An avant-gutter psychedelic dream, ANYTHING THAT MOVES is an erotically charged, blood-soaked thriller set in the sticky corridors of Chicago. Shot on fleshy Super 16mm, director Alex Phillips' rust belt giallo continues on his trajectory of taboo-shattering horror cinema with this tense, funny, and absolutely twisted murder mystery. The film follows nubile sex worker Liam who bikes with his girlfriend—his partner in both business and pleasure—through the city delivering snacks and divine satisfaction to his love-hungry clients. Meanwhile, a serial killer's gory murders are piling up and all the evidence seems to point back to the lover's bed... Produced in collaboration with cult home video outfit Vinegar Syndrome, the film features stand-out supporting performances from erotic film legends Ginger Lynn (The Devil’s Rejects) and Nina Hartley (Boogie Nights). With an original instrumental score by Chicago-based artists Cue Shop calling to mind the lush orchestrations of Bruno Nicolai and lurid visuals by acclaimed cinematographer Hunter Zimny (The Scary of Sixty-First, Funny Pages), ANYTHING THAT MOVES provides an immersive throwback to 70s exploitation flicks.

A spate of highly sexualized murders is rocking a prestigious Milanese fashion house. An ambitious photographer (gialli queen Edwige Fenech, ALL THE COLORS OF THE DARK, THE STRANGE VICE OF MRS. WARDH) and her on-off, love-rat boyfriend team up to crack the case. But, with the motorcycle helmet-wearing killer clearly bearing a grudge against the agency’s employees, it’s a matter of time before they too feel the force of his wrath...

Divisive at the time of its release, Crimson Peak has since developed as much of a cult following as a major movie by an Academy Award-winning director can claim. Does it deserve it? The only way to find out is to join us for a FREE screening, after which Tyler and Orrin will talk about the gothic genre, the tradition of ghost stories at Christmas, whether or not horror movies need to be scary, and probably Tom Hiddleston's butt.

Join us for a FREE screening of this seldom-seen film, and then stick around afterward as Orrin and Tyler discuss the history of J-horror, what makes a found footage movie work, and ectoplasmic worms!

THE HORROR POD CLASS is a monthly free screening hosted by Orrin Grey and Tyler Unsell where they seek out horror films that could be useful in a school setting. Screenings start at 7pm with a live podcast recording taking place after.

A year before stunning the genre with ALL THE COLORS OF THE DARK, the team of director Sergio Martino, co-writer Ernesto Gastaldi, and stars Edwige Fenech & George Hilton made their collaborative giallo debut with this incredible piece of cinema every bit as thrilling as Argento’s best. Fenech is at her most luminous as an unfaithful diplomat’s wife hunted by a razor-wielding maniac while also haunted by her own depraved desires. This daring shocker set the pace for years to come.

Magnetic Magic is back and kickin’ off the year with a Full Moon classic from B-Grade mainstay Albert Pyun. Get ready for a night of pint-sized intergalactic action as Analog Sunday presents: Dollman!

Beginning in 1974, Lloyd Kaufman and the Troma Team have been attending the Cannes Film Festival to promote their movies, share the joy of independent art, and protest media consolidation. Renowned for using guerilla tactics and provocative artistry to sell films, Troma’s audacious performances spark both controversy and curiosity. Occupy Cannes documents their return to Cannes for the first time in a decade to promote their new film Return to Nuke Em High Vol. 1—the continuation of their renowned Class of Nuke ‘Em High —with staged stunts, Troma-rrific costumes, and DIY messaging. Shot and directed by Lloyd Kaufman’s daughters Lily-Hayes and Charlotte Kaufman, and starring Lloyd himself and Troma fans from around the world!

A BAY OF BLOOD seriously delivers the goods in the slasher thrills department, and was the source material for two of FRIDAY THE 13TH PART 2’s greatest kills…this thing’s even set at a lakeside cabin (hint, hint!) Whether you’re a first-time or repeat viewer of A BAY OF BLOOD, you owe it to yourself to luxuriate in Severin Films’ blissful new 4K restoration.

L’Avventura abandons narrative urgency in favor of duration, absence, and emotional drift, allowing time itself to take center stage.

Two haunting short films, Courtesy of Severin Films!

Divisive at the time of its release, Crimson Peak has since developed as much of a cult following as a major movie by an Academy Award-winning director can claim. Does it deserve it? The only way to find out is to join us for a FREE screening, after which Tyler and Orrin will talk about the gothic genre, the tradition of ghost stories at Christmas, whether or not horror movies need to be scary, and probably Tom Hiddleston's butt.

Join us for a FREE screening of this seldom-seen film, and then stick around afterward as Orrin and Tyler discuss the history of J-horror, what makes a found footage movie work, and ectoplasmic worms!

THE HORROR POD CLASS is a monthly free screening hosted by Orrin Grey and Tyler Unsell where they seek out horror films that could be useful in a school setting. Screenings start at 7pm with a live podcast recording taking place after.

Twenty years after the making of her groundbreaking trans documentary Gendernauts, Monika Treut returns to San Francisco to catch up with her subjects and find out where time and life have led them. What she finds is a city transformed: what had once been a utopia for trans communities has now grown largely inaccessible due to rising costs and gentrification. Sandy Stone, Stafford, Susan Stryker, Max Wolf Valerio, and Annie Sprinkle all return in this lovely—if bittersweet—document of trans elderhood and enduring activism in the face of an affordability crisis and a repressive government.

Soviet animator Lev Atamanov’s sublime and terrifyingly beautiful masterpiece, based on a Hans Christian Andersen story, follows a resourceful young girl, Gerda (voiced by Yanina Zheymo), as she embarks on an epic journey to save her friend Kay (Anna Komolova) from the frozen embraces of the magnificent Snow Queen (Mariya Babanova.)

Dorothee Müller (Ina Blum) is a German journalist researching an article about the nature of romantic love—something she desperately needs, given her dysfunctional relationships with former lover Heinz (Gad Klein) and brother Bruno (Marcelo Uriona). In the Oz of San Francisco, Dorothee finds exactly what she was looking for—and then some—thanks to the help of lesbian strip show barker Susie Sexpert (Susie Bright), drag king Ramona (Shelly Mars), and her mysteriously kinky neighbors (Cleo Dubois and Fakir Musafar). When Dorothy surfaces like a dazzled tourist on the wilder shores of the city’s thriving lesbian community, she has discovered her true sexuality…and left some illusions behind.

What goes better together than cocktails, Christmas, and crime? Did I mention cocktails? Actually, lots of cocktails! Probably (maybe definitely) one of the most fun pre-code Hollywood movies ever, THE THIN MAN spawned multiple sequels, but nothing beats the original. An anxious daughter hires famed detectives Nick and Nora Charles to help locate her missing father. The plot is a bit thin, but the martinis are very dry. This effortlessly enjoyable hangover mystery is full of dry-witted detectives, zingers, and booze - 90 minutes of pure holiday fun! Based on a story by Dashiell Hammett, and starring Myra Loy and (Kansas City's own) William Powell. Come around early between 6-7pm for a special cocktail happy hour!

A probing essay film that questions the myth of the “objective” image, exploring how technology shapes what we see and believe.

Made at the height of the tech boom of the late 1990s, Monika Treut’s Teddy Award-winning Gendernauts is a portrait of a group of trans artists, activists, and academics living in San Francisco—including historian Susan Stryker, web designer Stafford, video artists Jordy Jones and Texas Tomboy, intersex activist Hida Viloria, and “Goddess of Cyberspace” Sandy Stone. Treut also catches up with Annie Sprinkle and Max Wolf Valerio, who she first profiled in 1992’s Female Misbehavior. Viewed now, over 25 years since its initial release, Gendernauts remains a fascinatingly multifaceted look at the way that technology and the internet reshaped trans culture at the close of the 20th century.

Plot: Four men hijack a New York City subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers. But even if they're paid, how could they get away?

Featuring one of the best character actor casts of all time, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three is a masterpiece of 70s grunge! Screening from a RARE 16MM FILM PRINT!

Wanda (Mechthild Großmann) is a dominatrix who runs an S/M performance space in Hamburg where she stages elaborate sexual rituals for a discerning audience. Cruelty is her profession, but constructing traps for her lovers—including the lovelorn Gregor (Udo Kier), the naive and innocent Justine (Sheila McLaughlin), and the jaded Caren (Carola Regnier)—is her specialty. All know the rules of the game, but not all are willing to play their roles—but the show must go on… 

A force of nature since 1985, underground icon Jon Moritsugu—in partnership with wife Amy Davis—creates candy-colored genre riots that feel like NC-17 sitcoms from outer space. Moritsugu's fearless, protopunk deconstructions function as a giant middle finger to everything from racism to gender expectations—while also exploring themes of Asian-American identity. We’re having a double feature of two our favorites, MOD FUCK EXPLOSION and TERMINAL USA! 

The Finding Aid presents The Gay 80s, a compilation of archival programming that explores early 80s gay culture in Los Angeles and San Francisco, visits a famous PTL interview with Tammy Faye, and travels to New York with a young RuPaul. December 10th at 7pm, hosted by Drea (@dicarlotomboy) and free!

Vicky (Shelley Kästner) is a German expat working as a waitress in the East Village while also dreaming of making it as an actor. She’ll have to give the performance of a lifetime when her stodgy father (Alfred Edel) hastily makes plans to visit her. As Vicky rushes to hide the aspects of her lifestyle that she doesn’t think he’ll approve of—namely, her gay roommate Ben (David Bronstein) and lesbian lover Lisa (Mary Lou Grailau)—only to become involved with a handsome stranger with a mysterious past (Michael Massee) in the process, Pops winds up tangled up with “post-porn modernist” Annie Sprinkle.

As the season of merriment draws near, Magnetic Magic unwraps an unhinged Christmas-set classic for the chaotic as Analog Sunday presents: Real Killers!

A bureaucratic mix-up collides two men with the same name into each other’s lives, creating a strange, gentle, and quietly funny triangle.

Monika Treut presents four short documentaries about individuals who live and act outside of society’s expectations of womanhood. In Dr. Paglia (1992), Sexual Personae writer and academic Camille Paglia holds court with author Bruce Henderson. Then, in Annie (1989), “post-porn modernist” Annie Sprinkle gives a PCA (Public Cervix Announcement). Bondage (1983) is a look at lesbian sadomasochism with Carol from New York’s Lesbian Sex Mafia. Finally, in the groundbreaking Max (1992), trans poet Max Wolf Valerio discusses his life and transition. What emerges from these four very different portraits is a compelling snapshot of those at the forefront of blurring and expanding the definition of sex and gender at the close of the 20th century.

Eva Norvind was born Eva Johanne Chegodaieva Sakonskaja in 1944, the daughter of a Russian prince and a Finnish sculptor in Trondheim, Norway. Monika Treut’s Didn’t Do It for Love traces the many stages of her unbelievable life story: from her early success as a showgirl in Paris to her transformation into Mexico’s Marilyn Monroe in the 1960s, her subsequent career as a journalist in the 1970s, and culminating in her establishing herself as New York’s most famous and business savvy dominatrix in the 1980s. Didn’t Do It for Love is an odyssey through the wilderness of sexuality, capturing Eva’s search for the wellspring of her obsessive drive to dominate.

Stray Cat Film Center is proud to partner with Visual AIDS for Day With(out) Art 2025 by presenting Meet Us Where We’re At, a program of six videos that forefront the experiences of drug users and harm reduction practices as they intersect with the ongoing HIV crisis.

A masked killer is murdering high school students, and a group of friends must use their horror movie knowledge to unmask the killer! A genre defining masterpiece, Wes Caven’s SCREAM remains one of the funniest, flirtiest slashers ever made! Screening from an incredibly rare, LPP 16mm film print!

All this year, the Horror Pod Class will be exploring a century of fright films with their Yearbook series, covering one movie from each decade from 1925 through 2015. What does 2005 mean to you? For the Horror Pod Class, it's all about found footage and the J-horror boom as they host Koji Shiraishi's legendary masterpiece Noroi.

Join us for a FREE screening of this seldom-seen film, and then stick around afterward as Orrin and Tyler discuss the history of J-horror, what makes a found footage movie work, and ectoplasmic worms!

THE HORROR POD CLASS is a monthly free screening hosted by Orrin Grey and Tyler Unsell where they seek out horror films that could be useful in a school setting. Screenings start at 7pm with a live podcast recording taking place after.

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.

We’re having a DOUBLE FEATURE of Suki Hawley’s and Michael Galinsky's cult music films HALF-COCKED and RADIATION! Following both films, the filmmakers will Zoom in for a Q&A!