MOONLIT MATINEE
HORROR FEST

Every Friday and Saturday in October @ 10p.
All seats $7.00.
Advanced tickets available now.

All 35mm prints!

Once again this year, the festival is being brought to you with the support of The ScareHouse in Etna. Ranked as one of "America's Scariest Halloween Attractions" by Travel Channel, The ScareHouse was also named as "America’s 5th Best Haunted Attraction" by Hauntworld magazine.

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Friday, October 1 @ 10p and
Saturday, October 2 @ 10p

An American
Werewolf in London
1981 / R / 97 minutes

One of the most gripping horror films of all-time. Blending the macabre with a wicked sense of humor, director John Landis (National Lampoon’s Animal House) delivers a contemporary take on the classic werewolf tale in this story of two American tourists (David Naughton and Griffin Dunne) who, while traveling in London, find their lives changed forever when a viscious wolf attacks them during a full moon. Featuring groundbreaking, Academy Award-winning make-up by Rick Baker.

BUY TICKETS : FRIDAY / SATURDAY

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Friday, October 8 @ 10p and
Saturday, October 9 @ 10p

Tales from the Crypt
1972 / PG / 92 minutes

Before Creepshow and the Tales from the Crypt TV show became popular, this little-known film was the original adaptation of the famous E.C. horror comic. While visiting an underground catacomb, five tourists (including Joan Collins and Peter Cushing) venture off into a secret room where a mysterious, robed man shows them the horrible fates that will befall them should they decide to go through with the dastardly deeds they have secretly planned. These include killing a spouse, running away with a mistress, driving a neighbor out of town, using a mysterious idol to fulfill greedy wishes, and abusing the inhabitants of a home for the blind. This Halloween favorite is rated PG, and is good, creepy fun for the whole family.

BUY TICKETS : FRIDAY / SATURDAY

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Friday, October 15 @ 10p and
Saturday, October 16 @ 10p

Motel Hell
1980 / R / 102 minutes

Veteran actor Rory Calhoun stars as Farmer Vincent in this gruesome but somewhat tongue-in-cheek rural schlockfest that has now become a cult classic. "Meat is meat, and a man's gotta eat!" That was always granny's philosophy. And that's the way folks still think over at the Motel Hello (the o is burnt out on the sign) where Farmer Vincent mixes up his very special and unique blend of smoked meats. The Motel Hello is open for business folks. But if you're asked to stay for dinner, you may want to think twice!!

BUY TICKETS : FRIDAY / SATURDAY

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Friday, October 22 @ 10p and
Saturday, October 23 @ 10p

House (Hausu)
1977 / R / 87 minutes

How to describe Nobuhiko Obayahshi’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. Never before released in the United States, and a bona fide cult classic in the making, House is one of the most exciting genre discoveries in years.

BUY TICKETS : FRIDAY / SATURDAY

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Friday, October 29 @ 10p and
Saturday, October 30 @ 10p

Halloween
1978 / R / 91 minutes

Halloween is as pure and undiluted as its title. In the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois, a teenage babysitter tries to survive a Halloween night of relentless terror, during which a knife-wielding maniac goes after the town's hormonally charged youths. Director John Carpenter takes this simple situation and orchestrates a superbly mounted symphony of horrors. It's a movie much scarier for its dark spaces and ominous camera movements than for its explicit bloodletting (which is actually minimal). Composed by Carpenter himself, the movie's freaky music sets the tone; and his script (cowritten with Debra Hill) is laced with references to other horror pictures, especially Psycho. The baby sitter is played by Jamie Lee Curtis, the real-life daughter of Psycho victim Janet Leigh; and the obsessed policeman played by Donald Pleasence is named Sam Loomis, after John Gavin's character in Psycho. In the end, though, Halloween stands on its own as an uncannily frightening experience--it's one of those movies that had audiences literally jumping out of their seats and shouting at the screen. ("No! Don't drop that knife!") Produced on a low budget, the picture turned a monster profit, and spawned many sequels, none of which approached the 1978 original.

BUY TICKETS : FRIDAY / SATURDAY