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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 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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Caroline Kopko on DRUGS.
This list was more difficult to assemble than I imagined. Am I making a list of movies about drugs or a list of movies to watch on drugs? Very different ideas. I…
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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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Vanishing Point – 1971 / Director: Richard Sarafian
Mike on AMPHETAMINES Get through ‘em baby! Get through ‘em! Fuelled on speed pills, Barry Newman hurtles down the highway of existentialism – his troubled past (demolition derby driver, disaffected…
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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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Shaun Anderson on DRUGS.
Corridors of Blood – 1958 / Dir: Robert Day Boris Karloff’s extended sojourn into British horror saw him take on the role of Dr. Thomas Bolton in this underrated little gem…
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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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Hanna D. – 1984 / Director: Rino Di Silvestro
Christiane F. – Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo is a really good film. The clichéd Hanna D. tries to enter the same territory but fails spectacularly. Hanna D. is a pretty bad film. The film…
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The Heroin Busters – 1977 / Director: Enzo G. Castellari
Mike on SMACK. Despite a cracking Goblin contribution, some ambitious locations and the admittedly gritty depiction of heroin abuse and its trade, Enzo G. Castellari‘s The Heroin Busters, held up…
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Contraband – 1980 / Director: Lucio Fulci
Unlike Lenzi and Castellari, dear Lucio did not ride the Eurocrime wave. His entry to the genre came at the tail end of the Eurocrime filone. This is a pity because Lucio Fulci would / could…
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Colin Stone on DRUGS.
The Good, The Bad,The Unseen‘s very own Colin Stone jacks up his Top Five cinematic opiates with us as part of our week long, wanton, abuse of DRUGS… 1. Blue…
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The Phantom Tollbooth – 1970 / Director: Chuck Jones
Mike on WEED. This is crazy. Here I am, riding along a road I’ve never seen, going to a place I’ve never heard of! I wonder where I am anyway?…
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The Tenth Level – 1975 / Director: Charles S. Dubin
Mike on HORSE TRANQUILIZERS. I’ve opted for The Tenth Level in this week of wanton drug use because, quite frankly, you’d need a barrow load of drugs – preferably horse…
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Rich Flannagan on DRUGS.
Rich Flannagan drops his top five Drug related Movies… 1. Last House on Dead End Street – 1977/ Dir. Roger Watkins The cinematic equivalent of alpha-methylphenethylamine. Starts off with a little…
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The Holy Mountain – 1973 / Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky
Mike on MAGIC MUSHROOMS. When it comes to taking drugs and watching, and in this case making films, Alejandro Jodorowsky‘s whacked out The Holy Mountain, it’s fair to say, takes…
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The Trip – 1967/ Director: Roger Corman
Rich on LSD. When Albert Hofmann took his famous bicycle ride in 1943, the last thing on his mind must have been a dwarf on a merry-go-round or Peter Fonda…
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VTSS on DRUGS
This week, we’re having a party at VTSS HQ. Everyone’s invited. We’ll have pineapple rings on slabs of Gammon, a bowl of Doritos with a cheap dip from Iceland, and…
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Cimarron Strip: Journey to a Hanging – 1967 / Director: Vincent McEveety
The family friendly TV western romp, Cimarron Strip aired across the American CBS network between 1967 and 1968 and was, even by today’s bloated standards, only a fleeting, middling success…
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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…
