Cuchillo Midnight Video drops you into a fluorescent-lit video store where the aisles keep going and “Open 24 Hours” sounds increasingly like a warning. Walk among thousands of VHS cases, pull a tape from the shelf, and turn it over to inspect its artwork, year, director, cast, and synopsis. The catalogue comes from Javier Corrales’s Letterboxd history and watchlist, with film data and artwork supplied through TMDB. There are roughly 10,000 titles in circulation, which makes browsing by foot wonderfully inefficient.

Desktop controls include running, jumping, crouching, and a battery-powered flashlight, while compatible headsets can enter an immersive VR mode. The store is generated and streamed in sections using Three.js and WebGL2 rather than modelled as one enormous room. Custom shaders and post-processing add bloom, depth of field, fog, chromatic fringing, film grain, curved-tube distortion, and the unstable ghosts of a worn VHS signal.

Switch on Survival Mode and the quiet film browser becomes an anomaly hunt with 38 disturbances to find. Start with it off, take a few tapes from the shelves, then turn it on and discover why an endless video store probably needs an emergency exit.