Tales from the Video Store
Thoughts on Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010)
7 min readJan 21, 2021
Spoilers below.
As a child I’d spend hours in my local video store reading the backs of boxes I was far too young to rent, films like Maniac Cop, Hellraiser, and The Evil Dead. I’d read the blurbs over and over, and construct entire narratives from the stills accompanying the text.