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Curatorial Pirates: Could Torrent Internet Clubs Become the Last Real Video Stores?

By Matt Lynch
Published: Mar 8, 2018

While browsing Amazon Prime recently, I stumbled upon The Face with Two Left Feet, a bizarre 1979 Italian knockoff of Saturday Night Fever about a hapless man who happens to be a John Travolta lookalike and uses it to woo his dream girl. This isn’t the type of film you’d typically expect to find on a mainstream streaming platform. Not long ago, discovering such a gem would have required a trip to your local video store, where you might have unearthed it on a worn-out, poorly dubbed VHS tape—if you were lucky. Yet here it is, still dubbed but in its original aspect ratio with a surprisingly clean transfer, available for free with a Prime subscription.

In their prime, video stores were inundated with shot-on-VHS oddities and straight-to-video erotic thrillers, desperate to stock their shelves. Today’s streaming services are similarly hungry for content. Boutique physical media labels like Code Red are capitalizing on this by licensing streaming rights to their collections of exploitation and genre rarities. Others, like Vinegar Syndrome, are even launching their own streaming platforms, like exploitation.tv. For someone like me, who thrives on obscure cinematic treasures, this is welcome news—even as it signals the further decline of the traditional video store.

Having spent nearly half my life working in video stores, mostly at Seattle’s Scarecrow Video—the world’s largest publicly available video rental archive with over 130,000 titles—I’ve had unparalleled access to rare films. Our collection far exceeds the combined offerings of the major streaming platforms, particularly in foreign films, documentaries, and exploitation flicks from the early home video era. While I’ve often lamented the limitations of streaming, I have to admit it’s becoming easier to find—and more importantly, share—the films I’m passionate about.

As physical media continues to decline, could torrent clubs and niche streaming services become the last