Killer Video museum in downtown Akron offers nostalgic, frightful fun

Walking into Killer Video in downtown Akron is like taking a time machine to a video rental store circa 1996. Only at this video store, nothing is for rent.

Tucked inside the sprawling and foreboding Selle Building, Killer Video is a museum and gallery devoted to all things horror.

It’s chocked full of ghoulish treasures. Movie posters for “Critters” and “The Blob.” Large cardboard standees for “Gremlins 2” and “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2.” A lightbox for “A Nightmare on Elm Street 3.” Plus, issues of Fangoria magazine, vintage Halloween blow molds, old McDonald’s Halloween buckets and an especially creepy Chucky doll…

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