After Hours

An ongoing series that showcases the best of repertory and contemporary genre cinema, with a particular emphasis on horror and cult classics.

June, Queer Horror: The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Shadowcast performance on 6/21), We’re All Going to the World’s Fair

July, Cronenberg Summer: The Fly, Videodrome, Crash, Rabid

August, Erotic Thrillers: Basic Instinct, Wild Things, Stranger by the Lake, Body Heat, In the Cut

September. Giallo 101: Suspiria, Don’t Torture a Duckling, Blood and Black Lace, Deep Red

More to be Announced

The Rocky Horror Picture Show June 20–21, 2025 The June 21 screening will feature a shadowcast performance The antici…pation is over and it’s finally time to do the Time-Warp again! Sweethearts Brad and Janet, stuck with a…
We're All Going to the World's Fair June 27–28, 2025 The first major film directed by Jane Schoenbrun (I Saw the TV Glow). Late on a cold night somewhere in…
The Fly July 4–5, 2025 This Independence Day weekend, leave the hot dogs and fireworks at home. Instead, celebrate your independence by freeing yourself from…
Videodrome July 11–12, 2025 Sci-fi and horror filmmaker David Cronenberg’s Videodrome is about the sinister Videodrome: a mysterious television show that seduces and controls…
Crash July 18–19, 2025 Controversial from the moment it premiered at Cannes—where it won a Special Jury Prize “for originality, for daring, and for…
Rabid July 25–26, 2025 Picking up where the taboo-busting Shivers left off, Rabid is the next-level iteration of Cronenberg’s obsession with sexual body violence…
Basic Instinct Aug. 1–2, 2025 In one of Paul Verhoeven’s most provocative films, Detective Nick Curran (Michael Douglas) becomes ensnared in a web of sex,…
Wild Things Aug. 8–9, 2025 The scheme is far from tame. But whose scheme is it? Assume nothing as you venture beyond Blue Bay’s elite…
Stranger by the Lake Aug. 15–16, 2025 Directed by Alain Guiraudie (No Rest for the Brave, The King of Escape). Frank (Pierre Deladonchamps) spends his summer days…
Body Heat Aug. 22–23, 2025 Presented on 35mm William Hurt and Kathleen Turner strike sparks in Lawrence Kasdan’s Body Heat, a sexy, haunting tale of desire and skullduggery that…
In The Cut Aug. 29–30, 2025 In the underbelly of lower Manhattan, Frannie Avery (Meg Ryan), a reserved English professor, becomes obsessed after seeing more than…
Suspiria Sep. 5–6, 2025 Suzy (Jessica Harper) travels to Germany to attend ballet school. When she arrives late on a stormy night, no one…
Don't Torture a Duckling Sep. 12–13, 2025 From Lucio Fulci, the filmmaker who unleashed Zombie, The Beyond, and The House by the Cemetery. When the sleepy rural village…
Blood and Black Lace Sep. 19–20, 2025 Before Dario Argento’s Deep Red, there was Mario Bava’s Blood and Black Lace. At the Cristiana Haute Couture fashion house,…
Deep Red Sep. 26–27, 2025 50th Anniversary Screening Anticipating the eerie magic of Suspiria, Deep Red finds Dario Argento and creative partner Daria Nicolodi presenting a simple, Christmas-set…
Shaun of the Dead Oct. 31, 2024 20th Anniversary Screening Get ready for a gut-busting, bone-mashing good time in the hilarious horror comedy, Shaun of the Dead. There comes a…
Halloween Movie Marathon VIII Oct. 26–27, 2024 October 26 at 9:00 It’s a jungle out there—and in a man vs. beast world, it’s every creature for themselves. Bring your best blood-curdling…
Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles Oct. 25, 2024 30th Anniversary Screening In late 20th-century San Francisco, a 200-year-old vampire tells history—of desire, love, yearning, grief, terror, ecstasy–to a young reporter, weaving…
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Oct. 18–19, 2024 New 50th Anniversary 4K Restoration 50 years ago, five youths on a weekend getaway in the Texas countryside fell prey to a butcher in a…
A Nightmare on Elm Street Oct. 11–12, 2024 In the dreams of his victims, a spectral child murderer stalks the children of the members of the lynch mob…
Gremlins Oct. 4–5, 2024 With its Christmas lights and dusting of snow, Kingston Falls is an idyllic small town—until the gremlins take over. A…
Mars Attacks! Sep. 27–28, 2024 Superstar Jack Nicholson as the President of the United States greeting invaders from outer space? Anything can and does happen…
Galaxy Quest Sep. 20–21, 2024 The stars of a 1970s sci-fi show—now scraping together a living through re-runs and sci-fi conventions—are beamed aboard an alien…
Starman Sep. 13–14, 2024 Director John Carpenter presents a romantic science fiction odyssey starring Jeff Bridges as an innocent alien from a distant planet…
Close Encounters of the Third Kind Sep. 6–7, 2024 Richard Dreyfuss stars as cable worker Roy Neary, who along with several other stunned bystanders experience a close encounter of…
The Hunger Aug. 30–31, 2024 Sensual vampire story stars rock legend David Bowie as an ailing vampire whose fanged-lover, Catherine Deneuve, seduces a mortal (Academy…
Phantom of the Paradise Aug. 9–10, 2024 50th Anniversary Screenings! In this rock opera hybrid of Phantom of the Opera and Faust, fledgling singer-songwriter Winslow Leach finds…
Prince of Darkness Aug. 2–3, 2024 Master of horror John Carpenter (Halloween, The Thing) directs this terrifying battle between humankind and ultimate evil. A group of…
Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark July 26–29, 2024 Get ready for edge-of-your-seat thrills in Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark. Indy (Harrison Ford) and his…
Goldfinger July 19–25, 2024 The powerful tycoon Auric Goldfinger has initiated Operation Grand Slam, a cataclysmic scheme to raid Fort Knox and obliterate the…
Starship Troopers July 12–13, 2024 Director Paul Verhoeven’s sci-fi send-up of the military industrial complex—maligned and misunderstood upon its release, but now widely considered a…
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior July 5–6, 2024 After avenging the death of his wife and young son at the hands of a vicious gang leader, Max (Mel…

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