"The greatest kaiju movies ever made!" - Matt Draper After laying dormant for fifteen years, Gamera was rebooted for the big screen in a smash hit trilogy masterminded by director Shusuke Kaneko, writer Kazunori Ito (Ghost in the Shell) and…
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"A surreal genre mash-up that opens like an Agatha Christie-style locked-room mystery before shifting gears during its last act to an otherworldly bit of sci-fi strangeness." - Slant Magazine A dazzling, paranoid mixture of locked-room mystery, 1970s Euro giallo, classic noir…
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This month, Arkadin is serving up a thick slice of deep-cut eco-horror strangeness. A comically corny idea directed with an over-the-top muscularity, this underseen gem mixes up elements of folk horror, domestic thriller, and madcap Evil Dead-style effects to create…
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It’s DRINKOLAS CAGE! Our monthly surprise Nic Cage movie drinking game event. Each month we select a Cage film and write a drinking game for you to play along with. PLUS Mister Hand Pies will be in the lobby selling…
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It’s DRINKOLAS CAGE! Our monthly surprise Nic Cage movie drinking game event. Each month we select a Cage film and write a drinking game for you to play along with. PLUS Mister Hand Pies will be in the lobby selling…
$5
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“A beautifully tender and haunting ghost story.” - Moria Reviews Willowpoint Falls is a quiet hamlet in upstate New York, an idyllic landscape of Norman Rockwell homesteads and stunning scenic beauty. It’s also a small town with a secret: For…
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“THE GREATEST HORROR MOVIE EVER MADE! Snapshot of Vietnam-era outrage? Indictment of all-devouring capitalism? Blood-spattered redneck Theater of Cruelty? Yes to all, plus the screen’s most grueling portrait of mushrooming terror. Decades of sequels, remakes, and imitators can’t take away…
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It’s DRINKOLAS CAGE! Our monthly surprise Nic Cage movie drinking game event. Each month we select a Cage film and write a drinking game for you to play along with. PLUS Mister Hand Pies will be in the lobby selling…
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"Getting caught up in the film’s mounting obsession feels like falling headfirst into a Wikipedia rabbit hole, tumbling into darkness and data until dawn breaks over your bloodshot eyes. It’s a rush and an addiction... Boldly inviting its audience to…
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"his intelligent, effective thriller is one of best films...a tense, clever nail-biter" - Combustible Celluloid A seemingly absurd premise is molded into sharp, unsettling, and darkly funny psychological terror in George A. Romero's Monkey Shines. Adapted from a novel by…
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"An absurd triumph. Laugh-out-loud funny, compelling and surprising" - The Guardian Following the finale of his TV series, filmmaker John Wilson looks to the bedrock of his beloved New York City for inspiration and structure. Concrete, the world's most widely…
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"One of the best documentaries of 2025, a movie about the late 1980s and early 1990s that’s also — without forcing the parallels — very much a movie about today." - IndieWire Helmed by Mark Pellington (whose credits include the…
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“Chills me to my bones... One of the creepiest movies ever made” - Chris Stuckmann Mark Pellington's The Mothman Prophecies bravely bucked the trend of early-aughts horror. A thoughtful, slow-burn chiller released amidst a stream of brash, garish post-Scream silliness,…
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"An absurd triumph. Laugh-out-loud funny, compelling and surprising" - The Guardian Following the finale of his TV series, filmmaker John Wilson looks to the bedrock of his beloved New York City for inspiration and structure. Concrete, the world's most widely…
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“The experimental 'metaphysical splatter film' you absolutely have to see.” - Collider A hypnotic Rorschach test that scars the psyche as much as the eye, E. Elias Merhige’s directorial debut—memorably described as a "metaphysical splatter film" by critic J. Hoberman—stripped…
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“Immortal... it connects directly with our fears.” - Roger Ebert One of the most shocking films of all time, Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho changed horror cinema forever. Often censored, relentlessly ripped off, but never surpassed, this gritty, grimy, deeply chilling tale…
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"Provides an excellent distillation of J-Horror its best: silly yet serious, and altogether a new kind of spooky." - Cinapse A J-horror gem from the legendary director of horror classics like Audition and Ichi the Killer, Takashi Miike! Student Yoko…
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“Deranged, obscene and encapsulates everything that’s great about horror movies. Sublimely weird…and then downright unhinged." - The Guardian Following up on the success of his 1985 film Re-Animator, director Stuart Gordon’s From Beyond presents another harrowing interpretation of acclaimed science…
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“Gorgeous, vibrant, and terrifying! Goddamn is it a wild ride.” - Dread Central A magenta‑soaked descent into cosmic madness, this mind-bending adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's classic story stars Nicolas Cage in one of his most unhinged performances as a farmer…
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"Delightfully camp!" - The Guardian Before Sarah Michelle Gellar took up the wooden stake in the iconic WB series, Kristy Swanson donned a cheerleader's uniform and kicked some bloodsucker butt in the cult-classic comedy that started it all! Swanson stars…
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"Delightfully camp!" - The Guardian Before Sarah Michelle Gellar took up the wooden stake in the iconic WB series, Kristy Swanson donned a cheerleader's uniform and kicked some bloodsucker butt in the cult-classic comedy that started it all! Swanson stars…
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“A dark, delicious fairytale fantasy brought to life with profound emotional integrity... breathes new life into the vampire movie” - AWFJ Adapted from a novella by Russian author A. K. Tolstoy that predates Bram Stoker’s Dracula by over half a…
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“Cockroach demons who turn into princesses, creepy lecherous soap with human souls, and giant hell demons. What's not to love?” - CouchTraveler, Letterboxd Two rival Taoist schools, one all-female, the other one all-male, must become allies to fight a demon…
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“One for Hitch fans, one for thriller fans, one for cinema fans. DO NOT MISS.” - Little White Lies Alfred Hitchcock’s silent masterpiece The Lodger is often considered the first true “Hitchcock” film, from which his trademark cinema of suspense…
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“A chilly, bloody, romantic, and intelligent slice of horror that stands as a modern classic of the genre.” - Mr. Movie Say his name five times, and he appears. A slave spirit with a hook for a hand, a hulking…
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We will be playing a mystery VHS tape, and it’s up to YOU what we’ll see! For this Spooky Season edition of VHS Night, we highly encourage you to bring in something scary. DOORS OPEN @ 6 PMSUBMISSIONS CLOSED @…
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Join us for a night of VEHICULAR MAYHEM to raise funds for our next-door neighbors, The Heavy Anchor, which was recently smashed by an SUV, and to raise consciousness about the dangers of Gravois. All ticket proceeds benefit The Heavy…
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Join us for a night of VEHICULAR MAYHEM to raise funds for our next-door neighbors, The Heavy Anchor, which was recently smashed by an SUV, and to raise consciousness about the dangers of Gravois. All ticket proceeds benefit The Heavy…
$10
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“A chilling romp! Expertly orchestrated scares with a humorous camp undertow” - Little White Lies With The Old Dark House, James Whale—the brilliant director of Frankenstein (playing on the Arkadin Backlot later this month)—turned J.B. Priestley’s novel Benighted into a…
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Join Hysteria Fest for for a night of independent horror while supporting our friends at The Heavy Anchor! We’ve finally recuperated from the madness of this summer’s Hysteria Fest, just in time for one of our favorite events of the year: Hysteria Halloween. While…
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It's time for a spooky October-edition of STL Video Society's International Videostore Day VHS SWAP MEET! Come browse tables and tables of glorious tapes and take a few (or a dozen!) home. Free to attend! Interested in being a vendor?… 
"Builds up an atmosphere of dread you can taste in your throat... A dark and frightening experience unlike anything ever filmed” - Newsweek Adapted from a shattering psychic thriller story by Daphne du Maurier, Don't Look Now stars Donald Sutherland…
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Former cheerleader Renee tries to recapture her glory days by living vicariously through her teen daughter, Cherie. Their strained relationship sours when Cherie quits her school’s dance team and moves in with her father. Realizing she can pass for a…
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The Crimson Ghost is a twelve-chapter film serial from 1946 produced by Republic Pictures. It follows a criminologist named Duncan Richards (Charles Quigley) as he tries to thwart the dastardly plans of a hooded villain wearing a skull mask known as The Crimson Ghost.…
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As Samhain nears and the veil thins, gather the coven for an evening of intuitive readings, energetic cleansing, community and, of course, expertly curated films, all presented by Chaos Magick! On the backlot you’ll find vendors and practitioners selling witchy… 
"One of the great milestones in cinema history…Häxan’s brand of satanic panic defines how the patriarchy saw women, but also exposes how spurious fallacies were used to control females and keep them in their wrongful place." - Film-Authority Demonic possession,…
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"WITCHCRAFT, SISTERHOOD AND EMPOWERMENT! Encourage the downtrodden to find that bit of magic that resides in all of us." - Ghouls Magazine Sarah has always been different. So as the newcomer at St. Benedict’s Academy, she immediately falls in with…
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“Deeply moving...a benchmark for documentaries focusing on the people impacted by injustice and celebrating their heritage” - Dan Ingram, News9 Between 1946 and 1958, the United States of America conducted 67 known nuclear weapons tests in the Marshall Islands, on…
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“One of the best and most underrated from Disney’s ‘dark’ early ‘80s period... a heartfelt film, touched by autumn’s chill and aching sweetness of knowing that childhood is coming to an end.” - Jessica Ritchey, RogerEbert.com No book has ever…
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Arkadin pops up at St. Louis's best garden shop, FLOWERS & WEEDS, for an autumnal outdoor screening of Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr. Fox! Add a pumpkin to your ticket for just $10. Grab your favorite lawn chair and head on…
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Join us for a very special night exploring the notorious 1949 St. Louis exorcism that inspired William Peter Blatty's novel The Exorcist and the blockbuster film adaptation that shocked and terrified a nation. Troy Taylor, author of The Devil Came…
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This October, we bring you a terrifying treat from the depths of cinematic hell. Shot on a consumer-grade camcorder with an almost nonexistent budget, this deeply unsettling thriller feels like a mystery in itself. The horror glimpsed through the low…
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Join us for an outdoor screening of the all-time Universal monster movie classic, James Whale's FRANKENSTEIN with pumpkin carving! We'll have pumpkins for sale the night of the event. Doors open at 6 pm, so get your pumpkin carving in…
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“Poetic, absurd, artful, and successfully, intentionally funny... an unexpected gem, and one of the best cinema experiences I've ever had” - Flinching with Delight A gory zombie movie, an offbeat black comedy, and a sweeping gothic romance all rolled into…
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“Uniquely dreamlike, lushly romantic, highly erotic...does for the vampire genre what The Godfather did for the gangster saga” - Seattle Post-Intelligencer With a dizzying of old-school in-camera cinematic trickery, Francis Coppola's 1992 version of Bram Stoker's immortal novel is perhaps…
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Our POE-A-THON kicks off with a FREE block of animated Poe shorts. Featuring eerie and colorful interpretations of some of the horror master's eeriest tales. We've loving curated a lineup of eye-popping animation that's sure to stimulate your retinas while…
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"I barely stirred during the film’s 66-minute running time. A tone, an atmosphere, was created that actually worked. As with Nosferatu, the film seemed less a fiction than the realization of some phantasmagoric alternative reality." - Roger Ebert Playing like…
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“This bizarre, utterly irrational masterpiece has images that bury themselves in the mind” - The Guardian Horror icons Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi teamed up—and faced off—for the first time in director Edgar G. Ulmer's macabre Pre-code chiller The Black…
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