Stray Cat Film Center

Stray Cat Film Center Established in 2018, Stray Cat Film Center is Kansas City's only non-profit microcinema! Stray Cat Film Center is located in Kansas City, MO since August 2018.

We are a fantastically funky DIY micro-cinema that makes provocative cinema accessible to underserved audiences in the Kansas City area. The theater hosts screenings of lost, forgotten or disenfranchised films, host educational programs and acts a screening room for prospective filmmakers. We are a platform for volunteer programing and bringing your voice to the silver screen. Wanna get involved or become a member? Contact us to become a Stray Cat Member today!

09/06/2026

TONIGHT @ 6:30! “With the season of scares right around the corner, this month Magnetic Magic is loading the VCR with a shlocky spookfest from low-budget maestro Joe Castro. Analog Sunday presents a twisted tale of familial afterlife cannibalism: Near Death!

“A random investigation leads to a horrifying discover of murder and cannibalism when a team of ghosthunters enter the haunted home of famed director Willi von Brahm. There to unravel tales of the director’s murderous ghost still haunting the estate, the team is unprepared for the lost souls of the undead who walk the halls, looking for the flesh of the living to satisfy their hunger. Now face to face with the bloody killers, the hunters must fight eternal enslavement, or become their next meal.”

Hosted by Elijah of Magnetic Magic Rentals. Party kicks off at 6:30PM with a VHS Swap n’ Shop, followed by a Preshow Mixtape, Giveaways and the Feature Presentation at 7PM!”

OOPS, WE’RE DOING IT AGAIN! ✨ Stray Cat is pleased to announce we are hosting another yard sale Saturday September 26th ...
09/04/2026

OOPS, WE’RE DOING IT AGAIN! ✨
Stray Cat is pleased to announce we are hosting another yard sale Saturday September 26th from 10-3pm
Movies, music, vintage treasures, clothes and more!
And don’t worry, our favorite stationary shop in town is joining us again! Supply Closet
We might post some sneak peeks closer to the sale if you’re interested 👀

"This is the best version of A STAR IS BORN" - someone named Liz, LetterboxdNext Friday, 9/11 @ 7pm! To celebrate it's 2...
09/04/2026

"This is the best version of A STAR IS BORN" - someone named Liz, Letterboxd

Next Friday, 9/11 @ 7pm!

To celebrate it's 25th anniversary. We're screening Mariah Carey’s magnum opus GLITTER, a kind-of-but-not-quite auto-biopic about a young singer navigating the vicious terrains of love and music in 80s NYC.

Most well known for it's unfortunate release date, GLITTER is an earnestly cheesy Y2K (despite it's 80s setting) take on the STAR IS BORN archtype. With oscar-worthy performances from both Da Brat AND Padma Lakshmi, a knock-off Mark Wahlberg love interest, and earth-shattering operatics from Mariah, you will not want to miss this film event of a lifetime.

Video intro from renowned Mariah Carey scholar/former Stray Cat Programmer Cass!

🎟/more @ straycatfilmcenter.com

DUST OFF YOUR WEIRDNESS...BECAUSE IT'S TIME FOR VIDEO POT LUCK!Due to the success of last year. ANDREW'S VIDEO VOID is m...
09/03/2026

DUST OFF YOUR WEIRDNESS...BECAUSE IT'S TIME FOR VIDEO POT LUCK!

Due to the success of last year. ANDREW'S VIDEO VOID is making VIDEO POTLUCK an annual tradition, and he needs your help! You’re invited to bring your wildest visual dishes:

🎞️ Remixes 🥧 Bizarre music videos 🍔 Cursed commercials 🍰 Fasterpieces 🍗 Strange shorts

Dig deep into the bowels of the internet (or your hard drive) — and remember: you gotta bring enough for everyone.

🌀 THE RULES:
1️⃣ One video per person
2️⃣ 15 minutes or less
3️⃣ You intro your block (don’t be shy 👀)
4️⃣ Finished by 11/9
5️⃣ Digital formats only

📡 HOW TO SUBMIT:
✅ Hit the link in our bio
✅ Click the “Video Pot Luck” form
✅ Fill it out + upload your masterpiece

✨ Let’s get weird together. ✨

09/03/2026

YOU ONLY GET ONE SHOT AT FAME!

One of the most controversial independent films of the 1990s, I Shot Andy Warhol stars an electric Lili Taylor as Valerie Solanas, a militant feminist whose attempted murder of Andy Warhol brought instant fame to her radically anti-male SCUM Manifesto. Dropping out of grad school in the midsixties, the brilliant yet volatile Solanas survived in New York City as a destitute artist, s*x worker, and panhandler, soon striking up a friendship with Warhol superstar Candy Darling that brought her briefly into the orbit of the world’s premier pop artist. Featuring a blistering score by John Cale as well as covers of sixties hits by some of the nineties’ most iconic bands (R.E.M., Wilco).

Newly restored and rescued from years of legal limbo!

Screening as part of our Get Punk’d series next Thursday, September 10 at 7pm! Get tickets at straycatfilmcenter.com or at the link in our bio.

One down. Three more to Go!Thanks to everyone that came out to kick off our month of Mexican Gothic with THE PHANTOM OF ...
09/03/2026

One down. Three more to Go!

Thanks to everyone that came out to kick off our month of Mexican Gothic with THE PHANTOM OF THE MONASTERY! We’ll be back next Wednesday with more gothic horror as we screen THE BLACK PIT OF DR. M!

From Fernando Mendez, director of what is probably Mexico’s most famous gothic, 1957’s El Vampiro, comes this Edgar Allan Poe-inflected tale whose Spanish-language title more closely translates to “Mysteries from Beyond the Grave.”

When two doctors make a pact that the first one who dies will find a way to bring the survivor across to the “”other side,”” it sets into motion an EC Comics style tragedy that reminds us to be careful what we wish for in this atmospheric gem filled with torchlit funeral processions, mist-shrouded courtyards, horribly burned faces, and much more.

🎟️/more @ straycatfilmcenter.com or

Weds, 9/2 @ 7pm, We're teaming with Orrin Grey to kick off our September series, MEXICAN GOTHIC with 1934s moody classic...
09/01/2026

Weds, 9/2 @ 7pm, We're teaming with Orrin Grey to kick off our September series, MEXICAN GOTHIC with 1934s moody classic THE PHANTOM OF THE MONASTERY (El fantasma del convento)!

In 1930, working at night, on the same sets that Tod Browning, Bela Lugosi, et al were using during the day, Mexican actors famously made a Spanish-language version of DRACULA. Within a few years, Mexico's burgeoning film industry was turning out gothic horror pictures of its own, and THE PHANTOM OF THE MONASTERY was one of the first, an eerie, poetic concoction full of Expressionist shadows and haunting images, including a room full of real mummies - mummies that can still be visited today at the Museo de El Carmen, if you happen to be planning a trip to Mexico City

Lost in the forest, a trio of hikers enmeshed in an adulterous love triangle take refuge in a strange monastery that seems frozen in time. As bizarre portents—a bat-shaped shadow without a source, a door sealed by a crucifix, a cellar full of coffins—accumulate, they begin to fear that the place is haunted.

🚪/Pre-Show @ 6:30
📽 @ 7

🎟/more @ straycatfilmcenter.com

SEPTEMBER AT STRAY CAT 🇲🇽✨✍️📼This month’s spotlight is our new Mexican Gothic series programmed by our friend Orrin Grey...
08/31/2026

SEPTEMBER AT STRAY CAT 🇲🇽✨✍️📼

This month’s spotlight is our new Mexican Gothic series programmed by our friend Orrin Grey! Check out the strangest, eeriest, and most chilling horror flicks from south of the border every Wednesday in Sept!

Along with our monthly Analog Sunday (NEAR DEATH) Get Punk’d (I SHOT ANDY WARHOL), Andrew’s Video Void, Horror Pod Class, and the Time Image series (SUPPORT THE GIRLS) we’re celebrating the 25th anniversary of Mariah Carey’s GLITTER.

Plus, another Stray Cat Yard sale! VHS tapes, vintage clothes, and more goodies that we want YOU to take off our hands. Come get our stuff!

Grab a physical calendar at our box office and get tickets at the link in our bio.

🇲🇽💀 THIS WEEK @ STRAY CAT: We're kicking off September with our new month long series from guest programmer Orrin Grey, ...
08/31/2026

🇲🇽💀 THIS WEEK @ STRAY CAT: We're kicking off September with our new month long series from guest programmer Orrin Grey, MEXICAN GOTHIC with the under seen gothic horror THE PHANTOM OF THE MONASTERY! Then Analog Sunday gets ready for the spooky season with some cannibal schlock from JOE Castro!

Weds @ 7 // THE PHANTOM OF THE MONASTERY
Fri // CLOSED FOR MUSIC SHOW NEXT DOOR
Sat // CLOSED FOR PRIVATE EVENT
Sun @ 6:30 // NEAR DEATH (on VHS!)

NEXT WEEK:

9/8 @ 6:30 // KC ZINE CLUB
9/9 @ 7 // BLACK PIT OF DR. M
9/10 @ 7 // I SHOT ANDY WARHOL
9/11 @ 7 // GLITTER (25th Anniversary!)

🎟/more @ straycatfilmcenter.com or

We got fu**ed up, not Stray Cat is going Goth!Fu**ed Up Fairy Tales may be ending tonight. But next month, guest program...
08/26/2026

We got fu**ed up, not Stray Cat is going Goth!

Fu**ed Up Fairy Tales may be ending tonight. But next month, guest programmer Orrin Grey and the Stray Cat Film Center team to celebrate Mexican Independence by bringing you some of the strangest, eeriest, and most chilling horror flicks from south of the border with MEXICAN GOTHIC. WIth Haunted monasteries, mad doctors, witches, ghosts, mummies - MEXICAN GOTHIC traces how Mexico built its own language of fear: the colonial cloister, the folk legend, the supernatural melodrama, and psychological terror.

9/2 - PHANTOM OF THE MONESTARY (El fantasma del convento)
9/9 - THE BLACK PIT OF DR. M (Misterios de ultratumba)
9/16 - CURSE OF THE CRYING WOMAN (La maldición de llorana)
9/23 - EVEN THR WIND IS AFRAID (Hasta el viento tiene miedo)

🎟 on sale now @ straycatfilmcenter.com

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