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CAMP MOTION PICTURES Announces an ALTERNATIVE CINEMA Exclusive with the Release of the Jacob Ennis Backwoods Horror Flick KILL, GRANNY, KILL! on Limited Edition VHS!

From the same video vindicators that brought you the bodacious big box package for the lost low-budget horror flick THE BASEMENT, and also supplied your VCRS (in tandem with us here at LUNCHMEAT!) with a radical re-issue of Gary Cohen’s shot-on-video classics VIDEO VIOLENCE and VIDEO VIOLENCE 2 in a deluxe Diehard Videovore edition, here comes another slab of rewind retribution in the form of Jacob Ennis’ backwoods blood-belcher called KILL, GRANNY, KILL! unleashed via analog in a full-color, bottom load slipcase that'll sure sit pretty on your shelf with amazing 80s-inspired artwork from the too groovy Sadist Art Designs!...

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Illustrator / Visual Artist Lee Thompson Employs the Aesthetics of VHS to Produce and Present the Shot on Video Project GUNS DRAWN for His Senior Thesis at University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA!

Lee Thompson is one bodacious illustrator based out of Philadelphia who has a passionate predilection for 80s aesthetics. He’s just about ready to graduate from the University of the Arts, and for his senior project he’s decided to go all out in celebrating the artistic attributes of the analog era by creating the trailer, packaging and managing the overall production for his shot-on-video short film / trailer project entitled GUNS DRAWN. The attention to detail and artistic finesse from Thompson is abundantly evident throughout the presentation from the die-cut big box / clamshell combination to the gobs of groovy goodies...

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Nascent Analog Unleashing Entity VIOLENT VIDEO Delivers Some Limited Edition Fresh VHS with OFF THE BEATEN PATH and DEATH TO THE WORLD On Deck and Comically Confronts the Burning Question of “Is This Rare?”

If you’re tuned into this VHS-obsessed blog on the regular, you’re sure to know that the rewind re-animation and subsequent fresh VHS entities are in absolute full swing. Now, more than ever, there are Tapeheads taking the initiative to unleash their own brand of VHS beasts to share with their rewind-inclined brethren and beyond. The inspiration for Violent Video? Our own ever-expanding culture. The folks at Violent Video were influenced by their fellow Videovores from analog-inclined online communities to scratch that video vindicating itch and pump some radical slabs of magnetic magic into the continuous rewind resurgence. Violent Video has...

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Analog Era Cover Art Detail Uncovered: The Orion Home Video VHS Release of THEY CAME FROM WITHIN aka SHIVERS Compared with the June 1985 Cover of National Geographic!

While groovin’ around the radical VHS-obsessed Facebook forum VHS Misfits ~ Ironfist VHS Bliss this morning as a part of my daily dose of online analog insanity, I happened upon a most excellent post from fellow Tapehead Matthew Baxter (originally observed and mentioned by Al Magliochetti). His post compared the now iconic National Geographic cover featuring the portrait of an Afghan girl by photographer Steve McCurry with the Orion Home Video VHS release of the David Cronenberg classic They Came from Within aka Shivers. There is no doubt that the Afghan girl (now identified as Sharbat Gula) captivated the world...

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Canadian Initiative GET REEL Wants to Collect, Dismantle and Recycle Over 2 Billion VHS Tapes in Ontario!? But What Happens to the Content? VHS Collectors and Media Preservationists Speak Out! *UPDATED!*

Today Tapeheads everywhere were set ablaze with analog-oriented indignation when met with an internet headline that read as follows: “Calling All VHS Tapes: Group Aims to Find and Recycle Ontario’s 2.26 Billion VCR Relics” Plainly put, this group is out to rid Ontario of its unwanted VHS tapes. The reception of this notion resulted in massive keyboard rage and a number of internet shares expressly to raise awareness of the “anti” persuasion. My ardent analog interest and predilection for preservation piqued my investigative response to all this and I, too, had some concerns raised about the incredible loss of content...

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