The Fourth Annual International Vancouver Badass Film Festival is coming February 23-25, with events and screenings at The Rio Theatre on February 24th and 25th. Sunday, Feb 25 Doors 9:30pm 10pm: Ayla (Tristan Risk) – Tickets $12 advance HERE | $15 at the door Festival Pass available online by clicking HERE *Must be 19+ w/ID for admission. **Rio Theatre Groupons and passes are not accepted for … Read more
Dark Carnies! Tristan Risk and Burns the Dragon (Live!) & Where the Devil Roams (2023, dir Adams Family (Hellbender), BC Premiere) The Badass 9 Dark Carnies show starts with live sideshow performances from Burns the Dragon and Tristan Risk (American Mary, The Editor, Ayla, Frankenstein Created Bikers, Amazon Hot Box, Odyssey of the Dead, Reptile … Read more
The Ninth Annual International Vancouver Badass Film Festival w/ Genre Film & Script Awards and Live Sideshow Spectacular! Horror directing (and lately acting) legend Larry Fessenden returns with his brand new werewolf film Blackout, a follow-up of sorts to his 2022 Frankenstein film Depraved; kind of a rural upstate alcohol & lycanthropy counterpoint to his … Read more
In 1969, seven strangers, each with a secret to bury, meet at Lake Tahoe’s El Royale, a seedy, rundown hotel with a dark past that straddles the border between California and Nevada. Over the course of one fateful night the strangers – a cleric, a soul singer, a traveling salesman, two sisters, the manager and … Read more
“F**k me, Santa! F**k me, Santa! F**k me, Santa!” Make merry-merry with seriously fun Christmas Eve screening of two seriously hi-la-rious ho-ho-holiday classics – National Lampoon’s CHRISTMAS VACATION and BAD SANTA. Billy Bob Thornton has never been better than as the grumpy, alcoholic con-man mall Santa (who, underneath it all actually does have a heart … Read more
Join us at the Rio Theatre for the Vancouver Premiere of acclaimed director Carl Bessai’s latest feature, a tip of the hat to the glorious days of 70’s-era Canuxploitation, BAD CITY. Co-authored by co-stars Dustin Milligan (the CBC’s Schitt’s Creek, REPEATERS) and Aaron Brooks, this locally-lensed and totally groovy comedy also features Amanda Crew (THE … Read more
A few years from now… Bacurau, a small village in the Brazilian sertão, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be 94. Days later, its inhabitants (among them Sônia Braga) notice that their village has literally vanished from online maps and a UFO-shaped drone is seen flying overhead. There are forces that … Read more
“Remember, where you’re going, there are no roads.” Great Scott! We thought the time was right to to go back, way back, to 1985… And revisit Robert Zemeckis‘ original 80s classic, BACK TO THE FUTURE. But we’re not just screening the original BACK TO THE FUTURE… We’re (finally, after countless audience requests!) doing a marathon … Read more
“You built a time machine…. Out of a DeLorean?” Great Scott! We thought the time was right to to go back, way back, to 1985… And revisit Robert Zemeckis‘ original 80s classic, BACK TO THE FUTURE. But we’re not just screening the original BACK TO THE FUTURE… We’re also keeping it ramped at 88 and … Read more
“You built a time machine…. Out of a DeLorean?” Great Scott! We thought the time was right to to go back, way back, to 1985… And revisit Robert Zemeckis‘ original 80s classic, BACK TO THE FUTURE. But we’re not just screening the original BACK TO THE FUTURE. Michael J. Fox stars as Marty McFly, a … Read more
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