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Back in the day ... when you could rent horror movies for 50p from xtra-vision

  • 16-10-2012 3:16am
    #1
    B.A._Baracus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,208 ✭✭✭✭


    Was just watching a few youtube videos of classic horror movies and reminded me of back in the day when every halloween, xtra vision would do a special were you could rent a horror movie for 50p - man I miss that! :o

    I remember watching such titles as Silver Bullet, The Blob, various Nightmare on Elm Street movies :) ... how come Xtra vision dont do that these days? ...

    And of course, Anyone else remember those days? :)


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  • #2
    fasttalkerchat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,652 ✭✭✭fasttalkerchat


    15 years ago our local video shop sold videos for 50p! All were copied, some poorly, but still cheaper than renting one.


  • #3
    candy-gal1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,568 ✭✭✭candy-gal1


    Oh i remember this, great times, also when they used to have a deal like get one movie and get any childs movie for free i think :)


  • #4
    RoyalMarine
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,824 ✭✭✭RoyalMarine


    worked in xtra vision before. about 9 years ago IIRC.

    I remember this one guy who use to rent 7 movies and 7 playstation games on a saturday morning every week for a year I was there.


  • #5
    Irish Guitarist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist


    I remember one that appeared to be a horror film, but that's not really what it was at all. It was called 'White Dog'. It was about a dog that had been abandoned and then found by a woman. The new owners really loved him and he was a really loveable and friendly dog. That is until it turned out that his previous owners had been racists and had forced him to attack black people. The dog was sent to a specialist (who was black) that tried to train him not to attack people.

    It was actually a very moving and believable film. I really wanted the dog to get the help he needed as he was really lovely and was only the way he was because it was what he had been trained to do.

    I just did a search for it and the current DVD has a really tame looking cover. However when I rented it back in the late eighties or early nineties it had a picture on the cover of a really vicious looking dog which is probably why it had been on the shelf with the horror films.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Dog


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