Terror on Tape

Cameron Mitchell play the owner of an all night video store that specializes in extreme horror movies. Various customers come in, looking for "something special" and Mitchell plays them the goriest clips from the goriest movies around. The reason for these compilations is to introduce the video viewer to what is out there. It forms a nice sampler for the unadventurous who prefer to have heard SOMETHING about a video before renting or buying it. It has some classics as well as many obscure movies. Recommended if you like campy videos or remember the heyday of the mom and pop video store.

Sure it was Continentals way of plugging their own video line, but the cheesy skits that tie it altogether are great! Plus when you consider some of these flicks are painfully boring or just plain terrible acting wise, the fact that all the non-gore scenes are cut out makes them actually watchable. Some how a couple non-horror flicks made there way into the mix, The Kidnapping Of The President could have been omitted in my opinion. There are some real gems included. Movies like 2000 Maniacs, Blood Tide, and Blood Feast are always a treat. But also included are more obscure flicks like Scalps, The Return of The Aliens Killer Spawn and The Slayer. I was in grade school when I first rented this movie, I think I probably rented it at least 4 times. Of course I have a copy in my video collection. Would love to see a DVD release but I wont hold my breath and neither should you... Find a used copy today!

A great collection of clips from long gone Continental Video. I mean come on, how bad can it be? You have the wonderfully drunken madman himself Cameron Mitchell and the lovely Michelle Bauer and loads of bad gore clips! The only thing that could make this more fun is Rondo Hatton and a choir of shroom tripping midgets (and no i'm not talking about a Alejandro Jodorowsky movie!) Oh yeah , and to the dude that said "no doubt inspired by the success of Terror in the Aisles", actually this came out a year before Terror in the Aisles reared it's ugly head.

Anywho, a cool tape of a time that has sadly disappeared.

Sheesh ....if a drunk Cameron Mitchell had ever tried to persuade me to rent out Vampire Hookers i'd have torn up my video shop membership card right there and then. Still gotta love how Cam responds to a VHS renter's request for a 'milder' horror movie by showing him clips of the face ripping scene from The Deadly Spawn, then when some hard hat comes into the VHS shop looking for a zombie movie to rent, Cam instead throws on scenes from The Kidnapping of the President, and about several other non-zombie films, before doing the decent thing and providing gore highlights from City of the Walking Dead. Of course VHS rental shops were never really as cool as this, Cameron Mitchell wasn't to be found behind the desk, the customers didn't look as hot as Michelle Bauer, and they didn't let you watch whole chunks of the movies before deciding whether or not you wanted to rent them out....but never let future generations know this, otherwise they might not be as green with envy that you lived through this era.

Terror On Tape is an awesome hour and a half of violence, sex, exploitation and gore! I highly recommend this compilation to anyone that loves the grimy/grotesque aspects of horror films.