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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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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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ANIMATION Archive
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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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The Phantom Tollbooth – 1970 / Director: Chuck Jones
Mike on WEED. This is crazy. Here I am, riding along a road I’ve never seen, going to a place I’ve never heard of! I wonder where I am anyway?…
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Urotsukidoji – Legend of the Overfiend / 1987 / Director: Hideki Takayama
Animated End of the World nonsense, this time from seemingly COCK obsessed Japan, with Urotsukidoji – Legend of the Overfiend Hideki Takayama‘s COCK tastic OAV adaption of Toshio Maeda‘s COCK…
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BREAKDOWN: Barefoot Gen – 1983 / Director: Mori Masaki
In 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…
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When the Wind Blows – 1986 / Director: Jimmy Murakami
As had been the case with Martin Rosen‘s treatment of Richard Adam‘s Watership Down (1978) and The Plague Dogs (1982), in which the powers that be opted to use animation…






















































