“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.…
Christmas Specials from Hell returns to Arkadin to deeply antagonize you this yuletide season. Get in the holiday spirit by watching some weird, wild, and wretchedly awesome Christmas Specials on the big screen while drinking some cheap drinks from our…
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…
“The Coen brothers’ snowbound noir is still a work of gleaming brilliance!” –Guardian Leave it to the wildly inventive Coen brothers (Joel directs, Ethan produces, they both write) to concoct a fiendishly clever kidnap caper that’s simultaneously a comedy of…
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…
“The right kind of fowl humor… You can’t quit this one cold turkey!” -Film Inquiry It’s Shanks-giving time again as we ring in Thanksgiving with one of the most glorious Turkeys in cult cinema: the immortal THANKSKILLING! A demonic turkey…
“This ecstatic panorama of furious visions and revolutionary dreams in the vast, violent landscape of rural Brazil…is one of the founding works of modern Brazilian cinema.” –Richard Brody, The New Yorker Glauber Rocha’s sophomore feature is a scorched-earth allegory about…
“The Greatest Killer Insect Movie Ever Made…Think of it as the 2001: A Space Odyssey of treacherous ant movies.” -Den of Geek Following a mysterious eclipse-like solar event, scientists begin to notice strange and unexplainable behavioral changes in ants. While initially written…
THIS SCREENING TAKES PLACE AT FLOWERS & WEEDS, 3201 CHEROKEE ST. Watch a movie about a flower shop in a flower shop! Head to Flowers & Weeds (3201 Cherokee St.) for this special pop-up screening of Roger Corman’s original LITTLE…
Fist City is a monthly series by The Saint Louis Video Society that pulls the most obscure, weird and rarely seen/ screened VHS Tapes from their archive and brings them to the Arkadin screen…for FREE! The de Anda brothers’ mean…
