The team at Music Box of Horrors collectively agreed we could no longer only celebrate all things horror and hang out with you sickos once a year! Every month at the Music Box we'll bring something incredible to help scratch that tenacious horror itch that never goes away! Expect wildly enthusiastic hosts, obsessively compiled and mind-melting pre-shows, unbelievable guests, rare 35mm and 16mm prints from around the world, and incredible prizes. Satan only knows what else we've got up our sleeves!
Writer/Director Clifton Holmes in person for a post-film Q&A
Coming up in this Series
In the Dark
Opens September 19
Apathetic librarian Jane (Kim Garrett) is bored with the mundanity of her day-to-day life. That is, until a stranger leaves her an envelope containing... Read more
Presented by Shudder Come celebrate the halfway mark to Halloween with an infected zombie double feature on 35mm! First up is a 20th anniversary scree... Read more
What's in the basket? You'll love finding out. BASKET CASE is the debut gutter-trash symphony from Frank Henenlotter (BRAIN DAMAGE, FRANKENHOOKER), st... Read more
Presented by Music Box of Horrors | Free Admission for Music Box Members Nothing can prepare you for BOARDINGHOUSE. Jim (director John Wintergate), a... Read more
Music Box of Horrors, Vinegar Syndrome, and Severin Films return for another night of sanity-destroying lunacy featuring two films so disgusting and d... Read more
"Shot on Super 8 film and edited on decaying VHS tapes in Chicago, the experimental horror movies of late musician and filmmaker J.T. IV (aka John Hen... Read more
In Christine, Arnie is a nerdy high-schooler harangued at home and bullied at school, but he starts pushing back when he buys and restores a beat-up 1... Read more
Quinn and her father have just moved to the quiet town of Kettle Springs hoping for a fresh start. Instead, she discovers a fractured community that h... Read more
During the remarkably fruitful four years Val Lewton spent as head of RKO’s horror division, the dozen or so films he saw through production were made... Read more
As part of Chicago Climate Week, join Chicago Climate Connect and the historic Music Box Theatre for a special screening of Day of the Animals, a cul... Read more
Presented by Shudder | New 4K Restoration John Cassavetes veteran Seymour Cassel stars as George Manning, a family man whose perfect life is turned in... Read more
DER FAN deserves a place alongside AUDITION and POSSESSION as an essential art-horror experience. Simone (the magnetic Désirée Nosbusch) is a teenage... Read more
A disgraced tutor returns to his New England hometown determined to confront the indecorous aquatic menace that destroyed his life in Matt Farley... Read more
When evil, deadly water starts pooling around their feet, the citizens of Medialight must figure out a way to stay alive until it evaporates. Fr... Read more
Filmed at the exact moment when carnival sideshows collided with the psychedelic revolution, The Exotic Ones is a time machine back to the weird... Read more
When Farley Wilder (a weirdo peeping Tom in a small New England town) meets a daring young woman, he gains the confidence to both stand up to his over... Read more
The largest computer gaming firm in the country has just completed its latest and possibly greatest virtual reality game, “Pleasure”. But the erotic p... Read more
After the death of her daughter, Julia Lofting, a wealthy housewife, moves to London to re-start her life. All seems well until she is haunted by the... Read more
The Boyles - Lucy (Catriona MacColl, The Beyond), Norman (Paolo Malco, The New York Ripper) and their young son Bob (Giovanni Frezza, Demons) - reloca... Read more
If Footmen Tire You, What Will Horses Do? + The Burning Hell
There’s no horror like Christian horror! The twin demons of Satan and Fidel Castro loom over pews full of stiff-haired holy rollers in these infamous... Read more
Reality is growing more nightmarish by the day, and Music Box of Horrors is responding to the horror of the Supreme Court overturning Roe V. Wadethe o... Read more
Colorful and kinetic with scenes that blur the lines between horror, martial arts, and slapstick comedy, jiāngshī (Chinese “hopping vampire”) mov... Read more
Monika isn't like other young women. She shares her small flat with Rob, a recently disinterred corpse which serves as the object of her affections. B... Read more
Presented by Shudder Daniel Noah, Chicago native and Founding Partner of SpectreVision, the production company behind Mandy and a Girl Walks Home Alon... Read more
Presented by ShudderVinegar Syndrome + Severin Pop-Up Shops in the Lounge @ 4:30pm + between films and after! | All attendees will receive a limited e... Read more
Bloody and hilarious, Gorman Bechard’s PSYCHOS IN LOVE is an absurd homegrown horror-comedy which alternates between gratuitous killing scenes and sel... Read more
Captured by the Umbrella Corp., Alice (Milla Jovovich) receives genetic alterations that leave her with superhuman abilities. Hiding out in the Nevada... Read more
The Blackvale School for Girls, 1971. It's bad enough that students Samantha and Clara can't go home for the holidays, but things take a deadly turn w... Read more
About SANTA'S SLAY
Jolly old Saint Nick isn’t making a gift list this year — he’s making a hit list, checking it twice and unleashing his inner dem... Read more
David Steiman (Santa's Slay), Tom Shankland (The Children)
In the dozen years since the original massacre, countless more people have vanished without a trace and, despite fears from the locals that Leatherfac... Read more
A very pregnant Francesca (Patty Duke) travels from LA to Duluth, Minnesota to meet the mother of her deceased husband (and father of her unborn child... Read more
