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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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Swedish Musician Magnus Sellergren Offers Up an Analog-Drenched, Italian-Influenced Horror OST Homage Album with His Alter Ego VIDEOGRAM! DIG IT!

Horror movie aficionado, Swedish maestro and VIDEOGRAM main man Magnus Sellergren has just unleashed an audible beast. One listen to VIDEOGRAM’s self-titled assemblage of analog era-influenced aural creations, and you’ll be launched into a track by track journey through a dynamic yet culturally cohesive audio universe offering an array of thematic influences and audio signatures culled from some of our most watched video era gems. Sellergren has masterfully captured the most iconic aural tropes of Italian horror scoring, pushed them through his own personal filter, and melded them with an unmistakable and eerie 80s synth-driven scope of sounds to concoct...

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Filmmaker Laume Conroy Champions the VHS Format and Commits His XXX Full-Length Feature DAWNA THE DEAD to Limited Edition VHS to Appease Videovores and Their Carnal Needs! ADULTS ONLY, MAN!

After spending his impressionable adolescent years roaming video rental shops and peeking up at the not-so-well-hidden porno titles, avid analog slab collector an adult-inclined director Laume Conroy has tapped a lifetime of analog inspiration and resurrected his XXX feature Dawna the Dead via Limited Edition fresh VHS to help Videovores get off on his brand of insano undead carnality. Originally conceptualized and committed to analog glory for his own inclinations, Conroy has now unleashed his cut of some hardcore undead adult action via home video to assist Tapeheads in getting their fix of fantastical flesh-eating fornication. Read on, my fellow...

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