draculasaurus.bsky.social
Sci-fi Enthusiast - Horror Enjoyer - VHS collector
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Anyway, Prophecy is an ecological horror movie.
It has a gritty verisimilitude like a ‘70s drama, but also is about a big, sloppy mutant bear that walks on two legs and likes to kill people.
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In the future, when historians want to research early home video, what are they going to look at?
Believe it or not, this is it.
Social media posts like this one. That’s assuming all this isn’t deleted by then.
Our culture is on a bubble. Enjoy it now.
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VHS releases are pretty mysterious.
There is no master list. There’s no Discogs or Wikipedia to look stuff up.
Distribution companies came and went and left no trace.
It was the wild west.
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This beautiful example was made in Japan.
Look how clean and streamlined it is!
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Nice!
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I enjoyed that a lot.
My only criticism would be that the beginning is loaded with fun gore, but it gets less exciting as it goes along.
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Rated R for “vampire violence”
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The back cover goes there!
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Gabriel Byrne plays the devil, and there’s a scene where he pees on the side of some stairs and it runs down into the street. Then he lights it on fire like kerosene and blows up a van.
This is in the same movie with a lot of disturbing images, horror violence and big hollywood action sequences.
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I finally got a chance to finish End of Days.
It is so weird.
The lead part was written for Tom Cruise and Arnold Schwarzenegger ended up playing it.
Can you imagine??
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Yeah!
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This is crazy.
You cannot access the video head without totally tearing the deck down.
I can’t figure out what they were thinking when they built this.
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So you can unscrew the front cross member thing and then the back splits open and you can lift up.. everything?? But it’s all soldered together.
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So you can remove the face..
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OK, i figured it out a little.
You have to take the grill off the bottom…
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This tone of this movie is wildly uneven!
-and it’s not just Arnold playing against type.
This is like; multiple simultaneous movies, both turned up to eleven.
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The box says it’s a “non stop action packed thrill ride” and also “more chilling than The Exorcist”
Alright, good luck little movie. Let’s see what you can do.
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You guessed it. I’m watching John Carpenter’s Vampires (1998)
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Look at this heavy shielding around the power handling area! I’ve never seen anything like it. It’s like; automobile body thickness.
Maybe they thought they needed a heat sink?
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I’ve never opened up a Mitsubishi before.
These top circuit boards are usually designed to hinge open so you can access the tape path area.
This is fascinatingly different.
They weren’t just copying other brands, this is a unique from-scratch design.
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I’ve somehow never even heard of this!
👀
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No!
The music in there makes it seem like it a fun adventure.
All those scenes are actually dour and tense!
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It was a mess.
Apparently it was a troubled production and is the stitched together efforts of three different directors.
Oh, well.
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It’s a western and also a comedy, but fairly low key about it.
It’s hard to describe the feel of it.
-like characters who are self aware about their inability to change their own behavior.
I wonder if Quentin Tarantino found inspiration in this.
It sort of feels like that.
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Here’s a comparison with a standard 1990 release. You can see they had changed from the linear grip pattern to a small grid pattern on the cassette shell by then, and the reel flanges changed to a clearer plastic.
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I haven’t seen it, but it sounds great.
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The movie is putting in the effort. I’m rooting for it already.
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Big split here!
This is bound to be interesting.
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I just finished watching Dreamcatcher..
I have so much to say, but I don’t know were to start.
There’s no incompetence here. Everyone is talented and nothing went wrong.
It’s not challengingly abstract or intentionally bizarre.
It’s something else.
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Your space and set up is great!