Time to
resurrect a subject that I haven’t posted about in quite a while and that
subject is VHS cover art from the long gone days of VHS rental. A recent
addition to my VHS shelf made me a pretty happy collector. The Super Video
release of Amando De Ossorio’s Horror of the Zombies is a very nice example of
an era gone by. The cover shows a scantily clad woman being carried to her doom
by a group of hooded skeletal faced zombies. In the background you can see that
this moment is taking place on a boat. Even though the cover is a little faded,
these former rentals saw a lot of sunlight on the shelves of video stores in
the 80’s, the colors still pop out at you; a nice marketing ploy by Super Video
in my opinion. First the cover grabs your attention with its colors and then
the artwork itself is intriguing enough to get you to pick the box up and take
a gander. Flip over to the box and what do ya know? It looks like the front
cover actually is pretty spot on with the screen pictures on the back! So many times
I’ve picked up a box with cool artwork, flip over to the back and see a picture
or two from the movie and the pictures had nothing to do with what grabbed my
attention on the front! This nice clamshell is spot on with selling you the goods
and that is something I can appreciate.
The pictures
on the back of the clamshell are pretty cool too. You have the picture of the
skeletal zombies backing away from a fire (because that’s what zombies do ya
know) and of course a picture of a damsel in distress being pulled to her
gruesome fate below the deck of the boat by skeletal hands. Certainly this is
more than enough to say yes to a couple of bucks well spent for some Friday
night entertainment!
Often times saving several thousand dollars that can be put to better use by surviving family members.
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