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Books centered on VHS and video store interest have established a notable presence over the past few years, with titles like Portable Grindhouse, VHS: Absurd, Odd and Ridiculous Relics from the Videotape Era, Thomas Hodge’s VHS Video Cover Art and the scholarly slab from author Daniel Herbert Videoland making their way to Tapeheads’ shelves. As for original fiction featuring aspects of video rental and VHS affection, however, those types of stories are seemingly few and far between. Though there is Andrew Bonazelli’s DtV (which also came packaged in a VHS clamshell) along with the upcoming release from Past Midnight Publishing...

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VHS-driven television (or more accurately described as rewind-inclined web series’) are starting to crop up across the limitless landscape of the world weird web, Tapeheads. Shows like the exceedingly cool and fantastically fun VH ED The Undead VHS which features a groovy character design that fans of Wake Rattle and Roll will instantly adore, and the recently debuted LUNCHMEAT / SICK SLICE CINEMA production Luther’s MidFright Snack are both oozing with that affection for our favorite analog medium. But with his upcoming series Video Hoarders, Aussie filmmaker Rob Taylor is bringing the home video collecting hobby to the forefront, aiming...

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Here in Lunchmeat Land, we’re known as perpetual proponents of fervently rummaging through the rewind wild in search of various video era treasures. And though we’ve heard the cries of rewind-inclined woe that have been echoing through the collector community claiming that the VHS well is rapidly running dry, we here at Lunchmeat steadfastly believe there’s still plenty of groovy video era goodies and sick nasty slabs to be mined from them thar home video hills, man, and the following find is living proof, Tapeheads. Today we turn Lunchmeat Land over to fellow Videovore Justin Prescott as he spins the...

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If you’re a fan of bold, irreverent and stoutly unrepentant outsider art, chances are you’ve encountered the distinctly deranged work of cartoonist Mike Diana. And if you’re familiar with Diana’s predominately self-published output, then you’re likely to be aware of the infamous Boiled Angel incident where he became the first U.S. artist to be tried, convicted and briefly jailed on three counts of artistic obscenity. What you might not know is that producers Anthony Sneed and the radical Mike Hunchback are currently running a Kickstarter campaign to finish a full-length feature documentary to be directed by cult favorite filmmaker Frank...

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It's arrived, Videovores! The super-VHSpecial Lunchmeat Halloween Treat for 2016 is now ready to invade your brain! Lunchmeat has teamed up with the ridiculously radical crew over at Sick Slice Cinema to present a weird and wild mix of live-action, puppetry and crazy claymation to create a totally spooktacular TV show unlike any other you've seen before: LUTHER'S MID-FRIGHT SNACK! You may have caught the Official teaser trailer yesterday, and if you did, we know you’re ready to chew on through this premiere episode and party down with Luther and his crew!! So… HERE IT IS, VIDEOVORES!! We hope you...

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