VHS Forever? Psychotronic People Quotes
Himself - Screenwriter & Film Historian: Well VHS was a good idea at the time, it allowed people to record television programmes and watch them later and that was a great idea... but as far as I was concerned the system didn't work. Time and time again there would be this awful moment where you pressed eject, the cassette came out of the machine but the tape didn't, the innards had caught it in it's maws!
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Himself - VHS Expert & Film Collector: If your into your horror films and sadistic films you need to go to the Psychotronic Video Shop! Now I'd heard about this for some time and it was only when I went to Camden that I made my way across the little Camden square and the market. I found that little doorway... that led down that staircase to that very dark place we call The Psychotronic Video Shop. Somewhere surreptitiously hidden out of the depths of any reasoning... it was there for the people, the like-minded people like myself and all those other people that enjoy the sick-minded videos that we're talking about... that were there to find the paradise!
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Himself - Author Theme 70': Tackling The Beast They Call Exploitation Cinema: I pretty much stumbled across Psychotronic, I was just walking around the record shop with the motorbike in the window, I can't remember what it was called now. I went downstairs and then I was in!... I was like what the hell is this!... It was when Bal was there, it looked like he was sitting in a 2 x 4 cave with a DPP list on his lap. He would hand you the list and then you'd say I'll have two of those and five of those and then the next week you would go back and he would give you the films.
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Himself - Founder of The Good, The Bad, The Unseen Film Club: There was times when Psychotronic store closed down, he didn't have a premises and basically we used to meet up in The Blue Posts which was behind Hanway Street or where Virgin Megastore used to be. But the only trouble is, back then everyone had bags of video tapes, it weren't like dvds. You had massive bags of videotapes... people were just like, oh yeah what's going on here some dirty old man convention or something? We was all talking shop, movies and stuff... we had our bags of dodgy films shall we say... All eyes on us!
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Himself - Presenter Comedian & VHS Enthusiast: The videoshop where I grew up in Maidenhead was called Video 83' based on the fact that it opened in 1983. They had a printed catalogue that they used to distribute with all of the titles. I sat, studied and read this thing day in day out. So I don't remember the first video I ever rented, but I do remember every day going in there and looking at the artwork and studying the artwork. 'The Party Animal' was a movie that I stared at over and over again, I thought I loved to see that. But of course I would never be allowed to because it's an 18 and it looks a bit naughty. But now I'm a grown up and I'm able to live the dream... I went on ebay and bought this for 4.99 and I finally got to live my dream and watch 'Party Animal'... and you know what... turns out it's shit!
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