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Schlock & Awe: The William Castle Experience

This October, we're bringing back the master of macabre's famous in-theater gimmicks for a one-of-a-kind movie experience!

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Highlights

Prima Facie

Sat 9/28

Jodie Comer’s Olivier and Tony Award-winning performance in Suzie Miller’s gripping one-woman play returns to cinemas.

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Special Screenings

A long-awaited Twilight marathon comes to the Coolidge!

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Taught by Coolidge Programming and Outreach Coordinator Billy Thegenus!

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Training Day

Mon 9/30

 

The only thing more dangerous than the line being crossed, is the cop who will cross it.

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Ghosting

Tue 10/01 - Tue 10/29

A new film class from long-time Coolidge Instructor Kaj Wilson!

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Macabre (1958)

Tue 10/01

So terrifying we insure you for $1,000 against Death By Fright!

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Digital Restoration Schlock and Awe

Psycho

Wed 10/02

No one... BUT NO ONE... will be admitted to the theatre after the start of each screening of Psycho.

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Found Footage Horror

Thu 10/03 - Thu 10/24

Taught by Alex Svensson of Emerson College!

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Wait Until Dark

Thu 10/03

Why should a killer fear a blind girl? Wait Until Dark... and find out.

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Digital Restoration Cult Classics

Stop Making Sense

Thu 10/03

Director Jonathan Demme's remarkable concert film captures the enormous energy and joyous highs of a live Talking Heads performance.

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Until now no one has dared to film the most diabolical classic of all time!

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Digital Restoration After Midnite

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

Fri 10/04 - Fri 10/18

Special 50th-anniversary screenings of Tobe Hooper's macabre midnight movie classic!

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The Omen (1976)

Sat 10/05

Two thousand years ago his birth was foretold. He's now five years old and his time has come.

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Pulp Fiction

Sun 10/06 - Thu 10/10

Screening from a brand new 35mm print in honor of the film's 30th anniversary!

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The Babadook

Mon 10/07

Introduced by health and science journalist Chelsea Conaboy.

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First Film With the Amazing New Wonder EMERGO: The Thrills Fly Right Into The Audience!

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Boston Open Screen

Tue 10/08 - Tue 12/10

Boston's one and only open mic night for filmmakers!

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The Craft

Wed 10/09

Welcome to the witching hour.

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Matinee (1993)

Thu 10/10

Lawrence Woolsey presents the end of civilization as we know it. Make that... proudly presents!

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The Raven (1963)

Fri 10/11

THE TERROR BEGINS AT MIDNIGHT!

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Little Kid Flicks 2024

Sat 10/12 - Sun 10/13

Let your little ones discover the magic of the big screen with Little Kid Flicks!

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Digital Restoration After Midnite

Phantasm

Sat 10/12

If this one doesn't scare you, you're already dead!

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You'll believe in ghosts too when you see them through the GHOST VIEWER. Turn 'em on and turn 'em off when they turn on you.

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For the first time a new dimension in motion pictures - ODORAMA. It's Scent-sational!

 

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I Married a Witch

Thu 10/17

Veronica Lake casts a seductive spell as a charmingly vengeful sorceress in this supernatural screwball classic. 

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It Follows

Thu 10/17

For 19-year-old Jay (Maika Monroe), the fall should be about school, boys, and weekends at the lake.

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Tales of Terror

Fri 10/18

A trilogy of shock and horror!

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The director's cut of William Friedkin's horror classic starring Max von Sydow, Ellen Burstyn, and Linda Blair.

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Invisible Nation

Sun 10/20

Post-screening Q&A with filmmaker Vanessa Hope and producer Ted Hope!

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Taught by Coolidge Program Director Mark Anastasio!

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Amazing NEW TERROR Device Makes You A Living Participant in the FLESH-CRAWLING ACTION! PERCEPTO!

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Beautiful women were the victims of his FIENDISH FACIALS!!!

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Digital Restoration After Midnite

Frankenhooker

Fri 10/25

Wanna date?

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The Tomb of Ligeia

Fri 10/25

His first wife is dead, but still a little CATTY!

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Monster House

Sat 10/26

Three teens discover that their neighbor's house is really a living, breathing, scary monster.

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Join us for a night of weird experiments and horrifying hypotheses—all in 35mm! 

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Elbow

Sun 10/27

Featuring a Q&A with director Aslı Özarslan and author Fatma Aydemir following the screening!

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Rosemary's Baby

Sun 10/27

Pray for Rosemary's Baby.

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Taught by horror advocate, researcher, and cryptanalyst Ava M. Fields!

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Can your nightmares be fatal?

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Special Guests Big Screen Classics

Introduced by Harvard Law Professor and Judge Nancy Gertner (Ret.).

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The Crow

Wed 10/30

In a world without justice, one man was chosen to protect the innocent.

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You’re invited to a Halloween party at our house before a double-feature of Scream (1996) and Scream (2022)!

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Eraserhead

Fri 11/01

David Lynch's startling debut feature is a lasting cult sensation influenced by the writings of Franz Kafka and Nikolai Gogol.

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The BJ Hickman Magic Show is family entertainment, with fun, audience participation, magic, and silliness galore!

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The Elephant Man

Sat 11/02

A true story of courage and human dignity.

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Rebecca

Sun 11/03

Alfred Hitchcock's Best Picture-winning gothic tale of a remarried widower haunted by the ghost of his first wife.

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Post-film discussion led by Northeastern professor Nathan Blake!

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3 Women

Mon 11/04

 

1 woman became 2. 2 women became 3. 3 women became 1.

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The definitive Final Cut of Ridley Scott's dystopian science fiction classic.

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Dune (1984)

Fri 11/08

A place beyond your dreams. A movie beyond your imagination.

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Digital Restoration After Midnite

Blue Velvet

Sat 11/09

Spawned from the mind of David Lynch, Blue Velvet is a deeply disturbing mixture of the heartfelt and horrific.

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Good News Gus

Sun 11/10

Join Harry LaCoste as he wiggles, giggles, juggles and jams with his sunshine- spreading sidekick, Good News Gus!

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Niagara (1953)

Sun 11/10

Marilyn Monroe and Niagara, a raging torrent of emotion that even nature can't control!

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Post-film discussion led by Northeastern professor Nathan Blake!

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Have your pressing issues decided by Famous Minor Television Personality John Hodgman, Certified Judge.

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Can a man and a woman be friends, or does sex always get in the way?

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Digital Restoration Noirvember

The Killers (1946)

Tue 11/12

One Moment with Her...And He Gambled His LUCK...LOVE...and His LIFE!

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Wild at Heart

Fri 11/15

David Lynch's vivid tale of love on the run.

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Boston's Parents' Choice Award-winning band, Vanessa Trien and the Jumping Monkeys, returns for their annual Coolidge Corner Theatre show!

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In the town of Twin Peaks, everybody has their secrets—but no one more than Laura Palmer. 

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The sin she committed in the name of love could not be judged by man...or punished by law!

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Post-film discussion led by Northeastern professor Nathan Blake!

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Digital Restoration Science on Screen®

Amadeus

Mon 11/18

Featuring an introduction by Dr. Psyche Loui!

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Shrek 2

Thu 11/21

Not so far, far away...

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A Clockwork Orange

Thu 11/21

Malcolm McDowell stars in Stanley Kubrick's ultraviolent classic.

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Lost Highway

Fri 11/22

A lost road on the edge of strange...

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Mulholland Dr.

Sat 11/23

David Lynch’s seductive and scary vision of Los Angeles’s dream factory is one of the true masterpieces of the new millennium.

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Digital Restoration Noirvember

You'll forget there ever was a woman like Gilda...when you meet the Lady From Shanghai!

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Post-film discussion led by Northeastern professor Nathan Blake!

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Hook

Mon 11/25

What if Peter Pan grew up?

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He was all things to all men ... but only one thing to all women!

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Matilda

Sat 11/30

A little magic goes a long way.

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Digital Restoration After Midnite

Inland Empire

Sat 11/30

"A Woman In Trouble."

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Jenny the Juggler dazzles with dexterity and wit in her interactive variety show! 

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Gattaca

Mon 12/09

Introduced by Immaculata DeVivo, molecular epidemiologist and professor at Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health.

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Eyes Wide Shut

Thu 12/12

Cruise. Kidman. Kubrick.

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Davey the Clown

Sat 12/14

Stupendous juggling! Amazing magic! Incredible unicycle tricks! Hilarious antics! Tons of audience participation! A rubber chicken! And accordion music!

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Margaret Sullavan and James Stewart star in one of Ernst Lubitsch's most charming and romantic films.

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Love Actually

Thu 12/19

The ultimate romantic comedy.

 

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The Muppet Christmas Carol

Sat 12/21 - Sun 12/22

The classic tale of Ebenezer Scrooge as told by everyone's favorite band of Muppets! 

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A cast of favorites in the Charming... Romantic... Tuneful love story of the early 1900s!

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Strange Days

Mon 12/30

New year's eve 1999. Anything is possible. Nothing is forbidden.

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Pariah (2011)

Mon 1/13

Featuring a post-screening discussion with guests of the Huntington's production of The Grove.

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Sharon D. Clarke is joined by Ncuti Gatwa in this reimagining of Oscar Wilde’s most celebrated comedy.

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Digital Restoration Stage & Screen

Featuring a post-screening discussion with guests of the Huntington's production of The Triumph of Love

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Featuring a post-screening discussion with guests of the Huntington's production of The Light in the Piazza.

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Coming Soon

Opens Fri, 10/11

At 11:30pm on October 11, 1975, a troupe of young comedians and writers changed television and culture forever.

Opens Fri, 10/11

An American horror story from filmmaker Ali Abbasi (Border, Holy Spider), starring Sebastian Stan, Jeremy Strong, and Maria Bakalova. 

Opens Fri, 10/18

Opening Night Film - Directors' Fortnight, Cannes Film Festival 2023

Opens Fri, 10/18

Director Nicholas Ma’s new film challenges us to consider whether we can disagree and still belong to each other in a divided world.

Opens Fri, 10/25

Limited 35mm engagement! Winner of the Palme d'Or at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival.

Opens Fri, 10/25

The new thriller from Edward Berger (All Quiet on the Western Front) starring Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow, and Isabella Rossellini. 

Opens Fri, 11/01

Winner: Golden Bear at the 2024 Berlin International Film Festival. 

Opens Fri, 11/01

Heartbroken and adrift, undocumented Brazilian immigrant Lourenço searches for purpose in the queer mecca of Provincetown. 

Opens Fri, 11/08

The new film from director Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave), starring Saoirse Ronan. 

Opens Fri, 11/15

Mismatched cousins David and Benji reunite for a tour through Poland to honor their beloved grandmother.

Opens Fri, 12/06

Amy Adams stars in Nightbitch. Written and directed by Marielle Heller, based on the best-selling novel by Rachel Yoder.

Opens Wed, 12/25

A Robert Eggers picture.

Opens Fri, 1/10

The first english-language film from Pedro Almodóvar, starring Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton.

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