Names_Ash_Housewares link said:
Swofty I still own the Palace pictures Evil Dead 2 In The Gold Embossed box! and the Pre Cert Evil Dead in palace embossed box with red meat card
Ditto mate
(apart from the original red meat card part .. you bastard! lol .. but seenoevil sent me an indistiguishable signed replica so my pain is being kept at bay on that one .. for now!). I also used to have a spare empty gold Palace Premiere cassette case somewhere because that box wasn't exclusive just to their ED2 release, they also used it for their release of Dario Argento's 'Creepers' back in the day and so, I expect, also for other releases. I bought ED2 on its UK VHS rental release date for about £80 as I remember and when the Guild Home Video tape of Army of Darkness was released into video stores a few years later they wouldn't sell me one ......... so I rented the only copy of it, 'lost' it, paid the full price as a fine and a friend went in and stole the case off the shelf for me ;D. Still have all three copies. I wasn't able to buy the Palace ED1 cassette from my local video store in '84, not for want of trying on my part but I was underage to be renting it, it was still considered banned and the owner was nervous anyway to be renting to me anyway and refused to sell it to me because I was a minor, despite me constantly nagging her.
A rarity I regret losing through time is a promo/coming soon flat sheet printed sleeve and box from Anchor Bay (that I blagged from a shop assistant at the time) used only for display purposes (remember seeing them in HMV?) for Tom Sullivan's sculpted BOTD DVD release. The store was full of 'em and I knew they'd just get thrown out when the real thing arrived. I wonder if any now still exist? ..
