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Director: Brian Mendelssohn Run Time: 70 min. Release Year: 2020

Starring: Cats

In Row House Cinema’s moment of need…. we turned to cats. And it was awesome. People around the world filmed their cats during COVID lockdowns, and we picked the cutest and funniest videos for an amazing cat compilation reel. If you missed the virtual premiere or just want to see all that cuteness on the big screen, come see it in theaters!

Run Time: 50 min.

This Row House original reel is composed of the best classic movies, re-made by amateurs who replace A-list stars and CGI with whatever is laying around their houses and a ton of creativity. It’s odd, unexpected, and a whole lot of fun. This year’s film includes remakes of No Country for Old Me, Stop Making Sense, and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.

Director: Hayao Miyazaki Run Time: 103 min. Release Year: 1989 Language: Japanese

Starring: Kappei Yamaguchi, Keiko Toda, Mieko Nobusawa, Minami Takayama, Rei Sakuma

Enter the fantastic imagination of creator Hayao Miyazaki once again in Kiki’s Delivery Service. A young witch, Kiki, finishes her training and finds her place in the world by starting a courier service in this sweet and family-friendly Japanese film with jaw-droppingly beautiful animation you’d expect from Studio Ghibli.

Director: David Lynch Run Time: 120 min. Release Year: 1986

Starring: Dennis Hopper, Hope Lange, Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan, Laura Dern

A severed ear discovered in a field, reveals the cracks and dark secrets of a seemingly idyllic little town. David Lynch’s neo-noir mystery follows a young man as he wanders into the murky world of a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and the psychopathic criminals running her life.

Director: Rob Reiner Run Time: 98 min. Rating: PG Release Year: 1987

Starring: André the Giant, Cary Elwes, Chris Sarandon, Christopher Guest, Fred Savage, Mandy Patinkin, Peter Cook, Peter Falk, Robin Wright, Wallace Shawn

Reopening without showing our favorite movie? Inconceivable! In this cracked fairytale classic, Princess Buttercup and the dashing Westly fight off six-fingered swordsmen, murderous princes, scheming Sicilians, and rodents of unusual size — all in the name of true love.

Director: Michael Curtiz Run Time: 102 min. Rating: PG Release Year: 1942

Starring: Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henried

Of all the movie joints in Pittsburgh, you had to walk into ours…. Because you obviously didn’t want to miss this amazing, intriguing romantic drama, starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman. Set in Morocco at the onset of WWII, a jaded ex-patriot must choose between his love for a woman and helping her husband escape Nazis.

Director: Joel Coen Run Time: 117 min. Release Year: 1998

Starring: Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Steve Buscemi

The Dude just wants to bowl and get a little buzzed on White Russians. But millionaire delinquents, trophy wives, kidnappings, a porno king, hippies, and his bowling partner Walter keep getting in the way in this Coen Brothers classic with a cult following.

Director: Spike Lee Run Time: 120 min. Rating: R Release Year: 1989

Starring: Danny Aiello, Giancarlo Esposito, Ossie Davis, Richard Edson, Ruby Dee

Spike Lee’s iconic film tackles the bleak everyday nuances of race in America with a masterful blend of humor, style, and wit. Questions about policing, economic discrimination, and human empathy all swirl around a little pizza shop in Brooklyn over the course of a day marked by tragedy.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock Run Time: 86 min. Format: Audio Amplification Available Release Year: 1929

Starring: Anny Ondra, Charles Paton, Donald Calthrop, John Longden, Sara Allgood

Hitchcock's silent masterpiece with a live piano accompaniment! One night only on Sept. 29

Director: Dario Argento Run Time: 99 min. Rating: R Release Year: 1977 Language: Italian

Starring: Barbara Magnolfi, Flavio Bucci, Jessica Harper, Miguel Bosé, Stefania Casini

Dario Argento’s supernatural Italian horror film is an absolute classic that manages to make ballet class terrifying. An American teen finds herself dancing at a prestigious German ballet school, which she soon realizes is a front for something much more sinister.

Director: Mitchell Lichtenstein Run Time: 94 min. Release Year: 2007

Starring: Hale Appleman, Jess Weixler, John Hensley, Josh Pais, Lenny Von Dohlen

Sex education is a lot more interesting when there are teeth involved. In this Sundance breakout horror-comedy, a teen girl with a purity ring on her finger learns that she has a secret weapon against boys and men who don’t take no for an answer — vagina dentata.

Director: Andrew Fleming Run Time: 101 min. Release Year: 1996

Starring: Fairuza Balk, Neve Campbell, Rachel True, Robin Tunney, Skeet Ulrich

The coolest Catholic school coven is back at Row House because high school drama is so much better when there are powerful teen witches involved. We love this fun, spooky, out-of-control 90s teen horror drama too much not to show it at least a few times this Halloween! 

Director: Karyn Kusama Run Time: 102 min. Release Year: 2009

Starring: Adam Brody, Amanda Seyfried, Amy Sedaris, Johnny Simmons, Megan Fox

Diablo Cody’s feminist flop turned cult classic stars Megan Fox as a high school cheerleader, who just happens to be possessed by a literal demon, and her mousy bff who wants to help. It’s a fun and creative ode to retro slasher films that was ironically ahead of its time.

Director: Sam Raimi Run Time: 85 min. Rating: R Release Year: 1987

Starring: Bruce Campbell, Dan Hicks, Kassie Wesley DePaiva, Sarah Berry, Ted Raimi

Sam Raimi blurs the line between comedy, horror, and satire in this gratuitously gory black comedy nightmare about an archeologist and his girlfriend who rent the wrong cabin in the woods. It’s unapologetic and grubby, low-budget special effects and comedic timing make it a campy cult classic.

Director: Stanley Kubrick Run Time: 144 min. Release Year: 1980

Starring: Barry Nelson, Danny Lloyd, Jack Nicholson, Scatman Crothers, Shelley Duvall

Even if you’ve never seen The Shining, you can probably quote it. It’s that iconic. And how could it not be when it’s directed by Kubrick and stars Jack Nicholson? This psychological thriller takes place in an empty, isolated hotel where the caretaker is driven mad by a sinister presence.

Director: John Carpenter Run Time: 91 min. Release Year: 1978

Starring: Charles Cyphers, Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, Nancy Kyes, P.J. Soles

Michael Myers is evil personified in John Carpenter’s low-budget slasher film that we would argue is one the creepiest and scariest films ever made. And though it’s been remade and then remade again, nothing really beats the original. (1978)

Director: Kenny Ortega Run Time: 96 min. Format: Audio Amplification Available Rating: PG Release Year: 1993

Starring: Amanda Shepherd, Bette Midler, Kathy Najimy, Larry Bagby, Omri Katz, Sarah Jessica Parker, Stephanie Faracy, Thora Birch, Tobias Jelinek, Vinessa Shaw

It’s just not Halloween at Row House Cinema without the Sanderson sisters! Watch them terrorize some kids and an outrageously cute small town in Massachusetts this classic popcorn movie from your childhood.  

Director: Alan Smithee, Dean Tschetter Run Time: 89 min. Release Year: 1991

Starring: Beverly Penberthy, Jake Dengel, Joe Sharkey, Susann Fletcher, Veronica Hart

The cannabalistic crazies with a deadly appetite for life!

Director: Nicolas Roeg Run Time: 91 min. Release Year: 1990

Starring: Anjelica Huston, Bill Paterson, Jasen Fisher, Mai Zetterling, Rowan Atkinson

Roald Dahl’s classic book took new life in the movie version starring Angelica Hutson as a Grand High Witch who turns our hero Luke into a mouse, who must navigate a giant world created by the genius of Jim Henson in an unforgettable classic. 

Director: George A. Romero Run Time: 54 min. Release Year: 2021

Starring: Harry Albacker, Lincoln Maazel, Marion Cook, Pete Chovan, Phyllis Casterwiler

We’re so excited to show a lost Romero film — The Amusement Park… no it wasn’t shot at Kennywood (we checked). It’s a low-budget horror film about an elderly man having a hellish day at the old West View Park. Previously believed to be lost, it was re-discovered and restored in 2017 and has a 94% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Director: Prano Bailey-Bond Run Time: 84 min. Release Year: 2021

Starring: Michael Smiley, Niamh Algar, Nicholas Burns, Sophia La Porta, Vincent Franklin

This disquieting 2021 Sundance darling is a shining star for British Horror. It’s a surreal and unsettling tale of a “little miss perfect” television censor who abhors violence in film and TV. She embarks on a mission to find her lost sister and loses her mind instead.

Director: Dario Argento Run Time: 127 min. Release Year: 1975 Language: Italian

Starring: Daria Nicolodi, David Hemmings, Eros Pagni, Gabriele Lavia, Macha Méril

One of director Dario Argento’s greatest works, this Italian horror classic stars a black gloved killer and a truly horrifying mechanized doll that will haunt your dreams. Set to a soundtrack by Goblin, this is one that will stick with you. (1975)

Director: Jim Sharman Run Time: 100 min. Release Year: 1975

Starring: Barry Bostwick, Patricia Quinn, Richard O'Brien, Susan Sarandon, Tim Curry

When a couple's car breaks down, they spend the night at the castle of a Transylvanian transvestite and his troupe of monsters. Join a live shadow cast for an amazing night out!

Run Time: 91 min. Release Year: 1982

We saved this gem of a B Movie shot outside of Pittsburgh for Halloween night. Hitchhiking teens are entrapped by a deranged family of Satanists who gives a whole new meaning to the phrase “mommy issues.”