Logan Theatre - Horror Movie Madness 2024

Horror Movie Madness 2024

An annual Late Night at the Logan Series
Tues-Thurs night screenings | Fri-Mon night screenings
Tickets are $12 unless otherwise noted

Scary season is upon us! It's time again for The Logan Theatre's annual Horror Movie Madness festivities. This month-long series features a calendar full of classic horrors, 2 one-night-only silent film screenings with a live organist, our yearly costume party, and a free family matinee double feature. Plus! Bucket o' Blood Books & Records is back with us on the 18th, throwing a They Live screening party. And — as is tradition — we close out the month with screenings of Stanley Kubrick's The Shining and John Carpenter's Halloween.

Showtimes range from 10:30 pm to 11 pm, with earlier screenings in the week leading up to the holiday. Costumes are welcome during designated festivities, especially on October 25th before the opening of Creepshow, at our Halloween Party.

Join us early and hang out at our bar or in the Lounge, and partake in a cryptic cocktails from our drink menu or enjoy any of your favorites from our fully stocked bar.

Sleepaway Camp (1983) Oct 1-3 at 10:30 PM

Bunks and showers are a mad stabber's beat at a summer camp strictly for teens.

Writer/Director: Robert Hiltzik
Cast: Felissa Rose, Jonathan Tiersten, Karen Fields
Runtime: 1hr 24min | Rated: R

Evil Dead II: Dead by Dawn (1987) Oct 1-3 at 11 PM

Ash Williams, the lone survivor of an earlier onslaught of flesh-possessing spirits, holes up in a cabin with a group of strangers while the demons continue their attack.

Director: Sam Raimi
Writers: Sam Raimi, Scott Spiegel
Cast: Sam Raimi, Scott Spiegel
Runtime: 1hr 24min | Rated: R

The Thing (1982) Oct 4-7 at 10:30 PM

A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.

Director: John Carpenter
Writers: Bill Lancaster, John W. Campbell Jr.
Cast: Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, Keith David
Runtime: 1hr 49min | Rated: R

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) Oct 4-7 at 11 PM

Some friends en route to visit their grandfather's grave in Texas end up falling victim to a family of cannibalistic psychopaths.

Director: Tobe Hooper
Writers: Kim Henkel, Tobe Hooper
Cast: Marilyn Burns, Edwin Neal, Allen Danziger
Runtime: 1hr 23min | Rated: R

Psycho (1960) Oct 8-10 at 10:30 PM

A Phoenix secretary embezzles $40k, goes on the run, and checks into a remote motel run by a man under the thumb of his mother.

Film Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writers: Joseph Stefano, Robert Bloch
Cast: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles
Runtime: 1hr 49min | Rated: R

Scream (1996) Oct 8-10 at 11 PM

A year after the murder of her mother, a teenage girl is terrorized by a masked killer who targets her and her friends by using scary movies as part of a deadly game.

Director: Wes Craven
Writer: Kevin Williamson
Cast: Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette
Runtime: 1hr 51min | Rated: R

The Silence of the Lambs (1991) Oct 11-14 at 10:30 PM

A young F.B.I. cadet must receive the help of an incarcerated and manipulative cannibal killer to help catch another serial killer, a madman who skins his victims..

Director: Jonathan Demme
Writers: Thomas Harris, Ted Tally
Cast: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn
Runtime: 1hr 58min | Rated: R

Friday the 13th (1980) Oct 11-14 at 11 PM

A group of camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp.

Director: Sean S. Cunningham
Writers: Victor Miller, Sean S. Cunningham
Cast: Betsy Palmer, Adrienne King, Jeannine Taylor
Runtime: 1hr 35min | Rated: R

Ganja and Hess (1973) Oct 12 at 11 PM

After being stabbed with an ancient, germ-infested knife, a doctor's assistant finds himself with an insatiable desire for blood.

Writer/Director: Bill Gunn
Cast: Duane Jones, Marlene Clark, Bill Gunn
Runtime: 1hr 52min | Rated: R

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) October 12 at 9 PM - $14
with live organ accompaniment

Hypnotist Dr. Caligari uses a somnambulist, Cesare, to commit murders.

Director: Robert Wiene
Writers: Carl Mayer, Hans Janowitz
Cast: Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Friedrich Feher
Runtime: 1hr 7min | Rated: NR

Candyman (1992) Oct 15-17 at 10:30 PM

The Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad student researching the monster's myth..

Director: Bernard Rose
Writers: Clive Barker, Bernard Rose
Cast: Virginia Madsen, Xander Berkeley, Tony Todd
Runtime: 1hr 39min | Rated: R

Ju-On: The Grudge (2002) Oct 15-17 at 11 PM

A mysterious and vengeful spirit marks and pursues anybody who dares enter the house in which it resides.

Writer/Director: Takashi Shimizu
Cast: Megumi Okina, Misaki Itô, Misa Uehara
Runtime: 1hr 32min | Rated: R

They Live (1988) Friday, Oct 18 at 10:30 PM
+ Pre-Show Viewing Party w/ Bucket o' Blood Books & Records on Fri, Oct 18 at 8 pm

They influence our decisions without us knowing it. They numb our senses without us feeling it. They control our lives without us realizing it. They live.

Director: Ray Nelson, John Carpenter
Writers: Stephen King, Lawrence D. Cohen
Cast: Roddy Piper, Keith David, Meg Foster
Runtime: 1hr 34min | Rated: R

House of 1000 Corpses (2003) Oct 19-21 at 10:30 PM

Two young couples traveling across the backwoods of Texas searching for urban legends of murder end up as prisoners of a bizarre and sadistic backwater family of serial killers.

Writer/Director: Rob Zombie
Cast: Sid Haig, Karen Black, Bill Moseley
Runtime: 1hr 29min | Rated: R

A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) Oct 18-21 at 11 PM

Teenagers in a small town are dropping like flies and Nancy and her boyfriend Glen, must devise a plan to lure a monster out of the realm of nightmares into the real world.

Writer/Director: Wes Craven
Cast: Heather Langenkamp, Johnny Depp, Robert Englund
Runtime: 1hr 31min | Rated: R

Rosemary's Baby (1987) Oct 22-24 at 10:30 PM

A couple moves into an apartment with peculiar neighbors. When the wife becomes pregnant, paranoia over her child takes over.

Director: Roman Polanski
Writers: Ira Levin, Roman Polanski
Cast: Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon
Runtime: 2hr 17min | Rated: R

Dolls (1986) Oct 22-24 at 11 PM

A dysfunctional family stops at a mansion in a storm: father, stepmother, and child. The child discovers that the elderly owners are toy makers with a haunted collection of dolls.

Director: Stuart Gordon
Writer: Ed Naha
Cast: Ian Patrick Williams, Carolyn Purdy-Gordon, Carrie Lorraine
Runtime: 1hr 17min | Rated: R

Nosferatu (1922) Wednesday, October 23 at 9 PM - $14
with live score accompaniment

Count Orlok expresses interest in a new residence and real estate agent Hutter's wife.

Director: F.W. Murnau
Writers: Henrik Galeen, Bram Stoker
Cast: Max Schreck, Alexander Granach, Gustav von Wangenheim
Runtime: 1hr 34min | Rated: NR

Creepshow (1982) Oct 25-28 at 10:30 PM

5 grisly tales from a kid's comic book: a murdered father rising from his grave, a bizarre meteor, a vengeful husband, a mysterious crate, and a plague of cockroaches.

Director: George A. Romero
Writer: Stephen King
Cast: Hal Holbrook, Leslie Nielsen, Adrienne Barbeau
Runtime: 2hr | Rated: R

The Exorcist (1973, Director's Cut) Oct 25-28 at 11 PM

When a teenage girl is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two priests to save her daughter.

Director: William Friedkin
Writer: William Peter Blatty
Cast: Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Linda Blair
Runtime: 2hr 2min | Rated: R

Free Family Matinee! Sunday, Oct 27 at 11:30 AM

Double Animated Feature:
It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966)
Casper's Halloween Special (1979)

Tickets available in-house-only, beginning at noon on Saturday (10/28)
Doors: 11 am
Show: 11:30 am
Intermission + Prize Raffles

The Shining (1980) Oct 29-31 at 10:30 PM

A family heads to an isolated hotel where an evil spirit turns the father violent, while his psychic son can see horrific forebodings.

Director: Stanley Kubrick
Writers: Stephen King, Stanley Kubrick
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd
Runtime: 2hr 26min | Rated: R

Halloween (1978) Oct 29-31 at 11 PM

Fifteen years after murdering his sister, Michael Myers escapes from a hospital and returns to Haddonfield, IL to kill again.

Film Director: John Carpenter
Writer: John Carpenter, Debra Hill
Cast: Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasence, Nancy Loomis
Runtime: 1hr 31min | Rated: R

Events Overview:

Every Monday, 8:30 PM – Open Mic Comedy (Sign-up at 8 pm)
Every Tuesday, 8 PM – Movie Trivia Night with your hosts, Juli & Jamie!
Wednesday, October 12, 9 PM – The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) with Live Organist Jay Warren
Friday, October 18, 8 PM – THEY LIVE Party with Bucket of Blood Books & Records
Wednesday, October 23, 9 PM – Nosferatu (1922) with Live Organist Jay Warren
Friday, October 25, 8 PM – The Logan's Annual Halloween Costume Party
Sunday, October 27, 11:30 AM – Free Family Halloween Matinee

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