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videotapeswapshop. (aka VTSS.) is our pleasantly unhinged tribute to the peculiar world of genre film. We're equally interested in both the ridiculous and the sublime efforts that have emerged from the depths of the genre pool, and in particular, those between the late 1950's and early 90s...
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FROM THE ARCHIVES
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The Brain Eaters – 1958 / Director: Bruno VeSota
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Rolling Thunder – 1977 / Director: John Flynn
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The Incredible Melting Man – 1977 / Director: William Sachs
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Panic in Year Zero! – 1962 / Director: Ray Milland
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Frogs – 1972 / Director: George McCowan
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OUR DISTINGUISHED FRIENDS:
Wolf Lake – 1978 / Director: Burt Kennedy
Every son of a bitch who deserted is coming out of the hills and from under the goddam rocks and they’re running around and they’re thumbing their nose at you…
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Wolf Lake – 1978 / Director: Burt Kennedy
Every son of a bitch who deserted is coming out of the hills and from under the goddam rocks and they’re running around and they’re thumbing their nose at you…
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Straw Dogs – 1971 / Director: Sam Peckinpah
This is my house! This is where I live!… This is mine! Me! I will not allow violence against my house! Following the commercial car wreck that was The Ballad…
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Heavy Metal – 1981 / Director: Gerald Potterton
Producer Ivan Reitman (Rabid, Cannibal Girls) decided to dabble again in Canadian cult cinema in the early eighties, only a couple of years before he’d go on do direct the…
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Rituals – 1976 / Director: Peter Carter
With its redneck ass rapists, banjo twanging yokel simpletons, and mocking city slickers, John Boorman’s film of Deliverance has cast the widest net of influence over an entire sub-genre of…
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The Neptune Factor – 1973 / Director: Daniel Petrie
The United States of America has benefited greatly from our relationship with our neighbors in the Great White North for years. Among the exports that enrich our lives (and this…
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Autumn Born – 1979/ Director: Lloyd A. Simandl
Anyone who has, er, come across any porn films made in the 1970s will immediately feel at home in this squalid, totally incompetent S&M Canadian oddity. Instead of starring John…
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Of Unknown Origin – 1983 / Director: George P. Cosmatos
Peter Weller, Jennifer Dale, Shannon Tweed, the Canadian actor who got his head exploded in Scanners, the director of the Stallone classic Cobra, and a giant fucking rat. And despite…
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Yeti: The Giant of the 20th Century – 1977 / Director: Gianfranco Parolini
The Yeti is part of nature… and only she should give him life if she so chooses… “Overnourished, overweight Daddy Warbucks” mogul, Morgan Hunnicutt convinces Professor Henry (with Morgan’s…
Latest Features
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Sunday Scans.022
Posted on 13/05/2012 | No CommentsLa Nuit Des Traquees (1980) – Film Office ‘Collectorror’ Jean Rollin Collection / 1996 -
What is the Canadian Tax Shelter?
Posted on 30/04/2012 | No CommentsThe “Tax Shelter Films” sounds like it would be referring to a handful of films, but actually, Tax Shelter Films has become more of a term referring to an entire... -
CANUCK-MONTH: SHIVERS in May
Posted on 29/04/2012 | No CommentsVTSS. stable mates Vince D’Amato and Nadeem Ali have joined forces to work on an exciting trans-atlantic film screening project – the delightfully named Shivers. SHIVERS PRESENTS: The Influence of... -
Caroline Kopko on DRUGS.
Posted on 21/04/2012 | 2 CommentsThis list was more difficult to assemble than I imagined. Am I making a list of movies about drugs or a list of movies to watch on drugs? Very different ideas. I... -
Shaun Anderson on DRUGS.
Posted on 19/04/2012 | 3 CommentsCorridors of Blood – 1958 / Dir: Robert Day Boris Karloff’s extended sojourn into British horror saw him take on the role of Dr. Thomas Bolton in this underrated little gem... -
Colin Stone on DRUGS.
Posted on 17/04/2012 | No CommentsThe Good, The Bad,The Unseen‘s very own Colin Stone jacks up his Top Five cinematic opiates with us as part of our week long, wanton, abuse of DRUGS… 1. Blue... -
Rich Flannagan on DRUGS.
Posted on 16/04/2012 | 2 CommentsRich Flannagan drops his top five Drug related Movies… 1. Last House on Dead End Street – 1977/ Dir. Roger Watkins The cinematic equivalent of alpha-methylphenethylamine. Starts off with a little... -
VTSS on DRUGS
Posted on 15/04/2012 | 2 CommentsThis week, we’re having a party at VTSS HQ. Everyone’s invited. We’ll have pineapple rings on slabs of Gammon, a bowl of Doritos with a cheap dip from Iceland, and...
