Those VHS films from our childhood

[Theremedy]

Elder millennials and Gen X, what films would you rewatch over and over again as a child in the 80s?

I have so many, mostly recorded from TV by my mum, sometimes not the most appropriate for an 8 year old!

Mannequin has stuck with me for life, I loved it so much.

They don’t make movies like that anymore. (Possibly for good reason)

I watched many movies I shouldn’t have done, Carrie is one that stays with me, I must have been about 12 and it was with a friend’s older sister.

I’m Pretty sure Pretty Woman was not meant for a 12 year old….yet I watched it every single week!

Dirty dancing
all the national lampoon films especially Animal House
lethal weapon films
mad max
the goonies
gremlins
Lost Boys
breakfast club
police academy
Heathers
Poltergeist
It
pet cemetery
ferris buellur (sp)?

I watched The Omen and Grease 2 on a weekly basis. Poles apart as far as genre goes, but I loved them both equally.

Yes to so many of these, special mention to Dirty Dancing and Lethal Weapon!

Grease and Dirty dancing.

My brother and his mates loved Weird Science…..don’t think that’s a film which would get made these days! 🤣

I loved Mannequin!

Jaws
Original Star Wars
The Goonies
The Boy Who Could Fly
Stand by Me
The Breakfast Club
Back to the Future
Ghostbusters
Terminator
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Indiana Jones
The Blues Brothers
Working Girl
Splash!
Uncle Buck
Three Men and a Baby

So many, once you start you just remember more and more!

Labyrinth, Dirty Dancing, Lost boys, Casablanca, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Gone with the Wind, Life is Sweet, and for some reason, Performance.

I would watch pretty much whatever had been recorded from the television. It was slim pickings but just so happened to contain some absolute classics along with some absolutely bizarre films!

Loved 3 Men and a Baby, Jewel of the Nile and Crocodile Dundee.

If I was at my Nans it would be Calamity Jane.

Labyrinth and commando. My favourite Schwarzenegger film😁

Loved Commando! When he breaks the guys neck on the plane…… perfect for small kids 🤣

Return to Oz. Absolutely terrifying, but they showed it to us at junior school: perhaps we were made of harder stuff then.

We had all the Schwarzenegger films on VHS and none of them are exactly kid friendly 🤣 though I do still love them all even now I'm nearly 40 😊

We definitely were😁

My nan had a bunch she'd recorded off the telly that I watched over and over every sunday!

The Wizard of Oz, Return to Oz, Labyrinth, Petes Dragon, the film version of The Life & Times of Grizzly Adams! I have all of them on DVD/Blue-Ray now except for the Grizzly Adams one which I've not been able to find in the UK, I really loved that one too!

Return to Oz was other levels of messed up. The Wheelers, The Queen with the heads….the horror!

Grease 2
Who's that Girl (Madonna)
Goin' Coconuts (Donny and Marie Osmond - cheeeesy)

Grease 2 (didn't like grease 1)
The Goonies
Chorus Line
Clue
Annie

I'm probably word perfect on all of them!

Terminator and Aliens. I can't believe how young I was when I first watched them.

Edited to add that watching a blurry VHS version on a 14" TV is a different experience than watching with today's image and sound quality.

Stand by me was my favourite

My much younger cousins would always be watching the Dark Crystal or Return to Oz when we were kids in the 80's. Watching them as an adult, they are both so creepy and scary though! 😮

Ferngully!

@QuartzIlikeit Oh yes, Clue. I didn't understand a lot of the American political references, but I loved it. We got the board game out while we watched it, and moved the pieces around as they moved in the film (we used Lego people for the murder victims).

Clockwise: John Cleese as a punctuality-obsessed headmaster. It's very British, very funny, and not well-known, nowhere near as big as A Fish Called Wanda.

If... A surreal 1960s film in a boys' boarding school, with a memorable caning scene (meted out by prefects, rather than masters), female staff wandering naked through the dormitories (while the boys are not there), prefects lusting after the "beautiful" younger boys, and the protagonists turning on the school with guns. There's lots of discussion on the internet how there is no way such a film would be made today.

When I was fifteen, I once recorded "The good sex guide late", which was broadcast at 3am, and all the Radio Times said about it was "love life problems and dilemmas". I thought it would be some sort of porn programme, and I was surprised that it was actually sensible discussion about sexual problems, admittedly ones I had never heard of.

An American Werewolf in London. I’ve seen that film more times than I’ve seen my arse, but, unlike my arse, it never gets old.

Company of wolves
Mask (the one with Cher)
Inner space
Return to Oz