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“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…
“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…
It's J.D. Vance's worst nightmare! When a killer recliner falls in love with a girl, it's up to a disgraced Jewish Rabbi and a couple of brokenhearted detectives to figure out how to stop the bloody carnage that will follow.…
"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…
"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…
Could the most ridiculed entry in the Friday the 13th franchise secretly be one of the best? Set in the year 2455, Jason X puts Jason Voorhees on a spaceship and launches him into the great beyond...with a gaggle of…
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…
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…
Long talked about before almost anyone outside of Japan had ever seen it, Akira Ogata's Tokyo Cabbageman K recently emerged from the shadows much to the delight of weirdo underground trash cinema aficionados. Taking inspiration from Franz Kafka, Ogata's guerrilla-cinema 8mm…
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!…
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…
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 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…
"One of The 10 Weirdest Horror Movies of All Time... too insane for words" -Pop Matters Prepare yourselves... The strangest bedtime story ever told! Made famous by a Patton Oswalt stand-up bit, Death Bed: The Bed That Eats is a uniquely…
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…
“Gothic style, humor and sexy stars -- a cult classic” -Kalamazoo Gazette The film that helped bring goth culture out of the shadows and into (a dimly lit) corner of the mainstream, THE LOST BOYS is hip, fun, funny and…