Robbie McCluskey

At Splatter U, it's not whether you pass or fail, but whether you live or die.

Lunch Meat VHS is run by Josh Schaefer, who also publishes an occasional magazine of the same name about everything videotape.

Schaefer buys the rights to videotape-only films, B-movies mostly, and produces reprints.

Nostalgia is a big motivating factor for his customer base.

That desire to unplug and connect is a motivating factor for customers at Vidiot's as well.

Like 43-year-old Joel Cameron.

He's renting a 1970 French film called The Nude Vampire, based on a staff recommendation.

There's so much here, and there's multiple different sections, so you can go to something that inspires you or that you like and get turned on to something else rather than an algorithm doing it for you.

It's a nice respite from the digital world, Kamerlin says, and it keeps him coming back to the video store.

I'm Novosafo for Marketplace.