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“Like a therapy session of nightmares.” -IMDb Dimly lit corridors, hazardous waste, long-buried secrets, and the voices of the dead: It’s a perfect recipe for a terrible time when an asbestos removal team is dispatched to an abandoned state hospital for a…
“Deliberately sordid.” A “trashy, sex-plugged piece.” “Revolting” and the “best example of bad taste yet seen.” Those are just a few of the phrases critics in 1933 hurled at “The Story of Temple Drake,” Paramount’s adaptation of William Faulkner’s controversial…
NEXT MONTH, the international (low-budget) world of espionage takes over FIST CITY with DEADLY SPYGAMES at Arkadin Cinema & Bar. This vanity project by jack-of-all-trades, Jack M. Sell, is a bizarre mix of violent action, goofy satire, and lots of reused footage. Co-starring…
Consistently ranked among the greatest films ever made, Buster Keaton's THE GENERAL is so brilliantly conceived and executed that it continues to inspire awe and laughter with every viewing. Rejected by the Confederate army as unfit, and taken for a…
Bring in a VHS tape, and you’ll get in free. It can be absolutely anything — a forgotten bargain-bin B-movie, a Hollywood classic, an aerobics tape, a training video, a home movie. Anything! But there’s an incentive to bring us…
When a teenage girl is miraculously saved by a heart surgeon, the doctor begins to flirt with her. Her father doesn’t believe her and unbeknownst to all, the doctor is obsessed with the girl. Starring Academy Award nominee-turned-prolific anything-for-a-buck schlock-starrer…
The next Head Cleaner Theatre will be a special two-night event, A TV HUG TWOFER! A pair of video mixtapes curated and edited by Mark Willey composed of cartoons, commercials, music videos, and various video detritus of the childhoods of a…
The next Head Cleaner Theatre will be a special two-night event, A TV HUG TWOFER! A pair of video mixtapes curated and edited by Mark Willey composed of cartoons, commercials, music videos, and various video detritus of the childhoods of a…
As our month-long Lost in the Desert series cruises along, stop off in a dusty little nowhere town and settle in for some gut-wrenching violence in the sweltering Arizona heat. This underrated, underseen, and unclassifiable horror-thriller plays out like a…
Both shows are SOLD OUT. But you can still get in! Join the waitlist by arriving up to 1 hour before the showtime. There is a good chance you will be able to get you into the 9 pm show!…
One of the most amoral films not just of the Pre-Code era, but of Hollywood in general, is 1931’s “Night Nurse.” Star Barbara Stanwyck rolls her usual toughness into her earnest portrayal of nurse Lora Hart, a woman who sincerely…
Billed as "the first Iranian vampire western," Ana Lily Amipour's directorial debut A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night (دختری در شب تنها به خانه میرود) follows the misadventures of a lone vampire girl who feasts on pimps and drug-dealers in a fictional Iranian…
“You’ve never seen a hellraiser quite like Bette Davis in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, a film that stormed cinemas 60 years ago and, by God, still packs a punch.” The Guardian In the annals of petty Hollywood rivalries, few loom larger than…
In the mid-80s, the Philippines and Corazon Aquino’s administration are racked with political violence in the wake of the ousted Marcos regime. Small, decentralized squads of killers are assassinating police and military personnel in coordinated attacks. Multiple filmmakers attempted to…
A direct sequel to last month's Knifetime selection, STALKED BY MY DOCTOR: PATIENT'S REVENGE continues the sordid tale of mentally disturbed Dr. Albert Beck (the ubiquitous Eric Roberts) after a jury finds him not guilty of the kidnapping and attempted…
Bring in a VHS tape, and you’ll get in free. It can be absolutely anything — a forgotten bargain-bin B-movie, a Hollywood classic, an aerobics tape, a training video, a home movie. Anything! But there’s an incentive to bring us…
Both shows are SOLD OUT. But you can still get in! Join the waitlist by arriving up to 1 hour before the showtime. There is a good chance you will be able to get you into the 9 pm show!…
Silents, Please! STL and Arkadin Cinema and Bar are gearing up for Silent Movie Day 2024. We will be hosting nearly 3.5 hours of programming, beginning with nearly two hours of shorts from the silent era. These will consist of…
Get an early start on Spooky Season with a balls-out, bug-fuck, absolutely brain-destroying slice of pure uncut horror madness. An inexplicably weird mix of psychedelic imagery, gross-out scares and incomprehensible mythology, this is one of the most notorious works to…
The Love Witch is director Anna Biller's tecnicolor tribute to swinging '60s B-horror flicks. The film stars the radiant Samantha Robinson as Elaine Parks, a modern-day witch who uses "Love Magic" to seduce men. Unfortunately, each spell Elaine casts on her male victims causes…
