Moonage Daydream

With MOONAGE DAYDREAM, Brett Morgen (The Kid Stays in the Picture, Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, Jane) presents a genre defying immersion into the art and sounds of David Bowie. Considered one of the greatest artists of our time, David Bowie has been moving culture for over 50 years. MOONAGE DAYDREAM is the first film … Read more

Pearl

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! Following the breakout success of … Read more

Meet Me In The Bathroom

Join us at the Rio Theatre on for MEET ME IN THE BATHROOM, an immersive journey through the New York music scene of the early 2000s featuring never-before-seen footage of artists like Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Strokes, Interpol and LCD Soundsystem. Set against the backdrop of 9/11, the film tells the story of how a … Read more

Nope

“What’s a bad miracle?” Oscar winner Jordan Peele disrupted and redefined modern horror with GET OUT, and then US. Now, he re-imagines the summer movie with a new pop nightmare: the expansive horror epic, NOPE. The film reunites Peele with Oscar-winner Daniel Kaluuya (GET OUT, JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH), who is joined by Keke … Read more

Hellraiser (Remastered)

“Demon to some. Angel to others.” Go back to where it all started. Stephen King was once famously quoted as saying, “I have seen the future of horror… his name is Clive Barker.” That future was realized in 1987 with the release of Barker’s directorial debut HELLRAISER. Based on his own novella “The Hellbound Heart,” … Read more

Terrifier 2

“Who’s laughing now?” Since its release in 2016, Damien Leone‘s TERRIFIER has become a bonafide cult classic. The slasher gave Art the Clown his own film and delivered some of the nastiest kills in slasher history. Since then, the horror community has been clamoring for more and has expressed their love in various ways with … Read more

Child’s Play #MonsterMonday

“No one believes the truth… Or lives to tell it.” The Rio Theatre‘s #MonsterMonday series continues on October 24 at 9:30 pm with the original CHILD’S PLAY, the iconic 80s horror slasher about a kinda cute, almost cuddly demon-doll that answers to the name of “Chucky.” Gunned down by Detective Mike Norris (Chris Sarandon), dying … Read more

Stars At Noon

A young American journalist (Margaret Qualley) stranded in present-day Nicaragua falls for an enigmatic Englishman (Joe Alwyn) who seems like her best chance of escape. She soon realizes, though, that he may be in even greater danger than she is. Adapted from Denis Johnson’s novel. “Updating Denis Johnson’s Nicaragua-set novel from the Revolution to the … Read more

Bodies Bodies Bodies

When a group of 20-somethings gets stuck at a remote mansion during a hurricane, a party game gone very, very wrong ends with a dead body on the ground and fake friends at every turn as they try to find the killer among them. With Amandla Stenberg, Maria Bakalova, Rachel Sennott, Chase Sui Wonders, Pete … Read more

VIFF: I Like Movies

Lawrence (Isaiah Lehtinen), a teenage cinephile, is convinced that he’s destined for bigger things than Burlington, Ontario can offer. Obsessed with Paul Thomas Anderson and Todd Solondz, he’s intent on attending film school at NYU before unleashing his directorial vision on an unsuspecting world. This despite the fact his artistic output is, well, underwhelming. Faced … Read more