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10/13/2026

**Starts This Friday October 16th**

In loving tribute to the passing of the great Reggie Banister, the Academy proudly presents the surrealistic macabre of PHANTASM (1979)! Screening daily through Thursday Oct 22nd, don’t miss the birth of a sacred franchise and remember if it doesn’t scare you… YOU’RE ALREADY DEAD!

“Get your gear together” & join fans in celebrating a cult legend this October at the Academy — rest in peace Reggie💕!

Back of the Box:
“If this one doesn’t scare you, you’re already dead!” When two brothers uncover the startling secret of the living dead following the murder of their friend, what seems like a horrible unending nightmare becomes a terrifying reality! A mortuary’s embalming cellar is the site for supernatural evil - including a floating sphere with razor-sharp protruding daggers which seeks out victims and drains the blood from their heads. As the brothers learn more and more about what is really going on at Morningside Mortuary, they get deeper into trouble...until it may be too late to escape!

**Playing One Night Only: Saturday, October 24th**THE HOUSE ON SORORITY ROW Slumber Party!Remember when a slumber party ...
10/13/2026

**Playing One Night Only: Saturday, October 24th**

THE HOUSE ON SORORITY ROW Slumber Party!

Remember when a slumber party was basically the most exciting thing that could ever happen? Putting on your cutest pajamas, staying up way past your bedtime, gossiping with your friends, and renting a movie that was definitely too scary? 

This spooky season, we’re bringing that feeling back with a very special Femmes in Film Slumber Party featuring THE HOUSE ON SORORITY ROW (1982)!
Come early for a Slumber Party Market in the Academy Theater lobby at 5:30 PM, including vintage clothes and nail art before the movie starts at 7 PM.

Pajamas and nighties are highly encouraged—show off your best vintage sleepwear or your favorite fall flannel set. Bring a blanket if you want to get extra cozy!

Market at 5:30 PM • Film at 7 PM

Vendors include:
Audrey | Nail Artist
RoseWood Vintage & Collectibles
Midtowners Market

Back of the box:
Kate! Vicki! Liz! Jeanie! Diane! Morgan! Stevie! These are the women of Theta Chi, who are celebrating graduation with one last mammoth party. And one last mammoth prank. But of course, no prank in a graduation slasher goes off without a hitch. Soon enough, Theta Chi’s finest find themselves up to their necks in stylized bloodshed, non-hits by a New Wave band called 4 Out Of 5 Doctors, and the most exciting severed-head-in-a-toilet gag since To All a Good Night. Beautifully photographed and filled with excellent performances, THE HOUSE ON SORORITY ROW feels like what would happen if Black Christmas was made in 1983 instead of 1974. This is also one of the few golden age slashers that isn’t driven by testosterone (one more reason to love it).

**Playing Saturday, October 31st**The mystery begins…Our first clue for the SECRET HORROR MARATHON is here! Can you gues...
10/12/2026

**Playing Saturday, October 31st**

The mystery begins…

Our first clue for the SECRET HORROR MARATHON is here! Can you guess what’s lurking on the big screen this Halloween? More clues are on the way, but the titles stay secret until showtime. 👀

Drop your guesses below!! 🎃

**Playing Through Thursday, October 15th**Beauty and brutality collide in EYES WITHOUT A FACE (1960), Georges Franju’s h...
10/11/2026

**Playing Through Thursday, October 15th**

Beauty and brutality collide in EYES WITHOUT A FACE (1960), Georges Franju’s haunting masterpiece of French horror, screening as part of the Academy Theater’s monthly International Series!

Equal parts macabre and melancholy, this dreamlike tale of obsession and identity remains one of cinema’s most unsettling achievements.

Don’t miss your chance to experience this unforgettable classic on the big screen! Tickets available now at academytheaterpdx.com!

Back of the box:
At his secluded château in the French countryside, a brilliant, obsessive doctor (Pierre Brasseur) attempts a radical plastic surgery to restore the beauty of his daughter’s disfigured countenance—at a horrifying price. Eyes Without a Face, directed by the supremely talented Georges Franju, is rare in horror cinema for its odd mixture of the ghastly and the lyrical, and it has been a major influence on the genre in the decades since its release. There are images here—of terror, of gore, of inexplicable beauty—that once seen are never forgotten.

**TODAY — SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10TH — BUY OR DIE**The wait is over! Q***R SCREAMS presents a killer night at the Academy Th...
10/10/2026

**TODAY — SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10TH — BUY OR DIE**

The wait is over! Q***R SCREAMS presents a killer night at the Academy Theater! Join us TONIGHT for a very special 40th Anniversary screening of CHOPPING MALL (1986) with cult horror icon Kelli Maroney IN PERSON! Q***r Screams Film Festival

Get your tickets NOW! You won’t want to miss this one-night-only celebration of killer robots, ‘80s nostalgia, and mall-bound mayhem!

The festivities kick off at 5:30pm with a Meet & Greet with Kelli! Come say hello, grab an autograph, and meet the star of CHOPPING MALL and NIGHT OF THE COMET, who also appeared in FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH! Kelli Maroney

Joining the party is Gravy Tapes, bringing a horrible horde of horror VHS specially curated for the occasion by Academy programmer Door Man! Gravy Tapes

Then at 7pm, the mall closes... and the killing begins! CHOPPING MALL (1986) hits the big screen in a recent restoration, looking better—and deadlier—than ever!

And the fun doesn’t end when the credits roll! Stick around for a special post-film discussion with Kelli and her friend, Q***r Screams founder JT.

It’s all happening TODAY! Grab your tickets now and don’t miss your chance to celebrate 40 years of CHOPPING MALL with Kelli Maroney herself!

Come for the shopping. Stay for the slaughter. See you TONIGHT!

**Starts Friday, October 23rd**They’re here! POLTERGEIST (1982) brings suburban nightmares to the Big Screen! Directed b...
10/10/2026

**Starts Friday, October 23rd**

They’re here! POLTERGEIST (1982) brings suburban nightmares to the Big Screen! Directed by Tobe Hooper and produced by Steven Spielberg, this supernatural horror classic turns the American dream into a living nightmare when a seemingly ordinary family’s home becomes the playground of restless spirits. Packed with unforgettable scares, groundbreaking special effects, and one very sinister television set, POLTERGEIST remains one of the most beloved haunted house films of the ‘80s.

Don’t miss POLTERGEIST on our Big Screen. All showtimes are up on our website now!

Back of the box:
Life is very pleasant for the close-knit Freeling family until a host of otherworldly forces invades their peaceful suburban home. It starts with just an odd occurrence or two, but soon their house is turned into a swirling supernatural sideshow. The forces at work are anything but friendly, and if the luckless Freelings don’t clear out soon, they’ll all be swept off into nightmarish chaos! Astounding, absorbing, yet laced with humor and warmth, Poltergeist is a work of art full of spine-snapping chills!

**LOWBROW ANTICS x FEMMES IN FILM: WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE (1995)**Todd Solondz Zine Release Party!Friday, November 6th...
10/09/2026

**LOWBROW ANTICS x FEMMES IN FILM: WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE (1995)**

Todd Solondz Zine Release Party!
Friday, November 6th

Celebrate the painfully awkward world of adolescence, the weirdness of the ’90s, and the work of filmmaker Todd Solondz with a special screening of WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE (1995), presented by Lowbrow Antics x Femmes in Film in conjunction with the release of a new zine honoring director Todd Solondz.

Come early and relive the glory and humiliation of your school-photo years with a Polaroid photo booth and decorating station, plus vintage and physical media vendors in the lobby showcasing a curated selection of ‘90s adolescence treasures. Dress like it’s the ’90s, take an awkward portrait, decorate your Polaroid with retro stickers, and browse before the film.

Following the screening, stick around for a post-film discussion featuring contributors to the zine, digging into WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE, the uncomfortable comedy of growing up, and the singularly strange work of the one and only Todd Solondz.

A night to honor all freaks, geeks, outcasts, and anyone who survived adolescence.

Vendors include:
Lowbrow Antics | Movie-Obsessed Artist
Pictureshow Collections
Hollywood Babylon

Preshow Fun at 5:30pm • Film at 7pm • Post Film Discussion at 8:45pm

**Starts Friday October 23rd**For the last week of October…. Clive Barker’s HELLRAISER (1987) rips our Big Screen to shr...
10/08/2026

**Starts Friday October 23rd**

For the last week of October…. Clive Barker’s HELLRAISER (1987) rips our Big Screen to shreds! A dark, gruesome tale of pleasure, pain and everything in between… “We have such sights to show you…”

Advance tickets strongly recommend. Tickets for all shows available now on our website, link in bio.

Back of the Box:
From beyond the Outer Darkness. From the blackest corners of a family’s past. From the nightmarish realm of the imagination comes HELLRAISER. An old family home holds untold mysteries and horrors for Larry Cotton and his wife, Julia. Floorboards that rattle. Rooms that absorb blood. The heavy and haunting air of things long past and better left forgotten. All fueled by the fugitive spirit of Larry’s brother, Frank, who hovers halfway between this world and the next, between extreme pleasure and excruciating pain. And between family devotion and a deadly instinct for survival. Slowly, the old family home begins to swallow the Cottons. And there is no escape... for secret alliances and murderous seductions have been made which will propel the Cotton family into the horrifying and shocking conclusion of HELLRAISER.

**Starts Friday, October 16th** Bassim Tariq's gripping action thriller YOUR MOTHER YOUR MOTHER YOUR MOTHER starring Mah...
10/08/2026

**Starts Friday, October 16th**

Bassim Tariq's gripping action thriller YOUR MOTHER YOUR MOTHER YOUR MOTHER starring Mahersala Ali begins on Friday, October 16th!

Born from the ashes of the now cancelled Blade reboot from Marvel, the film premiered at TIFF earlier this year and has already been garnering universal acclaim for its raw and authentic themes of fatherhood, faith, and grief.

Grab your tickets for this powerful and action-packed film now at academytheaterpdx.com!

"From writer-director Bassam Tariq, Your Mother, Your Mother, Your Mother stars Mahershala Ali as Latif, a devoutly religious hitman who struggles to balance work, faith and fatherhood. When his wife dies, he embarks on a desperate journey across Houston to protect his children, confronting the forces closing in around him - and the beliefs threatening to unravel within."

10/07/2026

**Starts Friday, October 9th**

Cristina Raines descends into a waking nightmare in THE SENTINEL (1977), a delirious ’70s supernatural horror with an absolutely stacked cast including Ava Gardner, Christopher Walken, Jeff Goldblum, and horror legend John Carradine.

When a young model moves into a beautiful Brooklyn brownstone, her eccentric neighbors are only the beginning. Sinister, sleazy, and genuinely bizarre, THE SENTINEL is a star-studded descent into religious paranoia.

Don’t miss THE SENTINEL on our Big Screen — playing all week, October 9th–15th. All showtimes are up on our website now!

Back of the box:
When a beautiful model, Alison Parker (Cristina Raines), rents an apartment in a gloomy New York brownstone, little does she realize that an unspeakable horror awaits her behind its doors...a mysterious gateway to hell. Alison likes her eccentric new neighbors, so it comes as a shock when she’s told that, except for a strange old priest, she’s the only tenant. 

Based on Jeffrey Konvitz’s best-selling novel, this contemporary gothic chiller features amazing special makeup effects by the legendary Dick Smith (The Exorcist) and an incredible assemblage of stars. Director Michael Winner (Death Wish) comes up with something to terrify everyone in this spine-tingling exercise in supernatural horror.

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