8mm Forum: WANTED: 70s 80s Horror

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Posted by Evan Samaras (Member # 5070) on October 22, 2015, 04:36 PM:

I cannot buy all fo these at once (depending in price). However, in 8mm/Super 8 I was hoping to see if anyone wanted to sell their copies of any 70s/80s horror. I cannot pay the $1,500 I have seen some films going for, so please tell me if I am aiming too high and these are all very pricey, or don't even exist!

Films like:

Day of the Dead
Nightmare on Elm Street (any of them haha)
Phantasm
Suspiria
The Gate
Child's Play
Halloween
Poltergeist
Videodrome
The Fog
Aliens (saw this go for $1,500, is this a norm?)
The Thing
The Shining

etc.!!..!!..!.. Thank you!

Posted by Joe Taffis (Member # 4) on October 22, 2015, 08:27 PM:

Evan,
Phantasm was only released as a 400' digest by Derann as far as I know. Halloween (scope), Poltergeist (flat & scope) and Aliens (flat) were all released as features. The Fog was released as both a scope feature and a 600' digest; again, as far as I know, the others on your list don't exist on super 8, except the original 1951 version of The Thing [Wink]

As far as the price for Aliens, that is not the norm, it's actually more in the reasonable $400.00 range...

Posted by Marshall Crist (Member # 1312) on October 22, 2015, 08:42 PM:

PHANTASM was also released as a 2x400' German digest.

Posted by Joe Taffis (Member # 4) on October 22, 2015, 08:46 PM:

Thanks for that info Marshall, I never saw that 2X400' digest, but I would love to get it! [Smile]

, although some folks from the USA aren't interested in foreign language films...

Posted by Evan Samaras (Member # 5070) on October 22, 2015, 09:11 PM:

Thanks Joe and Marshall! I am actually trying to learn German so that could be interesting and fun Haha!

Posted by Winbert Hutahaean (Member # 58) on October 22, 2015, 10:31 PM:

As you just started collecting, everything with Horror, Mystery or Scifi are usually expensive.

Drama and comedy are the cheapest.

Posted by Andrew Woodcock (Member # 3260) on October 23, 2015, 04:10 AM:

From the ones listed Evan, Aliens, The Fog, Poltergeist & Halloween definitely exist on low fade stock, full feature format on Super 8mm.

Sadly, for this particular title and one or two others, it does seem to be becoming the norm now for global sales within e bay, especially if in very good to near mint condition.

Not that I believe it exists, but "The Thing" may not even make such a good spectacle even if it were on 8. A bit too much white snow I reckon and would probably show up every speck on the print with little colour rendition.

It's not brilliant when projected digitally, least not from my DVD copy anyhow.

The highly saturated colour prints look best on Super 8mm I reckon like many of the Red Fox features I've seen.

Posted by Evan Samaras (Member # 5070) on October 23, 2015, 12:18 PM:

That's good to know Andrew, thank you. I think it is unfortunate that these items end up on flee-bay as well

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