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 months since we last convened to worship the dark lords and celebrate their debaucherous malevolence, our deranged, undead child has continued their unholy reign of terror in the netherworlds, preferring the world of the damned and eager to share even more of what they’ve learned in the various circles of Hell. This year, we proudly present our most immoral and depraved creation, MUSIC BOX OF HORRORS: THE FINAL CHAPTER. Will Lucifer eject our child from the bowels of His kingdom before they overturn the throne, resulting in this truly being the final Music Box of Horrors? Only time will tell...
Series Pricing
Most screenings - $13 GA / $10 Music Box Member (check individual showtimes for more details)
10 Film Punch Pass - $100 GA / $80 Music Box Member (redeemable for all films except 24-hour marathon on October 24th)
Coming up in this Series
About a Place in the Kinki Region
Opens October 19
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
Opens October 20
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
Corpse Reviver No. 3: Possessions
Opens October 22
A new experimental film by Chris LaMartina, accompanied live by an original score from The Marshmallow Ghosts.
The Craft
Opens October 21
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
The Cycle
Opens October 18
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
The Devil's Backbone
Opens October 27
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
Dracula aka Horror of Dracula
Opens October 28
Experience Hammer’s definitive horror classic as never before! Restored in stunning 4K from the best original archival materials, this landmark editio... Read more
Ernest Scared Stupid
Opens October 31
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
Faust
Opens October 26
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
Halloween (1978)
Opens October 30
Credited, rightfully, as the film that kickstarted the “slasher” subgenre, Carpenter’s 1978 Halloween is a masterwork of building tension, an exercise... Read more
The Howling
Opens October 23
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
Limbo
Opens October 17
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
Screamplay
Opens October 22
"...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
Strange & Found & AV Geeks: Deathbed Visions
Opens October 29
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
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
Vampire Hunter D
Opens October 16
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
Previously in this Series
