Issue #3
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Many
people believe that VHS is dead, but not our friends at Lunchmeat. They celebrate
the obscure and the esoteric; films that have not seen the light of day on DVD
and still resonate with the charm that was VHS. It is hard to go past the sheer
gaudy beauty of the video cover, it is just not the same on a DVD slick. As
Lunchmeat celebrates in its best “satanic” video covers, the horror covers were
the most impressive, lurid, garish and designed to grab instant attention. Sure
the images they portrayed had little to do with the film, but that was part of
the charm of VHS. The seduction by video cover and shorts (shown at the end of
a movie) and the inevitable questioning of what connection did these
advertising gems actually have to the movie you are now watching.
Each
issue of Lunchmeat includes a selection of rare and wonderful VHS titles,
reviewed with loving attention and illustrated with some great covers and
images. In Issue #3 there is lots of interesting gems found in the trashcan of
video history from the Hellhole (1985) to Mutant Hunt (1987). There is an
excellent selection of reviews plus an interview with filmmaker David A. Prior.
There is also a feature on the Monster films of Worldvision Home Video as well
as a look as Republic pictures. We also get a peak at the life of a VHS addict
!!
This
is a great magazine dedicated to an aspect of genre films not often covered.
While so many are obsessed with DVD and even the Blu Ray, they have forgotten
the vast library of films left behind. Okay, some of them are probably best
left behind, but at least someone is remembering them and that someone is
Lunchmeat !
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This
review will appear in Volume 2 No.4
(2009) of the digital and print edition of Synergy Magazine.
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