The Last Video Store(2024)

1h 19m
- Comedy
- Horror

Release Date: Oct 18, 2024 | Limited

A young woman who is unknowingly in possession of a legendary "cursed tape" takes a collection of old video tapes to a video store. She and the store owner re-awake its curse, which leads to the release of a raft of cinematic villains.

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Cody Kennedy
Director

Tim Rutherford
Director

Yaayaa Adams
Nyla

Matthew Kennedy
Taggert

Josh Lenner
Viper

Kevin Martin
Kevin

Leland Tilden

Castor Creely

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Country of Origin: Canada

Language: English

Summaries

Storyline

Kevin is the owner and sole employee of Blaster Video, Canada's last video store. Nyla, the daughter of his most loyal customer, not only returns her father's rentals two weeks late without the courtesy of a rewind, but she also unwittingly unleashes the video necronomicon, a cursed VHS tape imbued with the power to bring any movie character to life in the real world. Now Kevin and Nyla are trapped in Blaster Video, thrown into a fight for their lives against a formidable variety of B-movie foes, including Castor, the legendary hockey goalie turned supernatural thriller killer from the BEAVER LAKE MASSACRE franchise, and Jackson Viper, a horny, go-it-alone, overly emotional rogue detective who, sprung straight from the clearance bin, looks for payback after Kevin deems his latest action movie a flop. As Kevin's meticulously constructed world turns against him, he finds himself an unlikely hero in his toughest battle since the Format Wars. With a setting based on star Kevin Martin's beloved cult video store The Lobby, THE LAST VIDEO STORE is a loving homage to the homegrown Canuxploitation, direct-to-video '90s sci-fi, and the rough-hewn potboilers that adorn its shelves. The feature debut of directing duo Cody Kennedy and Tim Rutherford, who produced a bunch of outrageous shorts filmed at The Lobby under the moniker House of Heathens, THE LAST VIDEO STORE is genre cinema lovingly crafted by true aficionados. — LORI DONNELLY