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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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DRAMA Archive
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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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The Tenth Level – 1975 / Director: Charles S. Dubin
Mike on HORSE TRANQUILIZERS. I’ve opted for The Tenth Level in this week of wanton drug use because, quite frankly, you’d need a barrow load of drugs – preferably horse…
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Patty Hearst – 1988 / Director: Paul Schrader
The late Natasha Richardson stars as Patty Hearst in what I believe is her best performance on film. Criminally it remains commercially unreleased on DVD in North America, while the…
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Hardcore – 1979 / Director: Paul Schrader
A lack of love is an interesting recurring character theme in Paul Schrader‘s stories. In both Taxi Driver and Rolling Thunder it’s painted with a broader stroke as a lack…
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Taxi Driver – 1976 / Director: Martin Scorsese
Not just Martin Scorsese‘s and Schrader’s claim to fame, I find myself at a loss to think of a single scene in this film that hasn’t achieved some level of…
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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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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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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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The Day After – 1983 / Director: Nicholas Meyer
According to a popular, and somewhat curious, legend, it is to the director of Star Trek II : The Wrath of Khan that we must be most grateful, for averting…
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Una donna per sette bastardi – 1974 / Director: Roberto Bianchi Montero
Also known as The Sewer Rats, Montero’s sleazy, grotty and generally decrepit yarn, based on an idea by the film’s lead and VTSS fave, Richard Harrison,works as a transgressive contemporary…
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Death Drug – 1978 / Director: Oscar Williams
Remember G.I. Joe? Every episode started or ended with a PSA about how bad it is to pretend to be a snake person, or the horrors of Spider Island, or…
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Jackson County Jail – 1976 / Director: Michael Miller
Dinah Hunter (Yvette Mimieux) is having a bad day. One seriously bad day. First off, her boss decides he doesn’t like the commercial she created to advertise sanitary towels and…
