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"Although the surrealists didn't consider themselves terrorists, they were constantly fighting a society they despised. Their principal weapon wasn't guns, of course; it was scandal." -Luis Buñuel UN CHIEN ANDALOU (1929)"A mysterious, free-associating accumulation of images of violence, beauty and…
“Funny, sophomoric, brilliant, obscene, disjointed, marvelous, unintelligible and relevant. If anybody tries to improve it, they should be sentenced.” -Vincent Canby, The New York Times Mad Men meets Mad Magazine meets complete and utter madness in PUTNEY SWOPE, Robert Downey…
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!…
St. Louis Democratic Socialists of America present this FREE screening of Luchino Visconti's sumptuous epic THE LEOPARD. A discussion led by DSA will follow the film. Luchino Visconti’s The Leopard is an epic on the grandest possible scale. The film recreates,…
Had a long week at your dead-end job? Time to unwind with some cheap drinks and heavy riffs at our HEAVY METAL THRASHY HOUR! We'll be spinning a wide range of metal music videos, from classics to deep cuts for…
"Still creepy, still menacing, still hypnotic, and it is still dedicated, in its freaky way, to the ideal of eroticism" -Guardian When it was first unleashed on unsuspecting audiences at Cannes some 30 years ago, Crash caused controversy. Why, you…
POV: You've been transported back to the 1990s, and you find yourself in the club (which is located on the back patio of a tiny cinema, but ignore that). Lasers are strobing around your head, the disco ball is twirling…
“Absolutely awful in every way... You can't help but love it for being so bad” -Collider It is a tender love story. A graphic horror shocker. An urgent ecological warning. And around the world, it became the must-see 'midnight movie'…
“Watching is like opening a door and walking into another dimension, where time has stopped and beauty has been unleashed” -Martin Scorsese A breathtaking fusion of poetry, ethnography, and cinema, Sergei Parajanov’s masterwork overflows with unforgettable images and sounds. In…
Silents, Please! STL and Arkadin Cinema and Bar are gearing up for Silent Movie Day 2024. We will be hosting nearly 3.5 hours of programming, beginning with nearly two hours of shorts from the silent era. These will consist of…
Get an early start on Spooky Season with a balls-out, bug-fuck, absolutely brain-destroying slice of pure uncut horror madness. An inexplicably weird mix of psychedelic imagery, gross-out scares and incomprehensible mythology, this is one of the most notorious works to…
The Love Witch is director Anna Biller's tecnicolor tribute to swinging '60s B-horror flicks. The film stars the radiant Samantha Robinson as Elaine Parks, a modern-day witch who uses "Love Magic" to seduce men. Unfortunately, each spell Elaine casts on her male victims causes…
“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…
In advance of the sixth and final season of everyone's favorite horror-comedy vampire mockumentary series, enjoy a free happy hour featuring some of our favorite episodes and moments from the What We Do in the Shadows TV show. Sip a…
“A truly great vampire comedy...Among the film’s many treats, you’ll witness a bat-fight, ineffective hypnosis, a pack of werewolves (not swearwolves) led by Rhys Darby, a ghost cup and buckets-upon-buckets of blood.” -Empire WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS chronicles…
Easily the greatest hidden-camera prank show of all time, Scare Tactics featured everyday people spooking their friends and family half to death with the assistance of Hollywood makeup artists and special effects gurus. The results were consistently hilarious -- mom…
"One of The 10 Weirdest Horror Movies of All Time... too insane for words" -Pop Matters Prepare yourselves... The strangest bedtime story ever told! Made famous by a Patton Oswalt stand-up bit, Death Bed: The Bed That Eats is a uniquely…
Featuring Betty Boop, Superman, and Koko the Clown, this program of spooky and surreal animation from the legendary Fleischer Studios is kid-friendly! The best animated shorts from the golden age of animation were produced in New York by the legendary…
“A haunting and feverish Bisexual Gothic Romance. Easily one of the best Queer Women Vampire movies” -The Avocado The OG goth lesbian vampire extravaganza, THE HUNGER translated the hyper-stylized punch of MTV and the brooding sexuality of the emerging goth…
This Spooky Season, the Goth Un-Happy Hour returns from the grave! From Siouxsie and the Banshees to the Sisters of Mercy, Clan of Xymox to Christian Death, we'll bring you the best in moody, brooding, darkly sexual music videos. So…
