Why does one decide to collect something? What is it about one particular brand or look that draws us to act like Ash Ketchum with a duffel bag full of Pokeballs? I'm sure there's some asinine psychiatrist opinion about how we were raised, but I honestly think who gives a shit. Some like baseball cards, some comics. Some records and others with embossed presidential faces on a doily. Regardless this is a post about my journey to collect all the releases from Charter Entertainment.
Charter was a subsidiary of Nelson Entertainment, who was later purchased by New Line Cinema.... Who was later purc
hased by Warner Brothers. My first experience with Charter was Brian Trenchard-Smith's The Quest. My father had seen the movie one random day on TV, and had found a copy for me to see when I was about 8. At the time my VHS collecting consisted primarily of Godzilla, Universal Monsters and big bug movies from the '50s, but this Australian set film captured my imagination.
It wasn't until 2008 when I then saw my next Charter which would be the Larry Cohen oddball God Told Me To. Then I came across the John Stamos/Gene Simmons tour de force Never Too Young to Die, and my love of this company grew. After I started coming across different titles while hunting in the wild, I decided to "Get the whole set".
I had no clue how many titles Charter released. Through websites like
VHSplatter,
Critic Online and
VHS Collector I was able to amass a large amount of the product IDs and titles. However, these sites still don't list every title. I have found a few that these sites don't list, and that has begun my quest collect, watch and review every Charter film. I don't know for sure how many titles that is, but as of now I've counted upwards 117 titles. The IDs I've collected so far go up to "90237, which is the Harvey Keitel thriller Blindside.
Below is the catalog I've setup so far. If you have a Charter that you're looking to pass off please let me know!
| Catalog Number |
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Title |
| 9001 |
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Kiss of the Spider Woman |
| 9002 |
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Zulu |
| 9003 |
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Rabbit Test |
| 9004 |
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Star Crash |
| 9005 |
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Time Walker |
| 9006 |
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The Plague Dogs |
| 9007 |
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The Baltimore Bullet |
| 9008 |
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Ten Little Indians |
| 9009 |
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Foxtrot |
| 90010 |
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Sidewinder 1 |
| 90011 |
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The Mack |
| 90012 |
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Scalpel |
| 90013 |
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Came a Hot Friday |
| 90014 |
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A Man, a Woman and a Bank |
| 90015 |
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Diamonds |
| 90016 |
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Blackout |
| 90017 |
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Black Oak Conspiracy |
| 90018 |
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Nashville Girl |
| 90019 |
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Night Flight From Moscow |
| 90020 |
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Journey Through Rosebud |
| 90021 |
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TNT Jackson |
| 90022 |
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Paddy |
| 90023 |
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The Final Comedown |
| 90025 |
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Hog Wild |
| 90026 |
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City on Fire |
| 90027 |
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Follow That Car |
| 90028 |
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The Young Nurses |
| 90029 |
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This Time I'll Make You Rich |
| 90030 |
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The Steagle |
| 90031 |
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Crimewave |
| 90032 |
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Smoke Bites the Dust |
| 90033 |
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Lucky Luciano |
| 90035 |
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Call Him Mr. Shatter |
| 90036 |
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Jock' Petersen |
| 90037 |
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Summer School Teachers |
| 90038 |
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The Student Nurses |
| 90039 |
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Emanon |
| 90040 |
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Road to Salina |
| 90043 |
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God Told Me To |
| 90045 |
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Outside Chance |
| 90046 |
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Never Too Young to Die |
| 90047 |
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Blonde in Black Leather |
| 90048 |
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Street Girls |
| 90049 |
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The Tigress |
| 90050 |
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Woman Hunt |
| 90051 |
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Women in Cages |
| 90054 |
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The Manitou |
| 90055 |
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Picture Mommy Dead |
| 90056 |
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Murder Mansion |
| 90058 |
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Scream of the Demon Lover |
| 90060 |
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The Ski Bum |
| 90063 |
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The End of August |
| 90069 |
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Love By Appointment |
| 90070 |
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The Nightcomers |
| 90078 |
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Macho Callahan |
| 90079 |
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A Man Called Adam |
| 90080 |
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Thumb Tripping |
| 90081 |
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The 2nd Best Secret Agent in the Whole Wide World |
| 90083 |
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Horror Rises from the Tomb |
| 90084 |
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Baby Love |
| 90085 |
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J.C. |
| 90086 |
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Fury of the Wolfman |
| 90096 |
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The Quest |
| 90097 |
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Savage |
| 90098 |
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Marciano |
| 90099 |
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The Comeback Kid |
| 90100 |
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The Jericho Mile |
| 90101 |
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She's in the Army Now |
| 90102 |
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Attica |
| 90103 |
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Make Me An Offer |
| 90104 |
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Pray TV |
| 90105 |
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Hot Rod |
| 90106 |
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Bombs Away! |
| 90107 |
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Dingaka |
| 90108 |
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The Dirt Bike Kid |
| 90109 |
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Trouble in Mind |
| 90111 |
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Bluebeard |
| 90113 |
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A Nice Girl Like Me |
| 90115 |
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Walk into Hell |
| 90117 |
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Catch as Catch Can |
| 90119 |
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Interval |
| 90120 |
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The Passionate Thief |
| 90122 |
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Robbery |
| 90123 |
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Shoot Loud, Louder… I Don't Understand |
| 90124 |
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Caper of the Golden Bulls |
| 90125 |
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Seaside Swingers |
| 90128 |
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The Spy With the Cold Nose |
| 90129 |
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Three Bullets for a Long Gun |
| 90132 |
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The Sporting Club |
| 90133 |
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Mother & Daughter: The Loving War |
| 90134 |
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Wonders of Aladdin |
| 90135 |
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Darktown Strutters |
| 90138 |
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Road Games |
| 90139 |
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Cross Country |
| 90140 |
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Fair Game |
| 90141 |
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Private Duty Nurses |
| 90142 |
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The Cat |
| 90146 |
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A Bullet for the General |
| 90149 |
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The Terrornauts |
| 90153 |
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Red Headed Stranger |
| 90155 |
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The Swimming Pool |
| 90156 |
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GIT! |
| 90160 |
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Hatchet for a Honeymoon |
| 90165 |
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Talion |
| 90169 |
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A Time for Miracles |
| 90171 |
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Octavia |
| 90173 |
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What Comes Around |
| 90174 |
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To Love Again |
| 90178 |
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Jane Austen in Manhattan |
| 90179 |
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A Dream of Passion |
| 90198 |
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The Salamander |
| 90199 |
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Bridge to Nowhere |
| 90200 |
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Keeping Track |
| 90203 |
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Rolling Vengeance |
| 90204 |
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Working Girls |
| 90205 |
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Messaline vs the Son of Hercules |
| 90206 |
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The Danger Zone |
| 90207 |
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Impure Thoughts |
| 90208 |
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Strangers in the City |
| 90209 |
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Ghost Fever |
| 90211 |
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Toby McTeague |
| 90213 |
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The Terror of Rome Against the Son of Hercules |
| 90214 |
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Burke & Wills |
| 90216 |
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I Was a Tennage Zombie |
| 90218 |
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Dark Age |
| 90221 |
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Slaughterhouse |
| 90223 |
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Supergrass |
| 90224 |
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Living on Tokyo Time |
| 90227 |
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Stacking |
| 90229 |
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Around the World in 80 Ways |
| 90234 |
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I Have Heard the Mermaids Singing |
| 90235 |
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Scenes from the Goldmine |
| 90236 |
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Playing Away |
| 90237 |
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