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Saturn’s Core Audio and Video Unleash the Joe Sherlock SOV Rarities MONSTER IN THE GARAGE and ZOMBIE LOVE SLAVE as a Double-Bill on Limited Edition VHS!
The video vindication of Bloomingdale, NJ-based fresh VHS outfit Saturn’s Core Audio and Video might already be on your rewind radar from their limited edition slabs of analog celebrating obscure cult cinema like Christopher “The Black Ed Wood” Michael's 1995 health club horror epic Terror Of Blood Gym, a double-bill of lost William Hellfire flicks (To Escape Bondage and Swinging Swinger, done in association with Horror Boobs Video) and a pair of Carl J. Sukenick mind-benders with Blood Boy and Space Zombies. Saturn’s Core has recently VHSpewed forth yet another radical re-animation, this time unearthing some obscure shot-on-video insanity with...
Recycle, Rewind and Keep Watching: An Open Discussion on the Problem of Analog Excess and How to Handle the Recycling and Waste for Abandoned VHS Tapes
Just about a day or so ago, an interesting article posted on the Official Goodwill Industries International, Inc. blog was brought to our attention by fellow Videovore and The Trash Pile main brain Chris Nichols. The piece expressed Goodwill’s concerns about the disposal procedure for the glut of VHS tapes they receive regularly, announcing an idea-based contest with an aim to find someone or some group with the smarts to invent a solution to the analog excess aftermath which has flooded Goodwill’s shelves over the past several years. When tapes sit on the shelf, Goodwill has no choice but to...
Sick Slice Cinema Unleashes Limited Edition VHS THE SUKENICK SUPERCHUNK: a 5 Hour Collection of SOV Insanity Featuring 9 Films from Cult Filmmaker Carl J. Sukenick!!
If you’re at all familiar with the mind-bending movie making from shot-on-video cult hero Carl J. Sukenick (ALIEN BEASTS, THE TOXIC RETARDS), then man do we have some fantastic fresh VHS news for you! There’s an all-out analog assault now available from the video vindicators over at Sick Slice Cinema entitled THE SUKENICK SUPERCHUNK which offers up 5 HOURS (equating to 9 films!) straight from the warped and radical mind of avant-garde SOV filmmaker Carl J. Sukenick. Strictly limited to 50 copies, this release is housed in large black clamshells with radical full-color artwork featuring a killer cover illustration from...
MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 Creator Joel Hodgson Launches a Kickstarter Campaign to Resurrect His Cult Cinema Comedy Show and Offers Up VHS Perk Alongside Many Others!
Often imitated but never duplicated, the awesomely influential and widely adored cult-cinema centric comedy show Mystery Science Theater 3000 may be returning from the grave. MST3K creator Joel Hodgson is currently running a 30 day campaign through Kickstarter to bring the show back for at least three more episodes, able to be made for a total pledge of $2,000,000, with a potential of 12 episodes AKA a full season (!!), made for about 5 and half million dollars. So, why is this of particular interest to Tapeheads everywhere? Aside from the fact that this show totally rules, and has paid...
Videovore Joshua Hedges Compiles a Radical Assortment of Ex-Rental Video Store Stickers in His Indie Print Zine VIDEO RELICS! Read On for a Groovy Exclusive Announcement from LUNCHMEAT!
After growing up with a steady stream of his brother’s horror tapes reeling through the family VCR, Joshua Hedges was inevitably drawn to his local video rental store where the shelves offered even more analog answers to his cult cinema cravings. Fast forward to years later, and like many other modern Tapeheads, Hedges still has an acute nostalgia for that rental store experience and all of the intimate aesthetic details that came along with it. Inspired by his unending appreciation for those classic rewind times, Joshua has recently curated a small but VHSweet selection of some of the most significant...