Blood will flow—buckets of it. Eli Roth’s new media venture, The Horror Section, kicks off with a delirious, blood-soaked ride in the vein of EVIL DEAD and BAD TASTE. Out-of-work filmmaker Jimmy Lang (played by writer-director Joe Begos) is hit with a tidal wave of bad luck, sending him spiraling into a drug-and-booze-fueled meltdown. In … Read more
In SHIN GODZILLA:ORTHOchromatic, Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi’s 2016 feature is reborn in stunning black and white, a thrilling origin story to one of cinema’s greatest creations. Propelled by astounding visual effects and rapid fire dialogue, SHIN GODZILLA is equal parts pulse-pounding action film and venomous political satire, worthy of the franchise’s towering history. Something has … Read more
SU FROM SO is a Kannada-language film directed by JP Thuminad and produced by Raj B Shetty‘s Lighter Buddha Films. The film is a social horror story that explores themes of superstition and fear within a village setting. “JP Thuminad delivers a refreshing and hilarious horror comedy… Helped by witty performances as it becomes a … Read more
Years into their relationship, Tim and Millie (real-life married couple Dave Franco and Alison Brie) find themselves at a crossroads as they move to the country, abandoning all that is familiar in their lives except each other. With tensions already flaring, a nightmarish encounter with a mysterious, unnatural force threatens to corrupt their lives, their … Read more
Join us for an exclusive Rio Grind Film Festival screening of writer-director Kurtis David Harder‘s INFLUENCERS, the follow-up to his 2022 horror drama, INFLUENCER. In the sun-drenched countryside of southern France, CW (Cassandra Naud, reprising her role from the first installment) lives a quiet, idyllic life with her girlfriend Diane, hiding a dark obsession with … Read more
Join us at the Rio Theatre as Claudio Simonetti’s Goblin performs a live score to Dario Argento‘s iconic, “giallo,” the phantasmagoric nightmare of a horror icon SUSPIRIA (“the most terrifying movie ever made!”) alongside a screening of the film. Following the screening there will be a 45 minute “Best Of” add-on performance. Composer Claudio Simonetti … Read more
Academy Award-winning director Danny Boyle and Oscar-nominated writer Alex Garland reunite for 28 YEARS LATER, a terrifying new “auteur horror” story set in the world created by 28 DAYS LATER. It’s been almost three decades since the rage virus escaped a biological weapons laboratory, and now, still in a ruthlessly enforced quarantine, some have found … Read more
Two-time Oscar nominee Sally Hawkins (THE SHAPE OF WATER) delivers a profound, if not deeply deranged performance in the domestic nightmare BRING HER BACK, the latest from Australian filmmaking twins Danny and Michael Philippou (2022’s TALK TO ME). This unsettling mystery-thriller tells the tale of a brother and sister who uncover a terrifying, gruesome ritual at … Read more
The Rio Theatre’s patented Friday Late Night Movie series continues on July 11 with Australian filmmaker Sean Byrne‘s (THE DEVIL’S CANDY) latest, the cold blooded survival thriller DANGEROUS ANIMALS. Zephyr, a solitary surfer with a troubled past has come to Australia’s Gold Coast to find an escape, but her peaceful existence is disrupted when she … Read more
“You keep dancing with the devil, one day he’s gonna follow you home.” Following the massive success of both CREED and BLACK PANTHER franchises American director Ryan Coogler is again reuniting with one of the stars of those films, Michael B. Jordan, in an entirely new vision of fear: SINNERS. One of the most critically acclaimed … Read more
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