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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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Photocopied and stapled for your pleasure, CRIMSON SCREENS is one groovy fanzine that has the love for home video and does it DIY OR DIE!

One of the grooviest things about having a snail mail address is getting cool stuff in the mail, right? You’re damn skippy. And, here at Lunchmeat, we’re fortunate enough to receive some pretty neato stuff e.g. VHS tapes, strange cryptic letters and groovy-as-hell indie publications from other folks who love VHS as much as we do. And as luck may have it, this past mail call contained one of my personal favorite fanzines that champion the almighty analog format: CRIMSON SCREENS! CRIMSON SCREENS #11 has arrived! And it RULES! Ed-in-Chief and Indie Publisher Edward Black was gracious enough to send...

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Ben Cocuzza and PigFarmer Games put you behind the blade with the retro-horror inspired SANITARIUM MASSACRE! And it has a VHS mode! TOO GROOVY!!

Over here in Lunchmeat Land, we’re always down to champion and applaud all types of homegrown and independent ventures, especially when they’re (blood)soaked with retro-horror sensibilities. Influenced by the distinctive atmosphere of late 70s and early 80s fright flicks and armed with an undaunted DIY attitude, PIGFARMER GAMES proprietor and programmer extraordinaire Ben Cocuzza is hacking away in his Brooklyn abode in order to bring all you video game nostalgia lovers a misadventure of the killing kind… a game where YOU grip the blade and deal the death: SANITARIUM MASSACRE! And, hey, anyone that takes inspiration from SOV auteur Todd...

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