SUNDAY, OCTOBER 4 ~ With sharp wit and cathartic intensity, Coralie Fargeat turns toxic beauty culture inside out in her Oscar®-winning latest feature. Powered by a career-best performance from Demi Moore, The Substance fearlessly bulldozes its way into the midnight-movie pantheon and the feminist canon.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7 ~ American tourists David (David Naughton) and Jack (Griffin Dunne) are savaged by an unidentified vicious animal whilst hiking on the Yorkshire Moors. David awakes in a London hospital to find his friend dead and his life in disarray. Retiring to the home of a beautiful nurse (Jenny Agutter) to recuperate, he soon experiences disturbing changes to his mind and body, undergoing a full-moon transformation that will unleash terror on the streets of the capital. FREE ADMISSION for Friends of The Ross Members available at the BOX OFFICE as part of the Friends 45th Anniversary Series.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8 ~ THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT follows a trio of filmmakers on what should have been a simple walk in the woods, but quickly becomes an excursion into heart-stopping terror. As the three become inexplicably lost, morale deteriorates. Hunger sets in. Accusations fly. By night, unseen evil stirsbeyond their campfire’s light. By day, chilling ritualistic figures are discovered nearby. As the end of their journey approaches, they realize that what they are filming now is not a legend…but their own descent into unimaginable horror. Please note: The Blair Witch Project features hand-held camera footage that may make some viewers nauseous or motion sick.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8 ~ Soon after moving into a suburban tract home, Katie (Katie Featherston) and Micah (Micah Sloat) become increasingly disturbed by what appears to be a supernatural presence. Hoping to capture evidence of it on film, they set up video cameras in the house but are not prepared for the terrifying events that follow. Please note: Paranormal Activity features hand-held camera footage that may make some viewers nauseous or motion sick.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9 ~ In this campy 1988 remake of the 1958 classic, high school students Brian (Kevin Dillon), Meg (Shawnee Smith) and Paul (Donovan Leitch) discover a strange, gelatinous substance that melts the flesh of any living creatures in its path. The deadly substance gets into the town’s sewer system, where it begins growing uncontrollably, occasionally emerging to feast on unsuspecting townspeople.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9 ~ A strange, glowing fog rolls over a small coastal town one hundred years after a mysterious shipwreck and when vengeful ghosts go on a killing spree, residents look for answers even as they try to survive. 4K RESTORATION.

SHOWING OCTOBER 11 & 18 | The Met: Live in HD season kicks off with Mozart’s satirical comedy of fickle young love, one of the composer’s most sublime creations. Phelim McDermott’s “colorful, inventive” (The New York Times) staging, inspired by Coney Island in the 1950s, sets the uproarious story at a boardwalk amusement park, where the two pairs of lovers at the heart of the tale find themselves on one emotional—and literal—thrill ride after another.

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 11 ~ Following their father’s shocking death, Hollywood animal wrangler OJ (Daniel Kaluuya) and his sister Emerald (Keke Palmer) begin observing unexplained phenomena on their vast Southern California ranch that leads them down an obsessive rabbit hole as they plot attempts to capture the mystery on camera. Along with a former child star turned family theme park ringmaster (Steven Yeun) who neighbors the siblings, the pair’s efforts to chase the spectacle soon bring terrifying consequences and unimaginable horror. The result is a complex social thriller that unpacks the seeds of violence, risk and opportunism that are inseparable from the romanticized history of the American West … and from show business itself.

MONDAY, OCTOBER 12 ~ In a flower shop on Skid Row, a clumsy young employee is turned into a killer when the talking plant he’s nurturing requires human blood to thrive. This cult classic from 1960 was famously shot in two days by low-budget horror director Roger Corman and includes an early role for Jack Nicholson as a masochistic dental patient.

MONDAY, OCTOBER 12 ~ Henry Jarrod (Vincent Price)sculpts wax figures so lifelike that visitors to his museum swear they look real. Jarrod prefers historical subjects like his Joan of Arc tableau, but his partner, Matthew Burke, wants some quick cash and urges Jarrod to make more gruesome statues to boost ticket sales. Frustrated by Jarrod’s defiance, Burke decides to burn down the wax museum for the insurance money. After a mysterious yearlong disappearance, Jarrod returns with a very atypical mode of creating wax figures.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13 ~ Dr. John Markway, an anthropologist with an interest in psychic phenomena, takes two specially selected women to Hill House, a reportedly haunted mansion. Eleanor (Julie Harris), a lonely, eccentric woman with a supernatural event in her past, and the bold Theodora (Claire Bloom), who has ESP, join John and the mansion’s heir, cynical Luke (Russ Tamblyn). They are immediately overwhelmed by strange sounds and events, and Eleanor comes to believe the house is alive and speaking directly to her.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14 ~ When Marion Crane steals some money from her workplace and takes flight for California, she little realises the consequences of checking into the Bates Motel… One of Hitchcock’s greatest achievements, PSYCHO combines suspense, Gothic horror, dark humor and rich ironies to dazzling effect. Janet Leigh and Anthony Perkins turn in pitch-perfect performances, while Bernard Herrmann’s score is memorably eloquent and atmospheric.