tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-871576569615586512024-02-26T22:43:26.484-08:00Lost Video ArchiveThe Goodkindhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17294509858220476081noreply@blogger.comBlogger681125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87157656961558651.post-62196417986857319752014-12-01T18:39:00.000-08:002015-10-15T09:33:44.582-07:00What Happened to VHS Archive?!Some of you may have been wondering, and some of you may not have even noticed, but VHS Archive has pretty much ceased to operate.
I live in Seattle where we have the worlds greatest video rental shop, Scarecrow Video, which I visit every week for at least 2 movies, many on VHS.
I also subscribe to an online streaming service, and run a monthly grindhouse-style screening event.
So it's not a lackThe Goodkindhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17294509858220476081noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87157656961558651.post-59116984013527455922014-03-17T10:15:00.004-07:002014-03-17T10:15:44.697-07:00Cocaine Wars
Cocaine Wars
United States/Argentina – 1985
Director – Hector Olivera
Media Home Entertainment, 1986, VHS
Run Time – 1 hour, 22 minutes
Readers familiar with the Corman library of skullduggery will no doubt recall the heady days of Conan, when the master of low-budget was cranking out the knockoff fantasy barbarian franchises like they were going out of style. Which they were, very The Goodkindhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17294509858220476081noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87157656961558651.post-24633035372231518932014-02-07T08:43:00.000-08:002014-02-07T08:43:00.419-08:00Robbers of the Sacred Mountain
Robbers of the Sacred Mountain
AKA Falcon's Gold
Canada - 1982
Director - Bob Schulz
Prism Entertainment, 1983, VHS
Run Time - 1 hour, 36 minutes
This moderately entertaining Canadian Indy knockoff was supposedly made for television. They must have a lot of boobs on Canadian television.
The Goodkindhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17294509858220476081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87157656961558651.post-91579832923635044852014-02-03T09:17:00.000-08:002014-02-03T09:17:00.561-08:00Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold
Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold
United States - 1987
Director - Gary Nelson
Media Home Entertainment, 1987, VHS
Run Time - 1 hour, 40 minutes
Sortof an Indy knockoff, at least the movie was. The books predate all of it by a few years.
British VHS sleeve from some torrent forum.
Italian poster from Wrongsideoftheart
The Goodkindhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17294509858220476081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87157656961558651.post-1409981109018485502014-01-31T08:00:00.000-08:002014-01-31T08:00:01.710-08:00Equalizer 2000
Equalizer 2000
Philippines – 1987
Director – Cirio Santiago
MGM/UA Home Video, 1987,VHS
Run Time – 1 hour 25 minutes.
I’m going to spend a little time with the cover of Equalizer 2000 here because no matter now old I get and how many times I “fall for it” I will always be a sucker for this kind of box. I’m also a sucker for films with a number in the title and especially (I know, we’re The Goodkindhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17294509858220476081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87157656961558651.post-68012038025146081642013-12-25T08:39:00.000-08:002013-12-25T08:39:00.672-08:00GLO Friends Save Christmas
GLO Friends Save Christmas
United States - 1986
Children's Video Library, 1985, VHS
Run Time - 30 minutes
The Goodkindhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17294509858220476081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87157656961558651.post-2631067811894670302013-12-13T08:53:00.000-08:002013-12-13T08:53:00.029-08:00Rental Store - Peters Video Center
This label for a shop in St. Helena or Calistoga, California was stuck to my VHS copy of the epically bad Zombie vs Ninja.The Goodkindhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17294509858220476081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87157656961558651.post-5140029204917926592013-12-10T08:30:00.000-08:002014-01-10T14:33:04.701-08:00Silk
Silk
Philippines - 1986
Director – Cirio H.Santiago
MGM/UA Home Video, 198?, VHS
Run Time: 1 hour, 24 minutes
For a movie named after its lead protagonist, Silk is infuriatingly coy about using her. Few action films are so audacious as to be named after the key protagonist but in such cases there is no hesitancy to demonstrate the reasoning behind this decision. Both Dirty Harry and The Goodkindhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17294509858220476081noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87157656961558651.post-42473030836933656632013-12-05T16:40:00.001-08:002013-12-05T16:52:44.322-08:00The Jolson Story
The Jolson Story
United States - 1946
Director - Alfred E. Green
RCA/Columbia Pictures, 1986, VHS
Run Time - 2 Hours, 9 Minutes
The Goodkindhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17294509858220476081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87157656961558651.post-9875522228259016042013-11-12T09:44:00.002-08:002013-11-12T09:48:29.048-08:00Ghetto Blaster
Ghetto Blaster
United States – 1989
Director – Alan Stewart
Prism Entertainment, 1990, VHS
Run Time – 1 hour, 19 minutes
So are you like, Rambo or somethin'?
Watching 80’s exploitation cinema one begins to tire of all the lamentation about Vietnam. Between the vets wracked by guilt for what they did, or haunted by flashbacks of the horrors and unable to reasimilate into civilianThe Goodkindhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17294509858220476081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87157656961558651.post-11727546956987591792013-11-08T08:49:00.000-08:002013-11-08T08:49:00.112-08:00Rental Store - Video Station
Long ago, in a city far, far away in Wisconsin, Video Station carried a VHS copy of that spectacular film 9 1/2 Ninjas.The Goodkindhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17294509858220476081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87157656961558651.post-2018256719867275262013-10-25T09:47:00.000-07:002013-10-25T09:47:02.288-07:00Rental Store - Southampton Video
Southamton Video was a shop somewhere in the States that once carried my VHS tape of Gumby for President. Where was Southampton?
The Goodkindhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17294509858220476081noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87157656961558651.post-43893359433639637312013-10-11T08:50:00.000-07:002013-10-11T08:50:00.337-07:00Rental Store - The Video Palace
This label, from one or the other of the Alexandria or Manassas, Virginia Video Palace storefronts, was securely adhered to the side of my Murder Weapon VHS tape...The Goodkindhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17294509858220476081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87157656961558651.post-46007450778314181222013-09-23T08:00:00.000-07:002013-09-23T08:00:08.223-07:00Banzai RunnerAfter an absence of nearly three months as we moved our headquarters from a secret mountain bunker to a lakeside chalet at the center of the world, Lost Video Archive is more or less back in action. We re-open our acute dissection of forgettable and often shitty cinema with just such an entry from the annals of the Reagan Era:
Banzai Runner
United States - 1987
Director - John G. Thomas
The Goodkindhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17294509858220476081noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87157656961558651.post-56869441970705250352013-09-06T08:48:00.000-07:002013-09-06T08:48:00.108-07:00Rental Store - Sigma Video
Retrospectively speaking, Sigma Video carried a copy of the Canadian boxing action flick Half the Action which is where I found this label.The Goodkindhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17294509858220476081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87157656961558651.post-50088314128521004252013-08-09T08:48:00.000-07:002013-08-09T08:48:00.280-07:00Rental Store - Video Time II
Not that long ago, Hampstead, New Hampshire video shop Video Time II carried a copy of the low-budget gorror flick Death Row Diner.
The Goodkindhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17294509858220476081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87157656961558651.post-5664345138378696832013-07-18T07:36:00.000-07:002013-07-18T07:36:06.682-07:00Messenger of Death
Messenger of Death
United States - 1988
Director J. Lee Thompson
Media Home Entertainment, 1990, VHS
Run Time - 1 hour, 32 minutes
The Goodkindhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17294509858220476081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87157656961558651.post-71533024413202174252013-07-12T09:02:00.000-07:002013-07-12T09:02:00.408-07:00Rental Store - Family Video
This Family Video label was slathered on the side of my chopped-box copy of Boxcar Blues.
The Goodkindhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17294509858220476081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87157656961558651.post-12061449445144432402013-07-11T08:52:00.000-07:002013-07-11T08:52:00.646-07:00Dinosaurs!
Dinosaurs!
United States - 1994
Diamond Entertainment, 1994, VHS
Run Time - 1 hour, 38 minutes
The Goodkindhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17294509858220476081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87157656961558651.post-90453534245287059632013-07-09T08:00:00.000-07:002013-07-09T08:00:00.956-07:00Eliminators
Eliminators
United States - 1986
Director - Peter Manoogian
Playhouse Video, 1986, VHS
Run Time - 1 hour, 36 minutes
To be released by Shout! Factory today on DVD with Arena and several other 80's Charles Band productions.
The Goodkindhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17294509858220476081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87157656961558651.post-80766601559904947472013-07-08T08:43:00.000-07:002013-07-08T08:43:00.484-07:00Master Yamashita Bo Techniques
Master Yamashita Bo Techniques
Tape # 5 of a continuing series
United States - 198?
Panther Home Video, VHS
Run Time - 1 hour
The Goodkindhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17294509858220476081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87157656961558651.post-832803504590052932013-07-02T09:24:00.000-07:002013-07-02T09:24:13.050-07:00The Lord of the Rings
The Lord of the Rings
United States - 1978
Director - Ralph Bakshi
Republic Pictures, 1993, VHS
Run Time - 2 hours, 10 minutes
The Goodkindhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17294509858220476081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87157656961558651.post-47133717396735877282013-07-01T09:12:00.000-07:002013-07-01T09:12:58.587-07:00Dracula vs. Frankenstein
Dracula vs. Frankenstein
United States - 1969/71
Director - Al Adamson
VidAmerica, 1990, VHS
Run Time - 1 hour, 30 minutes
The Goodkindhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17294509858220476081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87157656961558651.post-21436271014291465632013-06-24T08:52:00.000-07:002013-06-24T09:36:24.170-07:00Nomad Riders
Nomad Riders
United States – 1984
Director – Frank Roach
Vestron Video, 1985, VHS
Run Time – 1 hour, 30 minutes.
It takes a certain panache for a film to claim right on the cover to follow a particular tradition or style.
The forebears mentioned are, predictably, popular and successful films to which the adherent whishes to attach itself and against which it is inevitably, poorly The Goodkindhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17294509858220476081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87157656961558651.post-66273579162154534292013-06-19T09:27:00.000-07:002013-06-19T09:27:00.260-07:00Marty Stouffer's Wild America: Fantastic Follies
Marty Stouffer's Wild America: Fantastic Follies
United States - 1996
Director - Mark Stouffer
King World Direct, 1996, VHS
Run Time - 58 minutes
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