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
Limbo
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
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
The Cycle
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
About a Place in the Kinki Region
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
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
Black Sunday
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
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
The Craft
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
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
Corpse Reviver No. 3: Possessions
A new experimental film by Chris LaMartina, accompanied live by an original score from The Marshmallow Ghosts.
Screamplay
"...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
The Howling
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
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
Hold That Ghost
Abbott and Costello are in top form as bumbling gas station attendants who accidentally inherit a gangster’s creaky old estate, which may or may not b... Read more
The Devil's Wedding Night
An over-the-top performance by co-writer/star Mark Damon (BLACK SABBATH) in a dual role. A career-best Rosalba Neri (LADY FRANKENSTEIN) as a bisexual... Read more
Misery
James Caan and Academy Award winner Kathy Bates star in the bone-shattering thriller Misery, adapted from the novel by Stephen King. As Paul (Caan) re... Read more
Sleepy Hollow
Master storyteller Tim Burton weaves an eerie, enchanting version of this classic tale of horror. Johnny Depp is Ichabod Crane, an eccentric investiga... Read more
The German Chainsaw Massacre
"... Shot in 10 days in mid-April 1990 in response to the imminent dissolution of the communist German Democratic Republic and the integration (or, if... Read more
Black Magic with Buddha
Ben, a Chinese man living in Thailand, returns from Papua New Guinea after stealing the brain of an ancient mummy to fulfill his dreams of wealth and... Read more
The Haunted House + Danse Macabre
"The Haunted House" (Dir. Edward F. Cline & Buster Keaton, 1921, 21 min, DCP)One of Buster Keaton’s most famous works, this movie is designed in two p... Read more
I Saw the Devil
“I will kill you when you are in the most pain. When you’re in the most pain, shivering out of fear, then I will kill you. That’s real revenge.”Lee By... Read more
The Leopard Man
A dead-end border town becomes a microcosm of social tension, mortal fear, and the bloody legacies of conquest in THE LEOPARD MAN (1943), the last of... 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
Suspiria (1977)
A fairy tale construction at once grim and florid, Argento’s best-known film finds Jessica Harper’s American ballet dancer arriving at an exclusive ac... Read more
Music Box of Horrors - Half Marathon
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
Pet Sematary II
“What is the worst thing that could happen to a 12-year-old boy?” In a recent Los Angeles Times interview, director Mary Lambert claimed this question... Read more
Attack the Block
In this expertly paced genre debut by Joe Cornish, a gang of resourceful South London teens experience some “28 DAYS LATER shit” and defend their coun... 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
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
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
Faust
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
The Devil's Backbone
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
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
Dracula aka Horror of Dracula
Experience Hammer’s definitive horror classic as never before! Restored in stunning 4K from the best original archival materials, this landmark editio... 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
Strange & Found & AV Geeks: Deathbed Visions
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
Halloween (1978)
Credited, rightfully, as the film that kickstarted the “slasher” subgenre, Carpenter’s 1978 Halloween is a masterwork of building tension, an exercise... Read more
Fatherland
FATHERLAND centers on the relationship between the Nobel Prize-winning writer Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika - actress, writer and rally driver. I... Read more
Ernest Scared Stupid
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
The Docks of New York
"You left all that slush in the river, baby. All you need is a good time." If only life were so simple! Bill Roberts (the strapping George Bancroft) w... Read more
The Last Waltz
CHIRP Radio 107.1FM proudly presents a special presentation of THE LAST WALTZ in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Band’s historic night of m... Read more
The American Astronaut
In THE AMERICAN ASTRONAUT, space travel has become a dirty way of life dominated by derelicts, grease monkeys, and hard-boiled interplanetary traders... Read more
The Room
This “electrifying American black comedy about love, passion, betrayal and lies” stars (and was directed, written and produced by) the mysterious Tomm... Read more
Santo in the Vengeance of the Mummy + Santo vs. the Riders of Terror
SANTO IN THE VENGEANCE OF THE MUMMY - Dir. René Cardona, 1971, 87 min, 35mmWhen Mexican wrestler and superhero Santo and his crew disturb the long-los... Read more
The General
Many critics consider THE GENERAL to be the last great comedy of the silent era, and it consistently ranks as one of the greatest films of all time on... Read more
Shank
“That’s some pretty good glowing green shit.”Described as “If Monty Python made JOHN WICK with no money”, SHANK is a bonkers action comedy you can’t m... Read more
Boom!
Hollywood's favorite pair of mismatched lovers, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, made eleven films together, and Boom! counts among the kookiest.... Read more
Evil Dead II
Dead by dawn! In this not-exactly sequel/sort-of remake, Bruce Campbell's Ash arrives once again at the proverbial cabin in the woods for a vacation w... Read more
It Came from Outer Space
Based on a script by famed sci-fi writer Ray Bradbury, this tale of an amateur astronomer and a schoolteacher who discover a mysterious meteorite cras... Read more
Magnificent Bodyguards
Jackie Chan leaps out of the screen in Magnificent Bodyguards! As Lord Ting Chung, he commits to leading a team of warriors escorting a gravely ill ma... Read more
Money from Home
Screening in 3D for the first time in Chicago, MONEY FROM HOME is a hilarious laugh-a-minute comedy starring the legendary team of Dean Martin and Jer... Read more
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
Possibly the most anarchic film ever unleashed out of Hollywood, Gremlins 2: The New Batch is a chaotic, live-action Looney Tunes cartoon that could o... Read more
Fire and Ice
It began as a once-in-a-lifetime collaboration between two of the greatest icons of the fantasy genre: Controversial animator Ralph Bakshi (director o... Read more
Paper Tiger
In James Gray’s deeply felt and intense drama, two brothers become entangled in a scheme that turns out to be too good to be true. As they try to navi... Read more
The Sound of Music
Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer star in the beloved American classic, based on the real life von Trapp family's escape from Nazi-annexed Austria... Read more
Rodgers & Hammerstein's The Sound of Music Sing-A-Long
For over two decades, Thanksgiving has been celebrated at the Music Box Theatre with the Von Trapp Singers and THE SOUND OF MUSIC. This annual event h... Read more
Gangs of New York
Ostensibly "suggested" by Herbert Asbury's 1928 historical chronicle of New York's 19th century underworld, Martin Scorsese's American epic bore littl... Read more
Castration Movie Chapter iii. Junior Ghosts—Premorphic Drift; a fragmentary passage
The perfect introduction to CASTRATION MOVIE for the uninitiated, Chapter 3.2 is a self-contained story that follows a couple struggling to adjust aft... Read more
Castration Movie Anthology ii. The Best of Both Worlds
The second volume of CASTRATION MOVIE is a five-hour descent into Hell that answers the question: "What if the Internet was real life?" One of the mos... Read more
Castration Movie ⅗ Year of the Hyaena
Michaela "Traps" Sinclair returns in the latest instalment of CASTRATION MOVIE. Runtime unknown.
Cameron Winter at Carnegie Hall
Cameron Winter, in December 2025, after a months-long sold-out tour with his band Geese, returned to New York to play a single show at Carnegie Hall.... Read more
Minotaur
Intrigue, corruption, betrayal, survival: the walls of the maze are closing in. The latest from Oscar® nominated writer-director Andrey Zvyagintsev (L... Read more