Blog – Page 62 – Lunchmeat

Category_Collecting, Category_Groovy Stuff, Category_Horror, Category_VHS, Category_Weirdness - February 13, 2015

Cult Movie Mania Prepares to Unleash Some Radical Fresh VHS Re-issues of Cult Classics CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST and CANNIBAL FEROX in Association with Grindhouse Releasing! PLUS! Exclusive Analog Announcements from CMM!!

The constantly expanding world of fresh VHS is consistently spewing forth a wild and wondrous spill of cult cinema to help keep our VCRS churning and turning without cessation. In this radical wave of rewind re-animation, we’re seeing everything from obscure gems getting more recognition to indie films gaining a new platform for exposure, and sometimes, we see absolute cult classics celebrated via home video in order to champion the format and put the film back in front of people in a renewed rewind-inclined way. Cue Tampa, Florida’s Cult Movie Mania. The same company that brought Tapeheads the outrageous analog...

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Category_Uncategorized - February 11, 2015

Lo-Fi Video Main Brain Daniel Del Pozzo Unites West Coast Rewind Inclined Minds in Search of Analog Glory at the Upcoming 2nd Installment of His VHSwap Buy or Die Fest in Los Angeles, CA!

The visible rise of VHS collector culture and the resulting resurging interest in rare, amazing and obscure video cassettes over the past few years has helped to inspire some seriously radical events engineered to assemble the most voracious of Videovores. Earl Kess’ Severed Short Film Night and Horror VHS Collectors Unite! Convention does a killer job at gathering a horde of tape-hungry Videovores on the East Coast, and Nate Higley’s Tape Eaters Convention magnetizes the analog-inclined crowd for the mid-west… but what about the West Coast, mang? Cue Lo-Fi Video owner and operator Daniel Del Pozzo. Inspired by the suggestive...

Toronto-Based Tapehead Justin Decloux and His Laser Blast Film Society Imprint Celebrate VHS on the Big Screen with Screenings Straight from a Tape Source to Bring You Laser Blast Video Nights at Royal Cinema!

The vast majority of movies on VHS are best enjoyed with a lap full of snacks and a groovy group of fringe film-loving friends. Here in Lunchmeat Land, we hold this to be indisputable fact. Analog aficionados Justin Decloux and Peter Kuplowsky's Laser Blast Film Society crew subscribe to that same VHSchool of thought, and to help celebrate their analog-inclined affection, they’ve concocted a monthly event aptly entitled Laser Blast Video Nights held in order to vindicate and appreciate analog obscurities in a gregarious group setting. The kicker? They’re slapping these slabs of home video ecstasy up on the big...

Analog Appreciating Entrepreneur Greg Smith Offers Up Slabs of Former Rental VHS Spanning from Exploitation Favorites to Adult Fare All in One Online Location with VHSCollectibles.com!

Entrepreneurially-inclined analog aficionados are becoming more and more abundant in this perpetually expanding world of VHS collector culture. We currently exist in a head-spinning kind of mini-universe where the voracious hunger for non-stop video bliss spills out upon always active online forums such as Horror VHS Collectors Unite! and VHS Misfits Ironfist VHS Bliss replete with a whirlwind of liking, commenting, and personal messaging, inevitably leading to the buying, trading and selling of our favorite format. It’s a no-holds barred kind of place, where love for your fellow Videovore is prominent, but not promised. There’s always a slight chance that...

Canadian Video Vindicators VIDEONOMICON Continue the Rental Store Dream and Unleash a Few Slabs of Fresh VHS featuring RYAN’S BABE and RUNAWAY NIGHT MARE with an Analog Edition of LOWLIFE On Deck!

Saskatoon-based video rental shop Videonomicon is still going VHStrong. Over the past year totally radical Tapeheads Tyler Baptist and Jon Vaughn have been supplying a groovy selection of take-home slabs for their fellow rewind-inclined locals, and now they’re starting to serve up some fresh VHS for the magnetic masses with their video vindicating Videonomicon brand. Unleashing two titles last summer via analog means with the never-before-seen road comedy RYAN’S BABE and the cult horror comedy RUNAWAY NIGHTMARE (both available now!), Videonomicon is rewind ready to invade your VCR once again with their upcoming analog edition of the surrealistic indie horror...