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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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Wolf Lake – 1978 / Director: Burt Kennedy
Every son of a bitch who deserted is coming out of the hills and from under the goddam rocks and they’re running around and they’re thumbing their nose at you…
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The Taking of Pelham 123 – 1974 / Director: Joseph Sargent
Taking it’s stylistic cue from Don Siegel’s Dirty Harry and critically preceding the depth of Sidney Lumet’s Dog Day Afternoon – The Taking of Pelham 123 is a largely dispensable, though…
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Violent City – 1970 / Director: Sergio Sollima
Leaping at the chance to work in America, Sergio Sollima shrugs off Lina Wertmuller’s, on paper, two dimensional script to direct this early Charles Bronson lead vehicle, Violent City. Injecting…
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The Swiss Conspiracy – 1976 / Director: Jack Arnold
When a film made in the seventies is peppered with as much acting talent from the period as this, and includes John Saxon; when it sets itself up as a euro crime…
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Special Effects – 1984 / Director: Larry Cohen
From Larry Cohen’s 80s period comes a bland and passionless straight-to-video thriller. A film within a film.; a film about film, about filmmaking and filmmakers; a film that seeks to…






















































