With the opening of haunted houses, New Orleans Halloween season has begun. There are special film screenings, vampire dramas, zombie paintball adventures, Krewe of Boo s French Quarter parade, comedy, burlesque,
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The last VCR was produced in 2016 by Funai Electric in Osaka, Japan. But the VHS tape might be immortal. Today, a robust marketplace exists for it.
On Instagram, sellers tout videos for sale, like the 2003 Jerry Bruckheimer film Kangaroo Jack, a comedy involving a beauty salon owner played by Jerry O Connell and a kangaroo. Asking price, $190.
If $190 feels outrageous for a film about a kangaroo accidentally coming into money, consider the price of a limited-edition copy of the 1989 Disney film The Little Mermaid, which is listed on Etsy for $45,000.
There is, it turns out, much demand for these old VHS tapes, price tags notwithstanding and despite post-2006 advancements in technology. Driving the passion is the belief that VHS offers something that other types of media cannot.