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Picture walking through a video rental store in the 90s. Post the first VHS box art to pop in your head.
- Thread starter Lionel Mandrake
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I really wanted a dog as a kid, so I just watched a ton of movies with dogs in them, and this always stuck out (and yes I watched it a ton). Anyone else have a "Family" genre in their rentals? Like, mostly PG-ish live-action movies? I must've rented everything out of it :x I still remember exactly where this was on the shelf, too.
You might have a hard time seeing this in a video store in the 1990s. I'm not sure if it's a good thing I know that.
Without even knowing what the uhh content is, it says "HD-DVD" right on the cover :p
Ooh... this just reminded me of another one that's missing from the thread.(unless I'm blind)Since someone already said Monkey Shines, I'll go with:
I've got a few , I used to be frightened and curious of the horror VHS covers I used to see at the video store. Shoutout to West Coast Video and My time Video.
It's a mix of genuinely great cover art and that aisle being the forbidden fruit when you were a kid. So many horror movie posters are seared into my memory.
That's kind of what I was thinking. When I was really little, the idea of horror movies scared me, before I even watched any (I guess the pre-emptive idea that I'd be scared?) But the VHS covers did something neat with drawing in eyes, whether it was for interest, or something creepy/shocking that plenty of us couldn't get out of our minds (and many DID just go ahead and rent because they were curious). Even though I was creeped out, I was also fascinated/interested at the same time... but those darn Child's Play 1-3 covers ALWAYS got to me, and I know this was not an uncommon thing either. I had to avoid the entire horror section and look away due to those :/
This was going to be my post. For some reason the horror section always stood out to me.Since someone already said Monkey Shines, I'll go with:
Not every rental was a Blockbuster, either. Some of us smaller towns only had family-owned spots, and they always varied with what they had. The one nearest to me only had Princess Mononoke (which I remember eyeing for years, knowing nothing about, and didn't watch for years later), Kiki's Delivery Service, and My Neighbor Totoro. That was it. The bigger one across town DID have a "Japanimation" section, with a lot more obscure VHS of stuff like Lupin III TV (the 2 eps Miyazaki directed), Nadia: Secret of the Blue Water, and then a bunch of stuff from Manga, but I didn't start even going here till the early 2000s when I even knew they was more anime beyond tv.
I was about to post something similar. I was ultra curious about these horror movies but was way too chicken to actually ask to rent them and then watch them, lol. but I always walked down the horror aisle and looked at them, and most of the covers are burned into my brain. the front and back covers to the Friday the 13th movies always creeped me out as a kid.
little did I know at the time that they weren't all that scary, possibly because my first R+ rated movie was the benign looking Robocop, (THEY HAD TOYS) which scarred me and when i finally saw my first Friday the 13th movie it seemed tame in comparison
Definitely Godzilla movies. I actually still have many of them on VHS, and some are taped copies from Blockbuster.
Weirdly, I thought of Halloween.
It's not even a favourite movie of mine? But I feel like it was prominently displayed in our local video store
I thought this was always Nightmare on Elm Street due to me thinking it's Freddy's knife hands
Yeah I saw tons later on as I got older (started with more super tame ones, usually involving giant animals like Jaws and Lake Placid), and realized how silly it was growing up :p ...Child's Play is still on my blacklist, I still refuse to see any of those.
Oh yeah! This was actually filmed at my house in Carnegie, PA.
I guess there's an EU blu-ray with a bunch of behind the scenes footage and commentary I've been trying to get a hold of.
I always remember seeing this tape at my local video store and being deeply intrigued and yet also repelled because all that I "knew" about the film is that it was supposedly one of the most shocking movies of all time! Imagine my surprise years later when I finally saw it and realized that, despite how great it was, its actually quite tame, relatively speaking...
Jeez, I actually still have my copy of this VHS sitting on my shelf from when I was a kid...
Never seen it (and I love Horror), but it was a movie called Rest in Pieces:
I just always remember seeing this video case, the cover with the zombie guy reaching towards you and the name "Rest in Pieces". Hell, the name "Rest in Pieces" always stuck with me as being a fuckin' cool name for a horror movie.
Other titles coming in close:
Children of the Corn
A Nightmare on Elm Street
The Chilling
I just always remember seeing this video case, the cover with the zombie guy reaching towards you and the name "Rest in Pieces". Hell, the name "Rest in Pieces" always stuck with me as being a fuckin' cool name for a horror movie.
Other titles coming in close:
Children of the Corn
A Nightmare on Elm Street
The Chilling
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I remember walking Blockbuster as a kid in the late 90s and remembering this always staring back at me, with this vague sense of unease.
So I guess it did a good job if I remember it from a sea of hundreds of VHSes.
honestly same and I am kinda shook someone else had this same thought. This shit freaked me out as a kid and I wouldn't watch the Michael Keaton family film that came out like a year later because I thought it was related to this.
I remember walking Blockbuster as a kid in the late 90s and remembering this always staring back at me, with this vague sense of unease.
So I guess it did a good job if I remember it from a sea of hundreds of VHSes.
Came to post this. I remember it had a lenticular cover too which helped it stand out.
The two I remember most vividly would be:
Weirdly, I thought of Halloween.
It's not even a favourite movie of mine? But I feel like it was prominently displayed in our local video store
I've never seen it, but I swear every video store had it featured for years.
Holy shit, this was the exact one I faintly remembered just before clicking on this thread. I just couldn't remember the name.
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I don't know the exact covers, but horror movies in general used to stay with me because they were often gruesome and memorable covers and I was a bit too young to be looking in that section but would be morbidly curious just to glance at the covers before darting back to the section I was supposed to be in.
Memorable ones include various Wishmaster, Hellraiser and Chucky covers, but again I don't specifically remember which they were.
Memorable ones include various Wishmaster, Hellraiser and Chucky covers, but again I don't specifically remember which they were.
People REALLY remember Ghoulies, huh? Since I avoided most of the horror section, I didn't come across this one, but it is appealing to kids with a monster coming out of a toilet. Watching a movie review on it (probably Cinemassacre) there was something about people being disappointed that toilet scene wasn't in the movie like on the poster, so they added it in last minute. Toilets on movie posters - they sell!
FUCK THIS SCARY ASS SHIT SCARING ME WHEN IM TRYING TO RENT TARZAN UNTAMED
I remember walking Blockbuster as a kid in the late 90s and remembering this always staring back at me, with this vague sense of unease.
So I guess it did a good job if I remember it from a sea of hundreds of VHSes.