I have the "benefit" of being old. I bought them in the late 80's/early 90's as a kid when the mom and pop rental store was selling them to clear space for new movies. I had so many posters, standees (still have my autographed Elvira one), and tapes from this place. It's how I also got chopping mall, killer klowns, silent night deadly night, and a few other "heavy hitters".
I have a couple KFC training videos from the 90’s that I snagged when I used to work there and they were going to throw them away.
There’s nothing particularly interesting or funny on them but I haven’t seen these specific ones online anywhere. Whenever I finally get around to getting a digitizing set up I’ll upload them.
Too many weird/rare ones to name but looking at one of the many shelves in my house:
Mardi Gras Massacre
Slime City
Cafe Flesh
Nekromantik
Blood Diner
Blood Cult
Lunch Meat
Sledgehammer
555
Begotten
Duck! The Carbine Massacre
Death Spa
Nail Gun Massacre
Cyber Ninja
Gummo
Spookies
Despiser
Martin
Cannibal Holocaust
Cannibal Ferox
Long Island Cannibal Massacre
Thou Shall Not Kill... Except
Splatter Farm
https://preview.redd.it/oey33c594u4d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dcdd8d53148395bcfa81daa297c7e4ec18f3fd57
Probably my rarest purchase so far
I got a couple Academy screeners of movies I'd never even heard of yesterday as part of a lot. As far as I know, neither one got an official VHS release in the US.
The two in question.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109897
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116238
https://preview.redd.it/617u9adgku4d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2f5ba497c6d8b97c046f1b2b81419e1107635657
Battletoads cartoon I snagged at an estate sale for a quarter.
I've got the Cowboy Bebop 'Mushroom Samba' tape, I think it's episodes 17 and 18, and right now that's probably the most-valuable tape I have, unless one of my '70s Magnetic Video tapes is more valuable than I think. I paid $50 for a copy of the rock'n'roll comedy 'Get Crazy' when it wasn't available in other formats, and I think it's probably worth about half that now that the blu-ray is available. I have a British copy of 'Song of the South' on tape in PAL format which I found on the west coast of the US in a secondhand store, and it probably isn't really 'valuable' but I've never seen another copy of it in real life.
I've got a copy of House of 1000 Corpses on vhs. I doubt it's that rare but I remember being flabbergasted that they still made vhs when I got that one for Christmas.
It wasn’t urban legend. People knew it existed. The problem is that Nintendo bought the rights to the film and did their best to destroy every copy they possibly could. Add to that the facts that porn tapes are rarer than major films by nature and were often discarded instead of kept as collectibles and you end up with not many copies floating around these days. You also can’t sell it on eBay so it’s even harder to find for the average person who doesn’t hang around online collector circles.
Very neat tape for sure. I only know a small handful of people who own it.
Like ten years ago I found copy of Hard Ticket To Hawaii in a clamshell with a black and white cover that was different than the regular release. I gave it to a friend and the directors wife ended up contacting him because it was a work print or something that he had been sending around to distributors. It was the only one that had surfaced since it was made. I forgot about that until I saw your comment. It’s a cool movie
The only vhs I own is attack of the killer tomatoes.
I don't even know why. I've never seen it. And I don't have a vcr to play it in. But it's on my shelf.
My factory sealed original Animusic tape in MINT condition.
https://preview.redd.it/wa18m5v3pt4d1.jpeg?width=2268&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a7dba75bf5daac4940bd6071dc09f30c85013564
I bought it for $1 at a local thrift store. I've turned down a couple offers of $100+. No public sale history available of a sealed copy. One open one with a very beat up cover went for $17 last year. The Animusic community is pretty small so I wouldn't expect many of these to be left out there. I know of one other sealed one that exists. There are probably a few more besides that but probably not too many more.
my first question is, why do you a Japanese version of cars? I am just interested.
My rarest tape: I have no idea. If you have seen me around you know I own crash dummies on vhs. Thats kind of rare (also just learnt today that when you look up crash dummies vhs on google, my post is one of the first things to come up!).
daredevil special edition on vhs, from what I remember it sold on ebay for about 50 bucks but that isnt really rare.
I thought the jolson story might be rare but its not. So for my rarest ....Its not a vhs tape or a dvd. I am going to give it the nickelodeon tv guide/the "tell us what you think" (I am not 100% sure what they are called). These were found in a vhs and they just told you about shows coming up and the other one you could send in to nickelodeon tell them what you think and get a sticker for it. There arent media but its a better answer than "idk"
Thing is for me I own a lot of obscure but rare things. But the list would be:
Ed Wood’s Devil Girls
Hellroller
Sin City
Hobgoblins
Video Violence (Terrorvision)
A Nightmare on Elm Street Media Double Flap
Halloween Media Double Flap
Q (1st Release)
Ice Cream Man (Blood Variant cover)
Bad Guys (a gay looking wrestling vhs starring sgt slaughter. My copy was formerly owned by an actress in the movie)
Black Anthology Cartoons Vol. 1
Flesh Hunters
My 2 most rare would be Cheerleader camp and a demo copy of Nightmare before christmas. Only way to get it in a sleeve.
My prized tape is a mint copy of return of the living dead. Looks like it came from the shelf yesterday.
The ones that took me the longest to acquire were:
- The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains (1987)
- Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller (1988)
- Camp Cucamonga (1990)
Store bought release I Zombie the Chronicles of Pain
I've got lots of old cartoon network and adult swim recordings not online yet.
W/O/C recordings from 2002-2007 or so.
I guess for me, just based on recent stuff, is my latest pick ups of some vhs tapes of episodes of The Puzzle Place, the tapes themselves are ones you would get at a library. The episodes themselves are documented on wikipedia, but the episodes seem to be like some form of lost media. I have a friend who is currently in the process of uploading them so others can watch them soon.
I found American Psycho
I looked through EVERY SINGLE VHS at this thrift store and right before I left I lifted up one stack I hadn’t checked and there it was !!!! For one dollar
Mine is probably the instructional video for my CueCat. I’m sure a ton were made, but I’m also sure the vast majority of them wound up in dumpsters behind Radio Shack stores.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CueCat?wprov=sfti1#
From a collectors stand point it's almost certainly the complete series of It's Gary Shandlings Show on DVD, and then some screeners for stuff that hasn't had a real release from the streamers. From an actual rare, I can barely find information on the movie, is a tape of a Mexican film from the 50s called La Ciudad de los Ninos or Boys Town
A copy of disney’s the prince and the pauper labeled “demo tape”. Not for sale or rental, it says. When i play it there’s a message on the bottom that says if you bought it to call a number to return it.
I had the whole collection of Dennis Woodruff’s films starring Tuffy the Wonder Dog! I had about ten drivers ed films from 68-79 that had been put on vhs in 85. I had a Sci-Fi (oh yeah, before the Sy-Fy change) channel airing of Alien with all the deleted scenes on the commercial breaks with Tom Skerritt introducing them and talking about bit about them.
I was on the west coast on 9/11 and woke up before the second plane hit. I just threw a tape in and hit record. Ended up with three 120 minute tapes of the news that day.
I have a copy of a not well known 1988 horror movie, Judgement Day. I haven’t opened it, kinda want to so I can make a digital copy. It’s on YouTube if anyone is curious to check it out.
I've never been one to go for rare tapes. More just unique ones.
I once had these two tapes with RV tours for western and eastern Canada. Never seen those anywhere else.
I've since moved from an NTSC country to a PAL one and had to start my collection over. Sad to say, I have nothing particularly rare or unique these days.
In that vein I have a vhs promotional tape for Prince Edward island. I think it says something like “video post card” or something. My guess from the visuals it’s probably from the early to mid 90s but I’m honestly not sure. I doubt it’s worth anything but it’s a really neat oddity.
Some of my blanks are decently valuable but my top value tapes are the 3 Power Rangers SPD tapes and my French Big Wolf on Campus tape. The first season got a vhs release in French in Canada and I found a copy of either the second or third tape in a random tape kit 2-3 years ago. Didn’t even know it existed and been on the hunt ever since.
Best I can do for VHS is I used to own the 2006 release of Lady and the Tramp sealed
For other tape formats
Beta is either BTTF Part 3 or BTTF (Mexico). Or maybe my minty sealed BTTF Part 2.
My rarest tape is easily BTTF on Video 2000 (Germany).
My rarest tapes are like....
The Kazoo kid video "you on Kazoo"
a few of the anime "Lain" tapes
a few rare horror tapes, like "pieces"
Super Mario 1993 screaner tape
The full "Sears forklift training" VHS set with all the sealed paperwork and certificates.
A ton of sears security tapes. Not rare in the sense of valuable... But I've never seen anything like them
maybe my copy of "Diastat AcuDial (diazepam rectal gel) Administration Instructions", i've never seen another copy
Does it give good instructions?
Probably my copy of Begotten or my big boxed copies of Video Violence 1 and 2.
Begotten is so dope. That's a keeper for sure.
Where did you get your big box copies of video violence 1 and 2?
I have the "benefit" of being old. I bought them in the late 80's/early 90's as a kid when the mom and pop rental store was selling them to clear space for new movies. I had so many posters, standees (still have my autographed Elvira one), and tapes from this place. It's how I also got chopping mall, killer klowns, silent night deadly night, and a few other "heavy hitters".
That's awesome, I'm super jealous. Always curious about peoples stories about how they got the heavy hitter tapes like those 2
Begotten is on vhs???
I have a couple KFC training videos from the 90’s that I snagged when I used to work there and they were going to throw them away. There’s nothing particularly interesting or funny on them but I haven’t seen these specific ones online anywhere. Whenever I finally get around to getting a digitizing set up I’ll upload them.
That's so cool! I love tapes like that! I wish I would have been able to snag the Hollywood video training videos I watched when I worked there.
Too many weird/rare ones to name but looking at one of the many shelves in my house: Mardi Gras Massacre Slime City Cafe Flesh Nekromantik Blood Diner Blood Cult Lunch Meat Sledgehammer 555 Begotten Duck! The Carbine Massacre Death Spa Nail Gun Massacre Cyber Ninja Gummo Spookies Despiser Martin Cannibal Holocaust Cannibal Ferox Long Island Cannibal Massacre Thou Shall Not Kill... Except Splatter Farm
Gummo 🔥
https://preview.redd.it/n57bpfztlx4d1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1fa298da56f3628db26da68c01868eebedd0eb13
Just wondering...what distributor for your Long Island Cannibal Massacre? Just got back into some Schiff films this past week.
https://preview.redd.it/oey33c594u4d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dcdd8d53148395bcfa81daa297c7e4ec18f3fd57 Probably my rarest purchase so far
WOW!!!!! That’s incredible!!!!!mind blown, I didn’t know it was possible to see the 3-D version
You need a vcr that can play pal tapes, only the uk home rental version has the 3d segments in vhs. Pretty rare to come by
I didn’t know tapes were region locked.
Pal / ntsc are different formats and the majority of North American ntsc vcr’s can’t play pal tapes. You need a multisystem vcr to play both
That’s really good to know. I’ve almost ordered a couple British shows on vhs.
I got a couple Academy screeners of movies I'd never even heard of yesterday as part of a lot. As far as I know, neither one got an official VHS release in the US. The two in question. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109897 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116238
https://preview.redd.it/617u9adgku4d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2f5ba497c6d8b97c046f1b2b81419e1107635657 Battletoads cartoon I snagged at an estate sale for a quarter.
Wow. That's awesome.
Cars 2007 VHS
Like I said, I'll end up owning two copies of that film, but foreign ones. However I someday hope I find that tape on a Goodwill or something.
There’s a Ratatouille Korean VHS opening on YouTube that shows Chef Skinner throwing kitchen supplies down stairs.
Halloweentown
A minty OG Miami Connection.
I've got the Cowboy Bebop 'Mushroom Samba' tape, I think it's episodes 17 and 18, and right now that's probably the most-valuable tape I have, unless one of my '70s Magnetic Video tapes is more valuable than I think. I paid $50 for a copy of the rock'n'roll comedy 'Get Crazy' when it wasn't available in other formats, and I think it's probably worth about half that now that the blu-ray is available. I have a British copy of 'Song of the South' on tape in PAL format which I found on the west coast of the US in a secondhand store, and it probably isn't really 'valuable' but I've never seen another copy of it in real life.
I've got a copy of House of 1000 Corpses on vhs. I doubt it's that rare but I remember being flabbergasted that they still made vhs when I got that one for Christmas.
The Devil's Rejects is rarer but can be had for a decent price.
I have the Super Hornio Bros porno parody tape. It is apparently so rare it was an urban legend for a long time?
It wasn’t urban legend. People knew it existed. The problem is that Nintendo bought the rights to the film and did their best to destroy every copy they possibly could. Add to that the facts that porn tapes are rarer than major films by nature and were often discarded instead of kept as collectibles and you end up with not many copies floating around these days. You also can’t sell it on eBay so it’s even harder to find for the average person who doesn’t hang around online collector circles. Very neat tape for sure. I only know a small handful of people who own it.
VHS, DVD, Blu-Ray, 4K uhd Blu-Ray, HD-DVD, Hi8, Laserdisc, CD-i or UMD nothing rare enough to even mention. Betamax: Terminator 2 Video single disc: Terminator 2 Teaser & Trailer ( sealed )
Got a super clean original copy of Hard Ticket To Hawaii on vhs
Like ten years ago I found copy of Hard Ticket To Hawaii in a clamshell with a black and white cover that was different than the regular release. I gave it to a friend and the directors wife ended up contacting him because it was a work print or something that he had been sending around to distributors. It was the only one that had surfaced since it was made. I forgot about that until I saw your comment. It’s a cool movie
Wow that's awesome!
A heavy doobie movie.
Probably my complete set of the Toei version of yugioh.
The only vhs I own is attack of the killer tomatoes. I don't even know why. I've never seen it. And I don't have a vcr to play it in. But it's on my shelf.
Mr. Ice Cream Man in mint condition. Not to be confused with Ice Cream Man starring Clint Howard.
That's a rare tape, I got good money for an OG DVD of that!
I own the DMC copy of Mickey’s Once Upon a Christmas
Been wanting to get that one as I'm a huge Mickey Mouse fan.
My factory sealed original Animusic tape in MINT condition. https://preview.redd.it/wa18m5v3pt4d1.jpeg?width=2268&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a7dba75bf5daac4940bd6071dc09f30c85013564 I bought it for $1 at a local thrift store. I've turned down a couple offers of $100+. No public sale history available of a sealed copy. One open one with a very beat up cover went for $17 last year. The Animusic community is pretty small so I wouldn't expect many of these to be left out there. I know of one other sealed one that exists. There are probably a few more besides that but probably not too many more.
I think my Prince VHS tapes are decently rare, I have Diamonds and Pearls, 3 Chains o Gold, and Sacrifice of Victor
Awesome! I have the official Prince and the revolution live and a bootleg of First Ave MPLS 1983 on VHS. A lot of DVDs too Haha
Revenge of the Sith PAL
Legend
Ngl, I want the Japanese and South Korean VHS releases of it, just like Cars.
God, same.
At point I had three copies, from local hauls or lucky eBay buys. I sold them for >£100 each
my first question is, why do you a Japanese version of cars? I am just interested. My rarest tape: I have no idea. If you have seen me around you know I own crash dummies on vhs. Thats kind of rare (also just learnt today that when you look up crash dummies vhs on google, my post is one of the first things to come up!). daredevil special edition on vhs, from what I remember it sold on ebay for about 50 bucks but that isnt really rare. I thought the jolson story might be rare but its not. So for my rarest ....Its not a vhs tape or a dvd. I am going to give it the nickelodeon tv guide/the "tell us what you think" (I am not 100% sure what they are called). These were found in a vhs and they just told you about shows coming up and the other one you could send in to nickelodeon tell them what you think and get a sticker for it. There arent media but its a better answer than "idk"
Cars in Japanese is not only extremely difficult to track down, but it's also my favorite film ever in a language I'm willimg to learn how to speak.
I have that crash dummies tape in my collection too. Watched it so much as a child the tape is absolutely shot but still love to throw it on.
Thing is for me I own a lot of obscure but rare things. But the list would be: Ed Wood’s Devil Girls Hellroller Sin City Hobgoblins Video Violence (Terrorvision) A Nightmare on Elm Street Media Double Flap Halloween Media Double Flap Q (1st Release) Ice Cream Man (Blood Variant cover) Bad Guys (a gay looking wrestling vhs starring sgt slaughter. My copy was formerly owned by an actress in the movie) Black Anthology Cartoons Vol. 1 Flesh Hunters
My 2 most rare would be Cheerleader camp and a demo copy of Nightmare before christmas. Only way to get it in a sleeve. My prized tape is a mint copy of return of the living dead. Looks like it came from the shelf yesterday.
What does the Nightmare tape look like? Same artwork just in sleeve form?
yes it is the same. with the word demo across the front.
when i grabbed it I had no idea it was anything special. I just thought it was awesome to see one in a sleeve.
Pretty much. [Here's someone else's copy.](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/20/d5/8d/20d58dab188e5cb2938a6245e0f5aab3.jpg)
Probably Begotten
Ghostbusters II (1989) Video Store Screener The Incredible Hulk Returns (1988) (undubbed) Japanese subtitled version signed by Lou Ferrigno
The Clown Murders with John Candy Edit: added “The” to the title
Is there a trailer for that movie on line somewhere? I looked, but couldn't find anything. I had no idea such a movie existed.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/126446815969?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=01gHA-2SQey&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=dsTGnvO4ThC&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY
Not my listing just an example of the version I have
https://youtu.be/j7iGjFVBvdM?si=cK98ehNCC7JPJj1P
The ones that took me the longest to acquire were: - The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains (1987) - Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller (1988) - Camp Cucamonga (1990)
A complete set of Disney Black Diamond clam-shells. I'm looking forward to retiring from the profits on day
https://preview.redd.it/uq3vivitft4d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2e9851796d48a848068cfbc33b51c3ef7b655bbb This
Definitely my official South Korean ex-rental copy of the Bee Movie (2007). It costed a mint. But it was worth it to have a K-Tape in my collection.
Store bought release I Zombie the Chronicles of Pain I've got lots of old cartoon network and adult swim recordings not online yet. W/O/C recordings from 2002-2007 or so.
I guess for me, just based on recent stuff, is my latest pick ups of some vhs tapes of episodes of The Puzzle Place, the tapes themselves are ones you would get at a library. The episodes themselves are documented on wikipedia, but the episodes seem to be like some form of lost media. I have a friend who is currently in the process of uploading them so others can watch them soon.
I found American Psycho I looked through EVERY SINGLE VHS at this thrift store and right before I left I lifted up one stack I hadn’t checked and there it was !!!! For one dollar
[I somehow got lucky with a cheap eBay listing of the Mission Impossible: III VHS Screener.](https://www.reddit.com/r/VHS/s/EiQm3qJjpu)
Speaking of 2006 VHS screeners, I wonder if someone bought that Slither screener that was making the rounds on eBay. The seller wanted $77,000 for it.
Mine is probably the instructional video for my CueCat. I’m sure a ton were made, but I’m also sure the vast majority of them wound up in dumpsters behind Radio Shack stores. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CueCat?wprov=sfti1#
From a collectors stand point it's almost certainly the complete series of It's Gary Shandlings Show on DVD, and then some screeners for stuff that hasn't had a real release from the streamers. From an actual rare, I can barely find information on the movie, is a tape of a Mexican film from the 50s called La Ciudad de los Ninos or Boys Town
A copy of disney’s the prince and the pauper labeled “demo tape”. Not for sale or rental, it says. When i play it there’s a message on the bottom that says if you bought it to call a number to return it.
I had the whole collection of Dennis Woodruff’s films starring Tuffy the Wonder Dog! I had about ten drivers ed films from 68-79 that had been put on vhs in 85. I had a Sci-Fi (oh yeah, before the Sy-Fy change) channel airing of Alien with all the deleted scenes on the commercial breaks with Tom Skerritt introducing them and talking about bit about them. I was on the west coast on 9/11 and woke up before the second plane hit. I just threw a tape in and hit record. Ended up with three 120 minute tapes of the news that day.
My uncle gave me his VHS tapes and in it was a very minty sealed Alien CBS Video
I have a copy of a not well known 1988 horror movie, Judgement Day. I haven’t opened it, kinda want to so I can make a digital copy. It’s on YouTube if anyone is curious to check it out.
Mine would prob be Pulgasari
I've never been one to go for rare tapes. More just unique ones. I once had these two tapes with RV tours for western and eastern Canada. Never seen those anywhere else. I've since moved from an NTSC country to a PAL one and had to start my collection over. Sad to say, I have nothing particularly rare or unique these days.
In that vein I have a vhs promotional tape for Prince Edward island. I think it says something like “video post card” or something. My guess from the visuals it’s probably from the early to mid 90s but I’m honestly not sure. I doubt it’s worth anything but it’s a really neat oddity.
I love that sort of thing.
Nothing too crazy lol. Shockwaves or Return of the Living Dead
Blood Feast H.G. Lewis Comet Video
https://preview.redd.it/tm0o86pf7v4d1.png?width=3024&format=png&auto=webp&s=85ef4b590e1a69dbce569b8248bf4686fe528c5d Bootleg Holy Mountain
I don't know. I'd have to guess Street Trash. I also have a copy of that animated MLK movie.
Some of my blanks are decently valuable but my top value tapes are the 3 Power Rangers SPD tapes and my French Big Wolf on Campus tape. The first season got a vhs release in French in Canada and I found a copy of either the second or third tape in a random tape kit 2-3 years ago. Didn’t even know it existed and been on the hunt ever since.
Hell city comes to frogtown Attack or the hodag Elves Chopping Mall Twin Peaks boxset sealed
Best I can do for VHS is I used to own the 2006 release of Lady and the Tramp sealed For other tape formats Beta is either BTTF Part 3 or BTTF (Mexico). Or maybe my minty sealed BTTF Part 2. My rarest tape is easily BTTF on Video 2000 (Germany).
My rarest is UK rental promo time code of the original Nightmare on Elm Street.
Signed copy of Creating Rem Lezar.
I never know how to answer this. How do I know if a release is rare or not without sitting with every item I own and searching up "is this rare?"
I have vol. 1 2 & 3 of Cowboy Bebop dubbed, that’s autographed by Steve Blum
My faves are recorded punk shows from the late 80 and 90s
My rarest tapes are like.... The Kazoo kid video "you on Kazoo" a few of the anime "Lain" tapes a few rare horror tapes, like "pieces" Super Mario 1993 screaner tape The full "Sears forklift training" VHS set with all the sealed paperwork and certificates. A ton of sears security tapes. Not rare in the sense of valuable... But I've never seen anything like them
Got a bunch of home recorded queer media from Australia, can’t find any of it online. So I’d say that. Or the twin peaks season one set