Starring: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, Reese Witherspoon, Selma Blair, Louise Fletcher, Joshua Jackson, Christine Baranski

An adaptation of Dangerous Liaisons, Cruel Intentions tackles the seductive betrayal of young, rich and deviant youth in New York.

Rich and bored step-siblings Kathryn and Sebastian get a strange satisfaction from ruining the social lives of those unfortunate few who surround their social circle. One such victim is the young and naive Cecile who they seem hell bent on destroying for no real reason other than mild satisfaction. It isn’t until a new young lady named Annette comes into their life that a bet made between the two that he can take her coveted virginity turns dramatically complicated. Taking on a near soap opera style, Cruel Intentions is the sexiest of the 1990s teen-drama films.

Before the film, we’ll have a live pre-show drag and burlesque performance hosted by Miss Malice (Switch n’ Play) with special guests Mauve, Zenobia and Divina GranSparkle! Show starts at 8:35, so don’t be late!

A world-weary group of mercenaries discover a long-hidden secret in an abandoned WWII bunker in OUTPOST.

In the midst of a country ravaged by civil war, a world weary soldier of fortune is taken on by a shadowy businessman to recruit a band of mercenaries for a simple escort and protect mission. The journey takes them through no man’s land to secure a location while their elusive employer “runs some tests”. Little do the battle hardened men know that these so called tests will uncover a secret that has been buried for more than half a century, a secret so deadly that their mission becomes not one of protection, but survival.

Part of Nitehawk’s November UK MODERN HORROR midnite series.

Michael Myers comes home in John Carpenter’s holiday staple HALLOWEEN!

The American slasher (as well as John Carpenter and Jamie Lee Curtis’ career) gets solidified when the indestructible Michael Myers make his big screen debut in Halloween. It all begins one Halloween night when little Michael murders his sister while his parents are out. Locked away in an asylum for years, he makes his escape back to the scene of his crime where he, you guessed it, terrorizes young babysitters and their dates in his modified William Shatner mask and a gas station attendant outfit. Will Dr. Loomis make it to Haddonfield in time to save lives? Who will survive? Find out this Halloween!

Part of Nitehawk’s Halloween INTERNATIONAL SLASHER midnite series.

Encore screening of one of our favorite sequels in A Nite to Dismember, EVIL DEAD II. A 35mm presentation!

Evil Dead II is a comedic take on a lone survivor (the estimable Bruce Campbell) and a group of strangers who fight the undead released after reading the Necronomicon.A parody sequel to director Sam Raimi’s original feature Evil Dead (when does THAT ever happen?) this version heavily features the handsome hero Ash who must fight squirly, soaring and scary demons as well as his very own hand and a flying eyeball. Cue the chainsaw and shotgun accessories. One of the best!

Spoons, Toons & Booze Halloween Special

Your Favorite Saturday Morning Cartoons + Booze & Free Cereal + a Special Menu of Halloween Themed Episodes!

Do you miss your childhood Saturday mornings of waking up early to gorge on cereal and cartoons? If so, Secret Formula has the ultimate brunch for the kid in you…Spoons, Toons & Booze! We’ve got all your favorite Saturday morning cartoons, delicious cocktails and a free all you can eat sugar cereal bar, not to mention Nitehawk Cinema’s excellent brunch menu.

Lock your doors and turn off the lights because in the full moon of October we’re turning into Spoons, Toons & Boo! with a special menu of Halloween themed episodes of all your favorite Saturday morning (and weekday afternoon) cartoon series featuring witches, monsters, ghosts, trick or treating, werewolves and vampires, haunted houses, candy and more spooky fun. Even our cereal bar is haunted with special Halloween themed cereals! Plus…

– Over 80 cartoon series from the 1930’s through the 90’s and YOU get to choose what we watch!

– Dress up in your Halloween costume for the Costume Contest! Extra points if you’re dressed as a cartoon or cereal character.

– Free all you can eat cereal bar filled with all the sugary, marshmallowy, fruity, chocolaty cereal you crave! Soy and regular milk available.

– Special Halloween cereal menu featuring Booberry, Count Chocula, Frankenberry and more spooky cereals.

– Candy and Cereal Shots to spike your cereal bowl with!

– White Russian menu including “The Sonny”, a White Russian topped with Cocoa Puffs, and The Complete Breakfast – Cinnamon Toast Crunch infused rum, Bailey’s Irish Cream, iced coffee ($8).

– Compete in contests to choose which cartoons we watch and win prizes from Nitehawk Cinema!

Nitehawk goes back to COLLEGE with our special one-weekend screening of ANIMAL HOUSE!

The ultimate frat house fracas, the John Landis directed/Harold Ramis penned Animal House hits Nitehawk’s screen for one weekend only. Showing you what happens when National Lampoons brings you a story about a group of 1960s college students try to save their Delta Tau Chi Fraternity. So come out and root for the slobs as they go after that pesky dean and… kill a horse in the process.

Nitehawk’s annual all-night horror movie screening on Halloween is back with a series of horrifying sequels!

Like all good monsters who return from the grave, Nitehawk is bringing back its all-night horror movie marathon with The Return of…A Nite to Dismember! Starting at midnight on Halloween we will celebrate our second year by presenting only the very best in horror film sequels: Evil Dead II, The Bride of Frankenstein, Friday the 13th: Part 2, Dracula: Prince of Darkness, and Return of the Living Dead. There will also be horror shorts, inspired montages, giveaways, trivia, and a costume contest plus breakfast in the morning. Hosted by Fangoria’s Sam Zimmerman and Nitehawk’s Kris King!

RSVP to Flavorpill to get a bag of tricks-and-treats at the event! (note: you’ll still need to buy a ticket)

Forget trick-or-treating, spend the nite with us!

FILMS (in order of screening)…

EVIL DEAD II (Sam Raimi, 1987) – 35mm
A parody to director Sam Raimi’s original feature, Evil Dead II is a comedic take on a lone survivor (the estimable Bruce Campbell) and a group of strangers who fight the undead released after reading the Necronomicon.

THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (James Whale, 1935) – DCP
Widely considered to be one of the best movie sequels in cinema, James Whale’s The Bride of Frankenstein introduces Dr. Pretorius who tries to get Dr. Frankenstein back into the human-making business in order to make a wife for the beloved Karloff monster.

FRIDAY THE 13TH: PART 2 (Steve Miner, 1981) – Digital
A new set irresponsible, sex-crazed camp counsellors are back at a camp near Crystal Lake and so is the killer…it’s not Mrs. Voorhees but the indestructible Jason!

DRACULA: PRINCE OF DARKNESS (Terence Fisher, 1966)  – Digital
Though technically the third in the Hammer Dracula series, Dracula: Prince of Darkness is the second film featuring the iconic Christopher Lee as Dracula as he seduces a group of four unsuspecting castle visitors.

RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD (Dan O’Bannon, 1985) – Digital
The dead are back…Return of the Living Dead features a group of scientists who accidentally release poisonous gas that reanimates the dead, eventually turning most everyone into zombies who crave BRAINS!

Starring: Jessica Harper, Stefania Casini, Joan Bennett, Alida Valli, Udo Kier, Flavio Bucci, Miguel Bosé

Dario Argento’s Suspiria is a candy-coated nightmare with an explosion of color and sound, heightening all the gory kills and strange occurrences to an all time pitch-perfect high. (Those bugs, the razorblades, the Goblin soundtrack!). In this horror fairy tale written by Argento and Daria Nicolodi, ballet dancer Suzy Banyon attends the German Tans Academy only to instantly find herself in the middle of a series of gruesome, and supernatural, murders. As she uncovers the dark history of the prestigious academy, the coven of witches tighten their grip on her and her classmates. She fights hard to solve the mystery before the Black Queen completely consumes her!

A group of friends are terrorized by a family of cannibals in THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE!

Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is one of a handful of films that punctuate the very life-blood of cinematic history. Intensely brutal with very little reprieve or consideration for the audience, it came out of a rift of a socio-cultural framework, bursting onscreen with the evisceration of the family structure, youth culture, and cultural fragility in a post-Vietnam United States. Like Night of the Living Dead did five years earlier, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre reveals the unraveling framework of society and places the possibility of horror/death to occur anywhere; not in the Gothic castle nor in the fields of Vietnam but, more terrifyingly, in our surrounding neighborhoods. The film also reveals one of the first final girls (Sally) in the American slasher genre.

Starring: Neve Campbell, David Arquette, Courteney Cox, Matthew Lillard, Skeet Ulrich, Rose McGowan, Drew Barrymore

Many consider Wes Craven’s Scream to be the end of an era for the American horror film as it folds in all of the genre’s tropes of the previous twenty years into one meta experience. With one of the more shocking first scenes in horror history (akin to Hitchcock killing off his main character in Psycho), it establishes everything you need to know about the ride you’re about to go on. More than anything, and without being hokey, Scream is a whole lot of fun as a group of high school students ponder the “rules” of horror movies while a masked killer cleverly guts their peers.