Do video store employees ever look at you odd?

[Razorblade Smile]

Let's face it guys, most of the stuff that we enjoy watching is not exactly gracing the top ten list at Blockbuster Video.

Do the clowns behind the checkout counter ever give you weird looks whenever you rent films like Redneck Zombies, or Leprechaun in the Hood or Jack Frost 2: Revenge of the Killer Mutant Snowman?

One day I rented Chopper Chicks in Zombietown and as the girl read the title aloud she gave me this really weird look. In return, I gave her the 'Hannibal' eyes and she pretty much averted her gaze after that. What a clown.

Legal Disclaimer: This post was not intended to offend any shmoe living or undead who are either Video Store employees or clowns in general.

[W. E. Sawyer]

I used to work at Blockbuster and I never did that. http://www.joblo.com/ubb/smile.gif Of course, people RARELY rented horror movies. Seems like, particularly where I worked, it is the least popular genre.

[Horror_Fanatic]

Ya, that happens to me often but not at the video store(i do most of my renting at netflix)It happens at Best Buy or where ever I buy a movie. I remember the look on the counter girl's face when I first bought The Evil Dead Trilogy all at the same time. I could tell she thought I was a freak, and not in that good way. Oh, well, she's my girlfriend now, but she still thinks I'm a freak, except for now it's in that good way.

[SteveSzyk]

Nah, but my mom does.

[Dark_One79]

Yeah, sometimes it does feel like I get a little bit of the ol' eye after they sneak a peek at my selection. I remember the second time I rented Bloodsucking Freaks (a friend was curious, I swear) I felt kind of funny, the first time I was oblivious to it's content, so didn't worry about it.

But remember this, they have to deal with people renting flicks like Anal Antics vol. 21 and Cherry Pickers 4. So we aren't so bad.

I used to date a girl who worked in a video store and I never remember hearing her talk about the "horror" geeks. It was always the wackos who would go jerk off in the porn department. Yeah, she actually caught a guy doing it.

At least we don't do that! Well, at least some of us.

[bowieee]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Razorblade Smile:


One day I rented Chopper Chicks in Zombietown and as the girl read the title aloud she gave me this really weird look. In return, I gave her the 'Hannibal' eyes and she pretty much averted her gaze after that. What a clown. .[/i]</font>


Hannibal eyes lol.

yeah I bought zombie a couple of days ago and the girl at best buy looked at the cover and said eeeeww thats gross. Then I started laughing and I couldn't stop. Ahh a great moment. All the people at my nearest video store are pretty boys so they look at me strangely when i'm renting horror.

[Razorblade Smile]

At least we don't do that!

Speak for yourself Dark One.

lol!

[ParileseMonster]

Yeah the trendy ass bitches do, you know the type they all love god awful movies like coyote ugly and bounce. http://www.joblo.com/ubb/tongue.gif

[Antonio]

Ever notice how perky most of the Blockbuster employees seem to be?

The Hollywood Video gang is pretty rude, though.

[This message has been edited by Antonio (edited 05-10-2002).]

[stevereno]

the people at my movie store dont really speak english so they cant read the title

SHIVER ME TIMBERS

[James_Sully_Sullivan]

You bet!
I once rented like a thousand horror flicks (not really, abaout 7) and the girl raised her eyebrows and twisted the mouth like you know...
So annoying

[teenkiller]

One time I went to a store to order Lep in the Hood since they had no copies and the girl laughed at me. She said she rented it and thought it was very funny. Well thats all for now GOoD JOURNEY my fellow schmoes.

[Lady Summerisle]

Think ILSA: SHE WOLF OF THE SS.

Renting Ilsa is akin to a porno film, which micght get you looks like you were the one who started the holocaust.
The clerk was a male, so he didn't budge at all.

[Horror_Fanatic]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by ParileseMonster:
Yeah the trendy ass bitches do, you know the type they all love god awful movies like coyote ugly.</font>

I like Coyote Ugly.

[stevereno]

coyote ugly was hot hot chicks + water on their tops = fun for steve

the people at video store are uses to seeing i usually rent on tuesdays and fridays.they don't even ask for my name soon they'll memorize my number

SHIVER ME TIMBERS

[Romero&Juliet]

The video store that I've been going to lately is owned by, and I'm not kidding, THE biggest movie buffs in the entire world.
(I like to call them the movie gods.)
Its a (I'm assuming, owned by a husband and wife team..I dont like to talk personally with the mighty movie gods, but I often talk to the "wife' about horror.)

The husband, on the other hand, is VERY critical of peoples tastes. To tell you the truth, I would laugh at people at peoples tastes in movies if I were working there too. actually doing that at a record store would be a lot more fun.....

They're (he's) not suprised that i rent horror movies all the time, but when i rent the really bad ones, he laughs and says "and the oscar goes to" or some other ridiculously geeky remark that DOES kind of intimidate me simply because I know he's seen every movie in the entire world and knows exactly what he's talking about.

....and I've rented BOTH the Ilsa movies too, and I got some pretty strange looks. It always helps when you go to rent that kind of movie with several people. They were TERRIBLE movies though.

[Lady Summerisle]

Tell me about it, R&J.
Egaads.
"My experrriments are very important to zee sird Reich!!!"

[Jason Voorhees]

Hmm...Indeed. Perhaps I'm being irrational, but the condescending looks I get when renting horror films get under my skin. Perhaps I am angered more by the fact that these people apparently seem to be judging my entire character based on the films I rent...which is ridiculous...

[ominous_oat]

I go to a nice little local place in my town (only 2 places to rent there). Anyway I get along really well with the lady who owns it, she knows my name, and she always knows I'm going to rent a ton of horror movies, but she doesn't look at me funny or anything. She usually just mentions whether she liked it or not, and if she hasn't seen it she'll ask me to tell her if it's any good.

Also since I'm really pathetic, I'll help her clean the windows every now and then when I'm in there and get free video rentals.

Sadly I've heard she's leaving soon....darn...

[Patrick Bateman]

I'm wandering around VideoVisions, the video store near my apartment on the Upper West Side, sipping from a can of Diet Pepsi, The new Christoper Cross tape blaring from the earphones of my Sony Walkman. The video store is more crowded than usual. There are too many couples in line for me to rent "She-Male Reformatory" or "Ginger's C*nt" without some sense of awkwardness or discomfort, plus I've already bumped into an old friend or at least who I think is an old friend. He mumbled "Hello Mcdonald" as he passed me by, holding "Friday the 13th: Part 7" and a documentary on abortions in what I noticed as nicely manicured hands marred only by what looked to me like an imitation-gold Rolex.
Since pornography seems out of the question I browse through Light Comedy and, feeling ripped off, settle for a Woody Allen movie but I'm still not satisfied. I "want" something "else".
Almost by rote, as if I've been programmed, I reach for "Body Double" a movie I have rented thirty-seven times and walk up to the counter where I wait twenty minutes to be checked out by a dumpy girl.

She hands the guy behind her my empty video boxes, and I pretend to ignore his horrified reaction as he recognizes me after he looks at the "Body Double" box but he dutifully walks into some kind of vault in the back of the store to get the movies.

"I like the part in "Body Double" where the woman...gets drilled by the...power driller in the movie...the best," I say, almost gasping. It seems very hot in the video store right now all the sudden and after murmuring "oh my god" under my breath I place a gloved hand on the counter to settle it from shaking.
"And the blood starts pouring out of the ceiling." I take a deep breath and while I'm saying this my head starts nodding to its own accord.

"Sign here." She hands me the tapes without even looking at me, refusing to recognize who I am; and breathing in hard and exhaling, she motions for the next in line, a couple with a baby.

In slow motion like a movie, the sun goes down, the city gets darker and all I can see is the red Lamborghini and all I can hear is my own even, steady panting. I'm still standing, drooling, in front of the store, staring, minutes later (I dont know how many).

I have to return some videotapes....

[Notquiteallhere]

I get few weird looks from time to time. But it's because I go in w/my three kids and they are asking me to " get Halloween 2 daddy" or "do they have 13 Ghosts".

[the saw is family]

actually i got a strange look yestarday i went to family video which really is a kick ass video store i rented 8 movies 5 horror.

i rented:
camp blood
the dead next door
the hills have eyes
the stepfather
return of the living dead
(plus hearts of darkness,tromeo and juliet and faces of death:fact or fiction)

and the clerk kind of gave me a weird look but i didn't care because i got all 8 movies for 4 dollars and you get to keep them for 7 nights.

also at a different videostore i rented blood diner and the blob remake and the lady goes "i've never heard of these they sound pretty weird" i just said yeah,i really don't know how to respond to these comments usually.

[spacemonkey]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Razorblade Smile:
Legal Disclaimer: This post was not intended to offend any shmoe living or undead who are either Video Store employees or clowns in general.</font>

LOL! I worked at Blockbuster for sometime and, loved it the whole time! Whenever I saw someone walking down the horror isle Id allways recommend Evil Dead II or The Shinning, ha! Its was cool cause you get 7 free movies every week! My horror movie knowledge went up for the year that I worked there.. he he and I wasnt an asshole with people in fact when I saw them pick up films like the exorcist II Id go like dont rent that crappy film Id sudgest some other horror classic that Id know they would enjoy, I actually still do that. Just the other day some one was picking up 13Ghost and I said "dont do that! I know it looks good but your gonnna be very dissapointed when you see it!" and they actually didnt rent it god bless theyre souls... http://www.joblo.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

[skweemkween]

Nope.

If they do look at me weird, it's because I didn't wear any make up or showed up in nylon-work out pants with flip-flops and bags under my eyes. That tends to happen.

[bowieee]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by the saw is family:
actually i got a strange look yestarday i went to family video which really is a kick ass video store i rented 8 movies 5 horror.

i rented:
camp blood
the dead next door
the hills have eyes
the stepfather
return of the living dead
(plus hearts of darkness,tromeo and juliet and faces of death:fact or fiction)

and the clerk kind of gave me a weird look but i didn't care because i got all 8 movies for 4 dollars and you get to keep them for 7 nights.

also at a different videostore i rented blood diner and the blob remake and the lady goes "i've never heard of these they sound pretty weird" i just said yeah,i really don't know how to respond to these comments usually.</font>


Did you like hearts of darkness? I want that to be rereleased so bad. That may be the best documentery ever printed on film.

[the saw is family]

i just watched hearts of darkness this morning and it was brilliant i love apocalypse now(one of my all time top ten)and i knew that coppola had struggled getting it made,but i didn't know it was like that. i'm just glad he managed to keep the production and his sanity together cuz what he thought was going to be a faliure turned out to be one of the best movies of all time.

[Bomont the Destroyer]

Dammit I jump on this topic late, who wants to bet this thread will die off after I post something on it? Always happens.
Anyway I work at Blockbuster and I get weird looks from my fellow employees, not as much now though because they've gotten used to it. I even get to put on movies around 11 every night. I put on Eraserhead once, I'd pay money to watch the cute customer girl in the store's face once they showed that baby again. Classic. You haven't seen Return of the Living Dead until you've seen it on 7 tv's at once.
Other stores aren't too bad either, for me at least. I bought Return to Horror High, and the girl laughed, but in a friendly way and we joked about it a bit. I am afraid to buy some movies though, like today I found Vampyros Lesbos at a Pawn Shop for pretty cheap, but I was kinda embaressed to get it because it has Lesbos in the title. But I'll probably go get it next week. Everyone should go rent one of those vampire porns, not like erotic vampire stuff, but hardcore porn with lots of blood, after that no look you get will bother you ever again.

[Jeepers Creepers]

Sometimes they give me a strange looks well they don't mind they just want peoples money they don't care what you rent!

[AlienClown]

There are two instances I can think of right now. One is one from this one place all I ever rent is horror, and this has been going on for a long time, so the guy that runs the place must be used to it by now, but awhile ago I remember him asking me if "something was wrong" because all I ever rented was horror. I remember saying "no" and when I asked why he responded that "because you only ever rent horror." Nothing much ever came of it, I have given him damn good business. I remember I rented 5 movies once and the bags he gives weren't big enough, I asked if he had a bigger one and he said "most people don't rent 5 movies at a time." http://www.joblo.com/ubb/smile.gif When he has the younger females run the place though, I do sense tension and the creep-out factor from them when I dump a stack of horror movies on the counter and then come back with a bunch more a few minutes later.
And now the second thing, which was just today at a different place, the actual woman who did everything with the tapes wasn't the person this happened with, but this other guy who was sitting behind the counter stared at me the whole time I was at the counter from the moment I put the tapes on them till I left. He didn't say anything and neither did I but I didn't appreciate it.

[Michael_myers]

actually, once i rented Texas CHainsaw massacre for the first time, the guy said crazy and told me he loved it. he then went into an in depth analysis. it was sad.

[bromy]

I think the people at my blockbuster are great and helpful.

[kiwihitman]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by bromy:
I think the people at my blockbuster are great and helpful.</font>

oh no do i smell a spam.just kidding http://www.joblo.com/ubb/smile.gif

[Razorblade Smile]

I really hate the places where the clerk has to say the title of your movie out loud. I guess they do that to confirm that the movie you picked up is actually the one you meant to select. Now while I appreciate that, it can be a little embarassing at times.

Mostly because they always seem to say the Horror movie title a little bit louder than the other ones.

"Yes, Steel Magnolias is due back tomorrow before noon and SCREAM BLACULA SCREAM ISN'T DUE BACK UNTIL SUNDAY! YES, THAT'S RIGHT! YOU GET TO KEEP SCREAM BLACULA SCREAM AN EXTRA NIGHT SINCE THIS IS THE TENTH TIME YOU RENTED IT! Oh and by the way sir, have you returned SANTA CLAUS CONQUERS THE MARTIANS yet, because my computer shows that SANTA CLAUS CONQUERS THE MARTIANS is two days late."

That's right about the time when the needle skips off the record and the entire store falls silent as all eyes turn towards me.

Man, I hate that shit.

[Killer Klown#3]

At my local video store(not Blockbuster)I look at horror movies all the time and while i'm looking at them i can see the lady working there staring at me through the shelf.one day i was walking down the horror aisle and i saw the lady put up a sign on the shelf staring at me.when she was gone i walked up to see what it was and it said"whoever steals tape boxes will be arrested.Smile for the camera!!"I don't even steal.the worse time is when i a the only customer in the store and it's silent.I feel weird being there.Sometimes i walk out with nothing and i think that is why she thinks i am stealing.That store has the best selection of horror movies.i just can't make up my mind on what to rent.

[Jeepers Creepers]

Oh that happens to me a lot when Im the only person in the video store you see the guy walking around asking if he could help me but in the other video store where i always rent they don't do that because I always rent there and they no my parents and bla blah blah.

[skweemkween]

Speaking of blockbuster, sorry to rant, I KNOW I should expect this from a mainstream video chain, but they reduced the horror section at my local bb to one fucking section. One 12 x 5 ft section.

That is all. Now I gotta drive maybe 12 miles to nearest decent (really decent) store in Uptown Mpls. Aaaaah the suburbs. And I was here first dammit!!

[DiaryofNowhere]

Me and my friend get weird looks all the time
cause once a month we rent 10 to 15 movies (all horror)
and most of them r like never heard of like C.H.U.D.
But there is this one girl that works up at the store we rent from that loves Horror and
she gives us her 2 cents about the movies which is cool.

[This message has been edited by DiaryofNowhere (edited 05-13-2002).]

[Cyclonus]

No one cares what the hell I rent; they probably have a lot going on in their lives as it is. http://www.joblo.com/ubb/tongue.gif

[Romero&Juliet]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by skweemkween:
Speaking of blockbuster, sorry to rant, I KNOW I should expect this from a mainstream video chain, but they reduced the horror section at my local bb to one fucking section. One 12 x 5 ft section.
</font>

The blockbuster next to my house has completely chopped down their horror section. AND the bastards didn't even Consult with me when they sold Mondo Trasho!!! I would've paid a million dollars to own that movie.

I think they're the only place in the city that carries alot of the good stuff like Ghosthouse, Phantasm and the Sleepaway Camp Sequals, which are quickly becoming extinct.

Being home sick from school today(and rest assured that I'm gonna milk this flu for AT LEAST another two days off!), I had a huge craving to go rent the Sleepaway Movies.

But the ASSHOLES that work there aren't big fans of me. I have a habit of keeping movies and not bringing them back for weeks, asking too many questions, and the dreaded,....... NOT SAYING "HI" BACK TO THE ASSHOLES, BECAUSE IT'S OBVIOUS THAT THEY'RE BEING INSINCERE!!!! ~~Why even say it at all?!?!?
(grrrr....) I'm going back to bed.

[psycho path]

THEY HAD GHOSTHOUSE??!!! NEED THAT MOVIE!!!

[Draken]

just walk into 7 11

[Razorblade Smile]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by skweemkween:
[B]Speaking of blockbuster, sorry to rant, I KNOW I should expect this from a mainstream video chain, but they reduced the horror section at my local bb to one fucking section. One 12 x 5 ft section.B]</font>

But I bet they made room for new WWF pay-per-view videos didn't they?

Man. What's the world coming to?

[skweemkween]

Romero:yea I hear ya. But I'm with the guy who posted after you (forgot name), my frickin' video stores don't even have movies like Clownhouse. It's ridiculous.

I think I am going to look into those internet movie rental places if they are any good. Expensive, but worth it.

[Romero&Juliet]

The Blockbuster in question has Clownhouse.
I really dont understand their reasoning when it comes to stocking their movies. They CLAIM to be strictly a family video store, but they stock some sick F'ing horror movies....

[Bomont the Destroyer]

Yeah I know, my Blockbuster has the Uncut Bloodsucing Freaks and Mother's Day and at one time we had the Joe D'amato Buried Alive (Buio Omega). Huh? Those movies are pretty offensive, I mean I don't care but that is weird that they say they won't carry unrated stuff. People have complained before, this one guy was like "Why do you have the horror section by the games, I don't want my kids seeing that crap!" Funny guy.
I'm just glad we had them, I saved myself money by not buying Bloodsucking Freaks, I hated the movie. We also at one time had the Prowler and son of a bitch they got rid of it before I could rent it.

[Dehydrator]

If they do I don't notice. I have no reputation to be ruined (anymore). It's a pretty isolated rental anyway (hmmm, rentals in the black forest just tend to be...) and aside from the porn renting crowd, I can't imagine anybody else frequenting them.

[This message has been edited by Dehydrator (edited 05-14-2002).]

[skweemkween]

I have restored faith in video stores!

Found a small, family owned video store on my lunch break. Count 'em FIVE racks of horror movies. Oh, yea. Picked up THE UGLY & THE OTHERS. And there will be more rentals to come. awwww ya. At $1.99 a pop for five days, I think I found a new place to call home. http://www.joblo.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

[Lady Summerisle]

A certain video store near me often sells movies that don't rent. I wanted to BUY NEAR DARK, nd it had been sold. Jesus, was I miffed.
Although my vid store that I use more often ordered THE RE-ANIMATOR :ME for me. They also had the uncut of Andy Warhols Dracula. Although they could have a better horror section, like this place in Stephensville, they had LIQUID SKY and TOXIC AVENGER.

[Romero&Juliet]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by skweemkween:
I have restored faith in video stores!

Found a small, family owned video store on my lunch break. Count 'em FIVE racks of horror movies. Oh, yea. Picked up THE UGLY & THE OTHERS. And there will be more rentals to come. awwww ya. At $1.99 a pop for five days, I think I found a new place to call home. http://www.joblo.com/ubb/biggrin.gif</font>

dont you love that???

I found a great video store during the summer while I was walking around downtown.

I'm tellin you qween, A schmoes' heaven.

In a tiny little building downtown. You could verrry easily miss it if you even blinked. Its a tinny little building but its absolutley filled to the Brim with Bizarre B-movies.
It was Beautiful, Qween. I felt like crying.

[skweemkween]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Romero&Juliet:
dont you love that???

I found a great video store during the summer while I was walking around downtown.

I'm tellin you qween, A schmoes' heaven.

In a tiny little building downtown. You could verrry easily miss it if you even blinked. Its a tinny little building but its absolutley filled to the Brim with Bizarre B-movies.
It was Beautiful, Qween. I felt like crying. </font>


I know I'm reaching, but ARE you from Minneapolis? That describes, perfectly, one of the stores I have encountered. Small little Asian Indian man runs it. Nice dude.

[Romero&Juliet]

No, I'm .....Canandian.....In fact, I'm the Dregs of canadian, I'm a Newfoundlander.

I'm actually trying to muster up enough courage to consult the mighty movie gods and ask them for a job this summer. (thats what I call the people who own it. I'm sure you can guess why.)

[Psychocandy]

I used to work in a video shop and it was great. I used to get to see all the trashiest horror movies without some Blockbuster acolyte looking at me like i'm some kind of future Ed Gein. They were free too. So I had no qualms about taking home some of the potentially biggest turkeys in genre history. Good times.

When I was working there I would never look at anyone funny for hiring good (or even average) horror movies. However, you have to draw a line somewhere. And when someone is willing to shell out some of their hard earned for movies such as Children of the Living Dead. Well, you have to question their sanity. I know it was probably against shop policy or something but I used to point these poor individuals in the direction of something more worthy. Like Scooby Doo on Zombie Island or something. http://www.joblo.com/ubb/smile.gif

[DiaryofNowhere]

Yeah hey do any of yall know of any internet
video rental places besides Netfix???????

[skweemkween]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Romero&Juliet:
No, I'm .....Canandian.....In fact, I'm the Dregs of canadian, I'm a Newfoundlander.


</font>


And AGAIN, I probably knew this. Memory is leaving me. Completely.
Incidentally, I LOVE Canada. Toronto, Oct '89 for three days was heaven. Would love to visit NewFoundland,too.

[Bomont the Destroyer]

I found a video store close to me that I go to when I can't get a movie I want free at Blockbuster. It's called Potomac Video, was called Forbes, then it was West Coast Video, fitting name seeing that the store is in Virginia, but as of now it's Potomac. This store is great. You think of a movie you wanna see, they have it. Thanks to them I've seen Black Christmas, Videodrome, Reflecting Skin, Street Trash, Prom Night 2 and 3, Vampyres, Delicatessen, My Bloody Valentine, The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, Chud 2, well Chud 2 is not a good example, but where else have you seen a copy of Chud 2 lately? They have way more good stuff too that I haven't rented yet.
They have good deals too, everyday two old rentals cost $3.50, on Tuesday everything in the store is rent one get one free, and Thursday everything is 99 cents. They're opening up a Blockbuster by it, and if they put Potomac out of business, I am forfeiting my employment at Blockbuster and boycotting them.

[Alex Cross Fan]

I think that they give worse looks to the guys who ask:"Do you have the one with that guy who was in that movie that came out last year?"

Seriously though, I can't see why they would think that way. They stock the fucking movies, why would they be shocked that someone would actually rent them?
Luckily, the video store in my town(a small branch called JC Flicks)has a bunch of hard to find movies, a lot of which I've heard mentioned on this board. And the people who work there don't give me any kind of look when I rent a weird movie, because the employees are the type of people who like those movies. I also plan on working there this summer, where the only looks I'm going to give are to the guys who rent "Big Black Cocks and Pearly White Cum", and "All Holes Filled With Hard Cock"

[bowieee]

I couldn't believe it the guy behind the counter at the hollywood video near my house was talking with some customers how dawn of the dead was his favorite movie last night. What?? This can't be.... a horror fan working at a video chain. Made me feel happy inside.

[Bloodybitch13]

EVERYONE looks at me funny.I think it's the Freddy t-shirt.I haven't been in a video store in such a long time.I've been depressed .No movie looks good to me,not even the non-horror. http://www.joblo.com/ubb/frown.gif

[teenkiller]

The people at my local Blockbuster and Hollywood are pretty cool. Well thats all for now GOoD JOURNEY my fellow schmoes.

[The Claw]

I think the employees of my local video stores have a grudge against me and are card carrying members of the "i hate michael lake" organzation. The whole town is out to get me.

[KillerKlown]

The last time I was in Blockbuster I rented Eaten Alive and Dead & Buried. The twat behind the counter read the titles out loud, gave me the most patronising look and said: "You going to have fun tonight?". I replied with: "Aye, it beats working all night in this shite-hole, eh?" He shut the fuck up after that, for some reason. ;)

[A.J. Hakari]

I know most of the cashiers at the store, so they don't act funny when I rent weird movies...They did wonder why I was renting the PROM NIGHT sequels and Ken Russell's WHORE, though...

[Lindsey]

I'm with Adam. I too know most of the people that work there, so there is no problem.

[XCoRyX]

i know everyone that works at my blockbuster,just by face though....so i still get the odd looks,and i get so damn embarassed/sceeved out.

[doggyboyuk]

Am i a rare breed who doesn't get strange looks at my video store? I live in Norwich, england and i go to my local Choices store. It has a crappy selection of about 20 horror films. Also at my local Starship Video i don't get strange looks and they have a GREAT selection of about 100+ . Or maybe i just don't notice these things..........

[Ghostface 2000]

Originally posted by Antonio
Ever notice how perky most of the Blockbuster employees seem to be?

The Hollywood Video gang is pretty rude, though.

[This message has been edited by Antonio (edited 05-10-2002).]

They are rude here as well they always seem to have an attitude.

I have never really notice any weird looks that they give. I will have to go to the video store now to find out.

[Quiver]

Imagine how I felt walking into Jumbo Video, going up to the clerk and asking for a copy of "Bloody Murder 2", just to have her laugh in my face about it. I just shrugged it off with "yeah, nice title eh!"

Personally, I'd love to work at a video store, or even start up my own, with a huge ass horror section.

[Doop]

In defense of Video Employees( I should know I manage a video store) we are not all that bad. Heck every week we have to nominate a movie in the store to be our "Employee Choice" and I always pick horror movies. I mean my last two choices were "WISHCRAFT" and "BLOODY MURDER 2"...in fact im the opposite. The people who rent from me give me strange looks because of the movies I rent and nominate. At my store I carry almost every new horror movie that comes out. In fact Ive found that horror will out rent pretty much anyother title except COMEDY! If only you guys could rent at my store...that would be awesome!!!!

[DevilMonkey]

I rent all the time and I never once got a strange look except once when I rented Kindergarden Cop (I don't know why).

[Spider-man III]

Originally posted by bromy
I think the people at my blockbuster are great and helpful. I gotta second that! But yes it has happened.

Attendant: So you'll be taking Firday The 13th Parts 6 and 7, A Nightmare On Elm Street 6, Wishmaster 2, American Psycho 2, Dawn Of The Dead, Shadow Of The Vampire, Halloween 4 and 8, Dracula and The Lion King?
Good 'Ol Spidey: Yeah.
Attendant *Does A Face And Stares At Good 'Ol Spidey* Ok...Do you have a member card with you?
Good 'Ol Spidey: No...I have my I.D. right here.
Attendan:*Does Annoying Face* Okk...

NOTE: Those faces were REALLY annoying!!

[XCoRyX]

Originally posted by Quiver
Imagine how I felt walking into Jumbo Video, going up to the clerk and asking for a copy of "Bloody Murder 2", just to have her laugh in my face about it. I just shrugged it off with "yeah, nice title eh!"

Personally, I'd love to work at a video store, or even start up my own, with a huge ass horror section.

yeah i hear ya,i always picture myself being the ideal video clerk,one who is respectful,nice,kind etc, and has a knowledge of films,as well as a love for one.