An annual Late Night at the Logan Series
Tues-Thurs night screenings | Fri-Mon night screenings
Tickets are $12 unless otherwise noted
The Logan Theatre's annual Horror Movie Madness returns for the 2025 season. This month-long series features a calendar full of classic horrors, our yearly costume party, and free family matinee double feature. This year, we close out the month with screenings of The Night of the Hunter, The Babadook, and John Carpenter's Halloween.
Showtimes range from 10:30 pm to 11 pm, with earlier screenings in the week leading up to the holiday. Costumes are welcome during festivities, especially on October 24th before the openings of Texas Chainsaw and Exorcist, at our Halloween Party.
Join us early and hang out at our bar or in the Lounge, and partake in a cryptic cocktails from our drink menu or enjoy any of your favorites from our fully stocked bar.
Godzilla (1954, Subtitled) Sep 30 - Oct 2 at 10:30 PM
After a beast, awoken from undersea hibernation by atom bomb testing, ravages Tokyo, a scientist must decide if his similarly dangerous weapon should be used to destroy it.
Director: Ishirô Honda
Writers: Takeo Murata, Ishirô Honda, Shigeru Kayama
Cast: Takashi Shimura, Akihiko Hirata, Akira Takarada
Runtime: 1hr 36min | Rated: NR
The Silence of the Lambs (1991) Sep 30 - Oct 2 at 11 PM
A young F.B.I. cadet must receive the help of an incarcerated and manipulative cannibal killer to help catch another serial killer, a madman who skins his victims.
Director: Jonathan Demme
Writers: Thomas Harris, Ted Tally
Cast: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn
Runtime: 1hr 58min | Rated: R
Friday the 13th (1980) Oct 3-6 at 10:30 PM
A group of camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp.
Director: Sean S. Cunningham
Writers: Victor Miller, Sean S. Cunningham
Cast: Betsy Palmer, Adrienne King, Jeannine Taylor
Runtime: 1hr 35min | Rated: R
Carrie (1976) Oct 3-6 at 11 PM
Carrie White, a shy, friendless teenage girl who is sheltered by her domineering, religious mother, unleashes her telekinetic powers after being humiliated by her classmates at her senior prom..
Director: Brian De Palma
Writers: Stephen King, Lawrence D. Cohen
Cast: Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving
Runtime: 1hr 38min | Rated: R
Night of the Living Dead (1968) Oct 7-9 at 10:30 PM
A ragtag group of Pennsylvanians barricade themselves in an old farmhouse to remain safe from a horde of flesh-eating ghouls that are ravaging the Northeast of the United States.
Director: George A. Romero
Writers: John A. Russo. George A. Romero
Cast: Duane Jones, Judith O'Dea, Karl Hardman
Runtime: 1hr 36min | Rated: R
Child's Play (1988) Oct 7-9 at 11 PM
A dying serial killer transfers his consciousness into a popular kids doll with voodoo, and a struggling single mother gifts her son the doll for his birthday before it slowly reaveals its true colors.
Director: Tom Holland
Writers: Don Mancini, John Lafia, Tom Holland
Cast: Alex Vincent, Catherine Hicks, Brad Dourif, Chris Sarandon
Runtime: 1hr 27min | Rated: R
Psycho (1960) Oct 10-13 at 10:30 PM
A Phoenix secretary embezzles $40k, goes on the run, and checks into a remote motel run by a man under the thumb of his mother.
Film Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writers: Joseph Stefano, Robert Bloch
Cast: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles
Runtime: 1hr 49min | Rated: R
The Thing (1982) Oct 10-13 at 11 PM
A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.
Director: John Carpenter
Writers: Bill Lancaster, John W. Campbell Jr.
Cast: Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, Keith David
Runtime: 1hr 49min | Rated: R
Hausu (1977, Subtitled) Oct 14-16 at 10:30 PM
A schoolgirl and six of her classmates travel to her aunt's country home, which turns out to be haunted.
Director: Nobuhiko Ôbayashi
Writer: Chiho Katsura, Chigumi Ôbayashi
Cast: Kimiko Ikegami, Miki Jinbo, Kumiko Ôba
Runtime: 1hr 28min | Rated: NR
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965) Oct 14-16 at 11 PM
Aboard a British train, mysterious fortune teller Dr. Schreck uses tarot cards to read the futures of five fellow passengers.
Director: Freddie Francis
Writer: Milton Subotsky
Cast: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Neil McCallum
Runtime: 1hr 38min | Rated: NR
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) Oct 17-20 at 10:30 PM
Teenagers in a small town are dropping like flies and Nancy and her boyfriend Glen, must devise a plan to lure a monster out of the realm of nightmares into the real world.
Writer/Director: Wes Craven
Cast: Heather Langenkamp, Johnny Depp, Robert Englund
Runtime: 1hr 31min | Rated: R
Rosemary's Baby (1987) Oct 17-20 at 11 PM
A couple moves into an apartment with peculiar neighbors. When the wife becomes pregnant, paranoia over her child takes over.
Director: Roman Polanski
Writers: Ira Levin, Roman Polanski
Cast: Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon
Runtime: 2hr 17min | Rated: R
It (2017) Oct 21-23 at 10:30 PM
In the summer of 1989, a group of bullied kids band together to destroy a shape-shifting monster, which disguises itself as a clown and preys on the children of Derry, their small Maine town.
Director: Andy Muschietti
Writers: Chase Palmer, Cary Joji Fukunaga, Gary Dauberman
Cast: Bill Skarsgård, Jaeden Martell, Finn Wolfhard
Runtime: 2hr 15min | Rated: R
Creepshow (1982) Oct 21-23 at 11 PM
5 grisly tales from a kid's comic book: a murdered father rising from his grave, a bizarre meteor, a vengeful husband, a mysterious crate, and a plague of cockroaches.
Director: George A. Romero
Writer: Stephen King
Cast: Hal Holbrook, Leslie Nielsen, Adrienne Barbeau
Runtime: 2hr | Rated: R
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) Oct 24-27 at 10:30 PM
+ Halloween Costume Party Friday Night at 8
Some friends en route to visit their grandfather's grave in Texas end up falling victim to a family of cannibalistic psychopaths.
Director: Tobe Hooper
Writers: Kim Henkel, Tobe Hooper
Cast: Marilyn Burns, Edwin Neal, Allen Danziger
Runtime: 1hr 23min | Rated: R
The Exorcist (1973, Director's Cut) Oct 24-27 at 11 PM
+ Halloween Costume Party Friday Night at 8
When a teenage girl is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two priests to save her daughter.
Director: William Friedkin
Writer: William Peter Blatty
Cast: Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Linda Blair
Runtime: 2hr 2min | Rated: R
Free Family Matinee! Sunday, Oct 26 at 11:30 AM
Double Animated Feature:
It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966)
Casper's Halloween Special (1979)
Tickets available in-house-only, beginning at noon on Saturday (10/25)
Doors: 11 am
Show: 11:30 am
The Night of the Hunter (1955) Oct 28-30 at 11 PM
A self-proclaimed preacher marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real dad hid the $10,000 he'd stolen in a robbery.
Director: Charles Laughton
Writers: Davis Grubb, James Agee, Charles Laughton
Cast: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish
Runtime: 1hr 32min | Rated: NR
The Babadook (2014) Oct 31 - Nov 1 at 11 PM
A single mother and her child fall into a deep well of paranoia when an eerie children's book titled "Mister Babadook" manifests in their home.
Writer/Director: Jennifer Kent
Cast: Essie Davis, Noah Wiseman, Daniel Henshall
Runtime: 1hr 34min | Rated: NR
Halloween (1978) Oct 28 - Nov 1 at 10:30 PM
Fifteen years after murdering his sister, Michael Myers escapes from a hospital and returns to Haddonfield, IL to kill again.
Film Director: John Carpenter
Writer: John Carpenter, Debra Hill
Cast: Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasence, Nancy Loomis
Runtime: 1hr 31min | Rated: R
Events:
Every Monday, 8:30 PM – Open Mic Comedy (Sign-up at 8 pm)
Every Tuesday, 8 PM – Movie Trivia Night with your hosts, Juli & Jamie!
Friday, October 24, 8:30 PM – The Logan's Annual Halloween Costume Party
Sunday, October 26, 11:30 AM – Free Family Halloween Matinee
The Logan Theatre
2646 North Milwaukee Avenue
Chicago, IL 60647
Call us at
773-342-5555
