Trylon Cinema
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The Twin Cities' only year-round full-time revival cinema.
This weekend, we’re coming at you with two Cold War flicks that need one thing: teenagers. Caitlyn Speier discusses the repetition of futility and the horrors of new technology in WarGames. www.perisphere.org/2026/10/30/f...
Futile Games – Perisphere
|Caitlyn Speier| Growing up as a child of two soldiers, conversations about politics were sparse. My father graduated from West Point and maintained the rather officerly position that soldiers shouldn...
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This weekend, COLD WAR KIDS! WARGAMES & RED DAWN This poster, designed by Andy Sturdevant, is for sale at the box office. Tickets at www.trylon.org/film-series/...
This weekend, experience Ken Russell’s THE DEVILS. Dan Howard tracks the censorship history of the film up until its current re-release. www.perisphere.org/2026/10/24/k...
Ken Russell’s The Devils: Cinema at the Mercy of the Censors – Perisphere
|Dan Howard| Over the last few decades, The Devils is a film that, ironically, is considered the ultimate holy grails for film buffs. One that audiences will snag any opportunity they can to watch eve...
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Why does the unlikely pairing of horror and humor work so well? Riccardo Williams explains via Hausu. Our annual tradition of showing HAUSU in 35mm returns this weekend. www.perisphere.org/2026/10/23/i...
It’s a Scream, Baby! Hausu and Why Comedy Enhances Horror – Perisphere
|Riccardo Williams| n October 2025, I saw Hausu for the first time ever at The Trylon. I was so moved that I immediately went home and could not find a way to get the movie out of my head. After sitti...
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Andrzej Wajda Centennial Tour comes to the Trylon in November. Tickets and showtimes at www.trylon.org/film-series/... This poster, designed by Jacob Yeates, is available for sale at the Trylon box office.
Andrew Neill posits The Craft as evidence for how the teen movie turned to cruelness in the 1990s. THE CRAFT starts today. www.perisphere.org/2026/10/18/l...
Loving and Cruel: The Craft and the Mean Streak in 90s Teen Movies – Perisphere
|Andrew Neill| True magic is neither black nor white. It’s both because nature is both. Loving and cruel all at the same time. This line, spoken by Assumpta Serna as the enigmatic shopkeeper Lirio, ma...
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Nicole Rojas-Oltmanns examines how The Craft’s music and soundtrack mirror its existential themes. We’ve added and additional show. You can catch THE CRAFT on 35mm, starting tomorrow. www.perisphere.org/2026/10/18/i...
I Just Wanna be a Woman: Music of The Craft – Perisphere
|Nicole Rojas-Oltmanns| “Now is the time, now is the hour, ours is the magic, ours is the power.” The first lines of The Craft (1996, directed by Andrew Fleming) focus us on the goal of the film's cre...
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Tonight’s shows are sold out, but there are tickets remaining on Saturday. Get yours now at www.trylon.org/film-series/...
This weekend, we present the rarely screened films ALUCARDA and VIY as part of our Evil Incantations series. Some tickets still remain for Saturday and Sunday’s shows. You can grab yours now at www.trylon.org/film-series/...
THE CULT FILM COLLECTIVE will be celebrating our TENTH ANNIVERSARY! - November 18-22 Do you wanna help us in our mission to save and exhibit 16mm and 35mm films? Do you wanna be invited to secret screenings? Consider becoming a member at cultfilmcollective.org
Victoria Breshears illustrates how Juan López Moctezuma’s Alucarda subverts traditional histories of the scream queen. www.perisphere.org/2026/10/16/t...
The Frequency of Heresy: Sound, Confinement, and Collapse in Alucarda – Perisphere
|Victoria Breshears| When the White House deactivated entry badges for reporters from CNN, Politico, and MS NOW this September, the administration defended the lockout through the familiar vocabulary ...
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Sam Raimi’s DRAG ME TO HELL plays in 35mm, beginning tomorrow. Tickets at www.trylon.org/film-series/...
The incredible RACE WITH THE DEVIL plays alongside HOUSE OF THE DEVIL this weekend as part of our Evil Incantations series. Tickets and showtimes at www.trylon.org/film-series/...
Our friends at the Riverview Theater are hosting a Hitchcock Film Festival October 23rd - 29th. And, you can use your Trylon punch cards! Check out the titles and schedule at www.riverviewtheater.com/show/show/3424
Is it really happening? Wil McMillen compares his family’s experience of living in a haunted house to James Wan’s The Conjuring. THE CONJURING plays as part of our Evil Incantations in 35mm, starting Sunday. www.perisphere.org/2026/10/04/o...
Our Invisible Roommates: What The Conjuring Gets Right and Wrong About Living in A Haunted House – Perisphere
|Wil McMillen| I’m going to tell you something, and you can either choose to believe it or not. (Deep breath, exhale) I lived in a real-life haunted house for six months. From January to June 2013, my...
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Our series Evil Incantations continues with James Wan’s THE CONJURING in 35mm. Starts Sunday. Tickets at www.trylon.org/film-series/...
We tasked our loyal volunteer Dave Gomshay to re-label all of our candy for spooky season. He went above and beyond. Current favorite is the Blair Witch Pocky.
We tasked our loyal volunteer to re-label all of our candy for spooky season. He went above and beyond. Current favorite is the Blair Witch Pocky.
Evil Incantations passport rules: 4 stamps = a free popcorn 8 stamps = a free ticket All 15 movies = Trylon discount card
For Perisphere, Sophie Durbin compares Carl Theodor Dreyer’s Day of Wrath to his other witch burning movie, The Passion of Joan of Arc. DAY OF WRATH plays in 35mm this weekend. www.perisphere.org/2026/09/25/s...
Satan’s Ghastly Abacus: Thoughts on Two Burnings by Carl Theodor Dreyer – Perisphere
|Sophie Durbin| Humans have burned each other at the stake for a long time. Records dating back to the Code of Hammurabi prescribe death by burning for criminals convicted of incest or heresy. The Cel...
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For the first weekend in our EVIL INCANTATIONS series, we’ve conjured up two tales of young women in puritanical societies yoked with the responsibilities put upon them-resistance can lead to accusations of witchcraft. THE WITCH plays alongside DAY OF WRATH. Tickets at www.trylon.org/film-series/...
Our series, EVIL INCANTATIONS: WITCHCRAFT, HEXES AND DEMONOLOGY begins tonight. To celebrate the series, we’ve decided to dress up the theater. Check out films and showtimes at www.trylon.org/film-series/...
Our Volunteer Picks series returns this Thursday with Anthony Mann’s THE NAKED SPUR. “… one of the most taut films the world knows.” —Ted Harwood, Trylon volunteer since 2016 www.trylon.org/film/the-nak...
A limited number of these beautiful three-color silk-screened posters designed by Andrew Madetzke will be available for sale this weekend at our 35mm shows at the @trylon.org - tickets still available for most shows www.trylon.org/film/misery-...
HORRORTHON X tickets go on sale this Saturday at 10am. This year’s Horrorthon is happening on October 9th and 10th, and you can buy your ticket IN PERSON ONLY, at the Trylon Cinema. This year, there are THREE Horrorthon options. Two tickets per person allowed at $50 each.
Courtney Kowalke discusses early parasocial relationships in Misery, which plays this weekend in 35mm. www.perisphere.org/2026/09/18/y...
Your Number One Fan: Misery and the Progenitor of Parasocial Relationships – Perisphere
|Courtney Kowalke| On September 24, 2018, a post on the celebrity gossip website Oh No They Didn’t changed my life. As reported by LiveJournal user tevhenna, daytime talk show host Kelly Ripa commente...
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