Alien & Galaxy of Terror
A FILM BY: Ridley Scott (ALIEN), B.D. Clark (GALAXY OF TERROR)
WRITTEN BY: Dan O'Bannon (ALIEN), Ronald Shusett (ALIEN), Marc Siegler (GALAXY OF TERROR), B.D. Clark (GALAXY OF TERROR)
STARRING: Sigourney Weaver (ALIEN), Tom Skerritt (ALIEN), John Hurt (ALIEN), Edward Albert (GALAXY OF TERROR), Erin Moran (GALAXY OF TERROR), Ray Walston (GALAXY OF TERROR)
Rip-Off Saturdays Double Feature | A Part of Music Box of Horrors at the Drive-In Presented by Shudder
***SOLD OUT - No Additional Tickets Available***
Essentially a “monster in the house” movie set in outer space, Alien developed from a low-budget Roger Corman schlocker titled Star Beast into one of the most iconic American horror movies of the ‘70s, introducing audiences to one of the most memorable onscreen cinematic duos: Ellen Ripley and the xenomorph. But Roger Corman wasn’t going to let Alien conquer the box office without lining his pockets, too. Galaxy Of Terror is the producer’s finest foray into Alien-sploitation, and features cult-film icons Robert Englund, Sid Haig, and Grace Zabriskie in a weird and wild intergalactic psychological horror tale. Production designer James Cameron—who would self-plagiarize for Aliens five years later—gives this low-budget shlocker an awe-inspiring sheen that elevates Galaxy Of Terror above other low-rent knockoffs like Alien 2: On Earth and Contamination.
Galaxy of Terror courtesy of Shout! Factory and the American Genre Film Archive.
Technical Information
Country of Origin: United States
Language: English
Run Time: 198 mins
Format: Digital
Attack the Block
A FILM BY: Joe Cornish
WRITTEN BY: Joe Cornish
STARRING: John Boyega, Jodie Whittaker, Alex Esmail
A Part of Music Box of Horrors at the Drive-In Presented by Shudder
Starring John Boyega in his big-screen debut, Attack the Block is a fast, funny, and terrifying alien invasion flick that turns a London housing project into a sci-fi battleground, the low-income apartment complex into a fortress under siege, and a crazy mix of tough street kids into a team of ass-kicking heroes. It’s inner city vs outer space, and it’s going to explode.
Technical Information
Production Year: 2011
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Language: English
Run Time: 88 mins
Format: Digital
The Being
A FILM BY: Jackie Kong
WRITTEN BY: Jackie Kong
STARRING: Martin Landau, Marianne Gordon, Bill Osco
A Part of Music Box of Horrors at the Drive-In Presented by Shudder
***Featuring a Precorded Personalized Introduction by Joe Bob Briggs & an exclusive Q&A with writer/director Jackie Kong!***
One of the only horror movies set on Easter, The Being is also notable for unleashing a severely pissed off, toxic-waste-infused sludge creature on the small town of Pottsville, Idaho. Set partly at a drive-in and starring Martin Landau, Marianne Gordon, José Ferrer, and Ruth Buzzi, don't sleep on this trashy, slimy, grimy, no-budget, creature-feature extravaganza from the one and only Jackie Kong, director of Blood Diner!
Technical Information
Production Year: 1983
Country of Origin: United States
Language: English
Run Time: 82 mins
Format: Digital
Black Christmas & Silent Night, Deadly Night 5
A FILM BY: Bob Clark (BLACK CHRISTMAS), Martin Kitrosser (SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT 5)
WRITTEN BY: Roy Moore (BLACK CHRISTMAS), Martin Kitrosser (SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT 5), Brian Yuzna (SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT 5)
STARRING: Olivia Hussey (BLACK CHRISTMAS), Keir Dullea (BLACK CHRISTMAS), Margot Kidder (BLACK CHRISTMAS), William Thorne (SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT 5), Jane Higginson (SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT 5), Van Quattro (SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT 5)
Grindhouse Fridays Double Feature | A Part of Music Box of Horrors at the Drive-In Presented by Shudder
Not many directors can claim two undisputed holiday classics, but Bob Clark did just that with A Christmas Story and Black Christmas. A favorite of Steve Martin’s, this proto-slasher delicately balances melodrama, a goofy sense of humor, and a palpable sense of dread up until its final chilling moments. Silent Night, Deadly Night 5: The Toymaker, meanwhile,has the goofy sense of humor down. A California Christmas classic featuring one of the best bits of stunt casting in genre cinema, The Toymaker features Mickey Rooney commanding an army of killer toys designed by Screaming Mad George, as well as a life-size robot that just wants to be loved...or something like that.
Black Christmas courtesy of Shout! Factory and the American Genre Film Archive.
Technical Information
Production Year: 1974
Country of Origin: United States
Language: English
Run Time: 189 mins
Format: Digital
Black Magic 2 & Evil Cat
A FILM BY: Meng-Hua Ho (BLACK MAGIC 2), Dennis Yu (EVIL CAT)
WRITTEN BY: Kuang Ni (BLACK MAGIC 2), Jing Wong (EVIL CAT)
STARRING: Lung Ti (BLACK MAGIC 2), Ni Tien (BLACK MAGIC 2), Lieh Lo (BLACK MAGIC 2), Chia-Liang Liu (EVIL CAT), Lai-Ying Tang (EVIL CAT), Mark Cheng (EVIL CAT)
Grindhouse Fridays Double Feature | A Part of Music Box of Horrors at the Drive-In Presented by Shudder
In the late ‘70s and ‘80s, you'd be hard pressed to find more sleazy, depraved, disgusting, and out-and-out filthy horror films than those coming out of Hong Kong, and we're ecstatic to present two of these scum oddities for your sicko viewing pleasure! First up is Black Magic 2, Ho Meng-Hua's (The Oily Maniac) martial arts/horror melting pot spinning the tale of a mad villain (and cat lover!) who turns humans into sex zombies via nails through the skull. He also has a deeply unsettling penscient for breast milk—not to mention the alligator, and voodoo, and buckets of blood! To cleanse your palate, we'll dive into Dennis Yu's (The Imp) feline-centric gonzo legend of a family who must endlessly kill a cat demon every 50 years until its 9 lives come to an end.
BLACK MAGIC 2 in Mandarin with English subtitles. EVIL CAT in Cantonese with English subtitles.
Technical Information
Production Year: 1976
Country of Origin: Hong Kong
Run Time: 183 mins
Format: Digital
Blacula & Blade II
A FILM BY: William Crain (BLACULA), Guillermo del Toro (BLADE II)
WRITTEN BY: Joan Torres (BLACULA), Raymond Koenig (BLACULA), David S. Goyer (BLADE II)
STARRING: William Marshall (BLACULA), Vonetta McGee (BLACULA), Denise Nicholas (BLACULA), Wesley Snipes (BLADE II), Kris Kristofferson (BLADE II), Ron Perlman (BLADE II)
Grindhouse Fridays Double Feature | A Part of Music Box of Horrors at the Drive-In Presented by Shudder
*Featuring a prerecorded Q&A with William Crain & introduction from Guillermo del Toro*
William Marshall and director William Crain (Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde) put a fresh spin on the vampire legend in the “funkadelic, fangadelic” Blaxploitation horror of Blacula! Marshall stars as Prince Mamuwalde, African royalty who seeks Count Dracula’s help in ending the slave trade, only to be transformed into a vampire by the evil count. Nearly two centuries later, Mamuwalde emerges as Blacula, “one cool, dressed to kill, dude strollin’ the streets of L.A. on a nightly quest for human blood and fine women!” Blacula is followed by the return of human-vampire hybrid Blade, played with devil-may-care, fuck you attitude by Wesley Snipes. In Guillermo del Toro’s Blade II, Blade finds himself in a fierce battle against a group of mutant vampires that Roger Ebert called, “a really rather brilliant vomitorium of viscera, a comic book with dreams of becoming a textbook for mad surgeons."
Technical Information
Production Year: 1972
Country of Origin: United States
Language: English
Run Time: 210 mins
Format: Digital
Bones
A FILM BY: Ernest Dickerson
WRITTEN BY: Adam Simon, Tim Metcalfe
STARRING: Snoop Dogg, Pam Grier, Michael T. Weiss
A Part of Music Box of Horrors at the Drive-In Presented by Shudder
In this love letter to Blaxploitation, director Ernest Dickerson masterfully tells the tale of Jimmy Bones (Snoop Dogg), who was a beloved neighborhood protector, until he was betrayed and murdered by a corrupt cop. Twenty-two years later, with the neighborhood devastated and his home a gothic ruin, a group of teens unintentionally release Jimmy's vengeful spirit, ready to exact revenge on those who wronged him.
Technical Information
Production Year: 2001
Country of Origin: United States
Language: English
Run Time: 96 mins
Format: Digital
Bram Stoker's Dracula
A FILM BY: Francis Ford Coppola
WRITTEN BY: Bram Stoker (novel), James V. Hart (screenplay)
STARRING: Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Anthony Hopkins
A Part of Music Box of Horrors at the Drive-In Presented by Shudder
Francis Ford Coppola’s version of Dracula features not only some of the most sumptuous cinematography in horror-film history, but also one of the genre’s most enchanting romances. Pairing Gary Oldman as the grotesque, seductive Count with Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder at the height of their early-’90s powers, Bram Stoker’s Dracula is a feast for the senses as rich and intoxicating as...wine.
Technical Information
Production Year: 1992
Country of Origin: United States
Language: English
Run Time: 127 mins
Format: Digital
Carrie & Jennifer
A FILM BY: Brian De Palma (CARRIE), Brice Mack (JENNIFER)
WRITTEN BY: Stephen King (CARRIE), Lawrence D. Cohen (CARRIE), Kay Cousins Johnson (JENNIFER), Steve Krantz (JENNIFER)
STARRING: Sissy Spacek (CARRIE), Piper Laurie (CARRIE), Amy Irving (CARRIE), Lisa Pelikan (JENNIFER), Bert Convy (JENNIFER), Nina Foch (JENNIFER)
Rip-Off Saturdays Double Feature | A Part of Music Box of Horrors at the Drive-In Presented by Shudder
To this day, Brian De Palma's 1976 Stephen King adaptation Carrie remains one of the most terrifying horror films of all time. Hinging upon soul-crushing performances from Sissy Spacek and Piper Laurie, Carrie builds to a harrowing climax sparked by the title character, who cannot—and will not!—take it anymore. Whether seen as a dense character study dealing with cycles of abuse and religious zealotry, or simply as a blood-soaked shocker, Carrie altered the horror landscape forever. A short two years later, Kay Cousins Johnson and Brice Mack took Carrie as a jumping off point for their own melodramatic Jennifer, which ups the exploitation, religious oppression, cruelty, and vengeance, adds some disco for good luck, and wraps it in Jennifer's ability to control snakes telepathically!
Technical Information
Production Year: 1976
Country of Origin: United States
Language: English
Run Time: 188 mins
Format: Digital
The Dark and the Wicked
A FILM BY: Bryan Bertino
WRITTEN BY: Bryan Bertino
STARRING: Marin Ireland, Michael Abbott Jr., Xander Berkeley
On a secluded farm in a nondescript rural town, a man (Michael Zagst) is slowly dying. Bedridden and fighting through his final breaths, he’s a source of deep sadness for his wife (Julie Oliver-Touchstone), who’s succumbing to overwhelming grief. To help their mother and say their goodbyes to their father, grown-up siblings Louise (Marin Ireland) and Michael (Michael Abbott Jr.) return to their family farm. It doesn’t take long for them to see that something’s wrong with mom, though—something more than her heavy sorrow. Gradually, as their own grief mounts, Louise and Michael begin suffering from a darkness similar to their mother’s, marked by waking nightmares and a growing sense that something evil is taking over their family.
In 2008, Bryan Bertino delivered a modern horror classic with The Strangers, a hit that remains creepy as hell due to its now-iconic visuals and realistic sense of domestic horror. With The Dark and the Wicked, the writer and director’s fourth feature following 2016’s critically lauded The Monster, Bertino gets nastier than ever before, ramping up the dread with a bleak supernatural chiller about how collective anguish can be a fate worse than death. But, there will also be death.
Technical Information
Production Year: 2020
Country of Origin: United States
Language: English
Run Time: 94 mins
Format: Digital
Dead of Night
A FILM BY: Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer
WRITTEN BY: John Baines, Angus MacPhail
STARRING: Mervyn Johns, Michael Redgrave, Roland Culver
A Part of Music Box of Horrors at the Drive-In Presented by Shudder
London’s legendary Ealing Studios took everyone by surprise by releasing this eerie anthology film just days after WWII officially ended. Considered by many horror lovers to be the greatest anthology film of them all, Dead Of Night features a horrifying ventriloquist's dummy, haunted mirrors, premonitions, Christmas ghosts, and a chilling coda to keep you up for days.
Technical Information
Production Year: 1945
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Language: English
Run Time: 103 mins
Format: Digital
Evilspeak & Ice Cream Man
A FILM BY: Eric Weston (EVILSPEAK), Norman Apstein (ICE CREAM MAN)
WRITTEN BY: Joseph Garofalo (EVILSPEAK), Eric Weston (EVILSPEAK), David Dobkin (ICE CREAM MAN)
STARRING: Clint Howard (EVILSPEAK & ICE CREAM MAN), R.G. Armstrong (EVILSPEAK), Joe Cortese (EVILSPEAK), Justin Isfeld (ICE CREAM MAN), Anndi McAfee (ICE CREAM MAN)
Hosted by Mike McPadden, Author of "Heavy Metal Movies" and "Teen Movie Hell" | Grindhouse Fridays Double Feature | A Part of Music Box of Horrors at the Drive-In Presented by Shudder
***Clint Howard Double Feature***
Clint Howard is an unsung hero of horror cinema, always ready to lend a clammy hand when the script calls for a sympathetic outsider—or an unsympathetic one. Our tribute to this veteran character actor explores both sides of the Clint Howard horror coin, beginning with his performance as a bullied outcast seduced by a demonic computer in 1981’s Evilspeak before going totally over-the-top with a campy turn as a homicidal purveyor of sweet summery treats in 1995’s Ice Cream Man. Both films offer up two scoops of outrageous horror fun, building to outrageous climaxes that you won’t soon forget!
Ice Cream Man restoration courtesy of All Channel Films and the American Genre Film Archiver.
Technical Information
Production Year: 1981
Country of Origin: United States
Language: English
Run Time: 197 mins
Format: Digital
Final Destination
A FILM BY: James Wong
WRITTEN BY: Glen Morgan, James Wong
STARRING: Devon Sawa, Ali Larter, Kerr Smith, Seann William Scott
Technical Information
Production Year: 2000
Country of Origin: United States
Language: English
Run Time: 98 mins
Format: Digital
Friday the 13th & Srigala
A FILM BY: Sean S. Cunningham (FRIDAY THE 13TH), Sisworo Gautama Putra (SRIGALA)
WRITTEN BY: Victor Miller (FRIDAY THE 13TH)
STARRING: Betsy Palmer (FRIDAY THE 13TH), Adrienne King (FRIDAY THE 13TH), Jeannine Taylor (FRIDAY THE 13TH), Kevin Bacon (FRIDAY THE 13TH), Lydia Kandou (SRIGALA), Rudy Salam (SRIGALA), Barry Prima (SRIGALA)
Rip-Off Saturdays Double Feature | Part of Music Box of Horrors at the Drive-In Presented by Shudder
***FRIDAY THE 13TH Uncut Version***
Hell hath no fury like a mother scorned! A trashy, Kevin-Bacon-starring cautionary tale of what happens when you have too much fun at summer camp, Friday the 13th is the low budget classic that really solidified what would become the slasher craze. Cunningham’s film spawned endless rip-offs, but none more fascinating than the Indonesian film Srigala. As Joseph A. Ziemba of Bleeding Skull! says, "[I]nstead of a killer exacting revenge on campers, this movie has a killer exacting revenge on treasure hunters ... There are also zombies that rise from the river at night. Meanwhile, a figure in a ski mask lurks around. This person gets involved in a speedboat chase, which ends in an explosion. Eventually, everyone ends up in a cabin. The slaughter begins! Is the Indonesian Mrs. Vorhees doing the killing? Will we get a shot-for-shot replica of the final jump-scare from Friday The 13th? And will the Indonesian Freddy Krueger from Khooni Murdaa sit on a toilet and tell jokes? Yes, yes, and goddamn it, no."
Technical Information
Production Year: 1980
Country of Origin: United States
Language: English
Run Time: 186 mins
Format: Digital
Grizzly II: Revenge
A FILM BY: André Szöts
WRITTEN BY: Ross Massbaum, Joan McCall
STARRING: Steve Inwood, Deborah Raffin, John Rhys-Davies, Laura Dern, George Clooney, Charlie Sheen
A Part of Music Box of Horrors at the Drive-In Presented by Shudder
All hell breaks loose when a 15-ft grizzly bear, reacting to the slaughter of her cub by poachers, seeks revenge and kills anyone that gets in her way. In the three days before a major concert taking place in Yellowstone National Park, the gigantic grizzly has brutally attacked campers Ron (George Clooney), Tina (Laura Dern) and Lance (Charlie Sheen), poachers, and a park ranger. But the terror doesn’t end there, as the giant grizzly bear finds its way to the concert grounds to go on a killing spree.
Technical Information
Production Year: 1983
Country of Origin: United States
Language: English
Run Time: 97 mins
Format: Digital
Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II
A FILM BY: Bruce Pittman
WRITTEN BY: Ron Oliver
STARRING: Lisa Schrage, Michael Ironside, Wendy Lyon
Sequel Sundays Feature | Part of Music Box of Horrors at the Drive-In Presents: 31 Days of Terror
***Featuring a Prerecorded Post-Film Q&A with Michael Ironside***
Thirty years after her death at senior prom, the spirit of Mary Lou Maloney is back at school and ready for her revenge. And she’s burning to be prom queen, even if it kills her again. The Prom Night franchise kicks into delirious supernatural slasher overdrive with this delightfully energetic, in-name-only follow-up. It’s an extremely ‘80s Canuxploitation mashup of A Nightmare on Elm Street and Carrie, stacked with stellar kill sequences and super ambitious SFX work. [Description provided by the New Beverly Cinema]
Technical Information
Production Year: 1987
Country of Origin: Canada
Language: English
Run Time: 97 mins
Format: Digital
The Host
A FILM BY: Bong Joon Ho
WRITTEN BY: Bong Joon Ho, Won-jun Ha
STARRING: Kang-ho Song, Hee-Bong Byun, Hae-il Park
Hosted by The A.V. Club's A.A. Dowd | A Part of Music Box of Horrors at the Drive-In Presented by Shudder
Bong Joon-ho’s take on the creature feature is a signature Bong genre-bender, combining unabashed big-screen spectacle with sharp social satire for an environmentally-minded, anti-imperialist monster movie that has teeth in more ways than one. The highest-grossing South Korean film of all time upon its release in 2006, The Host has only grown more relevant in the 14 years since its completion.
In Korean with English subtitles
Technical Information
Production Year: 2006
Country of Origin: South Korea
Language: Korean
Run Time: 121 mins
Format: Digital
Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday
A FILM BY: Adam Marcus
WRITTEN BY: Jay Huguely, Adam Marcus
STARRING: John D. LeMay, Kari Keegan, Kane Hodder
Technical Information
Production Year: 1993
Country of Origin: United States
Language: English
Run Time: 87 mins
Format: Digital
Jennifer's Body
A FILM BY: Karyn Kusama
WRITTEN BY: Diablo Cody
STARRING: Megan Fox, Amanda Seyfried, Adam Brody
Featuring a Pre-Taped Q&A with Director Karyn Kusama | A Part of Music Box of Horrors at the Drive-In Presented by Shudder
***Unrated Version***
Over the past decade, Jennifer’s Body has been slowly building the cult status it has always deserved. With Megan Fox as the embodiment of monstrous femininity and Amanda Seyfried as the timid best friend determined to halt Jennifer’s fearsome transformation, Jennifer’s Body is a darkly funny, delightfully gnarly romp through the thornier aspects of our culture’s fascination with—and fear and hatred of—adolescent female sexuality.
Technical Information
Production Year: 2009
Country of Origin: United States
Language: English
Run Time: 102 mins
Format: Digital
La Llorona (1933) & La Llorona (2020)
A FILM BY: Ramón Peón (LA LLORONA 1933), Jayro Bustamante (LA LLORONA 2020)
WRITTEN BY: A. Guzman Aguilera (LA LLORONA 1933), Carlos Noriega Hope (LA LLORONA 1933), Jayro Bustamante (LA LLORONA 2020), Lisandro Sanchez (LA LLORONA 2020)
STARRING: Ramón Pereda (LA LLORONA 1933), Virginia Zurí (LA LLORONA 1933), Carlos Orellana (LA LLORONA 1933), María Mercedes Coroy (LA LLORONA 2020), Sabrina De La Hoz (LA LLORONA 2020), Margarita Kenéfic (LA LLORONA 2020)
Sponsored by the National Museum of Mexican Art | A Part of Music Box of Horrors at the Drive-In Presented by Shudder
SOLD OUT
The first ever Mexican horror film, La Llorona (1933), has been restored by Viviana García Besne of Permanencia Voluntaria Archivo Cinematográfico and will be screened for the first time in Chicago. Presented by The Music Box Theatre and Chicago Film Programmer Raul Benitez.
La Llorona tells the terrifying tale of a Mexican colonial legend about La Malinche, who kills her children for revenge on her unfaithful lover. Before taking her own life, she utters a curse destined to reach the firstborn of each generation of the conqueror's family. Turned into a terrifying ghost, known as La Llorona, she laments her misfortune emitting her chilling cry: "Oh, my children!". The film, which lasts just 70 minutes, takes place in three different periods: 1633, sometime during the Viceroyalty, and Mexico in the 20th century. This is the first sound version of the most famous Mexican legend.
In Spanish with English subtitles
La primera película de terror mexicana La Llorona (1933) ha sido restaurada por Viviana García Besne de Permanencia Voluntaria Archivo Cinematográfico y va a ser proyectada por primera vez en Chicago. Presentado por The Music Box Theatre y el programador de cine de Chicago Raúl Benítez.
Leyenda colonial mexicana acerca de La Malinche , quien por vengarse de su infiel amante mata a sus hijos. Antes de quitarse ella misma la vida, profiere una maldición destinada a alcanzar al primogénito de cada generación de la familia del conquistador. Convertida en aterrador fantasma, conocido como La Llorona, lamenta su desgracia emitiendo su escalofriante grito: “¡Ay, mis hijos.!”. La película, cuya duración es de apenas 70 minutos, se desarrolla en tres épocas distintas: 1633, algún momento del Virreinato y el México del siglo XX. Esta es la primera versión sonora de la más famosa leyenda mexicana.
Technical Information
Production Year: 1933
Country of Origin: Mexico
Language: Spanish
Run Time: 167 mins
Format: Digital
The Mortuary Collection
A FILM BY: Ryan Spindell
WRITTEN BY: Ryan Spindell
STARRING: Clancy Brown, Caitlin Custer, Barak Hardley
Presented by Shudder and Featuring a Q&A from Director Ryan Spindell and more TBA | A Part of Music Box of Horrors at the Drive-In Presented by Shudder
The Mortuary Collection is an old-school horror anthology film that's a massive love letter to EC Horror comics, anthology films from the ‘70s and ‘80s, Peter Jackson, Steven Spielberg and everything else in between...but you know, on an indie budget. Desperate for work, a young drifter applies for a job in a decrepit old mortuary on the outskirts of town. There, she meets Montgomery Dark (Clancy Brown), a sinister mortician with more than a few skeletons in his closet. Montgomery chronicles the strange history of the town through a series of twisted tales, each more terrifying than the last. But the drifter’s world is unhinged when she discovers that the final story...is her own! [Description provided by Shudder/Ryan Spindell]
Technical Information
Production Year: 2019
Country of Origin: United States
Language: English
Run Time: 108 mins
Format: Digital
Nightbreed & Def By Temptation
A FILM BY: Clive Barker (NIGHTBREED), James Bond III (DEF BY TEMPTATION)
WRITTEN BY: Clive Barker (NIGHTBREED), James Bond III (DEF BY TEMPTATION)
STARRING: Craig Sheffer (NIGHTBREED), David Cronenberg (NIGHTBREED), Anne Bobby (NIGHTBREED), James Bond III (DEF BY TEMPTATION), Kadeem Hardison (DEF BY TEMPTATION), Bill Nunn (DEF BY TEMPTATION)
Grindhouse Fridays Double Feature | A Part of Music Box of Horrors at the Drive-In Presented by Shudder
In Clive Barker's Nightbreed we meet Aaron Boone, who inexplicably dreams of Midian, a hidden subterranean world where monsters have created a haven from humanity. In Def by Temptation we meet Joel, who grew up in the Church, but has recently been questioning his faith. The ghost of Joel’s father compels him to visit his cousin in New York, where things quickly descend into macabre madness as a bloodthirsty woman sets her sights on his cousin. With impeccable, pitch-black senses of humor, obsessions with religious mysticism and iconography, and appearances from a young Samuel L. Jackson, and David Cronenberg, Nightbreed and Def By Temptation offer up nightmare-inducing fantasy worlds like no other.
Def By Temptation restoration courtesy of Troma Entertainment and the American Genre Film Archive.
Technical Information
Production Year: 1990
Country of Origin: United States
Language: English
Run Time: 215 mins
Format: Digital
A Nightmare on Elm Street & Mahakaal
A FILM BY: Wes Craven (A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET), Shyam Ramsay (MAHAKAAL), Tulsi Ramsay (MAHAKAAL)
WRITTEN BY: Wes Craven (A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET), Sayed Sultan (MAHAKAAL)
STARRING: Heather Langenkamp (A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET), Johnny Depp (A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET), Robert Englund (A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET), Karan Shah (MAHAKAAL), Archana Puran Singh (MAHAKAAL), Johnny Lever (MAHAKAAL)
Rip-Off Saturdays Double Feature | Part of Music Box of Horrors at the Drive-In Presented by Shudder
Unfairly lumped in with the slasher boom of the ‘80s, Wes Craven’s seminal shocker A Nightmare On Elm Street has more in common with classic ghost stories about a malevolent spirit on a quest for revenge. Craven’s imaginative script gets under your skin, while unwittingly creating a sliver-screen icon in Freddy Krueger. But have you ever thought to yourself, “I like A Nightmare On Elm Street, but I wish it was twice as long and featured musical numbers?” Mahakaal plays out like an Elm Street greatest hits compilation, weaving in elements of mysticism, black magic, and slapstick comedy into this mesmerizing Bollywood production. There truly is nothing else like it.
MAHAKAAL in Hindi with English subtitles.
Technical Information
Production Year: 1984
Country of Origin: United States
Language: English
Run Time: 234 mins
Format: Digital
The Omen + Cathy's Curse
A FILM BY: Richard Donner (THE OMEN), Eddy Matalon (CATHY'S CURSE)
WRITTEN BY: David Seltzer (THE OMEN), Myra Clément (CATHY'S CURSE), Eddy Matalon (CATHY'S CURSE)
STARRING: Gregory Peck (THE OMEN), Lee Remick (THE OMEN), Harvey Stephens (THE OMEN), Alan Scarfe (CATHY'S CURSE), Beverly Murray (CATHY'S CURSE), Randi Allen (CATHY'S CURSE)
Rip-Off Saturdays Double Feature | A Part of Music Box of Horrors at the Drive-In Presented by Shudder
***CATHY'S CURSE Director's Cut***
Richard Donner delivers one of the most chilling excursions into the world of evil-child horror with his stone-cold classic The Omen. With fantastic turns from Gregory Peck, Lee Remick, David Warner, and horrifically unsettling child actor Harvey Stephens, The Omen will creep under your skin and into your soul. And for our second feature of the evening, we'll let our friends at AGFA take the reins: "Imagine Bergman’s Scenes from a Marriage as a 25¢ Exorcist/Omen rip-off directed by Dario Argento’s third cousin in a Toronto suburb. Add senior citizen turmoil, epic synth bloops and a foul-mouthed, telekinetic rampage from shittiest-kid Cathy culminating in the most gratuitous violence against dinnerware ever filmed. When someone in this movie says, “You and I both know that I’ve had a nervous breakdown,” you will believe them."
Technical Information
Production Year: 1972
Country of Origin: United States
Language: English
Run Time: 193 mins
Format: Digital
Possessor
A FILM BY: Brandon Cronenberg
WRITTEN BY: Brandon Cronenberg
STARRING: Andrea Riseborough, Christopher Abbott, Rossif Sutherland, Tuppence Middleton, Sean Bean, Jennifer Jason Leigh
An arresting sci-fi thriller from Antiviral’s Brandon Cronenberg, Possessor stars Mandy’s Andrea Riseborough as corporate assassin Tasya Vos. Using brain-implant technology, Vos takes control of other people’s bodies to execute high-profile targets, but as she sinks deeper into her latest assignment, Vos becomes trapped inside a mind that threatens to obliterate her. Also starring Christopher Abbott, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Sean Bean.
Technical Information
Production Year: 2020
Country of Origin: Canada
Language: English
Run Time: 103 mins
Format: Digital
Psycho III
A FILM BY: Anthony Perkins
WRITTEN BY: Charles Edward Pogue, Robert Bloch (characters)
STARRING: Anthony Perkins, Diana Scarwid, Jeff Fahey
Sequel Sundays Feature | A Part of Music Box of Horrors at the Drive-In Presents: 31 Days of Terror
Picking up a few months after the events of Psycho II, Norman Bates is back at it again. This time, a former nun with an eerie resemblance to Marion Crane and a reporter who just won't quit digging into his past set him off, which begins a chain of horrific events. Directed by Norman himself, Anthony Perkins, Psycho III sees the series lean into the neon-tinged ‘80s and go sleazier, bloodier, more action packed, and more insane than ever as poor Norman slides deeper into psychosis.
Technical Information
Production Year: 1986
Country of Origin: United States
Language: English
Run Time: 96 mins
Format: Digital
Re-Animator
A FILM BY: Stuart Gordon
WRITTEN BY: H.P. Lovecraft (story "Herbert West, Re-Animator"), Dennis Paoli (screenplay)
STARRING: Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott, Barbara Crampton
Technical Information
Production Year: 1985
Country of Origin: United States
Language: English
Run Time: 86 mins
Format: Digital
The Return of the Living Dead
A FILM BY: Dan O'Bannon
WRITTEN BY: Rudy Ricci, John A. Russo
STARRING: Clu Gulager, James Karen, Don Calfa
A Part of Music Box of Horrors at the Drive-In Presented by Shudder
A quintessential horror comedy, Return Of The Living Dead is a semi-sequel to George Romero’s original zombie classic Night Of The Living Dead. Notable as the film that introduced audiences to brain-eating zombies, Return expertly blends scares and laughs with a fun and funny punk rock aesthetic. Featuring genre favorites Linnea Quigley, Miguel A. Núñez, Clu Gulager, Thom Mathews, and Don Calfa.
Technical Information
Production Year: 1985
Country of Origin: United States
Language: English
Run Time: 91 mins
Format: Digital
Silver Bullet
A FILM BY: Daniel Attias
WRITTEN BY: Stephen King
STARRING: Gary Busey, Everett McGill, Corey Haim
Technical Information
Production Year: 1985
Country of Origin: United States
Language: English
Run Time: 95 mins
Format: Digital
The Stylist
A FILM BY: Jill Gevargizian
WRITTEN BY: Jill Gevargizian
STARRING: Brea Grant, Najarra Townsend, Laura Kirk
Drive-In Premiere Featuring a Q&A from Director Jill Gevargizian and more TBA | A Part of Music Box of Horrors at the Drive-In Presented by Shudder
Everyone dreams of being someone else… but for Claire, that dream goes from an obsession to a living nightmare. Her job as a hairstylist allows her to move in and out of other people’s worlds, but when the right target sits in her chair, she does more than observe the client’s life – she ends it, and keeps a permanent souvenir. Her lonely life, meticulous method and shocking secrets are suddenly thrown into turmoil when her regular client, Olivia, asks her to style her hair for her wedding. [Description provided by The Stylist/XYZ Films]
Technical Information
Production Year: 2020
Country of Origin: United States
Language: English
Run Time: 105 mins
Format: Digital
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
A FILM BY: Tobe Hooper
WRITTEN BY: L.M. Kit Carson, Tobe Hooper
STARRING: Dennis Hopper, Caroline Williams, Jim Siedow
Sequel Sundays Feature | A Part of Music Box of Horrors at the Drive-In Presents: 31 Days of Terror
Relocating the cannibalistic Sawyer clan to a cavernous, labyrinthian dwelling beneath an amusement park, Tobe Hooper’s deliciously demented sequel sees Leatherface and Co. continue their murderous exploits afresh. This time around, local DJ Stretch runs afoul of the Sawyers when she gets mixed up in the brutal slaying of two youngsters. Meanwhile, Lieutenant ‘Lefty’ Enright is hell- bent on avenging the murder of his nephew Franklin, who perished in the original massacre. [Description provided by Arrow Video]
Technical Information
Production Year: 1986
Country of Origin: United States
Language: English
Run Time: 101 mins
Format: Digital