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Originally Posted by neilold
i quite like it, although it is pretty slow and dull at times. If you don't mind me asking repo'd what country are you from. i think you have mentioned Ireland is that right? If so did you struggle to find a lot of horrors like i did, after the 1984 act you pretty much couldn't get hold of certain films for love nor money. If you were lucky you found a gem of shop that had pirate nasties or the odd exploitationer and your only real point of reference was fangoria, if you found a shop that sold it that is. It was pretty barren for most of the mid eighties to 90s, then vipco and a few others appeared. It wasn't really till the net come along that you could get many of the films you wanted in there full gory glory
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I'm in the United States, neilod. If I mentioned Ireland it must have been a discussion of heritage. Both of my parents are of Irish descent.
However, we have had similar experiences in our search for horror goodies. I did indeed find one of those "gems of a shop" that catered to the more unusual movie tastes. It helped me survive my youth! I could always count on the shop owner to not only pick up the not so mainstream horror flicks, but to make sure I knew exactly when they would be delivered, so that I would be the first to get my hands on it. That shop and Fangoria got me through a lot of years. Mind you, I'm an old timer so I had quite a few years before the advent of home video. This was back in the day when a horror freak like me would circle the scary stuff found in each weeks TV guide, and then drool like a rabid pup until the night the movie finally ran.