How many horror movies have you seen?

MCMLXXXVIII · **Posted:** Sat Apr 10, 2004 3:20 pm **Post subject:**

When I was 10, me and a pal spent a day repeatedly watching a pirate copy of Rocky 4. When you're 10 Rocky 4 is the best film ever made!

Also, my first ever VHS rental was The Empire Strikes Back, which I watched 5 times back to back in one day.

These days I couldn't even watch a movie I really liked more than twice in a week without getting bored the second time. Weird!

maxpayne2409 · **Posted:** Sat Apr 10, 2004 4:11 pm **Post subject:**

i dont remember the first vhs i ever rented, although i remember renting Mr Nanny starring Hulk Hogan once

TaKYoN · **Posted:** Sat Apr 10, 2004 4:24 pm **Post subject:**

I remember forging notes from my mum so the local vid shop would rent me 18 films LOL Dunno if that shit would work these days LOL

EagleEater · **Posted:** Sat Apr 10, 2004 4:27 pm **Post subject:**

You still don't pass for eighteen then Tak? :lol:

maxpayne2409 · **Posted:** Sat Apr 10, 2004 4:50 pm **Post subject:**

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I remember forging notes from my mum so the local vid shop would rent me 18 films LOL Dunno if that shit would work these days LOL

no these days the kids would just pull a gun on the woman behind the counter, gang rape her, steal teh videos and booze, then run off laughing

or does that kinda stuff only happen in blockbuster?

DxaKrator · **Posted:** Mon Apr 12, 2004 4:38 am **Post subject:**

Heh,what the hell could you steal at Blockbuster that would be worth anything?Those assholes have ruined the video market.Them and their Nazi coherts Renttrack.Curse them and their corporate generic whitewash.

maxpayne2409 · **Posted:** Mon Apr 12, 2004 9:05 pm **Post subject:**

lol blockbuster seriously overcharge on renting stuff, i havent renewed my blockbuster card since i first got it about 6 years ago lol, sometimes i like going into blockbuster then just buying a bar of choclate to piss the people behind me off lol

paul-scream22 · **Posted:** Tue Apr 13, 2004 8:43 pm **Post subject:**

DxaKrator wrote:

Heh,what the hell could you steal at Blockbuster that would be worth anything?Those assholes have ruined the video market.Them and their Nazi coherts Renttrack.Curse them and their corporate generic whitewash.

RentTrack is pure evil :evil:

i hate BB and everything about it!!!

And those ads....don't get me started!!!

TaKYoN · **Posted:** Tue Apr 13, 2004 8:58 pm **Post subject:**

@eagle, I wish I did LOL

Eclipse · **Posted:** Wed Apr 14, 2004 2:13 pm **Post subject:**

I started watching horror movies with 8 years old,now i have 32 years and keep watching all the horror flicks that i can. How many horror movies i saw i dont know but more of thousand for sure.
The movie that a saw more times was "The Exorcist" ,in my opinion it?s the best horror movie ever made.

paul-scream22 · **Posted:** Wed Apr 14, 2004 2:18 pm **Post subject:**

The Virst VHS I rented was Jaws the Revenge & Astrix Goes to Britain.

The first Video2000 i rented (for peeps who remember that goliath of machines) was Orca the Killer Whale!

ah the golden days of video rental :mrgreen:

maxpayne2409 · **Posted:** Wed Apr 14, 2004 2:32 pm **Post subject:**

wooo video2000 finally someone else who had one, i had one, they were cool, techwise they were a lot better quality then vhs, and could store 4 hours per tape side but higher quality then 8hours lp on a normal vhs, it was kinda like the current dvdr+ and dvdr- battle, back then it was video2000 vs vhs and vhs won out which is a shame, u know vhs won because it was easier to copy video to video so people were buying them so tehy could pirate porn and other movies, so it caused sales of vhs to increase causing video2000 to become obsolete

as usual porn was what influenced sales, porn si big business as you know and whichever medium allows people to get theyre hands on it easier and cheaper then the competition will be the one that wins out

paul-scream22 · **Posted:** Wed Apr 14, 2004 2:37 pm **Post subject:**

sweeeeeeet pic Max

Yes and is was one hell of a noisy machine, rewinding/fast forwarding was a nightmare.

But the tapes being double sided was cool!

Video 2000 was better then BetaMax/VHS I reckon!

maxpayne2409 · **Posted:** Wed Apr 14, 2004 2:42 pm **Post subject:**

hehe plus when its dark in the room the red and green lights are very aesthetically pleasing

i remember when my video2000 went, we were having sunday dinner and we were taping the wuzzles (old carton for those who dont know) and my mum saw smoke coming out the back of it so my dad ran and pulled the plug out and it couldnt be fixed and by then you couldnt buy viedo2000 anymore

ive still got loads of my old video2000 cassettes (one filled with thomas the tank engine woohoo), never did get to see that damn wuzzles episode tho

paul-scream22 · **Posted:** Wed Apr 14, 2004 2:46 pm **Post subject:**

ebay mate

Not sure wat happened to ours. Probably got replaced when the only place to rent them stopped and only stocked VHS's!

ah Pharoahs Video, those were the days.
Till I went on Holiday for a fortnight and returned to see it bought out by a national chain, the horror section gone and the videos twice the price

I was pissed off on that day I can tell ya!

maxpayne2409 · **Posted:** Wed Apr 14, 2004 2:58 pm **Post subject:**

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horror section gone and the videos twice the price

god damn that sucks

that happened near me, the local off license used to rent loads of videos really cheap, then a spar moved about 2 buildings down from it and all of a sudden the offlicense stopped renting videos out, i rented mr nanny from them

back when hulk hogan was popular lol

EagleEater · **Posted:** Wed Apr 14, 2004 4:00 pm **Post subject:**

I agree about video 2000 chaps. We had one, and it was superb. Flawless freeze frame, slow-mo and search. Our Grundig machine was a groovy front loader too. Truly ahead of it's time. I remember how much VHS sucked, especially back then. On playback you would get white lines dancing across the screen, even on a brand new tape. As for the visual abortion you got when you tried to fast forward, i don't even want to think about it. It's a crying shame that VHS won the day! :cry:

paul-scream22 · **Posted:** Wed Apr 14, 2004 4:05 pm **Post subject:**

We should form the Video2000 appreciation Society guys - hehe

But yes even as a younsgter I remember how good that machine was

At least we have dvd know, and are witnesing the (slow) death of VHS :twisted:

Purple.Nightmare · **Posted:** Wed Apr 14, 2004 6:15 pm **Post subject:**

hehe we had a betamax but alas that too died out. my mate had a video 2000 and remember picture was better than our betamax. i think a couple of the first videos we had were Jaws and Death Wish. cant begin to count how many horror films i seen, well over 1000 maybe 2000?

George Tatum · **Posted:** Wed Apr 14, 2004 6:36 pm **Post subject:**

We only ever had VHS but I remember the local video shop having loads of nasties on Betamax hidden away until it was taken over in about 1992. They had a few VHS but they only had the best nasties on Beta. :wacky:

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