Playing with Fire: An Ecosexual Emergency
Playing with Fire is a heartfelt, mythopoetic documentary born from the ashes of a massive, devastating forest fire. Long-time lovers Beth and Annie a... Read more
Goodbye Gauley Mountain: An Ecosexual Love Story
Goodbye Gauley Mountain: An Ecosexual Love Story is the true tale of ecosexual lovers Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle's journey from San Francisco to... Read more
Water Makes Us Wet: An Ecosexual Adventure
With a poetic blend of curiosity, humor, sensuality and concern, this film chronicles the pleasures and politics of H2O from an ecosexual perspective.... Read more
Aliens
Before tackling giant ocean liners and the future of 3-D, James Cameron blasted out genre film highlights like Aliens, his masterpiece of technical vi... Read more
Music Box of Horrors: The Final Chapter
Last year, our 31-night MBOH: DEAD AND LOVING IT! descended upon Chicago's insatiable horror community, and let's just say, things got weird. In the m... Read more
You Had to Be There: How the Toronto Godspell Ignited the Comedy Revolution
Martin Short, Eugene Levy, Gilda Radner, Victor Garber, Paul Shaffer, and other entertainment icons got their start in a 1972 Toronto production of th... Read more
The Incomer
On a remote Scottish isle, siblings Isla and Sandy spend their days hunting seabirds and retelling the stories of their ancestors. They follow the str... Read more
Doppelganger
DOPPELGANGER is a wildly singular tale of supernatural suspense and psychological terror that goes so much further in both directions than one could i... Read more
Dracula: Dead and Loving It
Mel Brooks takes a bite out of Bram Stoker’s classic vampire tale with DRACULA: DEAD AND LOVING IT. Leslie Neilson stars as the titular Transylvanian... Read more
Master of the Flying Guillotine
After becoming the face of the martial-arts sword-fighting movie (wuxia pian) craze with his legendary performance in Chang Cheh’s The One Armed Boxer... Read more
The Innocents
A seminal gothic chiller, Jack Clayton’s second feature (following his Oscar-nominated debut, ROOM AT THE TOP) draws its plot from Henry James’s 1898... Read more
Red Spirit Lake + We Await
RED SPIRIT LAKEAfter a vengeful sorceress is tortured and killed by a corrupt industrialist looking to harness the spectral powers of Red Spirit Lake,... Read more
Body Snatchers
Suffused with an overwhelming sense of dread and the director’s signature psychosexual pyrotechnics, Ferrara’s idiosyncratic reworking of Don Siegel’s... Read more
The Last First: Winter K2
In The Last First: Winter K2, Amir Bar-Lev tells a complex, harrowing and moving story that unpacks the industry of extreme mountain climbing and its... Read more
Leif Jonker's Darkness
Over 30 years after it was first released direct-to-video on VHS, the internationally acclaimed underground vampire shocker DARKNESS is hitting the BI... Read more
Peeping Tom
Steeped in voyeurism and anxiety, Peeping Tom is as unsettling today as it was in 1960. Carl Boehm delivers a haunting performance as Mark Lewis, a pa... Read more
Otto; or, Up with Dead People
Otto is a handsome, sensitive, neo-Goth zombie with an identity crisis. He wanders the streets of the city, never sleeping, until one day he auditions... Read more
Unzipped
Designer Isaac Mizrahi proved a force of nature on the road to his legendary fall 1994 collection, a career-defining triumph that was documented with... Read more
Possession
Banned upon its original release in 1981, Andrzej Żuławski’s stunningly choreographed nightmare of a marriage unraveling is an experience unlike any o... Read more
In the Mouth of Madness
When horror novelist Sutter Cane (Jürgen Prochnow) goes missing, insurance investigator John Trent (Sam Neill) scrutinizes the claim made by his publi... Read more
Event Horizon
The year is 2047, seven years after the mysterious disappearance of experimental starship Event Horizon. After receiving a distress call from the edge... Read more
VHS Swap
Back by popular demand! You’re invited to the Music Box Lounge VHS Swap! Come trade or purchase VHS tapes with one of our experienced vendors, hang ou... Read more
NAZA
In secret conversations on the rooftops of Tel Aviv at night, the systems behind Israel’s calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza are... Read more
Se7en
When a mysterious killer begins perpetrating a string of gruesome, fiendishly inventive murders based on the seven deadly sins, world-weary cop Willia... Read more
Cinema Femme Short Film Festival 2026
The Cinema Femme Short Film Fest is a one-of-a-kind celebration dedicated to uplifting emerging women and gender-expansive filmmakers and amplifying t... Read more
Begotten
Possibly the godfather of all cult films, Elias Merhige’s Begotten has long toiled in bootleg obscurity, only accessible through tenth-generation VHS... Read more
Cinema Femme 2026: Shorts Program 1
"A Stitch of Vintage" - Dir. Carolin Pech, 16 mins, UKCami, an aspiring fashion designer is determined to show that fashion and beauty have no age."Th... Read more
Cinema Femme 2026: Shorts Program 2
"My mother's ashes" - Dir. Ximena Chiunti, MexicoAfter their mother’s death, two siblings return to the place where they grew up to take care of an ab... Read more
Cinema Femme 2026: Shorts Program 3
"Stretch" - Dir. Emma Duvall and Skyler Verity, USA11-year old Kate auditions for Cinderella in her middle school’s production of Cinderella: A Dancin... Read more
Ugly Cry
When Delaney's boyfriend leaves town to shoot a splashy zombie movie, she becomes obsessed with a character she’s auditioning for after she learns the... Read more
Scary Movie (1991)
Scary Movie: Nerdy, introverted Warren, riddled with anxiety (and played by Academy Award-nominee John Hawkes!), is tugged along for a double date at... Read more
Trick 'r Treat
Equally funny and frightening, Trick 'r Treat captures the spirit of Halloween through four intertwined stories set on the same block. Horny virgins,... Read more
Ken Russell's The Devils
An enduring masterpiece of cinema, starring Academy Award-winner Vanessa Redgrave and Oliver Reed, KEN RUSSELL’S THE DEVILS is a prescient epic of obs... Read more
Fjord
From two-time Palme d’Or winner Cristian Mungiu, a Norwegian woman and her devout Romanian husband relocate with their five children to a remote, clos... Read more
Vampire Hunter D
Humans have a rough run in the 10,000-year gap between our time and the blighted future of Vampire Hunter D. It’s the year 12,090 A.D., and humans liv... Read more
Limbo
After starring in 100 movies over the past two decades, Tina Krause has established herself as an unstoppable warrior from the DIY fringes. LIMBO is t... Read more
The Cycle
The past always has a way of coming back, but it does so in particularly gruesome fashion in The Cycle, from The Head Hunters director Jordan Downey.... Read more
About a Place in the Kinki Region
Two years after Noroi: The Curse terrified Music Box audiences, Japanese found-footage horror king Kôji Shiraishi returns to MBOH with his latest, Abo... Read more
Black Sunday
Mario Bava is known for his exquisite use of color. But the light and shadow are just as ravishing in the black-and-white shocker Black Sunday, also t... Read more
The Craft
Light as a feather, stiff as a board…Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board…Light as a FEATHER, Stiff as a BOARD…LIGHT AS A FEATHER, STIFF AS A BOARD…St... Read more
Corpse Reviver No. 3: Possessions
A new experimental film by Chris LaMartina, accompanied live by an original score from The Marshmallow Ghosts.
Screamplay
"...takes HOLLYWOOD by the throat and STRANGLES it!"Edgar Allan (Rufus B. Seder) is an aspiring screenwriter who has just come to Hollywood to make it... Read more
The Howling
Joe Dante’s loving reboot of the werewolf movie functions as visceral horror (with thanks to Rob Bottin’s inventive air-bladder special effects), soci... Read more
Bird in Hand
Inspired by Roscher’s own biracial experience, BIRD IN HAND follows the newly engaged Bird Rowe (Alisha Wainwright) as she returns to her rural hometo... Read more
Music Box of Horrors 2026
24 Hours of Movie Madness!This October, THE MUSIC BOX OF HORRORS rises from the grave with a 24-hour movie marathon guaranteed to drive you MAD! Featu... Read more
Faust
Mobilizing the full resources of the Ufa Studios, F. W. Murnau (NOSFERATU, SUNRISE) orchestrated a colossal adaptation of Goethe's FAUST that ranks al... Read more
The Devil's Backbone
Released at the turn of the millennium, Guillermo del Toro’s third feature proved that could tingle spines with the best of them, using the somber bac... Read more
The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Halloween Edition!
Happy Halloween 2026! Join us as we do the Time Warp again! In this Music Box Halloween tradition, the classic cult musical is screened with a cast of... Read more
Dracula aka Horror of Dracula
Experience Hammer’s definitive horror classic as never before! Restored in stunning 4K from the best original archival materials, this landmark editio... Read more
Strange & Found & AV Geeks: Deathbed Visions
Chicago VHS all-stars Joe Pickett (Found Footage Fest) and Scott Miller (Strange Tapes Zine) have more than 16,000 VHS tapes between them, and this mo... Read more
Halloween (1978)
Credited, rightfully, as the film that kickstarted the “slasher” subgenre, Carpenter’s 1978 Halloween is a masterwork of building tension, an exercise... Read more
Fatherland
FATHERLAND centers on the relationship between the Nobel Prize-winning writer Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika - actress, writer and rally driver. I... Read more
Ernest Scared Stupid
Ernest P. Worrell and his pint-sized pals of Briarville, Missouri are under siege when the lovable lunkhead accidentally awakens a kid-hungry troll an... Read more
The Docks of New York
"You left all that slush in the river, baby. All you need is a good time." If only life were so simple! Bill Roberts (the strapping George Bancroft) w... Read more
Boom!
Hollywood's favorite pair of mismatched lovers, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, made eleven films together, and Boom! counts among the kookiest.... Read more
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
Possibly the most anarchic film ever unleashed out of Hollywood, Gremlins 2: The New Batch is a chaotic, live-action Looney Tunes cartoon that could o... Read more
The Sound of Music
Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer star in the beloved American classic, based on the real life von Trapp family's escape from Nazi-annexed Austria... Read more
Rodgers & Hammerstein's The Sound of Music Sing-A-Long
For over two decades, Thanksgiving has been celebrated at the Music Box Theatre with the Von Trapp Singers and THE SOUND OF MUSIC. This annual event h... Read more
Gangs of New York
Ostensibly "suggested" by Herbert Asbury's 1928 historical chronicle of New York's 19th century underworld, Martin Scorsese's American epic bore littl... Read more
Cameron Winter at Carnegie Hall
Cameron Winter, in December 2025, after a months-long sold-out tour with his band Geese, returned to New York to play a single show at Carnegie Hall.... Read more