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Join our Patreon for extra episodes and VHS goodness! Patreon.com/VHSbandits Forget Mortal Kombat, forget Tomb Raider, forget Resident Evil, because we're bringing you a classic 90s video game turned movie that will kick their asses: Street Fighter! Who of you knew that there was a plot to the game to make a movie out of? Who cares! Where we're going, we don't need plots. We just need Raul Julia flying around and shooting lighting out of his hands at Jean-Claude Van Damme, and we have it with...
Published 02/15/21
60 minutes of bare naked long butt babes from 1993 riding jet skis, awkwardly sprinkling beach sand on their stomachs and splashing water around while mustached perverts ogle them. This is the 1993 masterpiece Jet Sport Girls from Let's Party Home Video! Want to know anything about the big jet ski competition going on at the beach? Forget it, because Jet Sport Girls just glazes over it. Did I mention the soundtrack is awesome, and the post credit trailers for other titillating Let's Party...
Published 02/01/21
A martial arts Motown kung fu master with a big fat bone daddy for Bruce Lee in search of enlightenment. A psychotic entertainment producer willing to do anything for his Cindy Lauper ripoff girlfriend to get one music video to air in a New York dance club. A narcissistic gang leader who's the baddest shogun to step foot in Harlem. A fly kid risking it all to win a date with the older woman of his dreams. A father living day by day trying to keep his pizza shop afloat. Plus break dancing,...
Published 01/18/21
Join our Patreon for extra episodes and VHS goodness! Patreon.com/VHSbandits Gleaming the Cube: the ULTIMATE Skateboard experience. When punk skater Christian Slater's adopted brother is found dead he becomes a clean cut vigilante to find if it was a suicide...or murder. Grab your board, put on those knee pads and dust off your VCR! 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...
Published 01/04/21
Join our Patreon for extra episodes and VHS goodness! Patreon.com/VHSbandits In our Christmas special, this week we adventure into the depths of the Silent Night Deadly Night franchise with the 5th installment, The Toy Maker. Of course, this has nothing to do with the other movies and more to do with a robot Pinocchio, a disgruntled Mickey Rooney, and Larry the Larva. If you haven't finished your shopping just yet, whatever you do, don't buy your toys from Joe Pedo. Now pour yourself a cup of...
Published 12/21/20
Winter is here! And what's the best part of winter? Why, it's taking a snow day off from school! Anything can happen on a snow day. You could fall in love with the girl of your dreams. You could defeat an evil snowplow villain. You could watch the wrong movie and think that you're living through the 5th installment of Silent Night Deadly Night. The possibilities are endless! What will happen on this snow day... Let's pop in the tape and find out!
Published 12/07/20
Join our Patreon for extra episodes and VHS goodness! Patreon.com/VHSbandits In the near future of 2007, Los Angeles has become a shit-hole nightmarish wasteland, much like today, except with more robots. Those robots make up the elite law enforcement brigade of T-Force! But when the law turns their back on T-Force; they turn their guns on the law. Except for one who stays a good guy and teams up with hard-boiled robot-hating cop Jack Something-Or-Other. Who will rule the streets? Pop in the...
Published 11/23/20
Join our Patreon for extra episodes and VHS goodness! Patreon.com/VHSbandits Haven't you always wanted to be kidnapped by Tom Arnold on your way to school? No... well too bad because we watched Carpool! Not only will he kidnap children and endanger the lives of anyone and everyone who gets in his way he'll also kidnap your funny bone and endanger your heart. Join us for the feel-good family crime movie of 1996. Don't be late! As mentioned check out Corey's awesome new book on VHS collecting:...
Published 11/09/20
Join our Patreon for extra episodes and VHS goodness! Patreon.com/VHSbandits This week we watch a newer tape that hearkens back to a time of rummaging through the boxes of VHS in your parents basement and stumbling upon a recorded off TV Halloween special. Complete with fake local commercials, this broadcast follows a small town news reporter investigating a supposed haunted house on Halloween night. Take a trip back in time with us and pop in WNUF Halloween Special! Don't forget to rate...
Published 10/26/20
Join our Patreon for extra episodes and VHS goodness! Patreon.com/VHSbandits Happy Halloween, bandits! It's that time of year again, time to get scared silly with Ronald McDonald; and we don't mean the juicy squirts from too many McNuggets. Join Ronald and the gang in this late 90s animated adventure in the style of "Rocket Power". Ron McDon and his suicidal dog adventure off into the woods with their friends on a camping trip but get scared silly upon entering a haunted mansion!   Don't...
Published 10/12/20
Join our Patreon for extra episodes and VHS goodness! Patreon.com/VHSbandits Grab your space-backpack and space-belt because we're taking a trip with Vitsie the video sitter... to space! And boy is it a trip. This video was made as a babysitter substitute for deadbeat parents who were sick of their whining kids and wished that they could blast them off into out space and spend a romantic evening by themselves at the Moon Motel in a coin-operated anti-gravity bed. Back in the day, Vitsie made...
Published 09/21/20
Join our Patreon for extra episodes and VHS goodness! Patreon.com/VHSbandits Are you tired of living in a stupid, dumb, stupid house? Us too! That's why we went back to the past to see the future of home intelligence by watching the Disney Channel original movie Smart House! Take away the bright colors and goofy sound effects and this movie is a straight-up horror flick. It's basically about a sentient home A.I. that becomes obsessed with its residents and eventually tries to murder everybody...
Published 09/07/20
Join our Patreon for extra episodes and VHS goodness! Patreon.com/VHSbandits   If you're anything like us in high school then you loved 100 Girls... the movie that is. Not nearly as many in real life, which is exactly why you probably loved that movie. Well, this week we bring you it's predecessor: Eight Days a Week. They're essentially the same film: A dude who's watched Clerks one too many times pines over/stalks a girl while his friend has sex with a watermelon. Need we say more? Joining...
Published 08/24/20
Join our Patreon for extra episodes and VHS goodness! Patreon.com/VHSbandits School is about to be back in session and if you haven't decided in a major yet why not enroll yourself into Buster Burger University to become a proud Buster Burger store manager! Of course you'll have to refrain from having sex with your classmates because there has to be some sort of thin plot line to string the semesters together. Oh, and you'll also want to avoid the pickle shaped iron maidens, being turned into...
Published 08/10/20
Join our Patreon for extra episodes and VHS goodness! Patreon.com/VHSbandits   This week we bring you one of Dane Train's favorite movies (spoiler: not one of KevBot's favorite movies) The Misery Brothers Y2K! What the heck is this movie? Great question, we're not sure the writers even knew. However, it does have a star-studded cast including Lou Ferrigno, Abe Vigoda, Roddy Piper, Erik Estrada as an Elvis impersonator, and a bunch of other actors who presumably owed someone a favor. This...
Published 07/27/20
Join our Patreon for extra episodes and VHS goodness! Patreon.com/VHSbandits It's officially time for summer blockbusters! But we watched Deep Rising instead. For this episode, we are joined by the ultra talented filmmaker and podcaster, from Guaranteed Audio, Kevin James! Luckily for us, Kevin happens to be the official VHS Bandits Deep Rising expert. If you think watching Harrison Ford kick some aquatic alien ass on a cruise ship sounds awesome then you're in for a treat! Treat Williams...
Published 07/13/20
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 &...
Published 06/29/20
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...
Published 06/15/20
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...
Published 06/01/20
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...
Published 05/18/20
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!...
Published 05/04/20
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...
Published 04/20/20
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...
Published 04/06/20
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...
Published 03/23/20
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...
Published 03/09/20