Next week, our friends at the UICA are hosting Shock. Unlike our last visit, this time, we’ll be in the theater, which also plays host to great indie, throwback, and short-run movies. Have you been? Here’s a few favorites from their upcoming schedule and ones we wish they’d bring back!

A Nightmare on Elm Street // Playing 10/29

We love naps. But we’d love them even more if we didn’t have to fight for our lives to wake up from them. Scary as hell! Best of all, they’re playing this gem in VHS for one night only. We love the understatement in the UICA’s description of the film on their site – “an evil being from another world who gets to his victims by entering their dreams and killing them with gloves that have knife blades attached to each finger.” Oh right, just that. NBD. ;)

The Assassin // Playing from 11/13 to 11/26

Pulling in a respectable 83% on the Tomato meter, and an official selection of Cannes 2015 (with a win for Best Director), The Assassin has all the street cred we need to make it a can’t miss next month. A bad-ass chick doing all the wrong things for the right reasons, then confronting the ethics of honor, mercy and resolve in the 9th-Century Tang Dynasty? It’s gonna be good.

A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night // Played Last December

Iranian vampire-western shot in black and white. Need we say more? A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night has everything we love in a movie. Great dialogue, creepy setting, romance, and maybe the best soundtrack set to breathtaking moments of last year.