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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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COMEDY Archive
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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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My Mom’s a Werewolf – 1989 / Director: Michael Fischa
Before saying anything else, I think it’s important to state that My Mom’s a Werewolf has the current and unenviable distinction of being, to date, the poorest entry thus far…
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Operation St. Peter’s – 1967 / Director: Lucio Fulci
Operation St. Peter’s is a Lucio Fulci comedy that stands at a watershed point in his career. While it is the case that he would return to comedy several times with The Eroticist, Young Dracula and My…
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The Thieves – 1959 / Director: Lucio Fulci
Two decades before Lucio Fulci wowed horror audiences internationally with his incredibly violent Zombi 2 he made his directorial début with I Ladri. The first of a series of comedies, many of which starred Franco and Ciccio, The Thieves was…
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Two Escape from Sing Sing – 1964 / Director: Lucio Fulci
At times ever so slightly subversive I due evasi di Sing Sing begins with the brave, or possibly foolish, decision to play for jokes in the gas chamber of Death Row…
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How We Cheated The Army – 1965 / Director: Lucio Fulci
When actress Catherine played by the drop dead gorgeous Alicia Brandet decides to leave for America her husband Nick (Remo Germani), a famous singer and military conscript, decides to take their…
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How We Stole the Atomic Bomb – 1967 / Director: Lucio Fulci
The film is directed by Lucio Fulci and by this period it was clear that the familiar style of the director was by now pretty much fully developed. As such this film…
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How We Robbed the Bank of Italy – 1966 / Director: Lucio Fulci
Long before Lucio Fulci was known as a horror director, he was making a name for himself with a series of rock and roll quickies and comedies – many of which starred Franco…
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Doctor Detroit – 1983 / Director: Michael Pressman
Here’s a blast from the way-long past, the Dan Aykroyd comedy vehicle Doctor Detroit, a John Landis-esque flick from mid-1983 that sees an amiable and fairly sharp-witted (but socially dim-witted)…
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Night of the Comet – 1984 / Director: Thom Eberhardt
What do you do when a once in a lifetime comet trail blazes over Earth, reducing everyone in its wake to either a pile of red ash or a flesh…
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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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Schlock – 1973 / Director: John Landis
Oh where do I start with this little gem… This was NOT in my catalogue and to my knowledge has never appeared on British television and I doubt ever will…
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Superfuzz – 1980 / Director: Sergio Corbucci
Back at the very end of the 70s Sergio Corbucci decided to make a ridiculous comedy, taking a severe left hand turn from the sort of fare he had been…
