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Vhs prices

posted 8 years ago by Zappedagain
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A couple weeks ago, I was at a flea market... I couldn't believe what I saw. Sitting in a random bin of late 90's- early 00's very common vhs tapes, there it was. Blood Rage!! Prism version! box un-cut! Surprisingly good condition! And it was being sold for 50 cents, just like the rest. There were no other horror movies in there. I spent $2.00. I'm an avid tape collector, especially 70's and 80'a trash horror. This tape has always been on my wish list, and it's always been going for high prices. Anyone have any info as to why this goes for so much?

[–] markdancedcrazy 8 years ago

Many low budget b-movies and direct to video horror films have received renewed interest due to a combination of a couple of things. There's been a wave of nostalgia over the last several years for analog video and 80s technology in general; the cheapness and ubiquity of the stuff at second hand stores has aided this, much in the same way that younger music fans were "rediscovering" vinyl in the 90s.

The pervasiveness of social media has allowed movies like Blood Rage (or Deadly Prey, or newer films like The Room) to gain a degree of infamy that would never have been possible when they were originally released. There's several extremely popular Youtube channels and podcasts that now review or MST3K-style riff on them, some with hundreds of thousands of views. You can bet when someone like Red Letter Media covers an old movie for their channel, prices for it will immediately go up online.

On one hand, it's great that these films aren't languishing in obscurity any longer. On the other hand, it's kind of a bummer that all those sweet Youtube dollars aren't going to the original filmmakers.

[–] Zappedagain 8 years ago

Markdancedcrazy, thanks for responding, but what you wrote has nothing to do with what i was asking really. I don't need a history lesson, just info on this movie. Anyone with information regarding the 1983 *beep* "Blood Rage" please respond.

[–] markdancedcrazy 8 years ago

Sorry for my enthusiasm. The answer is the same though. Blood Rage is one of a few horror videos that's become popular due to Youtube reviewers. The price of all VHS horror has gone up over the last couple of years.

[–] TheBeardedWonder 8 years ago

Yeah you kind of answered it in your first post. The nostalgia wave has come and now 80s stuff is hip to be into (the clothes, VHS, cassette tapes, etc) Between that and lots of copies of movies like this being thrown out, there's also a supply and demand factor going on for certain movies too. This just came to Blu Ray, so before that the only way to see it was the hard to come by VHS, so that's another reason.