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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:
FESTIVE Archive
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Sing Mit Heino – 1977 / Director: Otto Meyer
Around about the same time the GDR built a giant wall through the middle of Berlin and bricked out the spectres of post war/ post fascist Germany, a strange infectious…
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Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2 – 1987 / Director: Lee Harry
I love Silent Night, Deadly Night. It is an annual fixture of my Christmas holidays, usually double billed with Bob Clark‘s fantastic Black Christmas. One thing that has eluded me…
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Silent Night, Deadly Night – 1984 / Director: Charles E. Sellier Jr
Christmas just isn’t Christmas without annual screenings of festive slasher films, and what better way to kick off some yuletide spirit then with a viewing of Christmas cult classic Silent…
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Die Hard – 1988 / Director: John McTiernan
For most working adults, the office party is a staple in the festive social calendar. Generally speaking, it’s a let down – the exchange of feigned pleasantries with co-colleagues, drunken…
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Gremlins – 1984 / Director: Joe Dante
Joe Dante‘s (semi) child friendly variation on the Dr Jeckyll and Mr Hyde story is a festive masterpiece that oozes wit, charm, viscera and the balls to do something different…
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Planes, Trains and Automobiles – 1987 / Director: John Hughes
Ok, so not strictly speaking a Christmas movie, but close enough in the Yuletide calendar – particularly for an American audience, to make it into the festive programme, John Hughes‘…
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Santa Claus the Movie – 1985 / Director: Jeannot Szwarc
Along with Disney’s 101 Dalmations, Santa Claus the Movie is one of my earliest big screen movie viewing memories. In the years that have since passed, I’ve grown a beard,…
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Santa Claus Conquers the Martians – 1964 / Director: Nicholas Webster
A confession: I love bad films. Really love them. Robot Monster, Plan 9 From Outer Space, Zoltan-Hound of Dracula, Disco Godfather? Watched them. Loved them. As a reader of this…
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McCabe & Mrs Miller – 1971 / Director: Robert Altman
Around about this time each year, I find myself drawn back to Robert Altman‘s peculiar take on the Western, McCabe & Mrs Miller. It’s become something of a tradition, one…
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Home Alone – 1990 / Director: Chris Columbus
Fans of the latent childhood trauma unearthed in Tom Holland‘s Childs Play, will probably enjoy the tenuous, though entertaining, subtext at play in Chris Columbus‘, John Hughes produced, Home Alone – a…
