William Friedkin's THE EXORCIST @ Los Angeles Theatre movie palace

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Part of our Halloween-o-thon 2026 series

Saturday, October 31, 2026

LOCATION: The Los Angeles Theater, 615 S Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90014

SPECIAL NOTE: Our 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.

*5p THE EXORCIST (1973, dir by William Friedkin, w/ Ellen Burstyn, Linda Blair, Max Von Sydow, Jason Miller, Warner Brothers, 122mns-132mns, USA)

*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

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!

*5p THE EXORCIST (1973, dir by William Friedkin, w/ Ellen Burstyn, Linda Blair, Max Von Sydow, Jason Miller, Warner Brothers, 122mns-132mns, USA)

*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.

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.

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