Many people might wonder why the death of VHS players (Japan’s Funai Electric announced the last VHS Recorder was made in July of this year) was such a big deal but for the VHS lover or collector it is. Imagine the outcry if they stopped making record players tomorrow. Yes, while you can argue, that vinyl still exists because it can produce a better audio quality for certain records, the other reason (and possibly the real reason) is the same as why people still love VHS (or the IDEA of VHS): the nostalgia, the better cover art, the fact that the rare, beautiful and strange films still only had life on VHS and never made the leap to newer formats, the feel of them, the smell of them and the look of them. Older technology will always be a more pleasurable, tactile and some how more human experience.

I also said to my girlfriend, last night while watching Microwave Massacre, that "the film was from that glorious time where you could stick the word massacre to the end of any title and it would sell". I found out later that this is still very much the case (keep reading...)

I started thinking about all the films that have massacre in the title. As a big fan of slasher films I could think of quite a few from the 70s and 80s. I have also guested on the Bloodbaths & Boomsticks podcast which is co-hosted by the wonderful Tim Gross of Gross Movie Reviews and he's a huge fan of movies with the word massacre in the title. He even made one of his own, Jagoff Massacre, the local Pittsburgh based horror comedy!