Rio Bravo
A Western about relationships, honor, purple light in the canyon, and the inexhaustibly fine line between “good” and “good enough,” RIO BRAVO is just... Read more
The Room
This “electrifying American black comedy about love, passion, betrayal and lies” stars (and was directed, written and produced by) the mysterious Tomm... Read more
Porcelain War
Winner of the 2024 Sundance Grand Jury Prize: U.S. Documentary, PORCELAIN WAR is a stunning tribute to the resilience of the human spirit, embodying t... Read more
Rocky Horror Picture Show
This notorious horror parody — a fast-paced potpourri of camp, sci-fi and rock ‘n’ roll, among other things — tracks the exploits of naïve couple Brad... Read more
A Girl in Every Port
A bracelet charm inscribed with a heart and an anchor sparks conflict and real connection in Howard Hawks's uproarious and implicitly romantic comedy... Read more
Blood and Black Lace
Before Dario Argento’s DEEP RED, there was Mario Bava’s BLOOD AND BLACK LACE. At the Cristiana Haute Couture fashion house, models and their boyfriend... Read more
January Giallo 2025
Music Box of Horrors is thrilled to be back for another installment of January Giallo, in partnership with our friends at Cinematic Void! This year we... Read more
The Brutalist
Escaping post-war Europe, visionary architect László Toth arrives in America to rebuild his life, his work, and his marriage to his wife Erzsébet afte... Read more
Bluebeard's Castle
It was once declared ‘unperformable’ due to its lack of stage action. But Powell turned this to his advantage when he adapted Bluebeard’s Castle for G... Read more
Lifers: A Local H Movie
The first movie from hometown cult-rock heroes LOCAL H returns to the Music Box for its debut midnight screening — where it belongs! Written, directed... Read more
The Time Masters
Directed by visionary science-fiction animator René Laloux (Fantastic Planet) and designed by the legendary Jean Giraud (a.k.a. Mœbius) The Time Mast... Read more
Bijou
A “straight” construction worker receives an invitation to a mysterious club named Bijou after witnessing a car accident in this second feature from B... Read more
Corpse Mania
Surprisingly tasteful (but not that tasteful) for a movie about a necrophiliac serial killer, Corpse Mania stands out as a rare example of an Asian gi... Read more
Strange and Found
Chicago VHS all-stars, Joe Pickett (Found Footage Fest) and Scott Miller (Strange Tapes Zine) have a combined VHS collection of 15,000 tapes and will... Read more
The Fourth Victim
In this unsung giallo, Academy Award® nominated Hollywood exile Carroll Baker (BABY DOLL, SOMETHING WILD) stars as Julie, the new bride of a wealthy B... Read more
Stop Making Sense
Newly restored in 4K to coincide with its 40th anniversary, the 1984 film was directed by renowned filmmaker Jonathan Demme and is considered by criti... Read more
Legend
Tom Cruise stars in this visually stunning fantasy-adventure in which pure good and evil battle to the death in a mythical forest inhabited by fairies... Read more
Red Line 7000
The first of two films that James Caan would make with legendary filmmaker Howard Hawks—they collaborated on El Dorado a year later—was also the actor... Read more
Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key
Social critique, kink and Edgar Allen Poe collide, with major genre pedigree on the side. Tarantino favorite Edwige Fenech (giallo star of ALL THE COL... Read more
Hundreds of Beavers
In this silent supernatural epic, a drunken applejack salesman is thrust into the frigid wilderness.Can he go from zero to hero, become North America'... Read more
His Girl Friday
When hard-charging New York newspaper editor Walter Burns discovers that his ex-wife, investigative reporter Hildy Johnson, has gotten engaged to milq... Read more
Richard Pryor: Here and Now
This high-voltage concert film shot in New Orleans, features the sensational Richard Pryor in his prime. Doing some of his most innovative material, P... Read more
Dinner in America
An on-the-lam punk rocker and a young woman obsessed with his band unexpectedly fall in love and go on an epic journey together through America's deca... Read more
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
In the dozen years since the original massacre, countless more people have vanished without a trace and, despite fears from the locals that Leatherfac... Read more
Bonnie and Clyde
Small-time crook Clyde Barrow (Warren Beatty) tries to steal a car and winds up with its owner's daughter, dissatisfied small-town girl Bonnie Parker... Read more
House of 1000 Corpses
Love him or hate him, Rob Zombie came out of the gate with his gritty, self-consciously tasteless take on the horror genre fully formed. House of 1000... Read more
House
House is at once the most unlikely and the most obvious of Halloween classics. On the one hand, the film was largely unknown outside of Japan until th... Read more
No Other Land
Basel Adra, a young Palestinian activist from Masafer Yatta, has been fighting his community's mass expulsion by the Israeli occupation since childhoo... Read more
Bringing Up Baby
Harried paleontologist David Huxley (Cary Grant) has to make a good impression on society matron Mrs. Random (May Robson), who is considering donating... Read more
Django
With an addictively catchy theme song, this definitive spaghetti western by Sergio Corbucci (THE GREAT SILENCE, COMPAÑEROS) made an international star... Read more
Mud, Blood, & Marinara: Spaghetti Westerns
When Italian studios began to produce and distribute Western genre films in the 1960s, many critics quickly dismissed them as ultra-violent, nihilisti... Read more
The Princess Bride
The fairy tale that puts the “comedy” in “romantic comedy.” A young boy listens while his grandfather reads him the adventures of Buttercup, the most... Read more
True Romance
A comic-book nerd and Elvis fanatic Clarence (Christian Slater) and a prostitute named Alabama (Patricia Arquette) fall in love. Clarence breaks the n... Read more
Rounding
After a traumatic incident during his residency, young medical student James Hayman (Namir Smallwood, a Steppenwolf Theatre ensemble member) transfers... Read more
The Thing from Another World
When scientist Dr. Carrington (Robert Cornthwaite) reports a UFO near his North Pole research base, the Air Force sends in a team under Capt. Patrick... Read more
Only Angels Have Wings
At a remote South American port, the manager of an air-freight company is forced to risk his pilots’ lives to win an important contract when a traveli... Read more
The Unknown
Some films spin elaborate plots, with a relentless parade of character and incident, and others simply toss out a ludicrous premise and let the chips... Read more
Life within the Lens
The Music Box Theatre invites everyone to “Life Within the Lens”, a celebration of Black Chicago filmmakers. This short film screening will feature so... Read more
The Big Gundown
Sergio Sollima’s The Big Gundown is a pivotal film in the genre of Spaghetti Westerns. Unlike, the usual ‘buddy’ westerns featuring two opposite chara... Read more
Tangerine
Sin-Dee is back. Upon hearing that her pimp boyfriend was unfaithful during the days she was jailed, the sex worker and her friend, Alexandra, set out... Read more
Scary Movie
Defying the very notion of good taste, Scary Movie out-parodies the pop culture parodies with a no-holds barred assault on the most popular images and... Read more
Felidae
“Oh no, stranger. The dead come to me,” whispers Jesaja, the cat Guardian of the Dead in the skeleton-filled catacombs and labyrinths of director Mich... Read more
To Have and Have Not
Humphrey Bogart (having just come off the success of CASABLANCA and THE MALTESE FALCON) couldn't have been a bigger star at the time, and finding a co... Read more
The Woman King
The Woman King is the remarkable story of the Agojie, the all-female unit of warriors who protected the African Kingdom of Dahomey in the 1800s with s... Read more
The Great Silence
On an unforgiving, snow-swept frontier, a group of bloodthirsty bounty hunters, led by the vicious Loco (Klaus Kinski) prey on a band of persecuted ou... Read more
Brick
Brendan Frye is a loner, someone who knows all the angles but has chosen to stay on the outside. When the girl he loves turns up dead, he is determine... Read more
Invader
Ana (Vero Maynez) is a long way from home, but eager to visit her cousin Camila in the Chicago suburbs. After Ana’s bus gets delayed, she arrives very... Read more
Before Sunrise
Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy star as two young people who meet and whose lives are forever changed on a train from Budapest to Paris. They may have onl... Read more
Once Upon a Time in the West
Directed by Sergio Leone, this epic Western re-established the genre, and still stands as one of the greatest, artistic films of all time. Henry Fonda... Read more