Grab a case of Tab soda and some Pop Secret, then head to Burbank for the old-school VHS store of your dreams—though Slashback Video actually peddles nightmares. This way popular pop-up nostalgia museum and art exhibit is back, and it’s still all about ’80s and ’90s horror films.
Stepping inside is like a wormhole to the mom-and-pop VHS stores of yore; this iteration features more interactive moments and is titled “Slashback Video: The Beginning,” and it’s fittingly full of throwbacks. Find it annexed to Burbank’s Bearded Lady’s Mystic Museum, and packing the walls and shelves with vintage T-shirts, movie posters, VHS cases and other memorabilia from slasher films, alien flicks, cult classics and monster movies, with a collection curated by the Mystic Museum team and Blumhouse Productions’ Ryan Turek.
No, you can’t actually rent anything, but keep your eyes peeled for a few shelves camouflaged to look like the vintage VHS cases: There are ’80s- and ’90s-inspired works by local artists, and those are for sale.
Each $12 admission includes a button, plus a ticket that functions like an employee clock-in card, as well as admission to the adjacent Mystic Museum—which just so happens to include the largest ouija-board collection in the country.