Favourite artwork covers in the old tape collection?
 

What was your favourite artwork on the old video covers?
Favourites of mine include;
THE SQUEEZE (WARNER)
RAZORBACK EMI
DEATH TRAP VIPCO
NIGHT OF THE ZOMBIES APPLE
CHILDREN OF THE CORN EMI
THE DEAD ZONE EMI
VIDEODROME CIC

Happy Birthday To Me (RCA/Columbia - the DVD is appalling and edited) http://shameless-films.com/forums/im...milies/mad.gif
The Last Hunter (Elephant)
Kingdom Of The Spiders (Apex)
Swamp Thing (Warner)

The reason I mentioned these is because they're all in front of me at the moment. :)

Great thread - I'm a Charlie Band collector, and some of his early covers from the Empire days are mouthwaterngly iconic

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My fave has always been this one for Deadly Blessing (Wes Craven, 1981). It's not that great but I think it might be because it's the first VHS I tracked down on eBay. It's just had a DVD release in the UK and I've got a copy but I love my VHS too much to chuck it!

Berryman....that is the reason HILLS/HILLS 2 covers were so cool...the arrow release dvd artwork made it look like a Leprechaun film:D:rolleyes:

BLOODBATH AT THE HOUSE OF DEATH,now there is a corker of a poster,as i say iused to have the thorn-emi video release poster,anyone remember their posters?They had 'the side ' of the video cassette sleeve down the side and were bordered with a colour,usually red....oh happy days eh:rolleyes:wish someone would release it ahem ahem.........

Hey marc you got any old emi video posters in the dungeon m8?How about some images for old times sakes.....

Yes wouldn't it be nice if someone did release it... :)

Sure would and hopefully in the near future;)I love all things of a british horror nature,even this spoof,a guilty pleasure of mine....:blush:

Some of my faves were The Amazing Mr No Legs from Temple, Don't Answer The Phone from WOV2000 and The Devonsville Terror from (if memory serves) VTC

DATP has had a good release from BCI, Anchor Bay did a passable job of Devonsville, but Mr No Legs NEEDS to be released by one of the major cult players, Synapse, BU, NoShame. Hey, here's an idea, how about Shameless? If ever there was a title to put a company on the map, this would be THE standout title. The net is awash with ropey 3rd gen bootlegs on DVDr, how about a nice, spanking clean remastered print, with a commentary track with cast/crew and Marc Morris? Being as the film is virtually unknown outside of its tiny core demographic audience, the rights to buy it up should be miniscule, but the profits returned could be astronomical.

Something to bear in mind for the future perhaps? Instead of releasing titles that are widely available overseas, why not aim for titles that aren't readily available anywhere and master them all to Region 0 NTSC discs? That way they're universal, all that needs to alter is the sleeve. Up to now I think that you're doing a bang up job, any company that can get Flavia and NY Ripper past the BBFC deserves both attention and respect, not to mention money. Let's hope that when the coffers are suitably swelled we'll start to see some original product.

Just out of curiosity, how do you/will you decide on forthcoming releases? Do you poll or ask for feedback etc? What is the criteria?

We've had a few thoughts on things like do double-sided discs with NTSC versions on the other side and so on but really it's all a bit dodgy copyrightwise.

As for picking titles we had a pile to work through which we're doing, had another pile to go which the prices have now soared on so we're out and about shopping! The plan was always two titles a month and have one well-known title (which yes you get on import but would be available in the shops to try and kickstart a new generation of fans) and then a rarity which would be a treat for fans.

That's actually harder to do due to materials you discover are actually piles of rubble, a lack of money compared to US companies who have set formidable presentation standards which we somehow have to try and match in a market at least a tenth of the size if not less as they get to enjoy worldwise sales, no staff to speak of and the desire to buy only your favourite films!

We do read through every suggestion on this site so please suggest away. It's incredible how hard it can bo to buy films though due to crazy prices, lack of materials and rights owners suddenly coming out of nowhere but we should have the next wave of releases to announce soon. We are though picking our way through the catalogues right now so suggest away!

mr m ain't taking the bait.........:jest:

Nucleus have just announced their release of this for later this year......gonna be a good year for us horror fans with SHAMELESS and NUCLEUS,especially that the videohound morris is working with shameless:D

Omg,a fellow Charles Band fanatic.Few and far between if you ask me :)

I've got rid of most of my collection of Charlie's VHS now - but I think at one point I had just over 100 Charlie movies on VHS with about 40 on DVD.

Even though the majority of them are cheesily awful, they have a certain low budget charm to them that no-one else can seem to match.

I'm still collecting them today, and I always manage to fit his latest movies into my rental store - the most popular recent one being the legendary 'Evil Bong'.

A UK distributor called Film 2000 still picks his movies up over her - so I'm pretty up to date, and really looking forward to his next release !!! ........................

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Now available to preorder at amazon,c'mon folks ,support your genre labels and preorder now....mr morris has spent a looonnngggg time on this one,a lot of hard graft has went into this one......;)

Other belters included:
HOUSE WHERE EVIL DWELLS
GALAXY OF TERROR
OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN
FINAL TERROR
FINAL MISSION
THE GLITTER DOME
SLAYGROUND
CONAN THE BARBARIAN
REVENGE OF THE NINJA
MEGAFORCE:D
PRAY FOR DEATH
MAD MAX 2
THE TERMINATOR
VIGILANTE FORCE
HILLS HAVE EYES PART 2
STONE
THE SENDER
RED DAWN-NOT the bullshit you get on every dvd release now:(
DREAMSCAPE
WHO DARES WINS
WILD GEESE II
MORONS FROM OUTER SPACE
FIRST BLOOD EMI-(Got this artwork on me japanese import-ditto RAMBO);)
MONSTER (Humanoids from the deep)
TWILIGHT ZONE THE MOVIE -Not like the bullshit artwork now:(
THE LIFT
any more you can think of folks?
Don't know what it was,but SUDDEN IMPACT to me was quite iconic....

my faves

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Great artwork.....got Cannibal Holocaust art like this on the ltd ed.EC DVD and the vipco Zombie Creeping Flesh.....time somebody released Absurd though.....think i read somewhere the rights are owned by a major....anyone know?

I think Absurd is owned by MGM though I could be wrong.

I loved the video covers to Happy Birthday To Me, The Funhouse, Rosemary's Killer and Graduation Day. All of which have been completely ditched in favour of ghastly ones for the current UK DVD releases. http://shameless-films.com/forums/im...milies/mad.gif

The r4 HBTM features the original artwork mate...superb...:)

The UK DVD covers are absolutely atrocious.

I picked up the old VHS of Happy Birthday To Me a while back. The music is terrific, though this also seems to have been replaced in recent DVD releases (unless the German audio is played). http://shameless-films.com/forums/im...s/confused.gif

I liked the UK VHS artwork to Just Before Dawn. Used to freak me out as a kid! Can't find it online to post, though..

I have Just Before Dawn on Laserdisc, it's the guy standing there.

I've got a bunch of favourites, maybe I should scan a few.

Yeah man, that's it. Something real ominous about it though. I used to stare at that cover for ages.

Far superior to the r1 dvd release.......:(

This one ? :D

http://www.itsonlyamovie.co.uk/COVER...ORE%20DAWN.jpg



You can buy the DVD of this for around 3 quid on Amazon,but the reviews say it has a shoddy print though.

That's the one! Isn' tthat a great, and ominous cover.. Very TCM, yet somehow creepier..

Entermainment On Video favourite covers:-
Whodunnit ?
Bronx Warriors
Bronx Warriors 2
The New Barbarians
Rosemarys Killer
VTC favourites:-
Ninja Wars
The Octagon
Delirium
Endgame
After The Fall Of New York
Thorn E.M.I :-
Deathship
Southern Comfort
Hundra

You can buy the DVD of this for around 3 quid on Amazon,but the reviews say it has a shoddy print though.[/QUOTE]

The Odeon dvd of Just Before Dawn is just about watchable & it's also uncut unlike the 2-disc US release which I will also pick up eventually.

Superb artwork vfb,this your personal copy?Very good nick........

No not mine I took it off the net to see if that was indeed the right film cover.:)

And some more....

Here's some American stuff I found.....

Excellent, love that Exterminator 2 cover.

Here's some of my old fav's I scanned in from my video collection, mostly trashy 80's films but what can I say, I love them.
Don't know what the quality will be like, I had to massively reduce the file types but hopefully they'll be OK.

And some more check out the XTRO Almar!;)

And more goodies.....

Blacula LOL

Here's a couple of others I couldn't fit in that last post

Notice the slight difference to the dvd releases cover on HILLS 2?

Woah! Galaxy Of Terror looks amazing, might have to see if I can find a copy of that :D