Microcinema in the heart of Bevo | 5228 Gravois Ave. | st. louis, mo 63116
It's a night of bone-smashing, blood-spurting entertainment on the backlot as we hold a MORTAL KOMBAT tournament followed by a screening of the original 1995 film adaptation. The video game contest will begin as soon as the sun goes down…
"Yes, we love the dancing, and the chemistry between Grey and Swayze is electric, but ultimately, Dirty Dancing is a deeply political movie about abortion, class struggle, and feminist identity." (Mia Brett, Mic) Featuring Patrick Swayze's heat-seeking pelvis, Jennifer Grey's original nose, and lavish…
Mondays in October we’re showing deep-cut horror films! We’ll announce the subgenre each week, but we’re keeping the feature a surprise up until the moment it appears on the screen.
This film is presented by STRANGE BREW, St. Louis's long-running cult film series! "A deliriously trashy, exuberantly vulgar, lavishly appointed exploitation picture, this weird combo of road-kill movie and martial-arts vampire gorefest is made to order for the stimulation of…
Don't Push Pause Podcast will be hosting this outdoor screening of Fred Dekker's THE MONSTER SQUAD, which celebrates its 35th anniversary this year! Join us for the film that inspired the podcast! Whether it's your absolute favorite or a first-time…
Mondays in October we’re showing deep-cut horror films! We’ll announce the subgenre each week, but we’re keeping the feature a surprise up until the moment it appears on the screen.
"The audience, confined in the madman’s universe, sees what the madman sees: distorted perspectives, eerie painted lights and shadows, an angular, warped world of fears and menace. The sets are used expressionistically to convey the madman’s thoughts, to intensify the…
“Calling RE-ANIMATOR a crucial gore movie is like saying that fire is hot.”-Zack Carlson, co-author of Destroy All Movies H.P. Lovecraft and Lucio Fulci did not team up to make the most amazing gore-sex grotesquerie of 1985. But thanks to…
Mondays in October we’re showing deep-cut horror films! We’ll announce the subgenre each week, but we’re keeping the feature a surprise up until the moment it appears on the screen.
Celebrate the Halloween season with a double feature of films starring St. Louis's favorite son, the inimitable Vincent Price! THE TINGLER "How any red-blooded American could hear 'Vincent Price's acid trip,' and not fall over themselves rushing to find a…
St. Louis's brand-new horror film festival debuts on the Arkadin Backlot with a night of terrifying shorts! Featuring films that have played at major genre festivals such as Panic Fest, Grimmfest, and the Chattanooga Film Festival, HYSTERIA FEST presents a…
St. Louis's brand-new horror film festival debuts on the Arkadin Backlot with a night of terrifying shorts! Featuring films that have played at major genre festivals such as Panic Fest, Grimmfest, and the Chattanooga Film Festival, HYSTERIA FEST presents a…
Before Drinkolas Cage, our friends at Deadly Prey Gallery will be holding a pop-up sale on the backlot, displaying their collection of eye-popping original movie posters hand-painted by Ghanian artists. Come out early and bring some cash because once you…
Creep down Gravois from Das Bevo (the windmill) to the Arkadin Backlot in our first-annual BEVO ZOMBIE WALK! First, we’ll dress up like a zombie, grab a few drinks at Das Bevo. Then together we’ll stalk down Gravois to the Arkadin for a zombie…
"The great horror maestro Wes Craven, as both writer and director, gave a generation of teens (of all ages) terminal insomnia with this imaginative and intense slasher scare fest." (Library of Congress) Behold the horror epic that started the Krueger craze…
"t’s a miracle Freaked exists at all and more miraculous still that its capacity to entertain, antagonize, and disgust remains as unlimited as ever almost thirty years after its brief theatrical run... Freaked is an absurdist, acid-soaked fever dream." -Collider The manic writing-directing…
Thursdays in March we’re showing some deep-cut erotic thrillers films! Think Basic Instinct or Fatal Attraction only more loony, lascivious, and downright ridiculous. We’ll announce a few teasers each week, but we’re keeping the feature a surprise up until the…
"Gleefully inspiring audiences everywhere to challenge conventional definitions of 'good' and 'bad' cinema, Showgirls is undoubtedly the think-piece object d’art of its time." -Eric Henderson, Slant Magazine"A trash masterpiece...a masterpiece of shit" -Adam Nayman, It Doesn't Suck: Showgirls Unfairly dismissed upon its…
"The movie caused a sensation in 1976. It was nominated for 10 Oscars, won four (Finch, Dunaway, supporting actress Beatrice Straight, Chayefsky), and stirred up much debate about the decaying values of television. Seen a quarter-century later, is like prophecy. When…
"Gleefully inspiring audiences everywhere to challenge conventional definitions of 'good' and 'bad' cinema, Showgirls is undoubtedly the think-piece object d’art of its time." -Eric Henderson, Slant Magazine"A trash masterpiece...a masterpiece of shit" -Adam Nayman, It Doesn't Suck: Showgirls Unfairly dismissed upon its…
