Thread 213514698

video store edition prev:
>>213478585

Gimme some good found footage horror guys

I'm home on a Friday night with my mom (who I live with), recommend me a horror movie to watch with her (no nudity please)

>>213514698 (OP)
First for Phenomena

>>213514769
Critters

>>213514818
Grow up.

First for Leaving D.C.

>>213514749
Butterfly Kisses

>>213514769
Poltergeist

>>213514698 (OP)
>tfw you could have bought all those VHS tapes for like $1 when they went out of business

>>213514791
Argento is a good director of bad movies.

>>213514849
??

>>213514896
VHS is too fragile. DVD is a little better

Why does she look like dat

>>213514925
I like the wear and tear anon. The degradation is part of the experience when you're watching a 30 year old movie.

>>213514907
>Critters
>Grelins
80’s manchild movies. This is their kino room.

I feel like Weapons was made just to make a 20m view watch mojo clip (the ending)

>>213515000
LOL
This is EXACTLY i imagine the posts itt are like.

>>213515000
What was your recommendation then? Plz enlighten us peasants.

>>213514988
I know but mine keeps getting eaten. I have to get my VCR repaired.

54 days until October

>>213515000
>tranny lighting
many such cases

>>213515000
Holy shit lmfaoo. This guy definitely grew up (and I use that term lightly) in the 80’s.

>>213514896
I literally did that back in the late 90s and early 2000s all the time, then I stupidly got rid of all of them around the late 2010s just a couple years before they started selling for like 100-300 bucks each online… fuck me! I had all the ones that go for crazy prices online (street trash, frankenhooker, sleepaway camp just to name a few I looked up and started fuming see how much they go for now) . I coulda been a thousandaire!

>>213515000
A24 enjoyer lol

>>213514698 (OP)
fuck man that looks amazing. I used to work at a video store and it was a blast. around halloween all the cute honeys would rent spooky shit and ask for recommendations. pretty fun talking scary movies with cute honeys. good times.

>>213515132
I wish everyday video stores would come back I miss them more than anything else from the 90s that are no longer around

bleh

>>213515000
This guy enjoys every movie on the banned list

>>213514896
Kek, I was too broke when the main second hand VHS place went out of business
Did rental places ever rock bottom dvds when they were going out? The only places I remember doing full sell offs were video only and dvds were killing them

>>213515206
kek
pure soi

>>213515211
>Did rental places ever rock bottom dvds when they were going out?
Mine did, but by the time I realized it was closing, everything good was gone. The rest was a lot of trash.

>>213515181
I wonder if someone opened a video store with old VHS and DVDs to rent, how it would do?

>>213515324
It would be full of 80’s manchilds

>>213515324
Are you renting the machines too? And the TV with the scart lead?

>>213515289
>hi hi hi excuse me! do you have Terrifier 2 and Gremlins on dvd??

>>213514380
Yeah, the execs fucked him over on it. I've seen worse but it's mostly interesting as a curiosity for fans.

>>213515345
>ohh why yes! we do!

>>213515324
they'd charge $10 a rental and have to also sell 4k players/tvs.

>>213515324
I'd have to guess that 1/1000 households still have a working VCR. Maybe 1/25 households still have a working DVD player.

Then you gotta figure that most people can't be bothered to leave the house these days. There was a Redbox by my grocery store 15 years ago that didn't even last a year.

>>213515289
Sucks. I don't think any here did, they must have just sold them off to pay debts because bankruptcy took a lot of them out, and selling the whole thing as a lot probably appealed more to adjusters than letting people buy them individually

>>213515181
haha ya I agree. its pretty hard to describe too. as a kid its just this cool place you can hang out at with your friends and bullshit about movies and games. or even just talking to the clerks about movies. it awlays felt like there was an infinite amount of great movies if you looked hard enough or asked the right person.

>>213514769
death becomes her

>>213515116
I feel your pain anon. I did that with some too and I got rid of a bunch of 70s records that were first print and worth a decent amount now
>>213515211
Yeah, there was a video store near me that went out of business and did sell all their VHS for a dollar.

>>213515453
Mine was a huge location back in the day, then downsized in the mid 90s, then again in 2008, then closed by 2012.

>>213515451
really? I have a DVD player still. I thought they were common because they're so cheap.

not me, I rented horror kino from my local mom & pop for many years

>>213514876
>>213515477
actually kind of good suggestion for mom friendly movie. I think these or just fucking gremlins.

really good one for mom would be Inside (2007)

for me it was family video

>>213515758
This is good. Wouldn’t mind watching with me mum.

>>213515722
People ditched their DVD player for Bluray or for Netflix. Take your pick. Most people I know and households I visit no longer have a DVD player.

Thrift shops I visit are overflowing with DVDs that they're peddling for $2 each. Nobody wants them. I sold my DVD collection 10 years ago. I still have my DVD player, Bluray and a few Bluray discs, but I'm an more the exception desu.

>>213515807
What happened to you local video stores? One of mine was divided into a laundromat and fast food joints, the other became a food court then a car showroom.

>>213515807
kek, I think Hollywood video either licensed its name for really cheap in my country or it failed to trademark it here, because there were a couple of them but the signs clearly were all made by the individual independent shop owner who got taken over by them

>>213515814
you can play old dvd's on a blueray player

>>213515814
I never got a blu ray player, I basically never had a DVD player I just watched them on a video game console. Around when blu ray was taking off was the same age I was getting into piracy so I just watched stuff on the computer.

>>213515906
I'm aware.

>>213515914
I mean back to the original point that people wouldn't rent old dvds because that couldn't play them on anything.

I don't know what people would do for old VHS. aren't the old record shops? How do they do?

>>213515909
>Around when blu ray was taking off was the same age I was getting into piracy so I just watched stuff on the computer
Same, pretty much since 2005/2006 when torrenting was easy and Dvdrips were getting widespread.

>>213515814
>blueray
But why? I don't have a giant collection, but DVD's just seem a lot easier and cheaper to collect and save. Bluray has some good collections, but cost an arm and a leg.

>>213515946
I rip and watch stuff online, but my favorite movies I still buy DVD' or Blurays because I like a decent copy with the extra shit.

>>213515945
Records are more niche, but you can still buy new players today. Are there any manufacturers still producing VCRs?

>>213515324
Places do that like OP pic but they do it more as like a historical novelty thing where they look at it like a museum I don’t think they actually rent out tapes like in the old days

>>213501445
>Kristy Swanson
NIGHTMARES LIKE WES CRAVEN
MY THIRD EYE SEEN IT COMIN, BEFORE IT HAPPEN

>>213515948
>Bluray has some good collections, but cost an arm and a leg
And that's why I think it never gained as much popularity as DVDs did.

>>213515982
I don't think so.
Maybe VHS can become niche. There are a lot of movies that were never transferred anywhere else so VHS is the only way to get it.

>>213515948
>but DVD's just seem a lot easier and cheaper to collect and save
When it was the only thing available it was fine but why would you watch movies in 480p in 2025?

>>213516006
>And that's why I think it never gained as much popularity as DVDs did.
It's more the fact that streaming video started to become more widespread only a few years later.

>>213515856
I think most turned into restaurants (lots of space in front and private rooms in back makes them easy to convert to seating area and kitchen I guess)
One old mom and pop one used be one of the most popular in a cursed strip mall and nothing besides the hairdresser has survived in the strip since it left. Lots of shit has moved in, but that place has the kind of cursed atmosphere where I think only a hairdresser or VHS rental place would vibe with it and survive a year

>>213516016
not that anon but I'm technically stupid. does streaming offer better resolution because it always looks crummier when I try to watch something that way.

>>213516061
Generally you're getting 720p or 1020p on streaming sites, so it could be dvd quality and your connection is slow or it could be the rip itself isn't in a high enough resolution
Some things there will be 480p resolution in case people have slow connections but it's generally mostly phased out

>>213516192
you mean sites like Tubi because I don't use shit like Disney or Paramount+ or anything?

>>213516192
Some times they give lower quality versions to the streaming sites. I'm pretty sure it's so they can release an ultra hd 4kk dvd and still sell it. Full Moon is blatant about this.

>>213514901
You are of stupid of retardation.

I fucking loved Weapons
Very well done jump scares which too many horror directors now insist are bad

>>213516361
Based. 'gento general

>>213516235
Lol I mean pirates

>>213516387
I wanna see this one but not enough to go to cinema because it looks like it should be watched at home like a true crime special

>>213516398
oh

>>213516424
I think it's worth seeing at the cinema because so many scenes are really dark and you might lose some of that by sitting at home

>>213516061
>>213516235
Resolution is just the number of pixels available, but if it's a low-bitrate stream, it'll be heavily compressed and can still look bad.
Even with a blu-ray disc, there are some blu-rays that look relatively muddy and some that look amazing and clear down to the grain, depending on how good a job the company did with scanning the film and encoding it onto the disc.
Even the worst blu-ray looks better than DVD, though, which just doesn't have the canvas available to be able to display things with high detail

i need a girl like jules on my side

For me, it was Hollywood Video, which where I live is now a Panera Bread.

>>213516731
Crazy bitch. Stay away from my jewess!

>>213516731
>>213516777
Kino

>>213516731
>I don't like horror films
>-Clare Higgins
shit horrorfu desu

>>213516841
She looks sexo here, ngl

weapons was so bad I wish I spent the $11 on butthole pics from my mexican goth coworker on my anonymous account

>>213514698 (OP)
They should make a bar that just looks like an old video store

>>213516970
wow thats such a shitty idea i'm sure it would be a huge success

>>213516918
> She looks sexo here, ngl

For me, It was always Iggle Video.

>>213517000
why do you hate fun?

>>213517000
>>213516970
Pretty sure you could do overpriced cocktails and snacks and play Ghost World on a loop on a CRT and Instagram would do the rest

>>213516970
I think alamo drafthouse kind of did something like that

>>213517055
>getting broke is fun actually

>>213516970
>The sticky floor is part of the theme

>>213516914
I found it cute that she apparently never watched Hellraiser herself because it had too much blood, but she was happy that other people saw it and enjoyed it

>>213517122
(you)

>>213517109
neat

>>213517003
Gonna cry about it, pissjeet?

>Be kid in video store
>See the movie cover that always scared you

What was it for you? For me it was this, Lucio Fulci's Zombie and the original poster for Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

>>213517041
Wow I was born in 98 and didn't know Giant Eagle had a video store. I know Drug Mart in Ohio did know. They even had full time employees working behind a dedicated makeup counter and a dedicated fragrance counter. You'd take your DVDs and games you want to rent to the girl behind the makeup counter.

>>213516940
I wish you did too

>>213517157
It's capitalism, bro. If someone wanted to make a bar that just looks like an old video store and make a profit, they would have done so already.

>>213517242
The Rabid VHS cover creeped the shit out of me

>>213517242
I've seen that movie. It's pretty bad

>>213514749
The bay scared me but that was over a decade ago.

>>213514749
Leaving D.C.

>>213517242
As someone who hated bugs even as a kid this cover was my nightmare seeing on video store shelves when I was like 9 or 10. Kino movie when I saw it as an adult, not what I expected I always thought it was some killer bug movie under that Americanized re-titling and cover that made it look like it was supposed to be a killer bug movie

>>213514698 (OP)

Just finished watching In Search of Darkness 1990-1994, with 1995-1999 coming soon, the follow up to their magnificent In Search of Darkness 1980's Trilogy.

Also got their doc on the history of Horror Games, Terrorbytes, that also came with a great doc on FPS games.

They also just announced a new doc called SLASHER TRASH that's now available for pre-order and looks great....

https://youtu.be/43uvPf9ObtA?si=DzqVUhB0OoTPwNmi

!!!FACT!!!

>>213517242
Here’s a cover that used to creep me out in the horror aisle too. Seems obscure today, but as a kid every video store horror section I went to in the 90s always had this vhs

This one and the vhs box for Eyes of Laura Mars I remember finding creepy in a similar way with the creepy eyes that as a kid I felt like were watching me lol

>>213517215
? What?

>>213517432
Not bad interested in documentaries

>>213517443
>Eyes of Laura Mars
Here’s that cover too for reference, the way those eyes looked on that cover creeped me the fuck out whenever I’d go in the horror aisle as a lil kid

>>213514849
>Grow up.

Are you a real person? I ask because I've seen your NPC response posted a few thousand times showing a complete lack of self-awareness behind it!!!FACT!!!

>>213514896
>>tfw you could have bought all those VHS tapes for like $1 when they went out of business

Not just that but once DVD's started coming in you could find thousands of movies on VHS at every pawn shop being sold for $1 or less because everyone had switched to DVD's and wanted to get rid of their VHS inventory!!!FACT!!!

did the possum finally get cabinanon?

>>213517242
Night of the Demons.

>>213517621
No, the M'threegan doll he admitted to destroying on a regular basis ended up giving him a fatal case of AIDS.

>>213517621
Cabinanon is busy playing Switch 2

Alien the best slasher film

>>213515000
>>213515045
>LOL
>This is EXACTLY i imagine the posts itt are like.

While picrel is exactly what you are like IRL!!!FACT!!!

>>213517666
You’re supposed to clean it regularly.

>>213517242
>>213517646
Actually it was Night of the Demons 2, just googled it, this cover. When i was like 9, i would run with my eyes closed past the horror movie rack at my small local movie store in order not to look at this cover, kek.

>>213517610
Yeah and some of those horror movies never got a DVD release until maybe recently with one of those limited print vinegar syndrome runs or something.

>>213517730
Definitely creeped me out too.

>>213517554
It is from different anons. There seems to be an abundance of manchildren these days that have never existed in previous generations.

What are your favorite Asian zombie movies? I've seen Last Cut of the Dead, Train to Busan, The Sadness, and pic-related.

>>213517730
I always liked seeing this cover in the horror section but I never got to actually rent it.
Having seen it now as an adult, part 2 kind of sucks, but I watch the first movie every Halloween.

I'm going to try to watch part 3 this October. The remake was also pretty good

>>213517772
>There seems to be an abundance of manchildren these days that have never existed in previous generations.
Previous generations didn't have the Internet.

>>213517810
But people that grew up in the 80’s never grew up.

>>213517772
There's only one anon that ever seethes about manchildren and 80s movies and it's always (You). You're extremely recognizable from your posting style and persistent long-term autism.

there's a skeleton inside me and he wants to get out

>>213517857
And he will, some day

If anyone wants to watch a bad Asian zombie movie, watch Gangnam Zombie

>>213517855
Nta but I see this brought up all over 4chan.

>>213517855
>There's only one anon
>one anon
Oh anon..

I watched the new Jurassic World and the very first scene was actually a good horror cold open.
Looking forward to Primitive War now so I can see the blood soaked version of it.
Also Strange Harvest should be out on VOD today, no torrent of it yet though. It's by the Grave Encounters director and has got some decent reviews.

>>213517855
You can’t believe it’s multiple people calling you a manchild. lol.

>>213517855
The general is only really usable when there's enough anons interested in talking about films to drown it out. Just talk about movies, that's all that ever improves it.

>>213518168
We ARE talking about movies. The conversation stops when you make posts like these.

>>213517772
>It is from different anons. There seems to be an abundance of manchildren these days that have never existed in previous generations.

It's not manchildren but old, fat, ugly, post wall roasties!!!FACT!!!

>>213515856
Local pet shop

frankly, generals were a mistake and should be banned

>>213517855
Movies like Critters are an era of animatronics and puppetry not seen before or since. I don't know how people can not appreciate them.

>>213518152
Right… thoughts on Jennifer Connelly?

>>213518168
I couldn't agree more, anon.

>>213518205
>you must listen to me! generals were a mistake! they should be banned!

>>213518205
Your seething will only make this general stronger

>>213518205
Yeah, especially for horror. Horror fans are retarded enough.

>>213518241
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTG7Wp_5jcY

>>213518253
> Your seething will only make this general stronger
Bro thinks hes a character in Star Wars

>>213518217
Nta but total simp magnet

>>213518112
> I watched the new Jurassic World and the very first scene was actually a good horror cold open.
Female scientist explorer in a suit? Pass. Hate how women are shoved into everything.

>>213518112
Yeah, it did seem like a horror open. I turned it off 5 minutes after that. Looking at ScarJos way past her prime face is not my cup of tea.

>>213518168
> The general is only really usable when there's enough anons interested in talking about films to drown it out.
And by this I mean when it is just me and the regulars talking about the same 80’s movies over and over and over again.

*sigh….

>>213514698 (OP)

Here's something I wrote connected to Bandito Video.....

https://web.archive.org/web/20160611171824/http://247365hatemachine.blogspot.ca/2015/02/fangorias-weekend-of-horrors-1986.html

!!!FACT!!!

>>213518387
>me and the regulars talking about the same 80’s movies over and over and over again.
Unironically the best part about this general, especially since it causes you to have daily meltdowns for almost two years straight.

>>213518205
I bump this general basically every night in the euro hours to keep it alive but I think it's to admit it. Pissman won. This format doesn't work without post ids and is to easy to spam. Plus it's good to let things die. Pissman please accept my concession, and to everyone else enjoy your October.

>>213517796
Only ever seen the first one, on tv about 15 years after the events i described it's fun, didn't make me wanna watch any of the sequels though.

>>213518536
Pissman hasnt posted in months though.

>>213518217
>>213518307
Yes, i am a Jennifer Connelly simp, problem?

>>213518533
> Unironically the best part about this general
no it isnt gramps

>>213518536
Just let this general die. anon.

>>213518569
There should be a comma there in between 'described' and 'it's fun', sorry.

>>213518530
She is so mid.

>>213518616
Horror never dies.

Hate how they dont even bother dolling ScarJo up for the Jurassic World movie. Th me audience just has to look at aged out face for most of the movie outside the action scenes.

>>213518693
do you think bogged old hag face is easier to do CGI of?

>>213518693
Like she looks so busted. Her facial fat and collagen is gone. Holy shit. Just cake her up at least. Not camera friendly at all.

>>213518616
I'm done. Remember my final words though, watch Mr. Vampire (1985)

>>213518708
Yeah I do, have you seen the new ai vids on 4chan?
>>213518710
> facial fat
You dont want her to be too fat like that Jennifer Connelly

>>213518693
Also, her voice is rough. All the life is gone from here.

>>213518517
Link doesn’t work.

>>213516424
Just saw it in a packed theater and it was more fun than The Substance. Great audience reactions. The tight control over tone was impressive. It alternates between horrifying and funny/absurd a lot especially near the end. Might not hold up on repeat viewings but seeing it with an audience was great.

Also yes, some nice dark scenes that will probably shit the bed on streaming.

>>213518787
At least tell me without spoiling, is it a supernatural horror or is it grounded?

>>213518812
You didn't read the spoilers that were posted here?

>>213518897
Nope, just saw a Youtube video clickbait thing talking about it, and just stumbled across last thread talking about it. Caught my attention, totally unspoiled.

>>213518812
I wouldn't say the central mystery was the point but I still don't want to spoil what it was. There were lots of red herrings making me think it was this or that along the way, which was fun. I will say that it ends up being proudly stupid and also made zero apologies for the stupidity. Somehow that made it go down smooth and not feel disappointing after all the build up.

>>213518504
I've seen this little puerto rican on /tv/ all the time and still don't know what her show is about

>>213518581
>>213518217
>>213518533
man i wish we still broadly used film. it's hell to preserve but still.

>>213518929
It is Adams Family. And if you watch her show, you are a manchild.

Hey did anyone else think Longlegs was fucking terrible? I remember so many people hyping it up

>>213519006
i loved it but the ending was kinda ass

>>213519006
Terrible movie. Woke. I told everyone it was going to be shit.

it's not real horror unless it's a foreign jinn

>>213518984
The hard drives they store digital movies on will degrade long before most films will, and there's no restoration work that can fix it.

>>213518581
*urge to simp intensifies*

>>213519006
Solid 5/10.

>>213519103
its make up

The cast of the new Jurassic World is very very unattractive.

>>213519006
It's one of those movies where I liked a lot of what surrounded it(direction, atmosphere, etc.) but then disliked the actual plot and progression. Just really boring and stupid.

Longlegs wouldn't have worked without Maika

>>213519121
It's philosemitism, actually.

>>213519084
probably yeah. at least there will be the digital copies out there.
still prone to rot though. i had to buy Subspecies 2 four times because the three US blu rays i found were all rotted.
digital is bit perfect but it dies fast when it does.

>>213519168
It would have worked better with a male lead.

>>213519257
This

>>213519084
holy shit this motherfucker doesn't know what copy and paste is

>>213519168
It didn't work WITH Maika, wym?

>David Lynch is still dead

:(

based gays trying to convert /hor/

>>213519354
Tried to watch Inland Empire for my first time and I fell asleep. Gonna try again when I get more free time.

>>213519400
Literally me when I tried watching Viy for the first time. It's only 75 minutes too…

>>213517796
Night of the Demons 3 is fucking awful

>>213519462
Will I still like it if I already know about this jumpscare?

>>213514988
Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II. Love this film.

>>213519498
I've never seen Inland Empire so I have no idea. Blue Velvet was enough Laura Dern for me man.

>>213518217
>>213518581
>brunettes
what about neve campbell

>>213519300
Nobody is copying and pasting these movies. I'm talking about the original files, the terabytes of data they originally shot. The vast majority of digital movies are not going to see any kind of back-up. The only thing that will exist is the blu-ray/4K and the basic streaming copy, and then that's the same as a scanned film file, only the film will still exist to be rescanned in the future for a higher quality format or even played authentically as film reels in a projector.
There is no group dedicated to the preservation of digital slop, and only the biggest Hollywood movies will anyone bother to keep around.

>>213519656
this bitch should have done more better shit than scream

>>213515324
lots of libraries i’ve been to have a dvd section in recent years. the selection isn’t the worst. but it’s not great and libraries are filled with homeless now so hanging out there is actually kind of awful. no wonder kids don’t read anymore.

>>213519656
I like Neve too. She was a qt and best girl in The Craft/Scream.

>>213518918
Supernatural.

>>213518984
It just simply looks better.

>>213519656
>>213519753
Cute but very disappointing tits. She turns out in an episode of Kids in the Hall btw, probably one of her first jobs, the girl from Cube does too. Canadian showbiz is a small world i guess.

>>213519990
>>213518984
The last thing I saw shot on film was They Call Her Death (2024) and even though it was a low budget amateur production, the film aesthetic did a lot for it. It actually looked like a movie.

>>213514791
God she was perfect.

>>213520015
There was a brief discussion about this on /hor/ recently, funny enough.

Possum is a weird movie
It's extremely drab dull and dry and shot like a comedy which maybe Marenghi did on purpose or maybe he just cannot not be funny
But there's something here
Hard to say

>>213520448
Probably during my absence.

Pontypool sequel ever?

>>213520015
i always hear this, but wasnt that when she was old(er)? its not like she got them tits out in her prime hot years also i dont care about her tits anyway since i never need to sees em (im not a tit man anyway, im an assman) i just like her cute face

>>213520727
https://mail.upcominghorrormovies.com/movie/pontypool-changes
never

>>213520070
thanks for the rec i will try it

>>213518536
I would argue that NPM's controversies have helped keep this general alive.

>>213518241
Rhodes abandoning his mates makes him less sympathetic and weakens the movie

>>213522086
why would he be sympathetic? he was supposed to be dehumanized.
>humans were the real monsters after all
shit

>>213519656
JUMPSCARE TITS

Kill List was surprisingly underwhelming.

the dog in Bad Moon is such a badass