Movies that you always saw in the video shop but never rented

Brussels Sprout

This is one for the over 30s

I went to video/DVD rental shops a lot growing up. In the pre-internet days it was a major source of entertainment.

Anyway I used to spend 10 or 20 minutes browsing the shelves before making my selection. Thing is I still remember loads of the movies that I never rented out or subsequently saw.

So in this thread post an image of just 1 of those movie covers

One eyed Jack

The "Emmanuelle" series of movies!

Jesus I must look them up :pac:

Ninthlife

House


Btw: how do you post the image instead of a link

jester77

Brussels Sprout wrote: »

This is one for the over 30s

I went to video/DVD rental shops a lot growing up. In the pre-internet days it was a major source of entertainment.

Anyway I used to spend 10 or 20 minutes browsing the shelves before making my selection. Thing is I still remember loads of the movies that I never rented out or subsequently saw.

So in this thread post an image of just 1 of those movie covers

A classic, my local cinema is showing it on the big screen next month, can't wait

Duckworth_Luas

This one always facinated me when I was about 13/14 in the video shop.

About 10 years ago I tracked it down on Amazon or Ebay and had to buy it.

Complete and utter $hit but worth every cent.

HalloweenJack

Can't link the image.

Scanners.

Pretty much everything in the horror section.

The_Valeyard

Relikk

Along with stuff like Confessions of a Window Cleaner/Pop Performer etc.

geotrig

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

This one always facinated me when I was about 13/14 in the video shop.

About 10 years ago I tracked it down on Amazon or Ebay and had to buy it.

Complete and utter $hit but worth every cent.

I love this film up there as one of my favourites

jpm4

This one, guess it might have been racy back in the 80s

suicide_circus

TerrorFirmer

I remember aged about 10 thinking this looked like the coolest movie ever.

Finally watched it and Cyber Tracker 2 about 15 years later on DVD....absolutely dreadful, but in a sorta 'so bad its good' way.

darkdubh

I remember seeing Withnail And I in a video shop in the late 80's and thinking it sounded intriguing but didn't bite, at that point it was virtually unknown. Did get to watch it years later and became a huge fan.

darkdubh

One eyed Jack wrote: »

The "Emmanuelle" series of movies!

Jesus I must look them up :pac:

One video shop I used to go to had an "adult" section with all those and stuff like the Porkys films. They also Betty Blue in there, probably solely because of the title. The staff there were clueless about films, I asked once about renting out Taxi Driver and the lad at the desk had never heard of it.

Ralf and Florian

I can't find a picture of the VHS release but it had the same artwork and I think tagline as the above. I remember reading the blurb on the back and being put off by the mention of prison rape. Still haven't seen it to this day.

Brussels Sprout

HalloweenJack wrote: »

Pretty much everything in the horror section.

Yeah same actually.

I also remember seeing this one on the shelf all the time from near the end of time visiting my local Blockbuster

Lorelli!

geotrig wrote: »

I love this film up there as one of my favourites

Saw it years ago and always remembered it. It is a very good film.

Arghus

The ones in Xtra-vision that used to have that yellow sticker on the front of the box that read "Strictly Over Eighteens". I figured they were the promised land of on-screen boobage.

conorhal

My pre-adolescent brain wanted to rent this so bad. And why not? It has a gross, rotting, wormy, zombie hand giving you sequel fingers!

So..... it has a 0% rating on Rottentomatoes.com ...

That Might seem like bad news, but watch Comicbookgirl19 explain why you should love this film, this review convinced me.
I haven't seen it yet, but it's *cough*downloading*cough*

mzungu

mzungu

From the description it sounded like The Karate Kid with guitars.

mzungu

Magazines at the time made this sound pretty good, but I never got to watch it. Even in a dystopian future, how dangerous can guys on roller skates be? Nobody I knew was remotely dangerous on them in the eighties.

Ajsoprano

Great thread. I’ve no idea how to do pictures but when I seen the title I thought of the hellraiser cover and married to the mob.

Will I Am Not

I used to always see this and think it was a curse word :pac:

mzungu

Ajsoprano wrote: »

Great thread. I’ve no idea how to do pictures but when I seen the title I thought of the hellraiser cover and married to the mob.

Find the url of the picture (you will know as it ends in a .jpg) and then paste it in between image tags. Example:

Bobs your uncle.:)

Earthhorse

Can't find a bigger image than this. Seems like a bit of a horror theme emerging on thread.

DancingHomer

Great idea for a thread OP!

One i never got around to renting was 'The Monster Squad'. I thought it'd be like The Lost Boys, maybe a underrated gem.

I watched it in youtube a few years ago, Jesus Christ it was awful.



The Serpent and the Rainbow was another i never got around to watching.



I used to get free Movie posters from the local Video Shop. Didn't see most of these films but loved sticking the posters on my bedroom wall.








Thanks for the nostalgia buzz!

Your Face

conorhal

jpm4 wrote: »

This one, guess it might have been racy back in the 80s

I think it would be racy for any time, featuring as it does, a gay orgy and hardcore porn, all of which but for few short, blink and miss it, cuts survive in the film after it was seized by the FBI.

Oh you should watch it. But but get the DVD with the commentary. The story behind the film is just bizarre.
The number or famous effects artists that cut their teeth on that film like Rick Baker and Dennis Muren is insane and the reason it looks so good.. for a porno that's a loving tribute to the old RKO serials (who would ever do such a thing today?)
It's also famous for controversy, the behind the scenes tale is one of madness, fraud, drugs, paranoia, incompetence, attempted murder and the fact that the FBI seized all it's pornographic content in a raid to build a case that resulted in the legalization of 'oral copulation' in the States. The commentary is just amazing and gives the background to a truly weird making of a movie that would make a great movie in itself.

Hilarious.

Hector Bellend

The video shop window?

Dude this is 21st century Ireland not 1960's Cavan

bodhrandude

I remember renting this, Underground from the Shantalla Video club in Galway in the mid nineties, one of the very best art house video stores in Ireland at the time, a great and utterly bonkers film about a community of people who sheltered underground during the second world war in Serbia only the guy who was running the shelter didn't tell them the war had ended and they emerged overground in the 1990s during the Bosnian war.

conorhal

Hector Bellend wrote: »

The video shop window?

Dude this is 21st century Ireland not 1960's Cavan

Yeaaah... we were still renting those things in 90's Dublin you know?

mightybashful

This. After watching her in Splash.....

mightybashful

mightybashful wrote: »

This. After watching her in Splash.....

How do I make that picture show??

_Kaiser_

mightybashful wrote: »

How do I make that picture show??

See post #25 above

Cheating a bit as we didn't really rent films but had Sky movies in the 80s/90s.. I did see this in Xtra Vision at the time and when I finally was allowed watch it, I remember being pretty scared by the first 20-odd minutes of this...



Ah youth!

bazz26

All 6 or 7 Police Academy movies.

_Kaiser_

^^ If I remember right, after 3 they got pretty crap anyway

conorhal

_Kaiser_ wrote: »

^^ If I remember right, after 3 they got pretty crap anyway

The first one is frickin' GREAT though..

I mean seriously, it's actually a damn good movie, but all people will remember is the increasingly awful sequels that made the film a laughing stock parody of what happens when you keep spinning out sequels on little more then brand recognition alone... *cough*Ghostbusters2016*cough*

Katgurl

Stop or my mom will shoot

Insect Overlord

https://goo.gl/images/kqXZmZ

I think I was only 14 when this hit the top shelf in XtraVision. I never got the chance to rent it, but have seen it several times since.

conorhal

Insect Overlord wrote: »

https://goo.gl/images/kqXZmZ

I think I was only 14 when this hit the top shelf in XtraVision. I never got the chance to rent it, but have seen it several times since.

And I'd just like to say, what a brilliant movie. A film 'Fifty Shades of Grey' couldn't even aspire to 'lick the boots of', and is in fact the film that POS movie which started out as Twilight fan-fiction (no, really) ripped off, even the main character Spader plays is called Edward E. Gray.
But what a dark, quirky, well written and oddly uplifting film 'Secretary' is. I encourage folks to watch it.

DMcL1971

I always wanted to rent this when I was a teenager but there was just something about the artwork that made me think it might be too frightening for me. Decades later I saw it and of course it turned out to be rubbish and not particularly frightening.

Ninthlife

Roger Mellie Man on the Telly

conorhal

Roger Mellie Man on the Telly wrote: »

Prevert! :pac:


Ah Brooke Shields, queen of jail-bait movies. The 70's were very odd...and not always in a 'Black Samurai' kind of way.....

mzungu

conorhal

mzungu wrote: »

What a great poster!

It was Released the same year, 1989, as James Cameron's 'The Abyss' (how weird is it that 3 underwater sci-fi movies with aliens would come out within a year?)
In the case of Leviathan it has the same scenario and characters as The Abyss, it's practically the same movie.... if you made a series of bad choices in the direction it takes. An underwater drilling crew of misfits find a sunken Russian ship and hijinks ensue including a hurricane that prevents their rescue.
But despite it's great cast it's a poor movie compared to Cameron's, largely because Cameron chose to go with classic 'Close Encounters' wonder and Leviathan stuck to cheesy 80's horror tropes and so it tries and fails to be underwater 'Alien'.


Anyway if on youtube you were to search Leviathan blu-ray you might get to check it out for nostalgia sake.

Oh, that third movie I mentioned.. well the less said about Deepstar Six the better....

darkdubh

mzungu wrote: »

Magazines at the time made this sound pretty good, but I never got to watch it. Even in a dystopian future, how dangerous can guys on roller skates be? Nobody I knew was remotely dangerous on them in the eighties.

You wouldn't want to mess with them rollerboys I'm tellin ya.

conorhal

darkdubh wrote: »

You wouldn't want to mess with them rollerboys I'm tellin ya.

Damn right!

darkdubh

Hector Bellend wrote: »

The video shop window?

Dude this is 21st century Ireland not 1960's Cavan

Whoosh! Over your head.

Relikk

Still haven't seen it...