The Last Video Store (2020)
In the year 2010, a secret war was fought and lost by video stores worldwide. One by one those that remained were assimilated by the new media giant Digital Movie Service headed by an evil Techno-Wizard from beyond our realm. Present day. A lone man battles his own extinction from within the walls of the Last Video Store. The end is nigh. Until a young man enters the forgotten underground world and joins forces to stop the destruction of the universe.
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Sadly Over-hyped
Boring, long, and too preachy.
After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.
I saw this as part of The Belfast Film Festival event "Soiled Shorts" and I loved every second of it. Obviously its very tongue in cheek, and the acting is purposefully hammy, but hands up who's ever seen a monster made of old video machines? Nope, not me, and it was fantastically done. The (short) film has a distinctly retro feel, which is all very intentional. Set in an old video store (which it confirms at the end really exists) it's a tale of the digital online giants trying to destroy The Last Video Store. There's a few quite Astron6 style scenes in there, and I don't want to give away how the monster is destroyed, but this was a fun ten minutes for me and I enjoyed too trying to see how many of those titles on the wall of the shop I own myself haha.