Kyle's VHS hunt diary
 

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well since i decided a few days ago that i will now start to collect VHS! i thought it might be a good idea to keep a diary of films i get hold of and post pics and maybe stories of how or where i got them from.


yesterday the only VHS i owned were zombie child and hard boiled 2, i used to have hundreds but over the years have given them away to charity shops :doh: to make space for dvd's.
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i woke up this morning quite excited, i had decided to get up town early and search some charity shops for tapes, the first place i was going to try was the place i had given most of my old tapes to over the years.

when i walked through the door i instantly noticed that the vhs section had been replaced with some shitty kids toy :mmph:, i asked the guy where they had gone and he said that nobody buys vhs anymore so they have thrown all of the tapes away at the tip :cry: and it seems that this has happend at a few other charity shops also.

most of the shops that did have any only seemed to have work out videos or children's films but i did find these at one of them.

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i have seen repossessed quite a few times but don't own it on DVD and it was 25p, i have never even heard of electra glide in blue but after reading the back it sounds quite interesting and this was 50p.

when i got back home my little lad was waiting for me with a small vhs shaped package in his chubby little hands for me :woot: inside was Amityville 3 that i had won on ebay on Monday for £1, not sure if i had seen this before or not but will watch tonight hopefully.

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nice pics

I have that HARD BOILED 2 tape. Not watched it though.

i haven't yet either and i have had it for years :P

Looks fun! Keep us posted! :D

Excellent stuff - I look forward to seeing what you find!

I too regret getting rid of all my VHS's a few years back to make way for dvd. I think the only ones I have left are Lost Highway, Twin Peaks Fire Walk With Me, The Seventh Seal, Repulsion, Walkabout, Monkey Shines and the Children of the Corn Trilogy. We have a vhs/dvd combo player too so I can always watch them if I want.

I luv this thread! :woot: Fantastic idea, Slicer - good luck with your new VHS collecting obsession! Is that Amityville 3 VHS a Big Box or just a normal one? Repossessed looks great fun!

That's the trouble with finding VHS now - some charity shops dont have any and they're often filled with crap kiddy films or films about fishing ¬__¬ so when you do find something it's even more rewarding. Luckily there's the internet - though that kinda takes away the whole hunting idea.

Keep us posted buddy! :)

yeah it does but it seems apart from going town to town hunting charity shops or carboots (im going to go one this sunday) its the only way, shame about postage prices :mmph: £2.50 a tape

amityville 3 is just a small box

:laugh: Sometimes you end up paying more for postage than the actual video - ah well.

Funnily enough I've just begun collecting VHS again myself - I sold a ton of them to Smack Convertors a few years ago back when you could still get 50p each for them. Made a tidy sum actually. I only kept a hold of a handful that had not yet been issued on DVD at the time or if they had were OOP and hard to get - Naked, The Keep, etc.

So far I have picked up the big box versions of The Geek and Trick Or Treat, and a pre-cert copy of House Of Whipchord. I'm focusing mainly on the big box versions as I love the fact that each company at the time seemed to put a lot of thought into there own packaging, with brightly coloured cases and embossed logos etc. rather than just all using the same generic cases. That and the amazing artwork is what makes collecting VHS so appealing to me.

Hmmm, maybe I should start my own thread ;) .

By the way, Electraglide In Blue is an amazing film - one of my favourites; it was unavailable for a long time on DVD (at least in the UK, as far as I know) but has since been issued by Optimum. They showed it on BBC's Moviedrome many years ago and I had been hunting for it ever since :) . I picked up the soundtrack on LP when it was reissued by Simply Vinyl a few years ago. It is generally regarded as one of the all time great soundtracks, along with Bullet et al.

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its crap when you think of the stuff you could of had still :(

over the last few days i have ordered some VHS from ebay that i cant wait to get my hands on,

i have ordered:

The Final Terror - PRE-CERT
KINDRED - BIG BOX
DREAM DEMON - Palace Horror
The Evil Dead II - Palace Horror
BRAIN DAMAGE - Palace Horror
TRICK OR TREAT - Palace Horror

was expecting a delivery today but it came when i was at work so has been taken back to the sorting office and becuse of the stupid royal wedding i cant pick up till saturday :mmph:

Electra Glide is very good. :nod:
Nice to see some more love for the old vhs!

Some nice pick-ups there; I have a real soft spot for those Palace Horror vids - ah, memories :) - and have always fancied collecting the complete set. One of the few tapes I kept hold of was my Palace Night Of The Demons.

nice! need to find that one for myself

just a few ordinary buys today from a charity shop fora pound for 6 tapes

got

A.W.O.L - i know they are shit but i love van damme films
lethal weapon - only got this as its part of the same collection that elctra glide was and thought it might be cool to get them all

then also got these as i don't own on DVD apart from mad max but i had to pick my 6th film

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and completely forgot to post this on here - my VHS of the Taint number 48/88

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here is a pic of my tiny little collection so far ( also found my vhs of digital hardcore ), the collection should be a lot bigger by next week as im visiting a carboot on sunday and also making my way to sunny Liverpool to pick up some tapes from Pete :clap: and im waiting for a few to come from ebay :)


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I regret getting rid of my Taste of Fear VHS tapes of Tyburn's The Ghoul and Legend of the Werewolf. :(

yeah i keep remembering the cool tapes i used to own like my big box killer klowns and a film called bad girls dormitory that was in a cardboard sleeve and so many more :doh:

theres a few varients of the palace video evil dead 2 i think my VHS of it is a gold case

if i'd known you were collecting vhs i wouldn't have binned all mine two weeks ago. i shifted about 3 black bags full.

i still got most of mine a my mums in the attic.. over 250 and she keeps asking me to move them ...but i put them there when i moved house and dont seem to find time or place to put them

Noooooooo bloody typical :P would have been awesome


its a shame they are heavy and cost a lot to post or i would defo buy some from you, you dont happen to live near stoke on trent do you?

today in the post arrived these beauty's that i won on ebay



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that Brain Damage artwork is great

Nah i live up in the north east nr newcastle, i to sort them out 1st and be a while cos i to bring them up here from Manchester way...

ahhh too bad :(


today i went to my local car boot sale, i got up at 7am so that i could get there for 8am and was expecting to be surrounded by awesome tapes by 9am, its been such a long time since i went to a car boot sale, the last time i went there was still loads of people selling VHS and it was quite rare to see DVD's! it's the complete opposite now.

there were a few selling vhs but most of it was Disney films or films like independence day or snatch although i did drop onto a few things.

the first 2 i picked up were these, i have never seen any and tbh im not expecting much at all but i had already been looking for something for 30 mins and there was no way i was going to go home empty handed.

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then a few mins later this caught my eye underneath a finding nemo vhs and antz dvd at a stall mostly selling baby clothes and crap

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after i had been there for about nearly 2 hours searching my way through other peoples junk i was ready to go home and give up but on my way pout i noticed a stall selling dinner plates and bowls :crazy: had a vhs sticking out from under a plate in a box under the table and when i went over i found this ( defo my find of the day)

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i paid the guy his 50p and was just walking off when he said he has a big box of vhs in the back of his car and i can have the whole lot for £4 if i want, well i was pretty excited and almost threw the old lady that was standing between me and the car :lol: but when i looked in the box there was some awesome films but only a few had covers :( so i just got these 2

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next update on the hunt should be on Tuesday after my visit to Liverpool to see Pete and search some shops there :)

I used to have the Anchor Bay dvd of STEEL DAWN but never watched it.

Some very nice pick-ups Slicer! :thumb:

I'll have to see if there any car boots near me...

Make sure he doesn't take you round any strip-clubs :tongue1: :D

ill insist on it :P

i have always seen it around but same as you i never got round to watching it , will soon though

Some nice finds there!
Love Gappa and Mute Witness...Running Man and Darkman are also enjoyable. ;)

Btw I own the exact same tape of Gappa! :)

No stip clubs but I know plenty of gay s&m bars:lol:

nice! i was so pleased to find mute witness :)

well after watching born to raise hell and the anal birth of bert, i could handle anything :pound:

ANAL BIRTH OF BERT is just..:spit::puke:

I own that Freddy's Nightmares VHS - and Dream Demon coming to think of it.

I used to go to Car Boots looking for VHS until I ran out of storage space and it's a lot of fun and suprisingly addictive so I'm enjoying reading about your hunt. Somehow artwork always looked a bit better on VHS.

I'll post some pics when I get chance but here are some of my best finds:

American Nightmare
Blood Link
The Slime (Vipco)
King Frat (Vipco Cult Classics), although I think I traded this with Pete
Machine Gun McCain pre-cert
The Black Panther
Three on a Meathook (a European edition, Dutch I think)
Barfly (ex-rental)
Night Watch (Elizabeth Taylor)
Fists of Steel

... and a whole load more that are currently living in my loft. I'll dig them out and if there are any I can live without, will let you know. I know I have/had a Palace Edge of Sanity you'd be welcome to but have a feeling I chucked it away :doh:

that would be awesome sam, cheers!

im enjoying finding them even more than watching them to be honest and yeah the artwork is so much better, even more so when i get a big box vhs , just feels like i have something substantial in my hand.

a lot of people have thrown away VHS over the years, myself included :( i bet some real gems have gone to the tip too :doh: i used to own hundreds of VHS when i was living with my parents, so many that i had to build my Tv unit out of them :lol:

today i went to liverpool to meet pete and get some more VHS, this is my best day so far collecting :)

i meet pete at the train station to be greated with pete and two huge bags of tapes which we swapped over and i put in my little suitcase and backpack , they only just fitted :P and they were heavy!

after some searching around liverpool and a burger king :woot: we went into a a building that was filled with lots of small businesses selling all sorts, we spotted a small door backed into a corner that didn't really look like a shop more like an emergency exit, i tried the door and we walked into a small shop with 3 guys in there just chatting and they had quite a big bookcase full of VHS, after a few mins looking i got these for 50p each


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apart from the blade runner, i got that from some cash converter type of place for 25p


had a great day with pete chatting about films and wandering around the town, after a while i got the train home and was so tempted to open my bags and search them to see what tapes i had got from pete but i doubt that i would have gotten them back in the bags, so i waited till i got home!

this is what i found!

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some great tapes there and to top the day off when i was home i had also had this delivered in the day while i was out

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so for one day i think i have done great! to get all this

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exellent haul i got some horror vhs somewhere nothing of note though apart from a few rental big boxes

i still have my Steel Dawn Vhs, awesome film.

i have some tapes that i didn't throw out if you're interested...

Carrie 2: The Rage
Idle Hands
Alien Quadrilogy
Faust: love of the damned

thanks for the offer mate, but the postage would be more than it worth , thats the trouble with vhs now

****!

I wanna collect VHS again.

That BLADE RUNNER Warner rental box was always one of my fave possessions.:nod:


EXTERMINATOR 2? COOL AS FECK!

OPTIMUM GET YER FINGERS OUT!:rant: