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(aka "Adjust Your Tracking: The Untold Story of the VHS Collector" )
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by Dan M. Kinem, Levi Peretic
USA 2013
Collectors of VHS, mainly horror and exploitation, have been a rather secret community; that is, until they made the pop culture headlines when a collector dropped over six hundred dollars for a VHS tape of Chester Novell Turner's extremely hard-to-come-by shot-on-video flick TALES FROM THE QUADEAD ZONE (1987). One of two concurrent documentaries on VHS collecting - the other being REWIND THIS! - ADJUST YOUR TRACKING looks at several of the personalities who not only collect VHS tapes (scouring eBay, closed video shops, moldy attics, thrift shops, and the like), but also those are dedicated to preserving films unlikely to be released on DVD or Blu-ray (whether because of they were shot on or finished on video, the film elements no longer exist, or their cult appeal isn't mainstream enough) as well as the histories of the companies that released them. Several of the participants admit that their habit or addiction - possibly mistaken for or another form of hoarding - is geeky, while some have fully dedicated themselves to "following their own weird" so to speak. Some of the participants have collections that look like library archives, while others resemble to piled shelves of mom-and-pop video stores of old (while some have actually transformed their collections into video stories). In this respect, many film fans and collectors may in some way understand this compulsion, having first discovered more mainstream and arthouse fare in some of the same kind of stores (those very imperfect video releases might even possess sentimental value even if they have been since upgraded on newer digital formats in sterling quality) in the same place where some of us discovered the films of Paul Naschy and Jess Franco. Besides several names recognizable to those in the VHS collecting community, the documentary also interviews Troma's Lloyd Kaufman (who prefers the interactive qualities of DVD, but plans to exploit the cult popularity of VHS with a release of THE TOXIC AVENGER in the near future), Independent-International's Sam Sherman - who briefly distributed his own seventies productions and pick-ups in the eighties under the label Super Video - who is bewildered but non-judgmental of the collecting impulse - and Camp Motion Pictures' Michael Raso, whose eighties shot-on-video products like VIDEO VIOLENCE and CANNIBAL CAMPOUT graced the video store shelves as big box editions with grisly cover art that could not help but excite and disappoint (a number of those titles have not only made their way to DVD, but also back onto VHS). |
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Theatrical Release: 11 March 2014 (USA)
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DVD Review: VHShitfest/Wild Eye Releasing - Region 0 - NTSC
Big thanks to Eric Cotenas for the Review!
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Runtime | 1:20:33 | |
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1.33:1 Original Aspect Ratio
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Audio | English Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo | |
Subtitles | English SDH, none | |
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Release Information: Studio: VHShitfest/Wild Eye Releasing
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Edition Details: Chapters 18 |
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Shot and post-produced to
look like VHS - with added tracking noise and drop-outs - ADJUST YOUR
TRACKING comes to disc looking intentionally softish (more so with
the clips from shot-on-video films), while the Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo
audio sports cleanly recorded dialogue (optional SDH subtitles are also
included). The image is framed at 1.33:1 but encoded within a 16:9
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