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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…
"Remains as bizarre and bewitching a fable as when it first appeared... Once seen, never forgotten!” -The Hollywood Reporter The quintessential British folk horror work, THE WICKER MAN has had an enduring fascination for audiences since its release in 1973. A…
For a movie reluctantly produced by Warner Brothers in an effort to kill two birds with one stone — capitalize on the horror craze popularized by rival studio Universal and fulfill a contract with the fledging Technicolor — 1932’s “Doctor…
The last person to die on New Year’s Eve before the clock strikes twelve is doomed to take the reins of Death’s chariot and work tirelessly collecting fresh souls for the next year. So says the legend that drives The Phantom…
Witches. They are quicksilver, a fleeting shadow, a distant sound... their home has no boundaries beyond which they cannot pass. They live in music, in a flash of color... they live on the wind and in the sparkle of a…
Would you sell your soul to see some classic Simpsons "Treehouse of Horror" on the big screen? Then summon the great beast (i.e., Ned Flanders), grab your evil Krusty doll, and come on out for 2 hours of Kang, Kodos…
“Arguably the best of all 3-D movies!” -E-Film Critic The most successful 3D movie of the 1950s and the first produced by a major Hollywood studio, Warner Bros.'s HOUSE OF WAX (1953) brought movie audiences to a new dimension of…
“One of the best horror films of all time.” -Indiewire Based on the classic novella by Nikolai Gogol, VIY is a visually sumptuous, exceptionally eerie, gothic horror fantasy film like none other! Often regarded as the first true horror film ever produced in the…
When an evil demon is accidentally reawakened, a 280-year-old kung fu master and his apprentice must help a crew of treasure hunters in stopping him before he acquires immortality. That's about as coherent as RETURN OF THE DEMON gets, the rest is a madcap…
Though it received mixed reviews from critics upon its release and remains far lesser-known than classics like Halloween and The Thing, for true John Carpenter heads, IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS will always be one of the master's quintessential horror…
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…
Enter the Crypt Keeper's chamber with nearly two hours of classic Tales from the Crypt. Not available on streaming, this classic HBO horror-comedy anthology show, based on the legendary E.C. Comics series, introduced a generation to the malevolent delights of…
HYSTERIA FEST presents an Arkadin exclusive! Winner of Best Feature at Salem Horror Fest and an official selection of Midnight Madness at Toronto International Film Festival, this unique found-footage horror film was made in Missouri and will never be on…
Allow Papa Emeritus and his nameless ghouls to shepherd you into the depths of spooky season with their trademark blend of hard rock riffs, poppy hooks and Satanic theatrics. Joining them will be the all-time legends of groovy horror soundtracks,…
"The Exorcist III is a miracle for a number of reasons. It’s both jarringly singular and a rock-solid follow-up to one of the most popular films ever made... The Exorcist III also contains the best jump scare of all time." -Film School Rejects The true…
This screening will be held outdoors on our backlot and is dog- and child-friendly! So bring your kids and bring your pooch for a movie night under the stars! From Disney and creative genius Tim Burton (Beetlejuice) comes the hilarious…
“The biggest holy grail of all folk horror films.” -Mondo Digital Before The Witch (playing the same day at 4 pm), there was EYES OF FIRE. In this seminal 1980s folk horror gem, a rogue 18th century preacher and his…
“Spine-tinglingly disquieting... The best horror film of the decade” -Quartz New England, 1630. Upon threat of banishment by the church, an English farmer leaves his colonial plantation, relocating his wife and five children to a remote plot of land on…
Cory is a young boy who has just moved into a new house with his mom. He develops a relationship with an "imaginary" friend who lives in his closet. No one believes him until people start dying violently and the…
"Creates an air of dread that begins with the first scene and never lets up, subtly incorporating elements from the current wave of Japanese horror films along the way." -The A.V. Club It begins as just another urban legend -…
“The subtle dread will keep you up at night in a cold, clammy sweat.” -Rolling Stone All roads lead back to RINGU—the blockbuster Japanese horror movie that inspired a million nightmares (and ripoffs and remakes, including 2002's The Ring, playing…
"Exactly as absurd as it sounds, but in the best way" -Arizona Republic A wild tongue-in-cheek creature-feature, SLOTHERHOUSE is a "near-masterpiece" (Starburst) that delivers on its epic title. Senior Emily Young wants to be elected sorority president. She adopts a…
We'll have FREE carnival fun on the backlot all night long, including: Meanwhile, we've got a night of terrifying clown- and carnival-based horror movies in our indoor theater: 5:15 pmAre You Afraid of the Dark? episode "The Tale of the…
To kick off our night of evil clowns and twisted carnivals, we bring you one of the all-time classic episodes of kid-friendly horror TV anthology Are You Afraid of the Dark? — "The Tale of the Laughing in the Dark."…
"Sublimely creepy, a disorienting tale from the dark side with an uncanny knack for making your spine itch." -Atlanta Journal-Constitution A young woman (Candace Hilligoss) in a small Kansas town survives a drag race accident, then agrees to take a…
See Sam Raimi's entire EVIL DEAD TRILOGY — The Evil Dead, Evil Dead II, and Army of Darkness, plus early shorts including the Bruce Campbell-starring Evil Dead progenitor Within the Woods — in one terrifying (and hilarious) night of mayhem!…
The weekend before Halloween grab the family and head to FLOWERS & WEEDS's pumpkin patch for a pop-up screening of THE ADDAMS FAMILY! Special extended evening garden shop hours. Plus, add on a pumpkin for carving to your tickets for…
Writer-director Sam Raimi's extremely stylized, blood-soaked follow-up to his creepy Evil Dead isn't really a sequel; rather, it's a remake on a better budget. It also isn't really a horror film (though there are plenty of decapitations, zombies, supernatural demons, and gore)…
“A chilling movie, a waking nightmare shot in icy monochrome, and filmed in a colossal and eerily beautiful wilderness” -Guardian Deep in the windswept marshes of war-torn medieval Japan, an impoverished older woman and her daughter-in-law murder lost samurai and…
“ wonderfully vivid sexual nightmare that’s one of Franco’s best” -Mondo Esoterica MACUMBA SEXUAL is a late-career masterpiece starring (of course, again) Franco’s wife and radiant muse Lina Romay as a sexually repressed woman tormented by visions of ‘the goddess of…
Just a few days before Halloween, we bring you a scary, strange and very surprising slasher. This not your typical Halloween knock-off but rather an utterly unique mix of horror, comedy and protracted tension that will have you gripping your…
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!…
Dress as a zombie and participate in this year's BEVO ZOMBIE WALK, and you'll get to see Fred Dekker's campy cult-classic homage to '50s sci-fi and horror, Night of the Creeps! Night of the Creeps, Fred Dekker's spoof/tribute to '50s-era…
Twenty-five years ago, Comedy Central debuted a show so strange, so acerbic, so damn funny that it lives on in the hearts and minds of everyone lucky enough to stumble across it while flipping through cable. We speak, of course,…
"Possibly my favorite movie of all time...hilarious, surprisingly tender, and lavishly, magnificently absurd. The black comedy of Drop Dead Gorgeous is guided by a deranged value system that’s particular to the world of teen-age girls." -Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker…
“Dumb as a bag of rocks - but it’s funny, god damn it!” -Birth.Movies.Death. Directed by Stewart Raffill (Mac and Me), TAMMY AND THE T-REX is a love story as old as time. This post-JURASSIC jam stars Denise Richards (Drop…
“There are few things as pure and inspirational (in all senses of the word) as The Muppet Movie. If the opening performance of 'Rainbow Connection' (or even more devastatingly, Gonzo’s 'I’m Going to Go Back There Someday') doesn’t speak to…