The Phantom of the Movies' Videoscope is an American movie magazine devoted to cult cinema and genre movies and exploitation films that was released four times a year through end its end with issue #115 (Fall 2020), after the death of its primary founder and editor, Joe Kane. Sometimes, though not on the cover, the last word in the magazine's title is spelled VideoScope. History The Phantom of the Movies' Videoscope started as a newsletter in 1993, and after 14 issues became a glossy-cover magazine. The publication was founded and is edited by Joe Kane (not the author and National Geographic journalist Joe Kane). It has spawned a reference book entitled The Phantom of the Movies' Videoscope: The Ultimate Guide to the Latest, Greatest, and Weirdest Genre Videos. As the librarian service magazine Library Tech Files described the magazine: Issues have included interviews with such genre and exploitation-film directors as John Waters, James Gunn, Roger Corman, George A. Romero, Walter Hill and Brian Yuzna and such cult actors as Crispin Glover, Adrienne Barbeau, L. Q. Jones, Tobin Bell, and Clint Howard. In addition to Kane, the magazine's writers included Max Allan Collins, Dan Cziraky, Terry and Tiffany DuFoe, Robert Freese, Tim Ferrante, Don Kaye, Dwight Kemper, Nancy Naglin, Debbie Rochon, Kevin G. Shinnick, Calum Waddell, and Tom Weaver. The magazine was based in Ocean Grove, New Jersey. The website remains active as of November 2021. Legacy Joe Kane and The Phantom of the Movies' Videoscope have been cited in books including Universal Terrors, 1951-1955, Horror Noir, Character Kings 2, and Claws & Saucers: Science Fiction, Horror, and Fantasy Film 1902-1982. Entertainment Weekly said the book The Phantom of the Movies' Videoscope "aims to separate the wheat from the chaff. A noble endeavor, to be sure — after all, filmmakers like Martin Scorsese, Jonathan Demme, James Cameron, and Ron Howard all got their start in this Hollywood basement — but Kane's wildly inconsistent critical eye (both Schwarzenegger's The Running Man and the out-of-place Apocalypse Now get 3 1/2 stars) makes the book more entertaining than useful." Kane appears in the 2015 Moe Howard documentary Hey Moe! Hey Dad!. As an exploitation-film authority, he has been quotes in The New York Times. In 2021, Kane was inducted posthumously into the Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards' Monster Kid Hall of Fame. Joe Kane Joe Kane started writing professionally while attending Queens College in