With the demise of the drive-in theater rose the behemoth home video industry – and a torch was passed from one era of low-budget directors and producers to a new batch of underfunded fringe filmmakers. These fresh faces had new technology, and a new distribution game… but a similar reckless abandon and rebellious tenacity as their b-movie forefathers.
Fright fans were introduced to a new breed of horror movies - made for tens of thousands of dollars… or thousands of dollars… or a few hundred bucks and a borrowed video camera. Unpaid amateurs / quasi-professionals made up the bulk of most casts and crews - and often, the directors and producers were quite inexperienced themselves.
Join me for a visit to the heyday of the direct-to-video, micro-budget horror movie. We’ll explore this strange new cinema of the 80s and see how it evolved through the ‘90s. (Be sure to adjust tracking for best picture quality.
Fright fans were introduced to a new breed of horror movies - made for tens of thousands of dollars… or thousands of dollars… or a few hundred bucks and a borrowed video camera. Unpaid amateurs / quasi-professionals made up the bulk of most casts and crews - and often, the directors and producers were quite inexperienced themselves.
Join me for a visit to the heyday of the direct-to-video, micro-budget horror movie. We’ll explore this strange new cinema of the 80s and see how it evolved through the ‘90s. (Be sure to adjust tracking for best picture quality.
- 3/14/2013
- by Eric Stanze
- FEARnet
Recently I received one of the coolest packages in the mail from the folks over at Camp Motion Pictures in the form of a Retro 80’s horror collection featuring five classic splatter films on DVD and also to my surprise one of the films also included on VHS all contained within a beautifully done over sized box which made me react like a little kid unwrapping a video game on Christmas morning as I quickly located my VHS player and took a magical journey back in time to my child hood. The era where all my weekends were spent digesting horror obtained from various mom and pop video stores.
The Basement (1989)
Included in both DVD and VHS format for the first time ever is a lost super 8 horror anthology from director Timothy O’ Rawe (Ghoul School), a very early Diy horror film that can be categorized as so bad its...
The Basement (1989)
Included in both DVD and VHS format for the first time ever is a lost super 8 horror anthology from director Timothy O’ Rawe (Ghoul School), a very early Diy horror film that can be categorized as so bad its...
- 8/9/2011
- by Ted Brown
- The Liberal Dead
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