Movies
Genre: Science Fiction
Re-Animator (40th Anniversary Restoration)
The Rio Theatre‘s Friday Late Night Movie series continues with a special 40th Anniversary restoration of Stuart Gordon‘s sci-fi horror comedy, RE-ANIMATOR. H.P. Lovecraft and Lucio Fulci did not team up to make the most amazing gore-sex grotesquerie of 1985 — but thanks to RE-ANIMATOR, they didn’t have to.
Re-Animator (1985)
Loosely based on a short story by author H.P. Lovecraft, RE-ANIMATOR (1985) is a body horror comedy about a medical college and his girlfriend who become involved in bizarre experiments centering around the re-animation of dead people. Friday, June 26 REANIMATOR Doors 11:00 / Movie 11:30 Tickets
Rabid (Directors in Attendance for Q&A!)
Vancouver’s own Twisted Twins – aka filmmakers Jen and Sylvia Soska – are headed to the Rio Theatre on Sunday, March 8, for a screening of their latest, RABID, inspired by David Cronenberg‘s seminal 1977 body-horror classic. Even better? They’re sticking around for a post-screening Q&A, and are
Psycho-Pass Movie
PSYCHO-PASS: THE MOVIE (“Gekijō-ban Psycho-Pass”) is the 2015 Japanese anime science fiction crime film that effectively caps off the wildly successful series of the same name. (Please note: This film screens in Japaense with English subtitles.) PSYCHO-PASS: THE MOVIE Monday, March 28 Doors 6:00 | Movie 6:30pm Single
Prisoners of the Ghostland
Prolific, renegade Japanese auteur Sion Sono (WHY DON’T YOU PLAY IN HELL?, TOKYO TRIBE) makes his English-language debut with the genre-defying, dystopian action mystery-fantasy thriller PRISONERS OF THE GHOSTLAND, starring Nicolas Cage. In the treacherous frontier city of Samurai Town, a ruthless bank robber (Cage) is sprung from jail by
Predator
Nothing like it has ever been on Earth before. It came for the thrill of the hunt. It picked the wrong man to hunt. Get to the choppah.. ! For an encore screening of one of the 80s’ biggest sci-fi action-horror-thrillers
POSTPONED: Planet of the Apes (1968)
Dearest Rio Friends & Movie-Lovers: As per the government’s latest directive on November 23, 2020, we will be suspending operations until December 8, 2020 (barring any further changes). Screenings will be re-scheduled, and ticket-holders will be contacted shortly. In the meantime, we thank-you for your endless generosity and
POSTPONED Possessor Uncut
Dearest Rio Friends & Movie-Lovers: As per the government’s latest directive on November 23, 2020, we will be suspending operations until December 8, 2020 (barring any further changes). Screenings will be re-scheduled, and ticket-holders will be contacted shortly. In the meantime, we thank-you for your endless generosity and
Poor Things
From filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos (THE LOBSTER, THE FAVOURITE) and producer Emma Stone comes the incredible tale and fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter (Stone – who won her second Best Actress Oscar with thanks to her bravura performance), a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist
Polaris (Filmmakers in Attendance for Q&A!)
An Eco-Action Fantasy Thriller Set in a Frozen World. Filmmaker Kirsten Carthew‘s breathtaking, bold, and all-female eco-action fantasy POLARIS unravels with a stunning visual language all its own. Against the backdrop of a post-apocalyptic future, the world has upended. In this barren, frozen time during forever-winter, women endure