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"It's almost impossible to watch it and not love it...one of the best movies ever made." — John Waters In 1970, Twentieth Century-Fox, impressed by the visual zing “King of the Nudies” Russ Meyer had been bringing to bargain-basement exploitation…
COSTUME CONTEST! Celebrate the 25th anniversary of Mike Myers' smashing comedy classic by dressing as your favorite Austin Powers character! Prizes will be awarded to the grooviest outfits on the backlot! Celebrating its 25th anniversary, Austin Powers: International Man of…
"Exhilarating...radically mischievous...visually arresting and capricious." -The New York Times The Czech New Wave’s most anarchic entry, Věra Chytilová’s absurdist farce Daisies follows the misadventures of two brash young women, both named Marie. Believing the world to be "spoiled," they embark…
Kid-friendly! All ages may attend this screening! " gloriously anarchic, ceaselessly inventive bliss machine" (Mike D'Angelo) Co-written by Paul Reubens and Phil Hartman, Pee Wee's Big Adventure marks the debut of director Tim Burton, who stamps the entire film with his quirky trademark style. The premise:…
Our friends at Silents, Please St. Louis are throwing a Buster Keaton party and everyone's invited...for free! Featuring Sherlock Jr. and a hand-picked selection of hilarious Buster shorts, this will be a night of pure silent-film delight. Kids of all…
"An over-the-top, sensibility-shaking, bubbling cauldron of gore-laden excessive exploitation trash!" (Diabolique Magazine) In the not-so-distant future, overburdened national budgets have forced the privatization of most government institutions. Even prisons have become franchised, commercial ventures. When mild-mannered Ricky avenges the death…
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…
“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…
"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…
"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…
"A marvel of comic invention—and, more surprisingly, of astringent romance. The essence of the film is a love story that rises from mutual delusion, and that perspective makes this uproarious and antic comedy, in its moral soul, an essential work…
"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…
"The slasher genre is full of freaks and weirdos, but none of them quite hits a festive note like the Leprechaun ushering in every St. Patrick’s Day. The mythical Irish monster, played with pizzazz for the bulk of the series…
Weirder and crammed with more gore than its predecessor...Lep has plenty to do in this chapter, including hypnotizing a man to have a sex fantasy with two industrial-size fans, getting drunk, and ripping a pot of gold out of a…
"he first US feature directed by an ‘out’ Black lesbian, you can count on a single hand the number of films offering such an audacious subversion of the filmic gaze. The Watermelon Woman takes Black lesbians as its subject matter, but also –…
"This insanely fun sequel takes the franchise in a musically supernatural direction. It's a bizarrely entertaining film full of disturbing imagery, amazingly memorable kills, and one of the best finales in horror history." -Shane Romanchick, Collider The ultimate horror-rock blasterpiece!…
In celebration of April Fools' Day, we're bringing you a night of chaos and comedy featuring clips of all your favorite fools, including the Three Stooges, Beavis & Butt-Head, Mr. Bean, and lots and lots of Jackass! No ticket required.…
This screening is sold out. A wait-list will be opened 30 minutes before showtime. Come celebrate Rex Manning Day a few days early with the ultimate ode to record stores and the people who work at them: Allan Moyle's 1995…
"It doesn’t take much scratching at the showbiz-satire surface to reveal the gothic horror within Sunset Boulevard. In this story of a postwar film industry sacrificing its heritage on the altar of taste and profit, we find a cobwebbed mansion that…
