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As the years passed I became more of a friend to the Video Pirate who owned the little green movie store. I had become a regular customer who would purchase such pirate videos as Straw Dogs & Men Behind The Sun. Until one Christmas came where he was tipped off that the police were going to raid his store. So he trusted me to take home all of the pirate VHS he had kept at the store in order to keep him safe from being arrested, and told me that I could watch as many of them as I liked, and as payment for doing him a favor I could keep a few of the titles that I enjoyed watching the most. That was a very gory Christmas. I feasted on such delights as Nightmares In A Damaged Brain & John Carpenter’s new movie ‘Vampires’ which was still yet to be set a release date. But there was one tape in the collection that was unmarked. No label. Just a plastic case of analogue mystery, and even though I feared the possibility of it being a snuff movie, I wanted to know what was on that tape. So I popped it into my VCR, wrestled with the fact that maybe it was just blank, and hit play. What...

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