Shocktober: A Month-Long Superscreen Horror Show

Overview

Some people love Christmas. Others adore winter. Easter's excuse to eat chocolate also has its fans. But if you like all things spooky and scary — if you know your Michael Myers from your Jason Voorhees, too — then October is the happiest time of each and every year, even though it's also the creepiest.

Leaning into the unsettling season in a big way: The Astor Theatre, which is dedicating the month to eerie flicks. Horror movie diehards will find unnerving classics new and old on the lineup at Shocktober: A Month-Long Superscreen Horror Show. Some of the program's titles, you will have seen countless times. Others, you might've always meant to get around to — or haven't had the chance to enjoy on the big screen (let alone the Chapel Street picture palace's screen) just yet.

The 80s duo that is The Lost Boys and the OG A Nightmare on Elm Street kicks Shocktober off on Saturday, October 1, with single sessions, doubles features, triples and overnight movie marathon The Great Astor Spooktacular — The Sequel all part of the shenanigans. And while there isn't necessarily a showing every day of the month, there's more than enough on the bill — 50-plus titles, in fact — to make up for the rare horror film-free days before Monday, October 31.

Other highlights include recent gems Crimes of the Future and Mandy on one ace night, a blast from the 1920s past with killer classics Nosferatu and Häxan, and the original Hocus Pocus running amok, amok, amok. Or, catch both The Shining and followup Doctor Sleep, go a little mad with Psycho, and lap up the Japanese double of Hausu and Onibaba.

Elsewhere, the first Scream screens alongside this year's new Scream, Beetlejuice and The Little Shop of Horrors will make for an entertaining pair, and Jordan Peele lovers can enjoy Nope, Us and Get Out all on the same evening.

Then, on the big date itself, capping off the lineup: the meta horror fun of The Cabin in the Woods.