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Noticing a pattern with MGM and their DVD covers...
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"Ah! By god's balls what licentiousness!"
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My least favourite of all is their DVD cover for RAPE SQUAD. No one is gonna blind buy that movie, I'll tell you that. Not only did they use the lame "Act of Vengeance" title, but they didn't use the original poster design which was great. Didn't include it in this thread though, because the old vhs cover it used to have was equally uninteresting.Originally posted by Alex K. View PostComment
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Good call on Rape Squad. I love that movie more than any sane person should and have shown it a few times at movie night's across the continent.
Thorn/EMI VHS - RAD!
MGM Ltd. Ed. DVD - NOT RAD AT ALL (though the transfer was good)!
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Dawn Of The Mummy. The movie sucks but check out the R1 DVD art - it sucks more than the movie.
Now dig the Thorn EMI VHS release. It's rad, much more rad than the movie. The R2 release from ABUK used this art.
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Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II R1 DVD cover:
Old VHS art:
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Daughters of Satan VHS - When Satan Meets Selleck The Sparks Really Fly! So TRUE!
DVD - where's the Selleck?
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He's taking care of business down below. In more ways than one.Comment
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ZINGER!Comment
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10 To Midnight had at least 2 VHS releases. They looked kinda cool:
The DVD did not.
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Awesome VHS art:
Lame Birkenstock DVD cover:
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WTF, Stephen Dorff is NOT Justin Beiber, and he didn't wear birkenstocks in that movie!! It was the 80s! What kid would be caught dead in those back then? Hate when they try to market old movies in new packaging hoping you won't be able to guess it was made decades ago. A perfect example of that I saw recently is this great old documentary from 1979 called DIRT. Think of it as an ENDLESS SUMMER for offroaders.
Here is the cool trailer:
Here is the dvd:
WTF. Nowhere on the disc ANYWHERE is there any indication that this movie is old. Even the date on the back says 2005, when the disc came out. Those vehicles on the cover are clearly very modern. And look at that shitty motion-blur photoshop effect they used. Hate everything about this dvd cover. Never would have blind-bought this shitty looking dvd -- even if it was a $1.00 -- if I hadn't done my research and found out about the movie first.
There never was a vhs, but you just know they would have used the poster design, with one of my fave title fonts of ALL TIME! Look at that chrome! So. COOL.
Last edited by Robin Bougie; 02-14-2012, 06:39 AM.Comment
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The comments in this thread have given me a much needed laugh today (thanks!) :emily:
Robin- I like that movie Dirt. I saw it in the theater when I was a little kid and I have that dvd.
Ian- I actually like Dawn Of The Mummy! But Im a Mummysploitation fan so I pretty much like all those late 70s/early 80s Mummy movies (Time Walker, etc).Comment
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This movie is my new obsession. In this case the DVD art might be better, but I like the old VHS look for some reason, dopey as it is.
VHS:
DVD:
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I remember being really pissed off at that one...Originally posted by Ryan K View PostÅ–Çƈḱ!Ꞩẖȫçꞣ!Ƥӧê•!Comment
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Pretty much brother/sister with The Gate.
Monster Squad:
To this:
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