Events

[FILM] Do you like your Halloween movies spoofy or scary? That’s the choice as local independent theaters give you an opportunity to dress up and get out of the house this holiday weekend. Heading the spoof list is the inevitable Rocky Horror Picture Show, now celebrating its 40th anniversary. Bring your grandparents so they can relive their youths doing the Time Warp! It will be at the Aurora (Friday, 11pm), Riviera (Friday at midnight, pre-show party at 10pm), Hamburg Palace (Saturday, midnight) and Lockport Palace (Friday and Saturday, midnight).

Sticking with monster comedies, the North Park will screen The Monster Squad (Thursday, 9:30pm) and Shaun of the Dead (Friday-Saturday, 7 pm). The Screening Room presents Young Frankenstein (Thurs and Sun 7:30 pm).

If you like your horror straight up, the Riviera gets the weekend off to an early start with The Exorcist (Thursday, 7:30pm). Your classiest option is Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, with live accompaniment by the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra (Kleinhans, Saturday, 8pm). The North Park has The Evil Dead (Friday-Saturday, 9:30pm), and at the Screening Room will unspool Night of the Living Dead (Friday-Saturday, 7:30pm) and Halloween (Friday-Saturday, 9:30pm.) All are the originals, of course—no crappy remakes.

Somewhere in-between is an evening of low-budget horrors at the Angola Screening Room, including Colony (aka Colony of the Dark and Colony Mutation) and three features from Southtowns producers DefTone Pictures, Holland, A Grim Becoming, and Not Human (aka Ombis: Alien Invasion), from 6pm through 1am.

UPDATE: The Hamburg Palace will also be showing the 1979 cult classic Tourist Trap, starring Chuck Connors and a house full of evil manequins, at 11:30 pm Friday night.