Canada 2023, 83 min, Dir: Cody Kennedy, Tim Rutherford
In this love letter to the video store era, Nyla and a video store owner (played by Edmonton’s own Kevin Martin) unwittingly awaken a long-dormant curse that unleashes a series of classic cinematic villains plucked from the bowels of the B-movies themselves.
Growing up in the ’80s and video store culture, Kevin turned his love of this world into cultivating and curating the movies he loves for the younger generation by keeping his real-life video store, The Lobby DVD Shop, open for the last two decades. Along the way, he’s collaborated with filmmakers Tim Rutherford and Cody Kennedy numerous times, first in a series of short films based around the real-life shop and now with this clever and inventive new feature film.
Q&A with Kevin Martin on the 29th & 30th.
