Why I Still Buy VHS in the Age of Streaming
I have always been a tactile person. I want to hold the movies I love, own what I buy, and keep their history within reach.
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I collect VHS tapes and make videos about forgotten movies, weird tape finds, overlooked gems, and the video-store era.
If the box looks cursed, sun-faded, or completely unreasonable, I probably want to rent it.
RECENTLY RETURNED

Disney's 1980 horror experiment went so badly that the studio pulled it from theaters and sent Mary Poppins in as damage control.
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The Watcher in the Woods starts Gothic, then suddenly starts talking about another dimension.
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Disney plays a straight-faced ghost story for most of the movie, right up until the last ten minutes.
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I have always been a tactile person. I want to hold the movies I love, own what I buy, and keep their history within reach.
Read the postI like a tape that looks well traveled, as if it had a whole life before we happened to find each other.
Read the postVideos, tape finds, convention news, and whatever strange thing just followed me home from the thrift store.