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 2026 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 Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, 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 23rd before the openings of A Nightmare on Elm Street and Exorcist, at our Halloween Party.
Please note that while the $5 Wednesday discount does not apply to Horror Movie Madness movie tickets, you can still take advantage of the deal on select drafts, spirits, fountain drinks, popcorn, and on movie tickets to current releases throughout the month of October.
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.
Army of Darkness (1993) Sep 29 - Oct 1 at 10:30 PM
A man is accidentally transported to 1300 A.D., where he must battle an army of the dead and retrieve the Necronomicon so he can return home.
Director: Sam Raimi
Writers: Sam and Ivan Raimi
Cast: Bruce Campbell, Embeth Davidtz, Marcus Gilbert
Runtime: 1hr 21min | Rated: NR
Hausu (1977, Subtitled) Sep 29 - Oct 1 at 11 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
Trailer
Psycho (1960) Oct 2-5 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 Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) Oct 2-5 at 11 PM
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
Poltergeist (1982) Oct 6-8 at 10:30 PM
A family's home becomes the center of paranormal activity that opens a doorway to the "other side." With help, they must cross over to get their daughter back.
Director: Tobe Hooper
Writers: Steven Spielberg, Michael Grais, Mark Victor
Cast: JoBeth Williams, Heather O'Rourke, Craig T. Nelson
Runtime: 1hr 54min | Rated: PG
Re-Animator (1985) Oct 6-8 at 11 PM
fter an odd new medical student arrives on campus, a dedicated local and his girlfriend become involved in bizarre experiments centering around the re-animation of dead tissue.
Director: Stuart Gordon
Writers: H.P. Lovecraft, Dennis Paoli, William Norris
Cast: Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott, Barbara Crampton
Runtime: 1hr 24min | Rated: R
They Live (1988) Oct 9 + 10 at 10:30 PM
They influence our decisions without us knowing it. They numb our senses without us feeling it. They control our lives without us realizing it. They live.
Directors: Ray Nelson, John Carpenter
Writers: Stephen King, Lawrence D. Cohen
Cast: Roddy Piper, Keith David, Meg Foster
Runtime: 1hr 34min | Rated: R
Friday the 13th (1980) Oct 11 + 12 at 11 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
Rosemary's Baby (1968) Oct 9-12 at 10:30 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
Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) Oct 13-15 at 10:30 PM
A strange prehistoric beast lurks in the depths of the Amazonian jungle. A group of scientists try to capture the animal and bring it back to civilization for study.
Director: Jack Arnold
Writers: Harry Essex, Arthur A. Ross, Maurice Zimm
Cast: Richard Carlson, Julie Adams, Richard Denning
Runtime: 1hr 19min | Rated: G
Shaun of the Dead (2004) Oct 13-15 at 11 PM
The uneventful, aimless lives of a London electronics salesman and his layabout roommate are disrupted by the zombie apocalypse.
Director: Edgar Wright
Writers: Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg
Cast: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Kate Ashfield
Runtime: 1hr 39min | Rated: R
The Silence of the Lambs (1991) Oct 16-19 at 10:30 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
Trailer
The Thing (1982) Oct 16-19 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
Them! (1954) Oct 20-22 at 10:30 PM
The earliest atomic tests in New Mexico cause common ants to mutate into giant man-eating monsters that threaten civilization.
Director: Gordon Douglas
Writers: Ted Sherdeman, Russell S. Hughes, George Worthing Yates
Cast: James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn, Joan Weldon
Runtime: 1hr 34min | Rated: NR
Chopping Mall (1986) Oct 20-22 at 11 PM
A group of young shopping mall employees stay behind for a late night party in one of the stores. When the mall goes on lock-down before they can get out, the robot security system malfunctions, and goes on a killing spree.
Director: Jim Wynorski
Writers: Jim Wynorski and Steve Mitchell
Cast: Kelli MaroneyTony O'DellRussell Todd
Runtime: 1hr 17min | Rated: R
The Exorcist (1973) Oct 23-26 at 10:30 PM
+ Halloween Costume Party Friday Night (10/23) 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
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) Oct 23-26 at 11 PM
+ Halloween Costume Party Friday Night (10/23) at 8
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
Free Family Matinee! Sunday, Oct 25 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 (10/24)
Doors: 11 am
Show: 11:30 am
Bride of Frankenstein (1935) Oct 27-29 at 11 PM
Mary Shelley reveals the main characters of her novel survived: Baron Henry Frankenstein, goaded by an even madder scientist, builds his monster a mate.
Director: James Whale
Writers: Mary Shelley, William Hurlbut, John L. Balderston
Cast: Boris Karloff, Elsa Lanchester, Colin Clive
Runtime: 1hr 15min | Rated: NR
The Shining (1980) Oct 27 - Nov 1 at 10:30 PM
A family heads to an isolated hotel where an evil spirit turns the father violent, while his psychic son can see horrific forebodings.
Film Director: Stanley Kubrick
Writers: Stephen King, Stanley Kubrick
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd
Runtime: 2hr 26min | Rated: R
Halloween (1978) Oct 30 - Nov 1 at 11 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
Writers: 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 23, 8 PM – The Logan's Annual Halloween Costume Party
Sunday, October 25, 11:30 AM – Free Family Halloween Matinee
The Logan Theatre
2646 North Milwaukee Avenue
Chicago, IL 60647
Call us at
773-342-5555
