Best of the Worst: Awesome VHS cover artwork.

Inspired by Red Letter Media’s excellent video series, and as a break from political threads I thought we could reminisce about home cinema’s early days.

If you remember standing in your local video emporium marveling at the all the excellent/horrific artwork please post them up. Vhs box art from 1977 – 1990 (and no modern retro hipster post modern nonsense).

Extra kudos will be given for fully painted artwork. Yet more will be given if the monster, women or weapons featured on the box are nowhere to be seen in the actual film.

For starters

this classic…

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That’s weird, was talking about Scanners only this morning.

How dare the OP decry Boris Vallejo’s artwork!

MoreCashThanDash

How dare the OP decry Boris Vallejo’s artwork!

I’m not! Back then I used to stare at those DeathStalker covers and convince myself they must be the best films ever – however the video store man used to censor anything with excessive nudity from his younger patrons. I meant anything from good to very bad,

I’ve probably just done a bad job of explaining myself.

Awesome

Terrible

My mum used to work in the local video shop. From the age of 14 if I grassed up my mates by confirming who was under 18, I was allowed to have my run of the soft porn section.

I have many fond memories of the Electric Blue series….

Have fond memories of this from when i was a kid and often bring it up when chatting about old films. Have yet to speak to anyone else that remembers it

I love Scanners

great movie

Brilliant.

I love how the “Destroyer” has a sticker on the front saying “action,” just in case you thought it was a rom-com or something.

Fantastic.

I’ve got a whole book dedicated to the nasties with all the artwork.

Might did it out .

1980s was a perilous place to be. Here, because ‘neon’:

And because aerobics:

The worrying thing is I watched most of these before I was 12 years old.

For fans of films of that era/genre, I can def recommend watching the documentary, Electric Boogaloo;

I love how the “Destroyer” has a sticker on the front saying “action,” just in case you thought it was a rom-com or something.

I remember going to a video rental shop in Stroud – all the british made films were in the ‘Foreign Films’ section and stickered as such. It seemed to be lost on them that all most all the films in the shop were ‘foreign’.

I think I rented this there, which didn’t have subtitles despite being ‘foreign’.

“one packs a punch, one packs a piece; together they deilver”

verses – Member

For fans of films of that era/genre, I can def recommend watching the documentary, Electric Boogaloo;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qT3msQ6UPco

+100. A brilliant doc and it was like a nostalgia tidle wave. I can’t remember if Dino DeLaurentis featured heavily in it, or if there’s another similar doc with Dino, but he’s very much a kindred spirt of Manaheim and Yoram.

This thread needs some GoodBadFlicks links.