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.

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.

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.

Absolutely no redeeming qualities here with clip after clip of gratuitous violence, gore, breasts and buckets of blood. Each clip is identified on screen and, wonder of wonders, all of the titles appearing in "Terror on Tape" are (were) available from the very company that produced all of the films featured in "Terror on Tape"! Go figure!

Anyway, it's essentially a 90 minute ad no doubt inspired by the success of "Terror in the Aisles" which had been released in theaters earlier the same year.

A rental for gore lovers only but good luck finding a copy. I saw this way back in 1984 and haven't seen it anywhere since -- which isn't a bad thing, really.

Terror on Tape is similar to the 1984 horror compilation Terror In The Aisles, but without the star power of Nancy Allen and Donald Pleasence as hosts, and with a more exploitative selection of movies. The curator of the clips in this case is Cameron Mitchell, clerk at the Shoppe of Horrors Videostore, who helps his customers choose their evening's entertainment by showing them excerpts from the tapes available.

The clerk shows footage from such trashy b-movies as The Deadly Spawn, Vampire Hookers, Cathy's Curse, The Slayer, Scalps, Nightmare (AKA Nightmares in A Damaged Brain), Alien Prey, City of the Living Dead, and a handful of H. G. Lewis classics. Of the titles shown, there were only a couple I hadn't seen, but the clips are the best bits in all of their gory glory and are worth seeing again, if only as a reminder of just how great old school splatter is.

The parts between the clips are also a lot of fun, with Mitchell hamming it up a treat, and scream queen Michelle Bauer popping into the shop (and almost out of her top), desperate to be scared: the gorier the clips, the closer Michelle is to being satisfied, the woman moaning in ecstasy at the sight of all the horror. Now if only Nancy Allen had done that in Terror In The Aisles...