On the last Monday of every month, Arkadin chooses an underseen deep cut to inflict upon an unwitting audience. Though the genre and tone may change, the price always remains the same: three measly bucks. You can’t afford not to get yourself a ticket!

It’s Keith’s 39th birthday, and he’s feeling a little self-indulgent, so this month’s selection is a blast from his own personal past: his very favorite film when he was 9 years old. An ostensibly family-friendly comedy, this film is so perversely mean-spirited it could only have come from those halcyon days of questionable children’s entertainment: the nineties! With dashes of horror, fantasy, action, and surprisingly harrowing family drama plus a heaping dose of Zucker-Abrahams-and-Zucker-style parody, this is truly a film for no one. But, through constant premium-cable daytime rotation it found a fan in one troubled young boy. Perhaps that’s not so surprising because while its commercial prospects may have been dubious, this is a film that truly commits to a genuinely dark, sardonic satire of American pop culture. Maybe, just maybe, it will grow a new following among those daring souls willing to plunk down a few bucks for the privilege of being subjected to its cynical—yet kid-appropriate!—vision.