A Nightmare on Franklin Street

The success of John Carpenter’s Halloween inspired a lot of imitators, as success in the movie business always does. The difference in this case was that many of the imitators were actually really good in…

A desperate, financially bereft man who is his elderly mother’s sole means of support is about to give up forever when he is presented, out of nowhere, with an option: complete a series of increasingly…

Three gnarly, 17th-century Salem Witches (Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy Najimy) are unwittingly conjured up for a Halloween night in present-day Salem. While they tend to spruce up the party festivities with their outlandish…

Deeply religious policeman Neil Howie (Edward Woodward) visits the small, Scottish island of Summerisle to investigate the disappearance of a young girl. But the locals deny even knowing who she is, and their increasingly bizarre,…

John and Mary Hyatt (played by real-life married couple Paula Prentiss and Richard Benjamin) inherit the mansion of a deceased uncle. But within this Scooby-Doo-tier bat-infested Victorian is the true prize: a book of evil,…

Based on the famous New Yorker cartoon creations of Charles Addams and the ‘60s TV series of the same name, The Addams Family is the story of a bizarre, macabre, aristocratic family who reconnect with…

Directed by Henry Selick, and written by Selick and Jordan Peele (who has – in recent years – earned himself a “Master of Horror” moniker with terrifying films for grown-ups like Get Out, Us, and…

M3GAN is a poignant cautionary tale about the risks of being an early tech adopter. It’s like what if self-driving cars wanted to kill you more than they already do. The titular M3gan (portrayed by…

Seventeen-year-old Millie Kessler (Kathryn Newton) spends her days trying to survive high school and the cruelty of the popular crowd. But when she becomes the latest target of the Butcher (Vince Vaughn), the town’s infamous…

Join Tampa Theatre and local artist and filmmaker Antony Capers for the debut of the newest episodes of his supernatural YouTube serial Grand Hampton the Movie. What started as a pandemic project with his family…

A “Film Tampa Bay Presents” Screening Film Tampa Bay Presents is a quarterly series designed to showcase Tampa Bay-area films, filmmakers, actors and locations through FREE community screenings at Tampa Theatre. And on Oct. 19,…

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari recounts the story of the mysterious mesmerist, Dr. Caligari, and his somnambulist, Cesare (whose pale complexion and dark circles under his eyes would set the standard look for movie zombies).…

Mary Henry ends up the sole survivor of a fatal car accident through mysterious circumstances. Trying to put the incident behind her, she moves to Salt Lake City and takes a job as a church…

A pesar de que su familia lleva generaciones prohibiendo la música, el joven Miguel (al que pone voz Anthony González) sueña con convertirse en un músico consumado como su ídolo, Ernesto de la Cruz (Benjamin…

Despite his family’s generations-old ban on music, young Miguel (voiced by Anthony Gonzalez) dreams of becoming an accomplished musician like his idol, Ernesto de la Cruz (Benjamin Bratt). Desperate to prove his talent, Miguel finds…

Does The Rocky Horror Picture Show need any introduction? It’s a cultural artifact with unlimited lifespan — it creates new audiences for itself each screening, and will most likely continue to be shown in theatres…

Born as an 18th-century lord, Louis (Brad Pitt) is now a bicentennial vampire, telling his story to an eager biographer: Suicidal after the death of his family, he met Lestat (Tom Cruise), a vampire who…

In 2012, a documentary was released called Room 237 about a group of obsessive people who believe that Stanley Kubrick was trying to send the world a message through The Shining. That message varies: to…

Seok-woo (Gong Yoo) is not a very good dad. Always preoccupied with work, unable to keep his marriage together, and overcome with guilt when he misses his daughter Su-an’s singing recital, he decides to give…

Dead of Night is a 1945 British anthology horror film that directly inspired both a Goosebumps book and a cosmological theory that spent decades as the most widely supported alternative to the Big Bang. We’ll…

The newest “kids summon the darndest things” offering from A24, Talk to Me is the feature debut from brothers and YouTube sensations Danny and Michael Philippou. It’s a horror time capsule, referencing material from Ju-On…

Two strangers, freelance photographer Adam Stanheight (Leigh Whannell, also Saw’s screenwriter) and oncologist Dr. Lawrence Gordon (Cary Elwes), awaken at opposite ends of a filthy bathroom, chained to pipes by their ankles with no recollection…

In 1978, Kim Jong Il, son of the then-ruling Kim Il Sung and future supreme leader of the totalitarian dictatorship of North Korea, had South Korean film director Shin Sang-ok kidnapped, along with his wife,…

In 2014, a political party called the “New Founding Fathers of America” are voted into office following an economic collapse and, by 2022, pass a law sanctioning the “Purge.” It’s an annual event heralded by…

Sloths: they’re having a moment! A few years ago it was llamas, then trash pandas had time in the sun. And now our slow, sickle-clawed jungle friends are everywhere you look. And usually that’s great…

Few movies rise to the level of broad disdain that Night of the Lepus achieves. Plan 9 from Outer Space, certainly. The Room. The title of “one of the worst movies ever made” isn’t easily…

Composer John Russell (George C. Scott, more gravel than man) is looking for a fresh start. Having lost his wife and daughter in a tragic accident, he moves across the country and rents a mansion…

The script for the original 1978 Halloween was written in 10 days, which… yeah, actually seems like plenty of time, come to think of it. It’s a pretty terse movie: silent killer menaces teens, travels…