BOO!
In the final days before Halloween, join us around the flickering screen as we tell tales of restless souls, pumpkin prophecies, an upstanding serial killer, aliens on Grand Island, and MORE! 😱
THE FOG 4K RESTORATION
TASTE THE BLOOD OF DRACULA
HOUSE (HAUSU)
THE CROW
FREE TV SPECIALS
HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA
NIGHT OF THE HUNTER
WKBW’s WAR OF THE WORLDS, 50 YEARS LATER
TEEN WITCH
BEETLEJUICE
THE FOG 4K RESTORATION
Fri 10/26 at 7:00 PM & 9:30 PM
Sat 10/27 at 9:30 PM
Sun 10/28 at 7:00 PM & 9:30 PM
$10.50 for Adults, $8.50 for Students
Lock your doors.
Bolt your windows.
There’s something in The Fog!
StudioCanal’s beautiful new 4K restoration of John Carpenter’s atmospheric classic surfaces on US shores, featuring a digital remaster overseen by legendary cinematographer Dean Cundey.
Starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Atkins, Janet Leigh, Adrienne Barbeau, and Hal Holbrook—with music by Carpenter!
FRI October 26th at 7:00 PM
FRI October 26th at 9:30 PM
SAT October 27th at 9:30 PM
SUN October 28th at 7:00 PM
SUN October 28th at 9:30 PM
“Like the best horror movies, The Fog is held together by a
visual motif of perversion, a visually poetic idea. Opaque and
amorphous…the fog is both an expanding medium of death
and a shroud…The most horrifying episodes are often
uncannily beautiful, and the movie is beautiful in moments
of peace, too. Carpenter knows how to give his landscapes
the hard-edged look of hallucination…
A low budget triumph, a genuinely poetic horror film.”
— The New Yorker
“An elegant, scary thriller of the supernatural.”
— The Los Angeles Times
“As stunningly effective as anything John Carpenter has
done to date…an uneasy venture down a blind alley.”
— Monthly Film Bulletin
A strange, glowing fog rolls over a small coastal town one hundred years after a mysterious shipwreck and when vengeful ghosts go on a killing spree, residents look for answers even as they try to survive.
TASTE THE BLOOD OF DRACULA
Fri, 10/26 at 2:45pm & 4:50pm
Sat, 10/27 at 4:30pm & 7:00pm
Sun, 10/28 at 4:30pm
$10.50 for Adults, $8.50 for Students
They taste his blood and the horror begins!
Christopher Lee stars as Dracula in one of Hammer Horror’s strangest (and that’s saying something!).
Three distinguished gentlemen are searching for some excitement in their boring lives and get in contact with one of count Dracula’s servants. In a nighttime ceremony, they attempt to restore the count back to life…
Don’t miss your chance to see this British horror classic on the BIG SCREEN!
FRI October 26th at 2:45 PM
FRI October 26th at 4:50 PM
SAT October 27th at 4:30 PM
SAT October 27th at 7:00 PM
SUN October 28th at 4:30 PM
HOUSE (HAUSU)
Mon, 10/29 at 4:50pm & 9:30pm
Wed, 10/31 at 4:30pm & 7:00pm
$10.50 for Adults, $8.50 for Students
You wanna get weird?
Like, REALLY weird?
Rainbow acid-trip, man-eating piano weird?
HAVE WE GOT THE MOVIE FOR YOU!
Described by Janus Films as “an episode of Scooby Doo directed by Dario Argento”, director Nobuhiko Obayashi stitches together every special effect in Toho’s wheelhouse to create the most profoundly gonzo horror comedy of all time.
Don’t miss your chance to see this infamous cult masterpiece on the big screen!
“MUST SEE! Delirious, deranged, gonzo or just gone, baby, gone — no single adjective or even a pileup does justice to House.”
— The New York Times
MON October 29th at 4:50 PM
MON October 29th at 9:30 PM
WED October 31st at 4:30 PM
WED October 31st at 7:00 PM
How to describe Nobuhiko Obayashi’s 1977 movie House? As a psychedelic ghost tale? A stream-of-consciousness bedtime story? An episode of Scooby Doo as directed by Dario Argento?
Any of the above will do for this hallucinatory head trip about a schoolgirl who travels with six classmates to her ailing aunt’s creaky country home, only to come face to face with evil spirits, bloodthirsty pianos, and a demonic housecat.
Too absurd to be genuinely terrifying, yet too nightmarish to be merely comic, House seems like it was beamed to Earth from another planet. Or perhaps the mind of a child: the director fashioned the script after the eccentric musings of his eleven-year-old daughter, then employed all the tricks in his analog arsenal (mattes, animation, and collage) to make them a visually astonishing, raucous reality.
A bona fide cult classic, House is one of the most exciting genre discoveries in years. (JANUS FILMS)
THE CROW
Tue, 10/30 at 10:15 PM
Wed, 10/31 at 2:00 PM & 10:00 PM
$10.50 for Adults, $8.50 for Students
“Devil’s night is upon us again…”
The late Brandon Lee stars in one of the most stylishly influential comic book adaptations of all time.
From director Alex Proyas (DARK CITY) and featuring a stacked ’90s soundtrack, you don’t want to miss your shot at seeing this trendsetting classic on the BIG SCREEN!
Prizes for the best costumes! 🎃
“It is a stunning work of visual style – the best version of a
comic book universe I’ve seen – and Brandon Lee clearly demonstrates in it that he might have become
an action star, had he lived.”
— Roger Ebert
“A seamless, pulsating, dazzlingly visual revenge fantasy that stands
as one of the most effective live-actioners
ever derived from a comic strip.”
— Variety
“If he had to die so soon, this movie is the best and most appropriate
sendoff Lee could have hoped for.”
— Washington Post
TUE October 30th at 10:15 PM
WED October 31th at 2:00 PM
WED October 31th at 10:00 PM
Based on the graphic novel by James O’Barr, this 1994 fantasy follows Eric Draven (Brandon Lee), a rock musician who is murdered along with his fiancée, Shelly (Sofia Shinas), by a group of marauding thugs who terrorize the decaying city in which they live. One year to the day after his death (which happens to be Devil’s Night), a mystical crow appears at Eric’s grave; Eric rises from the dead and, with the bird as his guide, goes on a mission to avenge himself against Top Dollar (Michael Wincott), the leader of the gang who killed him.
Star Brandon Lee was killed while filming a scene in which he was shot with a shell from an improperly cleaned gun that was supposed to be loaded with blanks. Like his father, martial arts superstar Bruce Lee, Brandon was fated to enjoy his greatest popular success after his premature death.
FREE HALLOWEEN SPECIALS
11:30 AM Saturday & Sunday, 10/27 & 10/28
FREE SCREENING!
TV specials are just as essential to Halloween as candy and costumes, and we’re showing some of the best:
IT’S THE GREAT PUMPKIN, CHARLIE BROWN! (1966)
GARFIELD’S HALLOWEEN ADVENTURE (1985)
…and more!
So stop in during HERTEL HALLOWEEN or the day following for FREE CANDY and a short spooky delight.
SATURDAY ONLY: Meet the Buffalo Ghostbusters! 👻
HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA
10/26-29
$8.50 for Adults, $7.50 for Seniors
A new Halloween family favorite!
Master animator Genndy Tartakovsky (DEXTER’S LAB, SAMURAI JACK) infuses the classic Universal monster lineup with witty gags and boundless visual flare.
Featuring the voice talents of Adam Sandler, Selena Gomez, and Andy Samberg.
FRI October 26th at 12:30 PM
SAT October 27th at 2:00 PM
SUN October 28th at 2:00 PM
MON October 29th at 12:30 PM
MON October 29th at 2:45 PM
THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER
7:00 PM Monday, Oct 29
$10.50 for Adults, FREE for high school students
“Leaning, leaning…”
Join us as the Nichols School Film Series presents Charles Laughton’s chilling noir masterpiece THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER, starring Robert Mitchum in his most iconic role.
A Q&A with faculty and students will follow the show.
Get tickets at the door or online HERE.
WKBW’s WAR OF THE WORLDS, 50 YEARS LATER
7:00 PM Tuesday, October 30th
$10.00 for Adults
LIMITED # OF TICKETS AVAILABLE!
50 years ago this Halloween, WKBW radio updated Orson Welles’s infamous WAR OF THE WORLDS broadcast for a modern Buffalo audience — a stunt that resulted in panicked listeners, a foreign power on high alert, and widespread international attention.
Now, half a century after the 1968 airdate, join us in celebrating the anniversary of this historic night with the world premiere screening of a new documentary about the program’s enduring legacy, followed by a live on-stage panel discussion with some of the most prominent icons of Buffalo radio & TV.
7:00 PM, Tuesday, October 30th
$10.00 tickets available HERE (limited qty).
