HALLOWEEN HORROR MARATHON '0812 hours of Terror! Midnite, Oct 31 till Noon, Nov 1  A NIGHT TO DISMEMBERAdmission for the whole event is $20 / Special midnite double feature ticket only $10 / One-night only overnight parking permits $6 each A tradition of terror returns to the Coolidge Corner Theatre! For us, Halloween means just one thing: THE ALL-NIGHT HORROR MOVIE MARATHON!! Steel your nerves, load up on candy corn and coffee for 12 solid hours of gruesome goodness! From the witching hour of midnite Friday, Oct 31, until the harsh light of noon Saturday, Nov 1, we'll take you on a journey into mind-warping terror with back-to-back screenings of six horror classics filled with demented pleasures galore! Not only that, but we're opening our doors at 11 pm this year to give you a chance to re-live the horrors of high school all over again with our very own ghoulish PROM -- complete with zombie-like dancing on the Coolidge stage under a sparkling mirror ball, awkward couple photos beneath our Archway to Hell, and a coronation of an un-dead Prom King and Queen. Formal ghoul attired is very much encouraged. Then, at midnite, once you've had your fill of playing wallflower and your date has probably ditched you for some other corpse, we'll kick off our marathon with a screening of the Jamie Lee Curtis slash 'n' scream fest PROM NIGHT. Throughout the night we'll be giving out dreadful prizes for best costumes, showing spooky shorts and vintage, cheesy horror trailers, and will be joined by special guests including Boston's own King of Horror Burlesque, J. Cannibal. Not for the faint of heart indeed. Program includes screenings of 6 features including PROM NIGHT, DEMONS, PUMPKINHEAD, and 3 more! All features will screen from 35mm -- not from DVD! Click READ MORE to view the full line up! Complete Line up in order! All Films screened from 35mm, not DVD! PROM NIGHT Check out this killer dance sequence from PROM NIGHT!!
PUMPKINHEAD After a group of city-slickin' teenagers accidentally kill the son of small town shop keeper Ed Harley (Lance Henriksen), the enraged father employs the help of a demon of vengeance known as Pumkinhead. The murderous creature tears through the objects of Ed's scorn so viciously that it causes the grieving father to second guess his devilish tactic. Seeing each of the killings through the demons eyes proves to be too much for it's master, but can Ed Harley stop the hound of hell he has let of the leash? Directed by the late, great Stan Winston, so you know the creature effects in this one are nothing short of classic horror. (1988, 86 minutes)
DEMONS When a group of film-goers accept invitations to a free screening of demonic film, the last thing they expect is night of flesh-ripping terror. When one of the group is infected by a scratch from a hellish mask, she quickly turns into a snarling demon. As the blood splashes and flows quickly through the theatre, these unlucky patrons quickly lose all hope of being able to escape with not only their lives, but with their mortal souls intact. Did we mention it's directed by Lamberto Bava (son of Mario) and written by Dario Argento? No? Well it is. Surely a gore-fest not to missed. (1985)
THE HOWLING While investigating a serial killer, reporter Karen White almost becomes the psychopath's next victim. Although her would be murderer is killed by police, Karen just can't let the case go. She traces the roots of her attacker to a small community in the woods. As it turns out, he was a reject from a group of local lycanthropes who don't want to speak to the press. Directed by Joe Dante (Gremlins), and featuring hair-raising creature effects, THE HOWLING (along with An American Werewolf in London the same year) sparked the surge of werewolf films throughout the 80's. (1981, 91 minutes)
FROM DUSK TIL DAWN When the the brothers Gecko take a faithless preacher and his family hostage to escape the law after a murderous crime spree, the threat of prison quickly becomes the least of their concerns. Heading across the border into Mexico, Seth Gecko (George Clooney) struggles to keep his psychotic brother Ritchie (Quentin Tarrantino) under control until they can meet up with their contact at a charming local watering hole known as The Titty Twister. The criminals and their captives could not know that the meeting place is actually a haven for blood-thirsty, hard-drinking, pole-dancing vampires! Robert Rodriguez conducts this dizzying, blood and bile-soaked symphony of Stockholm Syndrome with wooden stakes and phallic fire-arms. (1996, 108 minutes)
FROM BEYOND Dr. Pretorius is conducting experiments into opening the sixth sense within the human brain. When his work succeeds in opening a gate to the unknown, the good doctor is immediately attacked by horrifying creatures that are surrounding us at all times. Sometimes the unseen is best left as just that. Based on a story by the incomparably nerve shattering H.P. Lovecraft. (1986, 86 minutes) 
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