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Come one, come all, boils and ghouls, as Strange Brew kicks off spooky season at Arkadin Cinema with an exhilarating screening of Tobe Hooper's The Funhouse. Four teenagers from a small-town in Iowa attend a travelling carnival. Once at the carnival, the…
“A campy, nasty, tremendously fun horror experience in which death proves not the ending we might expect” - The Film Stage Working late night at a morgue is bad enough; it’s even worse when you’re tasked with determining cause of…
“One of the most self-assured, stunningly composed and remarkably inventive debut features ever made...a blistering commentary on systemic sexism” - Rough Cut This highly stylized and expertly crafted stop-motion horror mind-bender depicts a male-dominated authoritarian world where females are kept only…
Violent and sexually daring, director Rouben Mamoulian’s 1931 adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel—coming right on the heels of Hollywood’s horror craze kicked off by the one-two punch of Universal’s Dracula and Frankenstein—remains iconic. Fredric March won a Best Actor…
“An expressionistic masterpiece of spooky, fairy tale Poe-meets-Perrault imagery” - Commercial Appeal Famous for inspiring the Joker's maniacally grinning visage, Paul Leni's THE MAN WHO LAUGHS is a horror classic in its own right — a dark gothic romance told…
"Once seen, never forgotten, Eyes Without a Face is a film to haunt your dreams. Disturbing, disorienting, quietly terrifying." - Los Angeles Times At his secluded château in the French countryside, a brilliant, obsessive doctor (Pierre Brasseur) attempts a radical plastic…
This October, Saint Louis Video Society presents a Hong Kong, CATEGORY-III rarity just in time for Halloween! BLOOD RITUAL (1989) is a whacked-out smorgasbord of black magic sleaze, kung fu detectives, poo-poo-potty humor, and EVEN(!) romantic comedy. It stars the late, great…
"The best found footage film of the decade...well crafted, credible and most important of all, genuinely scary." - HorrorNews A mixed media odyssey from prolific filmmaker Kōji Shiraishi, NOROI: THE CURSE examines the strange case of Masafumi Kobayashi—a paranormal researcher…
"Absolutely wild and batshit." - Eric Browning, Letterboxd When a high school senior discovers her teacher is seducing her boyfriend, events turn deadly after the teacher tries to cover it up. Guest Roaster: Josh Slobe!
THIS SCREENING IS SOLD OUT. WAITLIST OPENS 30 MINS BEFORE SHOWTIME. "One of the greatest of all fantasy films...there is so much impact and intensity, and such a richness of visual imagination." - Roger Ebert An Academy Award–winning dark fable…