After Hours
Bringing together the odd, eerie, thrilling, and downright weird, this is the home of cult classics.
Tickets
$14 | $9 for PFS Members
Released 50 years ago, the most terrifying and infamous cinematic road trip once again takes a horrifying turn when a group of friends is thrust into a rural nightmare, hunted by a chainsaw-wielding killer and his disturbed family.
Director:
TOBE HOOPER
Runtime:
83
min
Theater:
Film Society Center
Genre
Horror
Category
After Hours
Curated
Formats
4K
Release
1974
Whether you binged the series right before indulging in this surreal, dreamy and violent masterpiece or not, the whiplash is real. Lynch’s work is a terrifying and hauntingly beautiful noir about the evil that lies within man and a glimmer of hope in the guise of a high school girl named Laura Palmer.
Director:
DAVID LYNCH
Runtime:
134
min
Theater:
Film Society Center
Genre
Horror
Category
After Hours
Curated
Limited Series - Wrapped Up!
Formats
DCP
Release
1992
We have Philly to thank for influencing the nightmarish landscape (and soundscape) of David Lynch’s incomparable meditation on fatherhood as a hair-raising Jack Nance is left to care for his very cute child as the world around them threatens to swallow them whole.
Director:
DAVID LYNCH
Runtime:
89
min
Theater:
Film Society Center
Genre
Horror
Category
After Hours
Curated
Limited Series - Wrapped Up!
Formats
DCP
Release
1977
Chock-full of mischief and spooky effects, this goofy, imaginative horror comedy from screenwriter Shane Black about a group of monster-obsessed kids that must save their town from Count Dracula and his gang has deservedly amassed a cult following, Wolf Dork and all.
(BYOB Night | 21+ Event | THURSDAY OCTOBER 31 | 7:30 PM)
Director:
FRED DEKKER
Runtime:
82
min
Theater:
Film Society East
Genre
Horror
Category
After Hours
Curated
Formats
DCP
Release
1987
Arguably one of the most horrific films in history to experience in cinemas, especially if tight spaces are not your thing, Neil Marshall’s THE DESCENT is a literal nightmare plunge into the abyss when a group of women go spelunking only to discover an unknown evil waiting at the bottom.
Director:
NEIL MARSHALL
Runtime:
100
min
Theater:
Film Society East
Genre
Horror
Category
After Hours
Curated
Formats
DCP
Release
2005
Grab your crew and pull up for a Halloween night you won’t forget! We’re screening THE BLACKENING—the hilarious and thrilling horror-comedy where street smarts and survival take center stage. Hosted by 6IX Agency in partnership with the Philadelphia Film Society, this BYOB-friendly screening at PFS East Theater is the perfect kickoff to your Halloween weekend. Throw on your best costume (or come as you are) for a chance to win some dope prizes, and chill with us as we enjoy drinks, laughs, and scares. Concessions will be available, and tickets are only $6. This event is all about bringing the community together, so don’t miss out!
Director:
TIM BAKER
Runtime:
97
min
Theater:
Film Society East
Genre
Horror
Category
Community Screening
Curated
Formats
DCP
Release
2022
Filmed in Russia right after the fall of the Soviet Union, this brand new 4K restoration is a treasure for De Palma freaks. A mute special effects artist working on an American slasher in Moscow soon discovers that a very different type of film is being made.
Director:
ANTHONY WALLER
Runtime:
95
min
Theater:
Film Society Center
Genre
Horror
Category
Curated
Formats
4K
Release
1995
Never before released in US cinemas until now, this blatant A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET rip off is an outrageous Bollywood-meets-Argento nightmare filled with razor-claw wielding monsters, glorious colors, and, of course, musical numbers!
Director:
TULSI RAMSAY, SHYAM RAMSAY
Runtime:
132
min
Theater:
Film Society Center
Genre
Horror
Category
Curated
Formats
DCP
Release
1994
Let’s get this out of the way: it’s not cranberry sauce. One of the few 80s holiday slashers that lay claim to Turkey Day is an outright feast of sleaze and horny diners with a massive helping of an evil twin who has escaped an asylum to wreak havoc on a Florida community.
Director:
JOHN GRISSMER
Runtime:
82
min
Theater:
Film Society Center
Genre
Horror
Category
Curated
Formats
DCP
Release
1987
It wouldn’t be the holiday season without an alternative yuletide gift from Shane Black about a burglar (Robert Downey Jr.) unknowingly fumbling his way through a film audition that lands him at a Hollywood party face to face with the greatest detective in La La Land, Val Kilmer.
Director:
SHANE BLACK
Runtime:
103
min
Theater:
Film Society Center
Genre
Comedy
Category
Curated
Formats
DCP
Release
2005
Often imitated, but never outdone, Ridley Scott’s ALIEN may be a slasher in space on script, but the artistry, acting, production and direction are firing on all cylinders to create a thrilling and horrific, existential encounter between a woman and an unknown stowaway for the ages.
Director:
RIDLEY SCOTT
Runtime:
117
min
Theater:
Film Society Center
Genre
SCI-FI
Category
Curated
Formats
4K
Release
1979
WWJCD? What would James Cameron do if he was given the reins to helm a sequel to one of the greatest films of all time? He would not only cement Sigourney Weaver’s Ripley as the greatest sci-fi action hero ever, but introduce a team of unforgettable jarheads equipped to combat a multiplying aggro species in thrilling out-of-this-world set pieces.
Director:
JAMES CAMERON
Runtime:
154
min
Theater:
Film Society Center
Genre
SCI-FI
Category
Curated
Formats
4K
Release
1986
John Carpenter ignites the horror genre with no flares to spare in his chilly hellscape of isolation at the end of the world when a research expedition in Antarctica encounters an alien species that begins to mimic the team one by one, inciting paranoia and terror around every corner.
Director:
JOHN CARPENTER
Runtime:
109
min
Theater:
Film Society Center
Genre
Horror
Category
Curated
Limited Series - Wrapped Up!
Formats
4K
Release
1982
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Past After Hours Screenings
Possession | You’re Next | The Warriors | The House of the Devil | The House of the Devil | You Don’t Nomi + Showgirls | Escape from New York | Pet Sematary | Ganja & Hess | The Holy Mountain | Arrebato | Deep Red | Starship Troopers | House | The Brood | Liquid Sky | Aliens | The Thing | The Texas Chainsaw Massacre | Battle Royale | Halloween | Fright Night on 35mm | Born in Flames | Rosemary’s Baby on 35mm | Ringu | The Fly | A Nightmare on Elm Street | Black Dynamite | Tales from the Hood | The Hidden on 35mm | Videodrome in 4K | The Wicker Man – Final Cut (1973) | The Mosquito Coast | Roar | Blow Out | Phantom of the Paradise | Streets of Fire | Psycho II | Poltergeist | The Invisible Man | Bride of Frankenstein | The Return of the Living Dead | The Exorcist | The Crow | RoboCop | Under the Skin | The Funhouse | THE Others | Malignant | Basket Case | Nowhere | Natural Born Killers on 35mm | Timecrimes | Possession | Mirror Mirror | Greener Grass | Scream | Scream 2 | Cemetery Man in 4K | Female Trouble | The Host | Enter the Void on 35mm | Dead or Alive | Showgirls | Terminal USA & Mod Fuck Explosion | Cruising | Knife + Heart | Shakedown | Raw