Saturday, October 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM
WHAMMY!, Los Angeles
Join us for a Los Angeles release party for [The Basement Tapes](https://www.colpapress.com/collections/frontpage/products/the-basement-tapes), a curated deep dive into the eclectic VHS archive of The Basement, a studio and art collective based in San Francisco’s Mission District. This book offers a unique look at their collection, shaped by a fascination with horror films, science fiction, niche special-interest nightmares, and exploitation cinema. The Basement Tapes serves as both a visual archive and a passionate tribute to these often-overlooked pieces of analog media history. Join us for a special screening of BODY MELT on VHS, direct from The Basement collection. Copies of the book will be available for sale along with specially designed t-shirts, and other surprises. SYNOPSIS: Let's get straight to the point. **Body Melt** is really about Sal and Gino who leave Pebble Court to donate sperm to the very place that is using their neighborhood as a testing ground for a new diet drug, just to be side-tracked by Pud and his mutated children, who ends up being Dr. Carrera's former lab buddy. And there is this crazy symphonic way it all plays out like a fleshy string quartet. Body Melt is body horror at its absolute lowest and finest. What else can we expect from Down Under, but the substance that made The Substance (well, combined with *Society* and really anything Screaming Mad George touched). **dir. Philip Brophy, 1993***New Zealand, VHS projection*81 min ## 7:30 DOORS8:00 SCREENING