Movies you used to get out on video.

nlgbbbblth

darkdubh wrote: »

Remember the Today Tonight programme on video nasties circa 86?Showed a lot of gory clips from Driller Killer,Zombie Flesh Eaters and Maniac,think The Evil Dead too.

I do. My parents were shocked to learn that I had already seen a good few of them at that point.

There was a similar documentary on BBC around the end of 1984. That got me hooked.

There's a great book on the whole controversy - See No Evil.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/See-No-Evil-Banned-Controversy/dp/1900486105/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1417342789&sr=8-8&keywords=david+kerekes

and the two volumes of Video Nasties: The Definitive Guide are also essential viewing
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Video-Nasties-Definitive-Guide-DVD/dp/B004BDZ0FC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1417342848&sr=8-1&keywords=VIDEO+NASTIES

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Video-Nasties-Definitive-Guide-Limited/dp/B00KE2BWE2/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1417342848&sr=8-2&keywords=VIDEO+NASTIES

YellowFeather

chillywilly wrote: »

I used to rent out IT (Pennywise the clown) for all my sleep overs as a kid. It used to scare the ****e out of us

IT used to come in two tapes 'cause it was so long. Same with the original The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.

Curly Sue was a frequent rental for me. And Critters. I also seem to remember paying with an English fiver one time 'cause the rates were the same? Could that be right or was yer man just ripping me off? Around the mid 90s.

We also had a tape for cleaning the VCR which had a little hole that you put drops of special liquid into and then 'played' it for a half hour. I loved doing that.

"Muuum. I'm going to fix the video player." :pac:

rainbowdrop

The youth of today don't know how lucky they. Thanks to the internet they can watch any movie they want when they want......

I remember me and my brothers being allowed to go rent movies most weekends. Favourites were Ghostbusters, Flight of The Navigator, BMX Bandits, The Boy Who Could Fly, Moonwalker and Karate Kid.
Our parents were selective over what videos we were allowed to watch, but my aunt was not, so when we had sleepovers at our cousins house, my aunt would rent stuff like Nightmare on Elm Street, Hellraiser, Carrie, Christine and Candyman.

I remember settling down on the couch in front of the tv with big bags of opal fruits (now known as starburst, for our younger readers) and boxes of maltesers. No microwave popcorn back then.

Happy days!!

RoadhouseBlues

rainbowdrop wrote: »

The youth of today don't know how lucky they. Thanks to the internet they can watch any movie they want when they want......

I remember me and my brothers being allowed to go rent movies most weekends. Favourites were Ghostbusters, Flight of The Navigator, BMX Bandits, The Boy Who Could Fly, Moonwalker and Karate Kid.
Our parents were selective over what videos we were allowed to watch, but my aunt was not, so when we had sleepovers at our cousins house, my aunt would rent stuff like Nightmare on Elm Street, Hellraiser, Carrie, Christine and Candyman.

I remember settling down on the couch in front of the tv with big bags of opal fruits (now known as starburst, for our younger readers) and boxes of maltesers. No microwave popcorn back then.

Happy days!!

I remember a Saturday at my friends house. We were about 10. There were 2 movies. Aliens. Which we thought was amazing:) and a martial arts movie that we weren't meant to be watching cos it was a bit adult:). I think it was China O'Brien but I could be wrong. I actually never saw it since. But for us. Aliens was the business. My god. I will never forget that Saturday:-). Psssst there was a topless scene in the other movie:D

Professey Chin

WHITE FANG!!!

Sorry. Moment of rememberance

Luckycharms_74

Remember renting all the martial arts movies. I think it was the Big Boss and after watching it me and my friends tried to re-enact the moves. I think we broke a vase or something and my father came in and got the tape and stood on it and bust it in two

branie2

Luckycharms_74 wrote: »

Remember renting all the martial arts movies. I think it was the Big Boss and after watching it me and my friends tried to re-enact the moves. I think we broke a vase or something and my father came in and got the tape and stood on it and bust it in two

I hope the film wasn't a rental!

The Mulk

rainbowdrop wrote: »

The youth of today don't know how lucky they. Thanks to the internet they can watch any movie they want when they want......

I remember me and my brothers being allowed to go rent movies most weekends. Favourites were Ghostbusters, Flight of The Navigator, BMX Bandits, The Boy Who Could Fly, Moonwalker and Karate Kid.
Our parents were selective over what videos we were allowed to watch, but my aunt was not, so when we had sleepovers at our cousins house, my aunt would rent stuff like Nightmare on Elm Street, Hellraiser, Carrie, Christine and Candyman.

I remember settling down on the couch in front of the tv with big bags of opal fruits (now known as starburst, for our younger readers) and boxes of maltesers. No microwave popcorn back then.

Happy days!!

I remember all those films, especially seeing the trailers of them, and getting really excited until they came out.

The boy who could fly, that's a blast from the past:pac:

There was one film I loved "The Go-kids" set in Australia about a local legend called the 'donkegin', seen it recently on the TV and it was called "Frog Dreaming" (WTF), I had to google it to make sure I wasn't loosing my mind. Seems they had different names for it in different regions

The Monster Squad was another favourite

Deep Thought

Major League
The Wraith...

rubadub

Ralf and Florian wrote: »

The Terminator,

Think that was the first one I got with a "fake note", they would give out 18s films if you had a note in the place I went. Then some lads parents would have a note on the account allowing it as standard, so people would be using their accounts, sometime unknown to the person who had the account. The security was pretty lax "whats your address" and they would just know the address of the guy.

Kids today would not believe the delay in films coming out and the time it took for them to appear on video. There seemed to be a huge delay in even coming to the cinema from the US, not sure how long and maybe it just seemed a very long time as a kid.

Aglomerado

rubadub wrote: »

Kids today would not believe the delay in films coming out and the time it took for them to appear on video. There seemed to be a huge delay in even coming to the cinema from the US, not sure how long and maybe it just seemed a very long time as a kid.

The delay could be anything from 1-2 years after cinema release before you'd be able to get the film in your local video rental shop!

chakotha

chakotha wrote: »

Highlander
The Lost Boys

yessssssssss and

commando
NICO
weird science
rocky 4
Rambo
trains plains and automobiles
Beverly hills cop
freddys revenge

etc etc etc etc etc etc

great times

Aglomerado

rusty cole wrote: »

trains plains and automobiles

Getting this film out on video was always better than watching it on TV, because the Steve Martin car rental desk scene would not have all the expletives censored!

Agent Coulson

American Ninja.

Ralf and Florian

I had a friend who during the course of an epic drinking session in another guys house says they watched six videos In a row one night.They were mostly Kung fu and Jean Claude Van Damme movies.

blade1

The Wanderers was the first video we saw at home.
You could buy a second hand vcr in the sound and vision shop and rent the videos for about two pound for the week.

Odyssey 2005

I remember some of the video rental shops would "fine" you if you didn't rewind the fookin tape. Always remember me da shouting before we returned them"did Ya rewind the video"

Into The Blue

"do you want to pay anything off the account?"
Eh, no.

George White

rainbowdrop wrote: »

BMX Bandits

Starring Nicole Kidman in her first role, directed by Aussie exploitation master Brian Trenchard Smith who also directed...

The Mulk wrote: »

There was one film I loved "The Go-kids" set in Australia about a local legend called the 'donkegin', seen it recently on the TV and it was called "Frog Dreaming" (WTF), I had to google it to make sure I wasn't loosing my mind. Seems they had different names for it in different regions

Starring Henry Thomas, Elliot off ET.

Areyouwell

Ralf and Florian wrote: »

I had a friend who during the course of an epic drinking session in another guys house says they watched six videos In a row one night.They were mostly Kung fu and Jean Claude Van Damme movies.

I've been down that road . Thought I was Bruce Lee afterwards and nearly hospitalised myself in the process.

Ralf and Florian

Ralf and Florian wrote: »

I had a friend who during the course of an epic drinking session in another guys house says they watched six videos In a row one night.They were mostly Kung fu and Jean Claude Van Damme movies.

I remember the bloodsport subtext caption under Van damme in the video shop.

"Martial arts sensation, Jean claude van damme"
"Worth his weight in steroids" Daily Mirror!

Hematocyte

I distinctly remember we once in the mid '80s got a lend of a VCR (yeah we'd didn't even own a VCR!) for a week or so from a neighbour who had gone on holidays. We rented Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark and Ghostbusters.

I got up at like 6am on the Saturday morning and rushed downstairs to watch them on (what I guess?) was probably a 17inch tv screen.

I could only describe the experience as akin to that feeling you get on Christmas morning when you go to check your presents. Pretty magical.

* = Incidentally, did anyone else have that experience of being 'lent' a VCR machines by friends or neighbors who had gone on holidays? I think the underlying concept behind it was that a VCR was such a big ticket item back then that it was a prime target if anyone broke into their house while they were on holidays.. So it was much safer to just give it to a friends house for the duration.

We had at least two other familes who lent us VCRs on numerous occasions.

nlgbbbblth

Anyone ever rent a VCR and then sell it?

Guy in my class did it back in the 1980s.

Trainspotting! Any single excuse... "friend coming to stay the night? Rent Trainspotting!".... "Bank holiday weekend? Rent Trainspotting!" My brother finally bought it for me on VHS when I was 17.

As a kid, we had loads of tape3d movies, so rarely rented the same movies more than once.

mzungu

rubadub wrote: »

Kids today would not believe the delay in films coming out and the time it took for them to appear on video. There seemed to be a huge delay in even coming to the cinema from the US, not sure how long and maybe it just seemed a very long time as a kid.

Jurassic Park took nearly a year and a half to come out on video. When I eventually got to see it towards the latter end of 1994, I was possibly the only person on earth who hadn't seen it.

BlaasForRafa

Ralf and Florian wrote: »

I had a friend who during the course of an epic drinking session in another guys house says they watched six videos In a row one night.They were mostly Kung fu and Jean Claude Van Damme movies.

I ended up watching The Breakfast Club 4 times in a row in my student house when I was in college one night because everyone was too mashed to get up and change the tape.

Deep Thought

Remo - Unarmed and Dangerous

http://youtu.be/z9h1gFoqAKU

Aglomerado

Deep Thought wrote: »

Remo - Unarmed and Dangerous

http://youtu.be/z9h1gFoqAKU

I loved that! Especially with the sensai guy, he was class.

cml387

I remember a seemingly endless series of true life weepies, all starring Brian Dennehy.

darkdubh

cml387 wrote: »

I remember a seemingly endless series of true life weepies, all starring Brian Dennehy.

Yes and they were all on the same label that seemed to specialise in made for tv movies.

The Mulk

darkdubh wrote: »

Yes and they were all on the same label that seemed to specialise in made for tv movies.

My Aunt watched one where he(Brian Dennehy) played a character who abused boys in a home, she never liked him after that and wouldn't watch a film if he was in it.

sbsquarepants

Porkys and anything with Jackie Chan in it.

BlaasForRafa

The Mulk wrote: »

My Aunt watched one where he(Brian Dennehy) played a character who abused boys in a home, she never liked him after that and wouldn't watch a film if he was in it.

He was great in First Blood as the asshole sheriff though.

The Mulk

BlaasForRafa wrote: »

He was great in First Blood as the asshole sheriff though.

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Yeah, I've always liked him, especially the thing he does with his eye at the end of Cocoon.:pac:
I think the film my Aunt seen was "To catch a killer" where he played John Wayne Gacy

darkdubh

darkdubh wrote: »

Yes and they were all on the same label that seemed to specialise in made for tv movies.

It was the Odyssey label.Just thought of it now.The movies on it were always made for TV films based on true stories,usually about murders.