Monday, Phantasm (on 16mm) is at the Balboa, PT Anderson's One Battle After Another continues on 70mm at the Grand Lake, Monsoon Wedding is at the Lark, Corpse Bride is at the Alamo Drafthouses Mountain View (MV) and Valley Fair (VF) through Wednesday, Fright Night is at the Alamo Drafthouses New Mission (NM) and MV (repeating through Wed. at MV), and Creepshow is at the Drafthouse MV, and Re-Animator is at the Roxie.
Tuesday, Odyssey Film Institute presents The Exorcist (on 35mm, repeats Wednesday) at the Balboa, Paint Me a Road Out of Here is at the Roxie, where Rewind and Media Meltdown co-present Jennifer’s Body, www.rachelormont.com is at the Drafthouses NM and VF, Dawn of the Dead (2004) is at the Drafthouse NM, a CinemaSF fundraiser with Porchlight Storytelling is at the Vogue, Cracking the Code: Phil Sharp & The Biotech Revolution is at the Rialto Elmwood, and a one-night-only 35mm screening Luca Guadagnino's After the Hunt is at the Drafthouse NM.
Wednesday, Las mujeres panteras (The Panther Women) continues Noche Oscura: Mexican Gothic Terror Tales and Canyon Cinema presents Intimate Politics: Carolee Schneemann, Gunvor Nelson, JoAnn Elam (on 16mm) at the Roxie, Cruel Jaws is this week's Weird Wednesday pick at the Drafthouse NM, BAMPFA screens three experimental melodramas by Mako Idemitsu, Zombie (repeats Thursday) is at the Vogue, and Hocus Pocus is at the 4 Star.
Thursday, Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein has its exclusive 35mm screening at the Rialto Cerrito and Bugonia opens on 35mm at the Drafthouse NM, the Stanford's first double feature of the week in its ongoing westerns calendar is William Wyler's Gregg Toland-lensed The Westerner and Nicholas Ray's Joan Crawford-starring all-timer, Johnny Guitar (on 35mm, repeats Friday), Frederick Wiseman: America at Work continues at BAMPFA with Law and Order, SF Latino Film Festival presents the first of three screenings at the Roxie with ASCO: Without Permission, and Possession is at the Balboa (and on Friday at the Roxie).
Friday, Kelly Reichardt's Josh O'Conner starring The Mastermind opens (with the director in person on Sunday) at the Roxie (also at the Smith Rafael sans director), Gravitational Lensing, Program 12: Myths, Tales & the Feminist Unconscious is at Shapeshifters, Jia Zhangke's Caught by the Tides and Delphine Seyrig channeling Marlene Dietrich as a bisexual vampire in Harry S. Kumal's Daughters of Darkness are at BAMPFA, Odyssey Film Institute presents Night of the Living Dead (on 16mm) at the Balboa, Among Neighbors (with director Yoav Potash in person) is at the Vogue, the Green Film Fest and SF Short Film Fest take over the 4 Star for the weekend and into next week, Carrie is at the New Parkway, Fight Club and a double feature of Dracula and Dracula's Daughter (repeats Saturday) are at the Lark, the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum's friday talkies continue with the Vincent Price-starring House on Haunted Hill (on 16mm), and Tiler Peck: Suspending Time opens the 2025 SF Dance Film Fest.
Saturday, the Niles presents the Lon Chaney-starring Phantom of the Opera (on 35mm), Psyched! Fest presents Slint doc Breadcrumb Trail with director Lance Bangs & guitarist David Pajo and SF Latino Film Festival presents Lovers in the Sky at the Roxie, BAMPFA's Mikio Naruse series continues with Mother, the Drafthouse NM has a Fleischer Halloween Party, Pet Sematary is at the New Parkway, the Stanford's weekend double feature features the Johns Ford and Wayne with Fort Apache and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing-starring anthology horror The House That Dripped Blood is at the Orinda, and Other Cinema presents Angelo Madsen's body-mod doc A Body To Live In at Artist's Television Access.
Sunday, our feature this week, Punk Rock Docs: Crime 1978 & Outsider Artists is at Shapeshifters, Wiseman's Missile, G. W. Pabst's The Shanghai Drama (on 35mm), and The Werewolf of Washington (on 35mm) are at BAMPFA, the Roxie has The Invisible Mammal with director Kristin Tièche in person, Bring Them Home, Guillermo del Toro's Cronos, and the SF Latino Film Festival presenting RESILIENT WOMEN- Short Docs, Odyssey presents a 16mm Universal Horror triple feature of The Invisible Man, Dracula, and The Bride of Frankenstein at the Balboa, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night is at the New Parkway, a double feature of The Wolf Man and The Mummy are at the Lark, The Night of the Demon is at the Orinda, and the Niles has a 16mm double creature feature of The Bob Wilkins Super Horror Show and The Milpitas Monster.
