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“The right kind of fowl humor... You can’t quit this one cold turkey!” -Film Inquiry A demonic turkey is unleashed...and he's one fowl-mouthed bastard! Five college kids: a jock, a good girl, an overweight red-neck, a slut, and a nerd…
“One of the most devastating films ever about anything, and in it, the survivors must envy the dead... I have rarely seen a film more ruthless in its depiction of human evil.” –Roger Ebert This legendary film from Soviet director…
“The most affecting film about the horror of war I know.” –Susan Sontag The crowning triumph of a career cut tragically short, the final film from Larisa Shepitko won the Golden Bear at the 1977 Berlin Film Festival and went…
In Deadly Games aka Dial Code Santa Claus, a lone child must defend his house using strategically placed booby traps from a dangerous home invader on Christmas Eve. Sound familiar? Well, this kid isn't Kevin McCallister. Thomas de Frémont (Alain Lalanne) is a child…
“The Dead Zone does what only a good supernatural thriller can do: It makes us forget it is supernatural.” -Roger Ebert Arguably the most underrated Stephen King horror adaptation—and featuring career-best performances from Christopher Walken, Brooke Adams, and Martin Sheen—The Dead…
"Snowpiercer sucks you into its strange, brave new world so completely, it leaves you with the all-too-rare sensation that you've just witnessed something you've never seen before...and need to see again." –Entertainment Weekly In this sci-fi epic from director Bong…
"WILL MELT YOU BRAIN...builds and builds and finally unloads on you in its almost pornographic excess. It hits you hard and it keeps hitting you until its finally all over – and you're all the better for it. Highly Recommended…
"Grotesque and deranged...a vision of human misery, brutality, and ignorance." –Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, The A.V. Club When legendary Russian auteur Aleksei German died in 2013, he left behind this extraordinary final film, a phantasmagoric adaptation of the revered sci-fi novel by…
Something magical must happen in the frozen white north of Finland. They produce incredibly rich, captivating and surprisingly sinister fantasies with apparent ease. On Dec. 12, Arkadin brings you two vastly underseen masterpieces from Suomi, a New Wave snow-globe "Alice…
This screening will be introduced by Truman State University professor Bob Mielke, author of THREADS, a study of the film published by Die Die Books. Prof. Mielke's book will be available for purchase at the screening. Upon its 1984 premiere…
"A well-above-average ho-ho-ho-horror film with a shivery sense of winter weirdland and anarchic ultra-violence...a strong candidate to become a holiday favourite!" -Empire When his dysfunctional family clashes over the holidays, young Max is disillusioned and turns his back on Christmas.…
Broadcast in the dying hours of Christmas Eve, the BBC’s A Ghost Story for Christmas series was a fixture of the seasonal schedules throughout the 1970s and spawned a long tradition of chilling tales, which terrified yuletide viewers for decades to come.…
You're traveling through another dimension -- a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That's a signpost up ahead: your next stop: The Twilight Zone!…
“The goriest, craziest, most eye-blowing, chunk-spewing, head-exploding sci-fi movie of all time.” -New York Post Blood, guts and guns are the new normal in the new police state! In the near future, the Tokyo Police Corporation wages a blood-splattered war…
"A parlor-room epic, an entire nation in a single room...vital, riveting and real." -Telegraph Set six or eight or twelve years after the Civil War, a stagecoach hurtles through the wintry Wyoming landscape. The passengers, bounty hunter John Ruth (Kurt Russell) and…
“A punk-rock Midsommar...demented, visually lush explodes into manic, blood soaked adrenaline” -aManCalledSteve PATER NOSTER AND THE MISSION OF LIGHT tells the story of Max, a young record store clerk who stumbles upon a rare vinyl LP and is drawn into…
"Chilling, mesmerizing, intense...essential viewing, especially for anyone new to Tarr’s cinema" -Jonathan Rosenbaum This mesmeric parable of societal collapse is an enigma of transcendent visual, philosophical, and mystical resonance. Adapted from a novel by László Krasznahorkai, Werckmeister Harmonies unfolds in an unknown…
"Radiates cold, anti-humanly indifferent terror." -Slant Magazine Ring in the new year with Stanley Kubrick's snowbound masterpiece of modern horror, THE SHINING. Kubrick’s visionary take on Stephen King’s wildly popular novel has deservedly become one of the most iconic and…
