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Get ready for the school season with a duo of films that explore the violent world of British schoolchildren. Two chilling films from underrated Scottish filmmaker John Mackenzie that are both guaranteed to give you the Sunday scaries! APACHES (1977)Perhaps…
One of the most amoral films not just of the Pre-Code era, but of Hollywood in general, is 1931’s “Night Nurse.” Star Barbara Stanwyck rolls her usual toughness into her earnest portrayal of nurse Lora Hart, a woman who sincerely…
Billed as "the first Iranian vampire western," Ana Lily Amipour's directorial debut A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night (دختری در شب تنها به خانه میرود) follows the misadventures of a lone vampire girl who feasts on pimps and drug-dealers in a fictional Iranian…
“You’ve never seen a hellraiser quite like Bette Davis in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, a film that stormed cinemas 60 years ago and, by God, still packs a punch.” The Guardian In the annals of petty Hollywood rivalries, few loom larger than…
As Brat Summer comes to a close, get ready to unleash your inner brat at the most electrifying happy hour in town! Join us for Charli XCX Bratty Hour, where we’ll be serving up Brat green drinks while blasting Charli’s hottest…
“A vicious satire that remains as sharp as ever” -Scott Tobias, Guardian In 1991, Bret Easton Ellis’ novel American Psycho took the literary world by storm with its shocking depiction of the excesses of the 1980s as told through the devious actions…
As Brat Summer comes to a close, get ready to unleash your inner brat at the most electrifying happy hour in town! Join us for GOODBYE BRAT SUMMER on the backlot, where we’ll be serving up Brat green drinks while blasting…
"A fourth-wall-shattering, stream-of-consciousness black comedy that mocks war, America, Hollywood, television, the music business and the Monkees themselves. These days, it is fondly remembered as one of the weirdest and best rock movies ever made." -Guardian Hey, hey, it’s the…
"This movie doesn't scrape the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn't the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn't below the bottom of the barrel. This movie doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence with barrels." -Roger…
In the mid-80s, the Philippines and Corazon Aquino’s administration are racked with political violence in the wake of the ousted Marcos regime. Small, decentralized squads of killers are assassinating police and military personnel in coordinated attacks. Multiple filmmakers attempted to…
"Pier Paolo Pasolini’s last film, from 1975, is also in a way the ultimate film: its representation of depravity may be unsurpassable... Pasolini suggests that the classical values of Western civilization and the ostensibly progressive modernity that’s based on them…
"Bold, inventive and buttocks-out bonkers!" -The Incredible Suit One of the most absolutely nutso films of the 21st century is also one of the best. Pushing the boundaries of cinematic logic, Leos Carax's surrealist comedy-musical-Lynchian psychodrama extravaganza is a hallucinatory epic…
Kids these days don't understand the simple pleasures of gathering your friends around the family PC, loading up AOL, navigating to some weird website, refreshing your flash plug-in, and waiting half and hour to load a 3-minute video of a…
TINA! You fat lard! Come celebrate the 20th Anniversary of weirdo millennial cult film NAPOLEON DYNAMITE. Or do whatever you feel like you wanna do! GOSH! We'll have plenty of tots, friendship bracelets, pin the tail on the Liger and glamour…
Looking for a unique hangout vibe this Friday the 13th? Then grab a cheap drink at our bar and head to our backlot for a mix of some of the best, the worst, and the weirdest of fan-made Friday the…
Nieces and nephews, grab your uncles. And uncles, pack up the nieces/ nephews in the car and head over to Arkadin Cinema for a pancake breakfast screening of the John Hughes classic UNCLE BUCK. Tickets include pancakes! "An innocent and…
"The Killing of a Sacred Deer is humane and satirical, horrifying and hilarious." -David Sims, The Atlantic In 2017, the godfather of Greek Weird Wave produced his darkest, strangest film, a horror film with the twisted logic of a Grimm's fairy…
A direct sequel to last month's Knifetime selection, STALKED BY MY DOCTOR: PATIENT'S REVENGE continues the sordid tale of mentally disturbed Dr. Albert Beck (the ubiquitous Eric Roberts) after a jury finds him not guilty of the kidnapping and attempted…
"Problematic, troubling, dangerous even, but breathtakingly original, and absolutely true to the times. The cutting edge doesn't get any sharper than this." -Time Out Harmony Korine’s debut feature is an audacious, lyrical evocation of America’s rural underbelly, and an elegy…
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 aerobics tape, a training video, a home movie. Anything! But there’s an incentive to bring us…
Darkly satirical, outrageous, and really fucking funny, Wonder Showzen was too good for this world. "Sesame Street on acid" barely scratches the surface of the depths of surreal strangeness reached by this truly singular comedy creation from John Lee and…
“Unhinged even for Takashi Miike... bloody and ejaculate-stained... reveling in ultraviolence” -Slant Magazine Prepare to descend into the gritty and violent underworld of Takashi Miike’s cult classic, Ichi the Killer. This wild yakuza-horror hybrid has endured as one of the…
Sweaty floors, skinny jeans and angular indie rock. We may not have called it "Indie Sleaze" at the time, but you all know what we're talking about. Relive (or experience for the first time) the half-drunk euphoria of sweatily dancing…
Due to unforeseen circumstances, this screening has been canceled. All ticket holders will be refunded. Co-director Adrian Anderson will be in person to present POMP & CIRCUMSTANCE as well as a selection of short films. A Q&A will follow the…
Due to unforeseen circumstances, this screening has been canceled. All ticket holders will be refunded. "Brian De Palma at his most extreme... a satire of media obsession and radicalism-as-fashion toys with sitcom hyperbole, on-the-street journalism and bracingly committed satire." -Willamette…
"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…
“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…
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…