Terror on Tape is similar to the 1984 horror compilation Terror In The Aisles, but without the star power of Nancy Allen and Donald Pleasence as hosts, and with a more exploitative selection of movies. The curator of the clips in this case is Cameron Mitchell, clerk at the Shoppe of Horrors Videostore, who helps his customers choose their evening's entertainment by showing them excerpts from the tapes available.
The clerk shows footage from such trashy b-movies as The Deadly Spawn, Vampire Hookers, Cathy's Curse, The Slayer, Scalps, Nightmare (AKA Nightmares in A Damaged Brain), Alien Prey, City of the Living Dead, and a handful of H. G. Lewis classics. Of the titles shown, there were only a couple I hadn't seen, but the clips are the best bits in all of their gory glory and are worth seeing again, if only as a reminder of just how great old school splatter is.
The parts between the clips are also a lot of fun, with Mitchell hamming it up a treat, and scream queen Michelle Bauer popping into the shop (and almost out of her top), desperate to be scared: the gorier the clips, the closer Michelle is to being satisfied, the woman moaning in ecstasy at the sight of all the horror. Now if only Nancy Allen had done that in Terror In The Aisles...
