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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre on VHS. Movie starring Gunnar Hansen, Marilyn Burns, Allen Danziger, Jim Siedow, Paul A. Partain, William Vail, Teri McMinn, John Dugan, Edwin Neal. Directed by Tobe Hooper. 1974.

For five young friends, a typical summer afternoon drive becomes a terrifying nightmare.

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From the VHS box:

“…it did for meat-eating what Hitchcock did for shower taking.” — Marilyn Beck, FROM HOLLYWOOD

This is the bizarre and tragically gruesome account of what happened to five young friends one summer afternoon in rural Texas. After hearing reports of grave robbing, the group sets out to check on a family grave. Soon after, one-by-one they wander into the murderous clutches of Leatherface.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is the scare classic that possesses an undying power to frighten audiences again and again. It’s ability to truly horrify is so strong that when the movie first opened, some people actually walked out of a sneak preview in a state of shock.

This copy not for sale. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre on VHS is available here.

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Halloween

Halloween on VHS. Movie starring Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, Nancy Kyes aka Nancy Loomis, P.J. Soles, Tony Moran, Will Sandin. Directed by John Carpenter. 1978.

The Night He Came Home!

Halloween VHS cover scan. Distributed by Media Home Entertainment.

On a black and unholy Halloween night, 15 years ago, little Michael Myers brutally slaughtered his sister in cold blood. Now, after escaping from a mental hospital, he has returned to his quiet neighborhood to relive his hideous crime. Again. And again. For this is a night of evil. For tonight is Halloween!

This copy not for sale, but here is Halloween on Blu-ray (more than 15 years later!)

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The Fly

The Fly on VHS. Movie starring Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis, John Getz, Joy Boushel, Leslie Carlson, George Chuvalo, Michael Copeman. Directed by David Cronenberg. 1986.

From the VHS box:

Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis star in this frightening update of the horror classic in which a man is transformed into an insect.

Seth Brundle is a brilliant scientist who develops a system to transport objects in a matter of seconds. An intellectual hermit, his entire existence takes on new meaning when he falls in love with an attractive journalist who inspires him to correct the system’s last remaining flaw. Yet when he tries it on himself, Seth’s genes and molecules are accidentally fused with those of a fly. At first Seth is elated by the astonishing new physical abilities he’s suddenly gifted with. But soon his excitement turns into a terrifying nightmare as his insect half begins to take over.

Expertly paced by director David Cronenberg and sizzling with superb special effects, The Fly is both a love story and a suspenseful drama masterfully combined as one immensely effective thriller. 96 minutes.

Available as part of a Blu-ray box set: The Fly Collection.

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Bless the Child

Bless the Child on VHS. Movie starring Kim Basinger, Jimmy Smits, Christina Ricci, Rufus Sewell, Ian Holm, Angela Bettis, Holliston Coleman. Directed by Chuck Russell. 2000.

Mankind’s Last Hope Just Turned Six.

From the VHS box:

Academy Award winner Kim Basinger stars as Maggie O’Connor, a single woman whose life revolves around her career as a nurse — until the surprise appearance of her sister Jenna and Jenna’s newborn baby girl, Cody. When Jenna suddenly disappears, Maggie is left to raise Cody, an autistic child, by herself. But after Jenna returns with a mysterious cult leader and abducts Cody, Maggie discovers that the child possesses extraordinary powers… powers that forces of evil have waited centuries to control.

Watch Bless the Child on Prime Video or upgrade you collection with a Blu-ray.

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The Rocky Horror Picture Show

The Rocky Horror Picture Show 25th Anniversary Edition on VHS. Movie starring Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick, Richard O’Brien, Meat Loaf, Patricia Quinn, Nell Campbell, Jonathan Adams, Hilary Labow, Peter Hinwood, Charles Gray, Jeremy Newson. Directed by Jim Sharman. 1975.

25 Years of Absolute Pleasure!

The Rocky Horror Picture Show 25th Anniversary Edition VHS front cover scan

From the VHS box cover:

“It was great when it all began…”

Celebrate 25 years of midnight movie madness!

The Rocky Horror Picture Show is an “erotic nightmare beyond any measure.” Relive Richard O’Brien’s sinfully twisted salute to horror, sci-fi, B-movies and rock music — a “sensual daydream to treasure forever” — starring Tim Curry (in his classic gender-bending performance), Barry Bostwick, and Oscar winner Susan Sarandon.

Do the “Time Warp” and sing “Hot Patootie” with Meatloaf again… and again… and again… at home or in a movie theater, where it will probably be playing for another 25 years!

This VHS copy not for sale, but you can get the DVD at Amazon.

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Nosferatu

Nosferatu on VHS. Movie starring Max Schreck, Alexander Granach. Directed by F.W. Murnau. 1922.

The Original Dracula Masterpiece

From the VHS box:

This silent film masterpiece, designed by Albin Grau and directed by F.W. Murnau, one of the three (with Fritz Lang and Ernest Lubitsch) masters of the German cinema, is an adaptation of Bram Stocker’s classic novel Dracula.

In the 1830’s, Hutter, the young clerk of a real estate agent, leaves his wife Nina in order to conduct the sale of some property with the mysterious Count Orlock (Noferatu) in Transylvania. He falls in the clutches of the Count but escapes. Leaving his castle with a number of earth-filled coffins, the Count travels by ship to Bremen. The entire crew of the ship dies, and when it arrives in a port a swarm of rats descends upon the city. Meanwhile, Hutter has returned to Nina with his tale of the Count. She resolves to destroy the vampire by keeping him at her bedside until sunrise, when the sun’s rays will destroy the monster’s body.

Murnau’s inspired editing, lighting and direction and the performance by Max Schreck as the vampire with taloned fingers, long pointy ears and jerky walk makes NOSFERATU a true “Symphony of Horror.”

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Slugs

Slugs VHS box cover art. Movie starring Michael Garfield, Kim Terry, Philip MacHale, Concha Cuetos. Directed by J.P. Simon (Juan Piquer Simón). 1988.

From the VHS box cover:

Unusually large slugs in the garden. Partially eaten corpses. And the ghastly death of a young couple amid thousands of slime trails. All are gruesome pieces of a horrifying puzzle — a puzzle whose solution can mean only one thing. Carnivorous slugs are killing the people of Ashton!

An investigation by Health Inspector Mike Brady yields startling results. Long-buried toxic waste is causing a mutation in common garden slugs, turning them into a rapidly growing population of man-eating monsters. And if Brady’s theory holds up, it is only a matter of time before Ashton is completely consumed by the slimy horde.

With time running out, and with no help from the skeptical authorities, Mike takes matters into his own hands. Armed with a special toxin, he struggles in a desperate, last-ditch effort to save Ashton from a slime wasteland!

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The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies

The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies on VHS. Starring Cash Flagg (RDS), Carolyn Brandt, Brett O'Hara, Atlas King, Madison Clarke, Jack Brady, Erin Enyo. Directed by Ray Dennis Steckler. 1964.

The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies on VHS. Starring Cash Flagg (RDS), Carolyn Brandt, Brett O’Hara, Atlas King, Madison Clarke, Jack Brady, Erin Enyo. Directed by Ray Dennis Steckler. 1964.

From the VHS box cover:

SEE: The dancing girls of the carnival murdered by the incredible night creatures of the midway!
SEE: The hunchback of the midway fight a duel of death with the mixed-up zombies!
SEE: THE FIRST MONSTER MUSICAL!

A sinister gypsy fortune-teller named Madame Estrella, with the help of her sleazy sister Carmelita (a stripper) and her grossly disfigured hunchback servant Ortega, victimize innocent people who come to the midway. They scorch their victims with acid, thereby making them look like hideous monsters. Estrella then locks them in cages like abused pets. Anyone who discovers their secret must die a brutal death!

The film is packed with action, songs and dancing, including the popular ‘Mixed-up Zombie Stomp!’

Bonus scan with Ray Dennis Steckler autograph:

Ray Dennis Steckler autograph from The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies VHS movie box

It Conquered The World

It Conquered The World on VHS video. Movie starring Peter Graves, Beverly Garland, Lee Van Cleef. Directed by Roger Corman. 1956.

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Every man its prisoner… Every woman its slave!

It was part plant and all monster, with crustacean arms and chainsaw teeth. Humanity had never seen anything like it. But whatever it was, It Conquered the World!

Producer-director Roger Corman tapped into the Red Scare of the ’50s with this harrowing tale of a vege-alien from Venus who can bend human minds to his evil will. The terror begins when the monster makes contact with a well-meaning American scientist (Lee Van Cleef, the spaghetti-western star who here packs a microscope instead of a six-gun). The scientist guides the monster to earth… but regrets his hospitality when the newcomer sends out hordes of bats whose bites reduce the townsfolk to zombies.

Peter Graves and Beverly Garland are among those who battle back in this top sci-fi thriller that critic Leonard Maltin calls “well acted… one of Corman’s best.” A creepy monster, blood-sucking bats, screaming victims and earnest men of science: now that’s a Drive-In Classic!

Not found on DVD. It Conquered the World on VHS or DVD-R? Be careful ordering this one.

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It

Stephen King's It on VHS video. Starring Richard Thomas, Tim Reid, Annette O'Toole, Tim Curry, Richard Masur, John Ritter, Harry Anderson, Dennis Christopher. Directed by Tommy Lee Wallace. 1990.

Stephen King’s It on VHS video. Starring Richard Thomas, Tim Reid, Annette O’Toole, Tim Curry, Richard Masur, John Ritter, Harry Anderson, Dennis Christopher. Directed by Tommy Lee Wallace. 1990.

From the VHS box:

Your every fear — all in one deadly enemy.

It can be anything. A fanged monster that won’t stay on the movie screen. Something ominous lurking in the basement. No matter what your biggest fear is, no one knows It better than Stephen King.

Based on the King Of Horror’s 1986 bestseller, It is a jittery, jolting excursion into personal fear. A malevolent force in a small New England town takes the shape of a clown, but It is not clowning around. Instead, It terrifies youngsters with their innermost fears, bringing some to their untimely doom — until a group of wily neighborhood kids fight back. Thirty years later the evil resurfaces: meaner, angrier, deadlier. And the friends who vividly remember the terrors of their youth reunite to make a desperate stand against It.

DVD upgrade: Stephen King, IT!

It by Stephen King: It

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