This just hit my gooey nostalgia in the right way. Not just Blockbuster holds fond memories for me, but independent video rental shops from when VHS began were the places to be back in the 80s. Especially for horror hounds. My buddies and I had an "in" at one rental store where we bribed him with his favorite snacks and he would smuggle us the really hardcore forbidden fruit horror movies into cases like The Goonies or Splash. Best of times.
You are one hundred percent right, Ray. I totally neglected the mom & pop indie video rental houses. Which were also fun to peruse because you never knew what you were going to find there.
These places were breeding grounds for filmmakers like Tarantino and Eli Roth.
It’s funny how you don’t know that times were great until decades later.
This just hit my gooey nostalgia in the right way. Not just Blockbuster holds fond memories for me, but independent video rental shops from when VHS began were the places to be back in the 80s. Especially for horror hounds. My buddies and I had an "in" at one rental store where we bribed him with his favorite snacks and he would smuggle us the really hardcore forbidden fruit horror movies into cases like The Goonies or Splash. Best of times.
You are one hundred percent right, Ray. I totally neglected the mom & pop indie video rental houses. Which were also fun to peruse because you never knew what you were going to find there.
These places were breeding grounds for filmmakers like Tarantino and Eli Roth.
It’s funny how you don’t know that times were great until decades later.