS mixes, we’ve got some groovy new for you, dude. One of the best in the business has come out of home video hibernation.   Over the years, Secret Lair was steady killing the VHS mixtape game with an assortment of mind-melting, brain-bending slabs of rapid fire, fantastically curated cut-and-clip...

Heads up, Videovores! On Saturday, January 20th at South Street Cinema located at 327 South St in Philadelphia, PA, LUNCHMEAT is teaming with the VHS-appreciating minds at THE PHILADELPHIA UNNAMED FILM FESTIVAL (PUFF) and our friends at CAMP MOTION PICTURES to bring you a one-night VHSpectacular featuring a VHS screening of Gary Cohen’s blood-soaked, seminal slab of shot-on-video horror VIDEO VIOLENCE! PLUS! A most radical VHS swap before the screening featuring a small army of VHS vendors slingin’ all walks of weird, wild, and totally ridiculous home videos, dude!   The VHS swap kicks off at 5PM and entry is...