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Veteran Filmmaker Brad Sykes Brings Together Old and New SOV Elite to Create the Throwback Horror Anthology HI-8! Coming Soon to VCR Near You from the VHS Vindicators at Wild Eye Releasing!

After completing his first feature length film while still in high school, writer, director and producer Brad Sykes has kept his analog-charged cinematic drive alive by injecting his creative force into dozens of horror-soaked projects over the span of his fifteen year career. His most recent film endeavor is entitled Hi-8, and with this project Brad has orchestrated a most excellent and heady assembly of OG SOV elite and modern day analog-adoring indie all-stars to create a throwback horror anthology that sincerely adheres to the essence of the low-budget inclinations and those tried and true homegrown movie-making methods. Sykes' film...

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Manor Video Main Brain Jared Rexer Prepares to Inject BLACK METAL VEINS Into Your Decks via Fresh VHS with Lots More Analog Glory in Store!

With humble horror-influenced beginnings in the DIY punk and hardcore scene, Michigan-based Tapehead Jared Rexer has recently crossed over into the realm of fresh VHS, endeavoring to purvey slabs of magnetic magic with his very own analog entity entitled Manor Video. When he's not pounding out some skull-fracturing jams or slammin’ down slabs of pizza and copious cans of Hamm’s, Rexer's keeping mad busy injecting his analog-inclined energy into fostering our favorite format and re-animating chunks of fringe film in order to up the appreciation and distribute some genuine VHS celebration. Read on, my fellow Videovores, and dig the candid...

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Analog-Inclined Authors Ron Swan and Joel Gunn Unleash the VIDEO HOUND’S GUIDE: An Exhaustive Rewind Reference Book to Assist Videovores in Collecting VHS in Checklist Fashion!

In the contemporary world of VHS collecting, “rare” is a word that gets a lot of airtime. It’s a term that’s tossed around on video-obsessed forums such as HVHSCU and is brought into question almost constantly, effectively operating as an adjective that inexorably inflates a tape’s anti-digital desirability, and oftentimes, influences the tape’s market value. However, the mark of rarity is usually designated by a fairly subjective observation by either an independent collector (presumably equipped with a fair share of analog expertise) or the vying-for-video community at large. The core of the “is this rare?” conundrum is this: no matter...

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Australian Fresh VHS Label Celluloid Apocalypse Unleashes A GUN FOR GEORGE in Deluxe Limited Edition Fashion and Feeds the Need for Videovores of the PAL Persuasion!

Way down under in an analog-adoring portion of Australia, a gathering of too groovy Tapeheads have joined forces to assemble a team hellbent on high-quality video vindication under the banner of Celluloid Apocalypse. Their first slab of black plastic glory delivers an action-packed short film peppered with comedic sensibilities from one of the minds that brought us the wacky, wonky and totally hilarious sitcom Garth Meranghi’s Darkplace, all anti-digitally decked out in a super-deluxe package. A Gun for George has already sold through the Limited Edition run of 50 copies (in one day, I might add!), so Videovores with the...

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The Too Groovy Crew of Video Era Excess Aficionados and Entertainers EVERYTHING IS TERRIBLE! Unearth an Unbelievably Weird World of Homemade SOV Madness and Share it with MEMORY HOLE!

The vast majority of voracious Videovores out there are apt to be familiar with EVERYTHING IS TERRIBLE! and their finely tuned brand of appreciation and celebration for awkward, outrageous and at times utterly unbelievable acts of video era excess. Their website, live shows and general presence has offered a host of viewers an affectionate and often hilarious homage to the seemingly endless stockpile of VHS oddities harvested from the cracks of oblivion and Goodwill shelves from sea to VHShining sea. Cue their newest analog era celebration incarnation MEMORY HOLE. After sifting through just a small portion of a presumably preposterous...

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