It's Here! Put on your best red dresses and ill-fitting suits as we present one of the biggest cult-classic films: The Room. Experience the bizarre and unconventional storyline that makes this film so popular. We will prepare you with some screening rituals, making sure you get the full experience of spoon throwing and obnoxious yelling!

Johnny is a San Franciscan man who seems to have it all: a high-paying job as a banker, a bunch of friends--one of them being Mark, to whom he's the closest--and a beautiful fiancee named Lisa, whom he's been engaged to for seven years. From the outset, Johnny's got everything going for him...that is, until he faces the worst form of betrayal ever, and from then on everything begins to crumble.

Join us Friday April 20th at 7:30pm, Doors Open at 6:30pm

2003/ 14A / 99min

Now, every ticket includes a FREE Unique Interactive Bundle for added experience!

The weather is chilly, but we are here to take you to a warm summer of song as we bring back our most popular events from the year, including our Grease Sing-Along!

Experience the thrill of singing out your favourite songs with a theatre-full of other Grease-lovers. It doesn't get much better than that!

Oh wait, or does it...

How about prizes for Best Costume! A Hula-hoop contest!  An included interactive bundle to enjoy the full experience! And don't worry, we'll teach you the hand jive before the show and have the lyrics onscreen for all the big musical numbers!

The most popular movie musical of all time, "Grease" merges the talents of solid gold recording star Olivia Newton-John as good girl Sandy and John Travolta of "Saturday Night Fever" fame as greaser Danny in this nostalgic look at the Fabulous Fifties.

1978/110min/PG

Saturday, February 24th at 7PM

Doors Open at 6pm

The Zoetic Presents... A Christmas Tradition that's fun for the whole family - it's our Sound of Music Sing-Along! A Christmas Classic that you can get involved in. Don't know all the words? Don't worry, we'll have them onscreen for you. Experience the film like never before and sing out to your heart's content!

Plus, we've specially designed a prop bag to go with the movie, so you can get the full experience this Christmas!

A heartwarming story: Often in trouble and doing the wrong things, Maria is sent to the house of a retired naval captain to care for his children. Captain Von Trapp was widowed several years before and was left to care for seven 'rowdy' children. Maria soon learns that all these children need is a little love to change their attitudes. 

PG/1965/155min

Sunday, December 17 at 2:30pm (doors open at 1:30pm)
This show has an intermission.

We're kicking off the holiday season with a fun twist on a seasonal favourite! Experience the movie Elf like never before, with our signature Quote-Along, Sing-Along, Prop Bags, Costume Contest, and Specialty Drinks for young and old. 

About the movie: A human baby raised as an elf heads to New York City to find his place in the world, and track down his father. But life in the big city is not all sugarplums and candy canes. His father is a "Scrooge" and his eight-year-old stepbrother doesn't believe in Santa. Even the snowmen aren't friendly in New York.

Join us for a playful evening filled with laughs, fun interaction, a great movie, and... candy!

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2nd at 7PM ONLY
PG/1hr 37min/2003

Presented by GritLit and the Hamilton Film Festival

RUST AND BONE

It all begins in the North of France. Ali suddenly finds himself with a five year-old child on his hands. Sam is his son, but he hardly knows him. Homeless, penniless and friendless, Ali takes refuge with his sister in Antibes. There things improve immediately. She puts them up in her garage, she takes the child under her wing and the weather is glorious. Ali first runs into Stephanie during a night club brawl. He drives her home and leaves her his phone number. He is poor, she is beautiful and self-assured, a princess: his complete opposite. Stephanie trains killer whales at Marineland. When a performance ends in tragedy, a call in the night again brings them together. When Ali sees her next, his princess is confined to a wheel chair: she has lost her legs and quite a few illusions. He simply helps her, with no compassion or pity. And she comes alive again.

AFTER THE FILM

Craig Davidson will be available for a Q&A and will be selling and signing his new book, Precious Cargo. CRAIG DAVIDSON was born and grew up in St. Catharines, Ontario, near Niagara Falls. He has published three previous books of literary fiction: Rust and Bone, which was made into an Oscar-nominated feature film of the same name, The Fighter, and Sarah Court. Davidson is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and his articles and journalism have been published in the National Post, Esquire, GQ, The Walrus, and The Washington Post, among other places. He lives in Toronto, Canada, with his partner and their child. 

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FILM + CONCERT

This night is all about the power and celebration of music, specifically Heavy Metal, as we journey back to 1994 when a live concert, by Bruce Dickinson (Iron Maiden's frontman), changed the lives of the town's people who struggled to simply feel human again during the seigein Sarajevo. This film deals with the impact of the seige, and a concert that almost didn't happen.

After the film we will celebrate with a local band performing their brand of Heavy Metal, with perhaps a few inspiring tunes related to the film! 

Scream For Me Sarajevo is a documentary film about Sarajevo during the 1992-95 siege; specifically a film about the music scene in the besieged Bosnian capital with special focus on a concert held in the city's BKC music hall by Bruce Dickinson (Iron Maiden) on December 14, 1994. It is a film about people who risked their lives to perform for the people who risked their lives in order to live them. Watch the trailer here

PRISMIND is a Canadian metal band based out of Hamilton, Ontario. Formed in2013, the group is known for its intricate guitar solos, amazing rhythm section and soaring vocals. Their sound is reminiscent of traditional British heavy metal with a strong modern American metal influence.Prismind has just released their debut album, "Disciples By Design". The group’s popularity is steadily growing amongst metal fans across the globe.

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Guaranteed to be an amazing night! 9 amazing comedies and they are connected to the Hammer!! 

Our comedy programs sell out every year

CANADIAN COMEDY SHORTS (88min)

I Phub You (Shannon Hunt / 10m) 
Yes I Canada (Katarzyna Kochany / 5m)
Glove Me Tender (Florian Francois / 2m)
Cold Call (Philippe Bovet / 10m)
Rencontre (Brennan Martin / 8m)
What About Shelley ( Kyle Reaume / 13m)
Dollar King (Trevor Smith / 15m)
Mr.s Rafferty's Red Roses (Greg Kovacs / 6m)
Bully (Justin Sanchez / 19m) 

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THAT NEVER HAPPENED (Ryan Boyko / Documentary / Hamilton / 75min) reveals the story of Canada’s first national internment operations between 1914 - 1920, when over 88,000 people were forced to register and more than 8,500 were wrongfully imprisoned in concentration camps across Canada, not for anything they had done but because of where they came from. In 1954, the public records were destroyed and in the 1980s a few brave men and women began working to reclaim this chapter in history and ensure future generations would know about it. TRAILER

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It's here! We're proud to present The Rocky Horror Picture Show, a one-of-a-kind movie experience just in time for Halloween! 

Costumes and traditions are encouraged, of course. Don't dream it, be it! Be sure and do it up with our Signature Prop Bags and Cocktails! What a night!

About the movie: Newly engaged couple, Brad and Janet, encounter car trouble on a rainy night. When they stop to ask for help, they find themselves in a bizarre place! It's the castle of a charming transvestite, Dr. Frank-N-Furter. They are offered shelter for the night, but will they want to stay?(R/100min/1975) 

Join us for an unforgettable experience!

October 28, 2017  Two Shows ONLY - 7:00pm & 11:00pm
This is a 19+ event.

This event is expected to sell out.

Our Halloween Thrills continue with Stanley Kubrick's psychological thriller The Shining, based on the book by Stephen King. It's terrifying and haunting, and so much fun to see Jack Nicholson go crazy! 

To make it even more thrilling, we've added a short horror film thanks to our friends at the Hamilton Film Festival!

About The Shining: A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil and spiritual presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future.

About HFF Short Film: ODDS by Jeffery Scott Fowler, 20m short crime / drama. Drowning in the malaise of his mediocre existence, John has decided to test fate and play the odds by becoming one of six contestants in a deadly game of chance. It's a gamble where winning will bring him a fresh start and losing means a body bag.

Join us Friday, October 20 at 8pm ONLY
1980/R/119min

They were warned... They are doomed... And on Friday the 13th, nothing will save them.

We're going back to 1980 to relive one of the definitive slasher films which is now a cult classic. Directed by Sean S. Cunningham and written by Victor Miller, the film tells the story of a group of teenagers who are murdered one by one by an unknown killer while attempting to re-open an abandoned campground, and stars Kevin Bacon!

As an added bonus, we've got a horror short film thanks to the Hamilton Film Festival. Local director, Kyle Hytonen's Massacre at Femur Creek, a 19 minute horror-comedy!

It's all part of our Halloween thrills at The Zoetic!

Friday, October 13th at 8pm ONLY! 
1980/Rated R/95 min

Just ahead of the release of Blade Runner 2049, we bring you the original BLADE RUNNER (1982), and we've Zoetic-sized it to create an awesome night for cinema-lovers like you.

Get ready for our pre-show Costume Contest, Prop Bags, and our aftershow Trivia Lounge with prizes!

PLUS, before the show, we've got a slimy, slithery surprise for you, thanks to our friends at the Reptile Store! Then enjoy one of the most influential and talked-about sci-fi films of all time.

Oscar®-winning director Ridley Scott directs Harrison Ford... Robots are employed in off-world mining and exploration too dangerous for the human colonists. Fleeing from a polluted home planet, the human-like robots establish themselves across the solar system.

RATED AA

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2017
SHOW AT 7pm (114 mins) 
TRIVIA LOUNGE 9pm (no cover with show ticket)

It's a Summer of Song as we bring back our most popular events from the year, including our one-of-a-kind The Wizard of Oz Sing-Along!

It's an old-school musical classic. Experience the first Technicolor movie like never before. This is your chance to sing out to Judy Garland's Over the Rainbow, and pipe it out for We're Off to See the Wizard. Don't hold back! 

Don't know all the words? Don't worry, we'll have them onscreen for you. Plus, get the full experience with one of our signature Prop Bags. It's old meets new at The Zoetic!

THE STORY: When a tornado rips through Kansas, Dorothy (Judy Garland) and her dog, Toto, are whisked away in their house to the magical land of Oz. They follow the Yellow Brick Road toward the Emerald City to meet the Wizard, and en route they meet a Scarecrow (Ray Bolger) that needs a brain, a Tin Man (Jack Haley) missing a heart, and a Cowardly Lion (Bert Lahr) who wants courage. The wizard asks the group to bring him the broom of the Wicked Witch of the West (Margaret Hamilton) to earn his help.

Saturday, August 19, 2017
7pm ONLY

It's a Summer of Song as we bring back our most popular events from the year, including our Grease Sing-Along!

Experience the thrill of singing out your favourite songs with a theatre-full of other Grease-lovers. It doesn't get much better than that!

Oh wait, or does it...

How about prizes for Best Costume! Prop bags available to enjoy the full experience! And don't worry, we'll teach you the hand jive before the show and have the lyrics onscreen for all the big musical numbers!

The most popular movie musical of all time, "Grease" merges the talents of solid gold recording star Olivia Newton-John as good girl Sandy and John Travolta of "Saturday Night Fever" fame as greaser Danny in this nostalgic look at the Fabulous Fifties.

1978/110min/PG

Saturday, July 22, 2017 at 7pm ONLY

It's a Summer of Song as we bring back our most popular events from the year, including our one-of-a-kind Dirty Dancing screening. We've jam-packed one of our favourite movies full of audience participation to get you and all your friends out of your shell and having "the time of your life" in our sexy vintage theatre! It's a Sing-Along, Quote-Along, Dance-Along!

Don't know all the words? The dance moves? Don't worry, we'll give you everything you need to enjoy. You "never felt like this before!" We'll even have Prop Bags and a themed Signature Cocktail for those who want the full experience. Don't forget to dress up in your best costume or 80s dance attire!

You already know and love the original movie:
Spending the summer in a holiday camp with her family, Frances "Baby" Houseman falls in love with the camp's dance instructor Johnny Castle. Starring Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze.

1987/PG-13/100min

Saturday, June 24 at 7:00pm ONLY
Then join us in our after-show lounge.

To celebrate Shark Week, we're taking an old favourite and super-sizing it into an Epic Experience. How do we do that, you ask?

It starts with a pre-show Costume Contest, Prop Bags, and our aftershow Trivia Lounge with prizes!

Enjoy one of the greatest films of all time with other adventurers like you!

Steven Spielberg's 1975 masterpiece about a giant great white shark that arrives on the shores of a New England beach resort and wreaks havoc with bloody attacks on swimmers, until a local sheriff teams up with a marine biologist and an old seafarer to hunt the monster down.

FRIDAY, JUNE 23
SHOW AT 7pm (124 mins) 
TRIVIA LOUNGE 9:30pm (no cover with show ticket)

Good Morning, Baltimore... err, we mean, Hamilton! Presenting our all-new Sing-Along - Hairspray! Get your hair done and your vocal chords warmed up and join us for a hilarious, upbeat, fun-loving, can't stop the beat Sing-Along. 

Don't know all the words, don't worry. We'll have them onscreen to make sure you keep up! Plus, get the full experience with one of our Signature Prop Bags, and well, our Signature Cocktails. And of course, we'll be counting on you to strut onstage for our Costume Contest and Hairdo Contest!

You can't help but feel good surrounded by this film's star-studded cast including Zac Efron, James Marsden, Michelle Pfeiffer, and John Travolta.

In 1962 Baltimore, Maryland, plump teenager Tracy Turnblad's dream is to dance on The Corny Collins Show, a local TV dance program based on the real-life Buddy Deane Show. When Tracy wins a role on the show, she becomes a celebrity overnight, and meets a colourful array of characters. She then launches a campaign to integrate the show.

Hairspray Sing-Along!
PG/117min
May 13 at 7pm ONLY

Our Spring Fling continues! And it's about to get very daring!

The antici...pation was killing us. We just couldn't wait until October so we're popping up with an exactly-half-way-through-the-year screening of The Rocky Horror Picture Show! We're even prepping a prop bag for you, so you can get the full experience. Plus, we're stirring up a Signature Drink with your name on it from our licensed snack bar. Get dressed up and make it count!

You know you want to! "Let's do the time warp again!" As always, singing encouraged.

About the film: Newly engaged couple, Brad and Janet, encounter car trouble on a rainy night. When they stop to ask for help, they find themselves in a bizarre place! It's the castle of a charming transvestite, Dr. Frank-N-Furter. They are offered shelter for the night, but will they want to stay?

(R/100min/1975)

ONE SCREENING ONLY
April 29, 2017 at 8pm

This is a 19+ event.
Warning: Mature content. Beware of flying toast.

Featuring the songs of ABBA and based on the world's number one musical comedy, it's Mamma Mia! Sing-Along Zoetic-style. Get your vocal chords warmed up and experience the movie like never before!

Don't know every word? Don't worry, we'll have the lyrics onscreen. We'll even have Prop Bags to give you the full experience! Don't forget to dress up in your best mediterranean attire cause it's getting "hot" in this theatre!

20 year old Sophie is preparing to marry her boyfriend Sky at her mother's hotel on an island in Greece. She seemingly has it all; a carefree life, loving boyfriend and happy friends but one thing has been missing all her life; a father. Her only wish now is to be given away by her dad at her wedding. By reading her mother's diary she discovers that she has three possible fathers. Sophie then secretly invites all three men in a desperate bid to discover which of them is her father before the wedding bells start to chime! But not all goes to plan...

PG-13/108min/2008

Saturday, March 25, 2017 at 8:00pm ONLY

LUNAFEST

~ short films by, for, about Women ~

The annual Lunafest returns to The Zoetic on March 3, 2017, 7:00pm

For tickets and information about this event, please contact the event organizer at 905-524-0188 or email contacts@zontahamilton1.ca

$20 in advance / $25 at the door

Our Grease Sing-Along was so popular we've brought it back to help get you through the winter! Experience the thrill of singing out your favourite songs with a theatre-full of other Grease-lovers. It doesn't get much better than that!

Oh wait, or does it...

How about prizes for Best Costume! Prop bags available to enjoy the full experience! And don't worry, we'll teach you the hand jive before the show and have the lyrics onscreen for all the big musical numbers!

The most popular movie musical of all time, "Grease" merges the talents of solid gold recording star Olivia Newton-John as good girl Sandy and John Travolta of "Saturday Night Fever" fame as greaser Danny in this nostalgic look at the Fabulous Fifties.

1978/110min/PG

Saturday, February 25, 2017 at 8pm ONLY

If you love Sing-Alongs as much as we do, check out Mamma Mia! Sing-Along on March 25 >>

Our brand new Sing-Along is an old-school musical classic - it's The Wizard of Oz Sing-Along! Experience the first Technicolor movie like never before. This is your chance to sing out to Judy Garland's Over the Rainbow, and pipe it out for We're Off to See the Wizard. Don't hold back! 

Don't know all the words? Don't worry, we'll have them onscreen for you. Plus, get the full experience with one of our signature Prop Bags. It's old meets new at The Zoetic!

THE STORY: When a tornado rips through Kansas, Dorothy (Judy Garland) and her dog, Toto, are whisked away in their house to the magical land of Oz. They follow the Yellow Brick Road toward the Emerald City to meet the Wizard, and en route they meet a Scarecrow (Ray Bolger) that needs a brain, a Tin Man (Jack Haley) missing a heart, and a Cowardly Lion (Bert Lahr) who wants courage. The wizard asks the group to bring him the broom of the Wicked Witch of the West (Margaret Hamilton) to earn his help.

Saturday, January 21, 2017
7pm ONLY

The Zoetic Presents... A Christmas Tradition that's fun for the whole family - it's our Sound of Music Sing-Along! A Christmas Classic that you can get involved in. Don't know all the words? Don't worry, we'll have them onscreen for you. Experience the film like never before and sing out to your heart's content!

Plus, we've specially designed a prop bag to go with the movie, so you can get the full experience this Christmas!

And come early for face-painting by Glitterbug Face & Body Art!

A heartwarming story: Often in trouble and doing the wrong things, Maria is sent to the house of a retired naval captain to care for his children. Captain Von Trapp was widowed several years before and was left to care for seven 'rowdy' children. Maria soon learns that all these children need is a little love to change their attitudes. 

PG/1965/155min

Sunday, December 18 at 1:30pm (doors open at 12:30pm)
This show has an intermission.
Special family and group pricing in effect.

It's a special PA Day Pyjama Party. We kick off the Christmas Season with our famous Polar Express Pyjama Screening.

The holidays are almost here and the kids are already climbing the walls! Make it easy for yourself... Bring the kids in their PJs to this special screening of the magical Christmas movie, The Polar Express.

Plus come early for face-painting by Glitterbug Face & Body Art!

Believing in Santa Claus isn't easy when all of your friends and family insist he's just make-believe. A boy's faith is rewarded one Christmas Eve when he's awakened by a steam train that pulls up in front of his house and takes him and other children to the North Pole to meet Santa. 

Friday, December 2
10am
$8 plus tax

HAMILTON FILM FESTIVAL PRESENTS...

Milton's Secret
(Canada, Family Drama, )
Producer Fred Fuchs will present
Panel discussion on bullying to follow the film

Milton's Secret
Sunday November 13th, 2pm - Tickets
$10 General Admission
$36 Family of 4 

Twelve-year-old Milton Adams (William Ainscough) feels his world is in crisis. With his parents (Mia Kirshner & David Sutcliffe) stressing about their careers and finances, and the neighbourhood bully (Percy Hynes-White) tormenting him, he is constantly anxious. But when Milton’s optimistic Grandpa (Donald Sutherland) comes to visit, he learns the secret to finding true happiness from a man who has seen the world and who has committed to living life in the ‘now’.

Scratch
Canada, 95min, Dark Comedy / Action, Maninder Chana)
Saturday November 12th, 9:30pm - Tickets
$12 General Admission

Action and dark comedy collide when the perfect heist goes inexplicably wrong, leaving a young woman
trapped with mobsters and goons headed her way to claim what remains of a 30-million dollar loot.

Filmed in Hamilton

HFX 72-Hour Film Challenge Screening
Judged by Academy Award® winner Colin Chilvers (Superman)
FILMED in HAMILTON
WORLD PREMIERES

HFX 72-Hour Film Challenge Screening
Saturday November 12th, 7pm - Tickets
$10 General Admission

Teams were given a film set at Digital Canaries studio, a special effect by MaxFX, Special Effects Make-Up by Carlos Henriques of The Butcher Shop and had 72 hours to complete their film. We present the films for the first time on this evening!

HAMILTON FILM FESTIVAL PRESENTS...

The Red Maple Leaf
Friday November 11th, 7pm - Tickets
$12 General Admission

The short film Schrodinger's Cat (Canada, Bobby Del Rio) will play before the feature film. 

On a seemingly worry-free Ottawa morning, young Jenni Adams, daughter of U.S. Ambassador Patrick Adams, is snatched from right under the nose of her Secret Service detail. The blatant act has left the American authorities searching for answers with powerful pressure coming at them from every side. From senators all the way up to the President of the United States, the hunt is on to find this girl alive and return her to her family. 

While two nations fight over jurisdiction as the case grows cold, seasoned RCMP veteran Alfonso Palermo puts everything else aside, his emotions, his alcoholism, his tact, to step up and search for the little girl and return her to her very powerful Washington-elite family. 

Starring Frank D'Angelo, James Caan, Robert Loggia, Martin Landau, Paul Sorvino, Mira Sorvino, Kris Kristofferson, Michael Pare, Margot Kidder, Daniel Baldwin, Armand Asante, Eric Robert, Doris Roberts, Ellen Dubin, Tony Nardi and Marc Blucas

HAMILTON FILM FESTIVAL PRESENTS...

Raiders! The Story of the Greatest fan Film Ever Made
(USA) 106m, Dir. Eric Zala

Saturday November 5th, 7pm - tickets
Cosplay + Trivia + Prizes + Movie! 
$10 General Admission
Free with your Hamilton Film Expo wristband

After Steven Spielberg's Raiders of the Lost Ark was released 35 years ago, three 11 year old boys from Mississippi set out on what would become a 7 year-long labor of love and tribute to their favorite film: a faithful, shot-for-shot adaptation of the defining action adventure film. They finished every scene...except one: the thrilling, explosive airplane set piece. Over two decades later, the trio reunited with the original cast members from their childhood in order to complete their masterpiece. Featuring interviews with John Rhys Davies, Eli Roth and more, Raiders! The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made is just that: the story of this long gestating project’s culmination, chronicling the friends' dedication to their artistic vision—mixed in with some movie magic—to create a personal, epic love letter to a true modern classic. 

Win prizes as the audience judges the best Indy costume, try your luck at our trivia and definitely enjoy the Hamilton Theatrical premiere of the documentary! A night of Action and Adventure awaits! 

This one is "Up There with the Best of the Best." Can you believe it's been thirty years? There's so much that's great about this movie and we're honoured to host Hamilton's 30th Anniversary Screening of Top Gun. 

In 1986, this picture teamed up Hollywood powerhouses (producer) Jerry Bruckheimer and the late (director) Tony Scott with epic star (actor) Tom Cruise as Maverick, one of the elite members of Top Gun, the Navy's prestigious Fighter Weapons School. The film also stars Val Kilmer, Kelly McGillis, and Anthony Edwards... So good.

As always, your evening will take off with a surprise Signature Cocktail and some pre-show fun at the beautiful, vintage-style Zoetic Theatre.

1986/110mins/PG