From Activist to Archivist: how Marion Stokes fought misinformation with 70,000 VHS tapes
A life’s work.
VHS
Sex, gore, and typography: The lurid world of cult movie posters
Pulp-art madness of vintage cult movie marketing.
If ‘Get Out’ and ‘Logan’ and ‘Stranger Things’ existed as VHS tapes in the 1980s
It seems like yesterday, but it was actually more than two years ago that we presented readers with some recent TV and movie hits done…
VHS fan builds a functional video rental store in his basement: ‘It’s like the 80s threw up’
Though the advent of streaming video has made nearly any programming under the sun just a few quick clicks away, some of us still miss…
3-Dimensional movie posters that play movies: Hand-painted VCRs that look like giant VHS boxes
These hand-painted working VCRs feature painstaking recreations of classic movie art. I first discovered the artist, who goes by the online noms-de-plume Sorce CodeVhs and…
‘Stranger Things’ on VHS is exactly where it belongs
The mysterious Steelberg has been re-imagining newly released movies as VHS tapes that you would have rented from your local video store when video stores…
‘Disney presents Cannibal Holocaust on VHS’ and other killer fan-art mashups
Collecting horror and exploitation films on the VHS format has become a huge deal in the past five years with several Facebook collector groups popping…
Weird VHS rarity ‘David Lee Roth’s No Holds Bar-B-Que’ is totally screwy and online in its entirety
In 2002, for reasons that may have been clear only to him, former Van Halen singer and professional outsized ham David Lee Roth spent a…
Eurotrash: Tasteless 80s VHS cover art from Germany
At its best the VHS cassette cover was a mini work of art telling you everything that’s good about the movie inside the box. At…
Killer silhouettes of 80s VHS horror movie box art
The excellent recent documentary The Nightmare examines the topic of sleep paralysis, a condition which causes terrifying waking hallucinations in its victims. Many of the…