Retro Rentals – VHS Covers from Back in the Day

I love DVDs! The crisp images that the digital age offers allows us to appreciate just how amazing some movies really are. But, growing up in the eighties, my daily visit to the local video store on the way home from school resulted in an obsession with VHS. Looking back twenty years later, it’s hard to believe just how bad some of those video transfers were (such as pan and scan). Yet, I have still kept many of my old VHS as they have a retro charm that reminds of an era of video nasties. It’s difficult to believe just how much fear many of these cassettes provoked with the media and the moral majority, but for me they remind me of being a ten year old looking up at the shelves in the back room of the video store – with the action movies of Stallone, Schwarzenegger and Van Damme on one side and the glorious splatter of zombie movies and slasher flicks on the other. So come join me on my trip down bloodsoaked memory lane…