Four Halloween classics all 35mm , 10a Hocus Pocus 115p Ghostbusters 5p The Exorcist 8p The Shining + 1030p spooky movie palace after party,
About this EventPart of our 35mm Halloween-o-thon 2026 series
Saturday, October 31, 2026
LOCATION: The Los Angeles Theater, 615 S Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90014
SPECIAL NOTE: Our 35mm Halloween-o-thon will run all day at the 1931 Los Angeles Theatre movie palace, one of the crown jewel opera house cinemas in all of Los Angeles (with its very own ghost stories!).
Food trucks and food court open all day, full bar open all night for our evening Horror block and afterparty - pay as you go, so bring a card.
All movies confirmed on 35mm. But please remember if there's an issue with a film print, we always reserve the right to switch to DCP so you get best possible presentation. The show must go on!
10a HOCUS POCUS (1993, dir by Kenny Ortega, w/ Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy Najimy, Disney Pictures, 96mns, USA, 35mm)
1145a-115p Daytime Halloween Festival — costume parade, family photo booth, food trucks + downstairs food court, ice cream truck, and spooky characters roaming the theater
115p GHOSTBUTERS (1984, dir by Ivan Reitman, w/ Bill Murray, Dan Ackroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, Ernie Hudson, Columbia, 105mns, USA, 35mm)
*5p THE EXORCIST (1973, dir by William Friedkin, w/ Ellen Burstyn, Linda Blair, Max Von Sydow, Jason Miller, Warner Brothers, 122mns-132mns, USA, 35mm)
*We’re not sure if we’ll end up with the original theatrical cut versus the director’s cut which is 10 minutes longer. Please be prepared for both.
7p-8p The Witching-Hour Intermission — food trucks, downstairs food court, and a full bar between the evening's two films
8p THE SHINING (1980, co-adapt and directed by Stanley Kubrick, w/ Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Scatman Crothers, Danny Lloyd, Warner Brothers, 144mns, USA, 35mm)
1030p-130a Halloween-o-thon 2026 After Party. Our Halloween-o-thon 2026 After-hours afterparty will give partygoers the run of the Los Angeles Theatre once the doors close to the public. ✓ Live DJ + costume contests ✓ Secret after-dark tours of the theater ✓ The haunted VIP room ✓ Afterparty till 130 AM
You can get tickets to any individual movie (and add the Afterparty a la carte) or get the All-Day pass (all movies, with afterparty, best deal).
Please note that while we are working to screen these movies on 35mm prints if possible, if we have any issues, we will have DCP/digital back ups. The show must go on!
10a HOCUS POCUS (1993, dir by Kenny Ortega, w/ Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy Najimy, Disney Pictures, 96mns, USA, 35mm)
Few movies have had the meteoric cult favorite rise from nearly forgotten 1990’s Disney programmer to beloved cult classic of almost every age and demographic. How did Disney’s 1993 Hocus Pocus about the comically self-absorbed yet inept 17th century witches-the Sanderson Sisters (played with campy relish by Midler, Najimy, Parker) become such a beloved Halloween classic? Well, its constant replaying on the Disney Channel may have had something to do with it.
But whatever the reasons, the Sanderson sisters and their antics are now beloved by families, teens, adults everyone.
The story finds the Sanderson sisters meeting a nasty end at the hands of angry villagers of 17th century Salemn only to be accidentally re-summoned in the 1990’s on Halloween night is both warm-hearted and subversive. Funny and spooky to whole host of children.
Maybe you grew up with this movie and now want to introduce your own children to the Halloween fun, jokes, and all around fun vibes of Hocus Pocus.
SPECIAL NOTE: We’ll follow the movie with a Daytime Halloween Festival — a full hour of Halloween fun after the film. Kids' Halloween costume parade. Family photo booth. Food trucks + a downstairs food court. An ice cream truck. Friendly, spooky characters roaming the theater for photo ops. Costumes encouraged — all ages welcome. All in one of the most beautiful, atmospheric movie theaters in all of Los Angeles!
115p GHOSTBUSTERS (1984, dir by Ivan Reitman, w/ Bill Murray, Dan Ackroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, Ernie Hudson, Columbia, 105mns, USA, 35mm)
The early 1980’s well. . .they were just a different time. Exhibit 1 - 1984’s Ghostbusters co-written by Dan Ackroyd and Harold Ramis is somehow both a beloved family spooky movie and an amazing National Lampoon, SCTV, and Saturday Night Live alum comedy - one of the best actually.
Rated PG yet filled with tons of ad-libbed and improved adult humour, Ghostbusters is also somehow a crowning special effects 1980’s extravaganza full of model work, a Stay Puft Marshmellow Man kaiju sequence, loads of ghost effects. And a killer soundtrack.
When parapsychology professors Peter Venkman (Bill Murray), Ray Stanz (Ackroyd) and Egon Spengler (Harold Ramis) get fired from their jobs for their wacky ideas about ghosts, they decide to set up shop as actual New York “Ghostbusters” a kind of ghost, ghoul, and poltergeist extermination/containment company.
When they actually have success catching and trapping some ghosts, they get the attention of cellist Dana Barrett (Sigourney Weaver) worried her old apartment building might be haunted and officious city official Walter Peck (a great William Atherton) who wants to shut them down.
One of the great 1980’s pop culture sensations, Ghostbusters meets the movie audience at the cross roads of fun scares, hilarious humour, and incredible special effects. Bring the family and marvel at the movie on the big screen.
SPECIAL NOTE: We’ll follow the movie with a Daytime Halloween Festival — a full hour of Halloween fun after the film. Kids' Halloween costume parade. Family photo booth. Food trucks + a downstairs food court. An ice cream truck. Friendly, spooky characters roaming the theater for photo ops. Costumes encouraged — all ages welcome. All in one of the most beautiful, atmospheric movie theaters in all of Los Angeles!
*5p THE EXORCIST (1973, dir by William Friedkin, w/ Ellen Burstyn, Linda Blair, Max Von Sydow, Jason Miller, Warner Brothers, 122mns-132mns, USA, 35mm)
*We’re not sure if we’ll end up with the original theatrical cut versus the director’s cut which is 10 minutes longer. Please be prepared for both.
William Friedkin’s The Exorcist is the horror movie shot heard around the world. The Exorcist and Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (made 13 years before) took a genre and fully catapulted it into the modern era.
Actress Chris MacNeill (Burstyn) is horrified to discover her 12 year old daughter Regan (Blair) appears to be developing symptoms that can’t be explained by any mental or physical health disease. When Regan shouts obscenities in a voice that’s not hers and when the house they live in starts to rock and shake, MacNeill fears their may actually be something DEMONIC at work and that the only chance at helping her daughter may be a Catholic exorcism to expel the devil from her little girl.
A movie so horrifying when it came out, audiences actually had anxiety attacks, vomitted in the streets, and ran out of the theater screaming, The Exorcist set a standard and bar that set the terms for the last fifty years of horror.
Friedkin went all out, no holds barred, to terrify his audience with imagery, sequences, and scenes so shocking, so graphic, so horrific there was no going back to a more genteel form of spooky scares.
Join us for one of the genre defining horror and Halloween classics of all time. In the 1931 Los Angeles theater movie palace. A grand hall for a grand horror film.
7p-8p The Witching-Hour Intermission — food trucks, downstairs food court, and a full bar between the evening's two films.
8p THE SHINING (1980, co-adapt and directed by Stanley Kubrick, w/ Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Scatman Crothers, Danny Lloyd, Warner Brothers, 144mns, USA, 35mm)
And so we come to what many consider to be one of the crowning achievements of all horror- Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of Stephen King’s 1977 hit horror novel The Shining.
When struggling writer and on the wagon alcoholic Jack Torrance gets offered the job as winter caretaker of the remote Overlook Hotel, he needs to take it. He brushes aside the unsettling revelation that a caretaker only a decade before had gone crazy in the long snowy winter and killed his entire family with an ax in the hotel.
But when Jack, wife Wendy (Duvall), and son Danny (Lloyd) begin their stay, strange things start to happen. Danny has “the Shining” the ability to see and hear things no one else can. And the hotel begins to speak to him…
Kubrick proved there wasn’t a genre who couldn’t do better than anyone else with The Shining- an American horror classic. Kubrick, in his meticulous fashion, researched and studied the uncanny, the paranormal, the unexplainable, and suffused his movie with an irreducible, unexplainable dread that made the audience feel they were actually experiencing the haunted terrors of a haunted place.
Come watch this horror cinematic classic in the 1931 Los Angeles movie palace-which may have some ghosts and supernatural elements of its own. Then stay for the 1030p afterhours afterparty. . .if you dare.
1030p HALLOWEEN-O-THON 2026 HAUNTED AFTER HOURS AFTER PARTY (21+). Will you see the ghost of the LA Theatre’s 1st 1930’s projectionist Charlie Meadows who has occasionally been seen every decade since his death haunting the theater? Maybe. Maybe not. But you will have an incredible Halloween party. Come in costume, enjoy full bars on several levels of the theater, food trucks, a food court, a DJ, dancing, spooky tours of the theater’s haunted nooks and crannies, a haunted VIP room, costume contests, and more.
We have your Halloween taken care of in one of LA’s greatest opera houses for cinema. This is the way you celebrate Halloween.
Full bar, food trucks, and the food court open all night — pay as you go, so bring a card.
