Join us at the Rio Theatre – and toast National Canadian Film Day (April 18) – with the Vancouver Premiere of director David Strasser’s, DELINQUENT, the first feature-length film to be shot on British Columbia’s Salt Spring Island. DELINQUENT tells the inspirational story of a rebellious teenager on a downward spiral. Jakob Levin is sentenced … Read more
“You were f***ing Tessa Campanelli?” Believe it or not, it’s been 25 years since the iconic, generation-shaping original Degrassi series came to a stunning finale with SCHOOL’S OUT!, one of the most watched Canadian TV movies ever made. Beyond being one of the most unforgettable series finales ever, it gained eternal notoriety for the shocking … Read more
The Kingdom of Abraxeon has fallen under siege by the Dreadites, a scourge of bloodthirsty demonic warriors said to herald the return of the sinister, ancient sorcerer Nekromemnon. The titular Deathstalker (martial artist and legendary stuntman Daniel Bernhardt) is a lone wolf who survives by scavenging the corpses strewn about the battlefields. After recovering a … Read more
The Rio Grind Film Festival is pleased to present a very last minute – but so very welcome – late night addition to the Rio Theatre’s calendar on Friday, October 9. Following its World Premiere at SXSW 2015, New Zealander Jason Lei Howden’s DEATHGASM has become one of the “ones to watch” ever since; it’s … Read more
Start your engines… The Rio Theatre’s Friday Late Night Movie series continues on August 11 with the high-octane camp classic DEATH RACE 2000. In the year 2000, America is a totalitarian regime on the brink of collapse. The most popular sport in this dystopia is the Transcontinental Road Race, where teams earn points for logging … Read more
The Rio Theatre‘s series of spooky Halloween fare continues on Thursday, October 24 with DEATH BECOMES HER – a film that has been requested many times over many year, but has yet to be played at the Rio Theatre – until now! In this 1992 cult-classic horror comedy, a novelist (Meryl Streep) loses her man … Read more
On a weekend getaway at a rundown cabin in the woods, Jason, a cautious teen, his crude best friend Colin and his fearless older sister Summer are forced to work together, grow up and save their hard-partying parents from their predatory neighbor intent on feeding them all to her undead family. Director Peter Ricq in … Read more
Following the massive global success of THE FLY in 1986, audiences were properly primed for iconic Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg‘s DEAD RINGERS, an intimate and often uncomfortable psychological thriller that manages to both penetrate and dramatically elevate the body horror genre with its deeply disturbing, twisted love story. Elliot (Jeremy Irons), a successful gynecologist, works … Read more
With DEAD MAN, his first period piece, American auteur Jim Jarmusch (STRANGER THAN PARADISE, DOWN BY LAW, ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE) imagined the nineteenth-century American West as an existential wasteland, delivering a surreal reckoning with the ravages of industrialization, the country’s legacy of violence and prejudice, and the natural cycle of life and death. Accountant William Blake … Read more
DEAD LOVER is the story of a lonely Gravedigger who reeks so strongly of corpses that she can’t attract a lover. She concocts fragrant perfumes in her workshop, but nothing can save her romantic prospects from her ghastly odor… Until one day, when Gravedigger meets Lover, an aristocratic dandy in town for his sister’s funeral. Lover … Read more
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