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Two men sit in a car at night, rain streaking the windshield. The man on the left leans forward tensely, holding a crumpled tissue and staring intently at the driver. The driver, wearing a beige trench coat, looks straight ahead with a grim, troubled expression. The atmosphere is tense and suspenseful.

September 18, 2025

Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

World-renowned detective Benoit Blanc returns for his most dangerous case yet.

Six people pose together in front of a sky backdrop with a rainbow. They all wear light blue button-up shirts, khaki pants, oversized glasses, and curly black wigs, striking playful and exaggerated poses. One person kneels in front while the others stand, giving the scene a humorous, staged feel.

September 18, 2025

We Are Pat

In the early 1990s, Saturday Night Live’s Julia Sweeney created one of the show’s most popular characters of the time in the recurring sketch “It’s Pat!" Awkward, androgynous, and often wearing a light-blue pearl-snap Western-style shirt with tan slacks, Pat was an enigma—and their gender, and qu...

September 18, 2025

Shorts 1: After Dark

Unfulfilled dreams, dark obsessions, and illicit desires take center stage in this program that transports viewers into the bold and blood-curdling world of genre film. From ventriloquist dummies to unrequited love, these shorts expose our darkest fears… and create new ones. Blue Violet is a c...

A ventriloquist dummy leans forward from her chair to place a hand on the face of a young woman with a concerned expression.

September 18, 2025

Dummy!

Cecily dreams of following in her mother’s footsteps to become a famous cabaret singer, but there’s just one problem. In a world populated by ventriloquist dummies, Cecily is a human woman, shamed for her size and lack of talent by her diminutive and domineering mother. This film screens as pa...

A fly rests on an extreme close-up of a blue iris with eyelashes to the left and right. The eye seems to belong to a corpse.

September 18, 2025

Pinpoint

Wolfe, a struggling medical student who aspires to become an anesthesiologist, has been hounding his professor for more cadaver time for weeks. Between his instructor’s harsh criticisms and classmates who would rather party than practice medicine, Wolfe’s dissatisfaction mounts until inspiration ...

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