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PostSubject: LONG LIVE VHS!   LONG LIVE VHS! EmptyFri Feb 04, 2011 8:46 am

The title says it all. I still have a few VHS titles left. And I have my parent's old GE VCR which is older than I am and it still plays tapes. This VCR was manufactured June of 1989 and I was born in September. The VCR was the whole package deal for getting married and starting a family for my folks. Like four or five years after owning this VCR in the early 90's, it's recording abilities were shot so all it can do now is just play.

A few titles I have left on VHS:
Original Star Wars Trilogy
Godzilla films
King Kong '33
THE LAST DAYS OF PLANET EARTH (Prophecies of Nostradamus)

There's a few others, but I'd have to check.
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The Original Greaser Bob

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PostSubject: Re: LONG LIVE VHS!   LONG LIVE VHS! EmptyFri Feb 04, 2011 8:47 am

Probably the majority of my movie collection is on VHS. Probably why I have trouble with storage space; the damn things are so bulky.
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PostSubject: Re: LONG LIVE VHS!   LONG LIVE VHS! EmptySat Feb 05, 2011 7:51 am

i dunno why, but i have a thing for cassette tapes, VHS's and old video game cartridges

on VHS I've got
the Indianna Jones trilogy (4th movie what 4th movie?)
star wars episode 2 (i refuse to buy it on DVD)
the Jurassic park trilogy
deep impact
leviathan
Apocalypse now
the first 5 star trek movies
and a couple episodes of star trek TOS

and just about every Disney movie released on the format
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PostSubject: Re: LONG LIVE VHS!   LONG LIVE VHS! EmptySat Feb 05, 2011 8:31 am

List of some of my more notable VHS titles:

  • Abominable Dr. Phibes
  • Andy Warhol's Frankenstein
  • C.H.U.D.
  • Darkman I and II
  • an Ed Gein screener tape
  • The Evil Dead
  • Army of Darkness
  • Game of Death
  • The Hitcher
  • Inframan
  • Phantasm I and II
  • Way of the Dragon
  • Star Wars IV-VI (original and Special Editions)
  • Zardoz
  • Bride of the Monster
  • The Gates of Hell
  • Hellraiser
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PostSubject: Re: LONG LIVE VHS!   LONG LIVE VHS! EmptySat Feb 26, 2011 10:25 am

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I'd like to present a rarity to you all. The screenshots are taken from a DVD-R copy of the film that are not straight from the VHS I am showing above the title card. In the U.S, this is known as The Last Days of Planet Earth, in it's native country of Japan, it's Prophecies of Nostradamus. In other countries it's known as La Fin Du Monde D'apres Nostradamus (France), Weltkatastrophe 1999? (Germany), Prophecies of Nostradamus: Catastrophe 1999 (Denmark), and Casatrofe (Italy). The film caused quite a bit of controversy in it's native Japan that Toho Studios, same creators of the Godzilla series, self banned the full 2hr cut of the film. The film never got released in Japan at all and was supposedly reversed imported when it was released here in the U.S. on VHS and Laserdisc back in the early to mid 90's.

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The film was released in the U.S. through television and was edited down to 88 minutes from the full Japanese cut. With this, mainly all of the footage from the first half of the Japanese version is cut on the U.S. edit. The film centers around a man named Nishiyama and he is direct descendant of Nostradamus, who in this film is Japanese not Italian, if you see the U.S. television edit. Nishiyama and his colleague photographer are going around the world to solve these crises and Nishiyama goes to world leaders claiming that these are the end of days and that mankind needs to stop what we are doing and to change.

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I'm not going to spoil anything else, there's a lot more to the film than just that. The full 2hr cut is a dark commentary on how society is destroying the planet and how mankind pollutes and other global/environmental messages. The U.S. edit is kinda confusing, but somewhat decent to watch. There's another English version that Toho produced with the dubbing done in Hong Kong; this cut is 88 minutes too, but it's a completely different cut of the film; for example on the U.S. edit the narrator is a man and on the international edit it's a woman with a real eerie voice.

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The full 2hr Japanese cut leaked out from several sources back in the 80's and 90's. A Screener leaked out after it was planned for a VHS release in Japan in the late 80's but was ultimately cancelled. This screener copy has a time code at the top of the screen. A promotional copy leaked out that has the film's title on the screen. And then this untouched VHS cut was leaked out at some point in the 90's. This cut is what is used on this bootleg DVD-R set of the film which I got for $25.

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The people who made this bootleg boxset which consists of 5 DVD-R discs has four cuts of the film and an extra cut of the International English Version which is sourced from the Danish VHS. This VHS source is cropped from 2.35 but is some what open matted to 1.78. And I know this because there's a scene at the end where you see the roof of the ceiling at this stage they're filming at. This scene is set on this stage to make it look like it's outside and on the other cuts of the film, it really does look like it's outside but not so on this Danish VHS. The Danish VHS audio was ripper from the bootleggers and they reconstructed the International Version from the leaked Japanese VHS tape so that it's in scope.

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One of the discs has both the French and German cuts of the film and the studios in both countries were harsh to the film. Keep in mind that the full Japanese cut of the film is 2hrs. The French cut is only 73 minutes in length. And to make matters worse with the German version, it's 70 minutes! The bootleggers who made this set reconstructed what they could of the French version with the German VHS source and it shows when it cuts back and forth from German source to French source. The original French source was in poor shape and the film print they mastered it from is even worse.

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The U.S. edit, as edited down as it is, has some problems of it's own. Mainly, shots were flipped over and are backwards. You will most likely not notice this unless you've seen the Japanese cut of the film. I picked up the VHS off of eBay after losing several auctions. It was released by Paramount Pictures who had the rights to a bunch of Godzilla films which shifted from owner to owner throughout the years.

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Sadly, this was the end of the road for Prophecies of Nostradamus. At one point Classic Media did own the rights to the U.S. television edit of the film, but the U.S. rights were never renewed by Classic Media and they have reverted back to Toho. Toho themselves have never licensed out the full self-banned cut of the film ever since they made it and released it theatrically in 1974.

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PostSubject: Re: LONG LIVE VHS!   LONG LIVE VHS! EmptySun Feb 27, 2011 1:03 am

Hell yeah man! I love VHS tapes and the whole nostalgic feeling of it. In fact my movie collection consists of more VHS's than DVD's. I think I have almost 300 of them.
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PostSubject: Re: LONG LIVE VHS!   LONG LIVE VHS! EmptySun Feb 27, 2011 3:30 am

Much cheaper than DVD, too.
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PostSubject: Re: LONG LIVE VHS!   LONG LIVE VHS! EmptySun Feb 27, 2011 3:32 am

The Dude wrote:
Much cheaper than DVD, too.

and apparently more durable.
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PostSubject: Re: LONG LIVE VHS!   LONG LIVE VHS! EmptySun Feb 27, 2011 3:44 am

Frank Rizzo wrote:
The Dude wrote:
Much cheaper than DVD, too.

and apparently more durable.
Eh, their material durability is is kind of offset by the fact that their video quality degrades over time.
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PostSubject: Re: LONG LIVE VHS!   LONG LIVE VHS! EmptySun Feb 27, 2011 4:00 am

The Dude wrote:
Frank Rizzo wrote:
The Dude wrote:
Much cheaper than DVD, too.

and apparently more durable.
Eh, their material durability is is kind of offset by the fact that their video quality degrades over time.

True, very true.
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PostSubject: Re: LONG LIVE VHS!   LONG LIVE VHS! EmptySun Feb 27, 2011 5:19 am

My copy of Texas Chainsaw Massacre jitters up and down; is that something that can be fixed just by tuning the VCR somehow, or is the tape ruined?
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PostSubject: Re: LONG LIVE VHS!   LONG LIVE VHS! EmptySun Feb 27, 2011 5:25 am

Mondo a Go-Go wrote:
My copy of Texas Chainsaw Massacre jitters up and down; is that something that can be fixed just by tuning the VCR somehow, or is the tape ruined?

Tracking, maybe?
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PostSubject: Re: LONG LIVE VHS!   LONG LIVE VHS! EmptyTue Mar 01, 2011 6:11 am

Here's another one with Lance Henriksen and Giovanni Ribisi, Mind Ripper. Little known fact is that this is The Hills Have Eyes 3.

LONG LIVE VHS! Mindripper
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PostSubject: Re: LONG LIVE VHS!   LONG LIVE VHS! EmptyTue Mar 01, 2011 7:04 am

Didn't even know there was a Hills Have Eyes 2. Other than the post-2000 one.
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PostSubject: Re: LONG LIVE VHS!   LONG LIVE VHS! EmptyWed Mar 02, 2011 1:21 am

The Dude wrote:
Didn't even know there was a Hills Have Eyes 2. Other than the post-2000 one.
Yeah, Craven made Part 2 in 1985. It's an instant streaming movie on Netflix, if you have it.
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PostSubject: Re: LONG LIVE VHS!   LONG LIVE VHS! EmptyWed Mar 02, 2011 2:34 am

Mondo a Go-Go wrote:
The Dude wrote:
Didn't even know there was a Hills Have Eyes 2. Other than the post-2000 one.
Yeah, Craven made Part 2 in 1985. It's an instant streaming movie on Netflix, if you have it.

Yeah, Mind Ripper, is out on DVD in Germany as The Hills Have Eyes 3. http://www.amazon.de/Hills-Have-Eyes-3/dp/B000RC2MJI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1299015169&sr=8-1

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PostSubject: Re: LONG LIVE VHS!   LONG LIVE VHS! EmptyWed Mar 02, 2011 9:00 am

Mondo a Go-Go wrote:
The Dude wrote:
Didn't even know there was a Hills Have Eyes 2. Other than the post-2000 one.
Yeah, Craven made Part 2 in 1985. It's an instant streaming movie on Netflix, if you have it.
Don't got Netflix, but I'll be sure to keep an eye open for it. And Mind-Ripper, why not?
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PostSubject: Re: LONG LIVE VHS!   LONG LIVE VHS! EmptyWed Mar 02, 2011 7:35 pm

I just inherited a VCR/DVD combo and a record player, so time to take my VHS collection out of storage.

I was one of those "dvd will never make it" holdovers buying all the Blockbuster shit for $1, so I have a nice collection.

Looking at original Hellraiser, Revenge of the Nerds, Schwarzenegger collection, Tales from the Crypt collection at the moment. Ah, and there's my GG Allin tape.

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PostSubject: Re: LONG LIVE VHS!   LONG LIVE VHS! EmptyThu Mar 03, 2011 4:26 am

Here's my horror tape collection:

LONG LIVE VHS! Vhs_ho10

And here are the big boxes!

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Just thought I'd share; I love the art on the Darkside boxes, yet they're really hard to find information about. They make nice companions to Seven Doors of Death with the dare to watch and the comic art; got to love Thriller!
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PostSubject: Re: LONG LIVE VHS!   LONG LIVE VHS! EmptyThu Mar 03, 2011 8:09 am

I just got Evil Dead II today, so now I have the whole trilogy on tape.
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PostSubject: Re: LONG LIVE VHS!   LONG LIVE VHS! EmptyThu Mar 03, 2011 10:43 am

Those Tales from the Darkside bigboxes are the shit. Nice work.
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PostSubject: Re: LONG LIVE VHS!   LONG LIVE VHS! EmptyThu Mar 03, 2011 6:38 pm

Sadly, I don't own many VHSes anymore. Most of them are still with my mum, who has a huge collection. It's actually fairly recent though, mainly because our family has had the "Wrong Format" curse, and apparently during the 70s, 80s, early 90s my parents rode the Beta and Laserdisc trains. The only reason VHS got introduced I think once we fucked up with Divx and then moved to DVD (The curse was broken then.) is because I had a habit of filming weird shit as a kid and had one of those tape adapters that converted them to VHS. Then we started getting a back catalogue of VHS stuff.
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PostSubject: Re: LONG LIVE VHS!   LONG LIVE VHS! EmptyFri Mar 04, 2011 3:08 am

Hey, LaserDisk is pretty nice in it's own right.
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PostSubject: Re: LONG LIVE VHS!   LONG LIVE VHS! EmptyFri Mar 04, 2011 3:35 am

The Dude wrote:
Hey, LaserDisk is pretty nice in it's own right.

Yeah, I can't disagree - but it still counted as part of the curse in terms of availability and affordability. Plus our laser crapped out early on, took forever to fix.
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PostSubject: Re: LONG LIVE VHS!   LONG LIVE VHS! EmptyFri Mar 04, 2011 5:00 am

UnknownKadath wrote:
The Dude wrote:
Hey, LaserDisk is pretty nice in it's own right.

Yeah, I can't disagree - but it still counted as part of the curse in terms of availability and affordability. Plus our laser crapped out early on, took forever to fix.
Fair enough. Sometimes I forget there was a time when laser disk player were hundreds of dollars, whereas now they cost about $20, tops.
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