As you may or may not know, we are working on a documentary chronicling all aspects of the current VHS culture. We need to reach a certain amount of money to finish it and we are close, but not there yet. The support so far has been outstanding but we still have more to go before this movie is finished. To donate, please visit: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1860100961/adjust-your-tracking-the-untold-story-of-the-vhs-c/
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How could anyone ignore an update video that was shot on VHS?
Here it is! The teaser trailer for our VHS documentary, Adjust Your Tracking! The film is going to focus on the current collecting culture and show why VHS is loved by so many different people even though many try to call it a dead format. We have already put long hours into making this and collected over 30 hours worth of footage, but we are nowhere near done. We need your help. We started a Kickstarter campaign to help fund the rest of the film. Please click the link below to help us out, we will forever love you and shower you with gifts. Pass this to everyone you know. The movie will happen whether we get the money or not, but this money will help make this the absolute best possible documentary it can be. Made by the fans, for the fans.
You want to get even more involved? We are looking for permission to use any film clips you own, we also need collection footage, video store footage, original music, artwork (poster/shirt designs), and anyone who wants to be interviewed! Just message us and we can get something set up!
Leave us feedback and be honest. What do you like? What do you hate? What do we need to make sure we do before the film is finished? Etc.
Please go support my feature-length VHS documentary. This is just the teaser trailer. We need your help to get this completely finished. Click the Kickstarter link above and please donate, reblog, tweet it, post the link on your personal Facebooks, etc.
Watched this fucking masterpiece last night. Oates and Fonda were stunning, their wives were typical 70s annoying, the action was insane, and the horror was genuinely horrific. It was the perfect 70s grindhouse movie and was wall-to-wall thrills. Do yourself the favor and watch this trailer:
I watched this great horror/film-noir/western yesterday, A Man for Hanging. The movie was about a scarred up maniac who goes through the old west killing and raping people. A group of men set out to find and capture him, while he sets out to meet up with some Mexicans that he robbed a bank with.
Peter Breck was ridiculous in the lead role. He really seemed like a sadistic killer and was able to switch moods in an instant. It reminded me of some of the late 60s/70s stuff that Something Weird normally would release — really sleazy and gritty. Some people have even called his character a precursor to Michael Meyers because of his lack of motivation behind his sadistic killings.
It was like a mixture of Posse from Hell (another underrated western), Reservoir Dogs, and a little Hills Have Eyes. If this was actually a TV movie, it ranks as one of the best, and as a film it is much deserving of rediscovery.
A fascinating and insightful look into the man who basically started the 60s drug movement, Ken Kesey (author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest). It was edited from footage Kesey shot while on a trip across the country in 1964 with his group of friends, The Pranksters, and interviews from the people involved. You get to see Kesey’s beginnings, where the government experimented on him with LSD, to when he decided to quit the group and live on a farm and focus on his family life (the day of Woodstock!). It’s a very interesting watch and a great companion piece for anyone who has read On the Road. This group did exactly what everyone who reads that book wants to do, take a road trip exploring America. It works well as a study of American culture in that great transition period between The Sound of Music-1960s and the Easy Rider-1960s.
Jules Dassin is the fucking king. I can’t wait to see more stuff from him (I think this movie makes three, along with Rififi and Brute Force). This reminds me why film-noir is the coolest genre to ever exist, too (not that I needed reminded). It is cold, dark, and brilliantly bad ass. It’s a classic story of a model who’s murdered and the two detectives who try to figure out who did the crime, but it’s set in 40s New York City, which plays a huge role in the film and sets it apart from other noirs. It manages to keep you guessing and on the edge till the great finale, which ends like most of the best film noirs do: 60% bad, 40% good. It’s an underrated masterpiece, mostly thanks to the lead performance by Barry Fitzgerald and the excellent black and white photography. I knew right away it would be amazing when Dassin framed a confrontation scene split down middle by ropes and a metal pillar, only to end the same shot with the guy being beaten and the pillar working to shield the violence.
If you like any of the following you will love me: film, Chloe Sevigny, VHS, The Criterion Collection, The Simpsons, Harmony Korine, horror, Nickelodeon, Jean-Luc Godard, tattoos, Degrassi, music, Pogs, and kingly shit.
I also run VHShitfest, a review blog for terrible movies viewed solely on VHS. Go follow that shit! And add me on Facebook. I run yet another VHS-related blog, VHS Is the Best. Also, my newly made Tumblr to showcase my love of Pogs, Pogs Are the Best.
Please click the picture below to donate to my feature-length VHS documentary. I need all the help I can get to help finish this!
