Part of our Halloween-o-thon 2025 series

Sunday, October 26, 2025, Million Dollar Theater

LOCATION: The Million Dollar Theater, 307 S Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90013

11a ROSEMARY'S BABY (1968, adapt & dir by Roman Polanski, w/ Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Paramount, 136mns, USA, 35mm)

2p CABIN IN THE WOODS (2011, dir by Drew Goddard, wri by Joss Whedon & Drew Goddard, Lionsgate, 95mns, USA, 35mm)

430p AUDITION (1999, dir by Takashi Miike, American Genre Film Archive, 113mns, Japan, 35mm)

730p ZODIAC (2007, dir by David Fincher, w/ Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, Robert Downey Jr, Paramount, 157mns, USA, 35mm)

For any screenings with 35mm prints, always be prepared that we may have to use a DCP.digital backup just in case.

You can get two for one (two tickets for the price of one) to any individual movie or get the HALLOWEEN-O-THON 2025 all-day pass (all movies, best deal) while supplies last.

11a ROSEMARY'S BABY Has any horror movie so unnerved so many people without ever resorting to outright gore or jump scares? Filled with the kind of unsettling subject matter not discussed at the dinner table, Rosemary's Baby retains its rank at the top of many horror film lists near 60 years later. Adapted from the hit Ira Levin novel by Roman Polanski who had just twisted audiences' minds with his Catherine Deneuve slice of paranoia Repulsion, Rosemary's Baby tells the story of a hip young married couple, Rosemary (Mia Farrow) and Guy (John Cassavetes) who move into a very strange and gothic Manhattan apartment building. Soon they meet their seemingly kind and elderly neighbors the Castavets, Roman and Minnie (Ruth Gordon teaching a clinic in character acting). But shortly thereafter Rosemary gets pregnant under strange circumstances. And things only get stranger and more unexplainable from there. Satanists, the darkest of human nature, and the occult all get explored leading up to an unforgettable final scene. . .

2p THE CABIN IN THE WOODS 2011 found master TV writer Joss Whedon and co-writer/director Drew Goddard in a mischievous mood. Taking the basic building block of so many horror movies-young folks heading to a remote Cabin in the Woods for the weekend-the duo turned in a meta-horror comedy of such brilliance and brazenness that the ending is still WILD in its ambition. Hilariously (and brilliantly), we're let in on the twist right away-that these horny and clueless teens are actually meant to be sacrifices for the blood lust of some Ancient and terrifying God who must be slaked yearly or the world ends. Thus two worker drones played hilariously by Bradley Whitford and Richard Jenkins do everything they can to kill the kids one by one. BUT. . .the kids turn out to be more resourceful than they should be. Still a great idea expertly executed, The Cabin in the Woods is the kind of smart horror comedy most of us wish we could make...

430p AUDITION In 1999, prolific Japanese moviemaker Takashi Miike (director of over 100 feature films) outdid himself with one of the most terrifying unpredictable movies in all of J-Horror. Audition tells the story of widowed Tokyo TV producer, Shigeharu, who, with a little cajoling from his friend, decides to hold an audition when he's really looking for a new girlfriend after years of solitude. And when the beautiful, seemingly timid, and mysterious Asami walks in, Shigeharu feels he's found a new hope. But then the movie brilliantly and brutally scrambles all expectations. It also interrogates Shigeharu's feeling that this was the right thing to do. The second half of this movie is one of the most terrifying crucibles you'll ever go through. Never have laughter and groans and gasps been so forthcoming and symphonic. This is a brilliant movie. But NOT for the faint of heart.

730p ZODIAC We return to where we started with another movie that manages to unsettle and horrify without ever resorting to excessive gore or jump scares. Even more, David Fincher's 2007 Zodiac about the decades spent by police, amateur sleuths, and journalists to try and figure out the true identity of the real-life Zodiac seriel killer is one of the best movies of the 21st century. San Francisco cartoonist Robert Graysmith (Gyllenhaal), San Francisco Chronicle journalist Paul Avery, and SFPD Detective Dave Toschi (Ruffalo) start in 1968 a years-long odyssey to catch and stop a mysterious seriel killer who taunts the police and public with puzzles he submits to the local newspapers while he murders innocent people. The movie, whose style was inspired partially by Fincher's love of the 1970's All The President's Men, is the mirror inversion of Fincher's earlier Seven and Fight Club. Here Fincher is so procedural and obsessive that inner psychology and outer horror meet somewhere beyond all of us to paint a portrait of how people can lose their lives to evil even if they aren't physically touched by it. A masterpiece.

All titles on glorious 35mm prints.

*Come to 1, 2, or all 4. Take advantage of our 2-1 ticket deals for any one individual movie (while supplies last so get tix immediately if you want that deal) or get a 2025 HALLOWEEN-O-THON all ay pass (best deal) for all 4 movies, save money, enjoy breakfast lunch or dinner at next door's historic Grand Central Market.