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- Egyptian Theatre. Park City, Utah. In 1898, a fire consumed most of Park City, including its ornate Opera House. In its place, the town built the Dewey Theatre, an art house that remained the city’s cultural saving grace—until record snowfall caused its roof to collapse.
- Cinefamily at The Silent Movie Theatre. Los Angeles, California. Though silent in name, this little theater clamors with things that’ll make you shout bloody murder.
- Grauman’s Chinese Theatre. Los Angeles, California. This iconic movie house is surrounded by concrete hand- and footprints of Hollywood’s finest and guarded by a couple of giant dog sculptures straight out of Ghostbusters.
- Lincoln Square Theatre. Decatur, Illinois. Located on North Main Street in downtown Decatur, this theater opened in 1916 and mesmerized audiences with its vaudeville and Houdini acts.
From see-through noblemen in London to screaming phantoms in Beijing, here are the most ghost-ridden performance spaces across the globe. After all, old actors never die—they just float around ...
Sep 23, 2021 · Theater ghosts tend to be manifestations of people that once worked at the theater they’re now haunting; actors and stage hands alike have been known to float through theater, decades after the drew their last breath, and spook everybody out.
- The Tingler. William Castle’s film might have earned a reputation for featuring one of his best gimmicks, in which he installed electric buzzers in some of the theater seats, but it’s strong enough to stand on its own.
- The Blob. In the grand scheme of the plot, very little of the film takes place in the theater, and yet the scene is so iconic it warrants inclusion. Of course, it began with the original 1958 original, but this 1988 remake dials the scene up to eleven.
- Fade to Black. Eric Binford (Dennis Christopher) is a lonely cinephile. By day he works at a film distributor’s warehouse, and he spends his nights at repertory film screenings.
- Anguish. This trippy film-within-a-film concept sees a group of patrons getting terrorized in the theater where they’re currently watching a horror movie.
Oct 27, 2023 · Set in a movie theater during a shady special screening, it’s all about what happens when a cursed mask ignites a plague of demonic metamorphoses throughout the evening, all while a horror...
Oct 11, 2023 · A steady, spooky line throughout history shows how Victorian séances were incorporated into magic shows, which were then taken to the movie theaters as spook shows, where live performances...
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