Video Dreams: A VHS Massacre Story
"From Blockbuster Dreams to streaming screens, a filmmakers journey through a vanishing world."
Synopsis
Follow a director's thirty year odyssey to get on the shelf of Blockbuster Video and beyond. A tale of struggle, perseverance and what to do when your dreams no longer makes sense.
Saga: VHS Massacre Collection

This lively documentary explores the rise and fall of physical media from the origin of film all the way through the video store era into digital media, focusing on B-movie and cult films. With icons like Joe Bob Briggs (MonsterVision), Lloyd Kaufman (Toxic Avenger), Greg Sestero (The Room), Debbie Rochon (Return to Nuke 'Em High), Deborah Reed (Troll 2), Mark Frazer (Samurai Cop), James Nguyen (Birdemic) and many others.
VHS Massacre: Cult Films and the Decline of Physical Media

The last stand of the American exploitation film. In a post video store era, media consolidation has led to the censorship and near death of the independent and exploitation film industry. Joe Bob Briggs (Last Drive-in), Debbie Rochon (Toxic Avenger IV), Lloyd Kaufman and James Rolfe (Angry Video Game Nerd) take us on an adventure that leads from the last Blockbuster video store in Bend Oregon to Troma Entertainment in New York, all in an effort to examine how history keeps repeating itself from the video store era to the modern streaming.
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