This Video Watchdog Lot consists of:

• A run of 129 consecutive issues (issues #45-173) (years 1998 to 2013)
• Five other issues (#11, 12, 36, 182, and 183) (years 1992 to 2016)
• Condition ranges Very Good to Very Fine, with most in Near Fine to Fine condition.
• 13 Video Watchdog binders in Very Good to Near Fine condition.

Price for the lot: $200

From the publisher:

Tim Lucas launched "Video Watchdog" magazine in 1990. Subtitled "The Perfectionist's Guide to Fantastic Video" it became an immediate hit with the most ardent and obsessive collectors of video arcana. Video Watchdog ceased publication in 2016 with issue #184.

Video Watchdog's Feature articles cover a wide variety of subjects—everyone from Jess Franco to Jack Hill to Andy Milligan to Krzysztof Kieslowski, movies from BLADE RUNNER to TWIN PEAKS FIRE WALK WITH ME to METROPOLIS and the classic horror films of Universal and Hammer. We've also published ground-breaking interviews with Vincent Price, Oliver Stone, Roger Corman, Barbara Steele, David Cronenberg, Clive Barker, SON OF FRANKENSTEIN's Donnie Dunagan, Ann Carter, Curtis Harrington, Donald Cammell, John Brahm, Jess Franco, Reggie Nalder, Udo Kier, makeup maestro Dick Smith, TOMB OF LIGEIA's Elizabeth Shepard, Mimsy Farmer, Gordon Hessler, Antonio Margheriti, Jean Rollin, Gordon Mitchell, Pupi Avati, Richard Kiel, Ernesto Gastaldi, Quentin Tarantino and the queen of European character actresses, Harriet White Medin.

But it is for film criticism that VIDEO WATCHDOG is most acclaimed. In 27 years of publishing, it has amassed a larger collection of informed thought pertaining to genre filmmaking than any published to date in book form—literally thousands of reviews! Often imitated but never surpassed, VIDEO WATCHDOG's reviews are serious without being humorless, academic or overly technical. They delve into matters of letterboxing, missing or restored footage, alternate versions, even how domestic releases compare with overseas editions! And the WATCHDOG's Kennel of contributors consists of only the very best writers and historians working in the field of fantastic film research and criticism, including John Bender, Stephen R. Bissette, Michael F. Blake, John Charles, Max Alan Collins, Bill Cooke, Shane M. Dallmann, David Del Valle, Darren Gross, Sheldon Inkol, Paul M. Jensen, Alan Jones, David Kalat, Bill Kelley, Mark Kermode, Tim Lucas, Gregory William Mank, Maitland McDonagh, Kim Newman, Gary Don Rhodes, David J. Schow, Richard Harland Smith, Brad Stevens, Nathaniel Thompson, Rebecca & Sam Umland, Bill Warren, Tom Weaver, John-Paul Checkett, and Bret Wood.

VIDEO WATCHDOG is also renowned for its celebrity guest columnists. Douglas E. Winter's "Audio Watchdog" has been reviewing new CD soundtrack releases since issue number 22. In issues 83 through 127, we were the exclusive source for "Joe Dante's Fleapit Flashbacks," the collected FILM BULLETIN criticism of the future director of GREMLINS, THE HOWLING and LOONEY TUNES: BACK IN ACTION.