Video Rental Stores in film
I miss video rental stores where I live all of them have closed is this is the closest thing to seeing them again. These films take place or have important scenes in video rental stores.
An interesting fact is that the video rental setting is used 6 times during the 80's and 90's While 2000 to 2022 The time of Netflix, Redbox and Streaming the video rental setting is used 10 times not including the South Park special mention.
Another interesting fact is that Blockbuster is used three times South Park, Yes Man, and the Netflix series Blockbuster. The rest are independents or are portrayed as independents.
Remote Control (1988)
A video store clerks stumbles onto an alien plot to take over earth by brainwashing people with a B grade1950s science fiction movie.
The Fisher King (1991)
After inspiring a listener's mass shooting a shock jock Jack Lucas falls apart until he starts helping Parry a man whose wife was killed in the shooting.
Earth Angel (1991)
In 1962 Angela died in a car accident on her way to prom. After dying she learns that she can not enter heaven until she takes care of some unfinished business on Earth before the day of her death 1991.
Clerks (1994)
A day in the lives of two clerks Dante (convince store) and Randal (video rental store) as they annoy customers, discuss movies, and play hockey on the roof of the store.
Scream (1996)
After the murder of her mother, a teenage girl is terrorized by a killer, who targets the girl and her friends by using horror films as part of a deadly game.
Superstar (1999)
A girl working for a video rental store works for attaining her dreams of fame and kissing the Big Man on Campus.
Loser (2000)
A university freshman, Paul Tannek branded a loser by his roommates and set up to be kicked out of the dorm, falls in love with a coed Dora Diamond who has eyes for the elitist Professor Edward Alcott.
Sugar and Spice (2001)
When high school cheerleader Diane gets knocked up by her boyfriend. They get married and get low paying jobs at a grocery store bank and a video rental store. Wanting to give the best life for her twins Diane and her squad mates plan to steal needed money. Researching bank robbery from movies and using their cheerleading skills, the girls devise a plan to rob a bank.
Jersey Girl (2004)
After his career is destroyed by an unexpected tragedy and a personal melt down, a single father Ollie Trinke grieves and just getting by. Until meeting a beautiful love interest Maya at a video rental store she works at; he starts to turn his life around.
I Am Legend (2007)
When an unstoppable virus that turns human race into bloodthirsty mutants, civilization's last hope for a cure lies with scientist Robert Neville, the sole survivor in New York City. Based on the short story Richard Mathenson.
Be Kind Rewind (2008)
A video-store employee accidentally erases every tape on the shelves, In order to stay in business, the employees try and re-create all the films, with their own camera, with a budget of zero.
Good Dick (2008)
An extreme introverted girl that rents soft-core porn from a local video rental store. While there she meets a video store clerk who vows to win her heart.
Yes Man (2008)
Based on the memoir Yes Man by Danny Wallace [First Published in 2005]. Banker Carl Allen has gotten through a bitter divorce, lives his life going to work and watching rented videos after work. Until he goes to a self-improvement seminar; at the seminar the guru makes Carl say yes to everything that comes his way.
This Means War (2012)
A pair of best friends and CIA agents wage an epic battle against one another when they discover they are dating the same woman.
A Nightmare on Facetime (10/24/2012) Season 16; Episode 12*
The 235th episode of the series overall. Randy Marsh purchases a Blockbuster video store and demands that his reluctant family work in it on Halloween with him. Aspects of which parody the 1980 film The Shining, and an episode of The Simpson's Treehouse of Horror V: Season 6: Episode 109 (1994) Act 1: The Shinning
Beyond the Gates (2016)
After their father's disappearance, two brothers Gordon and John reunite to close down his video store. While doing this they find an old VHS board game and decide to play. On the tape, a ghostly woman offers them a way to rescue their father.
Blockbuster (2022)
A Netflix sitcom about the last Blockbuster store the manager trying to keep it open and his employees. (Netflix making this seems Ironic).
* While several TV shows have episodes use a video rental store as a location This is a special inclusion because it covers what things were like with video rental in 2012.
Blockbuster ceased operation in 2013.
A Netflix sitcom about the last Blockbuster store the manager trying to keep it open and his employees. (Netflix making this seems Ironic).
* While several TV shows have episodes use a video rental store as a location This is a special inclusion because it covers what things were like with video rental in 2012.
Blockbuster ceased operation in 2013.
