Presented by SUPER-HORROR-RAMA!
July 18 & 19, SUPER-HORROR-RAMA! uncages a murderous menagerie of fearsome beasts—furry and scaly, fun-size and super-size, aboveground and underground—in two distinctly ferocious cult classics programmed by Josh Sturdevant of The Shadowboxery to rip the meat from your bones!
The urban legend of Alligator (1980) begins when a hatchling is flushed down the toilet and lands in the sewers of Chicago. The creature feasts on discarded lab experiments loaded with an experimental growth formula, swells to mammoth proportions, gobbles sanitation workers, and crashes a child’s birthday party and a lavish wedding, leaving a trail of blood throughout this epic city crawl. Robert Forster (Medium Cool) plays the detective on the case, and behind the scenes is the ultimate team-up of filmmakers who fixate on the beastly when they make horror: screenwriter John Sayles also wrote Piranha (1978) and The Howling (1981), and director Lewis Teague later gave us Cujo (1983) and Cat’s Eye (1985)!
We're also screening Bruno Mattei’s Rats: Night of Terror (1984) on Saturday, July 19 at 11:45pm!
Every ticket includes a Limited Edition Pinback Button (new design each night), and every show kicks off with Giveaways donated by The Shadowboxery, Cryptid Craft Studio, Night Natalie, Drive-In Asylum, and Full Bleed Zine for the first folks who answer our trivia questions. The category is natural horror, so get ready!
Music Box Theatre screens films of all genres and from every era of cinema, both new releases and repertory. These films may sometimes contain upsetting, outdated, or offensive material. While we aim to introduce many of our screenings, we do not always provide warnings about potentially triggering content within the films we screen. We encourage our patrons to research the film before they attend using trailers, reviews, or content information found on Common Sense Media, IMDb and DoesTheDogDie.com.
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