A24's Best Movies Are Officially Returning To Alamo Drafthouse Theaters This Fall [Exclusive]
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2026 has been another banner year for A24. Following a strong 2025 slate of films, including everything from the Best Picture nominee Marty Supreme to Celine Song's summer blockbuster romance Materialists, the indie giant has landed one hit after another since the calendar flipped over, starting with its Charli XCX mockumentary The Moment and the U.S. release of its acclaimed queer dramedy Pillion with Harry Melling and Alexander Skarsgård. Things really began heating up in the Spring as Robert Pattinson and Zendaya's The Drama arrived in theaters, followed by the atomic bomb that was Kane Parsons' Backrooms, which became the highest-grossing film in company history with over $401 million worldwide. Most recently, Pattinson has found them another winner, leading the Chris Hansen thriller Primetime to the third-largest A24 box office debut ever with $19.2 million.
During such a hot streak, Alamo Drafthouse is forging a new partnership with A24 that aims to celebrate its legendary catalog of films built up over the years. Collider can exclusively announce the launch of the A24 Cinema Club, described as a "year-long films with benefits" series with monthly screenings of classics from the indie banner at the premier dining-and-drink movie chain. Each screening also includes a special ticket bundle with a menu themed around all things A24, plus one of Alamo's exclusive new pint glasses for the monthly movie. First up on the menu is Ti West's horror prequel Pearl, which will come to most of the chain's locations on November 22.
Pearl was released in 2022 as the second film in West's X trilogy, telling the origins of its titular villain, played by Mia Goth, decades before murdering the group of young pornographers on her rural Texas farm. Set in 1918, it follows Pearl as an ambitious young woman dreaming of stardom like in the movies, but isolated on her family's farmhouse where her ailing father and overbearing mother keep her hopes grounded and drive her to madness. Even if Pearl herself never became a star, Goth's performance cemented her place as a horror scream queen while adding extra layers to the killer-to-be in what was widely hailed as an emotional and haunting tour de force. The eponymous aspiring actress gets her flowers with the Pearl pint glass, featuring art by Chris Bilheimer of her axe with the fields and farmhouse above it and Pearl herself in the midst of her intimate encounter with the scarecrow.
Collider Exclusive · 8 Questions · 2 Minutes What Is Your Biggest Horror Nightmare? Elm Street · Chucky · Scream · The Conjuring
Four horror franchises. Four completely different ways of scaring you. One waits until you fall asleep. One makes sure nobody believes you. One is already in your group of friends. And one is in the house with your family. Answer eight quick questions about how you actually watch horror, and find out which nightmare was built for you.
😴Elm Street(Freddy Krueger)
🧸Chucky(Child's Play)
📞Scream(Ghostface)
🕯️The Conjuring(The Warren Files)
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Which horror scene makes you cover your eyes? Four classic images. One of them is worse than the others for you.
02
You are home alone and you hear a noise. First thought? Everybody has one. It arrives before you have decided anything.
03
Which horror movie rule would you break first? Everybody thinks they would survive. Almost nobody actually does.
04
Something genuinely frightening happens. What do you do? Not in a film. In your actual living room, tonight.
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How do you actually watch a horror film? Be honest about this one. Nobody is checking.
06
Somebody offers you serious money. Which do you still refuse? The amount does not matter. There is one on this list you are not doing.
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Which feeling stays with you a week after the film? Good horror does not stop when the credits do.
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Something wakes you at 3am. What is the worst possibility? Eight questions in, this is the one that decides your nightmare.
The Lights Just Went Out Your Nightmare Is…
Four franchises, four completely different ways of getting underneath your skin. This is the one built out of your particular fear, why it works so well on you, and what it would leave behind.
Elm Street
Your nightmare does not wait outside the door. It waits for you to close your eyes, which you are going to have to do eventually, because nobody has ever won that particular argument.
- Freddy is horror's cruellest idea: a threat that lives in the one place you cannot guard, cannot lock, and cannot avoid forever.
- You are the one who is fine during the film and wide awake at two in the morning. Your own head is where this does its damage.
- These films understood exhaustion as a horror engine. The kids on Elm Street do not lose because they are weak. They lose because they are tired.
- You can lock every door in the house. You still have to sleep.
Chucky
Your nightmare is not really the doll. It is the face of the person you tell, and the way they decide, very kindly, that you have imagined all of it.
- Chucky works precisely because he is absurd. That is the trap: the more accurately you describe him, the less anybody is going to believe you.
- You are the one shouting at the screen because the characters are not listening. You know that feeling from real life too.
- The franchise is at its best when the adults in the room are the real obstacle, and you have met those adults.
- By the time somebody finally believes you, you will have handled most of it on your own.
Scream
Your nightmare has your number, knows your name, and has almost certainly been inside your house before. The worst part is that you already know them.
- Scream is the only one of these where the killer takes the mask off and turns out to be somebody who was at the party.
- You are the person who calls the twist out loud before it lands. You watch people the same way you watch films.
- The franchise made the rules of horror part of the plot, which means the survivors are the ones paying attention. You would be paying attention.
- Everybody is a suspect, including the person who just offered to walk you home.
The Conjuring
Your nightmare is not really about you. It is about the people asleep down the hall, and the feeling that whatever is here is not interested in leaving.
- The Conjuring films are domestic horror. The house, the family, the perfectly ordinary room that quietly stops feeling ordinary.
- Your instinct is to get everybody into one room. Your fear is protective rather than personal, which is rarer than it sounds.
- This is the one franchise where belief is the weapon. The people who come through it are the ones who are not alone and refuse to be.
- Whatever is here did not come for you. It came for the household, and you are the one standing in the hallway.
What Other Films Will Be Part of the A24 Movie Club?
Bilheimer is also behind the art of the pint glass for the A24 Movie Club's December film, Red Rocket. Sean Baker's portrait of a retired porn star is commemorated with a giant donut on the drinkware, similar to the one cleverly covering Simon Rex's nether region on the official poster. Tickets will go on sale for that film in November, while in December, moviegoers can secure their seats and packages for The Green Knight, the Dev Patel-led dark fantasy, which will be January's title. Artist Kat Schober created the appropriately viney design for that glass. While designs haven't been revealed for their collectibles, Best Picture winners Moonlight and Everything Everywhere All At Once are locked in as the February and March movies.
As for the menu, Alamo has unveiled a few of the items filmgoers can dig into during the run of the club. These range from the Eddington Margarita to Everything Popcorn All At Once, Lady Bird Loaded Fries, The Florida Project Mahi Mahi Sandwich, and the Green Knight Shake. Between the food and the glasses, Alamo Drafthouse Cinema's Chief Marketing Officer Chaya Rosenthal feels they've crafted a thoughtful, exclusive celebration of the indie banner that's become a household name through this partnership.
"Pint glass designs for the A24 Cinema Club line are truly limited editions, only available at these Alamo Drafthouse shows and nowhere else. It’s everything, everywhere, once a month. I geek out over A24 films just as much as our guests do, and getting to build merch this thoughtful and specific is one of the best parts of my job. A24 makes the kind of movies Alamo was built for. This collection is how we celebrate that together.”
The A24 Movie Club launches at Alamo Drafthouse theaters with Pearl on November 22 in most locations. Tickets with the exclusive pint glass are on sale now at the official Alamo Drafthouse website. Get a look at the new glasses in the gallery above.
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