Saluting the 15th Annual Video Store Day + “The Great Tape Swap”
To mark the 15th Annual Video Store Day, I’ve recorded a short nostalgia piece – “The Great Tape Swap” + a barbed blog on less than ideal trends in home video, Canada-wise.
Tag: VHS
Tales of Giant Bugs on VHS, a Podcast Interview, and Tape Swapping
In addition to a review of the 3D short film ROACH (2022) on VHS, I’ve an interview with its maker, SCHNUDLBUG, and links to an essay I wrote for the latest issue of BRANDON LIM’s zine, FILM FVCKERS, titled “THE GREAT TAPE SWAP”
VHS: Roach (2022)
The core story involves a pilot who runs into an available, functional spacecraft, and boots up into the planet’s now-toxic atmosphere, relying on the craft’s occasionally bristling AI navigation system to find a strata safe from dense clouds, and a roving giant bug determined to make a meal of the tiny craft and its pilot.
Editor’s Blog: Not Everything is Terrible
Are there 2.26 billion videotapes residing in households like toxic matter in Ontario? Should all VHS be recycled and eradicated like noxious goo? Or should a business plan to help the environment and a local community be modified? Read the Editor’s Blog on Project Get Reel.
Cinema Bizarre: The Baby (1973) and Sonny Boy (1989)
Two examples of Cinema Bizarre: Ted Post’s The Baby (1974), new on Blu from Severin + Robert Martin Carroll’s Sonny Boy (1989)
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