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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...
Comedians Tim Heidecker and Gregg Turkington AKA Neil Hamburger Hit Fresh VHS with the release of DECKER VS. DRACULA!
If you’re a fan of Adult Swim regulars Tim Heidecker (Tim and Eric Awesome Show) and Greg Turkington (AKA Neil Hamburger), then chances are you’re already familiar with their web series, On Cinema, and its action adventure parody spin-off, Decker. You might have even come across the aborted third season, Decker Vs. Dracula, but what you might not know is that you can now own the whole thing on fresh VHS! The VHS release of DECKER VS. DRACULA, which will arrive at your door in a full color slipcase, smelling of revenge and bloodlust. Snag it. ...
SRS CINEMA Brings VHS-Driven Documentary VHS LIVES: A SCHLOCKUMENTARY to Limited Edition Fresh VHS!
If you've enjoyed rewind-inclined indie documentaries like Josh Johnson's Rewind This! and the Lunchmeat co-produced Adjust Your Tracking: The Untold Story of the VHS Collector, and you’re looking for even more insight on the scope of Tapehead and Videovore culture from around the world, Tony Newton's 2017 documentary VHS Lives: A Schlockumentary is just what the anti-digital doctor ordered. And now, courtesy of the video vindicators at SRS CINEMA, it’s ready to roll right into your VCR! A mock-up of the VHS release now available from SRS Cinema! CHUG! CHUG! CHUG! CHUG! Released in a Limited...
Experimental Animation Collection SAVORY SELECTIONS Comes to Limited Edition VHS via Brooklyn, NY Outfit RANDOM MAN!
The flow of fresh VHS continues to roll, Videovores, and today’s featured slab was brought to our analog attention by our resident rewind-inclined animation aficionado Taylor Duff: a name you’re sure to recognize if you’re familiar with Lunchmeat Magazine’s Animation from the Abyss! Fans of modern avant-garde works will take special interest in this initial VHS offering from Brooklyn, NY outfit RANDOM MAN, who describe themselves as a collaborative entity that “promotes underrepresented and overlooked works through publications and events.” You know we can dig it. RANDOM MAN’s first fresh VHS release is titled Savory Selections and, from the look...