Movie rental aesthetic

Here are our readers' greatest memories from the VHS age.

video rental store

picking out movies at the rental store

Before video stores, movies were solely watched in theaters, leaving studios hesitant to embrace video technology and video stores because they feared for losses in revenues. The first VCRs hit…

The horror community has a deep love of collecting horror videotapes. Come read about how Cidnya misses the experience of watching VHS tapes.

Richard Brody writes about Tom Roston’s book about how video stores shaped a generation of filmmakers.

Videodrome, the roughly 2,000-square-foot shop at the corner of North Highland and North avenues, is the last video store standing in Atlanta that is not of the XXX variety. It is an oasis for film buffs (and the occasional visiting celebrity) who are suckers for special features, director’s cuts, or not letting Netflix’s algorithms ration out their media diets.

by Kevin Corazza