Horror fans can travel back in time this Halloween season to an era when it was kind to rewind, as Shout! Factory TV is now streaming the VHS versions of select horror films, including Day of the Dead, Sleepaway Camp, Night of the Demons, and more.

To watch Shout! Factory TV's special VHS presentations, visit TheVHSVault.com. We also have the official press release with full details:

Press Release: Shout! Factory TV proudly presents a #ThrowbackThursday of epic proportions! Sit back, relax and return to your retro roots with the VHS Vault. Shout! Factory TV is being kind to rewind you all the way back to the days of VHS, just in time to revisit your favorite Halloween flicks—five cult classics in their VHS pan and scan full-screen ratios, to be exact. Forget about high definition, and relive the style that gives these films the character that cult fans all over yearn for. To top it off, we’re also streaming the documentary film Adjust Your Tracking: The Untold Story of the VHS Collector, an exploration of the recent resurgence of VHS culture. It features over 100 interviews with VHS collectors, video store owners, directors and more. 

This blast from the blast comes complete with a throwback website http://thevhsvault.com/ for your viewing pleasure. All films will be streaming for free on Shout! Factory TV, no rewinding or VHS player required! Fans can also watch the VHS Vault block on http://www.shoutfactorytv.com/ on desktop, tablet and mobile, and on Shout! Factory TV’s app on Roku and Samsung smart TVs. 

Sleepaway Camp

(Felissa Rose, Jonathan Tiersten, Karen Fields)

Traumatized and shy Angela Baker gets sent to a totally bogus summer camp that doesn't even have a Nintendo in Sleepaway Camp. Once she gets there, everything goes super smoothly--NOT. Leave your jean jacket at home so it doesn't get covered in blood.

Night of the Demons

(Cathy Podewell, Alvin Alexis, Hal Havins)

Your Swatch may say it's time to party, but in Night of the Demons, a bunch of party animals decide to hold a seance in a funeral parlor instead of playing with pogs like normal kids. Their big mistake turns into a totally radical movie for the rest of us to enjoy.

Day of the Dead

(Lori Cardille, Terry Alexander, Joseph Pilato)

Fill up a fanny pack with weapons and slap bracelets, because you're about to take on a world overrun by zombies in Day of the Dead. It follows the story of a small group of military officers and scientists living in an underground bunker without so much as a Poison cassette or a Molly Ringwald movie to entertain them!

Class of 1984

(Perry King, Merrie Lynn Ross, Timothy Van Patten)

There's no Brat Pack in Class of 1984, a movie about a school full of thoughtful, obedient students. As if! This movie is all about a lawless high school that would be totally tubular if it weren't for the drug dealing thugs that have taken it over! It even features an appearance by a promising new upstart named Michael J. Fox.

Exterminators of the Year 3000

(Robert Iannucci, Alicia Moro, Luciano Pigozzi)

Parents thought it was the end of the world when kids started wearing side ponytails, Jordache jeans and neon windbreakers, but that's nothing compared to the gang of motorcycle psychos who run rampant on a post-apocalyptic Earth in Exterminators of the Year 3000! It's a glorious crash of guns, nuclear fallout and cutting-edge synthesizers!

Adjust Your Tracking: The Untold Story of the VHS Collector

(Lloyd Kaufman, Anthony Timpone, Keith J. Crocker)

Frankie says relax and watch Adjust Your Tracking, a movie about how awesome VHS is! We all knew that home entertainment couldn’t possibly get any better once we could watch our favorite John Cusack movies whenever we wanted (unless they make a 64-bit video game system, but that technology is way off). Check this film out and learn about your fellow VHS collectors.

About SHOUT! FACTORY TV

SHOUT! FACTORY TV is a premiere digital entertainment streaming service that brings timeless and contemporary cult favorites to pop culture fans. With a uniquely curated entertainment library, the channel offers an unrivaled blend of cult TV shows, movies, comedy, original specials and more – presenting an exciting entertainment alternative to major streaming services. SHOUT! FACTORY TV’s programming leverages a distinctive library of pop culture-defining entertainment curated from Shout! Factory, Westchester Films, Timeless Media Group, Scream Factory, major studios, independent producers and other sources from around the world. Whether reliving childhood memories or discovering television series, movies and comedy specials for the first time, SHOUT! FACTORY TV will provide an immersive, high-quality viewing experience across a wide variety of screens and platforms, online at ShoutFactoryTV.com and on smartphone devices, tablets and connected TV, with an initial rollout on Roku. 

ABOUT SHOUT! FACTORY

Shout! Factory, LLC is a diversified multi-platform media company devoted to producing, uncovering, preserving and revitalizing the very best of pop culture.  Founders Richard Foos, Bob Emmer and Garson Foos have spent their entire careers sharing their music, television and film favorites with discerning consumers the world over. Shout! Factory’s entertainment offerings serve up feature films, classic and contemporary TV series, animation, live music and comedy specials in lavish packages crammed with extras.  Shout’s audio division boasts GRAMMY®-nominated box sets, Broadway cast albums, new releases from storied artists, lovingly assembled album reissues and indispensable “best of” compilations.  In addition, Shout! Factory maintains a vast digital distribution network which delivers video and audio content to all the leading digital service providers in North America.  Shout! Factory also owns and operates Shout! Factory TV, Scream Factory, Timeless Media Group, Westchester Films, Biograph Records, Majordomo Records, HighTone Records and Video Time Machine. These riches are the result of a creative acquisition mandate that has established the company as a hotbed of cultural preservation and commercial reinvention.  Shout! Factory is based in Santa Monica, California. For more on Shout! Factory, visit shoutfactory.com

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