Come out to the New Parkway to cheer or jeer the candidates as we screen the 2024 vice presidential debate live on the silver screen. In attendance will be a group of students from Tim Walz's Mankato West High School in Minnesota.

The first Iranian Vampire Western ever made, Ana Lily Amirpour's debut 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.

In Wes Craven's classic slasher film, several Midwestern teenagers fall prey to Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund), a disfigured midnight mangler who preys on the teenagers in their dreams -- which, in turn, kills them in reality. After investigating the phenomenon, Nancy (Heather Langenkamp) begins to suspect that a dark secret kept by her and her friends' parents may be the key to unraveling the mystery, but can Nancy and her boyfriend Glen (Johnny Depp) solve the puzzle before it's too late?

While scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group of young space colonists come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe.

When a recently-deceased ghost couple find their now-vacant home invaded by an obnoxious family, they hire a sleazy ghost who gets rid of humans to help them.

After a family tragedy, three generations of the Deetz family return home to Winter River. Still haunted by Beetlejuice, Lydia's life is turned upside down when her teenage daughter, Astrid, accidentally opens the portal to the Afterlife.

A cantor in a crisis of faith finds his world turned upside down when his grade school music teacher re-enters his life as his new adult Bat Mitzvah student.

Chucky, the doll possessed by a serial killer, discovers the perfect mate to kill and revive into the body of another doll.

Cereal Cinema is the New Parkway's Saturday morning offering of family-friendly fun, accompanied by an all-you-can-eat cereal bar. We'll have classic cartoons from decades past on the screen, none announced until the actual show, but all of a PG or G equivalency.

The Movie is set on Mars in 2071, 49 years after Earth was mostly abandoned after a catastrophe. Humanity has settled on other planets and moons in the solar system. The film's protagonists are legalized bounty hunters who travel together on the spaceship Bebop.

An anthology which tells five terrifying tales based on the E.C. horror comic books of the 1950s.

A small-town beauty pageant turns deadly as it becomes clear that someone will go to any lengths to win.

Come out to the New Parkway from 5-11pm as we air the returns from this very important 2024 election. All seating is first-come, first-served. No outside food but we've got all the goodies on hand for purchase.

To foil a terrorist plot, FBI agent Sean Archer assumes the identity of the criminal Castor Troy who murdered his son through facial transplant surgery, but the crook wakes up prematurely and vows revenge.

After getting a premonition about a plane crash on his school trip, Alex, a student, saves a few of his classmates. However, their situation gets complicated when death starts chasing them.

A glowing green orb that embodies ultimate evil terrorizes a young girl with an anthology of bizarre and fantastic stories.

A schoolgirl and six of her classmates travel to her aunt's country home, which turns out to be haunted.

When a woman's first love suddenly reenters her life, her relationship with a charming, but abusive neurosurgeon is upended and she realizes she must learn to rely on her own strength to make an impossible choice for her future.

Amidst the landscape of a transforming city, a young Eritrean-American boy confronts the realities of change and loss.

Oskar, an overlooked and bullied boy, finds love and revenge through Eli, a beautiful but peculiar girl.

Lover Of Men examines the intimate life of America's most consequential president, Abraham Lincoln. As told by preeminent Lincoln scholars and never before seen photographs and letters, the film details Lincoln's romantic relationships with men. Lover Of Men widens its lens into the history of human sexual fluidity and focuses on the profound differences between sexual mores of the nineteenth century and those we hold today. The film fills in an important missing piece of American history and challenges the audience to consider why we have such a limited view of human sexuality. Lover Of Men is not only an exploration of gender roles and sexual identity but also examines American intolerance.

Five women enveloped in opulence at the turn of the millennium welcome us into their sanctuaries. Drunken Film Fest Oakland fan favorite Ryan McGlade (Buddymovie ‘22 Best US Narrative, Knickknacks ‘20, Bennifer ‘18) is joined by artist and filmmaker Molly Wurwand in their joint feature debut.

Two half-brothers travel across a strange forest in order to find their way home, encountering odd and wonderful things on their journey.

In the Falangist Spain of 1944, the bookish young stepdaughter of a sadistic army officer escapes into an eerie but captivating fantasy world.

A year after disposing of the body of a man they accidentally killed, a group of dumb teenagers are stalked by a bumbling serial killer.

A year after the murder of her mother, a teenage girl is terrorized by a new killer, who targets the girl and her friends by using horror films as part of a deadly game.

The uneventful, aimless lives of a London electronics salesman and his layabout roommate are disrupted by the zombie apocalypse.

Si Pudiera Quedarme "Si Pudiera Quedarme / If I Could Stay" is a heart-wrenching and inspiring story of two undocumented Latinx mothers, Jeanette and Ingrid, who courageously enter local churches to evade deportation and protect their families. Over five years, they must face the constant threat of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids while fighting for their legal status and inspiring allies in the predominantly white faith communities. Through an intimate and raw lens, the film showcases the unwavering strength, love, and sacrifice of these mothers, who risk everything to keep their families together in the country they call home. "Si Pudiera Quedarme / If I Could Stay" is a call to action and a powerful reminder that providing Sanctuary is not just an act of charity, but a crucial act of social justice. "jardines" Set in a one of the few LGBTQ+ shelters in Tijuana, jardines is an intimate portrait of the life experiences and trajectories unique to displaced queer folks as they flee violence and persecution in their home countries. Crafted with a lush, poetic and joyous eye the film introduces us to people from allover the world as they contemplate the uncertainty of a future in the United States at a time when asylum legislation and LGBTQ+ rights are under legal duress. It is in this limbo, amid the shelter's walls, that we share a moment in time with its residents. Strangers become friends and family, as they begin to share deep moments of joy and grief, sorrow and hope.

Silents Synced pairs classic silent movies with epic rock music. The first film will feature Radiohead’s “KID A (2000) / Amnesiac (2001),” paired with Nosferatu (1923).

Two children wake up in the middle of the night to find their father is missing, and all the windows and doors in their home have vanished.

Nothing is what it seems when a twisted one-night stand spirals into a serial killer's vicious murder spree.

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink is the story of one secretive hedge fund that is plundering America’s newspapers and the journalists who are fighting back. Investigative reporter Julie Reynolds, Denver Post editorialist Chuck Plunkett and a handful of others, backed by the NewsGuild Union, go toe-to-toe with the faceless Alden Global Capital in a battle to save and rebuild local journalism across America. Who will control the future of America’s news ecosystem: Wall Street billionaires concerned only with profit, or those who see journalism as an essential public service and the lifeblood of our democracy?

The Berkeley Film Foundation presents a program of shorts by and about formerly incarcerated filmmakers, with a post program Q&A. FINDING MA directed by Thanh Tran (14 minutes) After 20 years apart, a Vietnamese American family shattered by foster care and prison systems reunites to heal old wounds and rebuild their family, starting with finding their unhoused mother in the streets of Sacramento. FRIENDLY SIGNS directed by Rahsaan “New York” Thomas (22 minutes) Incarcerated man, who grew up with a deaf older brother, seeks to make San Quentin State Prison a safe and inclusive space for “his brother’s community” by start a sign language class. THE BRIDGE BETWEEN TWO WORLDS directed by Antwan “Banks” Williams. (30 minutes) Paroled from the notorious San Quentin State Prison in 2019, Antwan and Eric embark on mission that challenges societal norms and redefines the power of second chances. Their destination? An elite private school nestled in the heart of Marin, California. JUDGING JURIES directed by Abby Ginzberg – 24 minutes Judging Juries reveals the barriers to jury service which deprive defendants in criminal cases of juries which represent a cross-section of the community. While there are many issues contributing to the lack of diversity in the jury pool, juror pay is at the top of the list. In California, jurors receive $15 per day for jury duty. In Mississippi, they receive $5 per day and in New York state they receive $40 per day. Clearly, this payment schedule needs to be revised, particularly if jury duty requires the possibility of missed weeks of work without compensation. An innovative program in San Francisco called Be the Jury, which pays jurors $100 per day, has discovered that many more working people and people of color are able to serve as a result of this increase in compensation.

A single mother, plagued by the violent death of her husband, battles with her son's fear of a monster lurking in the house, but soon discovers a sinister presence all around her.

Mary Shelley reveals the main characters of her novel survived: Dr. Frankenstein, goaded by an even madder scientist, builds his monster a mate.

A newcomer to a Catholic prep high school falls in with a trio of outcast teenage girls who practice witchcraft and they all soon conjure up various spells and curses against those who even slightly anger them.

A visiting actress in Washington, D.C., notices dramatic and dangerous changes in the behavior and physical make-up of her 12-year-old daughter. Meanwhile, a young priest at nearby Georgetown University begins to doubt his faith while dealing with his mother's terminal sickness. And, book-ending the story, a frail, elderly priest recognizes the necessity for a show-down with an old demonic enemy.

A monster emerges from Seoul's Han River and begins attacking people. One victim's loving family does what it can to rescue her from its clutches.

Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) becomes winter caretaker at the isolated Overlook Hotel in Colorado, hoping to cure his writer's block. He settles in along with his wife, Wendy (Shelley Duvall), and his son, Danny (Danny Lloyd), who is plagued by psychic premonitions. As Jack's writing goes nowhere and Danny's visions become more disturbing, Jack discovers the hotel's dark secrets and begins to unravel into a homicidal maniac hell-bent on terrorizing his family.

A research facility in Antarctica comes across an alien force that can become anything it touches with 100% accuracy. The members must now find out who's human and who's not before it's too late.

On Christmas Eve, three homeless people living on the streets of Tokyo find a newborn baby among the trash and set out to find its parents.

When Bella Swan moves to a small town in the Pacific Northwest, she falls in love with Edward Cullen, a mysterious classmate who reveals himself to be a 108-year-old vampire.

It is many thousand years in the future. Vampires once ruled the night but have seen their numbers reduced by fearless bounty hunters. One such hunter is D, the halfbreed son of a human mother and vampire father. When a girl from a rich family is taken from her home by the vampire Meier Link, her father contracts both D and the Markus brothers (a rival group of hunters) to race to retrieve her. As the heroes fight their way through Meier's hired guards, they begin to suspect that the girl may have gone with him willingly.

After an encounter with a neck-biter, a publishing executive thinks that he's turning into a vampire.

Now in its tenth year, the Weird Film Fest rounds up short horror, sci-fi, fantasy & just plain weird films from around the world. Pre-apocalypse, post-apocalypse, now-apocalypse - we’ve seen it all, from Argentine zombie bikers, Slovak werewolves and revenant Mississippi clowns to the mayhem of a Kaiju defying a Homeowner's Association. Come prepared for a trivia contest with prizes!

Viago, Deacon, and Vladislav are vampires who are finding that modern life has them struggling with the mundane - like paying rent, keeping up with the chore wheel, trying to get into nightclubs, and overcoming flatmate conflicts.