OUR GOAL AT VHS WASTELAND IS TO PROVIDE YOU WITH THE STRANGEST AND MOST HARD TO FIND VHS COVERS IN HISTORY. BUT WE CAN'T DO IT ALONE. BELOW IS A LIST OF THE GENEROUS MEN AND WOMEN WHO CONTRIBUTE VHS SCANS TO THE SITE. IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN BEING PART OF OUR TEAM, YOU CAN FIND INSTRUCTIONS AND TEMPLATE FILES HERE AND YOU CAN CONTACT JAMES GILKS BY CLICKING HERE. WE HOPE TO HEAR FROM YOU SOON.
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Hello and welcome to VHS Wasteland! VHS WASTELAND is your home for high resolution scans of rare, strange, and forgotten vhs covers. Each of these bizarre gems is scanned at 200 dpi. Our staff of over 40 contributors (and more added all the time) scans and posts between 15-30 new covers every day along with reviews, trailers and much more! So bookmark our homepage and check the site often! Simply click on the thumbnail of any vhs cover to download the full high res format. We'd also love submissions from you. If you have a vhs that is weird or rare, you can find info on what we are looking for here.
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OUR WISH LIST: Our wish list: we are always looking for new movie reviewers and vhs contributors to join our vhs wasteland team. If you have something strange or rare you, we would love to include it on the site. You would, of course, get full credit for your contribution and be added to our ever growing staff page. Some of the titles we are looking for right now include (but are in no way limited to) "dancing grannies" "bambi meets godzilla" and any kind of insane religious vhs. You can click here for instructions on how to scan and submit these covers or, if you are the coolest person ever and want us to promote the crap out of you (or your website) you can mail us the actual vhs tape to add to our collection. Either way, contact us for more info!
JANUARY 4 2011 VHS COVER SCAN - CLICK FOR HIGH RES VERSION
CAPTAIN POWER AND THE SOLDIERS OF THE FUTURE : SHATTERED PAST
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GLOW : GORGEOUS LADIES OF WRESTLING
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MARRIED WITH CHILDREN : ITS A BUNDYFUL LIFE
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ROBOCOP CARTOON : A ROBOTS REVENGE
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THE THIRSTY DEAD
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THE PROJECTIONIST
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SAFETY 4 KIDS
JANUARY 4 VHS HISTORY LEASON : STARMAKER ENTERTAINMENT
Out of all the budget labels, Starmaker Entertainment was always the most visually recognizable. There's no mistaking a Starmaker video box as all their releases were framed by a yellow/orange or blue/white border on the front and back covers. They were also probably they best at EP duplication (using a process called "QEP") as most of their tapes had very little trouble maintaining their tracking in VHS players. Starmaker released nearly the entire New World Video catalogue as well as some Prism Entertainment titles in affordably-priced slipcases, some replicating the New World and Prism covers and some with new artwork (their cover for Lamberto Bava's DEMONS is one such case). Starmaker was absorbed by Anchor Bay Entertainment in the mid-90's. { text from critcononline.com }
JANUARY 4 VHS HISTORY LEASON : GORGON VIDEO / MPI VIDEO
Another distributor known for their big colorful clamshell releases. Gorgon Video (a subsidiary of MPI Video, which is still around today) released a bunch of great horror films during the early and mid-80's that still hold a fond place in the heart of collectors today. Gorgon's most famous release was probably the pseudo-documentary FACES OF DEATH (which spawned three sequels and a couple of "best of's"), a disgusting mix of real and faked death scenes that every boy needed to see and is still used today to gauge whether a girl is worthy to be their girlfriend (I still have a best friend that shows this to all his dates. If they become ill or tell him to turn it off, there will be no second date!). Of course, this was not Gorgon's only popular release. Their library contained the uncut version of Mario Bava's BAY OF BLOOD, the weird and wonderful DEATHDREAM, the horror/comedy HORROR HOSPITAL, the Mexican wrestling/gore film NIGHT OF THE BLOODY APES, the 70's TV perennial KISS OF THE TARANTULA and many, many others. Gorgon's clamshells were always full of colorful garish artwork that makes them collector's items today. As the 80's came to a close, Gorgon began releasing their films in regular cardboard sleeves and disappeared from distribution in 1989, right after releasing the highly-desirable horror video magazine GORGON VIDEO MAGAZINE VOLUME 1 (Volume 2 was produced but never legally released). MPI does maintain a Gorgon website (www.gorgon-video.com), although it looks like it was never finished. MPI Video became famous and profitable by distributing the entire DARK SHADOWS soap opera on VHS and DVD, as well as many other Dan Curtis TV productions, mondo documentaries, British Sherlock Holmes films starring Jeremy Brett and their biggest film for readers of this site: HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER. I have many great memories of walking into a video store in the 80's and seeing Gorgon Video releases on the shelves. I got my first taste of many Italian horror films (including the awful FRANKENSTEIN '80 and the cut version of SLAUGHTER HOTEL) and other obscure films (MASSACRE AT CENTRAL HIGH, DIE SISTER DIE). This should bring back a flood of memories. { text from critcononline.com }
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