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Brian Williams and His Mostly Harmless Pictures Imprint bring TIME TO KILL Starring Ellie Church to Limited Edition VHS at HORRORHOUND WEEKEND! Bring on the Blood and Boobs via Magnetic Magic, man!!

An inclination to be behind the camera along with a lifelong love affair with fringe film has led Brian Williams to his nascent filmmaking career. It’s his frenetic affection for aligning aesthetics that has him laying his freshly finished feature film TIME TO KILL to some limited edition chunks of magnetic magic. Employing his lawfully wedded wife and scream queen starlet Ellie Church for the lead, Williams’ composite of throwback sensibilities is sure to have this flick bursting with a profusion of blood, boobies and bitchin’ retro road revenge sleaze to appease your bad taste needs. Read on, my fellow...

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Delta Airlines Employs the Almighty VHS Tape to Present Their In-Flight Safety Video in Homage to the 80s! You Read Right, Videovores! Delta Has the Analog Appreciation and ALF is On-Board!

We all know that VHS tapes are far more sturdy and dependable than their digital counterparts. So, it’s no surprise that a select group of companies still use these chunks of analog glory in their everyday operations: the majority of casinos still record all of their security footage via magnetic magic, and an innumerable amount of employers have yet to transfer their training tutorials to the digital realm. So when my brother from another mother and all-around radical dude Greg Alexander told me about his VHSperience on the flight to his latest party destination, you know I had to share...

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Former Four Star Video Owner Brian Armstrong Recollects His Rental Store Adventure and Shares His Reverence for the VHS Format!

For some people, VHS is a way of life. Four Star Video patron turned proprietor Brian Armstrong eats, breathes and sleeps video era appreciation; he spent the majority of 25 years within the video lined walls of his now defunct Nitro, WV rental shop. And now that the doors have come to their final close, Brian’s been able to look back at his analog adventure and share how his passion for magnetic magic helped him lend out a load of analog excitement, forge a connection with an abundance of customers and bond with a flood of fellow film crazed friends....

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Italian Video and Sound Editor Gianluca Licciardi Creates an Analog Aesthetic Pastiche Aptly Entitled "VHS" for SI FEST International Photography Fest!

The VHS format is seemingly inspiring an array of artists around the world to infuse analog aesthetics into their work in a multitude of ways, and a recent offering from Italian video / sound editor Gianluca Licciardi has again upped the analog-adoring army of artistic creations with a visual smorgasbord of video-sourced cinema. The result is an engaging and eclectic mix of magnetic magic entitled simply VHS. Soaked with video-era aesthetics such as soft color bleeds and wonky tracking galore, and set to a remix-o-rama soundtrack of the dance / pop / rock persuasion, Licciardi’s VHS offers another spin on...

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UK-based Comedian Jack Lattimer Unearths Analog Treasures for His Online Review Show TAPE DANCING! Prepare for Some Serious Analog Archaeology!

After showing off some acting chops on the BBC in his early years, analog media aficionado Jack Lattimer has recently returned to entertainment to introduce his online love letter to all things tape he calls TAPE DANCING. And this show isn’t just limited to our beloved slabs of magnetic magic, either, my friends. Lattimer and crew are digging deep through bottomless delete bins and unearthing utter analog obscurity through the magic of VHS, Beta and audio cassette in order to offer reviews on some of the most unheard, unseen and sadly unloved tape-committed treats you’ve probably never heard of. Chock...

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