Music Box Massacre 7
For the 7th year in a row, delight as the Music Box Theatre joins with the Movieside Film Festival to bring you 24 hours of horror movie maddness! Only 650 tickets will be sold!
Imagine it, a typical art cinema on Chicago’s Northside. Quiet, beautiful, tranquil, and known for showing the same on screen…. except for one 24 hour period every October.
Noon, Saturday October 15th until Noon, Sunday October 16th— experience Horror on the big screen.
Film Line-Up:
Noon – Waxworks – (Silent film with live organ accompaniment!)
1:30pm – Burn Witch Burn (Rarely Screened 60’s Classic!)
3:05pm – Hour of the Wolf (Ingmar Bergman’s Nightmarish Vision)
4:45pm – The Abominable Dr. Phibes (Vincent Price!)
6:30pm – Wizard of Gore (with Herschell Gordon Lewis in Person!)
8:45pm – Halloween (The Original John Carpenter Masterpiece!)
10:30pm – Poltergeist (80’s Craziness!)
12:45am – Pumpkinhead (The FX Masterpiece!)
2:30am – Gates of Hell (Gore Galore!)
4:15am- The Vampire Lovers (Hammer Horror Lovely Ladies!)
6:00am – Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things (The Bob Clark Classic!)
7:45am -The Sentinel (Rare Screening!)
9:20am – From Dusk ‘Til Dawn (Tarantino & Rodriquez Insanity!)
Plus Vendor tables, prizes, and Charity auctions for Vital Bridges —- Vital Bridges’ mission is to help people throughout metropolitan Chicago impacted by HIV and AIDS to improve their health and build self-sufficiency by providing food, nutrition, housing, case management and prevention services.
Herschell Gordon Lewis, “The Godfather of Gore,” will be at the Massacre with a rare screening of “The Wizard of Gore.” Herschell will be signing free autographs and will pose for photographs
Jason Zinoman, author of hugely popular new book “Shock Value,” will appear at the Massacre between 11am and Noon to read a small section from the book and sign copies. Come early for this chance to meet Jason!
Jan Terri, a Chicago cult figure & singer of the Halloween classic “Get Down Goblin,” is tentatively scheduled to come and introduce a screening of “Get Down Goblin!”
Ticket Info: ADVANCED SALES ARE SOLD OUT! REMAINING INVENTORY TO BE SOLD AT THE DOOR!
- $29 from 8/15 – 9/15 only 350 available at this price!
- $34 from 9/16 – 10/14 only 220 available at this price!
- *$38 day of show * only 80 available at this price! Available at the door for day of sales only!
All advanced tickets are sold out for this event! The remaining inventory will be sold at the box office starting at 10am on Saturday
Technical Information
Past Screenings (since April 2nd, 2009)
- Saturday, Oct 15, 2011
- 12:00pm
See http://musicboxtheatre.com/showtimes for all currently scheduled films.

