Phantasmatapes VSCLEARANCE • “LUST AT FIRST BITE”

• “LUST AT FIRST BITE” - an alternate feature length edit containing 40+ minutes of alternate footage

• Video essay by Chris O'Neill

New audio commentary with writer and researcher Jonathan Owen

with taut direction courtesy of Tay Garnett (The Postman Always Rings Twice)

13 mins): archival documentary by Richard Blanshard on the great cinematographer

Phantasmatapes VSCLEARANCE • “LUST AT FIRST BITE”Welcome to the 1980s TV horrorshow that never was. PHANTASMATAPES is a psychotronic VHS mixtape that reimagines THE REVENGE OF DR. X (a Japan set creature feature that was written by Ed Wood) and THE BRAIN THAT WOULDN'T DIE (the savage body horror film that inspired FRANKENHOOKER) as a late nite, home taped double featurecomplete with local TV commercials and a new synthesizer score from Taken by Savages (JUNGLE TRAP). Inspired by hazy memories of