Richard Matheson's THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN (1957) @ The ARKADIN/$7

August 2025 Schedule
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General Admission - $7

5228 Gravois Avenue | St. Louis, MO 63116
Microcinema in the Heart of Bevo!
https://arkadincinema.com/events/
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Since this 50-seat theater DOES sell out its most popular events, it is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED that you buy your tickets online asap.

There is NO FEE for this service.
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PLENTY of Public Parking a block closer to the Bevo Mill @ Walsh/Duke & Gravois!
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After the movie, we will gather in the lobby for lively, provocative, and insightful conversation--OR as close as we can come to that, anyway--HA!
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OTHER WORLDS brings you to strange new realms through science fiction and fantasy. Featuring classics, hidden gems, and cult favorites, this series offers a mind-bending retreat from our mundane reality.
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Based on The Shrinking Man by Richard Matheson.

“A pulp masterpiece…Not merely the best of [Jack] Arnold’s classic sci-fi movies of the ’50s, but one of the finest films ever made in that genre.” – Time Out

He baffles science! He confounds medicine! Submitted for your approval, the strange story of Scott Carey – an ordinary young man who, through an extraordinary set of circumstances, becomes The Incredible Shrinking Man! Existentialism goes pop in this benchmark of atomic-age science fiction, a superlative adaptation of a novel by the legendary Richard Matheson that has awed and unnerved generations of viewers with the question, What is humanity’s place amid the infinity of the universe? Six months after being exposed to a mysterious radiation cloud, suburban everyman Scott Carey (Grant Williams) finds himself becoming smaller … and smaller … and smaller—until he’s left to fend for himself in a world in which ordinary cats, mousetraps, and spiders pose a mortal threat, all while grappling with a diminishing sense of himself. Directed by the prolific creature-feature impresario Jack Arnold with ingenious optical effects and a transcendent metaphysical ending, The Incredible Shrinking Man gazes with wonder and trepidation into the unknowable vastness of the cosmic void.
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NOTE: On Rotten Tomatoes, this movie has an 83% on the Tomatometer and an 83% on the Popcornmeter.

https://arkadincinema.com/event/the-incredible-shrinking-man-1957-presented-by-other-worlds/ [Includes Trailer]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incredible_Shrinking_Man
https://www.scripts.com/script/the_incredible_shrinking_man_10791