South Park Halloween Episode: A Nightmare on Facetime 10/24/2012 Season 16 Episode

When I first starting my blog, I had a few plans of what I was going to do with this blog; a few of those ideas I decided not to pursue. One of them is the watchlist created from references and connections from other movies. (The Scream post explains why and how I came up with this idea) Only to discover IMDB does a better job of what I was trying to do. However, I put a lot of work into this list which is a single episode of a TV show. Every title is up-to-date at the time of posting this in 2018.  

This watchlist is from the South Park Halloween Episode: A Nightmare on Facetime 10/24/2012 Season 16 Episode 12. This is the episode when the Marsh family buys a Blockbuster Video.
This is one of my favorite episodes from the TV Show.

A Nightmare on Facetime 10/24/2012, Season 16; Episode 12

South Park (1997-?)
                [South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut (1999)]

The Shining (1980)
                [Stephen King’s: The Shining (1997)]

                [Doctor Sleep (2019)] 

Meet The Fockers (2004)
                [Meet the Parents (2000)]
                [Little Fockers (2010)]

Turner and Hooch (1989)

Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)
                [Captain America: Winter Soldier (2014)]
                [Captain America: Civil War (2016)]

The Avengers (2012)
                [The Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)]
                [Avengers: Infinity War (2018)]

Thor (2011)
                [Thor: The Dark World (2013)]
                [Thor: Ragnarok (2017)]

Iron Man (2008)
                [Iron Man 2 (2010)]

   [Iron Man 3 (2013)]

Hulk (2003)
The Incredible Hulk (2008)
                [The Incredible Hulk (1978 – 1982)]

Robocop 2 (1990)
                [Robocop (1987)]
                [Robocop 3 (1993)]
                [Robocop (2014)]

Blade Runner: Directors Cut (1982)
                [Blade Runner 2049 (2017)]

The Thing (1982)
                [The Thing (2011)]

Ted (2012)
                [Ted 2 (2015)]

Frankenstein – (1931)
                [The Bride of Frankenstein – 1935]
                [Son of Frankenstein – 1939]
                [The Ghost of Frankenstein – 1942]
                [Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man – 1943]
                [House of Frankenstein – 1944]
                [House of Dracula – 1945]

Drive (2011)

Wedding Crashers (2005)

Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988)
                [Halloween – 1978]
                [Halloween 2 – 1981]
                [Halloween 3: Season of the Witch – 1982]
                [Halloween 5: The Curse of Michael Myers – 1995]
                [Halloween H20: 20 Years Later - 1998]
                [Halloween: Resurrection - 2002]
                [Halloween – 2007]
                [Halloween II – 2009]

The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror V: Season 6: Episode 109 (1994)
Act 1: The Shinning

Video Rental Stores in film

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.