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It is that time of the year when we all gather with family and friends to give thanks…for the madness that is the 1982 NBC Thanksgiving Day Parade telecast. VHS Rewind is proud to serve our listeners with a Thanksgiving feast full of all the fixins (out of tune marching bands, butter-fingered baton twirlers, falling dancers, out of control balloons threatening innocent bystanders, really bad lip-s...

Back from the Dead: the listener-demanded return of VHS Rewind’s Super Spooky Halloween Music Episode! And we have pulled out all the stops to make this episode priceless…or, rather, Price-full. We have none other than Vincent Price acting as our master (monster?) of ceremonies, providing us with a history of Halloween, introducing some of the tunes during the show(!), even singing a s...

Due to the dated and non-politically correct nature of the motion picture BLACULA, this episode of VHS REWIND, examining the sociopolitical and cinematic impact of BLACULA, will contain many racial epithets, gay slurs and very bad music. Listener discretion is advised. Happy Halloween!

Breaker 1-9, Breaker 1-9, any good buddies out there got their ears on, come back? This here is Ghost With The Most talkin’ at ya…my 10-20, I’m 10 in the wind on I-95 just outside of Bingotown, if anybody is around these parts and sees me and my chicken truck (it’s the one with a “VHS Rewind” logo on one side and a drawing of The King Mr Elvis Presley on my tail), just give a holler on the horn or...

Mark is joined by Leah Mitchell and Vanessa to discuss the very strange but highly entertaining movie, Bugsy Malone! “Fat Sam (John Cassisi), Bugsy (Scott Baio) and Tallulah (Jodie Foster) are kids playing adults in Roaring ’20s New York.” Bugsy Malone was released on September 15, 1976   Kelly and Mark work on the Dr. QuinnCast Podcast together so if you want to hear more f...

Dunn dun DU-UH-UHNNNN!!! Hold on to your rosary bleeds (yes, those rosary bleeds) as VHS Rewind! revisits a childhood favorite: THE CANNONBALL RUN, the flick featuring the most star-studded “…group of highway scofflaws and degenerates ever gathered together in one place…” God is the co-host (although he doesn’t have a mic in this episode) as Mark and Chris look at this politically inco...

Big Enos (Pat McCormick) wants to drink Coors at a truck show, but in 1977 it was illegal to sell Coors east of the Mississippi River without a permit. Truck driver Bo “Bandit” Darville (Burt Reynolds) agrees to pick up the beer in Texas and drive it to Georgia within 28 hours. When Bo picks up hitchhiker Carrie (Sally Field), he attracts the attention of Sheriff Buford T. Justice (Jac...

With this latest episode, dem good ole boys at VHS Rewind are proud to start their Spring 2022 Burt-a-thon, dedicated to the films of (wait for it) the legend, Burt Reynolds! Burt-a-thon begins with one of Burt’s very best, 1978’s HOOPER. Boasting a superb Burt ‘stache, an OK hairpiece and the Flying Nun at her sexiest, plus more stunts than an entire season of THE FALL GUY, a su...

Kelly Mielke from the Dr. QuinnCast Podcast joins the show to discuss this legendary Made-for-TV movie.  We discuss so much, including our love of The Beatles, Alexandro Jodorowsky, What it would have been like to view this movie in black & white and so much more!  I hope you enjoy our discussion! Magical Mystery Tour first aired on December 26, 1967, 54 years ago today!

It’s that time once again: the annual all-music Halloween episode! Naturally, we prefer that listeners jump right in but maybe we can give you some SNEAK PREVIEWS to scare up your interest: this Halloween episode will be a little different as we spend time AT THE MOVIES. This episode will focus on songs (yes, with vocals) from horror flicks from the 1980s (maybe one from the 1990s). There ar...

Mark and Chris Hasler jump feet first into this 1982 classic, Halloween III!  The Silver Shamrock song is so addictive and this movie, although very strange, is just a ton of fun!  We can’t recommend it enough!

HEY ABBOTT! Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein from 1948! This is the oldest film that VHS Rewind! has reviewed and is certainly a classic favorite! We hope you enjoy our second entry into our Halloween until Thanksgiving A-thon!

The Return of Chris Hasler! Friday the 13th VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan from 1989 was not my first choice but I had such a great time watching this strange and entertaining film.  Thank you to Chris Hasler for suggesting it.  We discuss everything one might expect and we just had an incredibly fun time doing it! We hope you enjoy this first entry into our Halloween until Thanksgiving A-thon!

This is a very very strange film.  Ghost Fever was originally released on March 27,1987 but since IMDB states the film is from 1986 that’s what I’ll rolling with! Ghost Fever is a low budget film mostly financed by Sherman Hemsley and nearly bankrupted him!  Although I am unsure who the target audience was, I think it’s worth watching just to see how crazy a mid 80’s film c...

Rushing this one out!  Chris and Mark watched and discussed the CBS 1981-82 Happy New Year America hosted by Donny Osmond and Donna mills!!!!  The Pointer Sisters also spend some time on stage live from Las Vegas!  There’s so much in this 2 hour presentation and I hope you guys enjoy it! Happy New Year to all of you from VHS Rewind! and RetroTV!

VHS Rewind! wants to leave one more lump of coal under your tree this holiday season…to celebrate Christmas in 2020, VHS Rewind is taking a look at a true holiday classic SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT (1984). Nothing says “Christmas 2020” more than a movie filled with gratuitous nudity, the torture of children by sadistic Catholic nuns, lots of shag carpeting and wood paneling, mommy being raped by S...

“…with a heart full of wishes, tied up with ribbons of love, this gift that I give may seem small, but I’d like to wrap up a dream for you all…” Ho! Ho! Ho! and a bottle of (hot buttered) rum …VHS Rewind!’s resident disc jockey, Christopher Hasler , has prepared his annual batch of Christmas hooch! With this episode, VHS Rewind! is gifting listeners with some Christma...

Mark is joined by Chris Hasler and Leah Mitchell as we combine RetroTV and VHS Rewind!’s forces to bring you our annual review of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade, this time from 1983! Some of the highlights of the parade are Teen singing sensation Glenn Scarapelli Riding a phallic worm! A CATS performance! A limp wristed Superman A drunken Olive Oyl A Bryant Gumbel who seems like he...

Its Halloween-time once again and while trick-or-treating may not be happening in some parts of the country (although it is alive and well here on Long island!), VHS Rewind Is still gonna bring you some Halloween-inspired musical treats with the Annual Halloween Music Episode …all kinds of creepy, crawling, ghostly tunes await those who dare listen: psychotic country music , possessed disco...

Mark and Chris get together to review this extremely underrated film from 1986. Matthew Labyorteaux who is best know from Little House on the Prairie and the 80’s hacker action show, Whiz Kids. Matthew plays Paul Conway who  has a best friend who is a robot….yeah. Having a robot buddy may seem cute but after his friend is killed by her abusive father, Albert…I mean Paul attempts...

I don’t think it will come to many as much of a surprise for my fondness for the tv show, Whiz Kids which originally aired for a very brief 8 months from October 5, 1983 to June 2, 1984. In those 8 months, 18 episodes aired and I loved the show, I loved it so much that even recorded many of the episodes on a now lost BetaMax collection of tapes. When Whiz Kids first aired I was 10, was reall...

In this very special episode, VHS Rewind! brings to you a very special movie presentation from an alternate galaxy far, far away. One of the most fascinating by-products of the phenomenal success of STAR WARS was the proliferation of music knock-offs based on, or inspired by, the film, the film’s music, its characters, or even just the space setting. Naturally, Disco tracks were most prominent (it...

I have followed Allison Preston’s work for quite some time and originally came across her talent while listening to the podcast, The Retroist. Allison puts out work so often and puts so much thoughtful commentary and research into each article that I truly cannot recommend it more!  We discuss our love of retro things, the now defunct X-Entertainment, Cricut and so much more in this discussi...

“VHS Rewind hopes that everyone is doing well and staying healthy during these crazy times. We are presenting another all-music show, this time focusing on 1980s soundtrack songs. Here are some of the ground rules: the song must have appeared (i.e. been heard) in a 1980s movie and/or its must have appeared on a soundtrack album for that movie (sometimes it was one or the other). We didn’t ta...

Following on the heels of last episode’s review of Woody Allen’s A RAINY DAY IN NEW YORK through the prism of our current MeToo culture, VHS Rewind heads into the center of an even more dangerous storm as our new episode focuses its attention on auteur writer-director-star Louis (serial-masturbator-in-front-of-trapped-women) CK’s, I LOVE YOU DADDY. Where the charges against Woody Allen were tried...