More titles to be announced
Last year, Bride of Music Box of Horrors descended upon Chicago's ravenous horror community. And let's just say things got interesting…in the 9+ months since we last convened to worship the dark lords and celebrate their debaucherous malevolence, we've welcomed a deranged new member of the family. This year we proudly present what is perhaps our most wicked and unholy creation, MUSIC BOX OF HORRORS: THE DREAM CHILD! Just as its namesake suggests, things will get darker, weirder, nastier, and more horrifying than ever as we celebrate the birth of this child, whose penchant for mining every possible corner of horror will satiate and shock even the most jaded amongst us.
Series Pricing
Regular Features - $11 GA / $8 MBT Member
Special Events - $13 / $10 MBT Member
Rated Q: CARRIE - $15 / $12 MBT Member
10 film pass - $72 GA / $60 MBT Member (redeemable for all films except R.L. Stine: A Master of Modern Horror on October 9th and our 24-hour marathon on October 19th)
Coming up in this Series
Amityville Horror: The Evil Escapes
Opens October 29
The AMITYVILLE HORROR series was given new life in the ‘90s with four fun installments on the “cursed object” theme. These sequels are like a cross be... Read more
The Bad Seed
Opens October 5
The original and arguably never bested Bad Kid movie, based on a stage play by Maxwell Anderson, stars 11-year-old Patty McCormack as Rhoda, a pigtail... Read more
Carrie
Opens October 10
Carrie White, a shy, friendless teenage girl who is sheltered by her domineering, religious mother, unleashes her telekinetic powers after being humil... Read more
Cropsey
Opens October 14
Two filmmakers investigate the disappearance of five children in their home town and the urban legend that grew from it.
The Descent
Opens October 4
In an era when “strong female characters” were still a rarity in horror movies, The Descent brought a breath of fresh air to the genre — ironically, b... Read more
Don't Look Now
Opens October 27
DON’T LOOK NOW is an acute study of two grieving parents (Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland) who escape the English countryside for a wintery Venic... Read more
Dumplings
Opens October 23
Expanding on his notorious segment from the pan-Asian anthology Three…Extremes, Hong Kong horror auteur Fruit Chan crafts a unique take on body horror... Read more
The Exorcist III
Opens October 6
Fifteen years after the events of THE EXORCIST (and completely ignoring the first sequel), the dynamite George C. Scott steps into the shoes of Lieute... Read more
Faust
Opens October 20
In the years immediately following the First World War, F. W. Murnau produced over a dozen films across every stratum of the German film industry, fro... Read more
Frankenhooker
Opens October 11
After making horror history with BASKET CASE and BRAIN DAMAGE, the incomparable Frank Henenlotter unleashed FRANKENHOOKER—the greatest transmutation o... Read more
Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II
Opens October 18
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... Read more
The House of the Devil
Opens October 31
Sam (Jocelin Donahue) is a pretty college sophomore, so desperate to earn some cash for a deposit on an apartment that she accepts a babysitting job e... Read more
I Know What You Did Last Summer
Opens October 21
In 1997, a new slasher icon was born…and he had a hook. In I Know What You Did Last Summer, a group of kids pay the price for not reporting a hit and... Read more
Ninja III: The Domination
Opens October 12
Aerobic instructor Christie Ryder (Lucinda Dickey, Breakin', Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo) becomes possessed by the spirit of an evil ninja when she... Read more
Noroi: The Curse
Opens October 2
An ambitious journalist enters a supernatural world that’s darker and more disturbing than he ever could have imagined in Koji Shiraishi’s masterpiece... Read more
Nosferatu the Vampyre
Opens October 26
Werner Herzog’s only horror film is as rich with artistry and tragedy as his most grounded, human work. It is 1850 in the beautiful, perfectly-kept to... Read more
Poison for the Fairies
Opens October 22
When the wealthy but lonely young Flavia arrives at her new school in Mexico City, she is quickly befriended by a mysterious orphan named Veronica. Wh... Read more
Psychomania
Opens October 24
America gave motorcycle-mad cinemagoers EASY RIDER, THE WILD ONE and THE WILD ANGELS . . . and Britain gave them PSYCHOMANIA, a tale of zombie bikers... Read more
R.L. Stine: A Modern Master of Horror
Opens October 9
Chicago Humanities and Music Box Theatre conjure Halloween spirits with this spooky screening and hair-raising talk with best-selling children’s autho... Read more
Save the Green Planet!
This twisty 2003 Korean genre-bender seems prophetic in hindsight, predicting our conspiracy-obsessed post-truth present back in the days before Myspa... Read more
Sssssss
Opens October 8
This Watergate-era “snakesploitation” movie is a strange cocktail of 50s sci-fi, 60s soft-core, and 70s dystopia stirred into one surprisingly intoxic... Read more
Terrifier 3
Opens October 7
Art the Clown is set to unleash chaos on the unsuspecting residents of Miles County as they peacefully drift off to sleep on Christmas Eve.
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Opens October 1
In honor of its 50th anniversary, Dark Sky Films and the Music Box Theatre are teaming up for a celebration of the gritty, terrifying movie that start... Read more
Trouble Every Day
Opens October 3
American newlyweds Dr. Shane and June Brown (Vincent Gallo and Tricia Vessey) travel to Paris for their honeymoon. Once there, Shane begins a search f... Read more
Willow Creek
Opens October 13
A young couple find themselves face-to-face against a terrifying evil when they venture into the heart of Bigfoot country in WILLOW CREEK, director Bo... Read more