Kami Kostelny’s Coming of Age—on VHS
Collector’s Additions showcases movie media and memorabilia. For Coming of Age Month, we asked Kami Kostelny, aka @magicghostbaby on Instagram, to spotlight favorite titles from her collection related to the theme.
Hi, I’m Kami! I love movies and collect several forms of physical media, but the one that takes up the most space, by far, is my VHS collection! Much like many of my peers on Instagram, I got into collecting solely for the nostalgia of it all.
The movies I chose to include here are some of my very favorites: a mix of films that shaped me as a child/adolescent, spooky classics that are probably all allegories for puberty, and others that I simply enjoy watching because they’re funny and light-hearted.
The term “coming of age” can be interpreted slightly differently depending on who you ask (I learned this quickly while scouring the internet to make sure all the movies that I chose were, in fact, coming-of-age films). But themes of maturation and/or loss of innocence seemed to be the through line in every definition I came across. So if I did this wrong, please know that it is entirely the internet’s fault. Thank you.
