BRINGING THE WEIRD, WILD WORLD OF CINEMA TO KANSAS CITY SINCE 2018.
This Week
The first Iranian Vampire Western, Ana Lily Amirpour's debut feature A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night basks in the sheer pleasure of pulp. A joyful mash-up of genre, archetype and iconography, its prolific influences span spaghetti westerns, graphic novels, horror films, and the Iranian New Wave. Amped by a mix of Iranian rock, techno and Morricone-inspired riffs, its airy, anamorphic, black-and-white aesthetic and artfully drawn-out scenes combine the simmering tension of Sergio Leone with the surrealism of David Lynch.
Join us for the Kansas City premiere of The Vampires of New Orleans, a groundbreaking new docudrama combining Southern Gothic terror with investigations into the city's real-life folklore. Produced entirely locally by the dedicated filmmaking troupe behind the popular YouTube channel Atun-Shei Films, whose first feature The Sudbury Devil was lauded by Dread Central as the best independent horror film of 2023, this film rips away the tourist kitsch and tired literary tropes of the New Orleans vampire to reveal the seething historical injustices lurking just beneath the surface. The Vampires of New Orleans is a genuine epic of tortured Americana, featuring the rigorous research, cinematic flair, and punk rock sensibility that could only come from Atun-Shei Films. Includes a Q&A and meet-and-greet after the show with producer Veronika Payton
On the margins of Tokyo, a family of outcasts is held together by love, loyalty, and petty theft.
THIS MONTH @ THE VOID: While we celebrate all thing vampire, it’s only fitting that &drew explores the outskirts of bloodsucking delight with THE BARGAIN BIN VAMPIRE MIXTAPE, a mind melting collection of vampire clips from across media! It’s magical night of Shot-on-Video nightmares, commercial delights, and other assorted oddities.
Plus much, much more from the Void and a preshow featuring a hot-off the press digitization!
Animation Club presents a curated collection of spooky shorts just in time for Halloween! Classic to contemporary, goofy to grotesque.
Animation Club returns from the grave with a curated collection of spooky animated shorts just in time for Halloween! Classic to contemporary, goofy to grotesque: a little treat for everyone at this FREE screening!
Plus much, much more from the Void and a preshow featuring a hot-off the press digitization!
What could have possessed us to continue our Year of the Monsters film series by showing a movie about demons in October? What movie, you ask? That's a surprise, but we'll give you a few hints: It's one of Orrin's favorites; it actually takes place in October (but not on Halloween); and it comes from a short story by M. R. James.
THIS MONTH: In the spirit of thankfulness, we're opening up Video Void for a pot luck...a video pot luck! Instead of a night of video strangeness from your truly, we're slinging videos submitted by the video void faithful.
A VOlunteer-Run, Non-Profit Movie Theater in Kansas City
Stray Cat Film Center is a non-profit microcinema in Kansas City’s Crossroads neighborhood. Our 50-seat theater screens a wide variety of films, from French dramas to horror to socially conscious movies. Curated by a team of volunteer programmers, we offer a space for films that challenge and entertain.
We are committed to being an accessible and welcoming venue for film education, live art, and community events. Whether you're a longtime film lover or new to the scene, Stray Cat is a place to explore and connect through cinema.
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