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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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Indie NY Filmmaker Doron Max Hagay releases PERFECT THOUGHTS on VHS! Self-help Junkies Beware!

Almost as a rule, when I’m solicited to explore an upcoming or current VHS release, the genre of the film virtually never strays too far from the horror persuasion. And… I mean… rightfully so. LUNCHMEAT is firmly rooted in and predominately fascinated with the weird and wonderful escapes that reside in the sprawling horror / sci-fi / weirdo arena. But as every ardent cinephile knows, pinning yourself to one particular genre is a fast way to appreciation stagnation. So when NY filmmaker Doron Max Hagay shot me a message about his new film Perfect Thoughts and its limited VHS release,...

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Rescue Your Awesome Analog Treasures from Moldy Malfunction!

Rescue Your Awesome Analog Treasures from Moldy Malfunction!

It's happened to all us Tapeheads: a great deal on eBay, finding a tape in a thrift store, or catching something awesome at a rental shop still stuck in the past. You're so caught up in the moment that you grab the tape and clutch it like an idol, and chances are, it's pretty rare. Then you realize that pretty black magnetic film has some weird looking white dots on it. Yep, that deal you just got is covered in mold… DISCLAIMER: I am not responsible if you royally fuck your shit up. The first time I had to do...

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Talkin' Tape(s) with Voracious VHS Collector Vincent October AKA Monster A GO GO! Peer Inside the Strange Mind of a Videovore!!

LUNCHMEAT is the kind of publication that’s made for Videovores by Videovores. So, every once in a while, we like to kick back, crack a couple beverages, juice up some nacho platters and catch up with one of our kindred spirits in order to get an individual perspective of what’s going on in the seemingly ever-expanding, analog-obsessed subculture of VHS collecting and preservation. It’s a fun and informative way to see the kinds of groovy personalities which reside in our sub-culture, and also get a look at the hot topics that permeate the collector circuit. On the menu tonight we...

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