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

Brussels Sprout · 10-03-2018 10:43AM #1

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

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One eyed Jack · 10-03-2018 11:04AM

The "Emmanuelle" series of movies!

Jesus I must look them up :pac:

Ninthlife · 10-03-2018 11:06AM

House

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

jester77 · 10-03-2018 11:20AM

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 · 10-03-2018 11:24AM

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.

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HalloweenJack · 10-03-2018 11:26AM

Can't link the image.

Scanners.

Pretty much everything in the horror section.

The_Valeyard · 10-03-2018 12:18PM

Relikk · 10-03-2018 12:55PM

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

geotrig · 10-03-2018 12:59PM

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 · 10-03-2018 01:05PM

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

suicide_circus · 10-03-2018 01:39PM

TerrorFirmer · 10-03-2018 01:43PM

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 · 10-03-2018 01:46PM

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 · 10-03-2018 01:55PM

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 · 10-03-2018 02:03PM

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.

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Brussels Sprout · 10-03-2018 06:21PM

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

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Lorelli! · 10-03-2018 06:47PM

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 · 10-03-2018 06:59PM

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 · 10-03-2018 08:09PM

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 · 10-03-2018 08:18PM

mzungu · 10-03-2018 08:20PM

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

mzungu · 10-03-2018 08:22PM

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 · 10-03-2018 08:27PM

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 · 10-03-2018 08:33PM

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

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mzungu · 10-03-2018 08:36PM

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: insert address here

Bobs your uncle.:)

Earthhorse · 10-03-2018 08:48PM

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

DancingHomer · 10-03-2018 08:52PM

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.

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

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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.

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Thanks for the nostalgia buzz!

Your Face · 10-03-2018 09:04PM

conorhal · 10-03-2018 09:14PM

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.

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Hector Bellend · 10-03-2018 09:18PM

The video shop window?

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

bodhrandude · 10-03-2018 09:25PM

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.

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

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