“What a treat. So delightfully nasty and sardonic, and with a really high body count to boot. Invisibility is the most fascinating power because it really does is divorce you from any moral accountability, which of course leads to a psychosis that…
MAD MONSTER PARTY? (1967) — a groovy kid-friendly stop-motion monster mash!
“A must-see Halloween classic! If you’ve seen this 1967 cult classic, then you know how special it is. If you haven’t… you like stop-motion animation, Tim Burton and films like Clue and Murder by Death, add this one to your seasonal viewing!” –…
THE MENU (2022) presented by Dark Dream Cinema
“Director Mark Mylod satirizes a very specific kind of elitism here with his wildly over-the-top depiction of the gourmet food world.” Christy Lemire, RogerEbert.com At $1250 a head, an evening at Hawthorne is an indulgence par excellence, promising the meal of a…
GHOST IN THE SHELL (1995) — 30th Anniversary Screening presented by Strange Brew
Ghost in the Shell (1995) is set in a fictional 2029 in which cybernetic technology allows for the human body to be fully replaced with mechanical body parts and lets the brain connect directly to the internet. Major Motoko Kusanagi is the…
BLOOD RITUAL (1989) presented by Saint Louis Video Society
This October, Saint Louis Video Society presents a Hong Kong, CATEGORY-III rarity just in time for Halloween! BLOOD RITUAL (1989) is a whacked-out smorgasbord of black magic sleaze, kung fu detectives, poo-poo-potty humor, and EVEN(!) romantic comedy. It stars the late, great…
THE MAN WHO LAUGHS (1928) presented by Silents, Please! STL
“An expressionistic masterpiece of spooky, fairy tale Poe-meets-Perrault imagery” – Commercial Appeal Famous for inspiring the Joker’s maniacally grinning visage, Paul Leni’s THE MAN WHO LAUGHS is a horror classic in its own right — a dark gothic romance told…
GOOSEBUMPS Happy Hour w/ trick-or-treating in the lobby — KIDS WELCOME!!!
Come one, come all! It’s Halloween, and the ghosts and ghouls are out tonight! This is a very special Free Friday Happy Hour where we’ll not only be playing the best of the best GOOSEBUMPS episodes in the theater, we’ve…
$3 MONDAY MYSTERY MOVIE: The Ultimate Evil Kid Movie
Get ready to experience the nastiest little bastard in horror-movie history with this gloriously grimy little shocker. Unjustly forgotten yet wildly entertaining, this creepy-kid should-be classic is terrifying and hilarious (intentionally and otherwise) in roughly equal measure. The kills go…
SABRINA THE TEENAGE WITCH Happy Hour — $1.50 popcorn + drink specials!
Sabrina has taken many forms over the years — from her origins in the pages of Archie Comics to the recent spooky reboot, with several animated series peppered in between — but the adaptation that will always live in our…
ALUCARDA (1977) — “a glorious, sacrilegious feast of blood-drenched insanity!”
“Alucarda is a glorious, sacrilegious feast of blood-drenched insanity, unflinching nudity, and shrieking histrionics. It’s easily one of my favorite horror movies, and among the bloodiest ever made.” – Pop Culture Beast Catholicism, Satanism and Lesbianism collide in this underseen…