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We will be adding movie info up until the last moment because of the way they schedule shows.
Special Halloween Movie PresentationsMany theatres have special screens planned for Halloween and the weekend before. Pick up a paper or hit www.MovieFone.com and check out the theatres. Tasty treats range from Silent Movies to Cult Classics... Mixed format - Movies & ActorsJust because a movie's on the big screen, doesn't mean you just sit there and watch. Audience participation is so much more fun. Rocky Horror Picture Show Shadowcast - Movie w/ live castIf you're looking for the live theater presentation, click <here> The ultimate Halloween midnight move show. Get out the rice, your fishnets, clean underwear and get ready to time warp with the entire audience! Special days make this movie so much more fun because you'll have the best of the "live casts", extra events, wall to wall folks all ready to let go modern problems and reenact that dark and stormy night when the innocent meet whole wacky Transylvania group. You may have no voice left by the time the movie is out... but it's a great stress relievers... as well as just nostalgic, naughty fun. Please check the web sites for each movie theater to know what is allowed for props. Some do have kits you can buy. If you can buy in advance, do. Halloween nights are crowded. Remember to bring your ID! These groups run specials for costumes on certain performances and also do other Shadowcasts. Lots of different kinds of fun if you can drop your inhibitions.
Special Tribute Show, fund raiser and costume party at the Wiltern Theater. This is the event of a lifetime. Danny DeVito, Jorge Garcia, Billy Idol, Ricki Lake, Mario Lopez, Julian McMahon, Lea Michelle, Matthew Morrison, Jack Nicholson, and Evan Rachel Wood are among the talent signed on for this one-night-only live event, with other celebrated actors and singers tba. Adler, who is one of the original producers of the film and a founder of The Painted Turtle, will present a hybrid theatrical event combining the film version with select live musical performances from the film.
The www.moviefone.com or www.fandango.com/ will give you all the theatre details.
Silent MoviesSee the silent movie classics up on the big screen. Halloween makes these black and white gems all the more fun... Halloween Horror Fest with the Mighty Wurlitzer Organ
Old Town El Segundo present
old movies with a classic style. It combines the drama of a silent classic
film with a live musical presentation. The Wurlitzer Organ plays a short
prologue prior to each film presentation. What a way to get into the mood for a
spooky movie. Live musical accompaniment to a silent movie will be provided on
their magnificent 4/22 Mighty WurliTzer theater organ. The theater will be
tastefully decorated for this classic Halloween presentation which is suitable
for all ages.
Halloween Silent Film - at the Music Center
The Phantom of the Opera Silent Movie Classic
???? Experience this spooky silent classic starring Lon Chaney in the evocative and atmospheric surroundings of the Mission Playhouse, built in 1927 with live accompaniment on the magnificent and beautifully restored Wurlitzer Theater Organ.
Outdoors Movie Screenings
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Ever wanted to
catch a scary movie in a cemetery??? Here's your chance. Bring a
picnic dinner, spread a blanket, listen to a DJ spinning tunes before and
after. Full list of how to best enjoy your night <here>
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http://www.cinespia.org/
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Pershing Square is a unique outdoor city scape venue offering the Los Angeles
community free recreation programs. The 2010 season of Friday Night Fright
Flicks presents a variety of family films including movie classics, musicals,
sci-fi and adventure.
The Friday Night Fright Flicks program is presented on a 40 x 20 foot outdoor
screen, complimented with a professional sound system. Movies are free with lawn
seating in the Pershing Square outdoor amphitheater. Bring a blanket and snacks.
We look forward to seeing you at the movies! Popcorn is on the “SQUARE”.
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http://www.laparks.org/pershingsquare/nightflicks.html
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??? Celebrate Halloween with a scary movie and a picnic. Costume contest. Specials ghoulish treats from the food trucks. Come in costume and be automatically entered to win.
Two nights, two movies. Music. Gourmet food trucks. It’s the ultimate picnic - no basket required! Bring a blanket and watch movies on an outdoor movie screen standing three stories tall and 52 feet wide.
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http://www.outdoorcinemafoodfest.com/ or
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Devil's Night
brings back the Drive In Movie Theater to downtown Los Angeles!
| Info:
http://www.devilsnight.com/
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Looking for newer scary movies? How about a week of movies?
Come see the latest. Also catch some of the classics with special guests,
lectures and autograph sessions. The festival is October 14 - 23, 2011.
Catch numerous LA premieres of the up and coming horror movies, short film
festivals.
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| Info:
http://screamfestla.com/ or 323-656-4SCREAM for a complete
schedule and more details about ticket requirements for the special features.
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Shriekfest is an international festival and screenplay competition that receives submissions from all over the world. We are a festival dedicated to getting horror/thriller/sci-fi/fantasy filmmakers and screenwriters the recognition they deserve.
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http://www.shriekfest.com/
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Saturday Night - Horror Punk Rock Hootenanny -Night of the Demons -- Come party in hell at the Dragonfly.
Celebrate Halloween all October long in haunting style. The Cinefamily is an organization of movie lovers devoted to finding and presenting interesting and unusual programs of exceptional, distinctive, weird and wonderful films. Their goal is to foster a spirit of community and a sense of discovery, while reinvigorating the movie-going experience. Check their website to see clips from these "classic" scares.
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Info:
http://www.silentmovietheatre.com or (323) 655-2520
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Classic movies and guest lectures
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http://www.egyptiantheatre.com/Aero/aeromastercalendar.htm
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Is the Alex Haunted? The Alex Film Society in Glendale is screening the Abbott and Costello classic comedy Hold That Ghost. One of Bud and Lou's best, Hold That Ghost finds the team as gas station attendants who inherit a haunted tavern, where they (along with several travelers) spend a hilariously spooky night complete with murder, dead bodies, and a mysterious moving candle!!
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http://www.alextheatre.org/ or
event detail
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Catch frightful double features, special screenings, meet directors and actors. Chills, screams, blood and fun. Halloween weekend fun.
| Annual All Night Horror Show & New Bev Fundraiser
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| The Clonus Horror (1979) / The Clones (1973)
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| Orphan (2009) / Seed Of Chucky (2004)
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| Cat and the Canary (1939) / The Ghost Breakers (1940)
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| The Curse of the Werewolf (1961) / Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969)
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| Dr. Phibes Rises Again (1972) / The Return of Count Yorga (1971)
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| Trick 'r Treat (2009)/ Halloween III: Season Of The Witch (1982)
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Costumes are encouraged all nights, with a special costume contest on Halloween night with prizes!!! Halloween at the Bev will be Spooktacular!
| Info:
http://www.newbevcinema.com/ or
http://www.myspace.com/newbeverlycinema
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| Info: www.cinema.ucla.edu
(in calendar) or 310-206-FILM
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| Family Halloween Special
Check back, more items are added to the film calendar during the month. |
Classic movie presentations, with Q&A panels when available. Order on line at https://www.arclightcinemas.com or pick up in person at the individual theaters.
| Frankenstein (1931)
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| Pet Sematary (1989)
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| Tales from the Darkside (1990)
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| Army of Darkness (1992)
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| Friday the 13th (1980)
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| American Werewolf in London (1981)
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Twilight (2008) |
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Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009) |
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Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010) |
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Info: http://www.warnergrand.org/ or (310) 833-4813.
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Watch the 1993 classic movie at the El Capitan Theatre along with two of his earlier films, "Frankenwennie" and "Vincent". See classic props and sets from the movie. Disney Digital 3-D. Two weeks special showing.
Pumpkin Dinner: Enjoy a Nightmare Before Christmas themed dinner at Disney's Soda Fountain the El Capitan Theatre. The Dinner for the 7:00pm movie will be at 5:45pm and the Dinner for the 9:15pm movie will be at 8:00pm.
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http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/el_capitan/index.html
or 1-800-DISNEY6,
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Want a regular theatre to get in the mood??? There are always a number of scary movies released by the studios and special Halloween showings are getting more popular.
Just out for 2010, general release...
| In a world ravaged by a virus infection, turning its victims into the
Undead, Alice (Milla Jovovich), continues on her journey to find
survivors and lead them to safety. Her deadly battle with the Umbrella
Corporation reaches new heights, but Alice gets some unexpected help
from an old friend.
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| M. Night Shyamalan's supernatural thriller.
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| Family services social worker Emily Jenkins thinks she has seen it
all... until she meets 10-year old Lilith Sullivan and the child's cruel
and dangerous parents. Her worst fears are confirmed when the parents try
to harm Lily, their only daughter. Attempts to protect the girlr will only
bring on greater horror...
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| In the sleepy town of Riverton, legend tells of a serial
killer who swore he would return to murder the seven children born the night
he died. Now, 16 years later, people are disappearing again. Has the
psychopath been reincarnated as one of the seven teens, or did he survive
the night he was left for dead? Only one of the kids knows the answer.
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| As a deadly battle rages over Jigsaw's brutal legacy, a
group of Jigsaw survivors gathers to seek the support of self-help guru and
fellow survivor Bobby Dagen, a man whose own dark secrets unleash a new wave
of terror...The first theatrical feature to be shot exclusively on the cutting-edge
SI-3D digital camera system, "Saw 3D" brings the horrifying games of Jigsaw
to life like never before.
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| Eighty years ago, six people
disappeared from a New Orleans mansion without a trace. It now serves as
the location for an out of control decadent Halloween party. The demons at
the Broussard Mansion need seven vessels.
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Just out in Limited release for 2010
| When a high school senior and her group of friends begin to
receive a series of foreboding email chain letters, they have no idea the
terror that awaits them. With a warning that if they break the chain, they
will lose a life, the seemingly harmless email turns deadly when one-by-one
the friends that do not forward the chain letter are hunted down and
gruesomely killed by horror's newest villain, the Chain Man
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| The follow-up to Adam Green's 2007 slasher film. Harris now slips into the
shoes of Marybeth, who escapes from the clutches of Victor Crowley and
learns the truth about his curse. She heads back into the haunted New
Orleans swamp to seek revenge for her family and kill Victor Crowley once
and for all...
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| Remake of the controversial 1979 cult classic, "I Spit on
Your Grave" retells the horrific tale of writer Jennifer Hills, who takes a
retreat from the city to a cabin in the woods to start on her next book. But
Jennifer's presence in the small town attracts the attention of a few
morally deprived locals led who set out one night to teach this city girl a
lesson. She survives her ordeal. Now, with hell bent vengeance,
Jennifer's sole purpose is to turn the tables on these animals and to
inflict upon them every horrifying and torturous moment they carried out on
her - only much, much worse.
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| Six years ago previously, a NASA probe returning to earth
with samples of an alien life form, crashed over Central America. Soon
after, new life forms began to appear, and half of Mexico was quarantined as
an Infected Zone. Today, the American and Mexican military still struggle to
contain the creatures
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(still waiting for this info)
And more. can be found if you dig around using your fav movie guide http://www.fandango.com/ will give you all the theatre details
www.comingsoon.net and http://www.rottentomatoes.com have trailers, pics and articles on the latest movies.
Costumes???? At the movies??? Up to you... but it's a great time to wear the club 'blacks' and powder your face, at least. Best in a group.
Just watch out for those with the naturally sharp teeth.
Stuff that we can't get current info on, or has been canceled...
| A scientist's investigations into the nature of good and evil turn him
into a murderous monster.
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| Info:
http://www.lacma.org/events/Calendar.aspx /
http://www.lacma.org/programs/FilmSeriesSchedule.aspx
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??? West Los Angeles College is having its first free on campus horror film festival, Horror Fest at West, to promote awareness of campus resources in arts, cinema, and multimedia. Scary feature movie, student shorts, costume contest, giveaways, special guest Q & A and more! Taking place on October 30, the night before Halloween (also known as mischief night) in the Fine Arts Theater. At the end of the event there will be a networking reception in the courtyard adjacent to the theater.
| Info: http://www.horrorfestatwest.com
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??? After Dark Films
Horrorfest again invades theatres with 8 Films to
Die For this November. This thrilling nationwide horror film festival
is coming to a theatre near you. These are scary film at the far end
of horror.
Looking to pick a "Miss Horror Fest" - watch the videos.
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Info: http://www.horrorfestonline.com/
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| Miss Horror Fest
contest from September
15 - October 17, 2008
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The only drive-in Los Angeles has to offer, the Steve Allen has teamed up with
Hollywood MobMov to give you a spook every Friday till Halloween. It’s simple:
You park and tune in to a small-range radio signal, and you’re all set! All
screenings begin at 9 p.m. in our parking lot. Screenings also will occur in the
theater in case of overflow crowds. Lot opens at 8:30.
Friday night movies
include: Black Sabbath, Altered States, The Devil Rides out, Suspiria, and
Halloween's Blood Sucking Fiends & Alien
| Info:
http://www.hollywoodmobmov.org/ or
http://www.steveallentheater.com or (323) 666-4268
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Saw 1, 2, 3, and 4 leading up to the midnight premiere of SAW V – at select AMC locations!
| Info:
http://www.fandango.com/sawmarathon2008_119488/movieoverview
or Check your local theater listings.
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The Nuart Theatre hosts a special screening for our Friday Midnight show on Halloween. The German Expressionist silent film, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, will be performed by DJ/Artist BonJon presenting an original electronic score in Dolby 5.1 surround sound.
This event will have a pre-party with costume contest and prizes, and an after party. Kids are welcome, but since it is after midnight, it may be too late for those under 12.
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http://www.landmarktheatres.com/market/LosAngeles/NuartTheatre.htm or (310) 281-8223
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??? Old time movies. A great place to bring the kids on Halloween. Silent horror movies, cartoon, & sing-along, all with live music! Old time entertainment! Repeating program with breaks.
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