Awesome House of the Devil Promo VHS Tape
Friday, January 8th, 2010
In preparation for the DVD release of Ti West’s House of the Devil, some lucky horror journalists have gotten an awesome collectible–a VHS version of the film in a giant clamshell case.
I can hear some of you now, thinking “why in the hell would anyone want a movie on VHS?”–well, primarily because West’s satanic thriller was built from the ground up to resemble an ’80s era exploitation film–and those movies always hid in the horror section of your local mom and pop video store, housed in these giant boxes with lurid covers (although the classics tended to come in giant paper boxes, not clamshells). If you’re old enough to remember the days of “big box” horror, then this should give you a definite feeling of nostalgia. Uncle Creepy over at Dread Central posted pics of his copy (you can see them here).
Naturally, the bastards didn’t send me one (despite the fact that I gave the film lots of love leading up to its release and included it in my year’s best list), but I’m not bitter. Nope, not bitter at all.
The rest of us will have to make due with a standard DVD and Blu-ray release, due to hit retailers on February 2nd.
