“Alien: Romulus” will be released on Blu-ray and DVD in December. As has now been announced, there will also be a VHS version – in limited quantities.
The video cassette returns: As 20th Century Studios announces, the film “Alien: Romulus” will be released in VHS format. The film studio writes this in a post on the short message platform X.
In addition to a release on streaming services and versions for Blu-Ray and DVD, there will be a limited version of the film on video cassettes, it is said. This is scheduled to be published on December 3rd.
The VHS version was previously announced by the director of the new part of the Alien universe, Fede Álvarez, at this year’s film event “Beyond Festival” in the USA. The cover of the VHS version is designed by Matt Ferguson, who has designed numerous film posters for Hollywood films such as “Halloween” and “Dune”.
It is unknown how many copies of “Alien: Romulus” will be released on VHS tape. A price for the limited edition of the film on video cassette was also not announced.
The version is probably a copy in NTSC format, which cannot be played on German video recorders. At that time, only a few devices were able to play cassettes in both the European Pal and the US NTSC format. It is currently unknown whether there will also be a Pal version of the VHS version of “Alien: Romulus”.
Ridley Scott achieved success in 1979 with the science fiction shocker “Alien”. Director James Cameron delivered the sequel “Aliens: The Return” in 1986. Four more “Alien” parts followed. The seventh part, “Alien: Romulus,” was released in theaters and takes place between the first two films.
The last title from a major film studio as a VHS version was released in 2006. It was the film “A History of Violence” with Viggo Mortensen in the leading role. At that time, the DVD format for films had long since become established.
VHS was developed in the 1970s and first released in Japan. In the 1980s and 1990s, films were released on video cassettes, and many households had a corresponding recorder at home as a playback and recording device.
The last video recorders were produced by the Japanese company Funai Electronic and were manufactured until 2016. Production was halted due to low demand for the devices and problems sourcing components.