Sunday, October 12, 2014

Charter Entertainment


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
Title
9001
Kiss of the Spider Woman
9002
Zulu
9003
Rabbit Test
9004
Star Crash
9005
Time Walker
9006
The Plague Dogs
9007
The Baltimore Bullet
9008
Ten Little Indians
9009
Foxtrot
90010
Sidewinder 1
90011
The Mack
90012
Scalpel
90013
Came a Hot Friday
90014
A Man, a Woman and a Bank
90015
Diamonds
90016
Blackout
90017
Black Oak Conspiracy
90018
Nashville Girl
90019
Night Flight From Moscow
90020
Journey Through Rosebud
90021
TNT Jackson
90022
Paddy
90023
The Final Comedown
90025
Hog Wild
90026
City on Fire
90027
Follow That Car
90028
The Young Nurses
90029
This Time I'll Make You Rich
90030
The Steagle
90031
Crimewave
90032
Smoke Bites the Dust
90033
Lucky Luciano
90035
Call Him Mr. Shatter
90036
Jock' Petersen
90037
Summer School Teachers
90038
The Student Nurses
90039
Emanon
90040
Road to Salina
90043
God Told Me To
90045
Outside Chance
90046
Never Too Young to Die
90047
Blonde in Black Leather
90048
Street Girls
90049
The Tigress
90050
Woman Hunt
90051
Women in Cages
90054
The Manitou
90055
Picture Mommy Dead
90056
Murder Mansion
90058
Scream of the Demon Lover
90060
The Ski Bum
90063
The End of August
90069
Love By Appointment
90070
The Nightcomers
90078
Macho Callahan
90079
A Man Called Adam
90080
Thumb Tripping
90081
The 2nd Best Secret Agent in the Whole Wide World
90083
Horror Rises from the Tomb
90084
Baby Love
90085
J.C.
90086
Fury of the Wolfman
90096
The Quest
90097
Savage
90098
Marciano
90099
The Comeback Kid
90100
The Jericho Mile
90101
She's in the Army Now
90102
Attica
90103
Make Me An Offer
90104
Pray TV
90105
Hot Rod
90106
Bombs Away!
90107
Dingaka
90108
The Dirt Bike Kid
90109
Trouble in Mind
90111
Bluebeard
90113
A Nice Girl Like Me
90115
Walk into Hell
90117
Catch as Catch Can
90119
Interval
90120
The Passionate Thief
90122
Robbery
90123
Shoot Loud, Louder… I Don't Understand
90124
Caper of the Golden Bulls
90125
Seaside Swingers
90128
The Spy With the Cold Nose
90129
Three Bullets for a Long Gun
90132
The Sporting Club
90133
Mother & Daughter: The Loving War
90134
Wonders of Aladdin
90135
Darktown Strutters
90138
Road Games
90139
Cross Country
90140
Fair Game
90141
Private Duty Nurses
90142
The Cat
90146
A Bullet for the General
90149
The Terrornauts
90153
Red Headed Stranger
90155
The Swimming Pool
90156
GIT!
90160
Hatchet for a Honeymoon
90165
Talion
90169
A Time for Miracles
90171
Octavia
90173
What Comes Around
90174
To Love Again
90178
Jane Austen in Manhattan
90179
A Dream of Passion
90198
The Salamander
90199
Bridge to Nowhere
90200
Keeping Track
90203
Rolling Vengeance
90204
Working Girls
90205
Messaline vs the Son of Hercules
90206
The Danger Zone
90207
Impure Thoughts
90208
Strangers in the City
90209
Ghost Fever
90211
Toby McTeague
90213
The Terror of Rome Against the Son of Hercules
90214
Burke & Wills
90216
I Was a Tennage Zombie
90218
Dark Age
90221
Slaughterhouse
90223
Supergrass
90224
Living on Tokyo Time
90227
Stacking
90229
Around the World in 80 Ways
90234
I Have Heard the Mermaids Singing
90235
Scenes from the Goldmine
90236
Playing Away
90237
Blindside