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"A deserved cult-classic with the widest of appeal. It’s camp, it’s silly, it’s funny and it manages to update the Boys Own charm of the original serials." -Film Authority Heroic earthling Flash Gordon saves the world from the nefarious Ming…
"Extremely enjoyable cult parody of the classic 1930s serial... Witness the attack of the dreaded Penisaurus! Behold Prince Precious’ Reward! Beware the initiation of the underground lesbians! With everything from stop-motion animation monsters to some truly Freudian art design, cult-film…
“If there’s any movie that’s been made since I’ve been making movies that I wish I had made, it’s ." -Quentin Tarantino In a future where society is on the verge of collapse, the government takes drastic action against the…
Forbidden Hollywood is a monthly series hosted by STL film critic Katie Carter celebrating the Pre-Code films of the early 1930s, when movies were wild, racy, transgressive, and tons of fun. “So gentlemen prefer blondes, do they?” Jean Harlow trades…
“A simply wondrous film... Hauntingly beautiful and highly underrated.” -Toho Kingdom Just in time for mushroom-hunting season in Missouri, the Strange Brew cult movie night is flipping the script: the mushrooms will be hunting you with this psychedelic screening of Matango a.k.a. Attack of…
“This really very scary Japanese ghost story from director Hideo Nakata exerts a chilling grip with its icy calm and eerie reticence.” -The Guardian Swooning, atmospheric, and deliberately paced, Dark Water is an unsung classic of Japanese horror. Taking its time to…
COWABUNGA, DUDE! Before the live-action film hit theaters, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were already famous from their kickass Saturday morning cartoon. Leonardo, Donatello, Michelangelo, and Raphael take on a rogues' gallery of near-surrealist supervillains, from the tentacled evil brain…
"STILL AMAZING...The first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie is a wonder of practical effects and surprising martial arts action." -Den of Geek Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie is the live-action, feature film adaptation of the cult comic book and…
"A fantastically executed assemblage of animated flotsam punctuated with moments of dry humor and a heartbreaking final montage which gives the film its message - make every moment count." -Time Out A hallucinatory flurry of images animated in an ever-shifting…
Join Silents, Please! STL for an evening of fantasy, whimsy, and downright oddity as we screen the British release of Alice in Wonderland from 1915. Other magical and fantastical shorts will be shown for your delight! "Epic costumes, cool landscapes...a…
Knuckle up! On April 8, 2024, Saint Louis Video Society makes its triumphant return with a new film series — FIST CITY FIST CITY explores the outer limits in action cinema—odd, obscure, low-budget, international, and more! FIST CITY is “auteur…
Silents, Please! STL is throwing Charlie Chaplin a 135th birthday party and you’re invited! Featuring MODERN TIMES. This comedic masterpiece finds the iconic Little Tramp (Charlie Chaplin) employed at a state-of-the-art factory where the inescapable machinery completely overwhelms him, and…
"Palestine in the cinema is not only a political situation. It’s a people with culture, language, art, with negative and positive sides. We exist in cinema as a nation." -Rashid Masharawi Join us for an evening celebrating the richness and…
Forget Saturday Night Live! Everyone knows the greatest Lorne Michaels-produced sketch comedy show didn't come out of 30 Rock but from our neighbors in the Great White North. Bringing us such legendary characters as Kathie and Cathy, the Chicken Lady…
This screening is SOLD OUT. "A madcap genre-hopper, mixing silent film performance styles with hand-drawn animation, slapstick comedy, Looney Tunes-like sound effects and stop-motion graphics." -The New York Times In this 19th century, supernatural winter epic, a drunken applejack salesman…
This month, Ally will roast cheesy Lifetime thriller YOU MAY NOW KILL THE BRIDE with special co-host Alexis Winford! A couple is on the brink of marriage, but everything starts spiraling into chaos. The Maid of Honor suffers a terrible…
This April 18, Head Cleaner Theatre will ascend to a new plane of consciousness to transmogrify into a new essence of pure being, THIRD EYE THEATRE, a video mixtape highlighting the proliferation of New Age media and philosophies in the…
“A peculiarly cerebral and poetic trip into both deep space and the mysteries of the human mind.” -Anton Bitel, BFI Ground control has been receiving mysterious transmissions from the three remaining residents of the Solaris space station. When cosmonaut and…
Come celebrate Earth Day 2024 with a strange, trippy and at times laugh-out-loud hilarious work of ecological cinematic what-the-fuckery. Uncover the mysterious world of botanical psychology and interplanetary communication while basking in some truly mind-blowing nature photography and a genuinely…
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 particularly excellent chance we can get you into the 9 pm show! It’s DRINKOLAS…
