Ahh Spencer and Hill films! I’ve got a couple of those on DVD and I recently picked up a UK Pre Cert of one title (the name escapes me at present). I’m hoping to do the rounds of the car boot/charity shops these weekend and if I find anything on interest I’ll post it here. I don’t have a scanner though (need to pick one up) so I’ll have to post photos.

Dan do you have many UK Vestron titles?

Dan do you have many UK Vestron titles?

I’m working on it on my Vestron blog http://vestronvideo.blogspot.com/
(but since i’m adding here also scans it goes slow)
And I only buy the ones that are not released in belgium / the Netherlands,
or the inlay must be completely different (and if the price is not to much) .
But at the moment UK titles

-Salvador
-Fists of Steal
-Weekend pas (pre )
-Dog day (pre)
-Heart of Midnight
-Yellow hair & the fortress of Gold
-A blade in the dark
-Slammer Girls
-Echo park
-Hardbodies 2
-My american Cousin
-The Moderns
-Windrider
-The fruit machine
-Twice in a lifetime
-The rainbow
-Burning Secret
-The Opponent
-Wimps
-Farewell to the King
-On the Edge
-Winter People
-She’s Back
-Spies, Lies & Alibis
-Far out Man
-Go for Gold
-Sky Pirates
-Red Scorpion
-Stocks & Blondes
-Steel Arena
-Paint it black
-Consuming Passions
-Ghoulies III Go to college
-A prayer for the dying
-Kangaroo

I really would love to have the Amsterdamned, (love the artwork there it’s simular like the french one) & Dirty Dancing (It seems like mission impossible to find the Big Box (ex rental) version)

I also have one Australian vhs : Lifespan

And from the US/ Canada i got
- Steel Dawn
- Shanghai Surprise
- Jack the ripper
- Blue Sunshine
- Mad Max
- Tai-Pan
- My Chauffeur
- Ghostwarrior
- Platoon

And Now a Video For Pleasure Special :D (these I’m willing to trade )

and these will stay in my collection

Dan do you post on the UK Pre Cert forum? Petcor (think I got it right this time :D ) just joined up. There’s some guys on there who trade/buy in the same sort of thing as you (Time Versey in particular snaps up foreign VHS). If you get the chance I highly recommend linking up with the site.

With regards to UK VHS on the Vestron label - I’ll keep an eye out for you when I’m at car boot sales/charity shops. I’ll take a look at your site to see what you’ve already got.

Until a few months ago I had no interest in VHS but threads like this have changed that! My wallet is going to be hurting in the future :D

I just registerd , now I have to wait for the activation code
I’m curious, because There where a lot of visitors on my blog , that followd a link from the pre-certification forum , I wonder what it is topic=4487 , I can’t watch it

dan.be - August 10, 2007, 5:34am

I just registerd , now I have to wait for the activation code
I’m curious, because There where a lot of visitors on my blog , that followd a link from the pre-certification forum , I wonder what it is topic=4487 , I can’t watch it

I posted a link to your site there (I hope you don’t mind). These guys are big VHS fans and some have amassed vast collections so I thought they’d be interested to see your stuff. I’ve also had some members contact me to put them in touch with Petcor to see if he’ll sell on some of his VHS :D I haven’t been on the site long but they seem like a decent bunch (though they have bouts of squabbling with themselves ). Most of them sell and buy VHS on eBay so they have a good knowledge of the current value of things.

Cheers

Sleaze

Sleaze - August 10, 2007, 5:41am

I’ve also had some members contact me to put them in touch with Petcor to see if he’ll sell on some of his VHS :D

Jeez Petcor, good thing I didn’t mention the prices yet!

Ardvark - August 10, 2007, 6:55am

Sleaze - August 10, 2007, 5:41am

I’ve also had some members contact me to put them in touch with Petcor to see if he’ll sell on some of his VHS :D

Jeez Petcor, good thing I didn’t mention the prices yet!

I think it’s mostly the “video nasties” that are searched for in the UK. The titles we picked up yesterday are definitely not on that list.
(Shadows of the Mind, pictured above, was among the bunch we picked up though! funny). The Beast in Heat, of which I posted a scan earlier, seems to be one of the hottest titles. If I read the pre-cert forum correctly a mint copy of the UK release of that movie can be worth hundreds of pounds (and a UK Betamax release seems to be a Holy Grail, If it exists and somebody would offer it up for sale the price would go trough the roof I guess )

petcor80 - August 10, 2007, 10:04am

I think it’s mostly the “video nasties” that are searched for in the UK. The titles we picked up yesterday are definitely not on that list.
(Shadows of the Mind, pictured above, was among the bunch we picked up though! funny). The Beast in Heat, of which I posted a scan earlier, seems to be one of the hottest titles. If I read the pre-cert forum correctly a mint copy of the UK release of that movie can be worth hundreds of pounds (and a UK Betamax release seems to be a Holy Grail, If it exists and somebody would offer it up for sale the price would go trough the roof I guess )

Yep The Beast In Heat goes for hundreds of pounds along recently with a couple of other video nasties. Other Pre Certs don’t go for quite the same amount but if you pick them at bootsales for 25/50p you have a chance of making a good profit if you attract interest on eBay. I’ve taken a shine to titles on the VTC label which are cased in a large gold box like this one of Redneck County I mentioned earlier in this thread:

The forum is geared mainly to nasties but there are collectors there of VHS from around the globe.

I posted a link to your site there (I hope you don’t mind). These guys are big VHS fans and some have amassed vast collections so I thought they’d be interested to see your stuff. I’ve also had some members contact me to put them in touch with Petcor to see if he’ll sell on some of his VHS I haven’t been on the site long but they seem like a decent bunch (though they have bouts of squabbling with themselves ). Most of them sell and buy VHS on eBay so they have a good knowledge of the current value of things.

I’m logged in Now :D and i know someone allready :D , a guy who buyed recently some VHS on ebay from me

and for closing the day here a few “monster” films

personal stories and a few NSFW scans - hope nobody minds too much

The very first pre-recorded videotape I personally owned (but long since have lost) was a video2000 tape of Hundra. The first VCR my parents bought was that system. Good memories there and it’s one of those movies I just had to have on DVD. I don’t know what we rented in those days. Not much actually. I was allowed to rent a few videos only once a year during the summer holiday. I don’t know what kind of movies I went for then (not horror, I’m sure of that ) but I remember there always had to be a Bud Spencer movie in that summer bunch. For a long time tv had been my main source of movie viewing (the first tape I rented with my own money, another thing I remember well, was Hellraiser). Only at the end of the 90’s when my film addiction became serious and I started keeping score of everything I watched things started to change, rapidly!

In 1997 the score was 286 movies: 204 tv, 56 rented tapes, 15 cinema
In 1998 the score was 364 movies: 168 tv, 176 rented tapes, 20 cinema
In 1999 the score was 435 movies: 125 tv, 272 tapes, 38 cinema
In 2000 the score was 357 movies: 58 tv, 223 videos, 75 cinema
and so forth.

the last few years, since I started collecting DVD, I haven’t rented anything anymore. When tapes started to disappear from the videotheeks I did too Actually I think I watch most of my movies in cinema now (more than 100 per year). 1999 was a top year for me, I saw one of my favorite films, Sombre, at my first ever visit to the IFFR (good start there!). I bought a DVD player and I bought my first bootleg tapes. I mean, 435 movies in one year is just crazy, I just finished my study and was still living at home at that time so I had oceans of time and money to spend

I was actually watching foreign films without subs at that stage (boots and from the amazing collection of the cultvideotheek in Amsterdam at that time: Story of Ricky, Viva La Muerte, L’Urlo). I also bought these two (obviously unsubbed) Japanese tapes:


Since DVD I stopped doing that, with a lot of obscure movies from around the world appearing with subs and in mint conditions it just became unnecessary.

Another movie I just got to have on DVD (but sadly isn’t released yet like Hundra or the Last Dragon, the Beastmaster etc.) is Black Fire http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0313286/
This is actually a movie I have seen on tv first, but I was very happy to find it on video a few years ago. Like Tiger Shark it’s one of those Rambo/Vietnam rip-offs, and this one also has got ninja’s! I think it’s one of the best in it’s genre.

a few more of this genre:

(this one didn’t scan too well because the cover is printed on the box instead of on an inlay)

I love the advertising on this box. It translates as: the main actress in this movie was the maitresse of president Marcos. His power prevented you from seeing this movie for years!

Love that werewolf box Dan, here is a favorite of mine (the movie, not the cover)

another great pulpy cover

and a few more kungfu movies from me. including two bruce le / bruce li movies

Oh man. What a great thread. I have a bunch of old VHS tapes lying around which I used to buy at fleemarket over here in Iceland. Unfortunately I got in to the collecting game in my late teens and the only local fleemarket was opened in the mid 90’s. I’m sure I’ve missed some fantastic stuff because back then people were unloading crap from their basements and storage spaces. Now days it’s cluttered with crap, and I mean crap with very few people actually selling anything worth attention.

Sadly it’s a rarity to find anything worth while down there. I remember buying 8mm reels and finding projectors and 8mm cameras down there, old toys and shit. Then people who wanted to get rid of old stock of crap nobody wanted started to clutter the place and it was no longer fun to go down there and look through boxes.

I buy VHS tapes now only for the covers if they have great artwork. I sometimes do custom DVD covers for myself if the commercial release looks like crap. I used that Deathdream cover, that my friend owns by the way, on Blue Underground release and I used the old VHS art on the HORRIBLE looking release of Cut and Run.

One of the VHS releases that I’ve been looking for in an uncut version of The Beast within. If some of you here have seen it I distinctly remember seeing a version where in the end transformation where the kid turns in to the monster, his tongue shoots out and licks the face of his mother with her cringing (understandably so) All the versions I’ve seen after that first viewing, on VHS and DVD, have had that scene cut but you can see that it has been there since it’s not very well concealed that it was removed. Incidentally I made a DVD cover from the VHS artwork as well.

Nice artwork Swarez I prefer the original artwork from the video’s , they are maybe not perfect but more fun to watch. Are there any vestron Video’s released in Iceland ?

I love the Japanese artwork on those video’s Peter (only for that I would buy them)

A few horror / Slasher films

Who’s Next Not the original Sunrise release (a re release from the 90’s)

I doupt that I would find one. Sad thing is that Iceland went through similar things as the UK did with video nasties. I don’t know what happened to the offending videos after that but I haven’t seen them for sale anywhere. Plus we didn’t get the same ammount of obscure B-movies like the rest of Europe did.

I doupt that I would find one. Sad thing is that Iceland went through similar things as the UK did with video nasties. I don’t know what happened to the offending videos after that but I haven’t seen them for sale anywhere. Plus we didn’t get the same ammount of obscure B-movies like the rest of Europe did.

I know that Sweden has some releases (whish I could find a few of those to)

A bit more scans

How to (ab)use the woman’s body

Can you feel / See the fear allready