remember those rentel VHS tapes

I have over 800 ex-rental VHS tapes. Most of them are released by Warner Home Video, Buena Vista, CIC Video and First Independent.
 
I remember my Dad renting a video one time and when we got home it wouldn't play in our machine, for some reason. So we took it back to the shop and of course, it worked straight away in their machine. :rolleyes: Not only that but it when it started playing it was in the middle of a sex scene. Anyone who was in the shop at the time was treated to it. I must have turned this :o colour, haha.
 
I kinda miss the days of going to the video shop to rent films. Walking for 30 minutes to the nearest shop only to find that every copy of the new film I wanted to watch was out or reserved, then searching for 20 minutes through the whole shop before picking out some crappy b-movie that my Dad might like - all the while keeping an eye on the often 18-rated action flick on the TV.
 
We had a great Video store near us called Visions Video, and it literally had every tape you could imagine, you walked in and the big films and new releases were staring right at you, near enough every TV programme available, random 1980s tapes, all the big movies and if you walked round the back part... without getting caught they had an Adult section. Although a mix of Internet piracy, a nearby Blockbuster and the fact they were slow to move to DVRAB saw its closure a few years ago.

Shame as I miss places like that, there's no character, Blockbusters is okay, but it's too generic and unoriginal.
 
Remeber? Not in the past tense here - one is on now - "Destination Moon Base Alpha" on Precision Video. 1980 release and very good for its age.
 
Yeah sometimes Blockbuster would sell some of its old stock so you could buy an ex rental. It was good because in those days you had to wait a longer time for a film to come out onto retail.

There was a video store called "Playhouse" they used to sell ex rentals as well. Does anyone remember them(bit obscure I know)?

You had to pay a little more than a normal video, but it was only something like five pounRAB. I remember the ex rentals had larger cases. I got Goldeneye and L.A. Confidental on ex-rental.
 
I've got those same rental tapes of Scream, Interview With The Vampire, Friday The 13th Part 3, Fire In The Sky, Copycat and In The Mouth Of Madness.

Some other (non-horror) rental tapes I've got include Wyatt Earp, Tombstone, Falling Down, Death Warrant, Most Wanted, Blown Away, Under Siege 2, Another 48 Hrs, I Went Down, The Devil's Own, The Shawshank Redemption, Spy Hard, and about 780 more.
 
I had two opportunities in the 1980s to buy VHSs cheaply. First, around 1985 the local video shop went bust and the tapes were packaged up into groups of six and auctioned off. I've still got the auction catalogue. It's a beautiful historical document. Some very racey titles in there for the time.

Second, when the Video Recordings Act came into play another shop took all the unrated movies off the shelf and I went in the same day and bought a shedload for about
 
Ha ha! In later years my dad invested in one with auto tracking!

But when I was very young, we had one with a dial on it for the tracking. Brilliant!
 
Ahhh i rememeber rushing in to get mars attacks when it first came out on rental - back when u couldnt buy them for months after the rental came out.
 
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