1st TCM release, Video Violence 1 & 2 and The Prowler big box have all been fetching between $300-$500 on the average over the last four years or so. Absolutely bananas.
Stephen King would sell his short story rights for $1 to independent film makers to film short film versions. The NIght Shift collections used to compile some of these short films together.
The Day of the Triffids was based on a 1951 book by John Wyndham. It was also adapted into three radio plays, two TV shows (I have the 1981 BBC version on Blu Ray).
OMG the Lonesome Ghosts Mickie short lol I watched that so much when I was little lmao. Used to watch Treehouse of Horror religiously during the Halloween season as well
Nostalgia. The 80s were a golden time if you were there. It's something 4K will never compete with... nostalgia. VHS for my generation is imperfect perfection.
Exactly. I was just entering my teenage years when the 80's video boom took off. Sadly, I sold the bulk of my tape collection in the late 90's when everything started coming out on dvd. The nostalgia bug has been hitting me pretty hard recently and I've started picking up titles on tape that I already have on Blu or 4K. They don't look nearly as good but they do take me back to a time when life seemed way less complicated. I also had that Zombie 2 tape at one point. Wish I still had it to be honest.
For like a couple of decades VHS was the only game in town. And the VCRs were mechanical marvels. My first VCR was a Midland that my mom gifted me in 1985 for my birthday. At first I only collected recordings from rented tapes because originals cost $50-$70 a pop. Kodack blank tapes cost $7 but the better ones were Radio Shack that could cost $12-$15. In reality these were Sony tapes with the Radio Shack packaging. But what marked my life were VHS from Venezuela. Long before the horror movies were available in continental USA Venezuela released them. They were imported to P.R. by videoclubs because they had Spanish subtitles. And sometimes they were longer than their American counterparts. You could get Cannibal Holocaust, Cannibal Ferox, Burial Ground, Brain Damage uncut, The Burning uncut, etc. Right now my Holy Grail are 250 VHS from Venezuela. Still to this day I still collect VHS. Call it nostalgia.🤗
I have no VHS, but I want some to put on the shelf for nostalgia. Although you mentioning combo TVs is making me think. I worked in several video stores when I was a kid. Video stores that were local before national chains became a thing. I still remember when big new movies were released we’d make a trip to the local distributer to buy a bunch for the store. My first purchase (most of my horror movies were rental movies I copied from machine to machine.)was one of those times and it was for the release of Beverly Hills Cop. It released at midnight. It cost me $80 for the movie. Good times…
I got rid of all my VHS tapes years ago when I moved this last time, and while I wish I didn't I'm not going to be buying VHS tapes again. My wife does though. Anytime she sees old Disney VHS tape at a thrift store, she buys it. We don't even have a reliable VCR. If I could find a VCR for a reasonable price, because most of them cost more than a 4K Blu-Ray player, then I might get back into VHS.
As someone born in 1980, I grew up with VHS and have no desire to collect it. It's a technically inferior movie watching experience. Tracking issues, black crush, VCRs eating tapes, having to rewind, etc. The list of issues to deal with is huge. Nostalgia is just not enough to offset these issues.
A wild Brandon and a wild Christian have appeared! Good to see you guys and ty for the video today. Always awesome to have surprise content and I enjoy the short form videos, but I love the longer ones too. Keep being awesome guys you rule!
Nu-Metal Butter returns!! 🧈 In all honesty, i think VHS grading is one of the most moronic things ever. The fact that people treat VHS tapes as the "first appearance" of a movie like they do with comic books is insanity to me. Tapes are meant to be watched, not sit in a plastic box and the fact that people are willing to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for one f*cking movie is just plain stupid. Anytime anyone brings up VHS and Video Game grading, i get overwhelmed with undescribable rage.
Makes even less sense considering VHS is the worst way to watch something. Tapes are constantly rotting 24/7 from the instant they are made, the picture gets more and more worn out with each viewing of it and, eventually it will just one day no longer work, even faster than disc rot
There are certain horror movies that had a first release and sometimes that's considered more valuable. Because when it's released a second time they change things like box, art, previews, etc. Also at the beginning movies were in SP later releases began to be in LP pr EP/SLP which is mega cheap. Even remastered versions are not worth the same as the original release.
@lutherheggs451 I have a tape factory stamped August 28 1983 it still plays great and looks fine. Out of the first 500 or so DVDs around 50 got disc rot and replaced about the half. For a VHS to be worn out takes a lot I have videocassettes that I've played 100s of times and the image is still good. But I have seen extreme cases with VHS I got from the public library, which means it must have ran for 1,000 times, do look downgraded already. But those tapes were rented to death and have to be from early 80s. VHS in reality lasts decades and they don't degrade from the moment they're made that's insane!🤣
@@lutherheggs451what can happen to VHS, if it's not properly stored, is decarbonize. It would be the VHS what disc rot is to dics. It usually happens when VHS are in a hot and humid and not protected from such calamities. The tape begins to release the black magnetic material and usually has a smell similar to crayons. If you play it It will get the heads dirty with carbon and when you clean then it will be black residue. This is the end of a VHS.😭
Omg, thank you soooOoOO much. I just preordered the big bundle for RotLD2!!!! If I didn't watch this video I might have missed out!! Super hype about the Fast Food style glasses lol. Cheers to you both!!!
I have that exact Zombie 2 vhs (T-Z Video/EDDE Entertainment) Brandon showed and I purchased it from a local video rental store when they started getting rid of their vhs section.
Great show guys ! I’m of the older generation so I still have a pile of horror VHS cassettes from the 80’s. A lot of them are original pre cert big box cassettes that were banned here in the UK in the mid 80’s. I’ve been collecting horror items since the late 70’s when I was a kid. I guess the VHS craze is just a nostalgia thing for the older ones among us and for the modern generation they just want to own a piece of psychical media history. It’s really cool that all generations still embrace VHS. I guess it’s the same with the vinyl resurgence over the past 20 years also. Again, I literally have thousands of vinyls. Been collecting those suckers since I was a kid. Keep up the good work guys ! 🔥🎃🔥
i still collect tapes. i get some online but for the most part i love finding a killer tape in the wild for cheap. part nostalgia and all just being a movie collector. plus there's the ones that are still stuck on the format, like junior for instance. it is interesting tho to see the waves it goes thru with people getting into it. also, it's the same camp motion pictures and check out slime city. awesome film.
I had a copy of the deadly spawn, the Australian release which was so cool. My collection of tapes at one point was 3500 but I've now sold 3100 and kept the rest to display. Yes Christian, Polaroid, Raks, Waltham, Kodak, Fuji, TDK, 3M Scotch (consumer and professional), Maxell, SKC, Panasonic and so many others did blank recordable tape.
I think it’s several reasons. The economy is in the toilet, and VHS is a very affordable, luxury item. Also, there remain certain titles that have yet to be released on DVD, and Blu Ray. There’s also the nostalgia factor.
But most titles that people go for and go for big $ are popular titles that were mass produced. Most of the never on disc stuff has been uploaded to CZcams or other websites, nobody has to pay stupid $ for 40 year old shit qualiy tapes if they just want to see the film. A lot of this is wasteful nostalgia.
@@MoviePalaceOfBlood I don’t think most people are going for the titles with antique pricing. They’re looking at the ten movies for ten dollars on EBay, and at Goodwill.
VHS on flatscreen LCD TV's look awful in most cases. The only exception is when I use my JVC D-VHS VCR which plays old tapes really well. I have several CRT TV's including Loewe 16:9 100HZ CRT's and have my super beta hifi and pioneer laserdisc player hooked to that one plus some retro gaming consoles from the 90s
I saw Opera in theaters 5 times and the poster and print said Terror At The Opera. That version he showed, that I think it's Southgate, came before the Anchor Bay VHS that's titled Opera. I prefer the title Terror At The Opera better.🤔
I have some horror movies on VHS tape if anyone is interested: the beast within, mother's Day 1980, mortuary, savage weekend, asylum of Satan and don't go in the house just name a few
Watching horror movies on VHS on a CRT is way more preferable for me than watching it on Blu-ray or dvd. I don't want to see an old 70s or 80s movie blown up to 65 in and hdfy where I can't see the film grain and all of the special effects look bad because they're too sharp. No thanks. The only time I watch horror movies on Blu-ray or DVD as if I'm watching commentary tracks or I want to go through special features. These movies were intended to be watched on CRT on vhs. Now if we're talking about horror movies made in the 2000s then yes that's obviously different.
It's dumb and the market will crash like the retro gaming market already has because nobody who didn't grow up in the video store era cares about this stuff. It only makes sense if the title hasn't been released on disc, but even then so much of this stuff is on CZcams or elsewhere on the internet. Anyone repeatedly watching these 40+ year old tapes every time they want to watch that movie is a fool. It degrades with every watch. If they cared about preservation they'd digitize the tape and watch that file. I sold off all my tapes years ago for a few grand and I'm done with it all, and I only bought things that had no disc release.
This is one of the dumbest comments I've ever seen. Some horror movies on VHS are actually more preferable and I've got VHS tapes from the mid-80s that have been watched the thousands of times over the last 40 years and they still look and work perfectly fine. So you're dumb.
I started collect video games arcade late 90s and vhs,v2000,beta late 2000,with posters and props. It s a childhood dream,but I dont use vcr,like vinyls..it s just fetish,I see my movies in hd/4K home cinema. I had vhs,ld,dvd,br and now 4k..probably the latest physical media.
Your guys' pronunciations are wild. Christian saying GRUV like it's dog food is hilarious. I'm 100% certain it's just a stylistic spelling of GROOVE, how I've always read it. And Brandon butchering Steve Guttenberg's name. It's not GUT-IN-BERG, it's Goudtanberg, like gouda cheese.
The Whatnot app is perfect for buying vhs tapes. I bought a lot of tapes from that app, but my favorite 2 are the Return of the living dead tape for $100 just because I love that movie & Night of the Demons. Brandon has great vhs tapes. I have that duck hunt Halloween special but still looking for the Halloween tree 🎃.
I am probably the only one. However, Halloween 1 and 2, we're the only 2. What films in that series i refuse to pick up the rest of them. Outside of Halloween 3, which I consider its own film and nothing to do with the outlead franchise, the rest of them we've got money grabs. Drawn out and boring
Brandon bringing the nu metal early 2000s spiked hair back....all he has to do now is dye it blonde. I personally don't understand the VHS collecting, VHS looks like shit imo and they take up so much room. It has to be just a nostalgia thing like Brandon said. I've also heard a lot of people buy them because of the ads and previews that are on the VHS before the movies too.
Dude it's the same reason people collected horror VHS in 2023
Childhood memories helps me cope I've had 4 heart attacks. Takes me back.
In all of my 25 plus years of collecting physical media, VHS grading is the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever seen.
That mask besides Brandon looks like the aliens from the movie ‘Signs’.
I've been collecting horror VHS for over 28 years. A part of me dies every time I see a sealed/graded tape.
1st TCM release, Video Violence 1 & 2 and The Prowler big box have all been fetching between $300-$500 on the average over the last four years or so. Absolutely bananas.
The Haunting of Hill House was written by Shirley Jackson in 1959.
Great novel (so far, i am reading it now)
Stephen King would sell his short story rights for $1 to independent film makers to film short film versions. The NIght Shift collections used to compile some of these short films together.
Brandon - please toss that 20 year old bottle of hair gel and buy a new one! 😂
The Day of the Triffids was based on a 1951 book by John Wyndham. It was also adapted into three radio plays, two TV shows (I have the 1981 BBC version on Blu Ray).
Love the BBC version!
Excellent VHS
Excellent
I feel like people sleep on Horror VHS in 2024.
OMG the Lonesome Ghosts Mickie short lol I watched that so much when I was little lmao. Used to watch Treehouse of Horror religiously during the Halloween season as well
Nostalgia. The 80s were a golden time if you were there. It's something 4K will never compete with... nostalgia. VHS for my generation is imperfect perfection.
You put it right pal!🫡
Exactly. I was just entering my teenage years when the 80's video boom took off. Sadly, I sold the bulk of my tape collection in the late 90's when everything started coming out on dvd. The nostalgia bug has been hitting me pretty hard recently and I've started picking up titles on tape that I already have on Blu or 4K. They don't look nearly as good but they do take me back to a time when life seemed way less complicated. I also had that Zombie 2 tape at one point. Wish I still had it to be honest.
I rember getting Back to the Future and Field of Dreams through the McDonald's drive through
Nostalgia is a hell of a drug. VHS was only a “good” way to watch movies during its time. It is objectively worse in nearly every way otherwise.
Just an FYI If it has an ameoba sale tag directly on the cardboard packaging, it was not sold new. At least not brand new still in the shrink wrap.
For like a couple of decades VHS was the only game in town. And the VCRs were mechanical marvels. My first VCR was a Midland that my mom gifted me in 1985 for my birthday. At first I only collected recordings from rented tapes because originals cost $50-$70 a pop. Kodack blank tapes cost $7 but the better ones were Radio Shack that could cost $12-$15. In reality these were Sony tapes with the Radio Shack packaging. But what marked my life were VHS from Venezuela. Long before the horror movies were available in continental USA Venezuela released them. They were imported to P.R. by videoclubs because they had Spanish subtitles. And sometimes they were longer than their American counterparts. You could get Cannibal Holocaust, Cannibal Ferox, Burial Ground, Brain Damage uncut, The Burning uncut, etc. Right now my Holy Grail are 250 VHS from Venezuela. Still to this day I still collect VHS. Call it nostalgia.🤗
Hell yeah. Someone else likes Creepshow 2 more than the original
Demon Keeper is on DVD, used, via Amazon.
I have no VHS, but I want some to put on the shelf for nostalgia. Although you mentioning combo TVs is making me think.
I worked in several video stores when I was a kid. Video stores that were local before national chains became a thing. I still remember when big new movies were released we’d make a trip to the local distributer to buy a bunch for the store. My first purchase (most of my horror movies were rental movies I copied from machine to machine.)was one of those times and it was for the release of Beverly Hills Cop. It released at midnight. It cost me $80 for the movie. Good times…
“I’ll call tomorrow…”
I got rid of all my VHS tapes years ago when I moved this last time, and while I wish I didn't I'm not going to be buying VHS tapes again. My wife does though. Anytime she sees old Disney VHS tape at a thrift store, she buys it.
We don't even have a reliable VCR. If I could find a VCR for a reasonable price, because most of them cost more than a 4K Blu-Ray player, then I might get back into VHS.
Selling off TONS of Rare VHS in our shop! 👍
As someone born in 1980, I grew up with VHS and have no desire to collect it. It's a technically inferior movie watching experience. Tracking issues, black crush, VCRs eating tapes, having to rewind, etc. The list of issues to deal with is huge. Nostalgia is just not enough to offset these issues.
A wild Brandon and a wild Christian have appeared! Good to see you guys and ty for the video today. Always awesome to have surprise content and I enjoy the short form videos, but I love the longer ones too. Keep being awesome guys you rule!
Nu-Metal Butter returns!! 🧈
In all honesty, i think VHS grading is one of the most moronic things ever. The fact that people treat VHS tapes as the "first appearance" of a movie like they do with comic books is insanity to me. Tapes are meant to be watched, not sit in a plastic box and the fact that people are willing to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for one f*cking movie is just plain stupid. Anytime anyone brings up VHS and Video Game grading, i get overwhelmed with undescribable rage.
Makes even less sense considering VHS is the worst way to watch something. Tapes are constantly rotting 24/7 from the instant they are made, the picture gets more and more worn out with each viewing of it and, eventually it will just one day no longer work, even faster than disc rot
Nobody cares when someone first appeared but even if it were true they were in theatres before they were on home video
There are certain horror movies that had a first release and sometimes that's considered more valuable. Because when it's released a second time they change things like box, art, previews, etc. Also at the beginning movies were in SP later releases began to be in LP pr EP/SLP which is mega cheap. Even remastered versions are not worth the same as the original release.
@lutherheggs451 I have a tape factory stamped August 28 1983 it still plays great and looks fine. Out of the first 500 or so DVDs around 50 got disc rot and replaced about the half. For a VHS to be worn out takes a lot I have videocassettes that I've played 100s of times and the image is still good. But I have seen extreme cases with VHS I got from the public library, which means it must have ran for 1,000 times, do look downgraded already. But those tapes were rented to death and have to be from early 80s. VHS in reality lasts decades and they don't degrade from the moment they're made that's insane!🤣
@@lutherheggs451what can happen to VHS, if it's not properly stored, is decarbonize. It would be the VHS what disc rot is to dics. It usually happens when VHS are in a hot and humid and not protected from such calamities. The tape begins to release the black magnetic material and usually has a smell similar to crayons. If you play it It will get the heads dirty with carbon and when you clean then it will be black residue. This is the end of a VHS.😭
Omg, thank you soooOoOO much. I just preordered the big bundle for RotLD2!!!!
If I didn't watch this video I might have missed out!! Super hype about the Fast Food style glasses lol.
Cheers to you both!!!
How about we show some love to the UMD format? lol
I have that exact Zombie 2 vhs (T-Z Video/EDDE Entertainment) Brandon showed and I purchased it from a local video rental store when they started getting rid of their vhs section.
I probably have something nobody else has,I found a blockbuster hard case clamshell childs play VHS at the flea market for a dollar.
My collection has gotten utterly ridiculous 😅
I came across the Blockbuster release of Halloween for 15.00 last weekend
You gotta see Judgement Night! It’s one of my favorites. The soundtrack kicks ass!
Found a copy of that terrifier 2 VHS at Walmart hidden behind a bunch of other stuff. Thank God I grabbed it.
She's on the DVD cover of curse of Michael Myers
I feel like people sleep.❤
This is a much wanted treat on this Canadian🇨🇦Civic holiday
Loved the video. So much cool stuff. Here in Portugal, 90% of the VHS came in clamshells, so most of them are still very much well perserved.
i only have Dracula and Suspiria s vhs
Great show guys ! I’m of the older generation so I still have a pile of horror VHS cassettes from the 80’s. A lot of them are original pre cert big box cassettes that were banned here in the UK in the mid 80’s. I’ve been collecting horror items since the late 70’s when I was a kid. I guess the VHS craze is just a nostalgia thing for the older ones among us and for the modern generation they just want to own a piece of psychical media history. It’s really cool that all generations still embrace VHS. I guess it’s the same with the vinyl resurgence over the past 20 years also. Again, I literally have thousands of vinyls. Been collecting those suckers since I was a kid. Keep up the good work guys ! 🔥🎃🔥
Trailers
Esthetic
Easy to pop in
Cover art (alternates)
Rarity
Nostalgia
The hunt for the tapes
Love the Nostalgia gentleman,very nice.
If you're watching VHS on a Sony HD flat screen TV you need to have your head examined.
VHS in a CRT is a package deal
I remember renting Junior in my late teens. I don't remember anything about it though. lol
i still collect tapes. i get some online but for the most part i love finding a killer tape in the wild for cheap. part nostalgia and all just being a movie collector. plus there's the ones that are still stuck on the format, like junior for instance. it is interesting tho to see the waves it goes thru with people getting into it. also, it's the same camp motion pictures and check out slime city. awesome film.
Creep show originally came out in a large warner brothers clamshell
Halloween II 1981 feels like Halloween Season the most. Part 6 is close. 🤓
I had a copy of the deadly spawn, the Australian release which was so cool. My collection of tapes at one point was 3500 but I've now sold 3100 and kept the rest to display. Yes Christian, Polaroid, Raks, Waltham, Kodak, Fuji, TDK, 3M Scotch (consumer and professional), Maxell, SKC, Panasonic and so many others did blank recordable tape.
It's great to see the love of collecting VHS tapes. I'm a big VHS tape collector, a lot of videos released by CIC video 🌟
I think it’s several reasons. The economy is in the toilet, and VHS is a very affordable, luxury item. Also, there remain certain titles that have yet to be released on DVD, and Blu Ray. There’s also the nostalgia factor.
As someone that grew up in the 80’s, seeing “VHS is a luxury item” written out makes my brain hurt.
But most titles that people go for and go for big $ are popular titles that were mass produced. Most of the never on disc stuff has been uploaded to CZcams or other websites, nobody has to pay stupid $ for 40 year old shit qualiy tapes if they just want to see the film. A lot of this is wasteful nostalgia.
@@MoviePalaceOfBlood I don’t think most people are going for the titles with antique pricing. They’re looking at the ten movies for ten dollars on EBay, and at Goodwill.
I did get Wayne’s World from the drive through. My sister got Ghost. They handed them seperately from the bag haha
Christian, Brandon is right. You have to watch Judgement Night. Very good movie. I love survive the night movies.
Leonard maltin rates out of 4 stars so three is pretty solid 🤝
VHS on flatscreen LCD TV's look awful in most cases. The only exception is when I use my JVC D-VHS VCR which plays old tapes really well. I have several CRT TV's including Loewe 16:9 100HZ CRT's and have my super beta hifi and pioneer laserdisc player hooked to that one plus some retro gaming consoles from the 90s
I saw Opera in theaters 5 times and the poster and print said Terror At The Opera. That version he showed, that I think it's Southgate, came before the Anchor Bay VHS that's titled Opera. I prefer the title Terror At The Opera better.🤔
Slime City is great.
I happen to own lots of vhs horror movies. Wouldn't let them go for anything.
there is an uptick for sure im noticing streaming friends and family buying vhs specifically
I have the big box return of the alien deadly spawn, and the first non big box wizard Zombie and tons of others I got lucky before prices went nuts
I have some horror movies on VHS tape if anyone is interested: the beast within, mother's Day 1980, mortuary, savage weekend, asylum of Satan and don't go in the house just name a few
Watching horror movies on VHS on a CRT is way more preferable for me than watching it on Blu-ray or dvd. I don't want to see an old 70s or 80s movie blown up to 65 in and hdfy where I can't see the film grain and all of the special effects look bad because they're too sharp. No thanks. The only time I watch horror movies on Blu-ray or DVD as if I'm watching commentary tracks or I want to go through special features. These movies were intended to be watched on CRT on vhs. Now if we're talking about horror movies made in the 2000s then yes that's obviously different.
My dawn of the dead vhs is HBO cannon also
Surprised you didn't like Bones. It creeps me out.
It's dumb and the market will crash like the retro gaming market already has because nobody who didn't grow up in the video store era cares about this stuff. It only makes sense if the title hasn't been released on disc, but even then so much of this stuff is on CZcams or elsewhere on the internet. Anyone repeatedly watching these 40+ year old tapes every time they want to watch that movie is a fool. It degrades with every watch. If they cared about preservation they'd digitize the tape and watch that file. I sold off all my tapes years ago for a few grand and I'm done with it all, and I only bought things that had no disc release.
This is one of the dumbest comments I've ever seen. Some horror movies on VHS are actually more preferable and I've got VHS tapes from the mid-80s that have been watched the thousands of times over the last 40 years and they still look and work perfectly fine. So you're dumb.
I started collect video games arcade late 90s and vhs,v2000,beta late 2000,with posters and props.
It s a childhood dream,but I dont use vcr,like vinyls..it s just fetish,I see my movies in hd/4K home cinema.
I had vhs,ld,dvd,br and now 4k..probably the latest physical media.
Your guys' pronunciations are wild. Christian saying GRUV like it's dog food is hilarious. I'm 100% certain it's just a stylistic spelling of GROOVE, how I've always read it. And Brandon butchering Steve Guttenberg's name. It's not GUT-IN-BERG, it's Goudtanberg, like gouda cheese.
The Whatnot app is perfect for buying vhs tapes. I bought a lot of tapes from that app, but my favorite 2 are the Return of the living dead tape for $100 just because I love that movie & Night of the Demons. Brandon has great vhs tapes. I have that duck hunt Halloween special but still looking for the Halloween tree 🎃.
Halloween tree is cheap on DVD and can be bought new from Gruv.
@@MoviePalaceOfBlood want it on vhs tape 📼
I am probably the only one. However, Halloween 1 and 2, we're the only 2. What films in that series i refuse to pick up the rest of them.
Outside of Halloween 3, which I consider its own film and nothing to do with the outlead franchise, the rest of them we've got money grabs. Drawn out and boring
Brandon bringing the nu metal early 2000s spiked hair back....all he has to do now is dye it blonde.
I personally don't understand the VHS collecting, VHS looks like shit imo and they take up so much room. It has to be just a nostalgia thing like Brandon said. I've also heard a lot of people buy them because of the ads and previews that are on the VHS before the movies too.
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Guys when DVD 📀 came out, I threw away like 700 VHS 📼 movies. 🫨😲😳
The bro has got a lot that I don't have. He has an impressive collection good showing and cool video bro!🫡
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