Dead On Film 5th Annual Short Horror Film Competition  The only criterion is that someone has to die (violently) in the latest edition of the Rio Theatre’s popular and very nasty comp. A $1,000 cash prize is just part of the winner’s booty when the limbs start flying again on Thursday (August 25).

Don’t Breathe  Uruguayan filmmaker Fede Alvarez did an unreasonably good job with 2013’s vicious Evil Dead remake. Seasoned horror hounds have evidently been left breathless by his latest effort, in which a bunch of stupid kids try to rob a blind military vet. Don’t Breathe opens Friday (August 26).

Grease sing-along  Continuing its weird obsession with the cinematic work of Olivia Newton-John, the Rio Theatre offers us the opportunity to belt out “Hopelessly Devoted to You” when Randall Kleiser’s 1978 megahit hits the big screen again on Friday (August 26). Hopefully, Toomorrow is next.

Rumble Fish  If it isn’t Francis Coppola’s last great film, this adaptation of S.E. Hinton’s novel surely deserves more love than it received upon its release in 1983. Matt Dillon, Diane Lane, Nicolas Cage, Dennis Hopper, and Tom Waits fill out the spectacular cast, but it’s Mickey Rourke who steals the movie, sporting the world’s greatest hair as the Motorcycle Boy. Stewart Copeland’s nervy and offbeat soundtrack and Stephen H. Burum’s spectacular black-and-white photography run a close second. Screening at the Vancity on Monday (August 29).