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!

Nitehawk Cinema presents a special screening of Bennett Miller’s documentary THE CRUISE as part of the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s NYFF Opening Acts series.

Q&A following the screening with director Bennett Miller and Eugene Hernandez, Deputy Director of the Film Society.

Whether you’re an auteurist, a completist, or simply an enthusiast, NYFF Opening Acts takes you deep into the back catalogs of today’s foremost talents to whet your appetite with a sampling of past triumph from these luminaries. So before you see Bennett Miller’s Foxcatcher (also director of Moneyball and Capote) at the 52nd New York Film Festival, (September 26–October 12), watch his compelling documentary The Cruise. His 1998 film chronicles the humorously irreverent and painful reflections of Timothy “Speed” Levitch, an eccentric New York City tour bus guide with an archive of beautifully distorted information about the city.

For more information on the series and the New York Film Festival visit Filmlinc.com!

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’s LIVE SOUND CINEMA presents a special one-nite pre-Halloween screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s silent film THE LODGER with a live score by MORRICONE YOUTH!

A Jack-the-Ripper type murderer called “The Avenger” is terrorizing London by targeting young blond women. How Hitchcockian! At the same time of these attacks, a mysterious man takes a room at the a family-owned boarding house and strikes up a relationship with the proprietor’s pretty blonde daughter. To thicken the plot, she’s engaged to a policeman hot on the trail of “The Avenger” who thinks her Lodger lover is the serial killer! Part of the restored newly restored “Hitchcock Nine” by the British Film Institute, The Lodger is considered the “first true Hitchcock film” and is, obviously, a thrilling way to kick start your Halloween.

Morricone Youth is a New York City band formed in 1999 dedicated to performing and recording old film and television soundtrack and library production music.

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.