WEEKEND UPDATE: HORROR CLASSICS IN THE LEAD UP TO HALLOWEEN!
As Halloween approaches, its time for our favorite retro film houses to start serving up teases for the end of the month. A favorite time of year for cult movie fans, we’ll be highlighting more slasher and supernatural faves amongst the restorations and classics on offer on the big screen.
Please note many cinemas are now implementing proof of Covid 19 vaccine or negative test. Be sure to check if this applies to any screening and know before you go!
The all new ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE in downtown Manhattan has just kicked off a soft opening with 14 screens and their usual eclectic programming. There’s even some NYC themed classics running including REAR WINDOW and BAREFOOT IN THE PARK. More info HERE.
Melbourne’s ASTOR THEATRE is slowly but surely starting sessions again as Australia comes out of lockdown. Doors look set to reopen with THE EVIL DEAD TRILOGY on Nov 5th. More info HERE.
All Weekend: Cary Grant gives one of his greatest performances as womanizing executive Roger Thornhill, whose cozy life of afternoon cocktails is turned upside down when he’s mistaken for an elusive government operative by suave villain James Mason and his murderous crony, Martin Landau. Hitchcock’s NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959 / 4K Restoration) screens at FILM FORUM, New York City. More info HERE.
All Weekend: NOIR CITY: THE WASHINGTON DC FILM NOIR FESTIVAL continues across the weekend at AFI SILVER in Maryland with THE KILLERS (1946), SIDE STREET (1949), SORRY, WRONG NUMBER (1948) and much more. See the full lineup HERE.
Fri 10/22 Midnight: His bite was outta sight! When interior decorators bring back a coffin from Transylvania, they unknowingly unleash the blackest of evils. Witness the horror! The blaxploitation classic BLACULA (1972 / 35mm Print) screens at THE COOLIDGE CORNER THEATRE, Massachuttes. More Info HERE.
Fri 10/22 6:50pm: Werner Herzog’s only horror film is as rich with artistry and tragedy as his most grounded, human work. NOSFERATU THE VAMPYRE (1979) screens at THE ROXIE CINEMA, San Franciso. More info HERE.
Sat 10/23 6pm: Catch a TIM BURTON DOUBLE FEATURE with EDWARD SCISSORHANDS (1990) + SLEEPY HOLLOW (1999) in 35mm at THE MAHONING DRIVE IN, Pennsylvania. More info HERE.
Sat 10/23 7pm: Strap in and get ready for THE 16TH ANNUAL AERO HORRORTHON featuring IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS, 1994 + IT’S ALIVE, 1974 + HOUSE OF WAX, 2005 +
HORROR EXPRESS, 1972 + THE BRAIN, 1988. All in 35mm (The Brain screens with new DCP from AGFA). At AERO THEATER x AMERICAN CINEMATHEQUE. More info HERE.
Sat 10/23 1:30pm: Director Roger Corman’s most liberal Edgar Allan Poe adaptation is a charmingly offbeat comic fantasy, with Vincent Price as a benevolent sorcerer challenged by evil magician Boris Karloff to prove who is the most powerful. THE RAVEN (1963 / 35mm Print) screens at LOS FELIZ x AMERICAN CINEMATHEQUE. More info HERE.
Sat 10/23 6:30pm: The absolutely iconic BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1935 / 35mm Print) screens at MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE, New York City as part of their Universal Horror’s 90th Anniversary Collection. A must on the big screen! More info HERE.
Sat Oct 23 11:35pm: Off-the wall humour and some sensational sight gags make BEETLEJUICE (1988) a perfect storm of Tim Burton’s visual genius and Michael Keaton’s comedic timing. Screens as a late show at IFC CENTER, New York City. More info HERE.
Sat 10/23 8:30pm: Your favorite 80’s punk rock zombie movie is back with RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD (1985 / 35mm Print) plus a Live Music show after the film with VIDICON (members of Mindspiders & Kitbashes), plus the rigor-mortis-garage-punk sounds of Dallas’s THYROIDS at THE ETXAS THEATER, Dallas. More info HERE.
Sat 10/23 8pm: Devour a decadent Halloween themed Vincent Price Double Feature at THE REDFORD THEATER, Michigan with THE TINGLER (1959) + THE HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL (1951) w/ a Bugs Bunny Halloween Cartoon classic in rare 35mm! At THE REDFORD THEATRE, Michigan. More info HERE.
Sat 10/23 10pm: From the writer of ‘Juno’, JENNIFER’S BODY (2009) is a vastly underrated female-driven teen/horror/comedy/coming-of-age monster mash spiked with a wicked sense of humor, boundless metaphors and gruesome gore! Screens at THE LOFT CINEMA, Arizona. More info HERE.
Sun 10/24 5:30pm: Grave robbing, torture, possessed nuns, and a satanic Sabbath. It’s the Silent Swedish vision of all things witchy and hellish! HAXAN (1922) screens with Live Score by Reggie Watts as BRAINDEAD STUDIOS, Los Angeles. More info HERE.
Sun 10/24: Two of the most iconic and beloved horror classics of all time screen at The HOLLYWOOD LEGION THEATRE with Bela Lugosi as DRACULA (1931 / 35mm Print) at 2pm, and Boris Karloff as FRANKENSTEIN (1931 / 35mm Print) at 3:30pm. More info HERE.
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Sun 10/24 7pm: Brian De Palma’s atmopsheric thriller is like ‘Blow Up’ but with sound as the clue to a murder. BLOW OUT (1981 / 35mm Print) screens at LOS FELIZ x AMERICAN CINEMATHEQUE. More info HERE.
Sun 10/24 6:30pm: Don’t miss this one: David Fincher’s SE7EN (1995) screens with a rare original CCE Silver Retention 35mm print that provides a deeper black, higher contrast, and added grain. The ultimate way to see this influential modern noir. At THE NEW BEVERLY CINEMA, Los Angeles. More info HERE.
Sun 10/24 8:30pm: Wes Craven's classic slasher film A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (1984) was the movie that saved New Line Cinema and birthed a juggernaut of a franchise. Screens at THE PRINCE CHARLES CINEMA, London. More info HERE.
Sun 10/24 2:30pm: Lily Tomlin puts her full array of comic gifts on display playing four different roles in screenwriter Jane Wagner’s sly feminist reworking of the 1957 science-fiction classic The Incredible Shrinking Man in THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING WOMAN (1981 / 35mm Print) at THE METROGRAPH CINEMA, New York City. More info HERE.