While staying at a hotel in England with his grandmother, Helga (Mai Zetterling), young Luke (Jasen Fisher) inadvertently spies on a convention of witches. The Grand High Witch (Anjelica Huston) reveals a plan to turn all children into mice through a magical formula. When they find that Luke has overheard, the witches test the formula … Read more
John Waters’ gloriously grotesque, unavailable-for-decades second feature Multiple Maniacs comes to theaters (fully restored!) at long last, replete with all manner of depravity – from robbery to murder to one of cinema’s most memorably blasphemous moments. Made on a shoestring budget in Baltimore, with Waters taking on nearly every technical task, this gleeful mockery of … Read more
Join us at the Rio Theatre for a Friday Late Night screening of 80s horror comedy classic THE RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD, a (totally true!) story of two bumbling employees at a medical supply warehouse who accidentally release a deadly gas into the air – when the vapors cause the dead to rise again … Read more
Join us on Saturday, September 3 for an evening dedicated to one of the most prolific authors of horror fiction ever, Stephen King. King’s work has been the basis for countless classic movies, and we’ve selected three of our favourites as part of a Stephen King Triple Feature. Rob Reiner’s beloved coming-of-age tale Stand by … Read more
Join us on Saturday, September 3 for an evening dedicated to one of the most prolific authors of horror fiction ever, Stephen King. King’s work has been the basis for countless classic movies, and we’ve selected three of our favourites as part of Stephen King Triple Feature. Rob Reiner’s beloved coming-of-age tale Stand by Me … Read more
This 1982 remake of Howard Hawke’s 1951 classic is a bleak, tense and frightening sci-fi thriller that delivers some truly memorable practical and makeup effects, in addition to Kurt Russell‘s pitch-perfect performance. THE THING is an ice-cold white-knuckle chiller about about scientists in the Antarctic who are confronted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the … Read more
Join us on Saturday, July 16 at the Rio Theatre for a very special 20th Anniversary screening of Bordello of Blood. Featured guests for this event include director Gil Adler, special effects creator Todd Masters, and John Kassir (aka, the voice of the Crypt Keeper!) via Skype. Shot in Vancouver, Bordello of Blood is a … Read more
When two of the horror world’s greatest masters get together, you’re gonna get a masterpiece! Directed by George Romero from a script by Stephen King, Creepshow is a total 80s cult classic compendium inspired by the EC and DC horror comics of the 1950s. Ostensibly an anthology film of five short (but terrifying… and funny) … Read more
An aspiring model finds herself in a terrifying predicament with her survival hanging in the balance. Tuesday, July 12 Doors 6:00:pm | Movie 9:30 pm Tickets $10 advance HERE | $12 door Thursday, July 14 Doors 6:00:pm | Movie 6:30 pm Tickets $10 advance HERE | $12 door Sunday, July 17 Doors 9:00:pm … Read more
From the writing-directing team of Jemaine Clement (FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS) and Taika Waititi (JOJO RABBIT, HUNT FOR THE WILDERPEOPLE, THOR: Ragnarok) comes a bloody high-larious tale in which an endearingly un-hip quartet of kiwi vampire friends reveal to us or, rather, to the documentary crew that’s filming them, the details of their daily-make that … Read more
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