October 2-30
Our maniacally knowledgeable staff love October most of all because it is that time of year when horror movies—legendarily Scarecrow's favorite genre—reign supreme. To celebrate, SIFF is dubbing Scarecrowber as the official 10th month of the year and celebrating with some of the our staff's hand-picked favorite horror films! Come celebrate all things horror this Scarecrowber at SIFF Cinema Egyptian and half the proceeds of your ticket will go to supporting Scarecrow Video. Most films are playing two or three times, so check the full list of showtimes!
Scarecrowber: Eyes Without a Face
France | 1960 | 88 min. | George Franju
Opens October 2, 2024
A brilliant plastic surgeon’s daughter is disfigured in a car crash and so the obsessed father sets about kidnapping beautiful young women to graft their faces on to his daughter’s. With Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli, Edith Scob. “Perhaps the most elegant horror film ever made!” —Pauline Kael
Scarecrowber: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (4K Restoration)
USA | 1974 | 84 min. | Tobe Hooper
Opens October 4, 2024
Five friends head out to rural Texas to visit the grave of a grandfather. On the way they stumble across what appears to be a deserted house, only to discover something sinister within. Something armed with a chainsaw. New 4K Restoration.
Scarecrowber: Border
Sweden | 2018 | 110 min. | Ali Abbasi
Opens October 6, 2024
Customs officer Tina is known for her extraordinary sense of smell. It's almost as if she can sniff out the guilt on anyone hiding something. But when Vore, a suspicious-looking man, walks past her, her abilities are challenged for the first time ever. Tina can sense Vore is hiding something she can't identify. Even worse, she feels a strange attraction to him. As Tina develops a special bond with Vore and discovers his true identity, she also realizes the truth about herself.
Scarecrowber: HauntedWeen
1991 | 87 min. | Doug Robertson
Opens October 6, 2024
Twenty years after a fatal incident, Eddie Burber's old home, now haunted, hosts a fraternity fundraiser. Unbeknownst to them, real deaths occur amid the haunted house thrills as they're hunted and trapped inside.
Scarecrowber: Let’s Scare Jessica to Death
USA | 1971 | 89 min. | John Hancock
Opens October 6, 2024
A recently institutionalized woman has bizarre experiences after moving into a supposedly haunted country farmhouse and fears she may be losing her sanity once again.
Scarecrowber: Bad Moon
1996 | 80 min. | Eric Red
Opens October 6, 2024
One man’s struggle to contain the curse he hides within…and his last-ditch attempt to free himself with the love of family. But when it looks as if he is losing his battle, and endangering all he holds most dear, the family dog, Thor, is the last hope for his family’s survival…and the end to his Werewolf curse.
Scarecrowber: Bell, Book and Candle
USA | 1958 | 103 min. | Richard Quine
Opens October 7, 2024
A modern-day witch likes her neighbor but despises his fiancee, so she enchants him to love her instead...only to fall in love with him for real.
Scarecrowber: Suffer, Little Children
United Kingdom | 1983 | 76 min. | Alan Briggs
Opens October 7, 2024
A mute child arrives at a children's home and begins to terrorise some of the other children with her demonic powers.
Scarecrowber: The Strangers
USA | 2008 | 86 min. | Bryan Bertino
Opens October 9, 2024
After returning from a wedding reception, a couple staying in an isolated vacation house receive a knock on the door in the mid-hours of the night.
Scarecrowber: Night of the Living Dead (4K Restoration)
USA | 1968 | 96 min. | George Romero
Opens October 12, 2024
A ragtag group of Pennsylvanians barricade themselves in an old farmhouse to remain safe from a horde of flesh-eating ghouls that are ravaging the Northeast of the United States. New 4K Restoration.
Scarecrowber: Rockula
USA | 1990 | 90 min. | Luca Bercovici
Opens October 12, 2024
A young vampire cannot lose his virginity because of a curse imposed upon him centuries ago.
Scarecrowber: The Dunwich Horror
USA | 1970 | 90 min. | Daniel Haller
Opens October 14, 2024
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. Through conversations with the locals, he soon unearths the Whateleys' darkest secret—as well as a great evil.
Scarecrowber: Burn Witch, Burn
USA | 1962 | 90 min. | Sidney Hayers
Opens October 15, 2024
A college psychology professor sets out to debunk the occult, only to find himself under attack by a practitioner of the supernatural.
Scarecrowber: Opera (4K Restoration)
Italy | 1987 | 107 min. | Dario Argento
Opens October 18, 2024
A young opera singer is stalked by a deranged fan bent on killing the people associated with her to claim her for himself. New 4K Restoration.
Scarecrowber: Halloween
USA | 1978 | 92 min. | John Carpenter
Opens October 25, 2024
Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield to kill again.
Scarecrowber: Christine
USA | 1983 | 110 min. | John Carpenter
Opens October 26, 2024
Based on the novel by Stephen King, Christine tells the story of a 1957 Plymouth that takes on human characteristics.
FULL LINE-UP
October 2: 5:15pm - Eyes Without a FaceOctober 4: 5:30pm - Eyes Without a Face | 7:30pm - The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
October 6: 12:15pm - Border | 3:00pm - Hauntedween | 5:15pm - Let’s Scare Jessica to Death | 7:45pm - Bad Moon
October 7: 5:30pm - Bell, Book and Candle | 8:00pm - Suffer, Little Children
October 9: 5:00pm - The Strangers
October 12: 5:00pm - Rockula | 7:30pm - Night of the Living Dead
October 13: 5:15pm - Eyes Without a Face | 7:30pm - The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
October 14: 5:15pm - The Dunwich Horror | 7:30pm - Rockula
October 15: 5:15pm - Burn, Witch, Burn | 7:30pm - Border
October 16: 5:15pm - The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
October 17: 5:30 - Hauntedween | 7:45pm - Night of the Living Dead
October 18: 5:45pm - Suffer, Little Children | 7:45pm - Opera
October 19: 2:45pm - Border | 5:30pm - Let’s Scare Jessica to Death | 8:00pm - The Strangers
October 20: 3:15pm - Bell, Book and Candle | 5:45pm - Bad Moon | 8:00pm - Burn, Witch, Burn
October 21: 5:45pm - Rockula | 8:00pm - Let’s Scare Jessica to Death
October 22: 4:30pm - The Dunwich Horror
October 23: 5:00pm - Bell, Book and Candle
October 24: 6:00pm - Suffer, Little Children | 8:00pm - Night of the Living Dead
October 25: 5:15pm - Opera | 8:00pm - Halloween
October 26: 3:00pm - The Dunwich Horror | 5:30pm - The Strangers | 8:00pm - Christine
October 27: 1:45pm - Halloween |4:15pm - Christine
October 28: 5:15pm - Opera | 8:00pm - Hauntedween
October 30: 5:00pm - Burn, Witch, Burn
