VHS Video Cover Art: 1980s to Early 1990s

It's true, I bought three copies of this book so that I can keep one in the bookshelf, one so I could cut out and frame some of the images on one side, then the third so I could cut out images and frame them from the other side.

Overall it's a beautiful book with alot of movies I've never heard of that seem interesting.. the only gripe I have with it so far with just thumbing through it is most of the movies release dates are wrong, not half but most.. out of about 220 movies or so throughout the book about185 of em are from 1985 -1987, they could of almost renamed it "1986" cover arts

Great book to have of u luv movies

If you love VHS artwork, buy this immediately. What makes this book special is that the majority of it is 1) very rare VHS titles with beautiful and often hilarious artwork and 2) if you grew up in the US like me, a lot of covers are burned into your memory, these are all UK VHS covers so you get to see alternate designs for films, the alternate artwork for "Troll" is especially hilarious. The layout and design of the book is beautiful and the VHS covers span all genres, comedy, horror, action, thriller, ect. Tom Hodge the author also does a little homework too and provides the distributors, years, alternate titles, and artists of the VHS covers to go with each title displayed. Tom Hodge is one of the great up and comers in the film poster art business and is always in demand, you may have seen his original work for posters to such films as "Hobo with a Shotgun" and "Almost Human", he has a very distinguished style. Buy this book before it's out of print, much like the only other previous VHS cover-art book "Portable Grindhouse."

Good paper and image quality. Hardcover strongly bound. Pretty much just images of VHS box art, separated by genre. Being a child of the 80’s in an American family who made almost daily trips to the video store, I was expecting a lot of nostalgia leafing through this. Instead, most of the VHS artwork included is not from original USA releases but releases from another English speaking country (Canada, UK, Australia? The author does not make it known). Pretty cool seeing alternate artwork for these titles but I think I was hoping for more familiar images.

Amazing. As someone born right at the dawn of the VHS era, many of my happy memories from childhood are going to the local video store to rent a movie or a nintendo game, and since that was before AV Club or Rotten Tomatoes you had no way of knowing if a movie was crap, so the crappiest movies (and during the straight to VHS craze there were MANY crappy movies) competed for attention by having the most exciting, outrageous covers, leading to a fairly unique form of art and presentation. This book does such a good job of collecting amazing cover art from this era. The nostalgia is so hard it hurts. I collect a lot of photo and art books, and this has immediately become one of my favorites in my collection.

I got this book as inspiration for my art -- a handy reference which would keep me from having to dig through my VHS collection to find a muse -- What I got was so much more than that. The thing I wasn't expecting and ended up loving was being able to read the back of each box! It made me remember what it was like being a kid in my local mom and pop video store. The fact that the art depicted in the book are from video releases in the UK made it that much more exciting to me because I've hardly ever seen any of these covers before. Also, I'm pretty sure that Graham Humphreys is my new favorite artist. Thank you Thomas Hodge for curating such a fascinating book!

This is fun! I grew up with a lot of these movies and the old VHS cover is a bit of a lost art. I can imagine a fair share of hipster kids thumbing through this being really proud of how aware they are but really they all probably are secret racists and have some kind of immune deficiency. The book well worth owning if you like strange art, movies, outsider culture and coffee table books that aren't terrible. Just watch out for that guy who wears a bow tie all the damn time because he's super proud of owning this. Almost as proud of wearing a bow tie.

Llegó en perfecto estado. Una edición muy bonita.

Quality non stop ...lovely book high quality print full size slip covers or some of the best artwork produced on vhs ..also includes rare obscure films.

Look up the word ‘rad’ in the dictionary and you’ll probably find a photo of this book... if your dictionary is as rad as this book is.Since purchasing this book I personally feel like life has been more rad, and rad people have been attracted to the radness emanating from the well documented vhs covers on these pages.You should probably buy this if you want to feel and be more rad.

Un vrai régal que de parcourir ce livre sur tous ces films de série B avec leurs visuels de folie!!!

Es ist ein Cooles, Einmaliges Nonplus👍 Hardcover Nachschlagewerk.by Thomas Hodge „the Duke of Art Design“Eine komplett Videothek in einer Bunden Retrospektive gebündelt und vollgepackt mit Kids,Sci-Fi,Action,Horror,Comedy. zbs.„Roland Emmerich‘s Kult 🎃 Klassiker “HOLLYWOOD MONSTER“ oderOrion‘s Super 👊🏻 Punch „REMO“in der Rock‘n‘Roll Ecke„THE INVISIBLE 🏈KID“ und„MOVING VIOLATION“Highschool Kids vs. Outlaws„THE PARTY ANIMAL“ + „MUGSY‘s 🥊GIRLS“Ein Besonderes Highlight„KNIGHTS OF THE CITY“ alias„NÄCHTE DER SIEGER“ ein Ultimativer Hardcore Street Dance Knaller.„VHS VIDEO COVER ART“ ist ein Starkes Buch und der Wilde Westen der Kreativität.(REWIND THIS!)