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Indie Filmmaker Nick Mendoza Talks About His Analog Inspired Anthology VIDEO TAPE TERROR, the Limited Edition VHS and the Advantage of Embracing More Than Just Our Favorite Format!

A heady mix of early analog rental experiences and drive-in driven evenings helped forge the foundation for indie filmmaker Nick Mendoza’s cinematic appreciation. After years of homework-oriented home videos and public access camera angles, Nick finally found the means to create an analog-induced anthology armed with a no-can-do CGI attitude and a love for the video format. The result is VIDEO TAPE TERROR: a flick helmed by an ardent VHS collector for fellow video crazed cats that dig the old-school and balk at these newfangled CGI bloodsplatters and questionable camera applications. One thing slightly differs, however, about Nick’s analog-inspired flick:...

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Indie Aussie Filmmakers The Von Claude Brothers Cook Up Some Limited Edition Analog SOV Insanity with Their Bloody and Brutal Chunk of Flithy Film Entitled TOUGH!

With an early home life seemingly pulled from a 70s Grindhouse flick, Bernie Von Claude and his brother Butch have cultivated their early tumult and constant diet of cult cinema into something terrifyingly tangible, crafting their brand of exploitative, extreme, jaw-dropping cinema filth from down under. Citing SERBIAN FILM and HUMAN CENTIPEDE as titles of the same ilk, we can imagine the type of cinematic cranial butchery and gut-wrenching rule-rending that is perpetrated within their running times; but beyond their love for extreme cinema and all of its shocking content, the Brothers Von Claude are total Tapeheads making limited analog...

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PHANTOM PAIN FILMS Unveils Their Newest VHS Re-Issue at Cinema Wasteland 2014 with the Lost Tapeworm Titles GOING HOG WILD and OIL IN L.A. in an Anti-Digital Double-Feature! Get Ready to Get all Sauced up and VHSlammed, Tapeheads!

One of the most utterly exciting aspects of the current analog revival is the reemergence of so many “lost” and underrated SOV cinematic trashterpieces. Louis Justin and his Massacre Video label most famously brought Chester N. Turner’s TALES FROM THE QUADEAD ZONE and BLACK DEVIL DOLL FROM HELL back from the grave, the analog-affirming Kleavage Zine helped slip the SOV treat TOPLESS ARMWRESTLING into VCRs again after who knows how long, and now, PHANTOM PAIN FILMS is going off the proverbial top rope and reviving TWO analog obscurities in double-feature format that would otherwise be buried under a mountain of...

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Indie Filmmaker Cory J. Udler Talks Analog Era Awesomeness and His Affection for Exploitation as He Prepares to Unleash His Film MEDIATRIX Via VHS at Cinema Wasteland 2014!! DIG IT!

In the original analog-obsessed generation, you could pick up slabs of magnetic magic pretty much everywhere from your local gas station to the neighborhood grocery store. It was a time when picking a movie was more of an adventure, demanding you to get off your caboose and pick through a mesmerizing array of magnetic magic, only to go home and be blindsided by what you actually rented. Cory J. Udler is one radical indie movie-maker setting out to pay homage to the madness that abounded within that distinctive era, hurling you back in time to no holds barred, full-on unapologetic...

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A Radical Flash Requiem for the Last Video Store in Baltimore: Video American! Featuring Words from Justin Getka: a True Video American in His Own Right!

The juxtaposition of a vibrant VHS revival and the demise of video rental shops en masse have amplified the importance of documenting these now receded rental establishments. So, in order to save these Mom and Pop shops from plummeting into abyssal oblivion, share out various analog anecdotes, and preserve the rental store experience in a vicarious fashion, we here in LUNCHMEAT Land take care to observe, appreciate and commemorate as many of these historical storefronts as possible; and in the process, exemplify these store’s diversity of character and context, while celebrating their commonalities of passion and purpose. Cue radical dude...

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