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Lazer Paladin Video gives PORKCHOP 3D the Analog Treatment! A New VHS in 3D?! Damn Skippy, Videovores! DIG IT!
Lazer Paladin Video is a VHS releasing label made by Videovores for Videovores. LPV's first release (which sold out in less than 2 hours!) of Eamon Hardiman’s Porkchop 3D was issued on the almighty video in amazing anaglyph 3D (old-school Red & Blue!), limited to 30 copies, and packed with some ultra-groovy extras and orange tape variants, making it a bitchin' slice of analog delight, indeed. Being a collector himself, one of LPV's main brains Vince Renfield is versed on the importance of putting together a groovy package, and also the glory of having one on the shelf. Read on,...
Video Era VHS Gag Toys VIDEO NASTY and LITTLE DEMONS are quite possibly the coolest thing on this planet. Videovores say, "Gimme Those!"
On a recent jaunt through the world weird web I came across something posted by fellow my Videovore Adam Carl Edmonston via the totally groovy (and you should check it out if you haven’t yet) Horror VHS Collectors Unite! that totally rules and is sure to activate any Videovore's salivary glands. Though it’s not actually a VHS, it’s still one of the most anomalous and awesome artifacts to be uncovered from the analog era. And here it is: VIDEO NASTY! Crazy Groovy, man! What VHS collector wouldn't want this?! None, I tell you - NONE. This thing RULES. ...
SHOCK SINEMA Re-Animates a Video Era Staple with SHOCKUMENTARIES on VHS! First Up: BOOTLEG DEATH TAPE & FETISH FILES: BETTIE PAGE! Shock Yourself like it’s 1989! YES!
For those of us who were lucky enough to experience the classic wonders of the Mom and Pop Video Shop days, we fondly recall that seemingly endless army of lurid and fascinating titles leering at you from the shelves, stimulating your salivary glands and possessing your will to rent, rent, RENT! Video shops often endeavored to expand their horror sub-genre selection to lush extents, bringing you a veritable cornucopia of weird and wild wonders specially made for your VCR. But there was one irrevocable staple of the countless sub-genres that always seemed to have their place in your local video...
Charles Band unearths Wizard Video Big Boxes and plans to re-release the magic! But is the magic really back?! Videovores will decide.
With all of the excitement and controversy that has ignited within the Videovore community concerning Charles Band's Wizard Video warehouse find, I thought to try and survey the entire scope of this video era unearthing and see just what the hell is really to think about all of the fervent hubbub. For those tapeheads who haven’t been made privy to the recent excavation, here's a link to Band's press release: http://www.wizardvideocollection.com/press-release.html So, from what is gathered from this verbiage and its echoes across the Internet, Band finally cleaned out one of his many Full Moon warehouses and uncovered a throng...
The Buried Treasures of Cinematic Obscurity: Can VHS Help Re-Animate the Rarest Flicks on the Planet? Man, you know it!
All us Videovores know that the almighty VHS tape gave life to an innumerable amount of flicks, and to this day keep their cinematic flame a’burning with the undeniable warmth of analog glory, saving them from the ill fate of complete obscurity. But there’s still a veritable cache of flicks out there that have never made it to any format whatsoever, majorly unseen and left to languish in the cracks of film oblivion. These films are tagged “lost”, and though it’s a reasonably accurate designation, the fact that there are extant prints of these unseen obscurities gives them that distinct...