40th Anniversary screening!

Written by feminist scribe Rita Mae Brown as a parody of the slasher genre, director Amy Holden Jones opted to shoot the film as straight horror which makes it a rare self-aware chiller that drills some fresh holes into the genre while also providing the expected good ol' sex and violence.

The story follows an unlucky girls’ basketball team hosting a slumber party that becomes the target of a homicidal escaped inmate with a rather large drill. Soon the evening turns from the fun of dance parties and junk food binges into a fight for survival.

With its stylized photography, plot points that involve pizza, and endlessly cool homemade synth score, "The Slumber Party Massacre" is a drop-dead masterpiece of subversive trash-horror.

Join us at the Apollo Cinema for an exclusive screening of The Craft, raising funds in support of SPECTRUM, Waterloo Region's Rainbow Community Space! SPECTRUM is the 2SLGBTQ+ community centre in Waterloo Region, offering more than 20 different peer support groups and social/recreational activities each month.

The proceeds will help us continue to offer high quality programming for the local 2SLGBTQ+ community. Visit ourspectrum.com to learn more.

About the film:
Sarah Bailey, a troubled sixteen year old, moves to L.A. to start a new life and is enrolled into Catholic school. It's there she makes three unlikely friends: Nancy, Bonnie and Rochell are all social outcasts – and witches. When they notice Sarah has the powers of a natural witch, they talk her into joining their coven, realising that a fourth witch means they can cast new and more powerful spells.

The girls begin to amend all the troubles in their lives – but meddling with magic comes with a price.

SPECTRUM and the Rainbow Coalition of Waterloo Region (RCWR) are pleased to partner with Apollo Cinema to present the Rainbow Film Club! Join us each month for a classic of queer cinema. You can also join us for a Queer Night Out discussion group in the week following each screening so we can discuss the film.

In this remake of the classic French farce "La Cage aux Folles," engaged couple Val Goldman (Dan Futterman) and Barbara Keeley (Calista Flockhart) shakily introduce their future in-laws. Val's father, Armand (Robin Williams), a gay Miami drag club owner, pretends to be straight and attempts to hide his relationship with Albert (Nathan Lane), his life partner and the club's flamboyant star attraction, so as to please Barbara's father, controversial Republican Sen. Kevin Keeley (Gene Hackman).

“They’re here!”

Celebrate the 40th Anniversary of this ghostly tale with a peek into the lives of local paranormal investigators Kim Hadfield (Halton Paranormal) and Todd Thomas (Six Nations Investigating Paranormal Encounters) as they introduce the film and share some of the spooky footage they've gathered throughout their ghost-hunting careers! Are poltergeists real? They'll tell us!

Followed by one of our fave creepy classics, from Tobe Hooper (Texas Chainsaw Massacre) and producer/screenwriter Steven Spielberg!

Late one night, 5-year-old Carol Anne Freeling (Heather O’Rourke) hears a voice coming from inside the TV. At first, the spirits that invade the Freeling home seem like playful children. But then they turn angry. When Carol Anne is pulled from this world into another, Steve and Diane Freeling (Craig T. Nelson and JoBeth Williams) turn to a team of paranormal investigators, including Tangina Barrons (Zelda Rubinstein), to get their daughter back from the other side.

Join us for our Interactive! series, where we transform your favourite movies into new, exciting experiences. Featuring bags full of imaginative snacks and props, a list of audience-led prompts and shout outs, and maybe even special appearances from our staff (in costume of course), Interactive! is a surefire way to make a movie unforgettable. These films feature dim lighting and prop bags are limited, so buy early to reserve a bag.

Casper is a kind young ghost who peacefully haunts a mansion in Maine. When specialist James Harvey arrives to communicate with Casper and his fellow spirits, he brings along his teenage daughter, Kat.

Casper quickly falls in love with Kat, but their budding relationship is complicated not only by his transparent state, but also by his troublemaking apparition uncles and their mischievous antics.

Drunken Cinema invites you to participate in an interactive movie game for one of the most influential horror comedies of its time!

Before "Cabin in the Woods", "Scream" and "Jason Lives", this 1985 vampire flick was one of the first meta horror films that subverted horror and vampire sub-genre tropes and conventions.

The film follows the adventures of horror film junkie Charley Brewster (William Ragsdale), who becomes convinced that his reclusive new neighbour, Jerry Dandridge (Chris Sarandon), is a vampire. When nobody believes him, he enlists the help of a washed-up television vampire killer named Peter Vincent (Roddy McDowall) and the fang-tastic fight is on!

Come celebrate the thrills, the chills and the laughs for the first time or for the 100th time with us at The Apollo Cinema!