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We will be playing a mystery VHS tape, and it’s up to you what we’ll see! This month, you're encouraged (though not required!) to bring a holiday tape! Bring in a VHS tape, and you’ll get in FREE! It can…
Christmas Specials from Hell returns to Arkadin to deeply antagonize you this yuletide season. Get in the holiday spirit by watching some weird, wild, and wretchedly awesome Christmas Specials on the big screen while drinking some cheap drinks from our…
"A well-above-average ho-ho-ho-horror film with a shivery sense of winter weirdland and anarchic ultra-violence...a strong candidate to become a holiday favourite!" -Empire When his dysfunctional family clashes over the holidays, young Max is disillusioned and turns his back on Christmas.…
“A 100-minute thrill ride featuring an unhinged Liotta performance full of psycho charmer grace notes...PLUS IT’S A CHRISTMAS MOVIE" -Joe, Letterboxd Snowstorms, long delays, flu germs flying around. No one likes flying during the holidays. But at least there isn't…
“A MODERN ANIME CLASSIC... a stirring celebration of inclusivity that remains ahead of its time.” -The Daily Beast In modern-day Tokyo, three homeless people's lives are changed forever when they discover a baby girl at a garbage dump on Christmas…
“Brutal, uncompromising... one of the greatest and most unsung of American Christmas movies” -Slant Magazine Swift, brutal, and blackhearted, Allen Baron’s New York City noir Blast of Silence is a sensational surprise. This low-budget, carefully crafted portrait of a hit man on assignment…
"The perfect holiday rom-com, with just the right amount of Christmas magic...sweet and endearing with a hilarious cast and an excellent love story." -Deseret News The premise of WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING sounds like some dark horror-thriller about obsession—Lucy, a lonely tollbooth…
“So cute it’s almost physically painful to watch” -Daniel, Letterboxd Arkadin's Christmas present to you is a FREE screening of a little-known yet aggressively adorable yuletide dinosaur kiddie movie from Japan! Made to capitalize on the success of Jurassic Park,…
Broadcast in the dying hours of Christmas Eve, the BBC’s A Ghost Story for Christmas series was a fixture of the seasonal schedules throughout the 1970s and spawned a long tradition of chilling tales, which terrified yuletide viewers for decades to come.…
You're traveling through another dimension -- a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That's a signpost up ahead: your next stop: The Twilight Zone!…
“Turn the claustrophobic spaces and prolonged suffering of Stephen King’s text into an anxious Hitchcockian thriller” -From the Front Row Novelist Paul Sheldon doesn't remember the blinding blizzard that sent his car spinning off the road. He doesn't remember being…
“The goriest, craziest, most eye-blowing, chunk-spewing, head-exploding sci-fi movie of all time.” -New York Post Blood, guts and guns are the new normal in the new police state! In the near future, the Tokyo Police Corporation wages a blood-splattered war…
“Robert Altman has made a dozen films that can be called great, but one of them is perfect, and that one is McCabe & Mrs. Miller." -Roger Ebert This unorthodox dream western by Robert Altman may be the most radically…
"A parlor-room epic, an entire nation in a single room...vital, riveting and real." -Telegraph Set six or eight or twelve years after the Civil War, a stagecoach hurtles through the wintry Wyoming landscape. The passengers, bounty hunter John Ruth (Kurt Russell) and…
“A punk-rock Midsommar...demented, visually lush explodes into manic, blood soaked adrenaline” -aManCalledSteve PATER NOSTER AND THE MISSION OF LIGHT tells the story of Max, a young record store clerk who stumbles upon a rare vinyl LP and is drawn into…
Due to unforeseen circumstances, we've had to cancel this screening. Werckmeister Harmonies will be rescheduled next year. We apologize for the inconvenience. "Chilling, mesmerizing, intense...essential viewing, especially for anyone new to Tarr’s cinema" -Jonathan Rosenbaum This mesmeric parable of societal…
We're very excited for this month's $3 Mystery Movie selection: a hysterical documentary that also happens to feature riveting edge-of-your-seat human drama. In the grand tradition of American Movie, Anvil! and King of Kong (but preceding them all), this is…
"Radiates cold, anti-humanly indifferent terror." -Slant Magazine Ring in the new year with Stanley Kubrick's snowbound masterpiece of modern horror, THE SHINING. Kubrick’s visionary take on Stephen King’s wildly popular novel has deservedly become one of the most iconic and…
The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (少林三十六房) is widely acclaimed as one of the greatest kung fu films ever made. The film stars exceptional martial artist Gordon Liu and was directed by Lau Kar-leung, who collaborated on more than a dozen kung fu and wuxia films together during their careers. The…
“Set the mood and then creep you the hell out!” -The Horror Club One of those here-and-gone releases that never garnered the attention it deserved, the Spanish-British production Fragile takes its place among the best ghost stories ever filmed. The tale of…
