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Most Excellent Mail-Order Video Era Nostalgia with The Video Letter from Japan VHS Series! Get Analog Educated about Japanese Culture through the Power of Your VCR!

By Josh Schafer   Here’s a radical slice of educational video era obscurity brought to my analog attention by my fellow Videovore and all-around radical rewind-inclined dude Matt Ridgeway. My fellow Tapeheads, I give you, the Video Letter from Japan! This advert was harvested from the January / February issue of Creative Classroom Magazine circa 1988, and offers up a series of six home video kits displaying themed glimpses of daily life in Japan through the eyes and experiences of Japanese students.   A full look at the advert for Video Letter from Japan! Bring on the international analog education!...

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Videovore Chris Nichols and The Trash Pile Prepare to Re-Animate and Unleash the Regional SOV Ghost Flick THE MURDER OF SGT. MACKLIN on Limited Edition Fresh VHS!

Handed down straight from his Dad, a childhood connection with golden age sci-fi tapes served as the germ of analog obsession for voracious Videovore Chris Nichols. His fascination with radical slabs of black plastic caused him to eventually create an array of mediums for movie celebration from a bodacious blog to a persistent podcast to a small army of totally amazing unofficial (and extended) editions of flicks done up DIY style on almighty VHS. And now, Chris and The Trash Pile banner are all VHSet to officially re-animate an ultra-obscure regionally made shot-on-video slab of low-budget bliss with the Colorado-created...

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Fresh VHS Label Video Carnage Video AKA VCV Unleashes a Double Dose of Anti-Digital Excellence with Limited Editions of MAD FOXES and MASSACRE AT FEMUR CREEK Making them Available for the First Time on VHS in the US!

Hey-yo, my fellow Tapeheads! Man, the preparation and execution for this past weekend’s Severed event and unveiling of the initial installment of The Museum of VHS was most analog excellent, but after that whirlwind of rewind-inclined extreme excitement, we needed some VCRest, mang! VHSincere apologies for that delay! We’re now back in the VHSaddle and ready to bring you more magnetically crazed coverage with a new duo of fresh VHS dealing dudes from The Great White North operating under the banner of Video Carnage Video. VCV main brains Brett and K Cuz have recently unleashed two slabs of black plastic...

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Ontario Videovore Ben Ruffett Offers Up Obscure VHS Screenings with Hamilton’s Trash Cinema and Contributes Some of His Analog Expertise to the Upcoming VIDEONOMICON VHS Re-issue of SCIENCE CRAZED!

Ben Ruffett and his Hamiltion's Trash Cinema banner initially grabbed my analog-inclined attention via their steady stream of obscure and aesthetically excellent VHS tapes on the Book of Face. Ben and his HTC outfit kept my feed fat with titles that consistently gave me a serious dose VHShelf envy, offering a glimpse at mind-melting slabs of magnetic magic like Marley’s Revenge, Satan’s Place and the ever-so-elusive original release of The Bloody Video Horror that Made Me Puke on my Aunt Gertrude. In VHShort, he was posting some dope rarities, indeed, mang. I got to talking with Ben about his rewind-inclined...

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Sick Slice Cinema Unleashes the Matty Calhoun / DEAD/BROKE PRODUCTIONS Backwoods SOV Horror DEAD END DRIVE on Limited Edition VHS!

It all starts with a consumer grade camcorder swiped from your parent’s closet. You stay up way too late, pound cans of sugar water to stay awake and just kind of make it up as you go, using your favorite slabs of analog excellence as a sort of road map to arrive at some sort of gory end. That’s how Dead/ Broke Productions got started, and while over the years Matty Calhoun and crew have evolved with their filmmaking, the VHSpirit remains the same. It’s all about no-budget, horror-drenched homemade flicks made with your friends, if only to gather around...

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