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Explore the dusty forgotten corners of the Mom & Pop Video Store era.
Est. 2012.
Explore the dusty forgotten corners of the Mom & Pop Video Store era.
Est. 2012.
Predator 2 must have caught critics in the middle of their post-'80s hangover. They just didn't want this movie.
They expected prestige Arnold-level action, but what they got was grimy back-alley brutality with characters that had plenty of time to bleed...
momandpopvideostore.com/predator-2-1990
They expected prestige Arnold-level action, but what they got was grimy back-alley brutality with characters that had plenty of time to bleed...
momandpopvideostore.com/predator-2-1990
November 13, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Predator 2 must have caught critics in the middle of their post-'80s hangover. They just didn't want this movie.
They expected prestige Arnold-level action, but what they got was grimy back-alley brutality with characters that had plenty of time to bleed...
momandpopvideostore.com/predator-2-1990
They expected prestige Arnold-level action, but what they got was grimy back-alley brutality with characters that had plenty of time to bleed...
momandpopvideostore.com/predator-2-1990
Pauly Shore was the early 90s. Not representative or symbolic of them, he was them. For several years, he went from MTV’s most chillin’ VJ to Hollywood’s own prophet of slack.
If you needed someone to embody post-80s aimlessness, The Weasel was your guy...
momandpopvideostore.com/son-in-law-1993/
If you needed someone to embody post-80s aimlessness, The Weasel was your guy...
momandpopvideostore.com/son-in-law-1993/
November 13, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Pauly Shore was the early 90s. Not representative or symbolic of them, he was them. For several years, he went from MTV’s most chillin’ VJ to Hollywood’s own prophet of slack.
If you needed someone to embody post-80s aimlessness, The Weasel was your guy...
momandpopvideostore.com/son-in-law-1993/
If you needed someone to embody post-80s aimlessness, The Weasel was your guy...
momandpopvideostore.com/son-in-law-1993/
Coffee, gunfire, and the last known expression of the original punk scene before it all went... Straight to Hell (1987)
This is punk rock cinema at its finest...
momandpopvideostore.com/straight-to-hell-1987
This is punk rock cinema at its finest...
momandpopvideostore.com/straight-to-hell-1987
November 12, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Coffee, gunfire, and the last known expression of the original punk scene before it all went... Straight to Hell (1987)
This is punk rock cinema at its finest...
momandpopvideostore.com/straight-to-hell-1987
This is punk rock cinema at its finest...
momandpopvideostore.com/straight-to-hell-1987
Scrooged arrived on home video today in 1989, after a November 23rd 1988 theatrical release.
I recently posted about Santa Claus: The Movie - which makes a great double feature for a Salkinds/Donner Christmas movie grudge match.
Knowing their history.
momandpopvideostore.com/scrooged-1988
I recently posted about Santa Claus: The Movie - which makes a great double feature for a Salkinds/Donner Christmas movie grudge match.
Knowing their history.
momandpopvideostore.com/scrooged-1988
November 11, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Scrooged arrived on home video today in 1989, after a November 23rd 1988 theatrical release.
I recently posted about Santa Claus: The Movie - which makes a great double feature for a Salkinds/Donner Christmas movie grudge match.
Knowing their history.
momandpopvideostore.com/scrooged-1988
I recently posted about Santa Claus: The Movie - which makes a great double feature for a Salkinds/Donner Christmas movie grudge match.
Knowing their history.
momandpopvideostore.com/scrooged-1988
Santa Claus: The Movie landed on Home Video this week in 1986, after a November 27, 1985 theatrical lump of coal.
When the Salkinds set out to create Santa Claus: The Movie, they went straight to their Superman: The Movie playbook...
momandpopvideostore.com/santa-claus-the-movie-1985/
When the Salkinds set out to create Santa Claus: The Movie, they went straight to their Superman: The Movie playbook...
momandpopvideostore.com/santa-claus-the-movie-1985/
November 11, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Santa Claus: The Movie landed on Home Video this week in 1986, after a November 27, 1985 theatrical lump of coal.
When the Salkinds set out to create Santa Claus: The Movie, they went straight to their Superman: The Movie playbook...
momandpopvideostore.com/santa-claus-the-movie-1985/
When the Salkinds set out to create Santa Claus: The Movie, they went straight to their Superman: The Movie playbook...
momandpopvideostore.com/santa-claus-the-movie-1985/
It's about Rocky III... But really it's about E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.
Ah, the summer of ’82. I was nine years old and my entire world revolved around a short, wrinkled alien with a glowing finger...
momandpopvideostore.com/rocky-iii-1982
Ah, the summer of ’82. I was nine years old and my entire world revolved around a short, wrinkled alien with a glowing finger...
momandpopvideostore.com/rocky-iii-1982
November 5, 2025 at 8:08 PM
It's about Rocky III... But really it's about E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.
Ah, the summer of ’82. I was nine years old and my entire world revolved around a short, wrinkled alien with a glowing finger...
momandpopvideostore.com/rocky-iii-1982
Ah, the summer of ’82. I was nine years old and my entire world revolved around a short, wrinkled alien with a glowing finger...
momandpopvideostore.com/rocky-iii-1982
You remember Cocoon being heartwarming, right?
Yeah. Sooo - as someone who's just rewatched it, my advice is that you hold onto that idea for dear life and don't go trying to recapture that feeling by watching it again...
Read on:
open.substack.com/pub/themomandpopvideostore/p/cocoon-1984
Yeah. Sooo - as someone who's just rewatched it, my advice is that you hold onto that idea for dear life and don't go trying to recapture that feeling by watching it again...
Read on:
open.substack.com/pub/themomandpopvideostore/p/cocoon-1984
November 5, 2025 at 7:59 PM
You remember Cocoon being heartwarming, right?
Yeah. Sooo - as someone who's just rewatched it, my advice is that you hold onto that idea for dear life and don't go trying to recapture that feeling by watching it again...
Read on:
open.substack.com/pub/themomandpopvideostore/p/cocoon-1984
Yeah. Sooo - as someone who's just rewatched it, my advice is that you hold onto that idea for dear life and don't go trying to recapture that feeling by watching it again...
Read on:
open.substack.com/pub/themomandpopvideostore/p/cocoon-1984
"Are you eating it, or is it eating you?"
Writer/director Larry Cohen created a product so insidious, so convincingly sinister... that you can half-expect to find it in the frozen food aisle.
Read about the stuff: momandpopvideostore.com/the-stuff-1985
Writer/director Larry Cohen created a product so insidious, so convincingly sinister... that you can half-expect to find it in the frozen food aisle.
Read about the stuff: momandpopvideostore.com/the-stuff-1985
October 29, 2025 at 8:56 PM
"Are you eating it, or is it eating you?"
Writer/director Larry Cohen created a product so insidious, so convincingly sinister... that you can half-expect to find it in the frozen food aisle.
Read about the stuff: momandpopvideostore.com/the-stuff-1985
Writer/director Larry Cohen created a product so insidious, so convincingly sinister... that you can half-expect to find it in the frozen food aisle.
Read about the stuff: momandpopvideostore.com/the-stuff-1985
Project X escaped to Home Video today in 1987, after an April 17th theatrical release.
Shock the monkey: momandpopvideostore.com/project-x-1987
Shock the monkey: momandpopvideostore.com/project-x-1987
October 29, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Project X escaped to Home Video today in 1987, after an April 17th theatrical release.
Shock the monkey: momandpopvideostore.com/project-x-1987
Shock the monkey: momandpopvideostore.com/project-x-1987
Trick or Treat arrived on Video Store shelves today in 1987, almost a year after its October 24th, 1986, theatrical release. So as to cash-in on Halloween. Twice.
A transcending piece of 80s Satanic-Panicsploitation...
momandpopvideostore.com/trick-or-tre...
A transcending piece of 80s Satanic-Panicsploitation...
momandpopvideostore.com/trick-or-tre...
October 14, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Trick or Treat arrived on Video Store shelves today in 1987, almost a year after its October 24th, 1986, theatrical release. So as to cash-in on Halloween. Twice.
A transcending piece of 80s Satanic-Panicsploitation...
momandpopvideostore.com/trick-or-tre...
A transcending piece of 80s Satanic-Panicsploitation...
momandpopvideostore.com/trick-or-tre...
This is the movie I use to test people. It's how I measure exactly how much chaos, grime, and manic visuals a person can tolerate before they snap, and say, No. Absolutely not. Joe's Apartment (1996).
Many don’t make it past the first 10 minutes. But when they do? I know I've found my people. -Pop
Many don’t make it past the first 10 minutes. But when they do? I know I've found my people. -Pop
October 1, 2025 at 6:32 PM
This is the movie I use to test people. It's how I measure exactly how much chaos, grime, and manic visuals a person can tolerate before they snap, and say, No. Absolutely not. Joe's Apartment (1996).
Many don’t make it past the first 10 minutes. But when they do? I know I've found my people. -Pop
Many don’t make it past the first 10 minutes. But when they do? I know I've found my people. -Pop
Authentic Miak is so hard to find this time of year...
I’ll tell you what, Vern. If Jim Varney's oeuvre taught me anything, it’s that it ain’t about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.
Ok, Rocky taught me that, but so did Ernest.
Pass the Miak. -Pop
I’ll tell you what, Vern. If Jim Varney's oeuvre taught me anything, it’s that it ain’t about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.
Ok, Rocky taught me that, but so did Ernest.
Pass the Miak. -Pop
October 1, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Authentic Miak is so hard to find this time of year...
I’ll tell you what, Vern. If Jim Varney's oeuvre taught me anything, it’s that it ain’t about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.
Ok, Rocky taught me that, but so did Ernest.
Pass the Miak. -Pop
I’ll tell you what, Vern. If Jim Varney's oeuvre taught me anything, it’s that it ain’t about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.
Ok, Rocky taught me that, but so did Ernest.
Pass the Miak. -Pop
Mr Dark isn't the villain in Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983) - he's just the enabler. The scariest part is watching your entire town queue up for obviously impossible promises while you scream the truth and nobody listens...
momandpopvideostore.com/something-wicked-this-way-comes-1983
momandpopvideostore.com/something-wicked-this-way-comes-1983
September 25, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Mr Dark isn't the villain in Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983) - he's just the enabler. The scariest part is watching your entire town queue up for obviously impossible promises while you scream the truth and nobody listens...
momandpopvideostore.com/something-wicked-this-way-comes-1983
momandpopvideostore.com/something-wicked-this-way-comes-1983
WildCalts (1986). A touch of football Feminism.
That's what Wildcats gave me at 13. In between the training montages, it showed how unfair the world could be when you let certain biases call the shots. I started rooting for her.
And by her, I mean all Hers...
momandpopvideostore.com/wildcats-1989
That's what Wildcats gave me at 13. In between the training montages, it showed how unfair the world could be when you let certain biases call the shots. I started rooting for her.
And by her, I mean all Hers...
momandpopvideostore.com/wildcats-1989
September 25, 2025 at 4:37 PM
WildCalts (1986). A touch of football Feminism.
That's what Wildcats gave me at 13. In between the training montages, it showed how unfair the world could be when you let certain biases call the shots. I started rooting for her.
And by her, I mean all Hers...
momandpopvideostore.com/wildcats-1989
That's what Wildcats gave me at 13. In between the training montages, it showed how unfair the world could be when you let certain biases call the shots. I started rooting for her.
And by her, I mean all Hers...
momandpopvideostore.com/wildcats-1989
"Loyal, lethal... stupid."
Koopa's plan was so straightforward. He ran a depleted world where the infrastructure was collapsing, the resources were gone, and the only functioning systems were surveillance and propaganda... Sound familiar?
Read on... momandpopvideostore.com/super-mario-bros-1993
Koopa's plan was so straightforward. He ran a depleted world where the infrastructure was collapsing, the resources were gone, and the only functioning systems were surveillance and propaganda... Sound familiar?
Read on... momandpopvideostore.com/super-mario-bros-1993
September 18, 2025 at 4:42 PM
"Loyal, lethal... stupid."
Koopa's plan was so straightforward. He ran a depleted world where the infrastructure was collapsing, the resources were gone, and the only functioning systems were surveillance and propaganda... Sound familiar?
Read on... momandpopvideostore.com/super-mario-bros-1993
Koopa's plan was so straightforward. He ran a depleted world where the infrastructure was collapsing, the resources were gone, and the only functioning systems were surveillance and propaganda... Sound familiar?
Read on... momandpopvideostore.com/super-mario-bros-1993
"I can't feel my legs… I HAVE NO LEGS!!!"
Party like it’s 1998: That’s Charlie Korsmo in the 90s party movie that drinks like an 80s party movie; Can't Hardly Wait.
momandpopvideostore.com/cant-hardly-wait-1998
Party like it’s 1998: That’s Charlie Korsmo in the 90s party movie that drinks like an 80s party movie; Can't Hardly Wait.
momandpopvideostore.com/cant-hardly-wait-1998
September 2, 2025 at 4:35 PM
"I can't feel my legs… I HAVE NO LEGS!!!"
Party like it’s 1998: That’s Charlie Korsmo in the 90s party movie that drinks like an 80s party movie; Can't Hardly Wait.
momandpopvideostore.com/cant-hardly-wait-1998
Party like it’s 1998: That’s Charlie Korsmo in the 90s party movie that drinks like an 80s party movie; Can't Hardly Wait.
momandpopvideostore.com/cant-hardly-wait-1998
We need to talk about David Bowie's codpiece.
Not the goblin king. Not the crystal balls. Not even the M.C. Escher stairways.
The codpiece.
momandpopvideostore.com/labyrinth-1986
Not the goblin king. Not the crystal balls. Not even the M.C. Escher stairways.
The codpiece.
momandpopvideostore.com/labyrinth-1986
August 28, 2025 at 7:40 PM
We need to talk about David Bowie's codpiece.
Not the goblin king. Not the crystal balls. Not even the M.C. Escher stairways.
The codpiece.
momandpopvideostore.com/labyrinth-1986
Not the goblin king. Not the crystal balls. Not even the M.C. Escher stairways.
The codpiece.
momandpopvideostore.com/labyrinth-1986
The Breakfast Club (1985) isn't the teen rebellion manifesto it thinks it is.
It's meant to be this triumphant middle finger to authority. They grew. They connected. They won.
Except... they didn't. Not really...
open.substack.com/pub/themoman...
It's meant to be this triumphant middle finger to authority. They grew. They connected. They won.
Except... they didn't. Not really...
open.substack.com/pub/themoman...
August 28, 2025 at 2:41 PM
The Breakfast Club (1985) isn't the teen rebellion manifesto it thinks it is.
It's meant to be this triumphant middle finger to authority. They grew. They connected. They won.
Except... they didn't. Not really...
open.substack.com/pub/themoman...
It's meant to be this triumphant middle finger to authority. They grew. They connected. They won.
Except... they didn't. Not really...
open.substack.com/pub/themoman...
Fast Food (1989). Director Michael A. Simpson served up some tasty comedic chops with Sleepaway Camp II, but he really delivers the goods with this saucy tale of fries and Spanish fly co-starring Jim Varney and Traci Lords.
Sadly, the flick’s fallen into history’s deep fryer. -Pop
Sadly, the flick’s fallen into history’s deep fryer. -Pop
August 8, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Fast Food (1989). Director Michael A. Simpson served up some tasty comedic chops with Sleepaway Camp II, but he really delivers the goods with this saucy tale of fries and Spanish fly co-starring Jim Varney and Traci Lords.
Sadly, the flick’s fallen into history’s deep fryer. -Pop
Sadly, the flick’s fallen into history’s deep fryer. -Pop
White of the Eye (1987). This was a video store staple back in the day, I must have spotted it on every bottom shelf of every thriller section I pored over. I’d wager this neglected masterpiece of genre-bending cat-and-mousery is one of the 80's best and most underrated thrillers. -Pop
June 27, 2025 at 9:06 PM
White of the Eye (1987). This was a video store staple back in the day, I must have spotted it on every bottom shelf of every thriller section I pored over. I’d wager this neglected masterpiece of genre-bending cat-and-mousery is one of the 80's best and most underrated thrillers. -Pop
This is what happens when the system breaks down and leaves the worst people in charge.
This movie wasn’t supposed to be fun. If you wanted to party, you could go hang out at the Uneeda Medical Supply warehouse with Burt and Ernie.
This was detention.
momandpopvideostore.com/day-of-the-d...
This movie wasn’t supposed to be fun. If you wanted to party, you could go hang out at the Uneeda Medical Supply warehouse with Burt and Ernie.
This was detention.
momandpopvideostore.com/day-of-the-d...
May 23, 2025 at 4:42 PM
This is what happens when the system breaks down and leaves the worst people in charge.
This movie wasn’t supposed to be fun. If you wanted to party, you could go hang out at the Uneeda Medical Supply warehouse with Burt and Ernie.
This was detention.
momandpopvideostore.com/day-of-the-d...
This movie wasn’t supposed to be fun. If you wanted to party, you could go hang out at the Uneeda Medical Supply warehouse with Burt and Ernie.
This was detention.
momandpopvideostore.com/day-of-the-d...
We are Jack’s wasted potential.
They told him he could be anything.
Not out loud, perhaps, not directly, but the stories did.
momandpopvideostore.com/fight-club-1999
They told him he could be anything.
Not out loud, perhaps, not directly, but the stories did.
momandpopvideostore.com/fight-club-1999
May 22, 2025 at 6:52 PM
We are Jack’s wasted potential.
They told him he could be anything.
Not out loud, perhaps, not directly, but the stories did.
momandpopvideostore.com/fight-club-1999
They told him he could be anything.
Not out loud, perhaps, not directly, but the stories did.
momandpopvideostore.com/fight-club-1999
"When I was your age, my dad shared a beer with me and I thought it was the best thing in the world."
Anthony Michael Hall and Chevy Chase are having a moment while on National Lampoon's Vacation (1983).
Anthony Michael Hall and Chevy Chase are having a moment while on National Lampoon's Vacation (1983).
May 22, 2025 at 4:44 PM
"When I was your age, my dad shared a beer with me and I thought it was the best thing in the world."
Anthony Michael Hall and Chevy Chase are having a moment while on National Lampoon's Vacation (1983).
Anthony Michael Hall and Chevy Chase are having a moment while on National Lampoon's Vacation (1983).
Party like parents on a school night in 1982.
The free wheeling Freelings: JoBeth Williams and Craig T. Nelson get Lit after the kids are tucked away in Poltergeist (1982).
The free wheeling Freelings: JoBeth Williams and Craig T. Nelson get Lit after the kids are tucked away in Poltergeist (1982).
April 29, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Party like parents on a school night in 1982.
The free wheeling Freelings: JoBeth Williams and Craig T. Nelson get Lit after the kids are tucked away in Poltergeist (1982).
The free wheeling Freelings: JoBeth Williams and Craig T. Nelson get Lit after the kids are tucked away in Poltergeist (1982).
The Running Man (1987). Stories are dangerous.
Always have been - they’re older than most gods and sneakier than any ideology. A good story will take your hand and walk you straight into the fire before you realise that the smell of burning... is you.
momandpopvideostore.com/the-running-man-1987
Always have been - they’re older than most gods and sneakier than any ideology. A good story will take your hand and walk you straight into the fire before you realise that the smell of burning... is you.
momandpopvideostore.com/the-running-man-1987
April 25, 2025 at 4:14 PM
The Running Man (1987). Stories are dangerous.
Always have been - they’re older than most gods and sneakier than any ideology. A good story will take your hand and walk you straight into the fire before you realise that the smell of burning... is you.
momandpopvideostore.com/the-running-man-1987
Always have been - they’re older than most gods and sneakier than any ideology. A good story will take your hand and walk you straight into the fire before you realise that the smell of burning... is you.
momandpopvideostore.com/the-running-man-1987