Dave Wain
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I own one of the last movie rental stores in the UK, and work freelance for Arrow Video and co. with my mate @mattybudrewicz . Words at The Schlock Pit dot com
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If you didn't pick up the print copy of this, it's just gone online.
The guy in the main pic is Dave Taylor from the 'other' store in the UK, 20th Century Flicks. In this country, only men in their 40s called Dave are permitted to run video stores.
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This is comedian Michael McDonald, who thanks to his appearances in both AUSTIN POWERS (1997) and HALLOWEEN KILLS (2021), is the only person to have been killed on-screen by both Mike Myers and Michael Myers.
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I'm going to tackle one a day. They're about a two hour read, and while some days I might not finish, I feel that by spending time engaging in something she clearly enjoyed will be a unique way to remember her over the coming weeks 💗
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#mumskindleodyssey
Day One: BAD BOY DADDY by Chance Carter.
Strapline: 'He wanted a baby. I needed a man'
Synopsis highlight: "I took her womb. I never suspected she'd take my heart."
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The past few days I've been wondering what to do with these, and the simple answer is to read them! I've been lucky enough to inherit her passion for trashy books, films and TV, and besides, she'd get a kick out of her youngest son filling his mind with such impropriety. So...
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Broke out my Tales From The Darkside series sets. Cherry picking, so has anyone got any must-see episodes?
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If you owned a movie rental store in 2024, what would be at the top of your agenda to lure people away from popular streaming platforms?
For me, I like to place an emphasis on my range of boutique Blu's and films made prior to 1990, but I'm interested to hear your opinions.
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This is my friend Gaz, and he'll be standing by my counter, holding this sign 'til Thursday.
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My Dad died shortly before Christmas, and we had a funeral service for him this morning.
Without him, my love for film would never have been so strong - despite him never caring for the medium!
I know a few of you here met him, so here's an anecdote which explains a bit more!
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It's 2024, you're in your forties, and your 25 years of paid employment to date has been spent working in a video store.
I may well have found the cheat code.
Who else had fond memories of working in a video store? 📼 📀
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Seeing Arrow getting trashed for a announcing a lighter month of releases leaves a bad taste in the mouth.
Not sure I'm a fan of the entitled nature of today's physical media collectors.
You have it better than at any time since the dawn of home entertainment, but nooooooo...
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Just reading the half-witted comments below the HMV story
I can take the DVD disdain, but it's the music one that really gets my goat, with everyone gloating over their Spotify subs
For 150,000 Spotify streams, an artist gets $100
Buy. Physical. Media
Support the creators
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I wonder if people in their 30s and 40s who collect Blu-ray also collected DVD?
Or was Blu-ray the moment where the lightbulb went ping, and they became a collector.
Just curious.
I see A LOT of Blu's in picture backdrops, but so few DVDs.
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Idea: Been mulling this over for ages, but I'd love to do a series of videos riffing on the Criterion Closet, whereby regular people walk around my movie rental store, picking and talking about films that mean a lot to them. Would anyone watch that?
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Ok, I know a few of you like some video store porn from time to time, so here's my horror section, split across four areas.
1) Brit Horror
2) Boutique Horror
3) Bulk of the Horror A>Z
4) Bubble Over Horror -those that won't fit out!
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Heh. Flashback to 12 years ago.
No 88 Films. No Indicator. Early days of Arrow, vying for shelf space with boutique DVD trailblazers, Shameless Screen Entertainment.
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Just sent some pics over to Sight & Sound for their forthcoming article on movie rental stores. Really pleased with a couple. Here's a few examples.
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Ok, so my followers kinda doubled today. Half might follow me for sarcastic tweets about running a video store, while half may follow me for reviews on throbbing members and heaving bosoms. Hopefully I can strike a balance, but regardless of any clash, you're all welcome!
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Always up to something! Today I'm removing a quarter of the new release wall so I can install a custom made bookcase style unit which increases the stores capacity. The shelving that you can see behind the DVD wall plates, is the original VHS shelving from the '90s!
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Jesus, man. It's a Blu-ray, not weapons-grade plutonium.
🇺🇸: What could make
@Texasfrightmare
even better? An exclusive Blu-ray launch! 😱
Head to Booth 137 to get ENTER THE VIDEO STORE - EMPIRE OF SCREAMS a month early, followed by our panel with special guests Jeffrey Byron and Dennis Paoli at 6PM (CT)! Don't be shy, Come say hi! 🤗
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Birthday today.
Getting old.
So old, in fact, that I remember the days when people had to leave the house when they wanted to see a movie.
We should do that again.
Anyway, back to work...
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Don't mind me. I'm just working that pretend job in that pretend row of shops, and pretending to rent films to pretend people.
As ruses go, this would be an epic undertaking! I'm quite thrilled that people are skeptical!
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The "No 4K? No sale!" folk would do well to understand basic economics.
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Bought a video off a guy on eBay fifteen years ago, and ever since, I've had an unwanted one-way penpal. Gifted me an uncut copy of A Serbian Film today. Who does that?
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Just had ambitious Welsh filmmaker Ben Stevens here pitching his ideas for a documentary on the store.
With The Guardian yesterday, radio next week, then shooting YouTube promos at the end of the month, hopefully I'll prove bricks + mortar movie rental can work - even in 2024.
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Passed 2500 Blu-ray's today. 175 titles away from 15,000 films. And yet, every day, people walk past and comment on how they can't believe that people would actually rent films from a shop.
Tax avoiding, movie dumping, faceless corporation with a fifth of the selection FTW.
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Every time Vinegar Syndrome have a sale, I always notice an increase in the use of trash.
"It's trash cinema, but I'll buy it..."
Could do with cutting this out of our vocab.
Like what you like. No need to belittle something to justify your enjoyment.
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YES! Coming in June from Arrow Video is this EMPIRE OF SCREAMS set, for which we were humbled to be hired as consultants, and to have contributed three audio commentaries w/ special guests, and a video essay on the legendary John Carl Buechler.
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I've just finished my first book! BAD BOY DADDY was gripping to say the least, as we swing between the lives of Jackson, a member of the The Brotherhood gang, and Faith, who's just escaped the evil clutches of her possessive boyfriend Wolf!
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Episode one of Inside The Video Store debuts tomorrow, complete with a dodgy microphone. Forgive the few minor audio glitches, and just enjoy the pretty colours...
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Here's the first episode of INSIDE THE VIDEO STORE.
If they're popular, and if I don't bore you to tears, then hopefully I can turn this into a regular thing. It was fun to do! Nod of appreciation to
@JJShaw139
for filming it.
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Imagine having a local movie rental store and all these came in on the same day.
Imagine.
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43 pornos just landed from Vinegar Syndrome.
Excessive, yes.
However, David DeCoteau got in touch recently and asked to collaborate on something related to a couple of things in this box, so that's my excuse, and I'm sticking to it.
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One of the most important aspects of my video store is having films like this available.
Never graduating beyond VHS in the UK, it's also unavailable for streaming.
I really get a kick out of cheating the system and giving my customers the opportunity to see stuff like this.
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@msbathrooms
@scouserachel
Amen to that! I shall endeavour to plough though some low-brow erotica! Haha
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The last week of every month is becoming relentless as a boutique bottleneck. April 22nd is the same. I didn't even get them all!
Did anyone get EVERYTHING this week? Is it becoming impossible to keep up?
Thoughts below if possible for a thing on Inside The Video Store 003.
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Had a fab new customer in just before I closed tonight.
She'd read The Guardian article in work, and had hand-written a list of her first fifteen rentals!
Top of the list was Tombs of the Blind Dead: "When I saw you had that, I knew I had to make coming here a priority!"
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People who aren't close by always regularly ask what they can do to support my movie rental store. To be honest, things are pretty good, but if you want to do something, then liking the shops Instagram page is a big help in boosting its profile.
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Absolutely made up with my new eight foot beast of a shelving unit that I built to house my boxsets. I wasn't getting the potential out of this behind the counter space, but now it's a real eye-catcher and talking point when I serve my customers.
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Episode 2 of Inside The Video Store is in the can, and it's out on Friday!
Thanks for watching the first ep. Overwhelmed with nice comments. Grateful for your time!
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In a desperate desire to stay relevant, I've decided to remove all the Takashi Miike films from my platform, aka Video Store, because...
Yeah. That shit doesn't happen with physical media does it?!
#buyphysicalmedia
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First Father's Day without my Dad, so where better to spend it than in the building he stumbled across in 1978, and decided to take a punt at running a business.
He loved a gamble, and forty-five years later, this one has certainly paid off.
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Wolf is a member of Los Lobos - not the chart topping La Bamba singers, but an evil group of gang members who treat their women like dirt. Jackson on the other hand is a pussycat, remarking on Faith about her "light brown hair, big blue eyes, and mouth made for pleasure" 🙄
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Finally finished setting up my auxiliary boutique shelving, which frees up a load of space in a few other areas of the store.
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Some of the dialogue was also a little awkward, especially talk of breeding and owning, athough Faith did prove to be a satisfyingly strong woman. Recommended? With caution. And only if you can handle the ego that is Jackson Jones!
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BEATRICE CENCI arrived, so for the first time in about two years, my
@88_Films
Italian Collection is fully up to date... until Monday when BLOOD & DIAMONDS comes out.
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First half of my MovieZyng Warner Archive haul arrived. Went in for seconds on the final day.
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Finally managed to collate the 78 movies that will form my disgracefully indulgent new section.
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So much for the decline of physical media. Just had to have an emergency photocopying session to print up some more inserts for my take home boxes as I'd run out.
Ridiculous amount of films out on loan right now.
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This innocuous tweet yesterday seems to have taken on a life of its own!
However, I can't express just how touching it's been to receive so many messages from people who have shared stories or just expressed condolence.
My Mum was wonderful. Glad to share a little.
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Fred Olen Ray gets the treasured accolade of becoming the first director in the video store with two separate sections.
One for the classics that have come to Blu, and one for Millennium Era DTV action.
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Just doing my accounting for October, and while every month in 2023 has been up around 10 - 15% vs. 2022, October's rental revenue clocked in with a freakish comp of +53.5% against the same month last year. A bad weather anomaly, or the sign of a streaming rebellion? Stay tuned.
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Resorting to extreme measures to keep my OOP copy of 88's BLOODSUCKING PHARAOHS IN PITTSBURGH secure by installing galvanised steel security shutters. It's the only way!
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12.42pm, and I guarantee that nobody will top this rental selection for the rest of the day.
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Yeah, so I went and did this for The Telegraph...
How can you deal with the death of a parent? For
@thedavewain
, the unlikely answer came from his mum's collection of 3,000 raunchy novels.
#mumskindleodyssey
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I'm sure there are commercial reasons, but initially, I'm not a fan of this. Obviously, convenience plays a part, but for me, this segregation of XXX from mainstream only serves to relegate them back to obscurity.
***ANNOUNCEMENT***
More info regarding
@vinegarsyndrome
separating their adult titles from the regular site:
It appears the website will likely be this:
As you may know, we’re spinning off our hardcore and sexploitation catalog onto its very own site,
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Thanks to Dawn Collinson for the lovely chat this morning, and for writing this very cool article in
@TheGuideLpool
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We got in touch with wri/dir Sheldon Lettich (Bloodsport, Rambo III, Double Impact) a few weeks back to see if he'd be interested in recording an exclusive commentary for
@88_Films
' release of LEGIONNAIRE- and he said yes! Got the file this morning and it's just superb! Out soon!
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I had the temerity to *ask* my local newspaper if they fancied running something on the store, only to be greeted with a deafening silence.
But then The Guardian email out of the blue and want to come over for a guided tour for the Saturday magazine.
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Spent my day off in work, as we filmed a series of shorts that are my own spin on the Criterion Closet. Shot the first four today, and though they'll only be of a brief duration initially, hopefully if they're received well we can do more and for longer.
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Streaming eradicates the beauty of these bizarre moments of innocence.
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Rentals from the past 90 minutes. A pleasingly eclectic mix of films and formats.
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I know that physical media is largely passé for the masses, but I still can't get over people walking in with their entire collection to save dumping it in landfill.
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New section! This isn't a misty-eyed nostalgia fest. I'm doing it because I feel that these films deserve the space, primarily because video stores couldn't have existed without these movies, and these movies couldn't have existed without video stores. They need to be represented
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Rentals from the past hour.
Nobody over the age of 30 yet today.
This new generation knows the score.
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Relaid the store a little bit this week to deal with the Arrow section overflowing, and other genre stuff being too spread out. Created a nice little cult corner now... 👌
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My Dad had a million enviable attributes, of which one was his woodwork skill. He built EVERY fixture and shelf in the shop, and now I need more... So, it's time to see if carpentry is genetic! Measurements taken, I'll report back in due course - hopefully without injury.
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Finally integrated my recent VS pickups into my new fixture. Comfortably holds the 100 or so I've got now, with room for 50 more.
It also enhances my four-sided boutique island! There's a real flow to it, allowing people to browse by label.
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The Liverpool Echo wants to run a feature on the store in their 'nostalgia' column - which makes me wince a little. It's not my favourite word.
Anyway, they asked for a pic of the 'team' that work here, so I duly obliged and got all the staffers in for a group pic.
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My new ongoing YouTube series edges ever closer. Hopefully filming next week. Hope you like it!
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Welcome to use my picture - BUT - it's a bit weird that a newspaper publishes an article listing all the alternatives to Netflix, yet doesn't mention the fact that there's a place *literally* down the road that you can wander into and choose from over 15,000 films to rent.
I have scrapped Netflix and turned back to DVDs and so should you
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Connected with a customer over our mutual obsession and affection for SHORTBUS today. Says she's never met anyone irl other than herself who's got through more than ten minutes of it.
The beauty of the video store = total strangers bonding over relatively obscure movies.
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It's Friday! It's time for episode three of INSIDE THE VIDEO STORE.
The only physical media show that goes from Disney's Wish to Inside Little Oral Annie in the space of three minutes.
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#mumskindleodyssey
Day 3: SHAGGED by Alex Wolf
Strapline: 'I have to have her.
I will have her.'
Synopsis: Matty thinks he has everything, until Christina threatens the foundation of his life with her tight little body, sassy mouth, and soft curves.
Thoughts later...
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Read about a group of physical media collectors spending time replicating a Blockbuster store in Orlando. Find that a bit weird.
My only Blockbuster homage is my counter. Which I stole...
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Episode Six of Inside the Video Store lands on Friday!
Includes a fascinating tutorial on door opening techniques. It's a must watch!
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And there it is. February's haul from Vinegar Syndrome which took in the Valentine's Day sale at Melusine.
Two highlights for me are:
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Outrageous! Assured by Indicator that 'shipping times will take CONSIDERABLY longer than usual' during the sale, they have the temerity to get my order to me in under 72 hours. Disgraceful behaviour, for which I am truly thankful! :p
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Just when you think the world is a little bit 'meh', an eighteen year old lad comes in (for the first time), armed with a list of a hundred horror films (inc. EVERY Puppet Master), and says "I'm trying to get through all of these, and someone told me you might be able to help?"
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And there it is. Relatively unscathed, too.
Congrats to Arrow and James F in particular for their dogged determination to curate such a definitive work of art. Outstanding.
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A young lad just joined with his girlfriend and rented these six movies - all of which he's never seen!
Envious of that experience, but mournful at the thought of so few people his age being able to discover such a broad palette of cinema all in one place, and with such ease.
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PORKY'S trilogy just got rented. Apparently it's not streaming on any UK platform. Tempted to hunt down the fella who came on Tuesday in to tell me that he didn't understand why I was here ("but everything's on Netflix"), and repeatedly hit him over the head with these boxes.
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Customer asked me what my favourite section was 🤔 Duuuuh... No contest 😁
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Imagine having a movie rental store at the bottom of your road with a Gregg Araki section.
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Shhh!! Whisper it! The release that has our next audio commentary has been leaked!
Out on Blu-ray and DVD this August from 88 Films, it's David Schmoeller's CRAWLSPACE (1986) with Klaus Kinkski!
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We're thrilled and exceedingly humbled to have been asked by
@ArrowFilmsVideo
to record a couple of commentaries for this boxset.
LOVE these movies, and I must admit, this is an absolutely stunning release!
NEW UK TITLE: Children of the Corn Trilogy (Limited Edition Blu-ray Boxset + Children of the Corn on UHD)
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Word.
@DrewMcWeeny
Snips Video in the UK has over 15,000 titles. For comparison, that's more than Prime Video (6,985), Netflix (4,091), Paramount+ (2.257), and Disney+ (1,129) combined.
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