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“A heart-stopping, breathtakingly sumptuous haunted house of a movie that takes off where Dracula and Dante left off and CPR began.” -The Washington Post One Halloween night at Loyola University, five med students embark upon a dangerous game: to cross the…
For a movie reluctantly produced by Warner Brothers in an effort to kill two birds with one stone — capitalize on the horror craze popularized by rival studio Universal and fulfill a contract with the fledging Technicolor — 1932’s “Doctor…
The last person to die on New Year’s Eve before the clock strikes twelve is doomed to take the reins of Death’s chariot and work tirelessly collecting fresh souls for the next year. So says the legend that drives The Phantom…
Witches. They are quicksilver, a fleeting shadow, a distant sound... their home has no boundaries beyond which they cannot pass. They live in music, in a flash of color... they live on the wind and in the sparkle of a…
When an evil demon is accidentally reawakened, a 280-year-old kung fu master and his apprentice must help a crew of treasure hunters in stopping him before he acquires immortality. That's about as coherent as RETURN OF THE DEMON gets, the rest is a madcap…
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…
Cory is a young boy who has just moved into a new house with his mom. He develops a relationship with an "imaginary" friend who lives in his closet. No one believes him until people start dying violently and the…
Just a few days before Halloween, we bring you a scary, strange and very surprising slasher. This not your typical Halloween knock-off but rather an utterly unique mix of horror, comedy and protracted tension that will have you gripping your…
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!…
The Strange Brew cult film series returns to Arkadin Cinema with an emergency "Rock the Vote" Screening of the Chris Farley/ David Spade election-mishap comedy Black Sheep on Monday, November 4, just one day before the actual 2024 presidential election! Black Sheep was originally dismissed by critics as…
Nineteen-year-old Loretta Young turns in a terrific and unheralded performance as Midnight Mary in the 1933 crime drama from MGM that possesses all of that studio’s gloss with Warner Brothers’ grit. Beginning in the courtroom where Mary is awaiting the verdict…
“Amadeus weaves a beautiful, tragic fable, enchanting to children and adults alike. It has gore, a pact with God, celebrity, a masked stranger, murder, and some of the best music ever written. What other film offers half as much?” The Guardian Hailed…
Join FIST CITY in November for BURNING VENGEANCE (1989), and behold the power of "Brock Genesis"—the homunculus son of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Joe Don Baker. That's right, actor/bodybuilder/body double Robert Pentz was not only a stand-in for Arnold Schwarzenegger, but…
One of the best films you’ve never seen, SO THIS IS PARIS (1926) from comedic master Ernst Lubitsch is a delightful, Jazz Age bon-bon! Lubitsch deftly juggles the chaos of love and lies colliding in the most humorous of ways —…
A distanced couple decide to take in a seemingly innocent pregnant woman in hopes of adopting her unborn child. However, there is more to a book than its cover. Starring SNL alums Kristen Wiig and Will Ferrell playing it straight,…
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…
Caddyshack? Ghostbusters? The Blues Brothers? We know you've probably seen these '80s classics, but what if we told you there was a film featuring some of the legendary comic actors from these films that's been nearly unseen for over four…
One of the greatest American movies ever made, “Gold Diggers of 1933” is the rare 1930’s musical that wasn’t made as escapist entertainment from the doldrums of the Great Depression; rather, the Depression is integral to the plot of the…
In Deadly Games aka Dial Code Santa Claus, a lone child must defend his house using strategically placed booby traps from a dangerous home invader on Christmas Eve. Sound familiar? Well, this kid isn't Kevin McCallister. Thomas de Frémont (Alain Lalanne) is a child…
World Wide Magazine was a public access television program that ran in St. Louis from 1986-2001. Throughout the years of his show, producer Pete Parisi would produce and air Christmas specials with his cavalcade of wild characters like Big Daddy, Dump…
