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I decided it was time to dedicate an entire thread to the wonders of Shot On Video (SOV) movies. Some people call them cheap, others call them shitty, there are even some who call them Shot On Shiteo...No matter what they're called though, they are still the same great movies.
While the number of SOV titles have grown because of how cheap a mini-DV camera is and that even mainstream titles are being shot on video (28 Days Later, anyone?). This thread is more dedicated to the movies that were shot on VHS, S-VHS, Hi-8, etc. formats.
Get the ball rolling with some of the titles that are available on DVD at the moment, like...
Video Violence - (1987)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094262/
Video Violence finds a normal, unsuspecting couple - Steve and Rachel - completely immersed in a town of blood-drunk crazies. Led by sickos Howard and Eli, these backwater psychopaths produce and watch their own snuff movies in which the victims are outsiders or citizens trying to leave the close-knit community of killers. One day an unmarked tape shows up in the return bin of Steve's just-opened video store, and it's the town postmaster being savagely mutilated. "Can it be real, or just a gag?" wonders Steve. He'll soon discover the horrifying answer…
With the DVD of Video Violence, you get it's masterful sequel.
Video Violence 2 - (1988)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0237894/
In Video Violence 2, Howard and Eli have graduated from gruesome basement antics to pirating a cable TV channel for the purpose of furthering their brand of homegrown depravity, madness and murder. With the help of 'do-it-yourself' violence videos sent in by adoring fans and a beautiful guest actress unaware of the pain in store for her, the sadistic hosts guarantee the "Bloodiest Show on Earth!"
Woodchipper Massacre - (1989)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096462/
It’s The Brady Kids meets the Texas Chainsaw Massacre in this heartwarming, stomach-churning tale of a not so typical American family that unexpectedly finds itself caught up in a web of death, deceit and dismemberment. And what better way for this trio of demented siblings to discard of fresh human remains than turn it into garden variety mulch…by way of the biggest woodchipper ever to chop’n’grind a grown man into ground meat. In this family, blood really is thicker than water.
Cannibal Campout - (1988)
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Cannibal Campout is the tender and terrifying tale of a band of man-eating maniacs. Desperate to survive, the deranged orphans honor a deathbed promise to dearly departed mother never to eat junk food again. Instead, they work up frenzied appetites that will only be satisfied by the taste of young flesh. When Amy and her college friends arrive for a fun-filled weekend of camping in the desolate wilderness, they quickly learn the horrors of being on the wrong end of the food chain. Only brutal murder, torture and mutilation await as one by one they are stalked and terrorized by this brood of bloodthirsty mountain dwellers who will stop at nothing to appease their hunger for sliced, diced and barbecued camper.
Boardinghouse - (1982)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083670/
A man with telekinetic power inherits a big house with a horrible past. He opens the house up as a boarding house and very quickly becomes inhabited by a group of gorgeous women. Soon the long sleeping evil supernatural power inhabiting the house starts killing off the tenants one by one.