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We’ve got another slice of exclusive and exciting holiday-oriented fresh VHS news for you, Tapeheads, and it’s apt to bring your VCR a heaping helping of insano analog warmth and magnetic merriment to help make your holiday VHSeason most excellent, indeed! Those shot-on-video heroes over at Trashmonger Video HQ have assembled a most mind-bending musical holiday tape treat for all the Videovores out there with their newest release THE TRASHMONGER CHRISTMAS TALENT SHOW EXTRAVAGANZA! The Limited Edition VHS featuring groovy cover art by resident Trashmonger designer, actor and co-founder Ben Kepley. VHSanta Approves, dude. Yes, my fellow Videovores, this hand-numbered,...

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Nostalgia for the almighty VHS is running high right now, Tapeheads, perhaps higher than ever before, with a revival of appreciation that mirrors the fervent feelings for the format upon its arrival and subsequent home entertainment takeover in the 80s and early 90s. With all of the retrospective praise for its now-missed analog aesthetics and the collective aversion to the ennui caused by endless streaming media outlets, it seems the VHS and it’s often eye-catching, vibrant artwork along with its staunch physicality helps us back to a time when things were simpler, more fun and picking out a movie for...

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Some exciting fresh VHS news from Ogden, Utah’s Lost Media Archive is a’brewing, Tapeheads! LMA’s main brain and obscure film aficionado BC Sterrett has unearthed and re-animated the super-rare, shot-on-Super 8 Brad Anderson / Mike Brunelle film FRANKENSTEIN’S PLANET OF MONSTERS! on Limited Edition VHS! Originally shot in 1993 in MA, there were apparently a few initial VHS copies that went out as payment to the actors involved with the film, but after a single screening at an art museum as a double feature with FREAKS, the film has since fell into deep obscurity. Now, 20 years later, FRANKENSTEIN’S PLANET...

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If you’re looking for something VHSpectacular for the Videovore on your list this year, aside from the many VHS-obsessed wares available on the Official Lunchmeat Store like the brand new and Limited Edition HEART ON FOR VHS and I BELIEVE IN VHS lapel pins, we wanted to shine a little analog-inclined light on an outfit out of Chicago called Creepy Company and their newest project, which is an ode to arguably the most essential video store sticker of all-time: the green Horror genre circle! Creepy Company has celebrated the highly nostalgic rental store sticker in two groovy fashions. First, in...

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The Holidaze are off and rewind runnin’, Tapeheads, and to kick off all of end of year analog excitement, we offer up some exclusive news from Lunchmeat Land that’s sure to get you and your trusty VCR in the Holiday VHSpirit! The announcement comes from the video vindicating dudes over at Magnetic Magic Rentals and Forever Bogus as they have slapped together a mighty righteous yuletide high-five and created a most excellent and very merry Christmas mixtape loaded with video era nostalgia including classic TV specials, obscure Holiday flicks, merry music videos, bodacious bumpers, and of course, tons of classic...

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