VHS Nuts: Want to Buy Some Original Wizard Video Boxes? Charles Band’s Got You Covered!

February 7, 2013

Starting February 12th, fans will be able to purchase these original boxes with authentically duplicated VHS copies inside. Back in the 80s, I thought it would be cool to release these films in the oversize VHS boxes, explained Band. In the short term, it was very successful – but by 1982 the trend had run its course and the titles were reduced back to regular VHS dimensions.

Band started Wizard Video in 1980, and was the first to release horror cult films such as Halloween, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and I Spit On Your Grave in the early days of home video.

Over a span of 3-4 years, Wizard Video published eighty titles in the large-format boxes. Thirty-five years after the packagings popularity died out, Band and his excavation team uncovered the original big VHS boxes of thirty-six of these rare titles in mint condition, between twohundred to four hundred copies per title. Each box will be hand-numbered on the spine and autographed by Charles Band and will include an authentically duplicated VHS copy of the film inside of a clamshell holder. Band estimates that very few of these rare videos are still in print and no more than 5-10 thousand units were manufactured at the time.

Also found in the collection were original boxes of the first horror video games on the planet, from Wizard Videos sister company, Wizard Video Games. The Atari 2600 game boxes for Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Halloween will be released TBD 2013 from Full Moon. At the time of release, these titles were deemed too violent for children, and were either banned or sold by request-only, making them an extraordinarily rare find as well.

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Every month beginning February 12th, 4 titles will be on sale at $50/title.

Rollout schedule:

FEBRUARY 12th

RETURN OF THE ZOMBIES

TRAUMA

OASIS OF THE ZOMBIES

DEMONIAC

MARCH 12th

A VIRGIN AMONG THE LIVING DEAD

FEAR

BREEDERS