This May 1999 website, was one of my earliest attempts at creating a website for someone else. Back around the start of 1999, I ordered some bootleg VHS tapes from a website called Flesh Eater Video, run by an Australian called Paul Vainickis. His website was very simple, and I thought I could do something better. We worked out a trade; I provided a re-designed website, in return, Paul provided all the text & reviews for me to work from, along with a number of free VHS bootlegs to add to my collection. This was long before I was paying for my own webspace, so I used one of the free hosting services popular at the time; Angelfire. I added some further new titles in September, around four months after first completing the site, but I didn't have any involvement whatsoever after that. As of writing in August 2020, surprisingly the original website is still online, and it looks virtually identical to the way I left it!

As an aside, around a year later in August 2001, I actually set up my own bootleg trading website modelled on Flesh Eater Video called SeeNoEvil (with the shortened URL welcome.to/seenoevil, and full YRL http://angelfire.com/tv2/seenoevil/), although instead of VHS tapes, I was selling & trading DVD ripped DivX (3.11 alpha) encodes of horror films written to CD-R and sent though the post. This was long before downloading a feature film was remotely possible via a dial-up internet connection, and just after hacked versions of Microsoft's MPEG-4 Version 3 codecs were released (such as the DivX and AngelPotion codecs), allowing the compression of a DVD sized/resolution feature film down to a CD-R, for the first time. I built up my inventory by buying horror DVDs from HMV in central London, copying them, and returning them the same day. I did this for a couple of weekends in a row. I also bought (to keep) a number of imported horror DVDs from The Cinema Store in central London. That's one highlight of that period I still remember fondly; having been a regular most weekends for a good few months prior to this, the guy in the DVD department downstairs asked if I wanted to have a look through 'the horror box', whereby out popped a box from under the counter filled with extreme uncut import DVDs, which would have been illegal to sell. Over the course of a few months I bought a pile of titles such as I Spit On Your Grave, Cannibal Holocaust, Cannibal Ferox, Men Behind The Sun, Naked Blood, Dr Lamb, Organ and Evil Dead Trap, all stupidly priced (£30 - £40 as I vaguely recall), but what did I know? Something untoward must have happened, as I went in one weekend and suddenly the guy "had no idea what the horror box was", and from then on, that was the end of that.

I created the website with the now-defunct email address Stumpy@SharkAttacks.com (which I thought was very witty at the time), and under the fake company name 'Category III Productions', in reference to Hong Kong's movie classification system, with Category III being reserved for the most extreme horror material. The CD-Rs were £5 each plus shipping, with the offer of five for £20. People could order the following titles; I only ran my site for a couple of months, closing around October 2001, and didn't get many customers. I deleted it after I decided to move on, and I no longer even have a copy of the site myself, with the sole exceptions of the place-order page in among some other saved unrelated HTML files, and the above t-shirt logo design, which I recall modifying into the website logo. Back then, I was far more cavalier about deleting digital material I thought I no longer needed. I even used to delete just about all emails once I'd replied to them. I've never regretted not deleting something, just the stuff I never thought to keep. I learned the hard way; always keep everything, even if I think I'll never need it, and further, back it up!

Scrolling though the tape listings on Flesh Eater Video today in 2020, I have no recollection of what I might have been sent in trade for creating the website. It was more than twenty years and three email addresses ago! I also have no idea if Paul is still trading all these years later either.

Below you have two links. At the top you have my locally hosted mirror of the site, which has been repaired and more-or-less displays on modern browsers as I originally indented. Below that you have the Angelfire hosted original website, which is still online as of 2020; over twenty years later! The original was designed to be seen at 800x600 resolution, and looks somewhat broken when viewed in modern browsers, but it's broadly usable.

Click Here to Open The 'Flesh Eater Video' Website Backup

Click Here to Open The Online Angelfire 'Flesh Eater Video' Website

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