Cannibal Orgy
"Shot on Super 8 film and edited on decaying VHS tapes in Chicago, the experimental horror movies of late musician and filmmaker J.T. IV (aka John Hen... Read more
Twin Peaks TV Night with Sheryl Lee
Music Box Theatre & The Horror House proudly present an evening celebrating the inimitable work of David Lynch and his deeply influential cultural tou... Read more
Banff Mountain Film Festival - Chicago, IL
Join us for the 50th anniversary of the Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour in Chicago to celebrate the world’s best mountain films! This y... Read more
Project Hail Mary
Based on Andy Weir’s (The Martian) novel of the same name, Project Hail Mary is an exhilarating space adventure set in the near future. Ryland Grace (... Read more
Bubble Bath
Hungarian director György Kovásznai’s wildly idiosyncratic animated musical is one of the most indescribably strange, personal and totally irresistibl... Read more
My Father is Coming
"A cheerful cornucopia of kinkiness where genders and sexual preferences aren't simply bent—they're twisted into corkscrews.” - The New York TimesVick... Read more
Gendernauts: A Journey Through Shifting Identities
“A journey through shifting identities”Made at the height of the tech boom of the late 1990s, Monika Treut’s Teddy Award-winning Gendernauts is a port... Read more
Genderation
“[A] powerful and uplifting queer communion of intimate conversations … being witness to it feels like sitting in a quiet corner with all the most int... Read more
Female Misbehavior
“Female Misbehavior is a totally accurate picture of my everyday life as a social and sexual alien.”- Camille PagliaControversial filmmaker Monika Tre... Read more
Late Shift
With a warm smile and positive attitude, Floria (Leonie Benesch, The Teachers’ Lounge) arrives at the surgical ward of the Swiss hospital where she wo... Read more
Virgin Machine
"An usual search for romantic love”Dorothee Müller (Ina Blum) is a German journalist researching an article about the nature of romantic love—somethin... Read more
Obsession
After breaking the mysterious “One Wish Willow” to win his crush’s heart, a hopeless romantic finds himself getting exactly what he asked for but soon... Read more
Rose of Nevada
30 years ago, the Rose of Nevada disappeared at sea. Now, it has returned. Desperate to make ends meet, two men join its crew and set sail once again,... Read more
Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt
This is the story of the Butthole Surfers, a band that defied every rule and redefined what rock could be. Emerging from Texas in the early 1980s, Gib... Read more
Beyond Chicago
Beyond Fest, the biggest genre festival in the U.S., and Chicago’s world-renowned Music Box Theatre have combined forces to create Beyond Chicago: fou... Read more
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
The most New York movie ever made, a time capsule of the Big Apple’s hellish Fun City days. A quartet of desperadoes led by Robert Shaw’s icy soldier... Read more
Normal
For Sheriff Ulysses (Odenkirk), his provisional posting to the quaint Midwestern American town of Normal was meant to be a welcome respite from both h... Read more
Speed Racer
"Born to race cars, Speed Racer (Emile Hirsch) is aggressive, instinctive and, most of all, fearless. His only real competition is the memory of the b... Read more
The Furious
When his daughter Rainy is abducted, humble tradesman Wang Wei is thrust into a deadly underworld of corruption and violence. His only ally is Navin,... Read more
Camp
Emily is the root cause of two devastating tragedies very early in her life. She feels the weight of these accidents like a curse has been placed upon... Read more
Silver Butterfly 2: She-Cat Gambler
After thirteen years away, Nami (Meiko Kaji) returns to Tokyo determined to track down the man responsible for her father’s murder. En route, she inte... Read more
The Yeti
When an oil tycoon and a famous adventurer vanish into the harsh winter of remote northern Alaska, a hand-picked rescue team endeavors to bring them h... Read more
Flush
"Trying to win back his girlfriend in a shady club, Luke finds himself in the middle of a drug deal gone wrong.Left for dead with his head stuck in th... Read more
Imposters
After a couple’s baby boy is taken, the desperate mother learns of a way to bring him back. However, her husband begins to suspect that what she retur... Read more
Small Kill
Children are being kidnapped and held for ransom. If the parents don't cooperate, the kids show up dead. An undercover cop gets involved in the case,... Read more
Bulk
"When an overzealous scientist pushes string-theory experiments beyond the fringe, his brane (not brain) explodes, leaving reality fragmented. Corey H... Read more
Phase
After being cast out from the pioneering space station Alexandria, pregnant Ursula sets out to find her child’s father in a harsh, futuristic world. A... Read more
Shorts Block 1: Strange Freqencies
Something is getting in: or getting out! This collection of Lynchian vignettes lives in the liminal space between the grounded and the uncanny, where... Read more
Flesh for Frankenstein
"A delectably gory and cynical social satire from acclaimed filmmaker Paul Morrissey (BLOOD FOR DRACULA), FLESH FOR FRANKENSTEIN is among the most ori... Read more
One Spoon of Chocolate
Fresh out of prison, Army veteran Unique (Shameik Moore) moves to a small Ohio town hoping for a fresh start. But when he collides with a racist sheri... Read more
Lady Snowblood + Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41
LADY SNOWBLOOD (1973, 97 mins, DCP)Gory revenge is raised to the level of visual poetry in Toshiya Fujita’s stunning *Lady Snowblood.* A major inspira... Read more
The Kid with the Golden Arm
A criminal organization, headed by a kung fu master nicknamed the Golden Arm Kid, targets 200,000 gold taels being transported by a private security c... Read more
Blood Brothers (& Other Delights)
"Infamous for his arrest, trial and conviction - in the 1990s for his self-published comic, artist Mike Diana also made a string of homemade films. St... Read more
Shorts Block 2: And Then What
Every catastrophe starts small. A toast. A dinner bill. A chair. A ride home. A crossing guard who's had enough. Another chair. In this block of wildl... Read more
Cruel Hands
Amid the worst bushfires in Australia’s history, Maria and her son Dai escape a violent and abusive husband and make their way to an abandoned farmhou... Read more
Roqia
"In 1993, after a car crash leaves Ahmed amnesiac, he returns to his village, where nothing feels familiar — not his wife, not his children. His young... Read more
Ikatan Darah
"Mega is a gifted competitive martial artist whose career is cut short by an unfortunate injury. As she licks her wounds, danger comes crashing into h... Read more
Sheila and the Brainstem
Set in the west and southwest of the United States, this frantically-paced social satire with a science fiction twist is the story of Taz, a nutty vis... Read more
Faces of Death
A moderator on an internet video-sharing platform stumbles across a potential snuff film ring hidden in the depths of the site’s content. Are these gr... Read more
Over Your Dead Body
A dysfunctional couple head to a remote cabin to supposedly reconnect, but each has secret plans to kill the other.
Exorcist II: Heretic
A teenage girl once possessed by a demon finds that it still lurks within her. Meanwhile, a priest investigates the death of the girl’s exorcist.Print... Read more
Boorman and the Devil
"In the wake of box-office titans POINT BLANK and DELIVERANCE, John Boorman was granted the opportunity of a lifetime: to direct the sequel to THE EXO... Read more
Reds
"The curious notion that Hollywood or its European counterparts could produce a truly and unequivocally progressive spectacle…continues to be as much... Read more
Sound of Silent Film Festival 2026
ACM’s popular Sound of Silent Film Festival, now in its 21st year, is a unique event featuring new short silent films – spanning comedy, drama, experi... Read more
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Ulysses Everett McGill (George Clooney) is having difficulty adjusting to his hard-labor sentence in Mississippi. He scams his way off the chain gang... Read more
Prison Break!: Films of Escape
“To fight the walls, to fight myself, to fight the door. You too, Mr. Blanchet, should fight and hope." — Lieutenant Fontaine, A Man Escaped (1956) A... Read more
Escape from New York
This bravura sci-fi actioner remains wildly enjoyable and beloved 45 years after its initial release. Set in a far-off dystopian future of 1997 where... Read more
$POSITIONS
A Midwest worker risks his savings on crypto, spiraling into gambling addiction and straining ties with his girlfriend, disabled brother, and recoveri... Read more
Exit 8
Based on the global hit eponymous video game created by KOTAKE CREATE. A man trapped in an endless sterile subway passageway sets out to find Exit 8.... Read more
Cool Hand Luke
"Natural-born world-shaker" Luke Jackson (Paul Newman, in the first of four collaborations with director Stuart Rosenberg) joins the barracks of a Sou... Read more
Stir Crazy
"With Gene Wilder, it was no problem. We fell in love instantly." - Richard PryorWhen a case of mistaken identities lands two friends with big ambitio... Read more
Moulin Rouge!
Glitz and glamour abound in Baz Luhrmann’s dizzying spectacle, MOULIN ROUGE! Follow Christian (Ewan McGregor) as he joins a group of Bohemians in the... Read more
Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky
The greatest gore-soaked Hong Kong prison breakout love story of 1991—and STILL the Category III (HK’s equivalent to “NC-17”) mug melter that tops all... Read more
The Stranger (2026)
Meursault (Benjamin Voisin) works as a clerk at an office in Algiers during the French colonial occupation. A modest man who keeps to himself, Meursau... Read more
Real Life
"I shouldn't be allowed to do this! Why did I pick reality? I don't know anything about it!" Albert Brooks, one of cinema's greatest comic minds and d... Read more
Holes
“HOLES jumps the rails, leaves all expectations behind, and tells a story that’s not funny ha-ha but funny peculiar.” - Roger EbertBased on Louis Sach... Read more
A Body to Live In
A BODY TO LIVE IN offers an uncompromising look at the rise of BDSM performance art, body modification and the ‘modern primitives’ cultural movement t... Read more
Erupcja
A romantic vacation goes awry when a volcanic eruption strands Bethany (Charli xcx) and her soon-to-be fiancé, Rob (Will Madden) in Warsaw, Poland. Be... Read more
Black Mama White Mama
Before her iconic turn in Coffy, Pam Grier starred alongside Margaret Markov in a grindhouse spin on Stanley Kramer’s The Defiant Ones, fusing the Wom... Read more
A Man Escaped
With the simplest of concepts and sparest of techniques, Robert Bresson made one of the most suspenseful jailbreak films of all time in A Man Escaped.... Read more
The House by the Cemetery
The Boyles - Lucy (Catriona MacColl, The Beyond), Norman (Paolo Malco, The New York Ripper) and their young son Bob (Giovanni Frezza, Demons) - reloca... Read more
The Adventures of Prince Achmed
When THE ADVENTURES OF PRINCE ACHMED premiered in Germany on September 23, 1926, it was hailed as the first full-length animated film. More than seven... Read more
Escape From Alcatraz
“We don’t make good citizens, but we make good prisoners.” Based on the unbelievable true story of the 1962 escape of three men from the maximum secur... Read more
Road House (1989)
The Double Deuce is the meanest, loudest and rowdiest bar south of the Mason-Dixon Line, and Dalton (Patrick Swayze) has been hired to clean it up. He... Read more