Sleepover Trading Co.
@sleepovertrading.bsky.social
Retro VHS, toy, + comic culture & stuff
Co-founders Guido & Rob
Stuff & events in Upstate NY / Catskill
📼📺📓🌟🥳
(+ hosts of Dear Watchers🎙️)
SLEEPOVERTRADING.COM
Co-founders Guido & Rob
Stuff & events in Upstate NY / Catskill
📼📺📓🌟🥳
(+ hosts of Dear Watchers🎙️)
SLEEPOVERTRADING.COM
📼✨ The Sleepover Video Club is officially LIVE! ✨📼
Remember the thrill of a fresh rental, a laminated card in your wallet, and a weekend stacked with strange, wonderful, unexpected movies? Yeah… we’re bringing all of that back. BASIC & PREMIUM memberships aer here!
EARLY BIRD bonus before 12/13!
Remember the thrill of a fresh rental, a laminated card in your wallet, and a weekend stacked with strange, wonderful, unexpected movies? Yeah… we’re bringing all of that back. BASIC & PREMIUM memberships aer here!
EARLY BIRD bonus before 12/13!
November 14, 2025 at 12:30 PM
📼✨ The Sleepover Video Club is officially LIVE! ✨📼
Remember the thrill of a fresh rental, a laminated card in your wallet, and a weekend stacked with strange, wonderful, unexpected movies? Yeah… we’re bringing all of that back. BASIC & PREMIUM memberships aer here!
EARLY BIRD bonus before 12/13!
Remember the thrill of a fresh rental, a laminated card in your wallet, and a weekend stacked with strange, wonderful, unexpected movies? Yeah… we’re bringing all of that back. BASIC & PREMIUM memberships aer here!
EARLY BIRD bonus before 12/13!
“The first horror movie shot and released on VHS? 🎥 ‘Sledgehammer.’
Not quite exploitation… almost experimental. But pure analog legend. 🩸
From the latest episode of The Retro Countdown Show — watch on YouTube or listen wherever you get your podcasts!
Not quite exploitation… almost experimental. But pure analog legend. 🩸
From the latest episode of The Retro Countdown Show — watch on YouTube or listen wherever you get your podcasts!
November 13, 2025 at 5:22 PM
“The first horror movie shot and released on VHS? 🎥 ‘Sledgehammer.’
Not quite exploitation… almost experimental. But pure analog legend. 🩸
From the latest episode of The Retro Countdown Show — watch on YouTube or listen wherever you get your podcasts!
Not quite exploitation… almost experimental. But pure analog legend. 🩸
From the latest episode of The Retro Countdown Show — watch on YouTube or listen wherever you get your podcasts!
Thrill me! Happy birthday to genre icon Tom Atkins, star of Halloween III, Night of the Creeps, The Fog and Creepshow.
#tomatkins #horroricon
#tomatkins #horroricon
November 13, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Thrill me! Happy birthday to genre icon Tom Atkins, star of Halloween III, Night of the Creeps, The Fog and Creepshow.
#tomatkins #horroricon
#tomatkins #horroricon
“I mean, I love this movie. Pitch perfect. Meta. Iconic. Everything.” 🎬💀
What movie is it??? Find out on the latest episode of The Retro Countdown Show — now on YouTube and all podcast platforms!
What movie is it??? Find out on the latest episode of The Retro Countdown Show — now on YouTube and all podcast platforms!
November 12, 2025 at 8:50 PM
“I mean, I love this movie. Pitch perfect. Meta. Iconic. Everything.” 🎬💀
What movie is it??? Find out on the latest episode of The Retro Countdown Show — now on YouTube and all podcast platforms!
What movie is it??? Find out on the latest episode of The Retro Countdown Show — now on YouTube and all podcast platforms!
💋 Boyfriend material… from hell! Scott Valentine stars in My Demon Lover (1987) — the rom-com-meets-creature-feature nobody asked for, but every VHS kid secretly loved. Now part of the Sleepover Trading Co collection (Rentals soon!)
#VHS #80sMovies #AnalogWeirdness #SleepoverTradingCo #BeKindRewind
#VHS #80sMovies #AnalogWeirdness #SleepoverTradingCo #BeKindRewind
November 12, 2025 at 5:04 PM
💋 Boyfriend material… from hell! Scott Valentine stars in My Demon Lover (1987) — the rom-com-meets-creature-feature nobody asked for, but every VHS kid secretly loved. Now part of the Sleepover Trading Co collection (Rentals soon!)
#VHS #80sMovies #AnalogWeirdness #SleepoverTradingCo #BeKindRewind
#VHS #80sMovies #AnalogWeirdness #SleepoverTradingCo #BeKindRewind
You want your kid to have taste?
Show them Creature from the Black Lagoon. 🦇
From the latest episode of The Retro Countdown Show — watch on YouTube or listen wherever you get your podcasts!
Show them Creature from the Black Lagoon. 🦇
From the latest episode of The Retro Countdown Show — watch on YouTube or listen wherever you get your podcasts!
November 12, 2025 at 2:44 PM
You want your kid to have taste?
Show them Creature from the Black Lagoon. 🦇
From the latest episode of The Retro Countdown Show — watch on YouTube or listen wherever you get your podcasts!
Show them Creature from the Black Lagoon. 🦇
From the latest episode of The Retro Countdown Show — watch on YouTube or listen wherever you get your podcasts!
Happy Birthday to Val Lewton collaborator Jacques Torneur, the director of Cat People (which we co-hosted last month), Curse of the Demon (an MR James adaptation) and the creepy I Walked with a Zombie.
November 12, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Happy Birthday to Val Lewton collaborator Jacques Torneur, the director of Cat People (which we co-hosted last month), Curse of the Demon (an MR James adaptation) and the creepy I Walked with a Zombie.
It's $5 movie night at The Community Theater and we have plenty of retro goodies that you can add to your collection for $5 or less including VHS, DVDs, comics, pins, stickers and more. We are open NOW so come on in!
November 11, 2025 at 9:01 PM
It's $5 movie night at The Community Theater and we have plenty of retro goodies that you can add to your collection for $5 or less including VHS, DVDs, comics, pins, stickers and more. We are open NOW so come on in!
Director Alex Ross Perry has been working on his documentary / video essay VIDEOHEAVEN since 2014 and this Thursday, it's coming to The Community Theater in Catskill! Join us for this deep dive into the video store era with narration by Maya Hawke. #videoheaven
November 11, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Director Alex Ross Perry has been working on his documentary / video essay VIDEOHEAVEN since 2014 and this Thursday, it's coming to The Community Theater in Catskill! Join us for this deep dive into the video store era with narration by Maya Hawke. #videoheaven
In 1915, one of classic monsterdoms forgotten heroes was born. Milicent Patrick chiefly designed the gill man suit for “Creature From The Black Lagoon” but was denied credit until the late 1990’s. We salute your Milicent!
#creaturefromtheblacklagoon #gillman
#creaturefromtheblacklagoon #gillman
November 11, 2025 at 12:04 PM
In 1915, one of classic monsterdoms forgotten heroes was born. Milicent Patrick chiefly designed the gill man suit for “Creature From The Black Lagoon” but was denied credit until the late 1990’s. We salute your Milicent!
#creaturefromtheblacklagoon #gillman
#creaturefromtheblacklagoon #gillman
Shake off those Monday blues — we’re OPEN and fully stocked! 💥 Come dig through our fresh haul of VHS tapes, DVDs, toys, and collectibles — you never know what treasures you’ll find! 🎬🕹️✨
#VHSForever #DVDCollection #RetroFinds #CatskillNY #SleepoverTradingCo #Catskill
#VHSForever #DVDCollection #RetroFinds #CatskillNY #SleepoverTradingCo #Catskill
November 10, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Shake off those Monday blues — we’re OPEN and fully stocked! 💥 Come dig through our fresh haul of VHS tapes, DVDs, toys, and collectibles — you never know what treasures you’ll find! 🎬🕹️✨
#VHSForever #DVDCollection #RetroFinds #CatskillNY #SleepoverTradingCo #Catskill
#VHSForever #DVDCollection #RetroFinds #CatskillNY #SleepoverTradingCo #Catskill
Few actors optimize the 70s like birthday boy Roy Scheider, star of The French Connection, Jaws, Sorcerer and the masterpiece that is All That Jazz. What's your favorite Roy performance?
#royscheider #70sfilms
#royscheider #70sfilms
November 10, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Few actors optimize the 70s like birthday boy Roy Scheider, star of The French Connection, Jaws, Sorcerer and the masterpiece that is All That Jazz. What's your favorite Roy performance?
#royscheider #70sfilms
#royscheider #70sfilms
Happy Birthday to the late Debra Hill, co-creator of Halloween (she was raised in Haddonfield, NJ) and the force behind such sleepover classics as Clue, Adventures in Babysitting, The Dead Zone and Big Top Pee-Wee.
#debrahill #clue #halloween
#debrahill #clue #halloween
November 10, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Happy Birthday to the late Debra Hill, co-creator of Halloween (she was raised in Haddonfield, NJ) and the force behind such sleepover classics as Clue, Adventures in Babysitting, The Dead Zone and Big Top Pee-Wee.
#debrahill #clue #halloween
#debrahill #clue #halloween
🌿✨ From our “Sequels You Wish Existed” VHS art exhibition — this hauntingly beautiful entry reimagines one of cinema’s great mysteries: Picnic at Hanging Rock: The Sequel.
Rebecca Conroy channels the dreamlike unease of the original like the mystery never truly ended, just rewound. 🎞️💐
Rebecca Conroy channels the dreamlike unease of the original like the mystery never truly ended, just rewound. 🎞️💐
November 10, 2025 at 1:40 AM
🌿✨ From our “Sequels You Wish Existed” VHS art exhibition — this hauntingly beautiful entry reimagines one of cinema’s great mysteries: Picnic at Hanging Rock: The Sequel.
Rebecca Conroy channels the dreamlike unease of the original like the mystery never truly ended, just rewound. 🎞️💐
Rebecca Conroy channels the dreamlike unease of the original like the mystery never truly ended, just rewound. 🎞️💐
💀✨ Our very own co-founder @robribar joins the “Sequels You Wish Existed” lineup with a tribute to one of his all-time favorite films — Phantasm Reborn.
A dream project from an alternate universe, this imagined sequel brings Panos Cosmatos together with Nicolas Cage. 🖤📼
A dream project from an alternate universe, this imagined sequel brings Panos Cosmatos together with Nicolas Cage. 🖤📼
November 10, 2025 at 1:05 AM
💀✨ Our very own co-founder @robribar joins the “Sequels You Wish Existed” lineup with a tribute to one of his all-time favorite films — Phantasm Reborn.
A dream project from an alternate universe, this imagined sequel brings Panos Cosmatos together with Nicolas Cage. 🖤📼
A dream project from an alternate universe, this imagined sequel brings Panos Cosmatos together with Nicolas Cage. 🖤📼
🚀✨ Another entry from our “Sequels You Wish Existed” VHS art exhibition — and this one’s a metal masterpiece.
@struck_a_nerve_studio imagines a dream team-up we never got: The Iron Giant 2, featuring Vin Diesel back as the Giant and Adam Sandler as King Ghidorah (!). 🔥👾
@struck_a_nerve_studio imagines a dream team-up we never got: The Iron Giant 2, featuring Vin Diesel back as the Giant and Adam Sandler as King Ghidorah (!). 🔥👾
November 10, 2025 at 12:41 AM
🚀✨ Another entry from our “Sequels You Wish Existed” VHS art exhibition — and this one’s a metal masterpiece.
@struck_a_nerve_studio imagines a dream team-up we never got: The Iron Giant 2, featuring Vin Diesel back as the Giant and Adam Sandler as King Ghidorah (!). 🔥👾
@struck_a_nerve_studio imagines a dream team-up we never got: The Iron Giant 2, featuring Vin Diesel back as the Giant and Adam Sandler as King Ghidorah (!). 🔥👾
🎨✨ We’re so excited to feature all the artists in our current show “Sequels You Wish Existed” — a VHS art exhibition now spinning inside the Sleepover store! This piece comes from Jordan Lane, imagining a wild follow-up we never got: Silver Bullet 2. 🐺📼 Originals and prints are on view & available!
November 10, 2025 at 12:08 AM
🎨✨ We’re so excited to feature all the artists in our current show “Sequels You Wish Existed” — a VHS art exhibition now spinning inside the Sleepover store! This piece comes from Jordan Lane, imagining a wild follow-up we never got: Silver Bullet 2. 🐺📼 Originals and prints are on view & available!
Gotta love a knock-off so blatant it’s practically a mirror universe. 💅🎬
These are the kind of gems we stumble on while cataloging the 25,000-title Video Visions archive—proof that VHS was the Wild West of movie marketing.
These are the kind of gems we stumble on while cataloging the 25,000-title Video Visions archive—proof that VHS was the Wild West of movie marketing.
November 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Gotta love a knock-off so blatant it’s practically a mirror universe. 💅🎬
These are the kind of gems we stumble on while cataloging the 25,000-title Video Visions archive—proof that VHS was the Wild West of movie marketing.
These are the kind of gems we stumble on while cataloging the 25,000-title Video Visions archive—proof that VHS was the Wild West of movie marketing.
🎮 Fresh vintage game stock just in — including some well-loved SNES former rentals like this Street Fighter Alpha 2 💥 Late-era 16-bit heat that still packs a punch!
📼 Find it at Sleepover Trading Co., Catskill NY — your neighborhood analog hub for tapes, toys, comics & games.
📼 Find it at Sleepover Trading Co., Catskill NY — your neighborhood analog hub for tapes, toys, comics & games.
November 8, 2025 at 9:55 PM
🎮 Fresh vintage game stock just in — including some well-loved SNES former rentals like this Street Fighter Alpha 2 💥 Late-era 16-bit heat that still packs a punch!
📼 Find it at Sleepover Trading Co., Catskill NY — your neighborhood analog hub for tapes, toys, comics & games.
📼 Find it at Sleepover Trading Co., Catskill NY — your neighborhood analog hub for tapes, toys, comics & games.
Want NEW toys? Just give us time to price them & we got you covered! 🧸
Stacks of NECA monsters, Fright Rags horror heroes, Boglins beasts, and even some classic MOTU muscle ready to hit the shelves soon.
Straight from the Sleepover Trading Co. stockroom—aka our analog toy chest of dreams. 👻📼
Stacks of NECA monsters, Fright Rags horror heroes, Boglins beasts, and even some classic MOTU muscle ready to hit the shelves soon.
Straight from the Sleepover Trading Co. stockroom—aka our analog toy chest of dreams. 👻📼
November 8, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Want NEW toys? Just give us time to price them & we got you covered! 🧸
Stacks of NECA monsters, Fright Rags horror heroes, Boglins beasts, and even some classic MOTU muscle ready to hit the shelves soon.
Straight from the Sleepover Trading Co. stockroom—aka our analog toy chest of dreams. 👻📼
Stacks of NECA monsters, Fright Rags horror heroes, Boglins beasts, and even some classic MOTU muscle ready to hit the shelves soon.
Straight from the Sleepover Trading Co. stockroom—aka our analog toy chest of dreams. 👻📼
🦇 Born This Day: Bram Stoker (1847) 🩸
Stoker’s 1897 Dracula gave the world its most enduring monster — from Nosferatu’s shadows to Coppola’s velvet in ’92. Pure gothic analog magic. We are currently reading David Skal's "There's Something In The Blood" & Bram was a queer 🏳️🌈 hero! #BramStoker #Dracula
Stoker’s 1897 Dracula gave the world its most enduring monster — from Nosferatu’s shadows to Coppola’s velvet in ’92. Pure gothic analog magic. We are currently reading David Skal's "There's Something In The Blood" & Bram was a queer 🏳️🌈 hero! #BramStoker #Dracula
November 8, 2025 at 1:58 PM
🦇 Born This Day: Bram Stoker (1847) 🩸
Stoker’s 1897 Dracula gave the world its most enduring monster — from Nosferatu’s shadows to Coppola’s velvet in ’92. Pure gothic analog magic. We are currently reading David Skal's "There's Something In The Blood" & Bram was a queer 🏳️🌈 hero! #BramStoker #Dracula
Stoker’s 1897 Dracula gave the world its most enduring monster — from Nosferatu’s shadows to Coppola’s velvet in ’92. Pure gothic analog magic. We are currently reading David Skal's "There's Something In The Blood" & Bram was a queer 🏳️🌈 hero! #BramStoker #Dracula
📼 November 8, 1972 🎬 53 years ago tonight, a small cable experiment changed how we watched movies forever. HBO flickered to life with an NHL game. Just 365 subscribers tuned in that night, but it kicked off the age of premium cable, pay-TV, and eventually the golden age of must-see Sunday nights.
November 8, 2025 at 12:02 PM
📼 November 8, 1972 🎬 53 years ago tonight, a small cable experiment changed how we watched movies forever. HBO flickered to life with an NHL game. Just 365 subscribers tuned in that night, but it kicked off the age of premium cable, pay-TV, and eventually the golden age of must-see Sunday nights.
On this day in 1997, Paul Verhoeven's satirical action flick STARSHIP TROOPERS premiered. Big bugs, lots of goo and Denise Richards (how 90s). Also, did you know it had 4 sequels?!
#starshiptroopers #paulverhoeven
#starshiptroopers #paulverhoeven
November 7, 2025 at 12:02 PM
On this day in 1997, Paul Verhoeven's satirical action flick STARSHIP TROOPERS premiered. Big bugs, lots of goo and Denise Richards (how 90s). Also, did you know it had 4 sequels?!
#starshiptroopers #paulverhoeven
#starshiptroopers #paulverhoeven
The Grabber himself, Ethan Hawke was born on this day in 1970. Next week, you can hear Ethan's daughter Maya (of Stranger Things, sometime Woodstock resident) in Alex Ross Perry's VIDEOHEAVEN. Until then, stay calm and don't answer the (black) phone...
#ethanhawke #mayahawke #videoheaven
#ethanhawke #mayahawke #videoheaven
November 6, 2025 at 8:02 PM
The Grabber himself, Ethan Hawke was born on this day in 1970. Next week, you can hear Ethan's daughter Maya (of Stranger Things, sometime Woodstock resident) in Alex Ross Perry's VIDEOHEAVEN. Until then, stay calm and don't answer the (black) phone...
#ethanhawke #mayahawke #videoheaven
#ethanhawke #mayahawke #videoheaven
📼💦 27 years ago today — November 6, 1998 — The Waterboy hit theaters.
Adam Sandler’s Bobby Boucher turned Gatorade into a lifestyle and gave us a football comedy that somehow feels like a cable-TV fever dream of the late ’90s: VHS fuzz, mud, mama, and “You can do it!” energy everywhere. 🧢
Adam Sandler’s Bobby Boucher turned Gatorade into a lifestyle and gave us a football comedy that somehow feels like a cable-TV fever dream of the late ’90s: VHS fuzz, mud, mama, and “You can do it!” energy everywhere. 🧢
November 6, 2025 at 11:50 AM
📼💦 27 years ago today — November 6, 1998 — The Waterboy hit theaters.
Adam Sandler’s Bobby Boucher turned Gatorade into a lifestyle and gave us a football comedy that somehow feels like a cable-TV fever dream of the late ’90s: VHS fuzz, mud, mama, and “You can do it!” energy everywhere. 🧢
Adam Sandler’s Bobby Boucher turned Gatorade into a lifestyle and gave us a football comedy that somehow feels like a cable-TV fever dream of the late ’90s: VHS fuzz, mud, mama, and “You can do it!” energy everywhere. 🧢