Through my years as a kid, I quickly found out one thing about myself—I love films, especially horror/cult films, and I love collecting things. ANYTHING. When I was a wee young lad, I collected matchbox cars, models, and baseball cards. Then I got into music and accumulated a large audio cassette tape, vinyl, and (later on) cds. When I was old enough to rent movies, I found no greater joy than walking into a locally-owned video store and picking out a movie (usually one that my God-fearing parents would not approve of and make me choose again) that was highly inappropriate for one my age who had responsible parents. After a few more tries, I would finally pick one that they approved of or felt was not quite as naughty, violent, or bloody as the one picked prior. My love for video cassette box art, whether it be over-sized clam shells or the larger cardboard boxes, or even the standard slim-fit sleeves—I was addicted to wanting my bedroom to look just like a video store: its walls lined with shelves and hundreds of cool films at my disposal.

Fast-forward (pun intended) to 2013. I have since added books, toys, magazines, cds, laser discs, posters, knives, custom-figurines, and anything else one might think to collect to this quasi-hording lifestyle and collecting way of life. I happen to have several hundred (probably far more than that) VHS tapes piled on shelves and in boxes throughout the house. At first, I started buying them because I didn’t own them on DVD (now Blu-ray) and I wanted to be able to watch the movie whenever I wanted to and say that I owned it. Then I kept the tapes around because it brought back memories of my youth while watching the less than perfect, sometimes grainy, copy of the film and in some cases, was a different version of the film. Over the past few or more years, collecting VHS tapes is now cool (maybe even trendy?) and I found that while working in a record store that sells all sorts of electronic media people still were buying VHS tapes and still owned VCRs. It only seemed natural that one would make a documentary on the “modern day VHS culture” and its VHS collectors.

The documentary, entitled ADJUST YOUR TRACKING (2013), runs approximately 84 minutes long and was directed, written, and produced by Dan M. Kinem (VHShitfest co-creator) and Levi Peretic (also part of VHShitfest and nicknamed Dabeedo). The doc stars some very familiar faces to those who are either part of the horror community or huge fans of horror films in general. Troma’s Lloyd Kaufman, longtime editor of Fangoria Magazine (and its website Fangoria.com) for almost 18 years until 2010–Anthony Timpone, Chicago’s very own artist, metalhead, and all-around super cool dude and VHS collector Matt “Putrid” Carr, Alamo Drafthouse’s programmer Zack Carlson, nasty gore film director Fred Vogel (AUGUST UNDERGROUND trilogy), director/producer Keith J. Crocker (THE BLOODY APE, BLITZKRIEG: ESCAPE FROM STALAG 69), and a slew of VHS collectors, video store owners, filmmakers, and distributors. Knowing the guys from VHShitfest made the film, the movie is completely legit.

Check out the trailer:

If you liked the trailer and want to be kept abreast of screenings, events, and other cool shit (like a contest to win box of cut scenes from the film) like the movie’s page on FacebookHERE. Also definitely check out VHShitfest.com!