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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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AIP Archive
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The Brain Eaters – 1958 / Director: Bruno VeSota
AIP’s doozy of a sci fi creature feature, The Brain Eaters, may well claim to “burst your blood vessels with suspense!”, and with a title as gloriously descriptive as this,…
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Rolling Thunder – 1977 / Director: John Flynn
Paul Schrader, film director. Likely his most noticed directorial work was the 1982 remake of Cat People starring Malcom McDowell and Nastassja Kinski, and is actually one of the few…
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The Incredible Melting Man – 1977 / Director: William Sachs
He is a human time bomb. He must be stopped before he kills us all! Alex Rebar’s transmutation from all American, pioneering astronaut to fleshy fondue is never comfortably explained,…
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Panic in Year Zero! – 1962 / Director: Ray Milland
Genre king Ray Milland‘s rather austere approach to the End of the World interestingly opts to look in on aspects of survivalism and the family unit rather than any sensational,…
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Frogs – 1972 / Director: George McCowan
This high concept, eco apocalyptic, doddery piece of amphibious exploitation from George McCowan and the folks at AIP, is a dreary snooze fest almost from start to end. Jason Crockett…
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Konga – 1961 / Director: John Lemont
Nominally, a Brit-riff on the classic King Kong story, John Lemont‘s Konga manages to deceive expectation and take its audience (two thirds of the way at least) on a camp,…
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Chrome and Hot Leather – 1971 / Director: Lee Frost
Lee Frost‘s Chrome and Hot Leather is a well polished gem of bikesploitation produced, naturally, by the ever ready and willing to exploit, AIP brigade. Tony Young, a Green Beret, returns…
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Blacula – 1972 / Director: William Crain
Clearly the starting point, probably the best and most definitely the most notorious of the short lived Blaxploitation Horror phenomenon, William Crain’s camp, vampiric romp Blacula, gave new and mirthic meaning…
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J.D’s Revenge – 1976 / Director: Arthur Marks
Engrossingly odd and genuinely unsettling, Arthur Marks‘ J.D’s Revenge is a curious case of Blaxploitation horror, made at the tail end of the cycle when the joke had begun to…
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Abby – 1974 / Director: William Girdler
Ain’t nuthin like The Exorcist! Well, unless you listen to those rat soup eatin’ muthafuckas at Warner Brothers. Those born insecure bitches pulled this superior piece of trash because of…
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Black Mama, White Mama – 1972 / Director: Eddie Romero
Whilst not strictly speaking a Blaxploitation movie as such, rather a typical AIP exploitation free for all, Eddie Romero’s Black Mama, White Mama did provide Black American audiences an early…
