Vhs Bandits

Are you the kind of tape collector that enjoyed cruising down the "Special Interest" aisle at the video store? Artist and zine extraordinaire, Scott R., will feed your addiction for weird and usual analog madness in Strange Tapes Zine with some of the funniest descriptions and ratings you'll ever read. Scott chats with Dane Train about zines, tapes, art and all kinds of cool stuff so toss on those earbuds and check it out!   You can find Scott R. on Instagram: @strange_tapes_zine & @scottare   You can purchase Strange Tapes Zine here: strangetapeszine.bigcartel.com

Little Rubber Monster Month continues and this week, fresh from out the over and flying into your bedroom on an ever evolving pizza, we bring you: Munchie! As children, wasn't it all of our dream to have our very own personal creepy and deformed Dom DeLuise in a leather jacket to do monkey paw magic for us? The wait is over... a couple decades ago, because Jim Wynorski blessed the world with this film. Who knows, maybe next time you're exploring the bottom of a bottomless pit you too could stumble upon your very own Munchie! Join our Patreon for extra episodes and VHS goodness! Patreon.com/VHSbandits Don't forget to rate and review us on iTunes. Follow us on Instagram @VHSbandits @TopherHansson @Kevin_OhNeeder Follow us on Twitter @TheVHSbandits And email us at TheVHSbandits@gmail.com

It's Little Rubber Monster Month here at the VHS Bandits and we're kicking it off Full Moon style with Ghoulies 2! When a crumby carnival is being Electric Boogalooed by it's corporate fat cat owner it's up the alcoholic spook house carnie and his protege to make enough money to save the show. Good thing they have just what the people want to see: Ghoulies! But, it's too bad that the Ghoulies start to kill everybody... Join our Patreon for extra episodes and VHS goodness! Patreon.com/VHSbandits Don't forget to rate and review us on iTunes. Follow us on Instagram @VHSbandits @TopherHansson @Kevin_OhNeeder Follow us on Twitter @TheVHSbandits And email us at TheVHSbandits@gmail.com

Lorenzo Lamas month continues with the action-packed, karate basement, 5-star restaurant, secret laboratory, all-inclusive prison timeshare having CIA Code Name: Alexa! This movie also stars future murderer (allegedly) OJ Simpson. Not to mention one of the best movie scores we've heard in a long time, if not ever. Dust off that VCR and mute your Echo speakers because its time to pop in CIA Code Name: Alexa! Join our Patreon for extra episodes and VHS goodness! Patreon.com/VHSbandits Don't forget to rate and review us on iTunes. Follow us on Instagram @VHSbandits @TopherHansson @Kevin_OhNeeder Follow us on Twitter @TheVHSbandits And email us at TheVHSbandits@gmail.com

It's Lorenzo Lamas month here on the podcast and we're kicking it off with a very special episode. This marks our 101 regular episode milestone! Our very first episode was "SnakeEater 2: The Drug Buster" and if it weren't for this series of films this show may have never existed. That movie was just too good not to do a podcast on. Along the way, we also covered "SnakeEater 3: His Law" and now we bring it around full circle, like a snake eating its own tail, with the original SnakeEater! Soldier Kelly must rescue his sister from a band of backwoods kidnappers. Will he be able to take them on? Of course, he will! He's Lorenzo Lamas! So pop in the tape, hop on your boatercycle, and prepare for action! Join our Patreon for extra episodes and VHS goodness! Patreon.com/VHSbandits Don't forget to rate and review us on iTunes. Follow us on Instagram @VHSbandits @TopherHansson @Kevin_OhNeeder Follow us on Twitter @TheVHSbandits And email us at TheVHSbandits@gmail.com

Monkey month continues with another ape playing sports movie, brought to you by the people who gave you dog playing sports movie! This time the monkey is real and not some guy in a suit. While watching this we asked ourselves "Has a good monkey playing sports movie ever been made?". After watching we unanimously agreed that NO it has not. If you hated "Ed" You'll really hate "MVP"! Join our Patreon for extra episodes and VHS goodness! Patreon.com/VHSbandits Don't forget to rate and review us on iTunes. Follow us on Instagram @VHSbandits @TopherHansson @Kevin_OhNeeder Follow us on Twitter @TheVHSbandits And email us at TheVHSbandits@gmail.com

It's officially Monkey Month and we're opening the season with the Matt LeBlanc vehicle "Ed". A monkey joining a minor league baseball team was the perfect pitch for the studios to greenlight funding. That pitch being a bunch of 90s jumbled together ideas for a cash grab kids movie. Sitcom star to pull in the parents: check. Guy in a monkey suit: check. Fart jokes: check. America's favorite pastime: check. A plot replaced by a series of random events: check. Rewind your tapes and wind up your pitching arm for Ed! Join our Patreon for extra episodes and VHS goodness! Patreon.com/VHSbandits Don't forget to rate and review us on iTunes. Follow us on Instagram @VHSbandits @TopherHansson @Kevin_OhNeeder Follow us on Twitter @TheVHSbandits And email us at TheVHSbandits@gmail.com

There's a global pandemic going on but don't worry, the VHS Bandits are on the case. We found the one medical professional certain to put an end to it all: Dr. Giggles! Join us for the second installment of Occupational Horror month with this 1992 medical marvel. For all of you in quarantine right now you're in luck because the good doctor makes house calls, it's just too bad that the doctor is out... of his mind! Join our Patreon for extra episodes and VHS goodness! Patreon.com/VHSbandits Don't forget to rate and review us on iTunes. Follow us on Instagram @VHSbandits @TopherHansson @Kevin_OhNeeder Follow us on Twitter @TheVHSbandits And email us at TheVHSbandits@gmail.com

This week we watched The Carpenter! Ever wonder what it'd be like to see Al Borland go ape shit and kill a bunch of people? Then go watch "Poolboy 2: Drowning out the Fury" because he does that, or you could just watch this movie and drink enough Diet Juicy Squirt until Wings Hauser looks enough like Richard Karn to satisfy your darkest fantasies. Much like most things we watch this film makes little to no sense but we do our best to break down the complexities of it's fine film making craftsmanship. Also consider checking out our ShitStarter Campaign for Shit-Bit the personal dookie tracker! Join our brand new Patreon for extra episodes and VHS goodness! Patreon.com/VHSbandits Don't forget to rate and review us on iTunes. Follow us on Instagram @VHSbandits @TopherHansson @Kevin_OhNeeder Follow us on Twitter @TheVHSbandits And email us at TheVHSbandits@gmail.com

The Bandits are back to the future with more FUTURE MONTH and this time it's the year 3000 where "In Space There Is No Daylight"...or a plot, or a story that goes anywhere, or decent sets, or costumes, or actors, or props, or a script or a decent ending. In DRACULA.3000 (because there has to be a "." in there since it's the future??) Casper Van Dien, Coolio and Tiny Lister battle a Halloween store costumed vampire...IN SPACE! Join our brand new Patreon for extra episodes and VHS goodness! Patreon.com/VHSbandits Don't forget to rate and review us on iTunes. Follow us on Instagram @VHSbandits @TopherHansson Follow us on Twitter @TheVHSbandits And email us at TheVHSbandits@gmail.com

We're KICKING off Future Month with a movie about the FUTURE. On the moon rich people program virtual reality headsets while poor people live in the streets and strips clubs of Los Angelos, Planet Earth. It's up to neon blue blooded and Blue-Blocker wearing cyborg, Don "The Dragon" Wilson to KICK some asses and stop some guy from ripping people's hearts out to sell at a body modification company. Get ready for tons of recycled Roger Corman footage, stripper parts hats, unexpected gore, darkwave synth music, and Sean Penn's cyborg brother battle-damaged in green lettuce. It's FUTURE KICK...or was it all just virtual reality...???? Join our brand new Patreon for extra episodes and VHS goodness! Patreon.com/VHSbandits Don't forget to rate and review us on iTunes. Follow us on Instagram @VHSbandits @TopherHansson Follow us on Twitter @TheVHSbandits And email us at TheVHSbandits@gmail.com

We decided to make our Patreon exclusive episode on Mortal Kombat public so everyone could enjoy the final episode featuring our late friend and #1 VHS Bandits Super Fan, Dan Alicata.   Dane Train, KevBot and special guest local VHS Bandits Super Fan Dan Alicata are invited to Patusan Island from Surf Ninjas to fight in a tournament with Miss Veronica Vaughn and others against the bad guy from Showdown in Little Tokyo and lots of wicked shiny 90's GCI. It's a fight to save Earth and argue if the sequel, "Annihilation", is better. Put on some earbuds and "Test Your Might" to a "Flawless Victory" in...MORTAAAL KOMBAAAAT!   Join our brand new Patreon for extra episodes and VHS goodness! Patreon.com/VHSbandits Don't forget to rate and review us on iTunes. Follow us on Instagram @VHSbandits @TopherHansson Follow us on Twitter @TheVHSbandits And email us at TheVHSbandits@gmail.com

Our #1 fan and close friend, Dan Alicata, passed away last week. This episode featuring his brother, Jimmy, is a memorial and celebration of Dan's life. Not only was he our biggest fan and regular guest on the show but also a good friend outside of the podcast. We will always remember Dan as being one of the nicest, coolest dudes on the planet, a true lover of pop culture and a B-movie connoisseur who will be greatly missed.  You can listen to Dan's episodes here: Silent Night Deadly Night 2: https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-8upzi-699a6a?utm_campaign=w_share_ep&utm_medium=dlink&utm_source=w_share Silent Night Deadly Night 4: https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ic2zc-7fb2e9?utm_campaign=w_share_ep&utm_medium=dlink&utm_source=w_share School Spirit: https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-9fbna-8d0e4b?utm_campaign=w_share_ep&utm_medium=dlink&utm_source=w_share Nightmare Video Board Game: https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-cczyu-9c47b5?utm_campaign=w_share_ep&utm_mediu

This week we watch the special spine tingling sci-fi cyborg filled maniacal masterpiece Mutant Hunt! But not only that it's a two for one because this tape is a special presentation of the film by the southern belle horror host Mini Coffee conceived and played by non other than hero to the show Rob Schrab! If you like mutants and you like hunting them then this is the episode for you! Join our brand new Patreon for extra episodes and VHS goodness! Patreon.com/VHSbandits Don't forget to rate and review us on iTunes. Follow us on Instagram @VHSbandits @TopherHansson Follow us on Twitter @TheVHSbandits And email us at TheVHSbandits@gmail.com

It's Barbie's birthday and the VHS Bandits are invited! All we need to do is purchase a Barbie doll at Toys R Us in 1994, throw in an extra penny for the VHS tape, book a trip to Orlando Florida, pay for a hotel, get tickets to Disney World and voila: party time! We're joined by two special guests this episode Gina, A.K.A. Mrs. Train, and Kamarra Cole. Join us in watching two coked-up 9 year old girls wander around Disney World unsupervised preparing for the party of a lifetime. They run into calligraphy slaves, mounds of spaghetti, and a load of other adult strangers. Happy Birthday, Barbie! Join our brand new Patreon for extra episodes and VHS goodness! Patreon.com/VHSbandits Don't forget to rate and review us on iTunes. Follow us on Instagram @VHSbandits @TopherHansson Follow us on Twitter @TheVHSbandits And email us at TheVHSbandits@gmail.com  Watch the VHS here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo28D8R9hIs

Merry Christmas Bandits! We hope you like fruitcake because this movie is jam packed with enough to construct and entire dungeon! Not only does this classic Christmas special have a butt load of fruitcake, but it also has a slew of late 80s stars, including but not limited too, Charo, Woopie Goldberg, Magic, Johnson, Dolph Lundgren's Ex Girlfriend, and more! Warm up that VCR because it's time for Pee Wee's Playhouse Christmas Special! Check out this great podcast from our pal! Trivia With Buds Join our brand new Patreon for extra episodes and VHS goodness! Patreon.com/VHSbandits Don't forget to rate and review us on iTunes. Follow us on Instagram @VHSbandits @TopherHansson Follow us on Twitter @TheVHSbandits And email us at TheVHSbandits@gmail.com

It took us a year of eating 3D Doritos and chugging Mil-Dew Cola to get us to our peak level of eXtreme but we're finally here and ready to watch Extreme Ops! There's no better way to kick off the winter season than kicking some terrorist ass while on a snowboard, while on a mountain, while on a waterski-rope, while on a bullet train! WARNING: This episode is for eXtreme VHS fans only. If you can't handle high altitude action, multiple avalanches, shotguns being referred to as rifles, and Devon Sawa stunt-butts then you can't handle EXTREME OPS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Check out this extremely great podcast from our pal! Trivia With Buds Join our brand new Patreon for extra episodes and VHS goodness! Patreon.com/VHSbandits Don't forget to rate and review us on iTunes. Follow us on Instagram @VHSbandits @TopherHansson Follow us on Twitter @TheVHSbandits And email us at TheVHSbandits@gmail.com

In the mean streets of early 80's Chicago it's up to Mr. T as himself...I mean Bruise Brubaker...to kick asses as a bouncer in a nudeless interpretive dance nudie bar and save the local youth center from shutting down. Fundraising money just takes too much red tape and Bruise doesn't know how to read or write so why not try out for The Toughest Man in the World contest consisting of Double Dare physical challenge obstacle courses and 'roided out meatheads. $25,000 is on the line! Can Mr.T save the youth center, fight gangsters, drunk assholes, do TONS of exercise montages, take off his shirt to reveal an oily chest in front of a young boy, and sweep a widow off her feet? Find out when we check out Mr. T...The Toughest Man...in the Woooooorrrrrrld! Join our brand new Patreon for extra episodes and VHS goodness! Patreon.com/VHSbandits Don't forget to rate and review us on iTunes. Follow us on Instagram @VHSbandits @TopherHansson Follow us on Twitter @TheVHSbandits And email us at TheVHSbandits@gmail.com  

KevBot and Dane Train make the trek north from Worcester MA to Portland ME for the first ever Portland VHS Swap at the Apohadion Theater. Tapes for sale and trade was the name of the game. We get to meet fellow tape collectors and all kinds or rad people at the swap.  Join our brand new Patreon for extra episodes and VHS goodness! Patreon.com/VHSbandits Don't forget to rate and review us on iTunes. Follow us on Instagram @VHSbandits @TopherHansson Follow us on Twitter @TheVHSbandits And email us at TheVHSbandits@gmail.com

When a horror buff who's not the same girl on the tape's box art surfs the early 2000's world wide web and downloads a just-deceased struggling comedian and taxi driver it's a a race against time to win the Halloween Haunted House contest, find an Egyptian cat artifact and get the ghost to heaven. Joined by special spooky guest, Kamarra, the Bandits eat the greasiest pizza ever and try out Mountain Dew's new Voo Doo mystery soda. It's a Netsploitation Halloween adventure! Join our brand new Patreon for extra episodes and VHS goodness! Patreon.com/VHSbandits Don't forget to rate and review us on iTunes. Follow us on Instagram @VHSbandits @TopherHansson Follow us on Twitter @TheVHSbandits And email us at TheVHSbandits@gmail.com