I confess I was one of those to buy one of those rolled Mutant Hunt video posters. I didn’t pay 100 bucks, the seller made me an offer which I happily accepted. Before buying, I did look up Emovieposter’s archive to get a sense of pricing and the examples Bruce has sold were a lot less, although as Neo notes, those were folded.
There are a handful of video posters on my want list, of which Mutant Hunt was one, and finding them rolled is near impossible so I was happy to bite the bullet on it.
But I agree with the general sentiment that 80s gear in particular is going bananas. It’s not just BTTF or Goonies either. I have missed out on rolled one-sheets for Chopping Mall and Silent Night Deadly Night at Emovie because as much as I love the artwork, I don’t have bottomless sacks of cash to throw at them. (And don’t even talk to me about Sleepaway Camp, already mentioned around these parts.)
But if anyone on here wants to offload rolled video posters for Death Spa or Headless Eyes, hit me up!
And it’s worth saying, these titles appeal to me largely because of the artwork rather than because of a reverence for the films they are promoting. Chopping Mall happens to be a fun B-movie in my view. I have never even seen Death Spa but the poster is amazing to me (link below for the curious). I am in my early 50s so I guess I share in that nostalgia for the VHS era that is fuelling all this 80s boom. And I totally understand why some collectors think the current trend is a nonsense.
https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-death-spa-1989-shapiro-glickenhaus-entertainmentcourtesy-everett-collection-72382186.html