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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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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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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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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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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…
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Cannibal Apocalypse – 1980 / Director: Antonio Margheriti
The odds were heavily stacked against Antonio Margheriti’s grossly misrepresented Cannibal Apocalypse right from the outset. The film’s anglicized and unimaginative title is criminally misleading and deceptively exploitative. It hints…
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Beyond Evil – 1980 / Director: Herb Freed
Happy newly weds Larry and Barbara Andrews move into the colonial mansion of their dreams. But marital bliss quickly becomes the stuff of nightmarish horror when the evil ghost of…
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Poltergeist 2 (The Other Side) – 1986 / Director: Brian Gibson
The first Poltergeist film may be the epitome of crossover horror. It perfectly blends grizzly physical violence and psychological terror with a genuinely moving study of family relations and a light-hearted use…
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The Hills Have Eyes Part II – 1985 / Director: Wes Craven
According to the opening pre-credit blurb, “The following is based on fact…”. Whilst this is almost certainly not true, what would seem evident is that Wes Craven needed some hard cash…
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Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 – 1986 / Director: Tobe Hooper
How do you top what is, basically, the greatest and most revered horror film of all time? This is the goddamn TEXAS. CHAINSAW. MASSACRE! The Star Wars of horror films….
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Exorcist II : The Heretic – 1977 / Director: John Boorman
It’s hard to imagine just what was going through John Boorman‘s mind when he sat down to watch the finished cut of his demented contribution to the Exorcist series. Considering his track record…
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Amityville 2 : The Possession – 1982 / Director : Damiano Damiani
Amityville 2 is in fact a prequel, though made three years after the original. And it’s a surprisingly good film, in many respects a lot scarier than the original and a hugely underrated…
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The Devil Rides Out – 1968 / Director: Terence Fisher
Satan hating, hypnosis loving, Christopher Lee gets a rare opportunity to play a good guy for Hammer in Terence Fisher’s The Devil Rides Out, a breezy romp through the devil…
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Ghost House (La Casa 3) – 1988 / Director: Umberto Lenzi
Those cheeky bastard Italians. Sam Raimi’s epic Evil Dead and not-quite-so-epic Evil Dead 2 were released in Italy as La Casa and La Casa 2 respectively. As titles go, they…
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The Incredible Melting Man – 1977 / Director: William Sachs
He is a human time bomb. He must be stopped before he kills us all! Alex Rebar’s transmutation from all American, pioneering astronaut to fleshy fondue is never comfortably explained,…
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The Evil of Frankenstein – 1964 / Director: Freddie Francis
The patchy and uninspired Evil of Frankenstein was the third instalment in Hammer’s enormously successful reinterpretation of Mary Shelley’s classic gothic novel. The previous two productions The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) and The Revenge…
