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“Plays like Frankenstein meets Blade Runner via Hitchcock...highly literate and steeped in tense cat-and-mouse chills.” - Total Film A stylish and cerebral thriller, EX MACHINA remains one of the most singular and prescient sci-fi films of the 21st century. Written…
We will be playing a mystery VHS tape, and it’s up to YOU what we’ll see! Bring in a VHS tape, and you’ll get in FREE! It can be absolutely anything — a forgotten bargain-bin B-movie, a Hollywood classic, an…
“The greatest, wittiest and most eccentric of all classic horror films” - Orlando Sentinel One of the rare sequels that's the better than the original and true work of art that stands entirely on its own, THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN…
“Sick and wrong in all the right ways!” - Austin Chronicle Chucky gets lucky! The film that revitalized the Child's Play franchise by ditching any pretense of serious horror and diving deep into gleeful blood-splattered camp. Chucky (Brad Dourif) gets…
“Weird...very funny...sex positive...John Waters would be proud.” - In Review Online An avant-gutter psychedelic dream from STL-raised filmmaker Alex Phillips, the madman behind All Jacked Up and Full of Worms, ANYTHING THAT MOVES is an erotically charged, blood-soaked thriller set…
"The film, a sort-of musical about the decade-spanning friendship between two women... a gift of hope for future generations of women." - Reverse Shot In the early 1960s in Paris, two young women become friends. Pomme is an aspiring singer.…
You're in for a treat this month! As an addendum to of our January-long "Weird Canada" series, we bring you a mystery movie that's highly enjoyable, visually distinctive, delightfully offbeat, wholly singular, and, of course, 100% Canadian. With a distinctively…
" hallucinatory psychodrama of the creative process... Russell’s exuberant style is perfectly suited to a libertine story which finds entirely visual means for showing the complex, often grotesque workings of an author’s imagination. It is a reflexive orgy of future…
A PUNK ROCK BLADE RUNNER FOR ARTISTS FROM LEGENDARY PROVOCATEUR JON MORITSUGU! With raucous, three-chord cinematic bangers such as Terminal USA (1993) and Mod Fuck Explosion (1994)—both of which played at Arkadin in 2023—the Godfather of Punk Cinema, filmmaker, punk rocker, Asiansploitation progenitor, and all-around…
"CHEERFUL, KITSCH AND CAMP... a succession of truly amazing fashion creations with all the confidence of a generation that thought sex was, above all, fun." - Empire Slip out of your spacesuit and into something more comfortable! It's time to…