Starring: Peter Weller, Ellen Barkin,  John Lithgow, Carl Lumbly, Christopher Lloyd, Lewis Smith, Vincent Schiavelli, Jeff Goldblum

Dr. Buckaroo Banzai is a real renaissance man: a physicist, neurosurgeon, test pilot, and even a rock musician. Is there anything he can’t do?! Well, when it comes to saving the world from the band of inter-dimensional aliens the Red Lectroids, he and his crew The Hong Kong Cavaliers are really put to the test. Buckaroo Banzai (aka The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension) is brilliantly adventurous and unique film that spans so many genres and has a rather complicated backstory that involves a secret device called an “oscillation overthruster,” traveling to other dimensions, alien hitchhikers, and a madman scientist. A must see!

Produced by Roger Corman and based on Lovecraft’s short story of the same name, the psychedelic DUNWICH HORROR visits the fictional Miskatonic University in Arkham, Massachusetts where a hidden evil resides.

Dr. Henry Armitage, an expert in the occult, goes to the old Whateley manor in Dunwich looking for Nancy Wagner, a student who went missing the previous night. He and Elizabeth, a friend and classmate of Nancy’s, are turned away by Wilbur, the family’s insidious heir, who has plans for the young girl. But Armitage won’t be deterred. Through conversations with the locals, he soon unearths the Whateleys’ darkest secret — as well as a great evil.

Roger Corman’s THE HAUNTED PALACE was marketed as “Edgar Allan Poe’s The Haunted Palace” but is actually derived from the plot of H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Case of Charles Dexter Ward.” It stars Vincent Price, as it should.

Condemned warlock Joseph Curwen curses a New England village just before being burned alive. All of them witches! More than a century later, Curwen’s kindly great-great grandson Charles Ward arrives in town and moves into Curwen’s old mansion. Caretaker Simon Orne helps Charles and his wife Ann adjust to their new home but the ancient curse, however, soon takes hold of Joseph, awakening inside him a long-dormant evil passed on through blood.

Starring: Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton, Ted Sorel, Ken Foree

Co-presented by Brooklyn Horror Society.

Obsessive scientist Dr. Pretorius (Bride of Frankenstein reference alert) successfully discovers a way to access a parallel universe of pleasure by tapping into the brain’s pineal gland. When he is seemingly killed by forces from this other dimension, his assistant, Dr. Crawford Tillinghast, is accused of the murder. After psychiatrist Katherine McMichaels and detective Bubba Brownlee take the case, the trio risks a return to the other world in order to solve the mystery.

A portion of proceeds from ticket sales will be donated to the Heidi Paoli Fund.

Brooklyn Horror Society is a community created to celebrate all things horror. With events ranging from classic movie screenings to horror trivia to screenings for local indie directors, we’ve got something for the diehard gore hounds, the nervous horror-curious, and everyone in between.

2016’s THE VOID is pure Lovecraftian: grotesque monsters, hospitals, the gateway to hell and the unknown space of the void.

When police officer Carter discovers a blood-soaked man limping down a deserted road, he rushes him to a local hospital with a barebones, night shift staff. As cloaked, cult-like figures surround the building, the patients and staff inside start to turn ravenously insane. Trying to protect the survivors, Carter leads them into the depths of the hospital where they discover a gateway to immense evil.

In the throes of a zombie apocalypse, Molly – a troubled woman from Las Vegas with a dark past – finds herself stranded in the desert with a lone ravenous zombie on her tail. At first, she’s easily able to outpace her undead pursuer, but things quickly become a nightmare when she realizes the zombie doesn’t need to ever stop and rest. Running low on supplies and beat down by the harsh environment, Molly will have to summon the strength she never knew she had to ultimately face both the zombie and the demons that have chased her all her life.

In this tale of a killer canine, man’s best friend turns into his worst enemy. When sweet St. Bernard Cujo is bitten by a bat, he starts behaving oddly and becomes very aggressive. As Cujo morphs into a dangerous beast, he goes on a rampage in a small town. Stay-at-home mom Donna (Dee Wallace) gets caught in Cujo’s crosshairs on a fateful errand with her son, Tad (Danny Pintauro). Stuck in their tiny car, Donna and Tad have a frightening showdown with the crazed animal.

Starring: Aaron Stanford, Kathleen Quinlan, Vinessa Shaw, Emilie de Ravin, Dan Byrd, Tom Bower

With a pounding soundtrack and gore-galore, The Hills Have Eyes is about as subtle as a blow to the skull. The carnage begins immediately as a hazmat wearing group measuring radiation in the desert are besieged by the local mutants, with the following opening credits juxtaposing archival footage of nuclear blasts with a variety of deformities. When we meet the Carter family, road tripping to California, they aren’t the soft type – they carry guns and have German Shepherds – yet they are no match for the trap set by the amoral hill-dwellers.

Intrigued by the success of other remakes, Wes Craven tapped filmmaking team Alexandre Aja and Grégory Levasseur, impressed by their French Extremity High Tension, to redo his 1977 film. They effectively ramp up the grotesquery and add their own touches, including a haunting sequence in an abandoned nuclear test site eerily populated with mannequins. This movie pulls no punches and is not for the easily queasy.

Matt Reeves’ (Cloverfield, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes) remake of ice-cold vampire cult favorite Let The Right One In closely adheres to what worked in the Swedish original. A story of a bullied boy who befriends the young girl who moves in next door, but with a twist. This girl isn’t so young, but actually a vampire out to recruit a new assistant in her quest for blood.

Note: This screening has been changed from 35mm to a DCP

Starring: Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, Jake Weber, Mekhi Phifer, Ty Burrell, Michael Kelly

Before he broke big with his tricky comic book adaptations, director Zack Snyder (300, Watchmen, Man of Steel, Army of the Dead) took on the thankless challenge of remaking one of the most highly regarded horror films of all time: George A. Romero’s Dawn of the Dead.

The most audacious thing about Snyder’s aughtsie spin on Romero’s strangers-ride-out-the-zombie-apocalypse-in-a-mall original is just how good it is: tight, high-stress undead mayhem that captures how quickly everything can fall apart, and just how nasty it gets if you survive the fallout.