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Sleepover Trading Co. @sleepovertrading.bsky.social · 6h

📼 26 years ago today, FIGHT CLUB hit U.S. theaters (10/15/99)… and then exploded on VHS & DVD to become a dorm-room deity. What format did you first spin it on—tape, disc, or cable? #FightClub #1999 #CultCinema

Sleepover Trading Co. @sleepovertrading.bsky.social · 9h

🎥🩸 44 years ago today (10/15/81), Raimi & crew premiered THE EVIL DEAD at Detroit’s Redford Theatre—just a scrappy “Book of the Dead” print, ambulances out front, and a destiny written in red corn syrup. Long live the video-store classic. #TheEvilDead #VHS

Sleepover Trading Co. @sleepovertrading.bsky.social · 22h

🩸💼 Lionsgate just announced the AMERICAN PSYCHO VHS — Be Kind, Rewind Edition 📼 Dropping December 9, 2025, this 25th Anniversary uncut version is the perfect tape for your late-night rewind rituals.
We’re living in the VHS renaissance, baby!

Sleepover Trading Co. @sleepovertrading.bsky.social · 1d

🎂 Born on this day in 1944: Udo Kier, patron saint of midnight movies and art-house nightmares. From Flesh for Frankenstein (1973) and Blood for Dracula (1974) to My Own Private Idaho — Kier’s career is a decades-long mixtape of cult cinema, queer surrealism, and Euro-trash glamour.

Sleepover Trading Co. @sleepovertrading.bsky.social · 1d

🔪You don’t have to go to Texas for a chainsaw massacre… On this day in 1983, PIECES hit U.S. theaters — the Spanish-American slasher that somehow feels like every late-night VHS rental distilled into one gloriously sleazy fever dream. It’s equal parts giallo, grindhouse, and pure video-store legend.

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Dear Watchers @dearwatchers.bsky.social · 1d

🎙️ Just published a new episode of Dear Watchers: an omniversal comic book podcast: What if we opened a portal to New York Comic Con 2025 to reveal our highlights?. Have a listen:

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Sleepover Trading Co. @sleepovertrading.bsky.social · 3d

Spooky season looks extra good in neon 👻💡 The Sleepover storefront is glowing and the tapes are flowing — come hang, trade, browse, or just talk movies like it’s a Friday night in 1999. 📼💬 “What’s your favorite scary movie?” We’ve got plenty of answers on the shelves.

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Sleepover Trading Co. @sleepovertrading.bsky.social · 3d

Our analog angels delivered! 💌 A dear friend of the store surprised us with this Tape Control Center & a rewinder — the kind of gear that keeps the dubs crisp and the vibes magnetic. 🎛️📼

#VHS #AnalogLove #SleepoverTradingCo #TapeHeads #RetroGear #80sHiFi #VideoVisions #BeKindRewind

Sleepover Trading Co. @sleepovertrading.bsky.social · 3d

👽💋 “One injection and he’s out of this world.”
Dr. Alien (1989) — directed by David DeCoteau and dropped straight to VHS today in ’89 — is pure neon fever dream from the Empire Pictures vaults.
#VHSRewind #80sCultCinema #EmpirePictures #SleepoverTradingCo #AnalogWeirdness #BeKindRewind #CultClassics

Sleepover Trading Co. @sleepovertrading.bsky.social · 4d

🎃 We might be at New York Comic Con, but the Sleepover Trading Co. store is OPEN for your perusal today & tomorrow — come flip through tapes while we’re out flipping through comics! 💀 Check out our Frankenstein VHS shelf, freshly stocked in anticipation of our big Halloween screenings!
#Frankenstein

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Sleepover Trading Co. @sleepovertrading.bsky.social · 4d

🔮 Stumbled upon one of the very first tapes we ever rented from the VIDEO VISIONS archive — Michael Mann’s haunted, synth-drenched WWII fever dream. For decades, The Keep existed only on VHS (and bootlegs made from it), trapped in rights limbo and laserdisc rumors, but it’s pure magnetic mystery. 📼

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Sleepover Trading Co. @sleepovertrading.bsky.social · 4d

🗽 “What do you do when you’re stuck in SoHo after dark?” 🌃
🎞 On this night in 1985, Martin Scorsese’s After Hours hit wider U.S. theaters & is a CLASSIC NYC 80s film that is part screwball, part nightmare, and pure 3 a.m. VHS energy. #AfterHours #Scorsese #VHS #80sCinema #CultClassics

Sleepover Trading Co. @sleepovertrading.bsky.social · 7d

📼 “Now playing in our Horror section…”
The Frankenstein wall is ALIVE ⚡️— straight from the grave & ready for Halloween!
Catch Frankenstein (1931) + Bride of Frankenstein (1935) on the big screen 🎞️ plus V/H/S (2012) & DEMONS (1985) at the Community Theatre Catskill!
🎟️ Tickets @ communitytheaterny.com

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Sleepover Trading Co. @sleepovertrading.bsky.social · 8d

Please rewind your nightmares. 🎃 The horror racks are loaded: The Omen, Willard, Final Destination 3, The Grudge, and plenty more analog chills straight from the vault. VHS & DVDs for sale — just in time for spooky season.
📼 #SleepoverTradingCo #HalloweenVibes #RetroHorror #VHSForever #CatskillNY

Sleepover Trading Co. @sleepovertrading.bsky.social · 8d

💥 Happy birthday Screaming Mad George — born October 7, 1956 — the FX anarchist who made 80s horror melt, mutate, & scream. From Society to Bride of Re-Animator, his surreal, goopy genius turned latex into nightmare poetry. 🧠 📼 #ScreamingMadGeorge #80sHorror #BodyHorror #CultCinema

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Sleepover Trading Co. @sleepovertrading.bsky.social · 8d

🕯️💀 Even while turning the shop into full-on Halloween HQ, we still found time to deck out our yard. The 12-foot skeleton’s holding down the cemetery, the coffin’s creaking, and our Bride of Frankenstein is ready for her close-up on the porch. ⚡️
It’s officially spooky season in Catskill. 👻

Sleepover Trading Co. @sleepovertrading.bsky.social · 9d

👻 October’s here & the horror section’s out for blood. From Freddy vs. Jason to The Grudge & Charlie Brown, we’re stocked with every flavor of spooky — from slashers to Saturday morning. Come dig through the stacks and find something that’ll haunt your VCR. 📼 #VHSForever #HalloweenSeason #CatskillNY

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Sleepover Trading Co. @sleepovertrading.bsky.social · 9d

🩸 The Devil’s Rejects turns 20 today. Released October 6, 2005, Rob Zombie’s sunburned sequel turned grindhouse sleaze into something strangely poetic — all dust, denim, & 35mm heat haze. Still feels like a VHS you find after midnight. 🔥
📼 #TheDevilsRejects #RobZombie #CultCinema #VHSForever

Sleepover Trading Co. @sleepovertrading.bsky.social · 10d

✨🦄 By the power of Grayskull… we unboxed it! Mattel’s latest — the She-Ra & Swiftwind two-pack finally lands💥 The sculpt, the colors, the shimmer — pure ‘80s magic reimagined. This one’s for the shelf and the shrine. ⚔️✨
#SheRa #Swiftwind #MOTU #MattelCreations #80sToys #Unboxing

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Sleepover Trading Co. @sleepovertrading.bsky.social · 10d

📼 On this day in 2012 V/H/S hit theaters — a cursed stack of tapes that launched a whole new era of found-footage horror.
Have you seen the new one yet? 👀 We’re celebrating where it all began with a V/H/S screening at the Community Theatre on 10/30 🎃 #VHS #FoundFootage #HorrorMovies #Halloween2025

Sleepover Trading Co. @sleepovertrading.bsky.social · 11d

Tonight at Story Screen in Hudson, NY, the man of your dreams is back!

Join us for Freddy, drag and more to kick off your spooky season!

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Sleepover Trading Co. @sleepovertrading.bsky.social · 11d

🎪 Something wicked (& wonderfully weird) this way comes… 👀💀 Our Halloween window display has a new guardian - a clown keeping watch over the spookiest tapes in town. Stop by Sleepover Trading Co. in Catskill & say hi if you dare.
#SleepoverTradingCo #VHS #HalloweenDisplay #RetroHorror #CatskillNY

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Sleepover Trading Co. @sleepovertrading.bsky.social · 11d

🦇 The shop’s looking a little scarier lately… and we wouldn’t have it any other way. 👻
🎃 Stop by today — we’re opening early at 12:30 PM!
📼 Inside The Community Theatre, Catskill, NY
#SleepoverTradingCo #VHS #HalloweenVibes #CatskillNY #VideoStore #RetroHorror #AnalogForever #SpookySeason

Sleepover Trading Co. @sleepovertrading.bsky.social · 11d

📼✨ By the Power of Grayskermit!✨📼
Straight from the Muppet Magazine archives (1987) — Kermit channels his inner He-Man in one of the strangest, most glorious pop culture mashups of the ‘80s: He-Frog and the Muppets of the Universe! 🐸⚔️
#Muppets #HeMan #KermitTheFrog #80sMagazine #SleepoverTradingCo

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Sleepover Trading Co. @sleepovertrading.bsky.social · 12d

Don’t forget it's BLIND BAG night @ Catskill First Friday! 🎉📀
VHS & DVD double features ready to surprise!
Stallone? Sitcoms gone movies?
You won’t know ‘til you rip one open! $5/each.
Perfect for collectors, tape-traders, and anyone who loves the thrill of the unknown.
#FirstFridays #BlindBags