Starring: River Phoenix, Keanu Reeves, James Russo, William Richert, Rodney Harvey, Chiara Caselli, Flea

Loosely based on Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Parts I and II, the friendship between hustlers Mike and Scott on the streets dreamily unfolds in Van Sant’s 1990s classic dramatic independent film. The tough life of living on the streets of Portland, consuming drugs, and selling their bodies has different meanings for Mike and Scott. Mike, gay and narcoleptic, is in constant search of the mother who abandoned him while Scott, not gay and rebellious, is just biding his time before receiving his inheritance. Their personal journey begins as they leave Portland for Idaho, and eventually Italy, in search of Mike’s mom.

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!

Starring: Alicia Silverstone, Stacey Dash, Brittany Murphy, Paul Rudd

Cher is a well-meaning but utterly clueless rich young lady in this instant 1990s comedy classic that is, surprisingly, based on a 19th century novel. Like match-making Emma, our heroine Cher tries to help everyone else around her (father, teachers, even the new girl) in the spoils of Beverly Hills all-the-while neglecting the things that she needs to do for herself. The drama of high school plays out as friends lose virginity, drivers license tests are failed, and she falls for a gay man. Plus, there’s a young Paul Rudd you wouldn’t want to miss. As if.

Six men are coming to town….one’s getting divorced….but they’re all in the DOGHOUSE!

In the tradition of other great UK comedy horror films like Shaun of the Dead and Severance comes Jack West’s Doghouse. Six men with mid-life anxiety set out for a weekend in the country in an attempt to reconnect with their masculinity. What they find is a catastrophe so horrible and bizarre that a mid-life crisis turns out to be exactly what they need to survive it. The battle of the sexes just got bloody!

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

Director Ben Wheatley brings us the mind-blowing genre film KILL LIST.

A brilliant blend of family drama, hitman action-thriller and terrifying psychological horror film, KILL LIST tells the story of an ex-soldier turned contract killer who is plunged into the heart of human darkness. Eight months after a disastrous hit job in Kiev left him physically and mentally scarred, Jay is pressured by his partner Gal, into taking a new assignment. As they descend into the bizarre, disturbing world of the contract, Jay’s world begins to unravel until fear and paranoia sending him reeling towards a horrifying point of no return.

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

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.

Spend some time with an eccentric family in our children-friendly Halloween screening of THE ADDAMS FAMILY!

They’re creepy and they’re kooky, Mysterious and spooky, They’re all together ooky, The Addams Family!

The classic television show of the macabre and wealthy Addams Family gets the big screen treatment in this fun-for-the-whole-family film! Usually mixed up in some sort of dark shenanigans, Gomez, Morticia and the kiddies Wednesday and Pugsley are being fooled that their long-lost Uncle Fester has returned. It’s really a crooked accountant and loan shark using the loan shark’s son to steal their money! Fortunately the Addams Family is far too clever, and strange, to let that happen.

Part of Nitehawk’s kid-friendly Halloween screenings in October.

Three friends discover that their neighbor’s house is really a living, breathing, scary monster in our children-friendly Halloween screening of MONSTER HOUSE!

Even for a 12-year old, D.J. Walters has a particularly overactive imagination. He is convinced that his haggard and crabby neighbor Horace Nebbercracker, who terrorizes all the neighborhood kids, is responsible for Mrs. Nebbercracker’s mysterious disappearance. Any toy that touches Nebbercracker’s property, promptly disappears, swallowed up by the cavernous house in which Horace lives. D.J. has seen it with his own eyes! But no one believes him, not even his best friend, Chowder. What everyone does not know is D.J. is not imagining things. Everything he’s seen is absolutely true and it’s about to get much worse than anything D.J could have imagined.

Part of Nitehawk’s kid-friendly Halloween screenings in October.

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!