August In The Water (1995)

I often think about if there are movies that encapsulate a music genre. Like plenty of movies might feature yacht rock in the soundtrack, but is there a movie that is the equivalent of a yacht rock song? Synthwave feels encapsulated by neo-noir throwbacks, metal by fantasy and horror. When it comes to ambient music, […]

Issue 19: Feelings

Feelings, nothing more than feelings… VHS Tracking dedicates its new issue to all of the “Feelings.” An A5 fold-out double-paged zine of movie recommendations with risograph printing from Neighbourhood Press.Cover is wonderful artwork by Astro Morphs based on the film, Kes. Contributing writers include: Adam Trainer, Drew Krapljanov, Marysia Crisafio, Dwayne Tillman, Luke Keatinge, and […]

Radioactive Dreams (1985)

1980s VHS were a wasteland of ‘wasteland’ post-apocalyptic movies, particularly after the success of the Mad Max movies. Actors stumbling around desert locations, lonely roads and abandoned factories in countries near and far, standing in for the Year 3000 or whenever. Radioactive Dreams (1985) is a post-apocalyptic flick but straddling several other genres, namely film […]

Issue 18: Noir

Down these dark streets, a zine must go… Yes, VHS Tracking zine returns with a new issue all about Noir. An A5 fold-out double-paged zine of movie recommendations with risograph printing from Neighbourhood Press. Cover is by Heidi Baile based on The Third Man. Contributing writers include Heidi Baile, Dwayne Tillman, Libby Caldwell, Liam Dunn, […]

House On Haunted Hill (1999)

The ghost of an ooky kooky spooky 1950s William Castle is haunting the set of the Nine Inch Nails ‘Closer’ music video (or vice versa). That’s the experience of House On Haunted Hill (1999), the first movie from Dark Castle Entertainment, a production company from Robert Zemeckis, Joel Silver and Gilbert Adler, initially set up […]