This place is incredible. I spent about 4 months in Buenos Aires last year and came to this place on my friends recommendation. The atmosphere is fantastic, its decorated with pictures of Poe and Lovecraft and Giger pictures, there is an electric chair and other weird macabre stuff lying around the place. I'd love it even without the movies.
However, they happen to make a movie schedule each month based on the birth months of actors or directors born in that month, generally kinda dark or weird type films that I love. I'll admit I'm not quite as huge of a fan of the Boris Karloff era type stuff they play, but they generally put together at least one or two movies a month or more that are on my list of favorites.
Movies start at 8:00 PM and talking is discouraged, and if you sit in the inner room expect to treat it like a movie theater for purposes of talking. It costs nothing to enter, just have to at least buy one beer. (The Scotch Ale is tasty and I've had quite a few of those there.) Movies have spanish subtitles and are played in the native language of the movie, and most are in English.
As a result its a nice place to go alone or with a date or a friend to watch something you haven't seen in a while or ever. In October alone they played Blade Runner, Alien, Aliens, Beetlejuice, Pans Labyrinth, Braindead, The Evil Dead Trilogy, and more. It is a fun, atypical thing to do in Buenos Aires, and I've found I've rewatched movies that I haven't seen in ages by virtue of it being on their movie schedule. In an age of endless choice for entertainment, there is something nice about having a set playlist to check out on certain days to plan for.
Hope this place sticks around for a while to come. read more