This week, the Triangle becomes a destination for gore, explosions, and all that is gratuitous upon the silver screen with two events forged in loyalty to obsolete media: Alamo Drafthouse’s VHStival ...
Just as vinyl and cassettes have enjoyed recent returns to the music retail world, the home-video market is flashing back to the '80s glory days of big, chunky VHS boxes. In this case, the nostalgia ...
June 7 is National VCR Day. Yes, you read that right. Videocassette recorders are still around and there are enough of them to justify a spot on the National Day Calendar — the national day marketing ...
These days, video barely exists as a physical medium for most Americans. It streams in ultra high-quality through the air, like magic. For decades, though, video came encased in plastic rectangles ...
If you were born in the 1980s or 1990s, it's likely that your childhood was filled with warm memories of Friday or Saturday night visits to your local video store to pick up VHS tapes for movie night.
While not a format seen in the mainstream now, the rarest VHS tapes fetch an impressive price. In the modern age of streaming, there is a community of collectors who keep the VHS video format alive ...
You can make it a Blockbuster night again. Years after the demise of the once ubiquitous video rental stores, you can browse and borrow movies on DVDs — and even old-school video cassettes — thanks to ...
Name a more '90s symbol than a VHS tape. Nice try, there isn't one. Before the age of streaming and the ability to buy pretty much any film you would like instantly on the internet, the VHS was the ...
Yes, you read that right. The John Carpenter classic 80s movie Escape From New York is getting a re-release on shelved format VHS. The release is the latest VHS from Vice Press Home Video and is ...
The VHS Swap & Show monthly meet-up at Stardust is an ’80s horror fan’s dream come true, even in non-Halloween months. But this week, they screen a jewel of the decade, 1988’s Night of the Demons, the ...