Thousands of low-budget horror films from the 1970s–1990s exist only on deteriorating VHS tapes or lost masters. Rights holders may be defunct, unresponsive, or unaware they own the rights. Legitimate streaming services will not invest in digitizing a film with unclear title. Pirates, however, will capture, encode, and share that VHS rip. For many such films, the only surviving copy circulates on a download site.
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