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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...
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...
CULT MOVIE MANIA Prepares to Bring the Marcus Koch SOV Splatterpiece ROT Back to Your VCR!! And They Got Lots of Other Video Vindication on Deck, Tapeheads!! DIG IT.
The more ardent and attentive VHS collectors out there will certainly recall Cult Movie Mania’s devastatingly deluxe VHS edition of Jonathan Lewis Louis’ sexed up and supremely bonkers BLACK DEVIL DOLL, which upon release totally blew the lid off the fresh VHS melting pot. Fast forward six months later and Andrew Allan and his Cult Movie Mania brand are still kicking analog ass, dropping groovy video vindications aplenty and spreading cult cinema solidarity with every offering. And now, CMM is preparing to bring Marcus Koch’s SOV splatter punk trashterpiece ROT back to your VCR where it belongs. But that’s not...
Severin Films Unleashes A Private Collection Print of Video Nasty HOUSE ON STRAW HILL aka TRAUMA aka EXPOSE, and Throws A Little Magnetic Magic in the Mix with a FREE VHS Copy!
In a recent analog re-animation offered up by Severin Films, noted video nasty TRAUMA aka HOUSE ON STRAW HILL was released under yet another one of its alternate titles EXPOSE to accompany the film's brand-spanking new Blu-Ray / DVD release. And the best thing about the package? The tape is FREE when you pick up said Blu-ray/ DVD combo! Some gratis grainy love is a fresh angle for the VHS revival, and it's seemed to please Videovores across the board, while also giving some not-so-analog- inclined others a taste of video vindication, hopefully striking a nostalgic chord. But the flick...
IT IS THE HALL-O-WEEN TIMES, MANNNN!!! So, Hunker On Down for some Halloween Home Video Howls Sure to Delight Fans of Festive Fright! DIG IT!
It’s that time of year, Tapeheads! The echoing sounds of crunching candy, shrieks of sugar-soaked ecstasy, the sweet scent of plastic skeletons and an army of other distinct seasonal delights all signal that All Hallows Eve is knocking on our door. And in light of all the festive fright, I’ve gathered up a groovy goodie bag of Halloween tape treats that’ll rot your brain and stick to your teeth. In a good way, man! Now, we all know most folks have got some serious mainstays when it comes to the token Halloween-O-Rama Movie Marathon Spooktacular : you’ve got your HALLOWEEN,...