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The Precision Video Catalogue Of 1981

A collection of ITC movies, classic TV and oddball instructional films that were on offer in the early days of home video.

Alice Cooper And Friends

The obscure TV special from Alice Cooper’s lowest point, featuring a strange supporting cast of The Tubes, Nazareth and Sha Na Na.

Jack Nance’s Spanking Video

The star of Eraserhead and Twin Peaks makes an unexpected diversion into the world of fetish erotica.

The Incomprehensible Appeal of The Cassette

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Cassette tapes are having a rise in popularity and it makes no sense at all.

Hot Gossip’s Naughty Bits

The rise and fall of British TV’s most notoriously raunchy dance troupe and brief pop music sensations.

It Takes All Kinds Of Critters To Make Farmer Vincent Fritters – Checking Into Motel Hell

One of the cult classics of the early 1980s fails to live up to the promise of its own imagery and outlandishly tasteless premise.

Remembering Norman J. Warren

Looking back at the much-loved British horror film director and his remarkable body of work.

Sun, Sea, Sand And Sexy Tat

The appeal of erotic ephemera you encounter on holidays by the coast.

The Outer Fringes Of Horror Cinema: Oddball Anthology Night Train To Terror Dissected

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An eccentric slice of cinematic cannibalism, as obscure and unfinished films are chopped, changed and rendered incoherent in a portmanteau of pointlessness.

The Traci Lords Workout Videos

The most notorious star of the 1980s climbs onboard the VHS exercise tape craze.

Leslie Halliwell Ruined My Life

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The perils of letting a frumpy film critic influence your way of thinking.

Maria Der’s Alternative Cinematic Universe

Maria Der’s wonderfully deranged visions from the tobacco cured VHS parlours of yesteryear allow us a peak and a prod at the underbelly of many beloved Hollywood favourites.