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PSYCHO VIDEO Brings Cult Slasher Flick NAKED MASSACRE to VHS and Prepares to Jingle Your Bells with a Deluxe VHS Edition of SILENT NIGHT BLOODY NIGHT! You Best Be Good, Videovores!

Connecticut-based tapehead Adam Taylor’s VHS obsession is founded on an early and unending appreciation for the format, gleaned from the racks and stacks of Mom and Pop shops and heated hunts in the wild. Fast forward to today, and his many years of crazed collecting have brought him to the valley of new wave video vindication. At first an admitted hater, but now a loving participator in fresh VHS, Adam’s Psycho Video brand is offering a limited edition for each release, as well as another common edition that’ll never cease, keeping the Psycho analog amazement flowing non-stop. His intense passion...

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Media Production Outfit PARIS GROUP INTERNATIONAL Mashes Up Analog Aesthetics and Electro Music Madness for Amazing Slabs of Magnetic Magic!

Paris Group International is a VHS-obsessed creative crew founded on the collaboration of analog sights and eclectic electro-grooves. Aside from being a heavy-hitting media production company with clients the world over, they’ve taken their talents to the task of re-animating one of the seemingly less celebrated staples of the video era: the music home video! And in-between their current journeys into the musical realm of magnetic magic, I was able to catch up with one of PGI’s main brains Paolo Xz as he details their perpetual plunge into the static filled, wonderfully wonky world of VHS aesthetics and their unending...

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A VHS Copy of the Chester N. Turner SOV Gem TALES FROM THE QUADEAD ZONE Goes for Over $1K on eBay! Bogus Bootleg or One-of-a-Kind Analog Treasure?

There’s been a resounding wave of mumbles, grumbles and analog-induced rumbles regarding yet another recent online VHS purchase. That tape, yet again, is Chester N. Turner’s TALES FROM THE QUADEAD ZONE. The more attentive tapeheads may recall the purchase of this much coveted VHS title a couple years back from ardent collector, Massacre Video art director and founder of HORROR VHS COLLECTORS UNITE! Earl Kess. His particular purchase helped solidify the seriousness of VHS collecting both to the other collectors around him, and perhaps more importantly, to those who weren’t necessarily involved with the culture. It was significant to say...

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Indie Filmmaker Tony Masiello Champions the Shot-on-Video Style and Plans to Preserve the Rich History Within the Sub-Genre with SOV: The True Independents!

Filmmaker Tony Masiello’s love affair that began in video rental shops and was ardently elevated by stacks of shot-on-video madness is now being channeled into what is apt to be one of the most vital video era chronicles ever to be endeavored. With his current collection of content proving too massive to contain into a single feature, Masiello is branching out with his website in order to capture SOV’s expansive story, planning to regularly stack the site with tons of SOV obsessed reviews, film histories and in-depth interviews with the folks that made the shot-on-video era come to low-budget life....

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Indie Filmmakers Cody Kennedy and Timothy Rutherford Bring Some Video Vindication with M IS FOR MAGNETIC TAPE and Have More Magnetic Madness On Deck with THE LAST VIDEO STORE!

While making my usual rounds about the world weird web last week, I happened across a mighty groovy short film soaked with video vindication sensibilities and one amazingly awesome analog hero that totally got my magnetic mojo risin’, mang. M IS FOR MAGNETIC TAPE co-creators Cody Kennedy and Timothy Rutherford are overflowing with that distinct DIY attitude, were raised on video rentals and have forgone the film school route, instead gleaning their movie making know-how from the extras and additional behind-the-scenes info loaded onto their favorite fringe flicks. Cody’s affection for analog era inanity and inclination toward that bottom-of-the-barrel, super-bonkers...

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