Boo!

Just look who I caught leering at me as I walked past Videotheque yesterday. If you're in the mood for the perfect Halloween movie to watch -- or maybe something to forget the holiday altogether -- check out the shop's amazing collection of films. We're not talking your average video store ... Videotheque is the San Gabriel Valley's independent source of indie, foreign, cult, classic, documentary, new and rare cinema DVDs and Blu-rays. Their
catalogue is so vast even Quentin Tarantino might find a movie he hasn't seen before.

And for spooky South Pasadena stories, if you haven't already taken a look, check out my Halloween column with video at South Pasadena Patch. Patch also has a great round-up of events around town and some wonderful photo montages of our town's best ghouls and goblins.

Videotheque

Attention cinephiles, wannabe filmmakers and couch potatoes with great home theater systems: this place is heaven on earth. Welcome to Videotheque, the San Gabriel Valley's hippest, coolest, most extensive source for rare, classic, indie, cult, documentary, foreign and all-around-groovy film rentals. If you saw it in film school, at a midnight show or on the Sundance Channel -- you can find it at Videotheque. But not to worry, if the director's cut of Reservoir Dogs or 15 straight hours of Bergman just doesn't do it for you, there are always new releases and old favorites to choose from. (Go ahead -- get a Bollywood double feature, The Criterion Edition of Jules and Jim, a documentary on Chernobyl, a Wim Wenders retrospective, Reefer Madness and still manage to bring home Shrek for the kids!) Don't fret if one of your favorite old films has still not been released on DVD ... because Videotheque probably has it available on VHS.

In addition to the extraordinary kid-in-a-candy-store selection of rentals, the store offers DVDs for sale, too. And -- oh rapturous joy -- Videotheque will buy used DVDs for cash or store credit. All this, plus it's across the street from Busters (and just steps from the Gold Line train platform.)