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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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REVIEWS Archive
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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…
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Ride The High Country – 1962 / Director: Sam Peckinpah
This early slice of Sam Peckinpah is an elegiac tribute to times past. Stylistically it represents an era of Western cinema that was coming to an end and that Peckinpah…
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The Amityville Horror – 1979 / Director: Stuart Rosenberg
An incredibly eerie Lalo Schifrin score welcomes us to The Amityville Horror and the terror that awaits us in one of the most iconic houses in the history of cinema….
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The Legend of Hell House – 1973 / Director: John Hough
An old wheelchair-bound man who apparently has too much money hires a physicist named Lionel Barrett (Clive Revill) to somehow come up with solid evidence that either proves or debunks…
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The House with Laughing Windows – 1976 / Director: Pupi Avati
Like Michele Soavi (Cemetary Man), Pupi Avati is an Italian filmmaker who’s gained a cult following despite his output not being as extensive as, say, an Argento or a Fulci,…
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When a Stranger Calls – 1979 / Director: Fred Walton
We’ve traced the call. It’s coming from inside the house! What should have been an easy night of babysitting for teenager Jill (Carol Kane) becomes utterly horrifying when she’s threatened…
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The Changeling – 1980 / Director: Peter Medak
John Russell (George C. Scott) is a renowned composer and music teacher who’s wife and son are killed in an accident. Still obviously knee-deep in the grieving process, he decides…
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The Grapes Of Death – 1978 / Director: Jean Rollin
Booze, that most banal and easily available of drugs, has been the bane, inspiration and death of many a Great Artist. Wine, whiskey, assorted spirits, beers at al often swamp…
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The Ballad of Cable Hogue – 1970 / Director: Sam Peckinpah
The brutal and self destructive urges that famously, restlessly, sit at the heart of director Sam Peckinpah’s oeuvre are perhaps no more evident than in his decision to follow up…
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de Lift – 1983 / Director: Dick Maas
Take the stairs, take the stairs. For God’s sake, take the Stairs!!! Pre-dating the metaphysical nonsense of Quentin Dupieux’s Rubber, and duly irrespective of M. Night S(…)’s yawny Devil-in-a-Box premise,…
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Vanishing Point – 1971 / Director: Richard Sarafian
Mike on AMPHETAMINES Get through ‘em baby! Get through ‘em! Fuelled on speed pills, Barry Newman hurtles down the highway of existentialism – his troubled past (demolition derby driver, disaffected…
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Wild Beasts – 1983 / Director: Franco Prosperi
Todd Cauley on PCP. I have never been into drugs (don’t tell VTSS). I tried pot a few times in college. It never did a thing for me. I have…
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The Witch Who Came From The Sea – 1976 / Director: Matt Cimber
Graham on SKUNK. Who would have thought a film once deemed a video nasty unfit for consumption on these hallowed shores could be quite so surreal, poetically slow and elegantly made? And just…
