Comments on: Portable Grindhouse: The Lost Art of the VHS Box

By: Lee Threlkeld

Lee Threlkeld — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 14:59:11 +0000

Hey Craig. You’llbe surprised bud. The Lift was a fairly decent thriller by Dick Maas, who did the excellent Amsterdamned (great title!)

By: Craig Clarke

Craig Clarke — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:23:30 +0000

My wife and I still crack up over that The Lift tagline, though it’s been years since we saw the box, and we were never quite foolhardy enough to actually watch the movie.

By: Rod Lott

Rod Lott — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:05:15 +0000

Stickers, no, but a couple of the boxes look like they had been cut, which some retailers used to do to slip them into the plastic Amarays, and then Photoshopped together. Not many, or at least not enough to irk me.

By: Allan

Allan — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:11:52 +0000

MUST. SEE. SLASHDANCE!

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:46:12 +0000

I never worked in a video store but spent so much time browsing in and hanging out in them that I probably should have received a paycheck. There’s also a British book like this that produces the covers of all the so-called “video nasties” from back in the day. This book sounds great, though one review I read suggested that some of the stickers and and boxes appeared to be Photoshopped together rather than the actual boxes. Don’t know if that’s true but I’d be a little disappointed if turned out to be the case.