House on Haunted Hill (1959) – $5
BUY TICKETS NOW A perennial favorite of the "Shock Theatre" TV circuit, House on Haunted Hill stars Vincent Price as sinister gent (you're surprised?) Frederick Loren, who resides in a sinister mansion on a sinister hill, where seven murders have occurred. He makes…
Audition (1999)
BUY TICKETS NOW One of the most shocking J-horror films ever made, Audition exploded onto the festival circuit at the turn of the century to a chorus of awards and praise. The film would catapult Miike to the international scene…
Suspiria (1977)
BUY TICKETS NOW A candy-colored nightmare from Italian terror maestro Dario Argento, Suspiria weaves a menacing tale of witchcraft as a fairy tale gone horribly awry. From the moment she arrives in Freiberg, Germany, to attend the prestigious Tans Academy, American ballet-dancer Suzy…
Night of the Living Dead (1968) -$5
BUY TICKETS NOW When George A. Romero, a Pittsburgh-based director of TV commercials and industrial films, persuaded a few buddies to pitch in some money for a case of film stock so that he could shoot a zombie movie on the…
CINEMATIC CHAOS PRESENTS: The Return of the Living Dead (1985)
BUY TICKETS NOW "A fresh and immensely entertaining take on the zombie genre." – Film Threat A fiendish mix of outrageous humor and heart-stopping terror, The Return of the Living Dead is "a veritable smorgasbord of fun" (L.A. Herald Examiner)!…
Drinkolas Cage – Spooky Edition – $5
BUY TICKETS NOW It's a creepy-crazy version of our monthly Nic Cage movie drinking game event.
Halloween (1978)
BUY TICKETS NOW With its almost blood-free frights, gutsy heroine, and peerless score, Halloween became the gold standard for the late '70s-'80s teen slasher cycle (as Scream cheekily acknowledged in 1996). Taking full advantage of the widescreen frame (and offscreen space), John Carpenter builds tension through…
DRINKOLAS CAGE: Nic Cage Drinking Game
Arkadin Cinema (Backlot) 5228 Gravois Avenue, St. Louis, MO, United StatesDrinkolas Cage! A monthly Nic Cage movie and drinking game event only at Arkadin Cinema & Bar. The last Wednesday of each month we show a mystery Nic Cage movie and write an accompanying drinking game. Tickets are $5, movie…
HARD BOILED (1992)
Arkadin Cinema (Backlot) 5228 Gravois Avenue, St. Louis, MO, United StatesUniting operatic macho emotion with some of the most exquisitely choreographed gunplay ever filmed, Hard Boiled is the crime thriller as blood-soaked ballet. The last work made by John Woo in his native Hong Kong before a lengthy sojourn in…
NIGHT OF THE LEPUS (1972)
Help us get in the Easter spirit with this notorious camp classic! Watch as a cast of aging Hollywood has-beens (Janet Leigh, Stuart Whitman, Rory Calhoun, DeForest Kelley) face off against the most terrifying creatures known to man: GIANT KILLER…
CANCELLED DUE TO RAIN: Film Noir Double Feature: DETOUR (1945) / THE HITCH-HIKER (1953)
Arkadin Cinema (Backlot) 5228 Gravois Avenue, St. Louis, MO, United StatesTHIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO RAIN. ALL THOSE WHO PURCHASED TICKETS IN ADVANCE WILL BE ISSUED REFUNDS. A double shot of shadowy fatalism from two idiosyncratic masters of film noir, this pair of dark-hearted classics of low-budget thrill-making…
Buster Keaton Night: SHERLOCK JR. w/ COPS & THE GOAT
Dubbed one of the 100 greatest films of all-time, Buster Keaton's Sherlock Jr. is one of the jewels of American silent comedy. The Great Stone Face plays a lovelorn projectionist who one night dreams that he enters the silver screen,…
NEW JACK CITY (1991)
Propelled by a funky, high-octane hip-hop/R&B soundtrack that landed at number 2 on the Billboard album charts, Mario Van Peebles' debut feature put a fresh spin on classic gangland tales like Scarface and The Godfather by rooting its tale of…