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Category_Collecting, Category_Groovy Stuff, Category_Horror, Category_VHS, Category_Weirdness, Custom VHS, hydro dip VHS, hydro dipped VHS, hydro dipping, VHS, VHS art, VHS culture, VHS customs - May 31, 2017

Check Out This Collection of CUSTOM HYDRO DIPPED VHS Crafted by Fellow Tapehead Tyler Bell!

The radical world of custom VHS casings is expanding at an eye-popping rate. Just take a peek at the #spoolswap hashtag on Instagram, and you’ll be able to soak in a spectrum of custom color-coordinated and blood-spattered tapes from Videovores of all inclinations and tastes. Yes, the more creatively-inclined VHS’ers are using that tried and true spool swap technique to switch and ditch those standard black slabs in exchange for a colorfully custom casing to house their favorite reels of magnetic magic, and it totally rules. Take for instance, this here Leprechaun 3 gold and green custom composite shell,...

SEVERED SHORT FILM FEST AND HORROR VHS COLLECTORS UNITE SWAP MEET Happens this Saturday, May 27th! Click for all the Details, Tapeheads!

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...

VIPER VIDEO Brings Vintage Punk Rock Live Performances to Limited Edition VHS with PUNK OF THE POPS ’79!

Using a special kind of analog alchemy, Viper Video aims to capture the raw spirit of live punk. This little label has been on a relentless mission over the past few years, releasing a total of 26 tapes to date. The label is run by Adam Papagan, who observant Videovores might remember from the last time we caught up with him on this VHS-obsessed slice of internet, but if you’re new to Viper’s video output, the thing to know about Papagan is that he is just as passionate about analog video as he is about punk rock, and he has...

Houston, TX Tapehead Jason Champion Creates CHAMPION VIDEO: a Functional and Fantastic Video Rental Store in His Own Home!

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,...

LO-FI VIDEO Brings BEYOND THE GATES to Limited Edition VHS and Prepares to Re-Animate SLASHDANCE on VHS with VERBODEN VIDEO!

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...

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Check Out This Collection of CUSTOM HYDRO DIPPED VHS Crafted by Fellow Tapehead Tyler Bell!

SEVERED SHORT FILM FEST AND HORROR VHS COLLECTORS UNITE SWAP MEET Happens this Saturday, May 27th! Click for all the Details, Tapeheads!

VIPER VIDEO Brings Vintage Punk Rock Live Performances to Limited Edition VHS with PUNK OF THE POPS ’79!

Houston, TX Tapehead Jason Champion Creates CHAMPION VIDEO: a Functional and Fantastic Video Rental Store in His Own Home!

LO-FI VIDEO Brings BEYOND THE GATES to Limited Edition VHS and Prepares to Re-Animate SLASHDANCE on VHS with VERBODEN VIDEO!

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