Follow The Assassin through a forbidding world of tortured souls, decrepit bunkers, and wretched monstrosities forged from the most primordial horrors of the subconscious mind. Every set, creature, and effigy in this macabre masterpiece is hand-crafted and painstakingly animated using traditional stop-motion techniques. MAD GOD is a labor of love, a testament to the power … Read more
The Rio Theatre’s #MonsterMonday series continues on June 20 with a screening of CRITTERS. With Dee Wallace, Scott Grimes, M. Emmet Walsh, Billy Zane. “The picture provides a fair amount of knockabout fun, with some sprightly incidental jokes of a suitably unsubtle variety.” (Guardian UK) Prizes! Trivia! Costumes welcome! #MonsterMonday, June 20 Doors 9:00 pm … Read more
Canadian actor and filmmaker Mark O’Brien (READY OR NOT) does triple duty in his impressive, slow-burn directorial feature debut THE RIGHTEOUS, which he also wrote and stars in. Praised at genre film festivals around the world, THE RIGHTEOUS is a unique and darkly engaging spiritual thriller strikingly shot in black and white. The film tells … Read more
As a serial killer stalks the city, a young actress (Maika Monroe, who made waves as an indie arthouse horror “It Girl” in movies like IT FOLLOWS and THE GUEST) who just moved to town with her boyfriend notices a mysterious stranger watching her from across the street in this terrifying thriller. “A stunning gaslighting … Read more
The Rio Theatre‘s Friday Late Night Movie series continues on June 17 with the first installment in the massive horror franchise that is SAW. Photographer Adam Stanheight (Leigh Whannell) and oncologist Lawrence Gordon (Cary Elwes) regain consciousness while chained to pipes at either end of a filthy bathroom. As the two men realize they’ve been … Read more
Acclaimed Norwegian filmmaker Eskil Volgt (who co-scripted the Oscar-nominated romantic comedy THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD alongside Joachim Trier) delves the depths of indie arthouse horror with his latest directorial effort, the gripping supernatural thriller THE INNOCENTS. Set against the backdrop of the bright Nordic summer, the film revolves around a group of four … Read more
It’s Craaazy! The Rio Theatre’s Friday Late Night Movie series continues on October 20 with a dose of dark and goofy fun, with the 1988 cult-classic KILLER KLOWNS FROM OUTER SPACE. This truly one-of-a-kind alien-invasion sci-fi follows blood-drinking intergalactic clowns hell bent on harvesting a small, sleepy town of its plasma. With Grant Cramer, Suzanne … Read more
Yes, we’re as excited as you are for the third installment of Ti West‘s bloody amazing franchise, MAXXINE, hitting movie screens on Friday, July 5! So yes, of course, we’re going to revisit both X (2022), and its prequel PEARL (2022), with a double bill screening on Friday, June 28! In 2022, filmmaker Ti West … Read more
A woman in trouble. David Lynch‘s sorely under-seen, surreal psychological thriller INLAND EMPIRE is pretty impossible to describe… It’s Lynch. It’s Laura Dern. (For fans of the auteur, that may be all they need to know!) Released in 2006, this was Lynch’s first digitally shot film, and it ripe for rediscovery thanks to this 2022 … Read more
The Rio Theatre’s Friday Late Night Movie series continues on Friday, April 29 with one of the most talked-about horror movies of 2021, Canadian writer-director Rob Jabbaz‘s brutally explosive, hyper-violent zombie horror satire THE SADNESS. As the city of Taipei suddenly erupts into bloody chaos in the midst of a plague, ordinary people are compulsively … Read more
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