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Horror fans can travel back in time this Halloween season to an era when it was kind to rewind, as Shout! Factory TV is now streaming the VHS versions of select horror films, including Day of the Dead, Sleepaway Camp, Night of the Demons, and more.

To watch Shout! Factory TV's special VHS presentations, visit TheVHSVault.com. We also have the official press release with full details:

Press Release: Shout! Factory TV proudly presents a #ThrowbackThursday of epic proportions! Sit back, relax and return to your retro roots with the VHS Vault. Shout! Factory TV is being kind to rewind you all the way back to the days of VHS, just in time to revisit your favorite Halloween flicks—five cult classics in their VHS pan and scan full-screen ratios, to be exact. Forget about high definition, and relive the style that gives these films the character that cult fans all over yearn for.

VHSh*tfest, in conjunction with Horror Boobs and Lunchmeat, are excited to announce the June 17th Special Edition DVD release of Adjust Your Tracking: The Untold Story of The VHS Collector. The acclaimed documentary from co-directors Dan M. Kinem and Levi Peretic dispels the myth that the original home video format is dead and buried and has received audience and critical praise around the world since its premiere at Days of the Dead in Los Angeles. Check out the trailer and photo gallery.

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As the horror and film communities fell head over heels for 2007’s Grindhouse double-feature, Planet Terror and Death Proof, fans have been reveling in the amount of exploitation material that has been released on disc since then. With cheapie box sets and several lines of DVDs pushing the grindhouse aura and rare uncovered films, this Fangorian was lucky enough to get a chance to view another lost classic, the 1997 eccentric trash-fest The Bloody Ape a.k.a. Son Of Sweetback Vs. Kong.

Not to be confused with the 1969 grindhouse film, Night Of The Bloody Apes, WildEye DVD has now brought this lost super-8 exploitation classic to DVD on a “super simian” special edition disc. A film that seems to throw in everything but the kitchen sink; this movie is an adventure into the obscure mind of a filmmaker that was influenced by the underground ridicule of yester-year and horror films in general.

By Neil Pedley

With the summer's end in sight, this week might represent the last hurrah in the name of good fun before the gloomy, Oscar-baiting seriousness of the fall release schedule descends upon us. Woody's back, there's a grindhouse/B-movie double header, and in the realm of blockbuster comedy, it's the wily veteran versus the young upstart as Ben Stiller battles Seth Rogen in an all-out race to the stupid.

"Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer"

Although she was overshadowed by such greats as Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday, Anita O'Day became one of the "three queens of Jazz," in spite of an artform dominated by African-Americans and her struggle with her own personal demons. In this documentary, the famed white jazz vocalist reflects on nearly 70 years in the spotlight, not merely performing jazz, but living it as a lifestyle. O'Day's former manager Robbie Cavolina and...