2026

Midnight Mayhem

Killer Klowns From Outer Space

Saturday, Oct 3rd

Saturday, October 3 at 10:00 PM Midnight Mayhem featuring your host Chaz Kangas Midnight Mayhem celebrates our 4th anniversary under the big top with the movie we’ve gotten the most requests for. It’s the Chiodo Brothers’ classic Killer Klowns From Outer Space presented in a dazzling new transfer! Cotton candy has never looked so good […]

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2026

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Midnight Mayhem: From Beyond

Saturday, Sep 5th

Saturday, September 5 at 10:00 PM Midnight Mayhem featuring your host Chaz Kangas The team that brought you the horror masterpiece Re-Animator followed it up one year later with another H.P. Lovecraft-inspired body horror classic From Beyond. Starring Jeffrey Combs and Barbara Crampton (who will both be coming to Minnesota for Crypticon in October) as […]

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2026

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Midnight Mayhem: Bad Biology

Saturday, Aug 1st

Saturday, August 1 at 10:00 PM Midnight Mayhem featuring your host Chaz Kangas From the director of Frankenhooker and Basket Case comes Bad Biology, Frank Henenlotter’s return to the director’s chair for “a god-awful love story” featuring all the charming splatter and shocking effects you’ve come to love, now told through the romance of a […]

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2026

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Midnight Mayhem: Uncle Sam

Saturday, Jul 4th

Saturday, July 4 at 10:45 PM Midnight Mayhem featuring your host Chaz Kangas After enjoying the July 4th fireworks downtown outside The Main Cinema, see the most explosive direct-to-video Fourth-of-July themed slasher 1996 had to offer, Uncle Sam! When a corpse killed by friendly fire comes back to life after being returned home in time […]

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2026

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Midnight Mayhem: Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy

Saturday, Jun 6th

Saturday, June 6 at 10:00 PM Midnight Mayhem featuring your host Chaz Kangas For Pride Month we’re celebrating the 30th anniversary of Canada’s cutting edge sketch comedy team Kids in the Hall bringing their absurd humor to the silver screen in Brain Candy, their debut film which skewers the antidepressant pharmaceutical industry and the trappings […]

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2026

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Midnight Mayhem: Carrie

Saturday, May 2nd

Saturday, May 2 at 10:00 PM Midnight Mayhem featuring your host Chaz Kangas Brian De Palma’s horror classic in a blistering new 4K restoration. ABOUT THE FILM A girl unleashes her telekinetic powers after being humiliated by her classmates at her senior prom.  ABOUT MIDNIGHT MAYHEM Midnight Mayhem features films that play the best after […]

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2026

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Midnight Mayhem: The Giant Spider Invasion

Saturday, Apr 4th

Restoration Sneak Preview • Saturday, April 4 at 10:00 PM Midnight Mayhem featuring your host Chaz Kangas Legendary filmmaker Bill Rebane’s new 50th anniversary edition of The Giant Spider Invasion will hatch and crawl on our screen for the April edition of Midnight Mayhem. ABOUT THE FILM The Giant Spider Invasion is a 1975 American independent […]

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2026

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Midnight Mayhem: The Blair Witch Project

Saturday, Mar 7th

Saturday, March 7 at 10:00 PM Midnight Mayhem featuring your host Chaz Kangas The Found Footage favorite finds us all again as the finest in camcorder action explodes across the silver screen! The first ever viral horror film about three filmmakers getting lost in the woods packs the same chills it did at the turn […]

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2026

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Midnight Mayhem: Def By Temptation

Saturday, Feb 7th

Saturday, February 7 at 10:00 PM Midnight Mayhem featuring your host Chaz Kangas Celebrate Black History Month and Valentine’s Day with the black horror classic – Def By Temptation! Starring Samuel L Jackson, Kadeem Hardison, Bill Nunn, R&B legend Melba Moore and shot by Ernest Dickerson (right after his keen eye defined the look of […]

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2026

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Midnight Mayhem: Donnie Darko

Saturday, Jan 3rd

Saturday, January 3 at 10:00 PM Midnight Mayhem featuring your host Chaz Kangas Celebrate the 25th anniversary of 2001 with the cult classic that launched a million online statuses – Donnie Darko! Richard Kelly’s debut that became one of the first millennial cult classics returns to the silver screen to wow us with its reverse-It’s […]

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2025

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Midnight Mayhem: Silent Night, Deadly Night – Advance Screening!

Saturday, Dec 6th

Saturday, December 6 at 10:00 PM • FREE Midnight Mayhem featuring your host Chaz Kangas and writer/director Mike P Nelson. You Better Watch Out! Midnight Mayhem’s annual holiday show will deck the halls with the brand new reimagining of that immortal holiday classic Silent Night Deadly Night! Yes, the brand new 2025 version will be […]

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2025

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Midnight Mayhem: The Silence of the Lambs

Saturday, Nov 1st

Saturday, November 1 at 10:00 PM Midnight Mayhem featuring your host Chaz Kangas. The Silence of the Lambs is a cultural touchstone of American cinema and remains as vital and horrific more than three decades on. A recent restoration of Jonathan Demme’s Oscar®-sweeping chiller thriller screens this Halloween weekend at The Main Cinema. ABOUT THE […]

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2025

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Good Boy

Tuesday, Oct 14th

Now Playing October Midnight Mayhem screening on 10/4 at 10pm featuring your host Chaz Kangas and all kinds of surprises! ABOUT THE FILM A loyal dog moves to a rural family home with his owner Todd, only to discover supernatural forces lurking in the shadows. As dark entities threaten his human companion, the brave pup […]

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2025

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Midnight Mayhem: Re-Animator

Saturday, Sep 6th

Saturday, September 6 at 10pm Midnight Mayhem featuring your host Chaz Kangas. Go back to school in style with Midnight Mayhem’s 40th anniversary screening of Re-Animator! Jeffrey Combs stars in the creepy campus classic about a student body standout who makes dead bodies stand-up. ABOUT THE FILM Re-Animator is the ultimate 1980s body horror experience, […]

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2025

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Midnight Mayhem: The Toxic Avenger

Saturday, Aug 2nd

Saturday, August 2 at 10pm Midnight Mayhem featuring your host Chaz Kangas. Before you see The Toxic Avenger remake with Peter Dinklage, Elijah Wood and Kevin Bacon this August, watch the original Troma classic about how a 98 pounds of solid nerd becomes a hideously deformed creature of superhuman size and strength! The health club […]

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2025

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Midnight Mayhem: Happy Gilmore + Eegah

Saturday, Jul 5th

Saturday, July 5 at 10pm Midnight Mayhem Double Feature: HAPPY GILMORE + EEGAH Featuring your host Chaz Kangas. This July Midnight Mayhem becomes an indoor drive-in with a double feature driving range of laughs! First, revisit Adam Sandler’s original golf classic Happy Gilmore before the sequel arrives later this month – then tour to the […]

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2025

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Midnight Mayhem: The Craft

Saturday, Jun 7th

Saturday, June 7 at 10pm Midnight Mayhem featuring your host Chaz Kangas. This Pride Month, Midnight Mayhem will bewitch and bewilder you with a screening of The Craft! The 1996 teenage coven classic will cast a late night spell on you, which is something we take great pride in. ABOUT THE FILM Sarah has always […]

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2025

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Midnight Mayhem: Eraserhead

Saturday, May 3rd

Saturday, May 3 at 10pm Midnight Mayhem featuring your host Chaz Kangas. ABOUT THE FILM David Lynch’s 1977 debut feature, Eraserhead, is both a lasting cult sensation and a work of extraordinary craft and beauty. With its mesmerizing black-and-white photography by Frederick Elmes and Herbert Cardwell, evocative sound design, and unforgettably enigmatic performance by Jack Nance, […]

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2025

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Friendship

Saturday, Apr 5th

RUSH ONLY Midnight Mayhem MSPIFF edition featuring your host Chaz Kangas. Craig (Tim Robinson) needs a friend. He lives a bland suburban life and his wife (Kate Mara) seems too attached to their teenage son. When his new neighbor, Austin (Paul Rudd), invites him over, and Craig sees this tight circle of friends, he feels […]

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2025

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Midnight Mayhem: Leprechaun In The Hood

Saturday, Mar 1st

Saturday, March 1 at 10pm Lucky! ABOUT THE FILM The bloodthirsty Leprechaun returns to exact revenge on some bumbling rap artists who have unwittingly harnessed his magic to become superstars. Starring Warwick Davis and Ice-T. ABOUT MIDNIGHT MAYHEM Midnight Mayhem features films that play the best after dark. Presented in the fun community experience that […]

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2025

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Midnight Mayhem: Groundhog Day

Saturday, Feb 1st

Saturday, February 1 at 10pm Happy woodchuck day (by the time you leave the theater)! ABOUT THE FILM Bill Murray is at his wry, wisecracking best in this riotous romantic comedy about a weatherman caught in a personal time warp on the worst day of his life. Teamed with a relentlessly cheerful producer (Andie MacDowell) […]

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2025

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Midnight Mayhem: Face/Off

Saturday, Jan 4th

Saturday, January 4 at 10pm Start 2025 (face/) off strong with classic ’90s Mayhem! ABOUT THE FILM John Travolta stars as FBI agent Sean Archer doing the unthinkable to stop the elusive terrorist Castor Troy (Nicolas Cage). Watch the bullets fly and the action explode as master action director John Woo ( Broken Arrow) detonates […]

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2024

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Midnight Mayhem: Gremlins

Saturday, Dec 7th

Saturday, December 7 at 10pm Lordy Lordy Gremlins is 40! ABOUT THE FILM With its Christmas lights and dusting of snow, Kingston Falls is an idyllic small town–until the gremlins take over. A father returns from Chinatown with an unusual pet, a Mogwai–a gift for his son. The rules are simple: Keep your Mogwai away from […]

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2024

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Midnight Mayhem: Cannibal! The Musical

Saturday, Nov 2nd

Saturday, November 2 at 10pm Largely absent from theaters for years, this infamous and hilarious musical from the creators of South Park is a gross and toe tapping good time! ABOUT THE FILM Cannibal! The Musical tells the true story of the only person convicted of cannibalism in America – Alfred Packer. The sole survivor of […]

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2024

Classic to Cult

Nosferatu With Radiohead – A Silents Synced Film

Sunday, Oct 27th

Sunday, October 27 at 7pm ABOUT THE PROGRAM F. W. Murnau’s 1922 silent horror classic Nosferatu paired with Radiohead’s groundbreaking albums Kid A (2000) & Amnesiac (2001). Silents Synced pairs classic silent movies with epic rock music and was created by an independent cinema owner for independent cinemas!

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2024

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Midnight Mayhem: The Brother From Another Planet

Saturday, Sep 7th

Saturday, September 7 at 10pm About the film Celebrate the 40th anniversary of the film with an intro from MSP Film Programmer and The Brother From Another Planet Assistant Director Craig Laurence Rice! John Sayles’s comedy gives a smart, political edge to the oft-told “stranger in a strange land” sci-fi story with African-American actor Joe […]

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2024

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Midnight Mayhem: The Big Lebowski

Saturday, Aug 3rd

Saturday, August 3 at 10pm About the film Jeff “The Dude” Lebowski doesn’t want any drama in his life… heck, he can’t even be bothered with a job. But, in a case of mistaken identity, a couple of thugs break into his place and steal his rug (you gotta understand, that rug really tied the […]

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2024

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Midnight Mayhem: Big Shark

Saturday, Jul 6th

Saturday, July 6 at 10pm About the film Three firefighters: Georgie, Patrick, and Tim must save New Orleans from a gigantic shark, can New Orleans survive? Tommy ‘THE ROOM’ Wiseau returns to the big screen as Director, Screenwriter, Producer, and Star of this soon-to-be cult classic. About Midnight Mayhem Midnight Mayhem features films that play […]

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2024

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Midnight Mayhem: Killer Condom

Saturday, Jun 1st

Saturday, June 1 at 10pm About the film June’s Midnight Mayhem features the delirious queer horror comedy Killer Condom! This ridiculous cult classic, which has been newly restored to its unseen original director’s cut, follows the patrons of Hotel Quickie who keep getting their genitals bitten off by some mysterious unseen force. However, the gay […]

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2024

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Midnight Mayhem: Road House

Saturday, May 4th

Saturday, May 4 at 10pm About the film Dalton (Patrick Swayze) is a true gentleman with a degree in philosophy from NYU. He also has a flip side – he’s the best bar bouncer in the business. When Dalton’s brought in to clean up a popular establishment that become particularly rowdy, his calm is put […]

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2024

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Midnight Mayhem: Little Shop Of Horrors: The Director’s Cut

Saturday, Apr 6th

Saturday, April 6 at 10pm About the film A skid-row florist’s “mean green mother” of a monster plant is the center of “the looniest, nuttiest, most outrageous movie musical comedy in years.” The Director’s Cut featuring the newly restored 20-minute alternate ending. About Midnight Mayhem Midnight Mayhem features films that play the best after dark. […]

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2024

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Midnight Mayhem: Leprechaun

Saturday, Mar 2nd

Saturday, March 2 at 10pm — Everyone who wears GREEN can get a Free Small Popcorn! About the film A horrific Leprechaun (Warwick Davis) goes on a rampage after his precious bag of gold coins is stolen. He uses all of his magical destructive powers to trick, terrorize and kill anyone who is unlucky enough […]

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