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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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Saskatoon-based Tapeheads Jon Vaughn and Tyler Baptist Re-Animate Video Rental Glory and Celebrate the Magic of Magnetic Tape with VIDEONOMICON!

Way on up in The Great White North, VHS is alive, rollin’ and ready to be rented. Stores like Suspect Video, Starlight Cinema, and now, Saskatoon’s Videonomicon are allowing local Tapeheads to relive that distinctly glorious rush of renting tapes. Videonomicon proprietors Tyler Baptist and Jon Vaughn have teamed up with Scott Gowen of Beaumont Records, designating a rental station and unloading a powerful portion of their personal collections of magnetic magic for folks that want to revisit that radical rental store experience. They even rent VCRs, man! And along with their rental re-animation celebration, Videonomicon is also dishing out...

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Silver Bullet Pictures Puts BLOOD ORGY AT BEAVER LAKE on VHS and Prepares to Unveil More Analog Awesomeness with Autumn Home Entertainment!

Watch out now, Videovores, ‘cuz there’s a new crew of video vindicators on the block and they’re armed with an arse-anal of blood, boobs and bodacious beaver boners. It seems there’s blood-drenched playful perversion aplenty streaming out of the Silver Bullet Pictures camp, and now, for the first time since 2003, they’re looking to the almighty analog format to unleash some of their awesomely independent cinematic beasts. First up from SBP to be committed to magnetic magic, we have BLOOD ORGY AT BEAVER LAKE, which promises to be as sanguine and beaverific as the title suggests. But there’s also another...

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