 Welcome to another episode of Frightfully Forgotten's VHS Tales. What are you drinking? We just rented a bunch of movies and we're about 13 years old. It's a big old glass of coca-cola. Oh my god. Yeah, you're right. It's just a big old glass of stone. Fuck that coke shit. Today we're gonna bring to you our Story of when we used to rent seven movies for seven nights for seven seven bucks At home movie rentals the local video store. Hey, yeah, and it's funny. It was just called home movie rentals That was the name of the place. Yeah, and the place was awesome It was loaded with movies was one of the better rental places we had in our neighborhood Massive it was huge. It was like the hub of the area and then there was like all those little kind of satellite places like Wizard video and all these other fucking places around that didn't have nearly as much of a selection But a lot if you went to a lot of those small places, there was sometimes the odd movie that you could find Yeah, that wasn't anywhere else. Yeah weird movie They would get that like I remember like tourist trap for example wasn't at home movie rentals Yeah, I was at some other weird it was like camp or corral. Yeah, you know, yeah So there was things like that which was kind of cool because you had to actually search around If you wanted a movie or if you heard of it or read it in a magazine, yeah You had to actually search around for which is neat about the old home movie rental days Like you'd have a mom-paw store to be like have a couple of gems Weird low-budget things you wouldn't see at the big stores. Yeah, just kind of need the literal mom-and-paw Stores you'd wonder how these old people would even have Think of getting this This one yeah, it's like what the hell are you guys thinking? Yeah, I'll take it, but still It's like weird So home of your rentals back in the day had a promotion seven movies seven nights for seven bucks Yeah, and we do it often, you know like on the weekend every weekend We'd go and do that back and forth each weekend and there's always like the same There's a few movies that were to switch up But there's always a staple of same movies would always get we'd usually get like the whole evil dead trilogy would get One to an army of darkness the shining sometimes you'd get demonic toys. Yeah, dolls Dolls we would get yeah Prince of Darkness. We'd stay up like all night We try to bang out as many movies as you can watch in one night, right? Yeah drinking two liters of coke coke Right, and we'd have a kind of running gag words like we tried to make each other laugh Yeah, as the other person was taking a sip of coke or something and like it all All over the floor and everything the next day the floor be all brown and soaked and sticky Not realize their parents have to clean it up Those are great days to be a movie lover because you can walk into like home of your rentals or I'm sure a lot of people had you know these big rental stores that were Wurth blockbuster had a great horse selection. You can walk in and see all this cool Stuff these neat covers. There's lots. I remember seeing that we couldn't even rent We didn't have the time to rent them all yeah jumbo video was one of them Yeah, we had a jumbo video here, which is cool because it had a horror room Yeah, that was cool. It was always kind of a little eerie to go into I never went into it like all that much I went into it maybe once or twice like a Michael Myers mannequin and there is a you know Jason Vorhees mannequin and yeah, but it was cool like walking around in the place because they gave you free popcorn They did You know the sad thing is you know, we had these big Places that weren't part of a big chain. They had a great selection and then blockbuster came in And it's funny that we just watched both The last blockbuster yeah, and how they talk about how they came in it took over these monpah shops And we saw that happen in real time and it was like oh man. Yeah, man. I hated blockbuster I hated it. I hated it with the passion and I you could feel it when it when they moved in when they took over home movie rentals Yeah, you could feel that it's like okay. These guys are taking over everything Yeah, it's not the same. It's not the same and it's like this is this is something's happening This is ruining and it was all sterile wasn't inviting It felt very sterile and like and you go look at the horse section and suddenly All those cool movies that like you know like slaughterhouse With that fat guy with the Yeah, leave her out all those those iconic horror movies that you'd always see on the shelves at home movie rentals those great covers We're all gone. It's just suddenly just the staples. Yeah, and it went from like a selection like this to like that Yeah, and they overnight they focused more on like the new releases which made more money, right? Yeah Which sucked because where's the variety? You had nothing after that the gaming section Yeah, for home movie rentals was enormous. It was like fucking it was like a third of yeah I remember that yeah, and then after once blockbuster took over all of the good games disappeared Yeah, it's just all these shitty games, and then it's like n64 games. There was like three games Yeah, there's like well I have this expensive system here, and I can't play it Digressing a bit. I had a Sega Master System Where we lived in Winnipeg you could not go and rent Sega Master System game There's no place that rented them you actually have to go and buy them or there's a trading as a place It would trade them you'd trade a game for a game. Is that downtown? Yeah, there was comic factory Yeah, yeah, yeah, I remember that place. Yeah, also stuff like special interests I remember like a whole movie rentals had a great wrestling section like the wrestling section is like Huge it had like all the WrestleMania is not this weird underground shit. Yeah all that was gone Yeah, and even stuff like cartoons like the children's section with like the cartoons You can rent like all the stuff you watch them Saturday mornings like all the Ghostbuster cartoons and he man and cartoons All that stuff there was the whole section for that and suddenly it was all gone Everything's gone and streamlined right all to whatever could make the most money before the days of the internet before streaming Before downloading. Yeah, this was all you had and then to have it all taken away And then just to be given generic shit Yeah, and you you maybe rent it once and then that that's all you can get. Yeah, there's garbage. It's pretty bad I remember when blockbuster moved in and took over home of the rentals It was kind of like I almost first saw the decline of yeah of Movie rentals. It's like ah, it's like this is it man. This is something's happening Something's changing here like it's it's one thing to go to walk in to a place and rent a movie It's a different thing to walk into a place and rent a weird obscure movie or a weird Underground straight-to-video movie. You wouldn't see yeah anywhere else, right and blockbuster kind of took that away And us right yeah, and and then on top of it, too It's like the cost of everything went up. Yeah, and so our parents like I know my parents They're like they didn't want to rent. They don't pay the money half the time So one of the movies we did rent for the seven movies for seven nights for seven bucks was edge of the axe Yeah, which we had kind of forgot about is that movie even any good Yeah, I can't remember remember like oh Christ like it was so long ago And obviously like wasn't a movie you rented all the time so couldn't have been our favorite But yeah, it was a good wasn't bad. We don't remember I remember a lot of the axe hits Yeah, is it any good? Is it any good now once we've Matured walls find out So our next task is to rewatch edge of the axe and we're gonna include it in Trash or treasure. That's right. So next week stay tuned and until next time Keep drinking coke coca-cola