Blockbuster Video store in one of the town’s strip malls. The filmmaker assumed it was closed and no one had bothered to take down the sign.“Lo and behold, not only was it open, there were people browsing for DVDs,” Morden, 39, told The Post. “It was like no one had told them Blockbuster had gone out of business.” In fact, at the time, there were 12 stores still operating.
But the self-proclaimed “movie nerd,” who spent his formative years browsing the rental chain’s racks, thought there could be a worthy story in this holdover, so he convinced management to let him film there in late 2016.