One of the few remaining video rental stores, Scarecrow Video is independently owned and operated, and is located in the University District.

There are over 100,000 different videos in the shop, many of them rare titles that can be hard to find elsewhere.

Scarecrow Video was founded in 1983 in Rebecca and George Latsios.

Learn more about the history of Scarecrow Video from their website.

In 2004 Scarecrow Video and Sasquatch Books produced The Scarecrow Video Movie Guide, a book of must-see movies.

From the book's description on sasquatchbooks.com:

This book easily satisfies every reader's personal penchant. Includes the best of the best and the worst of the worst in biker flicks, documentaries, foreign films, psychotronics, action, experimental, kids, film noir, murder mysteries, gay and lesbian, music, anime, and more.