VHS-Era Movie Guide

I’ve been slowly building a small Payhip store connected to my work, my films, and my CineCurious channel. The idea is simple: to create digital extras for people who enjoy the same kind of strange, nostalgic, genre-film universe that I keep returning to in my videos.

Not merch exactly. More like little companion pieces.

PDF guides, visual collections, fan-style movie lists, film nostalgia material, behind-the-scenes extras, and other things that feel like they belong somewhere between a personal archive, a video store catalogue, and a film nerd’s notebook.

The newest item in the store is:

100+ VHS-Era Films You Must Watch (Probably Again)

It’s a curated PDF guide to some of the cult films, horror essentials, sci-fi oddities, action favorites, martial arts madness, creature features, parody comedies, fantasy adventures, and deep-cut video store treasures that defined the VHS era for me.

This is not meant to be a strict “best films ever made” list. That would be boring, and honestly, probably impossible. It’s more personal than that.

It’s a love letter to the rental store years — to those dusty shelves, strange covers, forbidden sections, low-budget monsters, practical effects, post-apocalyptic junkyards, musclebound heroes, bad dubbing, wild posters, and films that somehow felt bigger than life when you discovered them on tape.

I’m pretty sure many of you have already seen most of these films. But that’s not really the point. This is less about discovering something new and more about remembering the old ones, keeping them with us, and returning to them whenever we need a bit of comfort.

Inside the PDF, the films are grouped into loose, nostalgia-driven categories, including horror essentials, midnight sci-fi weirdness, future warfare, ninja and tournament films, buddy chaos, Bud Spencer and Terence Hill classics, sword-and-sorcery adventures, monster movies, high-speed parody, and deeper video store cuts.

Each entry includes basic cast and crew information, runtime, production details, a short logline, and a few trivia bits — just enough to help you pick something for a rainy evening or remind you why that particular tape stayed in your head for decades.

The Payhip store will hopefully grow over time. I see it as a place where I can collect and share these smaller film-related projects that don’t always fit into a YouTube video or a regular social media post.

Some of them will be free. Some will be paid. Some will be connected to CineCurious, and some might be connected to my own films and filmmaking work.

For now, this VHS-era guide feels like the right starting point.

Because before streaming, before watchlists, before algorithms, there was the shelf.

And sometimes, all you needed was a weird cover and a free evening.

You can check out the PDF and the rest of the store here: https://payhip.com/CineCurious