The Oaks Theater

Friday and Saturday @ 10pm, a William Castle double feature

10:00 : 13 Ghosts (1960) - The destitute Zorba family are initially delighted at the news they've inherited the estate of their recently deceased uncle. The trouble is, the uncle was a ghost collector, and now that he's dead the ghosts are running around the ho...use without supervision. Segments of the film are in 3-D (ILLUSION-O). Glasses will be provided.

11:40 : Strait-jacket (1964) - Featuring legendary actress Joan Crawford as Lucy Harbon who, in the film's opening moments, hacks her husband and his lover to pieces with an ax. Twenty years later, Lucy is let out of the asylum to live on a farm with her daughter (Diane Baker)--and before long it's not just the chickens that are losing their heads...

$10.00 at the door, or leave us your email for $2.00 off admission.Read More

Friday, October 16 through Thursday, October 22

Daily @ 2:30, 5:00 and 7:30

IN THE LOOP is a fast-paced ensemble comedy
from first-time film director Armando Iannucci, based on his satirical
BBC sitcom, THE THICK OF IT. The film tracks the lies, misunderstandings,
good and bad intel, and PR blunders that e...scalate into a full-blown (fictional)
crisis in the Middle East over the course of a few days, in a few conversations
and meetings, in a few corridors of British and American power.Read More

Friday, October 30 @ 10pm
Saturday, October 31 @ 10pm

Phantom of the Paradise
(USA / 1974 / R / 92 min.)

The Music Made Him Do It!

Brian De Palma's great, overlooked 1970s glitter-rock horror-comedy-musical spectacle is a memorable combination of THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA and FAUST. Winslow Leach (William Finley) is a talent...ed young rock composer/janitor whose music is stolen and whose life is destroyed by a ruthless record tycoon named Swan (Paul Williams)--who just happens to have sold his soul in exchange for rock-n-roll success and eternal youth! The ruined and disfigured Leach becomes the Phantom, an imposing leather-clad creature who is hell-bent on demolishing Swan as the diabolical music mogul prepares to open his biggest venture yet-- a rock-and-roll palace called The Paradise.

Eerily prescient in it's depiction of yet-to-exist musical genres, this stunningly original and darkly comic rock nightmare features voice over narration by Rod Serling, and memorable original songs by the multi-talented Williams. Academy Award Nominations: Best Original Song Score (Paul Williams/George Aliceson Tipton).


The Rocky Horror Picture Show
(USA / 1975 / R / 100 min.)

A different set of Jaws.

THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW is a magical phenomenon unlike anything ever before seen onscreen. Borrowing largely from cinema's horror conventions, the film begins as an innocent young couple is stranded at the home of a mad scientist who is building the perfect man. The castle is filled with a most bizarre group of characters who worship their master, Dr. Frank-N-Furter, played magnificently by the fabulously sexy Tim Curry, in leather jacket, pearls, fishnet stockings, and heavy makeup. Brad (Barry Bostwick) and Janet (Susan Sarandon) are forced to examine their own sexuality as the voluptuous doctor releases the hidden desires in each of them.

Based on the stage musical by Richard O'Brien (who also appears in the film as Riff Raff), the film comes alive with unforgettable song-and-dance numbers that have come to represent the sexual liberation of the 1970s. The outstanding costuming and makeup, the terrific acting by a group of relative unknowns (Curry, O'Brien, Bostwick, Sarandon, Nell Campbell, Patricia Quinn, Meat Loaf), and the memorable songs ("Time Warp," "Sweet Transvestite") help make THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW one of the most bizarrely entertaining and satisfying musicals ever made.

The ultimate midnight movie experience...
Brought to you by The Junior Chamber of Commerce Players of Pittsburgh.

Both films presented with live shadow cast!


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