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The breakout role for indie megastar Pam Grier, COFFY is a deliriously fun blaxploitation classic! Projected from a RARE, LOW FADE, and UNCUT 16MM FILM PRINT!

From Dogme 95 co-founder Thomas Vinterberg, The Hunt is a gripping, devastating story of suspicion, hysteria, and fractured community.

Hint: William Castle's spookshow theatrics and Guillermo del Toro vibes meet J-horror in one of the earliest adaptations of Umezu's work.

“Vick and Tarstar are shooting their latest horror movie trash epic, Scarecrowed, with a cast and crew of punks, drug addicts, fetish models, and dumpster divers. Set back with extra hairy relationship drama, homelessness, lack of funding, and their crew members quitting, Vick and Tarstar just want to tell their story: With the right bucket, you too can buy your own hair cutting scarecrow made by the animatronic Goo Guys at the Scarecrow Factory.”

A gripping, real-life political thriller. Collective exposes corruption, courage, and the cost of telling the truth in Romania.

Making Contact is a notorious (and notoriously weird) German production that takes everything from E.T. to Close Encounters to Poltergeist, puts it all in a blender with Stephen King's IT (a year before that novel came out) and an evil ventriloquist dummy, and pours the resulting concoction all over the screen. With plenty of optical effects, kids on bikes, and even a guest appearance by Darth Vader, this FREE screening is something you'll have to see to believe - then stick around afterward as Orrin and Tyler talk about the 80s, ventriloquism, and more!

Banderas delivers a stunning performance in Almodóvar’s aching, intimate portrait of memory, creation, and the cost of a life in art.

This heartbreakingly beautiful indictment of 1950s American mores by Douglas Sirk follows the blossoming love between a well-off widow (Jane Wyman) and her handsome and earthy younger gardener (Rock Hudson). When their romance prompts the scorn of her children and country club friends, she must decide whether to pursue her own happiness or carry on a lonely, hemmed-in existence for the sake of the approval of others. With the help of ace cinematographer Russell Metty, Sirk imbues nearly every shot with a vivid and distinct emotional tenor. A profoundly felt film about class and conformity in small-town America, All That Heaven Allows is a pinnacle of expressionistic Hollywood melodrama.

ANDREW’S VIDEO VOID is a monthly gathering of found footage freaks and AV geeks where art, archivism, and having a great time collide in the greater Kansas City Area. For the low, low price of $0 (or a suggested donation of a VHS tape or DVD) your eyes can feast on the strangest mix of video oddities!

THIS MONTH: For the past couple of month, Andrew has been going over hours of the finest sci-fi themed erotica, cutting out all the useless stuff, and only keeping the horniest bits: ALL THE SCI-FI BULLSHIT. We’re talking switches, knobs, blinking lights, giant ass VR goggles and even a robot flipping the bird. It’s a beautiful night celebrating the power of imagining better, hornier futures.

It's the day after Christmas in suburban Florida and Billy 5000 (Jack Corbett) and his friends pass the seemingly endless days by slacking, shoplifting, and beatboxing. In between lounging on the beach and sneaking into pools, Billy spends his time hustling on the food-on-demand app Grubster, desperate to make $5,000 before New Year's Eve. As he darts around the city delivering to a series of oddball characters, a routine stop at the mysterious Dolphin Groves Juice Company leads to a run-in with his former classmate—and crush—Rozebud (Miya Folick) and a surprise backpack stowaway in Donut, a bizarre creature from another world. But Dr. Dolphin (Janeane Garofalo), the powerful orange juice CEO, will do anything to get Donut back, and Billy is forced to make hard choices about love, friendship, and how far he'll go for financial security in a world ruled by capitalism in this absurdist and musical take on a coming-of-age comedy.

A French family moves to a new neighborhood with during the summer holidays. The story follows a 10-year-old gender non-conforming child, Laure, who experiments with their gender presentation, adopting the name Mikäel.

Vince Lombardi High School keeps losing principals to nervous breakdowns because of the students' love of rock 'n' roll and their disregard of education. When new principal Togar comes along and tries to lay down the law, Ramones-adoring student Riff Randal is there to create as much chaos as possible, stopping at nothing to spread her love of rock music and fulfill her mission of meeting her idols to give them her songs.

In an alternate dystopian vision of turn-of-the-millennium Japan,42 junior high school students are selected to take part in the government's annual Battle Royale programme, established to address concerns about juvenile delinquency. Dispatched to a remote island, they are each given individual weapons (ranging from Uzis and machetes to pan lids and binoculars), food and water, and the order to go out and kill each other. Every player is fitted with an explosive collar around their neck, imposing a strict three-day time limit on the deadly games in which there can only be one survivor. Overseeing the carnage is 'Beat' Takeshi Kitano (Sonatine, Hana-bi, Zatoichi) as the teacher pushed to the edge by his unruly charges.

Together in perfect harmony. Jim Hosking’s ('The Greasy Strangler', 'An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn') newest unrelenting absurdist comedy. Two musical legends gather at a Scottish Cottage on The Mull of Kintyre for a tense summit to discuss a potential collaboration that will ultimately result in a global Number One smash hit single.

“When Daniel, a crime scene investigator, discovers the truth behind a series of bizarre sex murders in the BDSM scene, no one believes him. He finds that small creatures from another dimension, called Blood Gnomes, suddenly appear and rip their victims apart, then feed their bodies to The Mother of all Gnomes. Can Daniel stop these diminutive demons before they kill everyone around him?”

From eerie slow burns to blood-soaked chaos, these horror shorts from past KCUFFs preview the terror coming this September.

Together in perfect harmony. Jim Hosking’s ('The Greasy Strangler', 'An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn') newest unrelenting absurdist comedy. Two musical legends gather at a Scottish Cottage on The Mull of Kintyre for a tense summit to discuss a potential collaboration that will ultimately result in a global Number One smash hit single.

KC Zine Con10 is coming up fast and they need your support!

Come to Stray Cat Film Center as we host KC Zine Con with a special screening of the 1995 cozy classic PARTY GIRL starring Parker Posey!

Show up early at 5pm to swap zines and make complimentary custom merch print from @headfullofsoup's Bernie and Stray Cat design. Bring your own blank but we'll have some cheap/free things on you can print on too.

Ludovic is an innocent seven-year-old child who provokes horror in her community when she dresses in girls clothes and insists she's a girl.

From the minds behind River Beast and Metal Detector Maniac, Evil Puddle is Motern chaos at its most absurd and aquatic.

A pompous, cross-eyed king is in love with a shepherdess in a painting. The two-dimensional beauty, however, desires the dashing young chimney sweep in the frame next door. The two seek to escape the dastardly clutches of the tyrant with the help of a brightly feathered mockingbird. A gorgeously surreal masterpiece of French animation, this traditionally hand drawn film was completed over a span of 30 years, and became a major influence for master animators Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata.

In an effort to protect their three children from the corrupting influence of the outside world, a Greek couple transforms their home into a gated compound of cultural deprivation and strict rules of behavior. Soon, the family’s engineered reality begins to crumble, with devastating consequences. Before THE FAVOURITE and POOR THINGS, Yorgos Lanthimos kick-started the Greek Weird Wave with this absurdist, rollercoaster of a film! 

Tim’s Vermeer follows a man’s obsessive attempt to replicate genius with mirrors and math. It’s fascinating and a little unsettling.

Feminism and French New Extremity have always been a powerfully potent combination in the hands of female directors like Catherine Breillat (FAT GIRL) and Claire Denis (TROUBLE EVERY DAY), and auteur Marina de Van joined their righteously twisted ranks with her gorgeous and grotesque 2002 horror breakthrough IN MY SKIN. Esther has been recovering from a recent leg injury when she develops an increasingly disturbing relationship with her body, one where the lines between painful pleasure and self-mutilation become irrevocably blurred. Body horror filtered through serrated expectations of body image, IN MY SKIN is a powerful vision of feminist rage that will sink its teeth into you and never let go.

Starring William Shatner and Ernest Borgnine, featuring the screen debut of John Travolta, and with none other than Anton LaVey himself as a technical advisor, The Devil's Rain is many things, but classy is not one of them. Come for the FREE screening and then hang out as the hosts of the Horror Pod Class discuss Satanism, Scientology, and lots and lots of people melting!

In an effort to protect their three children from the corrupting influence of the outside world, a Greek couple transforms their home into a gated compound of cultural deprivation and strict rules of behavior. Soon, the family’s engineered reality begins to crumble, with devastating consequences. Before THE FAVOURITE and POOR THINGS, Yorgos Lanthimos kick-started the Greek Weird Wave with this absurdist, rollercoaster of a film! 

Alfred Hitchcock summoned darker shades of suspense and passion by casting two of Hollywood’s most beloved stars starkly against type. Alicia, an alluring woman with a checkered past is recruited by Devlin, a suave, mysterious intelligence agent, to seduce and spy on a Nazi industrialist hiding in South America. Coupling inventive cinematography with brilliantly subtle turns from his mesmerizing leads, Hitchcock orchestrates a thriller of rare perfection.

Come out on July 16th at 7pm for another Soviet Animation Double Feature, presented by Drea (@dicarlotomboy)! This month we’re showing three Soviet adaptations of western stories. You won’t want to miss this free screening. We hope to see you there!

Addicted to sadness, a middle-aged lawyer is only happy when he is unhappy. When his wife re-emerges from a long-lasting coma, he concocts increasingly elaborate and unsettling ways to try to regain what he misses most: the pity of others. Co-written by frequent Yorgos Lanthimos collaborator, Efthimis Filippou and the second film in our July Greek Weird Wave trilogy.