I know I’ve mentioned Chicago’s Music Box Theatre many, many times here on the Krypt. The main reason is because it has given audiences some amazing experiences over the years and is a theater that I’ve been attending for about 30 years. From some incredible midnight screenings, film festivals, premieres with special guests, to their 24-hour marathons that they’ve been presenting for 20 years, they continue to give audiences truly great cinematic experiences. And now, they will be able to add even more to that.

For as long as I can remember, they have always had the two screens, the larger 700-seat theater and the much smaller 70-seat theater. But coming next year, they will have a third theater auditorium with 115 seats. Now, that may not seem like a big expansion but understand that it allows the theater to help screen and promote more of what they have been doing over the last decade or so. They obviously screen some first run titles, sometimes even in 35mm, like they did last year with Robert Eggers Nosferatu, but they also run a lot of independent and unique films that might not have the chance to screen at most cineplexes and national chains. With all the different film series they have, giving cinephiles a chance to see films they missed decades ago, like the recent Gene Hackman series, or newer titles that might not ever had the chance to hit the regular larger cineplexes.

According to Brody Sheldon, the co-owner and CEO of the Music Box Theatre and Music Box Films, adding this third screen will “allow us to offer more of what our patrons love, and no other venue provides: a diverse mix of classic, independent, cult, documentary and foreign films in a beautiful, historic and welcoming setting.”

This is one of the reasons I don’t mind taking 50-mile trip into Chicago for the different events they hold there on a regular basis.

And while on the subject of the Music Box, make sure you keep tabs on their upcoming screenings, because they just keeping adding more and more for us horror fans. Below is some of the upcoming horror titles and special events they are scheduling, but make sure you check out their website HERE for all the latest news.

Coralie Fargeat’s Revenge (2017) – June 20th & 21st
The Burning (1981) – June 30th & July 1st
Uncle Sam (1996) – July 2nd & 3rd
George Romeros’ Day of the Dead (1985) – July 15th
Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm (1979) – July 10th – Coscarelli and producer/special effects designer Paul Pepperman will be there for a post-film Q&A.