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RESCHEDULED FROM AUGUST 23 FREE MOVIE presented by our friends at Fortuna Games! This movie will be a comedy murder mystery based on a beloved board game. Color-coded characters! Funky murder weapons! Multiple endings! Can you guess what it will…

You're going to miss Clueless on the backlot? Ugh, as if!! A modern teen update of the classic Jane Austen novel Emma, Clueless puts a novel spin on the time-honored "it's what's inside that counts" tale. Unlike most high-school fare, the film…

"No high school movie has ever come close to the bloodthirsty wit and sweet-faced nihilism of Heathers." -Entertainment Weekly A more scathing and trenchant teen movie has rarely been made than Heathers. Packaged and sold as a film about a group of…

The premiere screening of “Seashine The Cabin Sessions” a live performance short film of the band Seashine (Shoegaze/Dreampop) playing 3 songs in and around a cabin in the atmospheric Missouri countryside. The screening will take place at the Arkadin Cinema…

Drinkolas Cage! A monthly Nic Cage movie and drinking game event only at Arkadin Cinema & Bar. The last Wednesday of each month we show a mystery Nic Cage movie and write an accompanying drinking game. Tickets are just $5.…

Presented by long-time STL cult film series STRANGE BREW "Fright Night dances on a tightwire between satire and terror!" -Chicago Tribune Writer-director Tom Holland perfectly blends horror and comedy in this popular, well-made send-up of the old "Chiller Theater"-style horror shows…

"After you see Dead Alive, you want to race out of the theater and recommend it to your sickest friends right away." -Los Angeles Times The delightfully gonzo tale of a lovestruck teen and his zombified mother, Dead Alive is…

"The first true Hitchcock movie." -Alfred Hitchcock With his third feature film, The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog, Alfred Hitchcock took a major step toward greatness and made what he would come to consider his true directorial debut. This haunting…

"A bloody visual feast...the most extravagant screen telling of the oft-filmed story." -Variety With dizzying cinematic tricks and astonishing performances, Francis Ford Coppola's 1992 version of the oft-filmed Dracula story is one of the most exuberant, extravagant films of the…

"An expressionist horror-ballet...The Masque of the Red Death moves with a sinuous, unselfconscious elegance." -The Guardian Death and debauchery reign in the castle of Prince Prospero (Vincent Price), and when it reigns, it pours! During a devastating 12th-century plague called…

"Delirious, deranged, gonzo or just gone, baby, gone -- no single adjective or even a pileup does justice to House." -New York Times How to describe Nobuhiko Obayashi’s indescribable 1977 movie House (Hausu)? As a psychedelic ghost tale? A stream-of-consciousness bedtime story?…

Drinkolas Cage! A monthly Nic Cage movie and drinking game event only at Arkadin Cinema & Bar. The last Wednesday of each month we show a mystery Nic Cage movie and write an accompanying drinking game. Tickets are just $5.…

An independent music video and short film festival featuring the work of local filmmakers.

"A goony, gloomy, endlessly enjoyable joy-buzzer of a movie, one that merely needed a good thirty years or so for viewers to catch up with!" -Yahoo! Movies Unfairly derided upon its release for eschewing Michael Meyers in favor of a…

It's Halloween eve, and we'll be playing some whacked-out horror movies on the backlot all night long! Tickets reserve you a seat, where you can watch some or all of our night of insanity. The program will include... ZOMBIE: Lucio…

An independent music video and short film festival featuring the work of local filmmakers.