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lol I'll confess to watching "10 to Midnight" many times as a teen because of nudity. I saw part of it again a few weeks ago on cable and was unpleasantly reminded of how crude, gratuitous, and graphic it is.WANTED: Dick Grayson SI trousers; gray AJ Mustang horse; vintage RC Batman (Bruce Wayne) head; minty Wolfman tights; mint Black Knight sword; minty Launcelot boots; Lion Rock (pale) Dracula & Mummy heads; Lion Rock Franky squared boots; Wayne Foundation blue furniture; Flash Gordon/Ming (10") unbroken holsters; CHiPs gloved arms; POTA T2 tan body; CTVT/vintage Friar Tuck robes, BBP TZ Burgess Meredith glasses.Comment
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And yeah, Heavy Metal wasn't available back then.Comment
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Everyone is Entitled to MY Opinion...Your's, not so much!Comment
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Okay, I'm sure I left out some obvious ones. Everyone has different video store experiences. And I haven't even seen all of these, but these are the boxes I remember having the most visibility at multiple rental stores:
And some honorable mentions:
Creepshow (First VHS I ever rented)
Dawn of the Dead (Really, didn't just about all of us discover Romero through home video?)
Amazon Women on the Moon (Such a great tribute to home video... I remember my video store giving me the display mobile to hang in my room)
Piranha (gotta have something Corman)Last edited by Hedji; Feb 21, '18, 12:17 AM.Comment
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Used to have the Sword and Sorcerer movie poster. Gotta find that one I Spit On Your Grave was a big renter at the store...and we had the "Big Box" VHS. Wish I would have grabbed some of the "Big Boxed" stuff before it closed up.Comment
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No wonder Don Quixote was all over Long Island's video rental shops...freakin' thing was made right over in Bethpage.Comment
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I'd like to add to the running list...
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Everyone is Entitled to MY Opinion...Your's, not so much!Comment
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BTW. Does anyone remember having to put down a $50 or $100 deposit to rent a tape?If I had only spent a tenth of the time studying Physics that I spent learning Star Wars and Baseball trivia, I would have won the Nobel Prize.Comment
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