Microcinema in the heart of Bevo | 5228 Gravois Ave. | st. louis, mo 63116
"The audience, confined in the madman’s universe, sees what the madman sees: distorted perspectives, eerie painted lights and shadows, an angular, warped world of fears and menace. The sets are used expressionistically to convey the madman’s thoughts, to intensify the…
“Calling RE-ANIMATOR a crucial gore movie is like saying that fire is hot.”-Zack Carlson, co-author of Destroy All Movies H.P. Lovecraft and Lucio Fulci did not team up to make the most amazing gore-sex grotesquerie of 1985. But thanks to…
Mondays in October we’re showing deep-cut horror films! We’ll announce the subgenre each week, but we’re keeping the feature a surprise up until the moment it appears on the screen.
Celebrate the Halloween season with a double feature of films starring St. Louis's favorite son, the inimitable Vincent Price! THE TINGLER "How any red-blooded American could hear 'Vincent Price's acid trip,' and not fall over themselves rushing to find a…
St. Louis's brand-new horror film festival debuts on the Arkadin Backlot with a night of terrifying shorts! Featuring films that have played at major genre festivals such as Panic Fest, Grimmfest, and the Chattanooga Film Festival, HYSTERIA FEST presents a…
St. Louis's brand-new horror film festival debuts on the Arkadin Backlot with a night of terrifying shorts! Featuring films that have played at major genre festivals such as Panic Fest, Grimmfest, and the Chattanooga Film Festival, HYSTERIA FEST presents a…
Before Drinkolas Cage on Wednesday, October 26, our friends at Deadly Prey Gallery will be holding a pop-up sale on the backlot, displaying their collection of eye-popping original movie posters hand-painted by artists from Ghana. Come out early and bring…
Before Drinkolas Cage, our friends at Deadly Prey Gallery will be holding a pop-up sale on the backlot, displaying their collection of eye-popping original movie posters hand-painted by Ghanian artists. Come out early and bring some cash because once you…
Creep down Gravois from Das Bevo (the windmill) to the Arkadin Backlot in our first-annual BEVO ZOMBIE WALK! First, we’ll dress up like a zombie, grab a few drinks at Das Bevo. Then together we’ll stalk down Gravois to the Arkadin for a zombie…
"The great horror maestro Wes Craven, as both writer and director, gave a generation of teens (of all ages) terminal insomnia with this imaginative and intense slasher scare fest." (Library of Congress) Behold the horror epic that started the Krueger craze…
"t’s a miracle Freaked exists at all and more miraculous still that its capacity to entertain, antagonize, and disgust remains as unlimited as ever almost thirty years after its brief theatrical run... Freaked is an absurdist, acid-soaked fever dream." -Collider The manic writing-directing…
Thursdays in March we’re showing some deep-cut erotic thrillers films! Think Basic Instinct or Fatal Attraction only more loony, lascivious, and downright ridiculous. We’ll announce a few teasers each week, but we’re keeping the feature a surprise up until the…
"Gleefully inspiring audiences everywhere to challenge conventional definitions of 'good' and 'bad' cinema, Showgirls is undoubtedly the think-piece object d’art of its time." -Eric Henderson, Slant Magazine"A trash masterpiece...a masterpiece of shit" -Adam Nayman, It Doesn't Suck: Showgirls Unfairly dismissed upon its…
"The movie caused a sensation in 1976. It was nominated for 10 Oscars, won four (Finch, Dunaway, supporting actress Beatrice Straight, Chayefsky), and stirred up much debate about the decaying values of television. Seen a quarter-century later, is like prophecy. When…
"Gleefully inspiring audiences everywhere to challenge conventional definitions of 'good' and 'bad' cinema, Showgirls is undoubtedly the think-piece object d’art of its time." -Eric Henderson, Slant Magazine"A trash masterpiece...a masterpiece of shit" -Adam Nayman, It Doesn't Suck: Showgirls Unfairly dismissed upon its…
"A marvel of comic invention—and, more surprisingly, of astringent romance. The essence of the film is a love story that rises from mutual delusion, and that perspective makes this uproarious and antic comedy, in its moral soul, an essential work…
"The movie caused a sensation in 1976. It was nominated for 10 Oscars, won four (Finch, Dunaway, supporting actress Beatrice Straight, Chayefsky), and stirred up much debate about the decaying values of television. Seen a quarter-century later, is like prophecy. When…
“Steamboat Bill, Jr. may be Keaton’s most mature film, a fitting if too early farewell to his period of peak creative independence .. its relationship to the rest of its creator’s work has been compared to that of Shakespeare’s last play, The…
This event has been canceled due to the Arkadin proprietors' illness. All ticket holders have been refunded. We apologize for the inconvenience. Thursdays in March we’re showing some deep-cut erotic thrillers films! Think Basic Instinct or Fatal Attraction only more…
50,000 HOOSIERS CAN'T BE WRONG! Hosted by journalist Devin Thomas O'Shea and by World Wide Magazine archivist Jim Varagona, it's a night celebrating St. Louis's gone-but-not-forgotten public access masterpiece, World Wide Magazine. Expect special guests and lots of wild fun!…
