Indoor Kids: Family-Friendly Matinees

"My father took me to the movies all the time. He told me about the first one he ever saw. He went into a dark room, and on a white screen he saw a ro... Read more

Honey, I Shrunk the Kids

Part of: Indoor Kids: Family-Friendly Matinees

Suburban inventor Wayne Szalinski (Rick Moranis) devises a ray gun with the power to make household objects microscopic. But he leaves it in reach of... Read more

The History of Concrete

Following the finale of his acclaimed HBO series “How To with John Wilson”, NYC documentarian John Wilson looks to the bedrock of his beloved New York... Read more

Music Box of Horrors: The Final Chapter

Last year, our 31-night MBOH: DEAD AND LOVING IT! descended upon Chicago's insatiable horror community, and let's just say, things got weird. In the m... Read more

Se7en

Part of: Music Box of Horrors: The Final Chapter

When a mysterious killer begins perpetrating a string of gruesome, fiendishly inventive murders based on the seven deadly sins, world-weary cop Willia... Read more

Unzipped

Designer Isaac Mizrahi proved a force of nature on the road to his legendary fall 1994 collection, a career-defining triumph that was documented with... Read more

NAZA

Synopsis: Shot at night on the rooftops of Tel Aviv, NAZA reveals the systems behind Israel’s bombing of Gaza and its mass killing of Palestinian civi... Read more

The Incomer

On a remote Scottish isle, siblings Isla and Sandy spend their days hunting seabirds and retelling the stories of their ancestors. They follow the str... Read more

Fjord

From two-time Palme d’Or winner Cristian Mungiu, a Norwegian woman and her devout Romanian husband relocate with their five children to a remote, clos... Read more

The History of Concrete

Following the finale of his acclaimed HBO series “How To with John Wilson”, NYC documentarian John Wilson looks to the bedrock of his beloved New York... Read more

The Incomer

On a remote Scottish isle, siblings Isla and Sandy spend their days hunting seabirds and retelling the stories of their ancestors. They follow the str... Read more

NAZA

Synopsis: Shot at night on the rooftops of Tel Aviv, NAZA reveals the systems behind Israel’s bombing of Gaza and its mass killing of Palestinian civi... Read more

Music Box of Horrors: The Final Chapter

Last year, our 31-night MBOH: DEAD AND LOVING IT! descended upon Chicago's insatiable horror community, and let's just say, things got weird. In the m... Read more

Begotten

Part of: Music Box of Horrors: The Final Chapter

Possibly the godfather of all cult films, Elias Merhige’s Begotten has long toiled in bootleg obscurity, only accessible through tenth-generation VHS... Read more

Cinema Femme Short Film Festival 2026

The Cinema Femme Short Film Fest is a one-of-a-kind celebration dedicated to uplifting emerging women and gender-expansive filmmakers and amplifying t... Read more

Cinema Femme 2026: Shorts Program 1

Part of: Cinema Femme Short Film Festival 2026

"A Stitch of Vintage" - Dir. Carolin Pech, 16 mins, UKCami, an aspiring fashion designer, is determined to show that fashion and beauty have no age."T... Read more

Unzipped

Designer Isaac Mizrahi proved a force of nature on the road to his legendary fall 1994 collection, a career-defining triumph that was documented with... Read more

Cinema Femme 2026: Shorts Program 2

Part of: Cinema Femme Short Film Festival 2026

"My mother's ashes" - Dir. Ximena Chiunti, MexicoAfter their mother’s death, two siblings return to the place where they grew up to take care of an ab... Read more

The History of Concrete

Following the finale of his acclaimed HBO series “How To with John Wilson”, NYC documentarian John Wilson looks to the bedrock of his beloved New York... Read more

The Incomer

On a remote Scottish isle, siblings Isla and Sandy spend their days hunting seabirds and retelling the stories of their ancestors. They follow the str... Read more

NAZA

Synopsis: Shot at night on the rooftops of Tel Aviv, NAZA reveals the systems behind Israel’s bombing of Gaza and its mass killing of Palestinian civi... Read more

Unzipped

Designer Isaac Mizrahi proved a force of nature on the road to his legendary fall 1994 collection, a career-defining triumph that was documented with... Read more

Cinema Femme Short Film Festival 2026

The Cinema Femme Short Film Fest is a one-of-a-kind celebration dedicated to uplifting emerging women and gender-expansive filmmakers and amplifying t... Read more

Ugly Cry

Part of: Cinema Femme Short Film Festival 2026

When Delaney's boyfriend leaves town to shoot a splashy zombie movie, she becomes obsessed with a character she’s auditioning for after she learns the... Read more

Cinema Femme 2026: Shorts Program 3

Part of: Cinema Femme Short Film Festival 2026

"Stretch" - Dir. Emma Duvall and Skyler Verity, USA11-year-old Kate auditions for Cinderella in her middle school’s production of Cinderella: A Dancin... Read more

Music Box of Horrors: The Final Chapter

Last year, our 31-night MBOH: DEAD AND LOVING IT! descended upon Chicago's insatiable horror community, and let's just say, things got weird. In the m... Read more

Scary Movie (1991)

Part of: Music Box of Horrors: The Final Chapter

Scary Movie: Nerdy, introverted Warren, riddled with anxiety (and played by Academy Award-nominee John Hawkes!), is tugged along for a double date at... Read more

The History of Concrete

Following the finale of his acclaimed HBO series “How To with John Wilson”, NYC documentarian John Wilson looks to the bedrock of his beloved New York... Read more

Unzipped

Designer Isaac Mizrahi proved a force of nature on the road to his legendary fall 1994 collection, a career-defining triumph that was documented with... Read more

Club Kid

After ten years of living the hard-partying life of a New York City club promoter, Peter (Jordan Firstman) wakes up one morning to find a very unexpec... Read more

NAZA

Synopsis: Shot at night on the rooftops of Tel Aviv, NAZA reveals the systems behind Israel’s bombing of Gaza and its mass killing of Palestinian civi... Read more

The Incomer

On a remote Scottish isle, siblings Isla and Sandy spend their days hunting seabirds and retelling the stories of their ancestors. They follow the str... Read more

Music Box of Horrors: The Final Chapter

Last year, our 31-night MBOH: DEAD AND LOVING IT! descended upon Chicago's insatiable horror community, and let's just say, things got weird. In the m... Read more

Victorian Psycho

Part of: Music Box of Horrors: The Final Chapter

In true Victorian gothic fashion, our story begins when a governess named Winifred Notty (Maika Monroe) arrives at Ensor House, an elegant manor owned... Read more

The History of Concrete

Following the finale of his acclaimed HBO series “How To with John Wilson”, NYC documentarian John Wilson looks to the bedrock of his beloved New York... Read more

The Incomer

On a remote Scottish isle, siblings Isla and Sandy spend their days hunting seabirds and retelling the stories of their ancestors. They follow the str... Read more

Ken Russell's The Devils

An enduring masterpiece of cinema, starring Academy Award-winner Vanessa Redgrave and Oliver Reed, KEN RUSSELL’S THE DEVILS is a prescient epic of obs... Read more

Unzipped

Designer Isaac Mizrahi proved a force of nature on the road to his legendary fall 1994 collection, a career-defining triumph that was documented with... Read more

NAZA

Synopsis: Shot at night on the rooftops of Tel Aviv, NAZA reveals the systems behind Israel’s bombing of Gaza and its mass killing of Palestinian civi... Read more

Music Box of Horrors: The Final Chapter

Last year, our 31-night MBOH: DEAD AND LOVING IT! descended upon Chicago's insatiable horror community, and let's just say, things got weird. In the m... Read more

Trick 'r Treat

Part of: Music Box of Horrors: The Final Chapter

Equally funny and frightening, Trick 'r Treat captures the spirit of Halloween through four intertwined stories set on the same block. Horny virgins,... Read more

Ken Russell's The Devils

An enduring masterpiece of cinema, starring Academy Award-winner Vanessa Redgrave and Oliver Reed, KEN RUSSELL’S THE DEVILS is a prescient epic of obs... Read more

Fjord

From two-time Palme d’Or winner Cristian Mungiu, a Norwegian woman and her devout Romanian husband relocate with their five children to a remote, clos... Read more

Music Box of Horrors: The Final Chapter

Last year, our 31-night MBOH: DEAD AND LOVING IT! descended upon Chicago's insatiable horror community, and let's just say, things got weird. In the m... Read more

Vampire Hunter D

Part of: Music Box of Horrors: The Final Chapter

Humans have a rough run in the 10,000-year gap between our time and the blighted future of Vampire Hunter D. It’s the year 12,090 A.D., and humans liv... Read more

Fjord

From two-time Palme d’Or winner Cristian Mungiu, a Norwegian woman and her devout Romanian husband relocate with their five children to a remote, clos... Read more

Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust

In a nightmarish near future, vicious vampires rule the night, and a class of bounty hunters have emerged to keep their numbers in check. When a young... Read more

Ken Russell's The Devils

An enduring masterpiece of cinema, starring Academy Award-winner Vanessa Redgrave and Oliver Reed, KEN RUSSELL’S THE DEVILS is a prescient epic of obs... Read more

Music Box of Horrors: The Final Chapter

Last year, our 31-night MBOH: DEAD AND LOVING IT! descended upon Chicago's insatiable horror community, and let's just say, things got weird. In the m... Read more

Limbo

Part of: Music Box of Horrors: The Final Chapter

After starring in 100 movies over the past two decades, Tina Krause has established herself as an unstoppable warrior from the DIY fringes. LIMBO is t... Read more

Fjord

From two-time Palme d’Or winner Cristian Mungiu, a Norwegian woman and her devout Romanian husband relocate with their five children to a remote, clos... Read more

Bob and David Climb Machu Picchu

What happens when comedians Bob Odenkirk and David Cross—the famous co-creators of Mr. Show—take a grueling trek across the Inca Trail in the Andes Mo... Read more

Ken Russell's The Devils

An enduring masterpiece of cinema, starring Academy Award-winner Vanessa Redgrave and Oliver Reed, KEN RUSSELL’S THE DEVILS is a prescient epic of obs... Read more

Music Box of Horrors: The Final Chapter

Last year, our 31-night MBOH: DEAD AND LOVING IT! descended upon Chicago's insatiable horror community, and let's just say, things got weird. In the m... Read more

The Cycle

Part of: Music Box of Horrors: The Final Chapter

The past always has a way of coming back, but it does so in particularly gruesome fashion in The Cycle, from The Head Hunters director Jordan Downey.... Read more

Ever After

After earning three Michelin stars four years in a row, Curtis Duffy’s restaurant Grace solidified the chef’s place as one of the world’s greatest cul... Read more

Music Box of Horrors: The Final Chapter

Last year, our 31-night MBOH: DEAD AND LOVING IT! descended upon Chicago's insatiable horror community, and let's just say, things got weird. In the m... Read more

About a Place in the Kinki Region

Part of: Music Box of Horrors: The Final Chapter

Two years after Noroi: The Curse terrified Music Box audiences, Japanese found-footage horror king Kôji Shiraishi returns to MBOH with his latest, Abo... Read more

The Debut

When Mona Friedman (Julianne Moore) is cast in a small part in a community theater production of the musical Nosy Neighbors, she transforms from a shy... Read more

Music Box of Horrors: The Final Chapter

Last year, our 31-night MBOH: DEAD AND LOVING IT! descended upon Chicago's insatiable horror community, and let's just say, things got weird. In the m... Read more

Black Sunday

Part of: Music Box of Horrors: The Final Chapter

Mario Bava is known for his exquisite use of color. But the light and shadow are just as ravishing in the black-and-white shocker Black Sunday, also t... Read more

Mouse

2002, North Little Rock, Arkansas. Besties Minnie and Callie are getting ready for their high school senior year. Charismatic Callie, a singer and per... Read more

Music Box of Horrors: The Final Chapter

Last year, our 31-night MBOH: DEAD AND LOVING IT! descended upon Chicago's insatiable horror community, and let's just say, things got weird. In the m... Read more

The Craft

Part of: Music Box of Horrors: The Final Chapter

Light as a feather, stiff as a board…Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board…Light as a FEATHER, Stiff as a BOARD…LIGHT AS A FEATHER, STIFF AS A BOARD…St... Read more

Music Box of Horrors: The Final Chapter

Last year, our 31-night MBOH: DEAD AND LOVING IT! descended upon Chicago's insatiable horror community, and let's just say, things got weird. In the m... Read more

Screamplay

Part of: Music Box of Horrors: The Final Chapter

"...takes HOLLYWOOD by the throat and STRANGLES it!"Edgar Allan (Rufus B. Seder) is an aspiring screenwriter who has just come to Hollywood to make it... Read more

Corpse Reviver No. 3: Possessions

Part of: Music Box of Horrors: The Final Chapter

A new experimental film by Chris LaMartina, accompanied live by an original score from The Marshmallow Ghosts.

The Liberation

It’s the early 1980s: Rita Cooper (Carrie Coon) is a closed-off mother of two who works as a bank executive, unable to come to grips with her traumati... Read more

Bird in Hand

Inspired by Roscher’s own biracial experience, BIRD IN HAND follows the newly engaged Bird Rowe (Alisha Wainwright) as she returns to her rural hometo... Read more

Music Box of Horrors: The Final Chapter

Last year, our 31-night MBOH: DEAD AND LOVING IT! descended upon Chicago's insatiable horror community, and let's just say, things got weird. In the m... Read more

The Howling

Part of: Music Box of Horrors: The Final Chapter

Joe Dante’s loving reboot of the werewolf movie functions as visceral horror (with thanks to Rob Bottin’s inventive air-bladder special effects), soci... Read more

Music Box of Horrors 2026

24 Hours of Movie Madness!This October, THE MUSIC BOX OF HORRORS rises from the grave with a 24-hour movie marathon guaranteed to drive you MAD! Featu... Read more

Music Box of Horrors - Half Marathon

Part of: Music Box of Horrors 2026

Join us for a half version of THE MUSIC BOX OF HORRORS, starting with SUSPIRIA at 11:50pm. Admission begins at roughly 11:30pm.PRICING:General Admissi... Read more

American Agitators

They didn't wait for power. They organized it.Inspired by Fred Ross Sr., one of the most influential grassroots organizers of the 20th century, AMERIC... Read more

Behemoth!

A gifted cellist, Alex Serian (a phenomenal Pedro Pascal), returns home to Los Angeles after 20 years on the road. Music, which has been the constant,... Read more

Gypsy 83: The Director's Cut

Sandusky, Ohio is hell on earth for goth misfits and Stevie Nicks superfans Gypsy Vale (Sara Rue) and her younger, queer protégée Clive Webb (Birkett... Read more

Gypsy 83: The Director's Cut

Sandusky, Ohio is hell on earth for goth misfits and Stevie Nicks superfans Gypsy Vale (Sara Rue) and her younger, queer protégée Clive Webb (Birkett... Read more

Music Box of Horrors: The Final Chapter

Last year, our 31-night MBOH: DEAD AND LOVING IT! descended upon Chicago's insatiable horror community, and let's just say, things got weird. In the m... Read more

Faust

Part of: Music Box of Horrors: The Final Chapter

Mobilizing the full resources of the Ufa Studios, F. W. Murnau (NOSFERATU, SUNRISE) orchestrated a colossal adaptation of Goethe's FAUST that ranks al... Read more

Music Box of Horrors: The Final Chapter

Last year, our 31-night MBOH: DEAD AND LOVING IT! descended upon Chicago's insatiable horror community, and let's just say, things got weird. In the m... Read more

The Devil's Backbone

Part of: Music Box of Horrors: The Final Chapter

Released at the turn of the millennium, Guillermo del Toro’s third feature proved that could tingle spines with the best of them, using the somber bac... Read more

Music Box of Horrors: The Final Chapter

Last year, our 31-night MBOH: DEAD AND LOVING IT! descended upon Chicago's insatiable horror community, and let's just say, things got weird. In the m... Read more

Dracula aka Horror of Dracula

Part of: Music Box of Horrors: The Final Chapter

Experience Hammer’s definitive horror classic as never before! Restored in stunning 4K from the best original archival materials, this landmark editio... Read more

The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Halloween Edition!

Happy Halloween 2026! Join us as we do the Time Warp again! In this Music Box Halloween tradition, the classic cult musical is screened with a cast of... Read more

Rocky Horror Picture Show

Part of: The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Halloween Edition!

This notorious horror parody — a fast-paced potpourri of camp, sci-fi and rock ‘n’ roll, among other things — tracks the exploits of naïve couple Brad... Read more

La bola negra

From Cannes-winning directors Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi — popularly known as Los Javis — LA BOLA NEGRA follows three generations of men across... Read more

Music Box of Horrors: The Final Chapter

Last year, our 31-night MBOH: DEAD AND LOVING IT! descended upon Chicago's insatiable horror community, and let's just say, things got weird. In the m... Read more

Strange & Found & AV Geeks: Deathbed Visions

Part of: Music Box of Horrors: The Final Chapter

Chicago VHS all-stars Joe Pickett (Found Footage Fest) and Scott Miller (Strange Tapes Zine) have more than 16,000 VHS tapes between them, and this mo... Read more

The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Halloween Edition!

Happy Halloween 2026! Join us as we do the Time Warp again! In this Music Box Halloween tradition, the classic cult musical is screened with a cast of... Read more

Rocky Horror Picture Show

Part of: The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Halloween Edition!

This notorious horror parody — a fast-paced potpourri of camp, sci-fi and rock ‘n’ roll, among other things — tracks the exploits of naïve couple Brad... Read more

La bola negra

From Cannes-winning directors Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi — popularly known as Los Javis — LA BOLA NEGRA follows three generations of men across... Read more

Music Box of Horrors: The Final Chapter

Last year, our 31-night MBOH: DEAD AND LOVING IT! descended upon Chicago's insatiable horror community, and let's just say, things got weird. In the m... Read more

Halloween (1978)

Part of: Music Box of Horrors: The Final Chapter

Credited, rightfully, as the film that kickstarted the “slasher” subgenre, Carpenter’s 1978 Halloween is a masterwork of building tension, an exercise... Read more

The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Halloween Edition!

Happy Halloween 2026! Join us as we do the Time Warp again! In this Music Box Halloween tradition, the classic cult musical is screened with a cast of... Read more

Rocky Horror Picture Show

Part of: The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Halloween Edition!

This notorious horror parody — a fast-paced potpourri of camp, sci-fi and rock ‘n’ roll, among other things — tracks the exploits of naïve couple Brad... Read more

Music Box of Horrors: The Final Chapter

Last year, our 31-night MBOH: DEAD AND LOVING IT! descended upon Chicago's insatiable horror community, and let's just say, things got weird. In the m... Read more

Ernest Scared Stupid

Part of: Music Box of Horrors: The Final Chapter

Ernest P. Worrell and his pint-sized pals of Briarville, Missouri are under siege when the lovable lunkhead accidentally awakens a kid-hungry troll an... Read more

La bola negra

From Cannes-winning directors Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi — popularly known as Los Javis — LA BOLA NEGRA follows three generations of men across... Read more

The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Halloween Edition!

Happy Halloween 2026! Join us as we do the Time Warp again! In this Music Box Halloween tradition, the classic cult musical is screened with a cast of... Read more

Rocky Horror Picture Show

Part of: The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Halloween Edition!

This notorious horror parody — a fast-paced potpourri of camp, sci-fi and rock ‘n’ roll, among other things — tracks the exploits of naïve couple Brad... Read more