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[wasabi_poptart]

The reason why Halloween was always my favorite holiday is because that was when all the good scary movies would be on TV. The classic Universal and Hammer films. The fun low-budget franchises, before they became franchises. Badly-dubbed Italian potboilers directed by Mario Bava and/or starring Barbara Steele. The Poe/Corman/Price screamfests. Mutated insects and Godzilla and The Blob.

Of course, with the advent of VCRs, that didn't matter so much anymore.

I am old enough to remember life before VCRs. Are you???

Also because of cinnamon, which just tastes like a good horror movie on a chilly autumn night.

Comments

damn big CD's!

[geekpixie.livejournal.com]

Laser disk baby, all the way. my first copy of The Dark Crystal was on laser disk. When we got a VCR (ooooh, VCR!!) it was one of those top loaders, silver, lasted forever and a day, and we copied all the disks over to it. There's a copy somewhere still with a little *burp* where we had to flip the disk over and keep going =)

And people wonder why artwork from that movie is tattoo'd on my back ;)

[kickarse.livejournal.com]

Remember when you could watch corny old reruns and B-movies with Elvira instead of freakin' INFOMERCIALS??

[bitchiekittie.livejournal.com]

I remember when they cost something around a million dollars, and my parents received one as a gift, and I was the envy of all other kids. we also had intellivision!

[miocaro.livejournal.com]

My family's first VCR wasn't just a pop-up, it had a wired remote. Remember when they used to specify that a remote was a wireless remote? That's because not all of them were. The cord on ours was just long enough that the remote could sit on the foot of the recliner across the room when it was reclined all the way back. Our tv at that time still had the giant old clicky knobs though.

[bilum.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I remember when VCRs were one of those unreachable luxuries that us common folk couldn't even dream of having (much like answering machines!). I remember knowing there was no way my family could ever afford one, so I never bothered asking for one, but then there was this contest (sponsored by a sugar cereal of some sort) where you could win one, and I remember knowing that my parents couldn't even afford to shell out for the cereal to win one. That was how I learned what "no purchase necessary" means (because I did send in my postcard to win), as well as how I learned that I will never win a cereal company contest, even if I buy the cereal.

That was back in the day when I dreamed of owning a VCR because owning a VCR meant getting to watch The Karate Kid whenever I felt like it.

[odalisques.livejournal.com]

I remember getting our first VCR, if that counts. It was very early in their introcudtion to general consumption, and the one my father impulsively brought home was expensive enough (I heard later 800 and change, 1984 dollars) for my mother to be pissed. It also had a beautiful picture, one that our later, 'better' VCRs could never come close to matching, nice enough that I constantly risked beloved tapes in it long after it was eating mroe often than playing them.

Now, this halloween, I've illegally downloaded Wolf Creek, still in theatres here, for us to watch on the computer. Weird, huh?

[blue-lotus.livejournal.com]

I remember when you could rent a vcr from the video store for a weekend. Mom would rent one and we would watch a TON of movies.

[sarahmarvelous.livejournal.com]

I love this month for that reason too! I Tivo'd so many horror movies this week, including Escape to Witch Mountain and Return to Witch Mountain (not really horror, but still favorites)

I remember going to pick out our first VCR at the Columbia Mall. It was probably 5 years after everyone else already had one.