This October, the Dryden Theatre embraces the uncanny, the ghostly, and the weird with a chilling lineup of classics and cult favorites. From the gothic shadows of The Others to the surreal satire of Sorry to Bother You, this series explores cinema’s many approaches to fear and the supernatural. Silent landmarks like The Queen of Spades and The Phantom of the Opera appear alongside the B-movie classics of Cat People and its sequel. While from the ‘80s the Dryden is bringing both David Cronenberg’s adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dead Zone and Joel Schumacher’s vampire film The Lost Boys.
October 15: The Others (Alejandro Amenábar, Spain/France/US 2001, 105 min., 35mm)
October 21: Queen of Spades (Pikovaya dama, Yakov Protazanov, Russia 1916, 68 min., 35mm)
October 23: The Dead Zone (David Cronenberg, US 1983, 103 min., DCP)
October 25: (2 p.m.): Cat People (Jacques Tourneur, US 1942, 73 min., 35mm) and The Curse of the Cat People (Gunther von Fritsch and Robert Wise, US 1944, 70 min., 35mm)
October 25: The Lost Boys (Joel Schumacher, US 1987, 97 min., DCP)
October 30: The Phantom of the Opera (Rupert Julian, US 1925, 93 min., DCP)
October 31: Sorry to Bother You (Boots Riley, US 2018, 112 min., DCP)
Events in this Series
Sorry to Bother You
Labor Film Series 2025 | Halloween This satire on phone-sales work, race, corporate greed, and the follies of capitalist culture begins with a struggling young Black man, Cassius Green (Lakeith Stanfield) who takes work as a telemarketer.
Member Movie: The Phantom of the Opera
Silent Tuesdays | From Rochester, With Love | Halloween | Member Movie Night One of cinema's early horror classics, this expressionistic silent film tells the melodramatic tale of Erik (Lon Chaney), the deformed outsider who dwells in the murky cellars beneath the Paris Opera House, haunting the theatre's patrons.
The Lost Boys
From Rochester, With Love | Halloween Rochester-born screenwriter Jeffrey Boam returned to the horror genre with this Gen-X update of vampires in Northern California. Lucy Emerson (Dianne Wiest) moves to Santa Carla, California with her two teenage boys — Michael (Jason Patric), and Sam (Corey Haim). Michael is quickly entranced by Star (Jami Gertz), while Sam falls in with the Frog Brothers (Corey Feldman and Jamison Newlander), who inform him that the town is teeming with vampires.
Cat People / Curse of the Cat People (35mm)
Halloween Double Feature! In the 1940s, there was a shift toward more realistic portrayals and shooting on location, but there was also a corresponding move toward the fantastic.
The Dead Zone
From Rochester, With Love | Halloween Democracy has never been as dangerous as when Johnny Smith (Christopher Walken) touched the hand of politician Greg Stillson (Martin Sheen) and received a vision of the apocalypse.