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Another Groovy Analog-Oriented Goodie Has Arrived, Tapeheads! Hide Your Valuables via Home Video with The VHS Secret Stash Box from HorrorHostMagazine.com!
As the appreciation and celebration of the almighty VHS format seems to continue to spread exponentially throughout the film-fanatic and collector culture, the love for the format has also readily bled into the universe of creative and crafty individuals. “Upcycling” VHS is a practice that has been employed more frequently over recent times, resulting in VHS sunglasses, purses, photo frames and storage, digital clocks, coffee tables and a whole mess of analog-inspired sculpture. Thiiiissss... LOOKS like a VHS. But it's not a VHS, IT'S A STASH BOX! (in Mark's voice from SLC PUNK.).Those reels ain't real, man! They're stickers! DIG...
SLEEPAWAY CAMP Scholar and Retrosploitation Main Brain John Klyza II Brings the “Lost” Slasher Flick SLEEPAWAY CAMP 4 Back from the Cutting Room Floor and on to VHS! Get Stoked for a Re-Animation Celebration, Tapeheads!!
After growing up in an unbridled analog entertainment adventure and being hurled into a keen fascination with slasher flicks and the multitude of movies orbiting around the fringe genre, horror business heavyweight John Klyza II has now endeavored to revive the “lost” fourth installment of the SLEEPAWAY CAMP series. Klyza II has snatched up the leftover bits and pieces of SC4 and stitched them back together with a little bit of old-fashioned elbow grease and his own special re-agent recipe to create the newly cut, full-length feature that is SLEEPAWAY CAMP 4. And now, he’s committing this re-assembled slice of...
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:...
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...
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...