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[Chicago] Music Box Theatre’s 24-hour Horror Marathon Announced!
The Music Box of Horrors remains an absolute highlight on The Music Box Theatre Calendar and includes some scary surprises where only the strong survive.
Every October, for one 24-hour period, The Music Box Theatre transforms into…the Music Box of Horrors. The 2016 Music Box of Horrors is an unrelenting full day of scares and chills, featuring some of the most frightening and entertaining horror films around!
This year’s marathon includes a plethora of fantastic programming! Director Gary Sherman will present the ultra-rare Director’s Cut of Raw Meat. Director Jim Muro joins The Music Box with his gross-out Street Trash, and a new Restoration of the silent horror Seven Footprints To Satan with a live musical score! Plus, 16mm prints of the demented Doctor Butcher, M.D., the erie & supernatural Halloween III: Season of the Witch. The newly rediscovered Eyes of Fire, a comedy duo tangling with Universal’s iconic monsters in Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, will be featured. Other titles to be announced!
Street Trash will be featured in this year’s Music Box of Horrors along with other horrifying titles from Saturday, October 15th through Sunday, October 16th, 2016.
Pricing, Scheduling and Other Information:
Pricing
$25 from 8/18 — 9/14 only 250 available at this price!
($20 for Music Box Members)
$30 from 9/15 — 10/14 only 150 available at this price!
($25 for Music Box Members)
$35 day of show — only 50 available at this price! Only available at the door for day-of sales!
($30 for Music Box Members)
Schedule
Saturday, October 15th
- Seven Footprints To Satan
- Popcorn
- Raw Meat
- Halloween III: Season of the Witch
- Eyes of Fire
- Eye of the Cat
- Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
- Doctor Butcher, M.D.
- Torso
- Street Trash
Between films, check out the excellent Vendors & Guests in the Music Box Lounge, including:
Kitley’s Krypt
Turntabling
Graveface Records
Brian Crowley (artist)
Mark Miller (artist)
SciFi Horror Chicago
House of Monsters
Jonathan La Mantia (artist)
Pretty Spooky Handmades
Music Box of Horrors 2016:
The Music Box of Horrors 2016 is once again guest programmed by Will Morris, Assistant Programmer at Los Angeles’ Cinefamily. Will programmed the 2015 Music Box of Horrors, which included director William Lustig presenting Maniac, actor Ethan Embry presenting the Chicago premiere of The Devil’s Candy, a special tribute to Wes Craven, and more.
About Music Box Theatre:
For the last two decades, the Music Box Theatre has been the premiere venue in Chicago for independent and foreign films. It currently has the largest theater space operated full time in the city. The Music Box Theatre is independently owned and operated by the Southport Music Box Corporation. SMBC, through its Music Box Films division, also distributes foreign and independent films in the theatrical, DVD and television markets throughout the United States.
After pulling in $28 million at the worldwide box office this month, director (and star) Dev Patel’s critically acclaimed action-thriller Monkey Man is now available to watch at home.
You can rent Monkey Man for $19.99 or digitally purchase the film for $24.99!
Monkey Man is currently 88% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, with Bloody Disgusting’s head critic Meagan Navarro awarding the film 4.5/5 stars in her review out of SXSW back in March.
Meagan raves, “While the violence onscreen is palpable and painful, it’s not just the exquisite fight choreography and thrilling action set pieces that set Monkey Man apart but also its political consciousness, unique narrative structure, and myth-making scale.”
“While Monkey Man pays tribute to all of the action genre’s greats, from the Indonesian action classics to Korean revenge cinema and even a John Wick joke or two, Dev Patel’s cultural spin and unique narrative structure leave behind all influences in the dust for new terrain,” Meagan’s review continues.
She adds, “Monkey Man presents Dev Patel as a new action hero, a tenacious underdog with a penetrating stare who bites, bludgeons, and stabs his way through bodies to gloriously bloody excess. More excitingly, the film introduces Patel as a strong visionary right out of the gate.”
Inspired by the legend of Hanuman, Monkey Man stars Patel as Kid, an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he is beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash. After years of suppressed rage, Kid discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city’s sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him.
Monkey Man is produced by Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions.
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