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It had been almost a decade since I saw any of the films Spanish writer/director Alex de la Iglesia had made. When I read that Balada Triste de Trompeta, A.K.A. The Last Circus was playing in town I was super excited, but like too many things, it slipped my mind and I missed it. Fortunately thanks to this amazing thing called "home-video" I was able to track it down and give it a watch. Much to

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Playroom United States - 1989 Director - Manny Coto Republic Pictures Home Video, 1990, VHS Run Time - 1 hour, 27 minutes The Communist Bloc is the perfect place to set a psychological horror movie. Not only are the lush mountain landscapes of Yugoslavia wonderfully enchanting, but socially in the late 80's, it began to exhibit more and more the symptoms of dissociative identity

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Yog Monster From Space Japan - 1970 Director - Ishiro Honda Movie Favorites (Trans-Atlantic Video Inc.), 1987, VHS Run Time - 1 hour, 24 minutes A few months back I shared an awesome poster for this Kaiju movie. I really wanted to see the film, but the version available on DVD has the original title Space Amoeba, and features a totally different photo cover. I really like the poster

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Ray Stevens: Comedy Video Classics United States - 1992 Director - various Clyde Records, 1992, VHS

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Brotherhood of Justice United States - 1986 Director - Charles Braverman Sterling Entertainment, 2001, VHS Run Time - 1 hour, 35 minutes As much as I like bad movies, I haven't been able to bring myself to watch this one.

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I'm a little behind the curve on this one, it's been a busy couple of weeks. Still, I wanted to let you VHS nerds out there know that the latest issue of Lunchmeat, that would be #6, is available. It full of movies I've never even heard of which is saying something. After all, VHS obscura is their whole schtick. Check out Lunchmeat HERE!

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Box scan courtesy of VHS Wasteland Hellbound United States - 1993 Director - Aaron Norris Cannon Video, 1995, VHS Run Time - 1 hour, 35 minutes In the Dark Ages, during one of many terrible Crusades against the eastern desert heathens, Richard the Lionheart personally slew Satan's voice-modulated emissary of Armageddon, Prosatanos, and stuck him in a stone sarcophagus. Unfortunately,

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Jennifer 8 United States - 1991 Director - Bruce Robinson Paramount Home Video, 1993, VHS Run Time -2 hours, 4 minutes This is an old guilty pleasure from my teenage years. Almost two decades later, as I talk a big game sometimes about feminism and the struggle against patriarchy, yet I am still subject to the same socially programmed male desires as always. That said, Jennifer 8 is a

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Theodore Rex United States – 1995 Director – Jonathan Betuel New Line Home Video, 1996, VHS Run Time – 1 hour, 32 minutes Sometimes in the process of poisoning my mind with all these films I stumble across one that, despite its relative availability, just demands closer inspection. After watching Theodore Rex, there are a lot of things going through my mind. It’s a mess of confusion

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Last Embrace United States - 1979 Director - Jonathan Demme Key Video, 1986, VHS Run Time - 1 hour, 41 minutes Ohhhh, there's one of those sexy Key Video boxes I was talking about last Monday. Nice rainbow pattern and unobtrusive color scheme centered around the red bordered box. And directed by Roger Corman protege Jonathan Demme (Silence of the Lambs, Rachel Getting Married) no

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Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of the Baskervilles United States - 1939 Director - Sidney Lanfield Key Video, 1988, VHS Run Time - 1 hour, 20 minutes As soon as I saw the Key Video box I was sold. Although Key was just the distribution arm of CBS/FOX, I can't help but love those boxes. Although this 1988 version is different from earlier versions in that it lacks the wonderful rainbow motif,

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This label was on a copy of Operation 'Nam.

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Wow, it's been a long ass time since I started raising a stink about movies. I wanted to use the opportunity of my 200th follower and my 500th post (almost perfect; 201-498) to take a few minutes to thank those of you who read Lost Video Archive and especially those who, on occasion, actually think it's kinda neat and tell me so! I love and strive for dialogue! What I have primarily tried to do

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Creature From Black Lake United States - 1976 Director - Joy Houck Jr. Simitar Entertainment, 198?, VHS Run Time - 1 hour, 30 minutes There is an appealing charisma to Cryptozoology. It’s as if the beliefs themselves are contagious; the more you are around a believer, or the more of the “evidence” you consume the more you want to believe it. It is a bit like drinking actually, the

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After a brief interruption in service, Paracinema is back in action. My critique of Rise of the Planet of the Apes, after stirring some controversy has been updated and is also back in action. You can read it in its entirety HERE and if you so desire, join in the dialogue. Those of you regular LVA visitors will recognize my rhetorical style, extended somewhat further here because Planet of the

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Paris By Night 52 United States - 1999 Director - Christian O'Shea Thuy Nga Video 69, 1999, VHS Run Time - Jeeze, I dunno, three cassettes worth. Another multi-tape Vietnamese language variety show thing I found at a thrift shop. I'm sure there are lots of these out there, but I find 'em fascinating. This one in particular is awesome because of the science fiction angle. See also

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Halls of Montezuma AKA - Okinawa United States - 1950 Director - Lewis Milestone 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, 2000, VHS Run Time - 1 hour, 53 minutes Starring Jack Palance  Japanese poster from Posterati All of the preceding five posters come from Movie Poster Shop   These two came from Movie Poster Database

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Terror In the Aisles United States - 1984 Director - Andrew J. Kuehn MCA Home Video, 1985, VHS Run Time - 1 hour, 24 minutes Hosted by Donald Pleasence and  Nancy Allen.

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The Wall United States - 1998 Director - Joseph Sargent Walking Man Films, 1999, VHS Run Time - 1 hour, 35 minutes A made for television anthology of three stories, each centered on an object which represents the life of a particular person who died in the Vietnam War. The Wall is one of the last films to come out that directly address Vietnam, but is more about remembrance than the

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  Flight of Black Angel United States – 1991 Director – Johnathan Mostow Starmaker Entertainment, 1991, VHS Run Time – 1 hour 42 minutes I can only guess why 1991 seemed like a good year to try and follow up the success of 1986’s Tom Cruise fueled boner-fest Top Gun with a flight-school drama. The six months prior to Flight of Black Angel was thick with patriotic chest-beating and the

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This label is on my copy of the awesomely misguided flick Ninja Vengeance.

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Gobbler Bustin' Huntin' Movie United States - 1991/2 Director - Jim Nabors? Wild Venture Productions, 1992, VHS Run Time - 1 hour, 50 minutes

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There is not much to say about this that the box doesn't already convey. As painful as it is to sit through, Welcome to Russia: Anya and Igor Vassilievs on Video is a magical piece of home-video history bundled in to one succinct package. The program is a father playing various Russian and medieval instruments while his daughter sings and/or plays along on a recorder. They wear period

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Earle Williams Governor United States - 1993 This video came with a "personalized" form letter to the recipients. Earle Williams lost his bid for governor. Nerds need look no further than HERE.

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Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream United States – 2005 Director – Stuart Samuels Starz Home Entertainment, 2005, DVD Run Time – 1 hour, 26 minutes I was much too young to have any firsthand experience with the Cult, B and more recently Grindhouse movie phenomena, so it took me a long time to figure out what the designations meant in practical terms. These days they are

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It may surprise some of my readers to discover that I actually watch contemporary films, but this should not be the case. Despite my affection for the magnetic formats I enjoy all film, regardless of age or era  and I attend the cinema as often as the economy and my schedule permit. I've been writing my usual about old VHS films for Paracinema magazine for quite some time now but  I've been

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Blood Hook United States - 1986 Director - James Mallon Prism Entertainment, 1990, VHS Run Time - 1 hour, 25 minutes

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Zombie Island Massacre United States - 1984 Director - John N. Carter or James Broadnax depending on who you ask Troma Entertainment, 2000, VHS Run Time - 1 hour, 30 minutes Yay, now that Halloween is over I can post horror movies again. I love being a contrarian.

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The Grasshopper United States - 1969 Director - Jerry Paris American Video, VHS, 1988 Run Time - 1 hour, 35 minutes Sadly, Canada is not a subject that comes up very frequently at Lost Video Archive. When it does however, it is always interesting. That’s really no surprise when you consider that the United States is such a profoundly different place. Standing down here and looking up

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Anzio United States - 1968 Director - Edward Dmytryk Columbia/Tristar Home Entertainment, VHS, 2000 Run Time - 1 hour, 57 minutes In the midst of the United States' darkest hour in Vietnam came black-listed director Edward Dmytryk's Anzio, based on the very real Operation Shingle in January of 1944.

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Attack Force Z Australia - 1982 Director - Tim Burstall Virgin Home Entertainment, 1987, VHS Run Time - 1 hour, 30 minutes Starring Sam Neill and John Phillip Law

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Surviving the Big One:How to Prepare for a Major Earthquake United States - 1989 Director -  Run Time - 58 minutes

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  MegaforceUnited States – 1982Director – Hal NeedhamCBS/FOX Video, 1990, VHSRun Time – 1 hour, 32 minutes Who can forget those ascetic days of the Carter Era when we were admonished to be ashamed of ourselves and all reticent and stuff? What a drag, no fun at all. It really didn’t feel good to be American. All we wanted was for people to get a shiver down their spine just knowing how awesome we

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This Megaforce advertisement comes from the June 1982 issue of Heavy Metal magazine

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This two-fer video label post is brought to you in part by my copy of the Australian adventure film Treasure of the Yankee Zephyr. Stocked at one time or another by two stores, the video box took quite a beating.

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El Robo de Las Momias de Guanajuato Mexico - 1972 Director - Tito Novaro Tragically, I have only seen a very few Luchador films, but of those few, this one is my favorite. Well, because it stars a cast of reanimated mummies of course! There's also the costumes, the dialogue and a gripping plot... The top poster comes from From Parts Unknown This poster from Wrong Side of the Art

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El Enmascarado de Plata Mexico - 1954 Director - Rene Cardona

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Huracan Ramirez Mexico - 1953 Director - Joselito Rodriguez

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  Operation ‘NamItaly – 1986Director – Fabrizio De AngelisIDF Films, 1986, VHSRun Time – 1 hour, 35 minutes The ‘Nam was such a major shock to the United Statesian social psyche that it catalyzed over a decade of filmic reinterpretations and finger pointing. Here at Lost Video Archive we’ve talked about the well-worn cast of comfortingly predictable stereotypes to which United Statesian ‘Nam

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Fear not, I haven't accidentally posted the same label twice. There was a Video Vision in St. Paul Minesota in addition to this one in Seattle, WA.

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Disorderlies United States - 1987 Director - Michael Schultz Warner Home Video, 1988, VHS Run Time - 1 hour, 27 minutes

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  Brain Candy Canada - 1996 Director - Kelly Makin Paramount Home Video, 1996, VHS Run Time - 1 hour, 38 minutes Read my commentary on this film at Illogical Contraption under the title Canada Is Just Plain Better at Music.

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Chicago BluesUnited States - 1972Director - Harley CoklissRhapsody Films, 1991, VHSRun Time - 50 minutes There are a number of interesting things about this brief documentary beginning with the director. Cokliss has continued to work in film and has some noteworthy films to his name, however Chicago Blues is not listed among his credits. Nor is it listed among the credits for cinematographer

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Dancin' Grannies United States - 1992 Maier Group, 1992, VHS Run Time - 50 minutes

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  Chyna Fitness: More Than Meets the Eye United States - 2000WWF Home Video, 2000, VHSRun Time - 1 hour

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Emergency First Aid - An Introductory CourseUnited States - 1995Dog Movies, 1995, VHSRun Time - 40 minutes

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Sewing with Nancy - Trees and Flowers: Landscape QuiltsUnited States - 1998Nancy's Notions, 1998, VHSRun Time - 1 hour Shit gets deep with Nancy and Natalie.

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This security label is on my VHS copy of Talk of the Town Show 2.

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Treasure of the Yankee ZephyrAustralia – 1981Director – David HemmingsVestron Video, 1984, VHSRun Time – 1 hour 37 minutes Treasure of the Yankee Zephyr is essentially a formulaic Western, set on the margins of civilization where intrepid loners are defined by their actions and uphold a stoic moral code in a lawless land. Nothing but the accents have changed. New Zealand is more or less the

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Ghost Warrior United States - 1984 Director - J. Larry Caroll Vestron Video, 1986, VHS Run Time - 1 hour, 26 minutes Another Charles Band produced genre crossover spectacular from the early 80's. I re-found this one while looking for a movie about a frozen cave-man who comes back to life and kills people in the modern (80's) days. Any ideas what that might be?   These are the

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Ninja VengeanceUnited States – 1988Director/Writer/Producer – Karl ArmstrongColumbia Tristar Home Video – 1993Run Time – 1 hour, 27 minutes A young man passing through a small Southern town accidentally finds himself at the wrong end of the law. He was just looking for the worldly knowledge and experience that his ninja master (Stephen K. Hayes) babbles incoherently about in numerous homoerotic

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The ManitouUnited States – 1978Director – William GirdlerCharter Entertainment, 1986, VHSRun Time – 1 hour, 44 minutes Our present understanding of women’s sexuality and anatomy is a very flawed result of modern science. From a strictly lexical standpoint it is adequate for textbooks and the like, but with the gradual acceptance of empirical inquiry we’ve managed to forget the appropriate

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A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the Charles Band produced sci-fi flick Arena and I thought it would be a good opportunity to follow up with this old interview with Band. It originally appeared in two parts starting in Fangoria #56 (above) which was published August 1986. It was short enough that I posted the whole thing in clickable images instead of a download.Enjoy.   The interview was

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Legends of Country Blues GuitarUnited States - 1960'sVestapol Productions, 1994, VHSRun Time -58 minutes As a relatively young fan of classic country blues it is always a good thing to find old footage of the originals performing live. Over the years many tapes have been cut together from this festival or that, from this television recording or the other... Though many of them performed and

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  Cat Adventure Video Vol. 1United States - 1993Director - Steve Cantin Extravaganza Productions, 1995, VHSRun Time - 1 hour For some people cats are surrogate children. Perhaps their own children are grown and moved away to start their own dysfunctional families. So as they shuffle through their golden years it seems desirable to have a new companion around the house, a small creature that gives

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When Men Carried Clubs and Women Played Ding DongItaly - 1974Director - Bruno Corbucci That is a terrible poster, but then again, it's not the visuals that are really doing the selling.The most notable aspect of this film which I haven't seen is that the makeup was done by Gianetto Di Rossi, master of zombie-gore.

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Yog Monster from Space1970 - JapanDirector - Ishiro Honda My friend over at Manchester Morgue has been turning me on to some great kaiju movie music, and consequently I have giant monsters on the brain. This US poster (from IMPAwards) sure is awesome, too bad I can't find any artist signature to give credit where it's due.

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ArenaUnited States - 1989Director - Peter ManoogianRCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, 1991, VHSRun Time - 1 hour, 37 minutes The list of mostly forgettable science-fiction popcorn films produced by Charles Band’s Empire Pictures in the ‘80’s is for the most part an unchallenging intellectual vacuum. In many cases that is what makes them so mindlessly entertaining. With a naïve innocence that can

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Here is a French poster for the 1961 British film Curse of the Werewolf, directed by Terence Fisher. The poster is by Guy Gerard Noel a French artist I talked about briefly back HERE.

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Land and FreedomUK/Spain - 1995Director Ken LoachPolygram Video, 1996, VHSRun Time - 1 hour, 49 minutes The sad remains of a beat up box I got from the library. These two from IMPAwards Spanish poster from Movie Poster Database From pastposters.com

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Captive Wild WomanUnited States - 1943Director -Edward Dmytryk Starring - Acquanetta This poster bears a remarkable similarity to the art from the black-cast film Ingagi

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VCII boxes have these cool double side flaps, but they are a bit awkward to scan Talk of the Town: Shows 1 and 2United States - 1982Director - Doug RaymondVCII Incorporated, 1983/'84, VHSRun Time - 1 horrific hour per show You will hear these jokes over and over! The fiction of time travel plays on idealized notions of history and historical moments. It is a fantasy that needs temporal

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Who knew? Not me anyway. My partner, witnessing my recent renewed interest in Kaiju picked this up for me at the retro game store.

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Godzilla vs. MegalonJapan - 1976Director - Jun FukudaGoodtimes Home Video, 1985, VHSRun Time - 1 hour, 30 minutes  All three of these are from Wrong Side of the Art This is only the first page of an United Statesian promotional comic. You can find the rest over at Magic Carpet Burn where they have also been kind enough to share the Godzilla vs. Megalon soundtrack.

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Tintorera: Tiger SharkUK/Mexico – 1977Director – Rene Cardona Jr.Media Home Entertainment, 1983, VHSRun Time – 1 hour,31 minutes Tintorera came to my attention because of the Hugo Stiglitz name and the raggedy old Media box in which I spotted it. It quickly became evident that despite more obvious on-screen distractions, there was a lot of subtext in the sex and violence that pervade the film,

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Saigon in Beverly HillsUnited States - 1993ishDirector - Tuan AnhTuan Anh Productions, 1993, VHSRun Time - I don't have the karaoke stamina to count What blogathon would be complete without a random oddity from the Lost Video Archive VHS vault?  In this case, transgender Vietnamese variety show hosted by singer Tuan Anh who just happens to be on tour right now! This post is part of the Queer

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Monster in the Closet United States – 1986 Director – Bob Dahlin Troma, 1993, VHS Run Time – 1 hour, 26 minutes The very title of this movie invites an easy assumption when writing in the context of a queer blogathon. I decided to go ahead and make that assumption more or less just because the VHS tape had been sitting in my “In” box for quite some time and I wanted an excuse to watch.

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The Evil That Men DoUnited States - 1984 Director - J. Lee ThompsonGoodtimes Home Video, 1989, VHSRun Time - 1 hour, 30 minutes But WAIT! Haven't we seen this same classic manly, phallic-symbol Bronson pose on the promo art for another film? The MechanicUnited States - 1972Director - Michael WinnerMGM/UA Home Video, 1988, VHSRun Time - 1 hour, 41 minutes An interesting story that you will find

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Lost Video Archive will be contributing at least one post to this worthy event. Check out host Garbo Laughs for a complete list of contributors and information on participating yourself. In the meantime, I wrote a short essay on the important subject of "Naming Your Girl Band" which was published yesterday over at the preeminent music blog Illogical Contraption.

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  Slave Girls From Beyond InfinityUnited States - 1987Director - Ken DixonAmazing Fantasy Entertainment, 1987, VHSRun  Time -  1 hour, 20 minutes

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  Night of the LepusUnited States – 1972Director – William F. Claxton Monster movies come in all sorts of forms, subgenres and species. Monsters both in literature and in cinema are almost always a symbol for something more than just a monster. Night of the Lepus ranks alongside such trash classics as Them! , Slithis and Godmonster of Indian Flats as one of my favorite among the nature twisted by

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This rental store label is on my copy of the indie horror flick Mongrel.

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Nightshift vol. 1: The Woman in the RoomUnited States - 1985Director - Frank DarabontInterglobal Home Video, 1987, VHSRun Time - 32 minutes Perhaps most notably this film stars Brian Libby as "prisoner". Libby also starred as the deranged genetically enhanced killer in the Chuck Norris film Silent Rage.

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Upholstery Home CareUnited States – 1993Director – ?Soil Shield Int’l, 1993, VHSRun Time – 20 minutes A moving introduction by Ma' Partridge Dear Housewife, we know that your home is a cage, a psychological prison. The outside world, beyond the cul-de-sac, beyond even your door is unnerving. From within the comfort of your scrapbooks, protection and safety is what you crave. The outside world

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Steel DawnUnited States - 1987Director - Lance HoolVestron Video, 1988, VHSRun Time - 1 hour, 42 minutes This Swayze classic was filmed in Namibia and directed by Mexican producer Lance Hool who was behind a number of Charles Bronson pictures in the same era. The plot of 1998's Kurt Russel feature Soldier bears some resemblance to that of Steel Dawn.

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TC 2000United States – 1993Director – T. J. ScottMCA/Universal Home Video, 1999, VHSRun Time – 1 hour, 39 minutes When I think of dystopian near-future scenarios, Toronto is definitely one of the first places to cross my mind as the ideal setting. What major metropolitan area is more evocative of a sun-scorched and toxic post-apocalyptic environment than the largest city in Canada? I can already

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This label was on my VHS copy of The Park Is Mine.

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ExplorersUnited States - 1985Director - Joe DanteParamount Home Video, 1985, VHSRun Time - 1 hour, 47 minutes An underrated classic from my childhood, Explorers is probably largely unknown to anyone under the age of 25 or so.

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Phantom LadyUnited States - 1944Director - Robert Siodmak This one from Moviegoods This one too. This one from IMPAwards Starring Ella Raines

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  The Last DinosaurUnited States/Japan – 1977Directors – Alexander Grasshoff, Tsugunobu KotaniMNTEX Entertainment, 1990, VHSRun Time – 1 hour, 30 minutes As this last wheeze of a dying paradigm flickered blurily across my tiny CRT screen, I felt as if I were strapped into a hideous future indoctrination machine, being force-fed stale propaganda reels from a distant historical backwater. It was

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This label is on my copy of Ghost Warrior.

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The KillersUnited States - 1965Director Don SiegelStarring - Lee Marvin, Ronald Reagan, Angie Dickinson and Clu Gulager This Mummy poster and the Horror of Dracula poster down below come courtesy of user eatbrie at the Movie Poster Forum. Check out the Movie Poster Database page on Gerard Noel HERE. I found the artist through the Killers poster at the top, I am a big Lee Marvin fan as you may

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Ring of SteelUnited States – 1994Director – David FrostMCA/Universal Home Video, 1994, VHSRun Time – 1 hour, 34 minutes While competing in a regional fight for a spot on the Olympic fencing team, Alex kills his opponent in a freakish slow-motion accident. As a crimson dollop of gore slides down his foil, one can almost physically feel the yoke of guilt dropping like a widow's veil upon Alex’s

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The Return of GumbyUnited States - 1956Director - Art ClokeyF.H.E., 1987, VHSRun Time - 50 minutes EpisodesWitty Witch Hot Rod Granny In a Fix King for a Day The Groobee Gopher Trouble Rain for a Roo Chicken Feed The Zoops

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Battle AngelJapan - 1993Director - Hiroshi FukutomiADV Films, 1996, VHSRun Time -1 hour, 10 minutes I read a fair amount of comics, but rarely manga. However, I am a fan of the dark science fiction and like its predecessor Akira,  Battle Angel Alita is set in a violent dystopian future. I'm very picky, but this is one of the best. This anime, which is good but not as good as the source, covers

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Academy Award Winners Animated Short FilmsVarious Countries - 1959-1983Vestron Video, 1985, VHSRun Time - 1 hour

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Robo FormersStar of Fear: ImaginationJapan/United States - 1975-6/198?FB Productions, 198?, VHSRun Time - 1 hour Thanks to Shelby Cobras over at Illogical Contraption for hooking me up with this old tape.

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Dino RidersThe Dino Riders AdventureUnited States - 1987Tyco, 1987, VHSRun Time - 27 minutes including Tyco commercials! Thus begins VHS animation week!

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On a VHS tape of the Cynthia Rothrock vehicle Rage and Honor.

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 Here, sit on this milk-crate and look mad, we'll Photoshop the car in later. DriveUnited States - 1997Director - Steve WangA-Pix Entertainment, 1998, VHSRun Time - 1 hour, 39 minutes Historically, by dint of preference I haven’t exposed myself to very many action films outside of classic Chinese kung-fu, but if the junk turning up in my in-box is any indication, that all seems to be changing,

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Night VisitorUnited States - 1989Director - Rupert HitzigMGM/UA Home Video, 1990, VHSRun Time - 1 hour, 34 minutes This awkward combination of high school sex comedy and occult horror has possibly the worst theme song in recent memory. I’m sure it would be in close competition with any number of other themes if I actually did a masochistic side-by-side comparison, but right now it is

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Tough and DeadlyUnited States - 1994Director - Steve CohenMCA/Universal Home Video, 1995, VHSRun Time - 1 hour, 32 minutes If after seeing the 1993 action flick Back In Action starring Roddy Piper and Billy Blanks you thought to yourself, “This movie shouldn’t have a sequel”, you would be among a respectably discerning demographic. But if, after pondering for some time over a highball, you

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