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Sleepover Trading Co. @sleepovertrading.bsky.social · 2h

🎂 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 · 5h

🔪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 · 19h

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

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

👽💋 “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 · 2d

🎃 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 · 3d

🔮 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 · 3d

🗽 “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 · 6d

📼 “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 · 7d

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 · 7d

💥 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 · 7d

🕯️💀 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 · 7d

👻 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 · 8d

🩸 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 · 9d

✨🦄 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 · 9d

📼 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 · 9d

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 · 9d

🎪 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 · 10d

🦇 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 · 10d

📼✨ 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 · 11d

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

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

October 3, 1992 — seven seconds live on SNL that TV tried to erase.
Sinéad O’Connor ripped up the Pope’s photo on air. NBC cut it from reruns, but VHS kept it alive.
Did you see it live, or only on tape?
#SineadOConnor #SNL #1992 #VHSArchive #CultTV #SleepoverTradingCo

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

👀 Spot us on Main Street! Our bold new Sleepover Trading Co. sign is up front and ready to guide you in. But the real magic? 🌙 This baby glows in the dark. Swing by after sundown and see it light up like a late-night video store dream. 📼💡

📍 Catskill, NY inside the historic Community Theatre

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

🎃👻 IT. IS. SPOOKY. SEASON. 👻🎃
Halloween screenings hit the newly reopened Community Theater in Catskill! 🍿✨

🕷 Mischief Night – Oct 30 @ 7PM
V/H/S (2012)

🧟 Halloween Night – Oct 31
💀 6PM: Frankenstein (1931) & Bride of Frankenstein (1935) + Halloween clipshow 🧟‍♀️
💀 9PM: DEMONS (1985)

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