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🎬 The New Release wall wasn't decoration.

Timber on the lit-up wall that was the entire business model, and the countdown clock nobody could see but everybody felt.

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Celebrate the release of Emma’s (@editrixemma.bsky.social) new book Love Never Dies: Romance in Horror Movies with her, as she talks about some of her favourite films, and join her at @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social on October 3 for a book signing! #videostore #filmtok #horror #physicalmedia #BookTok

#Season3 starts January 11, 2027 on YouTube and Spotify...the full roster of films have been announced! #VHS #VideoStore #Tapehead4Life

Crocodile Dundee lost six minutes on its way out of Australia. The slang was replaced and the swearing dubbed out, so the tape the rest of the world rented is not the film that was made. 40 years in the US today.

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Walter Hill banned the word Vietnam at the Southern Comfort read through, then shot 55 days in the Caddo Lake bayou starting in December. Camera platforms sank mid setup and the actors were hitting marks in two feet of water. 45 years today.

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The Garthim shells in The Dark Crystal were built from the carapaces of lobsters Jim Henson and Brian Froud ate for dinner. The suits weighed around 70 pounds and performers had to be hung on racks between takes. Henson's 90th birthday today.

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ICYMI: The Flashback Interview: Amber Lynn: If you grew up with a mom-and-pop video store in your neighborhood, the name Amber Lynn will be very familiar with those of you who went behind the curtain at

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Dead Ringers was called Twins until Ivan Reitman paid Cronenberg to change the title so it would not clash with the Schwarzenegger comedy. Media Home Entertainment's cassette then sold it on the box as a follow up to The Fly. 38 years today.

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On Maximum Overdrive the cinematographer asked Stephen King to take the blades off a remote controlled lawnmower and King said he liked seeing them. A splinter took the man's right eye. He sued for $18 million and settled for $975,000. King turns 79 today.

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For the television version of Blue Velvet an editor spent ten weeks cropping and remixing, and Dennis Hopper came in and rerecorded 58 lines of dialogue in a single day. The result ran only sixty seconds shorter than the real film. 40 years today.

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Don't need that warning anyway lol #retrorewind #videostore #vtuber #streamclips #vtuberclips #ERAv1

New World Video shipped Elvira: Mistress of the Dark to video stores in early 1989 at $89.95 a tape, with a poster and a cardboard standee, and it hit number 13 on the rental chart. Cassandra Peterson turns 75 today.

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Natural Born Killers reached number three on Billboard's videocassette rental chart in March 1995. In Britain its video release was cancelled after Dunblane and no legal tape existed until 2001. Stone and Tommy Lee Jones both turn 80 today.

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Hardware was rated X for gore in 1990 and trimmed to an R, not on taste but because an X meant no newspaper ads and no chain bookings. Richard Stanley had just come back from filming in the Soviet-Afghan war. 36 years in the US today.

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Where's WALTER?! What'd you do with Waldo?? #retrorewind #videostore #vtuber #streamclips #vtuberclips #twitchstreamer #ERAv1

🎬 The rewind fee wasn't about the tape.

Timber explains the one law that mattered more than anything else behind the counter. Be Kind Rewind wasn't a slogan — it was survival.

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Before Alien was ever a cassette it was sold as a 17 minute Super 8 reel for home projectors. Magnetic Video put out the first tape in 1980, cropped to full frame, and American tapes stayed cropped until 1992. Ian Holm would have been 95 today.

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Twelve years behind a Hollywood Video counter that doesn't exist anymore. Now he runs 19 judges who'd rather roast you than help you.

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