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videotapeswapshop. (aka VTSS.) is our pleasantly unhinged tribute to the peculiar world of genre cinema... we love movies. in particular, we love genre, exploitation, grindhouse, B-Z grade, trash, weirdo movies on fuzzy VHS tapes and anything with John Saxon in it…we suspect you love them too…
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This month, anything goes...
- Jungle Holocaust
- Dracula: Prince of Darkness
- The Beyond
- Pulgasari
- Maximum Overdrive
- Lucky Seven
- Lisa, Lisa
- Cannibal Terror
- The Driller Killer
- Behind Convent Walls
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The Good, the Bad, the Unseen present: Corpse Fucking Sunday Triple Bill:
Beyond the Darkness (1979), Aftermath (1994) and TBC
The Black Heart Pub, Camden, 6.30pm, 8th January, £3The Asian Movies Meet Up Group present:
Pulgasari (1985)
The Roxy Bar and Screen, 7pm, 16th January, £3- The Duke Mitchell Film Club present:
Paranormal Documentaries Night:
The Jupiter Menace (1982)
The King's Cross Social Club, 7pm, 25th January, FREE - The Good, the Bad, the Unseen present: Sunshine Super Sunday Double Bill:
The Black Heart Pub, Camden, 6.30pm, 29th January, £3
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- Fernando Di Leo Crime Collection 1972,
Dir. Fernando DiLeo
16th January - Raro *Blu Ray*
- La Vampire Nue 1970,
Dir. Jean Rollin
23rd January - Redemption *Blu Ray*
- Two Lane Blacktop 1971,
Dir. Monte Hellman
23rd January - Masters of Cinema *Blu Ray*
- Punishment Park 1971,
Dir. Peter Watkins
23rd January - Masters of Cinema *Blu Ray*
- Fernando Di Leo Crime Collection 1972,
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Behind Convent Walls – 1978 / Director: Walerian Borowczyk
Is Walerian Borowczyk‘s simple nunsploitation film worth writing about? What could I say that isn’t going to be said better on the special features of the most recent DVD release…
Latest Reviews
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Behind Convent Walls – 1978 / Director: Walerian Borowczyk
Is Walerian Borowczyk‘s simple nunsploitation film worth writing about? What could I say that isn’t going to be said better on the special features of the most recent DVD release…
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The Driller Killer – 1979 / Director: Abel Ferrara
In true Punk Rock spirit, the opening title card of The Driller Killer proudly instructs its audience that “THIS FILM SHOULD BE PLAYED LOUD” which is appropriate because the sound…
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The Evil of Frankenstein – 1964 / Director: Freddie Francis
The patchy and uninspired Evil of Frankenstein was the third instalment in Hammer’s enormously successful reinterpretation of Mary Shelley’s classic gothic novel. The previous two productions The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) and The Revenge…
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Maximum Overdrive – 1986 / Director: Stephen King
In an effort to add to VTSS’s carsploitation section, I’ve been beefing up on my Americana car flicks. Car movies, and especially it’s crossover cousin the car/road flicks, are something…
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Cannibal Terror – 1981 / Director: Alain Deruelle
The unmistakable stench of Jess Franco hovers over Cannibal Terror like a blocked drain. Unbelievably, however, the producers found a director just as inept in Alain Deruelle. The man responsible…
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Pulgasari – 1985 / Director: Shin Sang-ok
It’s easy to get caught up in the circumstances that surround Pulgasari, a North Korean Monster Movie. Circumstances which understandably threaten to outweigh the film itself. The story goes that…
Latest Features
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BREAKDOWN: Barefoot Gen – 1983 / Director: Mori Masaki
Posted on 25/01/2012 | No CommentsIn their highly resourceful Anime reference guide The Anime Encyclopedia – A Guide to Japanese Animation since 1917 (Stone Bridge Press, 2001), Jonathan Clements and Helen McCarthy, comment on the... -
An Interview with Award Winning London Filmmaker PRANO BAILEY-BOND
Posted on 15/01/2012 | No CommentsHaving just walked away with the award for Best Music Short at London Short Film Festival 2012 for her latest music video House, Graham Bywater has a chat with London-based,... -
Friday the 13th – Barry Abrams, Point of View and Gender Ambiguity
Posted on 13/01/2012 | No Commentsnote – this article is the first of three that attempt to reconsider the much maligned series of Friday the 13th films in context of the American Horror Film, their...
Micro Reviews
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Lisa Lisa (aka AXE) – 1977 / Director: Frederick R. Friedel
Frederick Friedel‘s Lisa Lisa is a strange little film that despite numerous viewings (it’s only an hour long) still intrigues me in a similar way The Texas Chainsaw Massacre did…
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Dracula: Prince of Darkness – 1966 / Director: Terence Fisher
Profoundly dull and interminably pointless, Dracula Prince of Darkness is proof, if ever it was needed, that Hammer was prone to bouts of commercial opportunism and aesthetic recycling. Essentially a…
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Zombie Holocaust – 1980 / Director: Marino Girolami
With it’s oh so lurid title and generic, high concept promise of the best of both worlds, Marino Giromlami’s Zombie Holocaust should, by rights, really be a bit of a…
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Threads – 1984 / Director: Mick Jackson
This completely enthralling and thoroughly depressing, made for TV faux docu-drama – A BAFTA winning downer from the apocalyptic harbingers at BBC2 – posits an alarmingly matter of fact beginning,…
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Beneath the Planet of the Apes – 1970 / Director: Ted Post
At first glance, it’s easy to write off Beneath the Planet of the Apes as little more than a meaningless and cynical cash in on Franklin J. Schaffner’s runaway success….
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Night of the Comet – 1984 / Director: Thom Eberhardt
What do you do when a once in a lifetime comet trail blazes over Earth, reducing everyone in its wake to either a pile of red ash or a flesh…
