Stephen Johnson
The Strangest, Creepiest YouTube Channels of All Time
YouTube is a bottomless well of the collective unconscious: If you dig around, you’ll discover sad things, wonderful things, and deeply strange things. Even when it’s not trying to be, YouTube is often an unnerving place. The following collection of creepy YouTube channels mixes intentionally spooky content with channels that may have some other purpose, but succeed […]
David Ian McKendry
10 VHS Box Covers that Scarred Me for Life
In 1980s video rental stores, shelves were filled with a brightly colored array of VHS box covers. These canvases served one purpose, to scream at the consumer…“RENT ME.” No other genre was better at grabbing a potential viewer’s attention better than horror. In a world where the shelves were stacked and the competition was thick, […]
Gregory Burkart
GRAVE ROBBING FOR MORONS: Is This Creepy VHS Footage for Real?
“This Video is for Fun.” Thus reads the unofficial cover art for this notorious half-hour video, allegedly sourced from a VHS tape in the late 1980s or early 1990s, then dubbed and re-dubbed for circulation and sale among bootleg collectors, often (literally) under the table at horror conventions and through mail-order tape trading communities. It’s […]
Rob Galluzzo
VIDEO: A Tribute To The Long Lost Horrors Uncovered On VHS!
Like most movie lovers, there was no better feeling than being able to purchase and own a movie you loved to add to your video collection. The evolution of the VHS era eventually made it not too far fetched to seek out and build your own home library that would rival that of any local video […]
Rob Galluzzo
Check Out Chucky The Salesman In This Rare CHILD’S PLAY VHS Promo Video
Bless the internet. And in particular You Tube because you can always find some of the strangest oddities on there. Sometimes it’s commercials or weird late night things you vaguely recall seeing as a kid. Other times, it’s promotional videos that serve as a time capsule, a relic of a time now long lost much […]
Gregory Burkart
The VHS Tape Bore His Name… and Its Grisly Contents Sealed His Doom
The origins of this gruesome viral tale are still something of a mystery, but the details appear to have be excerpts from the personal journal of a teenager in Belleville, Illinois, who identifies himself only as “John.” The first known entries begin shortly after his family relocated to the new city from Florida, where John […]
Gregory Burkart
Watch the Latest Blumhouse.com Original CREEPYPASTA Video — THE BOOK
As you may recall, when we posted our second creepypasta video THE MESSAGE last week [be sure to check it out if you missed it], I promised you there would be more of these videos coming in 2017… and while most folks think I’m a little weird, they have to admit I do keep my […]
Gregory Burkart
Does the Bizarre Board Game RAP RAT Have a Horrifying History?
Jackson Stewart’s retro-stylin’ horror feature BEYOND THE GATES has a lot of genre fans looking fondly back to that once-popular trend of VHS-based interactive board games like NIGHTMARE, in which players are guided by the instructions and time limits decreed by an onscreen game-master. Those players’ fates are decided not by a roll of the […]
Gregory Burkart
Ten Infamous Creepypastas Based on a Single Terrifying Image
Over the years, we’ve searched every corner of the web for the scariest, most popular and most perplexing examples of internet phenomena known as “Creepypasta,” and shared our findings with you. [For a quick primer, be sure to check out our list of The 10 Creepiest Creepypastas, some of which are recapped below.] In our ongoing […]
Josh Schafer
Take a Trip Back to the 80s with 5 Essential VHS Bumpers!
One of the best aspects of a VHS tape is that it was (and still is!) a complete experience. From the adventure to the video store, to the spectacular array of box art awaiting you, to the moment you got home and fed that slab to your VCR, it made your senses tingle with eager […]
Josh Schafer
5 More Memorable VHS Marketing Gimmicks!
If you got a kick out of the previous installment of VHS box gimmicks here on Blumhouse.com, here’s another helping of home video ballyhoo that’s sure to impress your analog inclinations! Here are five more pieces of outstanding VHShowmanship that encouraged you to rent, buy and simply marvel at the incredible ingenuity those VHS mongers […]
Rob Galluzzo
Vintage Video - Barbara Walters vs. VCR Horrors!
As a lifelong horror fan, sometimes I like to go down the YouTube rabbit hole in search of old video clips that bring me back to the glory days of mom & pop VHS rental stores and the era in which my insatiable, dark little mind was first discovering all these genre classics. Hey, I […]
Rebekah McKendry
10 VHS Box Covers that Will Haunt My Brain Forever
Like many horror fans who grew up in the 80s and 90s, a large chunk of my formative years were spent roaming the aisles of my local video store. On Track Video in Stephens City, VA was the definition of “ma and pop” store, from its adorable video cassette train logo (get it? On Track Video!) […]
Rob Galluzzo
Video Store Lovers - Check Out This Short Doc Tribute To Portland, Maine’s VIDEOPORT
I don’t know what it is, but I come from the generation that distinctly remembers just how pivotal and important the video store experience was for me as a movie fan. Spending hours scanning the boxes of VHS tapes and eventually DVDs, taking my time with key decisions as to what cinematic magic would be my […]
Josh Schafer
XYRENA Offers XHS: A Perfume That Comes in Collectible VHS Cases with Killer Cover Art!
The wave of retro-appreciation for VHS doesn’t seem to stop, and now, it’s about to head straight for your nose. The California-based fragrance company XYRENA has recently launched a line of unisex extriat de parfum called XHS to come housed in custom and collectible VHS clamshell cases. The XHS fragrance line comes complete with original […]
