The Seventh Sign VHS Tape
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Columbia Pictures released "The Seventh Sign" on VHS in 1988, slotted into the wave of studio-backed supernatural thrillers that defined the back half of that decade. The sleeve is the tan-and-beige painted composition that collectors know: a silhouetted figure standing before a column of divine light, a golden disc engraved with Roman numerals I through VII suspended in cloud cover, and Demi Moore's face dissolved into the background imagery. One copy, pre-owned.
1988 was a particular moment for apocalyptic horror in wide release. "The Seventh Sign" arrived the same year as "Child's Play" and "Pumpkinhead," both of which pulled harder on genre mechanics, but director Carl Schultz and screenwriters Clifford and Ellen Green were working a different register: theological dread, Book of Revelation scaffolding, a pregnant woman as the last hinge between the world and its end. Moore had just come off "About Last Night..." (1986) and "St. Elmo's Fire" (1985) and was not yet the post-"Ghost" box office name she would become. This tape belongs to that pre-stardom window, a document from a career crossroads most people missed the first time around. Columbia distributed it into a rental market that was at peak VHS saturation, and a lot of these went through Blockbuster and never came back in good shape. Finding a sleeve this intact is not a given.
Pre-ironic apocalypse: what Columbia thought would work in the spring of 1988.
This copy carries the original Columbia Pictures clamshell-style sleeve. The painted cover art holds its color well, with no visible fading on the Roman numeral disc or the Moore portrait inset. Tape has not been tested, so playback is buyer's responsibility. No visible mold odor noted. For display, the sleeve face reads cleanly at distance, which matters if you are pulling it for shelf presentation alongside other late-80s horror titles. Run a thumb along the side seam of the clamshell spine before you commit: that's where stress cracks show up first on Columbia releases from this period.
OWNER VERIFY: 1988 original release pressing vs. later reissue (check the spine copyright date and catalog number for confirmation).
Pre-ironic apocalypse: what Columbia thought would work in the spring of 1988.
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