Chicago Cinema Society in association with our wonderful friends at The Logan Theatre presents the CHICAGO PREMIERE of the film festival horror hit “Excision” Friday, October 12th and Saturday, October 13th!

“Life sucks when you’re seventeen. Alienated teen Pauline (AnnaLynne McCord) struggles with the pressures of fitting into high school, pleasing her parents and a burning desire to lose her virginity. With a grotesque curiosity for the darker side of life, Pauline is considered a social outcast by everyone around her. Enticed by flesh, she retreats into her own fantasies and hopes to become a great surgeon…that is if she doesn’t go mentally insane first.”

Dread Central calls it a “harrowing coming-of-age horror film,” and Sound on Sight says “Excision” is “”…a grand guignol nightmare orchestrated with the creepy elegance and jaw-dropping precision of Dario Argento finest moments.” And perhaps the highest possible recommendation: “”Walmart refuses to sell Excision. Movie deemed too controversial.” Check out the trailer below! We hope to see you then. (WARNING: TRAILER IS NOT SAFE FOR WORK)

The Chicago Cinema Society, in partnership with our wonderful friends at the Logan Theatre, will be hosting two special late night screenings, September 7th and 8th, of the highly anticipated third installment of the [REC] series: [REC]3: GENESIS! We are incredibly excited to be hosting this screening and will have ticket information posted when it becomes available! Check out the trailer and read some mini-reviews below. Hope to see you all there!

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“Genesis is the Evil Dead 2 of the Rec franchise, and that can’t possibly be a bad thing. More of a rom-zom than a rom-zom-com, there is definite tongue in cheek but also a commitment to the ongoing back story of the first 2 films and some genuinely touching moments between the bride and groom. Plaza has made the sort of zombie film that harks back to zom-com classics such as the Evil Dead trilogy as well as Peter Jackson’s Braindead (1992) whilst retaining the signature Spanish flavour that made the franchise such a hit, it’s now down to his cohort  Jaume Balaguero to conclude the quadrilogy, hopefully in epic fashion.” – HORROR MOVIES.CA

“The wedding guests just want to have fun in “[REC]3: Genesis,” the third entry in the Spanish horror series conceived by Jaume Balaguero and Paco Plaza. With Plaza now helming solo, the series ditches some of its trademark p.o.v. footage style and gloomy aesthetics for this prequel, set during a wild party that gets wilder when the zombie virus hits the dance floor. Instead of frightening, the resulting gore and cartoonish violence are mostly just gleefully over-the-top.” – VARIETY

The Chicago Cinema Society, in partnership with our amazing friends at The Logan Theatre, present the Chicago Premiere of MANBORG!!!!!!!! from the amazing collective ASTRON-6! If there is one film that you simply must see before you die, it is MANBORG!!!!!!! WATCH THE TRAILER BELOW IMMEDIATELY! Be at the Logan Theatre at midnight on July 13th and 14th for one of the greatest cinematic tributes to crazy 80s VHS Sci-Fi and 25 cent arcade fighting games ever filmed!

Tickets can be purchased by clicking onto this sentence.

Also, prior to the screening of MANBORG, we will be screening a few short films from ASTRON-6 as well! Hope to see you this weekend!

GREAT NEWS! The Chicago Cinema Society has won the Chicago Reader 2012 award for “BEST NEW PRESENTER”!!!! We can absolutely assure you that this is only the beginning! We have some MASSIVE film programming projects in the works (especially next year) and will share them with you as soon as the ink has dried on the contracts. Also, congrats to our partners The Logan Theatre for also winning a “Best of Chicago 2012” award for “Best old movie theatre made new” in which the Reader also gave us a little nod (see very top of pic below). Thank you all so very much for your support!

Tickets for our June 22nd and 23rd screenings of BEYOND THE BLACK RAINBOW with the Logan Theatre are selling really well and will likely sell out. Make sure to get your tickets ASAP. Click onto this sentence to check out this nice article on our upcoming BtBR screenings at the Logan Theatre by Chicagoist. Hope to see you all there!

TONIGHT and TOMORROW NIGHT (6/8 and 6/9) at 11:15pm. Come out to the Logan Theatre for the Chicago Premiere of the amazing film SOUND OF NOISE! The film has won awards at Cannes and Fantastic Fest and is absolute late night fun! Also, stop by the Logan Lounge and have a few tangy beverages prior to the show. Take care and hope to see you all there!

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One week from today you will have the opportunity of a lifetime! We are hosting a double feature that you will easily talk about years from now. A double bill that will more than likely never screen back to back as long as mankind roams this earth. If you love Kung Fu/Genre cinema, The Portage Theater is where you need to be on June 1st! Tickets in advance are $9.00 and $13.00 at the door.

More details here.

LET THE NEW AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT BEGIN . . . . The Chicago Cinema Society, in partnership with our wonderful friends at The Logan Theatre, will be hosting the Chicago premiere of BEYOND THE BLACK RAINBOW on June 22nd and 23rd! Screenings have been selling out across the country for this amazing psychedelic sci-fi experience! Tickets can be purchased by clicking onto this sentence. Hope to see you all there!

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The Chicago Cinema Society, in partnership with our wonderful friends at The Logan Theatre, will be hosting the Chicago Premiere of SOUND OF NOISE! Be there as 6 rogue musicians hold a city hostage for the greatest performance of all time! Winner of best picture at Fantastic Fest! We will be screening SOUND OF NOISE on June 8th and 9th at The Logan Theatre. Tickets are now on sale!

You can purchase tickets by clicking onto this sentence.

http://youtu.be/z_5O5gr-ZSM

This is a big week for The Chicago Cinema Society! We are absolutely excited to announce our partnership with the amazing Logan Theatre and will be working with them on a number of film events! First off! On April 20th and 21st, we will be hosting midnight screenings of BATTLE ROYALE! Stay tuned as we will have more announcements soon! To reiterate:

BATTLE ROYALE
APRIL 20th and 21st
at THE LOGAN THEATRE

Tickets can be purchased in advance by clicking onto this sentence.

BE THERE!!!!!