What was the last movie released on VHS?
Last updated: July 12, 2024
After winning the format war over Betamax (sorry, it’s just a fact), VHS became an incredibly important format in home media for the better part of three decades.
There was really nothing better than walking around a video rental store and just eyeballing the VHS tapes in stock. It’s not totally out of the question to argue that the image format of VHS covers prepared us for the mobile-screen era. If you put the Jurassic Park cover on my phone’s home screen, I really would never need to look away.
And of course, there were always the new releases that would be out for days on end, because there was literally no other option. In fact, movies would often come out for rent before you could actually buy them, so unless you were Blockbuster or were willing to schlep out licensing fees, you either had to show up on the morning of release day or sit by the return slot until someone brought one back and you begged the clerk to let you have it.
But eventually, like all great things, the VHS format faded, until finally the last movie ever released for the format came out. Which movie was it?