Happy Halloween!

It’s your lucky day if you’re a Scarecrow customer! Not only do we have tons of free candy for taking (sorry, we have however run out of Saw IV lollipops), but it’s also 2 FOR 1 Wednesday!
Now’s your chance to come check out our staff curated, gruesomely awesome Halloween section while it’s still up. …

USED SALE BLOWOUT gets even more INSANE

Two weeks ago, Scarecrow kicked off a insane USED SALE event. All that craziness must have gone to our heads because today the USED SALE takes a demented turn…
Today all the USED DVDS are JUST ONE DOLLAR

and if that wasn’t crazed enough, all the VHS and LASER DISCS are…seriously…A QUARTER

We open at 11am. Bring a …

Olympia Film Festival coming soon…plan your road trip now!

Thank goodness for Fall, because it’s finally time for The Olympia Film Festival! It runs November 2 – 10 at the lovely and historic Capitol Theater in downtown Olympia. This year’s lineup is definitely worthy of a road trip.
For those of you who missed it at the Northwest Film Forum, there will be two screenings …

Thanks for the tunes Wes Anderson

One of the best things about a new Wes Anderson movie coming out has to be the soundtrack. Every time it’s like receiving an awesome mix-tape from an intimate friend. Hey, thanks Wes… I think you’re grand too.
I was a bit sad to hear that the Darjeeling Limited soundtrack would completely lack Mark Mothersbaugh’s original …

The Real Girl, minus Lars

With the acclaimed indie comedy Lars and the Real Girl playing at the Harvard Exit, it might be a good time to mention a very, uh, special movie we have in our collection. RealDoll: The Movie is an adult title advertising RealDolls, the actual high end sex-dummies that inspired Lars.
RealDolls are highly detailed mannequins with …

Seattle on Film

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about our fair city on film. Before our in-store with director Rick Stevenson, I watched his SIFF ‘06 hit Expiration Date, where the main character works at the Alibi Room, lives on Queen Anne and hangs out a lot in Ballard. Shortly after that I read the PI’s Big …

USED SALE BLOWOUT starts SATURDAY–READ THE PRESALE INFO HERE!

If you’ve been around the store recently you’ve seen our fancy posters announcing the big USED SALE BLOWOUT starting this SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20TH. We’ll have all the titles in our extensive USED inventory on SALE! DVDs priced at $8.99 or more will be ONLY $5, while DVDs priced under $8.99 will be HALF OFF. All …

Painted Box Spotlight 4: Vengeance’s Revenge

Welcome to another Painted Box Spotlight, our occasionally-somewhat-regular feature honoring the best, worst and weirdest painted artwork as displayed on VHS boxes from our collection.

And we might as well start by commemorating the passing of one of my long-time favorite VHS boxes, The Glove. Since this John Saxon/Rosey Grier bounty hunter vs. ex-con-with-a-deadly-riot-glove movie has …