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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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BLAXPLOITATION Archive
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Dolemite – 1975 / Director: D’Urville Martin
Whilst Dolemite (and let’s not forget his all girl army of Karate Kung Fu killers!) is the work of D’Urville Martin (Rosemary’s Baby‘s lift attendant, anyone?), there can be no…
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Zebra Force – 1976 / Director: Joe Tornatore
Who are these men of steel?… When they strike, all hell explodes… …and the Underworld trembles!!! Joe Tornatore’s odd little blaxploitation picture does a good job at grafting the genre…
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The Black Cobra – 1987 / Director: Stelvio Massi
Although there is no doubt that Stelvio Massi‘s Crime cum Blaxploitation/Action effort is an interesting event in the protracted story of Italian film making, there is a sense that by…
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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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The House on Skull Mountain – 1974 / Director: Ron Honthanler
Ron Honthaner’s The House on Skull Mountain is a seriously strange little movie, and no mistake. Eighty Five minutes of voodoo tub thumping, quirky (queasy) visual gags and, most inexplicably,…
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Dr Black, Mr Hyde – 1975 / Director: William Crain
…don’t give him no sass or he’ll kick yo’ ass! Three years after his success with the magnificent Blacula, William Crain returned to the now fully formed sub genre of…
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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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The Beast Must Die – 1974 / Director: Paul Annett
This is a detective story. The question is not “who is the murderer?” but “who is the werewolf?” After all the clues have been shown, you will get a chance…
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The Horrific History of Blaxploitation
In his highly informative and hugely enjoyable reference guide to the genre; Blaxploitation Cinema (Fab Press, 2008), author Josiah Howard painstakingly maps out the shifting social, economic and cultural climate…
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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…
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The Black Godfather – 1974 / Director: John Evans
It’s easy, and often necessary, to forgive films of the blaxploitation genre for their formalistic inadequacies – made as they often were, on meagre budgets and in industry defying time…
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The Black Gestapo – 1975 / Director: Lee Frost
Lee Frost’s gritty and rather dog eared Nazi/Blaxploitation crossover does it’s best to hoodwink it’s audience into believing that it has something of a socio-political nature to say, but is…
