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13 March 2011 4:49 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »

By the 1980s, the glory days of the movie grindhouse were over.  Rising real estate values and rents, and urban renewal ate away at the grindhouse circuit, and down the houses came, one seedy, sticky-floored theater after another.

But even though the grindhouses died out, grindhouse cinema didn’t die with it.  Like some sort of adaptive mutation, it found a new way to live in the reconfiguring terrain of 1980s movie exhibition which provided every consumer with the ability to create an individually-programmed grindhouse in his/her very own living room.

The first commercially successful Vcr was introduced to the American buying public in 1975, the same year HBO became the first nationally-available pay-tv service.  By the end of the decade, a few major studios had formed “home entertainment” divisions for the purpose of producing videocassettes of their theatrical features for the home market.  Within a few years, the home video business was booming, »

- Bill Mesce

1 item from 2011