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“It’s where burgers go when they die.” Hamburger Heaven is the new film from Missouri filmmaker and illustrator Alexander Isgriggs. This 23-minute short is a dark comedy road movie about the dissolution of a friendship over an ill-fated, midnight burger run. Shot back in 2018, the project has long been simmering… until…
"Once seen, never forgotten, Eyes Without a Face is a film to haunt your dreams. Disturbing, disorienting, quietly terrifying." - Los Angeles Times At his secluded château in the French countryside, a brilliant, obsessive doctor (Pierre Brasseur) attempts a radical plastic…
This October, Saint Louis Video Society presents a Hong Kong, CATEGORY-III rarity just in time for Halloween! BLOOD RITUAL (1989) is a whacked-out smorgasbord of black magic sleaze, kung fu detectives, poo-poo-potty humor, and EVEN(!) romantic comedy. It stars the late, great…
“A gleefully over-the-top splatterfest ... one of the 80s’ best genre films” - 48Hills Welcome to the most life-enriching Italian terror-party of 1985. Produced by Dario Argento (Suspiria) and directed by Lamberto Bava, DEMONS follows a panorama of punks, preppies,…
Let "author, dream weaver, visionary, plus actor" Garth Marenghi take you deep into his DARKPLACE with this very special happy hour featuring all six episodes of one of the greatest, most unusual comic creations of the 21st century. Created by…
“Lurid, illogical and utterly off-the-wall...a marvelous orgy of cheap thrills!” - Newsweek Like The Shining and Dawn of the Dead, PHANTASM is an intoxicating nightmare we never want to end. Written, produced, directed, shot, and edited by Don Coscarelli when…
OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOD! IT'S TROLL 2! Widely proclaimed as the Best Worst Movie Ever Made — there's even a documentary to that effect! — TROLL 2 is a disasterpiece of epic proportions. From the atrocious acting to the booger-like monsters…
One of the foremost contemporary filmmakers of the avant-garde, Su Friedrich is a pioneer of Queer Cinema and a ferocious provocateur. Arkadin is proud to present two of her films as well as a virtual Q&A with this utterly essential…
It's time for Hysteria Halloween featuring a wild array of shorts and a terrifying new feature! THE REBRAND (dir. Kaye Adelaide)Nicole, an eight-months-pregnant bisexual videographer struggling financially, is hired by a lesbian influencer couple—Thistle and Blair—to shoot a documentary marking…
"The best found footage film of the decade...well crafted, credible and most important of all, genuinely scary." - HorrorNews A mixed media odyssey from prolific filmmaker Kōji Shiraishi, NOROI: THE CURSE examines the strange case of Masafumi Kobayashi—a paranormal researcher…