An annual Late Night at the Logan Series
Tues-Thurs night screenings | Fri-Mon night screenings
Tickets are $9 and available now
This October, The Logan Theatre features a long set of classic horror films throughout the month in the 7th annual Horror Movie Madness series. This month-long series culminates with a run of selected features: Halloween, The Shining, and the anticipated screening of the 1922 silent film Nosferatu, accompanied by esteemed photoplay organist, Jay Warren.
Showtimes range from 10:30 pm to 11 pm, with a special, free family afternoon of matinees, as well as 8 pm screenings in the week leading up to the holiday. Costumes are always welcome, especially on October 19th before the opening of Beetlejuice, at our annual Halloween Party with 3 Sheeps Brewing.
Join us early and hang out at our bar or in the Lounge. Partake in a cryptic cocktail from our special cocktail menu or enjoy any of your favorites from our fully stocked bar.
Se7en (1995) Oct 2-4 at 10:30 PM
Two detectives, a rookie and a veteran, hunt a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his motives.
Director: David Fincher
Writers: Andrew Kevin Walker
Cast: Morgan Freeman, Brad Pitt, Kevin Spacey
Country: United States
Rated: R
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) Oct 5-8 at 10:30 PM
The monstrous spirit of a slain janitor seeks revenge by invading the dreams of teenagers whose parents were responsible for his untimely death.
Director: Wes Craven
Writer: Wes Craven
Cast: Heather Langenkamp, Johnny Depp, Robert Englund
Country: United States
Rated: R
The Exorcist (1973) Director's Cut Oct 5-8 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
Country: United States
Rated: R
Young Frankenstein (1974) Oct 9-11 at 10:30 PM
Grandson of the infamous scientist, struggles to prove his grandfather was not insane and is invited to Transylvania, where he discovers how to reanimate a dead body.
Director: Mel Brooks
Writers: Gene Wilder, Mel Brooks
Cast: Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn, Marty Feldman
Country: United States
Rated: PG
Night of the Living Dead (1968) Oct 9-11 at 11 PM
There is panic throughout the nation as the dead suddenly come back to life and a group of people try to survive an attack of zombies while trapped in a rural farmhouse.
Director: George A. Romero
Writers: John A. Russo, George A. Romero
Cast: Duane Jones, Judith O'Dea, Karl Hardman
Country: United States
Rated: NR
Psycho (1960) Oct 12 at 5 PM and 10:30 PM / Oct 13 at 12 PM and 10:30 PM / Oct 14 at 10:30 PM / Oct 15 at 10:30 PM
A Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run, and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writers: Joseph Stefano, Robert Bloch
Cast: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles
Country: United States
Rated: R
Friday the 13th (1980) Oct 12 at 3 PM and 11 PM / Oct 13 at 2:20 PM and 11 PM / Oct 14 at 12 PM and 11 PM / Oct 15 at 11 PM
A group of camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp which, years before, was the site of a child's drowning.
Director: Sean S. Cunningham
Writers: Victor Miller, Sean S. Cunningham
Cast: Betsy Palmer, Adrienne King, Jeannine Taylor
Country: United States
Rated: R
Poltergeist (1982) Oct 16-18 at 10:30 PM
A family's home is haunted by a host of ghosts.
Director: Tobe Hooper
Writers: Steven Spielberg, Michael Grais
Cast: JoBeth Williams, Heather O'Rourke, Craig T. Nelson
Country: United States
Rated: PG
The Thing (1982) Oct 16-18 at 11 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
Country: United States
Rated: R
Beetlejuice (1988) Oct 19-22 at 10:30 PM
When a recently-deceased ghost couple find their now-vacant home invaded by an obnoxious family, they hire a sleazy ghost who gets rid of humans to help them.
Director: Tim Burton
Writer: Michael McDowell (story), Larry Wilson
Cast: Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Michael Keaton
Country: United States
Rated: PG
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) Oct 19-22 at 11 PM
Two siblings and three of their friends en route to visit their grandfather's grave in Texas end up falling victim to a family of cannibalistic psychopaths.
Film Director: Tobe Hooper
Writer: Kim Henkel, Tobe Hooper
Cast: Marilyn Burns, Edwin Neal, Allen Danziger
Country: United States
Rated: R
The Shining (1980) Oct 23-25 at 10:30 PM
A family heads to an isolated hotel where an evil spirit influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future.
Film Director: Stanley Kubrick
Writer: Stephen King, Stanley Kubrick
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd
Country: United States
Rated: R
Rosemary's Baby (1968) Oct 23-25 at 11 PM
A couple moves in only to be surrounded by peculiar ocurrences. When the wife becomes mysteriously pregnant, paranoia begins to control her life.
Film Director: Roman Polanski
Writer: Ira Levin (novel), Roman Polanski
Cast: Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon
Country: United States
Rated: R
Nosferatu (1922) Oct 27 at 11 PM
with live organ accompaniment by Jay Warren
Vampire Count Orlok expresses interest in a new residence and real estate agent Hutter's wife.
Film Director: F.W. Murnau
Writers: Henrik Galeen, Bram Stoker
Cast: Max Schreck, Alexander Granach, Gustav von Wangenheim
Country: United States
Rated: NR
Halloween (1978) Oct 26-27 at 8 PM, Oct 28 & 30 at 10:30 PM, and Oct 29 & 31 at 8 PM and 11 PM
Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield to kill again.
Film Director: John Carpenter
Writer: John Carpenter, Debra Hill
Cast: Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasence, Tony Moran
Country: United States
Rated: R
The Shining (1980) Oct 26-27 at 10:30 PM, Oct 28 & 30 at 8 PM and 11 PM, and Oct 29 & 31 at 10:30 PM
A family heads to an isolated hotel where an evil spirit influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future.
Film Director: Stanley Kubrick
Writer: Stephen King, Stanley Kubrick
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd
Country: United States
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!
Thursday, October 18, 6:30 PM – Tales from Burger Town Presents: Tales From the Darkside: The Movie
Friday, October 19, 8:30 PM – The Logan's Annual Halloween Costume Party
Sunday, October 28, starting at 2 PM – Free Family Halloween Matinee
Sunday, October 28, 7 PM – Horror Society Partypalooza
Horror Movie Madness is brought to you by the Logan Theatre and the following partners:
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Chicago, IL 60647
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