Movies
Genre: Horror
Child’s Play #MonsterMonday
“No one believes the truth… Or lives to tell it.” The Rio Theatre‘s #MonsterMonday series continues on October 24 at 9:30 pm with the original CHILD’S PLAY, the iconic 80s horror slasher about a kinda cute, almost cuddly demon-doll that answers to the name
Bodies Bodies Bodies
When a group of 20-somethings gets stuck at a remote mansion during a hurricane, a party game gone very, very wrong ends with a dead body on the ground and fake friends at every turn as they try to find the killer among them. With Amandla Stenberg, Maria Bakalova, Rachel
VIFF: Huesera
A riveting, genre-bending feature debut following a soon-to-be mother, Valeria, as she starts experiencing odd visions and sensations that alert her to a supernatural presence lurking around the corner. As her paranoia grows, she encounters increasing resistance from her partner and immediate family, with old wounds slowly resurfacing and further
VIFF: Something in the Dirt
Determined to escape perpetually post-apocalyptic Los Angeles, Levi (Justin Benson) instead falls in with John (Aaron Moorhead), a kindred conspiracy theorist. After witnessing an inexplicable event in Levi’s apartment, the neighbours become intent on monetizing the paranormal activity by shooting a Netflix-style docuseries. Convincing themselves that they’re piecing together a
VIFF: Nanny
Aisha (Anna Diop), an undocumented Senegalese immigrant, is hired as a nanny by an affluent, self-absorbed Manhattan couple (Michelle Monaghan and Morgan Spector). Recognizing that this may be her best opportunity to bring her son to America, this stranger in a strange land is willing to deflect the upper crust’s
Jennifer’s Body (15th Anniversary Screening!)
In director Karyn Kusama’s (GIRLFIGHT, AEON FLUX) 2009 cult horror-comedy JENNIFER’S BODY, Megan Fox stars as newly-possessed hottie high-school cheerleader turned succubus Jennifer, who specializes in killing her male classmates. While this she-demon satisfies her appetite for human flesh with the school’s male population, her nerdy
Saloum
Set in 2003, genre-defying Senegalese supernatural horror thriller SALOUM is centred on the story of three legendary mercenaries who are forced to hid out in a mystical region of Senegal known as Saloum. Shot down after fleeing a coup and extracting a drug lord from Guinea-Bissau, the trio known as
The Visitor
One of our favourite annual events that we adore participating in and being a part of is Italian Day on the Drive. Like everyone in Vancouver, we have really missed this East Vancouver tradition over the past two summers! Our friends at The Italian Day Festival
Nosferatu: 100th Anniversary Screening with The Invincible Czars
NOSFERATU is one of the most revered films in the history of cinema, and to celebrate its centenary, Austin’s “emperors of eclecticism,” The Invincible Czars, are bringing their updated soundtrack to the Rio Theatre for a live performance to accompany a screening of the film. There is simply
The Black Phone
The phone is dead. And it’s ringing. Director Scott Derrickson (the writer-director of SINISTER, THE EXORCISM OF EMILY ROSE, and Marvel’s DOCTOR STRANGE) returns to his terror roots with a new horror thriller, THE BLACK PHONE. Finney Shaw, a shy but clever 13-year-old boy, is abducted by a sadistic killer