It Found Its Audience on VHS
The Terminator quickly gained a VHS following: It was the No. 2 VHS rental of 1985. (Though again lost to that infernal Ralph Macchio, whose film The Karate Kid was No. 1.
Partly because of the original film’s huge home-video following, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, was No. 1 at the 1991 box office. And a franchise was born.
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