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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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JAPAN Archive
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Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters – 1985 / Director: Paul Schrader
Paul Schrader, 1980′s film director, American Gigolo, Cat People, and now, nearly bizarrely, Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, a half-American half-Japanese film co-produced by Francis Ford Coppola and George…
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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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Assault! Jack The Ripper – 1976 / Director: Yasuharu Hasebe
Assault! Jack The Ripper has little to do with the infamous East End serial killer beyond the murderous intentions of the film’s protagonist towards women. It is not only disturbing…





















































