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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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The Neptune Factor – 1973 / Director: Daniel Petrie
The United States of America has benefited greatly from our relationship with our neighbors in the Great White North for years. Among the exports that enrich our lives (and this…
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Robocop 2 – 1990 / Director : Irvin Kershner
Irvin Kershner could never have been referred to as a predictable director. In his three decade-spanning career he covered every genre imaginable and rubbed shoulders with many respected Hollywood names:…
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The Brain Eaters – 1958 / Director: Bruno VeSota
AIP’s doozy of a sci fi creature feature, The Brain Eaters, may well claim to “burst your blood vessels with suspense!”, and with a title as gloriously descriptive as this,…
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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 Ωmega Man – 1971 / Director: Boris Sagal
Welcome to the future. Biological war has decimated life on Earth. Los Angeles is a windswept ghost town where Robert Neville tools his convertible through sunlit streets looking for supplies….
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Beneath the Planet of the Apes – 1970 / Director: Ted Post
At first glance, it’s easy to write off Beneath the Planet of the Apes as little more than a meaningless and cynical cash in on Franklin J. Schaffner’s runaway success….
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The Quiet Earth – 1985 / Director: Geoff Murphy
What happens if you die at the very moment the world ends? Maybe watching The Quiet Earth can help shed some light on it… If asked to name 3 films…
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Planet of the Apes – 1968 / Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Although pitching itself ostensibly as a piece of late 60s science fiction, Franklin J. Schaffner‘s classic Planet of the Apes famously reveals itself instead to be concerned with the destruction…
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The Day the Earth Caught Fire – 1961 / Director: Val Guest
As tempting as it may be to admire Val Guest‘s kitchen sink science fiction for the novel way in which it manages to bring about the end of the world,…
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Dark Star – 1974 / Director: John Carpenter
Dark Star, as many people know was the first film from John Carpenter (Halloween, The Thing). It was begun as his film school project and was finished for a budget of…
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Vendetta dal Futuro – 1986 / Director: Sergio Martino
Hands of Steel… made from plywood? In the not too distant future, Paco Querak (Daniel Greene) - a cyborg assassin, is sent on a mission to kill an eco revolutionary…
