The moving-picture show lease giant is beat . Blockbuster isclosing its 300 remaining US storesand shuttering its videodisc mail business . Thus end the era of publicly flash your flick musings under the nose of some 16 - year - one-time store clerk . So let ’s parent a ice , and toast goodbye to Blockbuster — and the small television stores it killed geezerhood ago . What ’s your favorite television store memory board ?
You never just idly troll the shelves of Blockbuster ( or any small video store ) . The errand always morphed into a family relationship test , quiz show , or ( for me personally ) a salacious peek into the gamey world of R - rated gore via back jacket crown screenshots . foreclose from all thing bare - skinned and blinking , I populate for the revulsion section . It was a weekly glance into a taboo world my church building group ( and family ) frown upon .
I could spend hours eye the cover of Stuart Gordon’sDollsand Fred Walton’sApril Fool ’s Day . I had win over myself thatDead Alivewas in reality about dead people gestate inside the intestine of teenagers , and was spellbind by the toilet gremlins ofGhoulies . But nothing was more tantalizing than the VHS cover of Fright Night . I ’ve delineate that murky look a thousand times . And one fine daylight when the teenage store salesclerk gave up his last nookie , I rented that movie . It did not let down .
Also one sentence we all catch drunk and get up a brilliant plan to range into the store , and back out with all the small fry ’s article of furniture from the kid section . Which we then set up on fire .
OK , now you go . Please admit VHS covert shots , because they are great .
Top photo byJosh Smith .
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