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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...

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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...

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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...

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Sub Rosa is back with a Video Vengeance, and releasing a bunch of bodacious VHS with groovy extras! I'm talking Legos based on characters from their flicks! INSANO GROOVY, MAN!

New entities of video-obsessed entrepreneurs are releasing tapes all over the place, paying homage to their most beloved analog obscurities and rescuing them from certain cinematic oblivion. But there's one company that's been doing it since 1992, and they've recently re-animated their VHS label Sub Rosa to bring all the Videovores out there some retro-slices of SOV madness along with what promises to be a long line of video trastherpieces to come. SRS Proprietor and video-era veteran Ron Bonk spills his guts all about the history of his company and its dealings with the SOV distribution market, the ballooning VHS...

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Rescue Your Awesome Analog Treasures from Moldy Malfunction: THE SEQUEL! We're back with even more tips on how to keep your VHS minty clean!

Rescue Your Awesome Analog Treasures from Moldy Malfunction: THE SEQUEL! We're back with even more tips on how to keep your VHS minty clean!

So you’ve gone through the process of cleaning the whole film from start to finish as outlined in part one, and there’s still mold on your tape. Again, if its large areas affected, it’s probably never going to clean up - but if it’s the “mold dots” and they don’t want to go away, they’re on the clear plastic spool that houses the precious magnetic film. Spool mold is by far the lesser of the two evils, but more complex to correct. For some reason, the mold will eat into the plastic almost twice as fast and viciously as the...

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